Maori Healers (health/event)

Aiy yu qwee friends and relatives.

 

I am forwarding you the itinerary for my good friends from New Zealand.  If you get a chance to see them for your ailments or trama, please do.  Drop my name and tell them what tribe you are and ask for "indian discount".  If you can come up to Weitchpec, services are FREE, donations and gifts accepted. Its worth the drive and you can camp out  on the river or we can help with accommodations.  

 

Wohklow

Monique Sonoquie

Contact details: sonoquie@hotmail.com

 

Sacramento:

Date: Monday 1st - Wednesday 3rd April

Contact: Julia Tindal

Details: juliatindall1@gmail.com

Phone: 916 485 8754

Venue: 2790 Armstrong Ave, Sacramento, CA 95825

 

NB: 3rd is half day - drive to LA

 

 

Los Angeles:

Date: Tuesday 4th - Saturday 6th April

Contact: Star Oakland

Details: staroakland@yahoo.com  

Phone: 310 254 0915

Venue: Please email Star for details

 

 

Long Beach:

Date: Sunday 7th - Monday 8th April

Contact: Kimmiji Followell

Details: kimmiji@gmail.com

Phone: 562 881 9993

Venue: Please email Kimmiji for details

 

 

Tuesday 9th April - travel to San Francisco

 

 

San Francisco:

Date: Wednesday 10th April

Contact: Loto Reed

Contact details: lotoreed@gmail.com  

Phone: 510 220 1736

Venue: Please email for details

 

 

Martinez

Date: Thursday 11 April

Contact person: Connie Wisesan

Contact details: conniewisesan@sbcglobal.net

Phone: 510 557 4981

Venue: 1566 Eastwoodbury Lane, Martinez

 

 

Mt. Diablo - Walnut Creek

Date: Friday 12 - Saturday 13th April

Contact person: Will Scott

Contact details: accesswill2@gmail.com

Phone: 925 325 3168

Venue: 895 Mitchell Canyon Road, Clayton

 

Concord

Date: Sunday 14 - Tuesday 16th April

Contact person: Joey Chawla

Contact details: joeychawla@yahoo.com

Venue: Please email for details

 

 

Sebastopol

Date: Wednesday 17th April

Contact person: Denise Barry

Contact details: dbarry@kumakai.com

Venue: Please email for details

 

 

Sonoma County

Date: Thursday 18th April

Contact person: Amelia

Contact details: barakamelia@yahoo.com

Phone: 707 799 9605

Venue: Please email for details

 

 

Date: Friday 19th April - drive to Eureka / Yurok Reservation / Klamath River 

 

 

Yurok Reservation / Klamath River

Date: Saturday 20th - Sunday 21st April

Contact person: Monique Sonoquie

Contact details: sonoquie@hotmail.com

Venue: Please email for details

 

 

Arcata

Date: Monday 22nd - Tuesday 23rd April

Contact person: Tina Ball

Contact details: tinaball@suddenlink.net

Venue: Please email for details

 

 

Date: Wednesday 24th April - drive to Grass Valley

 

 

Grass Valley

Date: Thursday 25th - Saturday 27th April

Contact person: Loraine Webb / Soleil Webb

Contact details: poet.roseate@gmail.com

Phone: 530 265 5662 (Loraine)  /  530 913 7442 (Soleil)

Venue: Please email for details

 

 

Davis

Date: Sunday 28th - Monday 29th April

Contact person: Morningstar and Michael Henry

Contact details: mornstar@jps.net

Venue: Please email for details

 

 

 

Young Native Writers Essay Contest (opportunity/arts)

The Young Native Writers Essay Contest is a writing contest for Native American high school students and is designed to encourage young Native Americans to write about the progress their tribal communities have made and how their tribal communities can keep moving forward. 

The essay contest is open to Native American high school students currently enrolled in grades 9-12 only.

All students participating in the Young Native Writers Essay Contest should have a significant and current relationship with their Native American tribal community. 

For more information, elgibility, prizes and contest rules, click on link below:
<http://www.nativewriters.hklaw.com/2013/index.asp>

Talking Games (language)

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Thornton Ndnlanguage :

http://www.facebook.com/messages/ndnlanguage

 

Talking Games is a 3D video game that makes language learning fun, but I need your help to fund the complete game engine. Support us to make this game which will benefit ALL languages and will revolutionize the way languages are taught, both indigenous and major languages. Please spread the word about our project and SHARE this link with your Facebook friends or on twitter and blogs. For $99 you can prepay for the full course (either Cherokee or Spanish), and if we don't reach our financial goal your money will be refunded to your credit card.
The project is “Talking Games”: http://kck.st/WhweWy

 

Thornton Media Inc.: http://www.ndnlanguage.com

Eliminating the Stanford Mascot

Eliminating the Stanford Indian Mascot

Dr. Dean Chavers
March 07, 2013

 

I got my notice of admission to graduate school at Stanford University in March 1970. I was so happy about it that I took the letter to the Native American Studies Department at Berkeley to show it around. Two of the funny guys there, Russell Walden and Bill Schaaf, started teasing me. They said, “So you’re going to be a Stanford Indian, ha ha.”


Read more athttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/03/07/eliminating-stanford-indian-mascot-147857

Caricature of Native American (mascot)

Chumash leaders hope the team will replace its logo — a caricature of a Native American

By Bob Cuddy — bcuddy@thetribunenews.com

Chumash leaders are asking a North County semi-pro baseball team to change its logo, which it says is demeaning to Native Americans.

