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Splendor in the Glass
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 “You’re turning, turning. Softly. Okay, stop. Blow. Stand by in three, two, one. Torch it!”
Dancing?
Cooking? No, but to artists such as Tony Jojola and his team of
assistants, the art of glass-blowing is as choreographed as a dance and
demands the precision timing of a chef preparing crème brûlée. Native
American glass art
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2006 July/August Happening (Events)
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 Join us as we hang out this summer among the Chickasaw people in Oklahoma, who have lined up a slew of exciting events. Plus details on other special events of Native interest across North America.
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2006 July/August
By Site Editor
| Published 07/1/2006
| Antiquities , Painting , Glass , Beadwork , Pottery , Cultural Items , Sculpture , Basketry , 2006 , Seminole , Paiute , Choctaw , Chippewa , Chickasaw , Tlingit , Aleut , Hopi , Pueblo , Navajo , Cherokee
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Benjamin Harjo, Jr. (Shawnee/Seminole) has an infectious sense of mirth
and creative energy, which he pours into his award-winning paintings,
both large and small. Photo courtesy Ackerman McQueen.
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Native Scientists Taking Off
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Native Americans are renowned as great artists. Their history as proud and courageous warriors is well known. And they are with equal measures of romanticism and reality revered as mystics exploring the edges of human consciousness and being. But today, laboring in obscurity, they are also electrical, aeronautical, software and materials engineers, research biologists, oil geologists, hydrologists, doctors of medicine, inventors and even astronauts.
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2003 July/August
By Site Editor
| Published 07/1/2003
| 2003 , Comanche , Tewa , Sioux , Salt River Pima-Maricopa , Iroquois , Hochunk , Choctaw , Chickasaw , Anishinaabe , Haida , Pueblo , Navajo , Apparel/Fashion
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Native
American fashion sheds its modest garments in favor of a dazzling
wardrobe of novel apparel, such as this dress in bias-cut silk by
Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo). It features Zuni Pueblo dragonfly
designs that illustrate how the insect brought rain to the Earth, with
the short top representing rain clouds and the tie the falling rain.
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2002 November/December
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Astronaut John Herrington (Chickasaw)
The first Native American tribal member in space blasts off November
10. And a look at the national organization that has played a pivotal
role in their careers—the American Indian Science and Engineering
Society. Photo courtesy NASA.
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2000 November/December
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Irene Bedard
From Anchorage, Alaska to New York City, the dramatic calling of Irene
Bedard has led this Inupiat Eskimo/Cree actor to roles in Lakota Woman, Naturally Native and Smoke Signals. With her theatrical and Native roots firmly established, the voice behind Pocahontas celebrates two new releases this year, The Lost Child and Wild Flowers. Bedard glimmers in a 14K gold, inlaid pendant and bracelet, courtesy of Ray Tracey Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Click on "Full Story" to view the complete Table of Contents.
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