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- Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
- Partnership, logjams fuel Owl Creek restoration
- Tribe tracking how birds use newly restored estuary
- Gear sharing supports outdoor exploration
- Being Frank: Habitat remains key to salmon recovery
- Crabbers call in catch for study
- Where have peninsula elk herds gone?
- Projects improve Chico Creek salmon habitat
- For fish and floods: Restoring the Big Quilcene River
- Dam removal site sees salmon numbers grow
- Foundry selected for Billy Frank Jr. statue
- Indian Country News
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- Censored News
- Ward Valley: Celebrating Stopping a Nuclear Waste Dump in the Mojave Desert Photos 2026
- The Global Fallout: The Epstein Files and Indian Country
- Mohawk Nation News 'The Bering Strait Theory'
- Epstein's Associates were on the Navajo Nation
- First Nations in Epstein Files: Dubai's Shipping Head Cooked for First Nations to Gain Access for Prince Rupert Port
- Mohawk Nation News 'Indigenous Solution to the World's Problems'
- PINE RIDGE: Epstein and Robert Kennedy, Jr., were on Pine Ridge 'Fossil Hunting'
- Oak Flat March and Run: Apache Stronghold Photos
- Minneapolis: Native People at Fort Snelling, 'Return Dakota Oyate Land'
- Minneapolis: Dakota and Lakota Oyate Set Up Lodges Outside Whipple Building
- First Voices Indigenous Radio
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- Lummi Nation Podcast Radio
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- Amber Alerts
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Raven visits with Evan Pritchard this Sunday 11-4-2012 at 4pm KAOS radio
Evan Pritchard, a descendant of the Micmac people (part of the Algonquin nations) is the founder of The Center for Algonquin Culture, and is currently Professor of Native American history at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he also teaches ethics and philosophy.
He is the author of Native New Yorkers, The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York.
He is also the author of the widely praised No Word For Time, the Way of the Algonquin People, and many other books, including an Algonkian language series.
Professor Pritchard has given “Native New Yorker” walking tours of lower Manhattan for the Smithsonian Institute, The Open Center, South Street Seaport, and other institutions. He has recently shared his findings on Native American life in Manhattan on Leonard Lopate’s New York And Company show, on WBAI/ Pacifica Radio, ABC news, several NPR shows, New Dimensions, Maryknoll Productions and on other stations around the country. Native Peoples Magazine published a feature article on Native New Yorkers in the November/December 2002 issue, and a recent Village Voice cover article by Erik Baard was based, in part, on Pritchard’s book.
In 2003 he premiered two historical monologues, one “The 11,000 Year Old Man” at The Deep Listening Space in Kingston, and another “The Last Sachem Out of Manhattan” at the Ryan Center near Times Square.
Named Abachbahamedtch (or chipmunk) by Micmac people, he is assistant to several Algonquin elders.
Pritchard’s newly released hardback, “Native New Yorkers, The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York” promises to fill a huge gap in the publics general understanding of New Yorks history, and in the state public school system as well. Pritchards book “No Word For Time: The Way of the Algonquin People” lays a foundation for people of all nationalities to absorb the ancient wisdom of the Algonquin Indians through an understanding of the language.
Since 1990, his work helping Algonquin elders and bringing their message to the media has helped thousands of people gain a better understanding of this great civilization and its teachings. He lectures frequently around the United States, sharing storytelling, traditional and contemporary songs, and bi-lingual poetry.
His first lecture at The Open Center in New York City, September 17th, 1999, drew a standing room only crowd. The topic was the Algonquin history of the five boroughs, and Munsee Chief Mark Peters was one of several distinguished guests who shared the podium. He is currently taping a 24 part series for RFPI radio on The Algonquin Civilization.
He was the organizer of the North American Friendship Circle gathering on Columbus Day, 1992. He is also the founder of the Red Willow Society, Resonance Communications, and Roads To Awareness Seminars.
Relevant works compiled or authored by Evan Pritchard include:
Native New Yorkers, the Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York
No Word For Time, The Way of the Algonquin People
Introductory Guide to Micmac Words and Phrases
Aunt Helens Little Herb Book
(A Miramichi Indian Womans World of Herbs)
Secrets of Wholehearted Thinking
Take The Red Road (Poetry)
Eagle Song: An Honor Roll of Great Algonquins
A Lenape Phrase Book is nearing completion, and Penobscot and Shinnecock language projects are being planned. All three languages are considered highly endangered.
Posted in Make No Bones Shows
Tagged Algonquin People, Chief William Commanda, Evan Pritchard, Lenape, Micmac, Native New Yorker, Red Road
Nisqually Restoration
The Nisqually Restoration
As we splash around in the waters of the Puget Sound, it’s disheartening to realize that the Sound is one of the five most polluted waterways in North America.
Every year, roughly 52-million pounds of toxic chemicals wash into the Puget Sound. Five types of salmon and the orca are listed by the federal government as endangered species. Over all, one-thousand Puget Sound species are in decline. The price tag to clean up our famed waterway now sits at seven to eight billion dollars.
One clean-up project that is well underway is the restoration of the Nisqually delta estuary. After one hundred years of farming. The dikes surrounding the delta are coming down and salt water is returning to this important breeding and feeding ground.
Dakota 38
History of the film:
330 mile horseback ride to honor 38 Dakota men hanged in 1862.