The mascot for the North County Indians is a grinning, bright-red, Native American caricature that is based on the Cleveland Indians mascot, Chief Wahoo.

That mascot also has drawn criticism over the years, as have various similar logos from professional sports to Little League. The best-known pro sports teams that still have such logos are the Indians, Atlanta Braves, and Washington Redskins. All remain controversial.

Although the discussion has raged nationally for decades, it is new in San Luis Obispo County and was triggered by the North County Indians’ move from Santa Maria to Templeton.

The Indians played their first summer in Templeton last year but had been active in Santa Maria for more than 40 years.

The symbol is “degrading, immoral, racist, (and) disrespectful,” according to Fred Collins, tribal administrator of the Northern Chumash Tribal Council.

The Indians’ Facebook page has received similar comments, calling for a change in its “disrespectful” and “offensive” mascot.

Collins said his council will ask local political leaders to disallow the use of publicly owned facilities to the team.

The owner of the Indians, Kevin Haughian, did not return repeated requests for comment. But the field manager, Dan Marple, said he was caught off-guard by the accusation.

Marple said the Indians are the oldest semi-pro baseball franchise in the state, and, to his knowledge, nobody has complained before. He said he didn’t see the logo as a problem and does not consider it offensive. He noted that such teams as college football’s Florida Seminoles use similar names and mascots.

But Collins said the imagery is not used as much as it once was and that he would like to see it disappear altogether.

He acknowledged that many people accuse Native Americans of being overly sensitive or politically correct over the imagery. What adherents of those points of view need to do, he said, is “look at it from a Native American perspective.”

“You could say, ‘Lighten up. It’s not that big of a deal.’ But it is,” he said.

“We look at the imagery as a race of people,” Collins said, adding that you won’t see Buddha or Mahatma Gandhi as mascots on some team’s hat.

“It’s really an educational process,” he said of his attempts to have the logo changed. “Times have changed.”

Collins also stressed that he supports the team. The council merely wants it to change symbols.

Collins added that the council is not just concerned about baseball team logos. It also wants to go after so-called “cigar store Indians” — wooden sculptures of Native American chiefs selling cigars that he said are sprinkled throughout the county.

Collins hopes the day will come when his grandchildren won’t have to look at those effigies.

“Our chiefs are sacred to us,” he said. “You don’t see Jesus selling cigars.”

 

Institute for Teachers of Color (education/event)

Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice 
San José State University; June 19-21, 2013
Applications Due: April 1, 2013

Keynotes Confirmed:
Dr. Tara Yosso, Chicana/o Studies, UCSB
Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Asian American Studies and Educational Leadership, SFSU

 

In California, students of color comprise over 70% of the public school population, but teachers of color make up less than 30% of the teaching force. With barriers such as limited resources, testing pressures and culturally-disconnected mandated curriculum, teachers of color with a commitment to racial justice face many challenges in realizing their vision, and can feel isolated in their work.

June 19-21, 2013, San José State University is hosting the third annual Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice, a three-day conference to support the development, success and retention of teachers of color struggling to achieve racial justice in schools. It is intended as a community building, professional development space for teachers of color to explore the racial climate of their schools, receive training to navigate these realities, and strategize how to create racially transformative classrooms and schools. We are also accepting applications from school administrators of color and teacher educators of color who are interested in building alongside teachers. 

The cost for attending the Institute is $150, which includes breakfast, lunch and materials for all three days (a limited number of scholarships are available for those who are not receiving district funding). Applications should be submitted by April 1, 2013 and we will notify applicants by early May. If you are interested in attending this Institute, please complete the application through the following link:

 

www.surveymonkey.com/s/Instituteforteachersofcolor 

We are looking for teachers, school administrators and teacher educators of color who:
• Are committed to racial justice.
• Work at schools serving a significant population of students of color.
• Want to build a like-minded community.
• Have specific needs that can be met by the Institute. 

We are also hoping to achieve racial and gender balance among participants to represent the diversity of teachers, school administrators, and teacher educators of color. Please submit any inquiries to Dr. Rita Kohli at rita.kohli@sjsu.edu.

Program Coordinators: 
Rita Kohli, Department of Elementary Education, San José State University
Marcos Pizarro, Mexican American Studies, San José State University

Women are Sacred (event)

June 10th – 12th, 2013 •  11th Women Are Sacred Conference. Native Women Reclaiming Our Space, Vision & Voices to Strengthen the Grassroots Advocacy Movement to End Violence Against Native Women.  http://www.niwrc.org/  The 11th Women are Sacred Conference is an affirmation of the strength of Native women who have persevered, many times in the face of utter despair and loss of life, to not merely survive, but also thrive. No longer will Native women be silenced or paralyzed. As Tillie Black Bear, grandmother of our movement gently reminds us, our work is about resistance and “making those connections beyond the shelter doors”. Now, more than ever, Native women and tribal sovereignty require that we look deep within ourselves and work meaningfully and respectfully with each other and our non-Native allies to promote healing and an end to violence against Native women. Strong tribal nations are built on the backs of women, so reclaiming our space, vision and voices.  LOCATION: Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, 11000 Broadway Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87105.  CONTACT: 855.649.7299 (855.NIWRC99).  http://www.niwrc.org/resources/training-technical-assistance/women-are-sacred