Yurok Repatriation (culture)

The Smithsonian Institution has returned a trove of precious artifacts to the Yurok Indians in California in what is one of the largest repatriations of Native American ceremonial artifacts in U.S. history.

The Yurok, who have lived for centuries along California's Klamath River, received 217 sacred items that had been stored on museum shelves for nearly 100 years. The necklaces, headdresses, arrows, hides and other regalia from the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian are believed to be hundreds, if not thousands, of years old.  Full story at:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/08/13/MN0O1ET3EI.DTL

NCIDC gets honored on Keep It Sacred

From: Lou Moerner <lou@ncidc.org>
Date: July 1, 2010 9:13:09 AM PDT
Subject: NCIDC gets honored on Keep It Sacred

Hi all,
Just wanted to share that our Community Wellness and Tobacco Programs youth intern, Misty Lawson, got her tobacco movie project listed on the front page of the Keep It Sacred national website. Congratulations to MIsty for her hard work! http://keepitsacred.org/network/

LOU


Lou Moerner
Northern California Indian Development Council
Community Wellness & Tobacco Education Program Director
241 F Street
Eureka, CA 95501
(707) 445-8451

ext. 27
(707) 445-8479 fax

Professional Science Masters Program Fellowship (education)

Dear folks -

I am writing to ask your help in recruiting Native students to the
Professional Science Master's program. We have 6 $25K NSF fellowships
to award, and I am eager to have American Indian applications. The
entering class is this fall, and there is still time to apply. We will
make some fellowship decisions during the next three weeks, but students
should be encouraged to apply during July and August as well. You can
see more about the program at http://www.uidaho.edu/cogs/psm.aspx
.

Please contact me with any questions that might arise. I am grateful
for your help with this.

Thanks so much,

Stephen

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Stephen Mulkey, PhD
Director, Environmental Science Program
University of Idaho
Morrill Hall 216
PO Box 443006
Moscow, ID 83844-3006

Phone: 208.885.6113; cell 208.596.3234; Fax 208.885.4674
E-Mail: smulkey@uidaho.edu

Teacher Awarded Grant (education/environment)

A Minneapolis high school teacher is 1 of 10 from around the country to win a $4,000 grant for an environmental education project.

James Lorenz is a science teacher at Nawayee Center School in Minneapolis. He's getting the grant from the National Environmental Education Foundation to implement a curriculum that aims to connect his American Indian students with their traditional teaching and attitudes toward the environment.

Course activities include plant and animal studies, speakers from Indian communities and outings to Rum River for hands-on learning projects.

The National Environmental Education Foundation is supported by The Weather Channel.

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Benefiting from Indian Education

When Lenna Little Plume started second grade at Lewis and Clark Elementary in Missoula, Mont., in 2006, statistics suggested that she might have a bleak future.

Montana's American Indian families earn 25 percent less than the average family -- an economic reality that can put Indian children at a disadvantage from their very first day in school.  Full story at: http://tinyurl.com/25r3zc9

I'm On The Tribal Radio (media)

Only 63 percent of all Americans have high-speed Internet connections. That's low compared with other countries.
But when it comes to American Indians, the Federal Communications Commission estimates that fewer than 10 percent are connected. On Tuesday, the FCC announced the appointment of a special liaison to the American Indian community to oversee efforts to get broadband to reservations. Full at: http://www.vpr.net/npr/128004928/