In the spring of 2005, Lakota Spiritual Leader Jim Miller had a dream where he rode 330 miles on horseback. He eventually came to a river bank in Mankato, Minnesota where he saw 38 of his own ancestors hanged. Jim soon discovered that he had dreamt of the largest mass hanging in United States history ordered by Abraham Lincoln in 1862. In December of 2008, Jim and many others retraced the route of his dream on horseback as a means of bringing healing and reconciliation to all. “DAKOTA 38” is a feature length documentary film by Smooth Feather Productions which tells the story of this powerful 330 mile journey.
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Over the next few months we’re working towards bringing together the following elements. Everyone involved with Smooth Feather Productions has donated their time to create “Dakota 38” and the $20,000 we’re looking to raise will go towards the following expenses.
-Creating an original Soundtrack.
We’re planning to head out to the Dakotas and record many traditional songs with some of the riders from the film. We’re creating a musical team of both Native and Non-native musicians to have a reconciliation process within the music. We’re working with a NYC based string quartet & composer, a guitarist from DC, a violinist from Bermuda and many singers and drummers from South Dakota & Minnesota.
-A Sound Effects track.
We have some friends in NYC who work for one of the best sound effects companies and they’ve offered to lend us a hand. Although the studio time we need to rent is quite expensive. Our goal will be to enrich the sounds of the horses riding, the wild storms and the many voices you hear throughout the film.
-A Western Film Tour.
We’re looking to take the film on the road as soon as it’s finished and screen it along the route of the ride to the many small towns and reservations we rode through. Earlier this year we bought Winnie, a 1972 Winnebago Indian, and now we need to get her out to the plains for a first film tour.
These are our main expenses that any contribution would greatly help us fund.
We look forward to being in touch with everyone and hopefully we’ll see you down the trail.
Thanks so much,
Silas & The Smooth Feather Team.
For More information visit, http://www.smoothfeather.org
If you are not able to make this please consider donating online at this URL.
http://www.smoothfeather.org/index.php?pg=backer
US-Dakota War – 150 Years Later
All of us have to work together. Doesn’t matter how that person is. Try to see the goodness. If the whole can see this it will create we can create an energy shift.
-Chief Arvol Lookinghorse
.Whole-Self Wellness N.W. Tour..
..Whole-Self Wellness N.W. Tour..sit with
Robert Owens Greygrass
Native Activist, Author, Comedian, StorytellerTRADITIONS CAFE
Sunday, October 14
Sunday, October 14
7:30pm -10:30pm
300 5th Avenue SW, Olympia
Sliding scale $10-20 dollars
Robert is talking wellness, whole-self wellness rich with spiritual inspiration and humor. Within his stories are the simple truths to care for yourself, your loved ones and all of life. “we are faced with challenging times right now on Mother Earth.” Come join us, listen, learn and be inspired.
Robert Owens Greygrass is a published writer, storyteller, actor and wellness consultant. He travels and performs internationally for countless festivals, universities, reservations, prisons and theaters. He has years of traditional spiritual practices ,listening from the Elders, learning the Lakota language, stories and massive activism with the American Indian Cultural Center.
More about Robert at:http://www.dawhitedog.com/
Raven Redbone will also be at the door collecting blanket donations for Native Americans living in third world conditions on reservations. Blankets will go to ” Good Thinking 4 All Our Relations’.
Treaty Tribes release the State of Our Watersheds Report
The 2010 assessment declared that while protecting existing habitat is the most important action needed in the short term, salmon habitat continues to be degraded and better habitat protection efforts are needed. The assessment acknowledges that responsible harvest management is doing its share to support salmon recovery, and that salmon populations in many watersheds would not improve even if harvest was completely eliminated. Yet while harvest is held accountable for salmon recovery, habitat loss and degradation continue every day throughout every watershed in western Washington, destroying the salmon resource and along with it, the cultures, communities and treaty-reserved fishing rights of the tribes in western Washington.
“That salmon is us. All of us,” Frank said. “Whatever happens to that salmon is going to happen to us. If we can’t protect the salmon and its habitat, we can’t protect ourselves from the same things that are driving the salmon toward extinction.”
The State of our Watersheds report can be viewed online or is available on CD through the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission Web site at http://www.nwifc.org/sow. The report is a living document that will be updated as new data become available.
The State of Our Watersheds report is part of the Treaty Rights at Risk initiative created by the treaty tribes in 2011 to address the erosion of tribal treaty-reserved fishing rights from the ongoing loss of salmon and their habitat. The initiative is a call to action for the federal government to fulfill its trust responsibility to the tribes and its duty to recover salmon by leading a more coordinated salmon recovery effort. More information is available at http://www.treatyrightsatrisk.org.
Reference: KBKW News
STEVEN NEWCOMB: On the next ” Make No Bones About It’ 9-30-2012 -PAGANS IN THE PROMISED LAND
Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) is the indigenous law research coordinator at the Sycuan education department of the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation in San Diego County, California. He is cofounder and codirector of the Indigenous Law Institute, a fellow with the American Indian Policy and Media Initiative at Buffalo State College in New York, and a columnist with the newspaper Indian Country Today. He has taught in the legal studies department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and as a guest lecturer in the political science department at the University of Colorado at Denver. In 2004, Newcomb was named Writer of the Year in Journalism by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers for his Indian Country Today column “Bush Lets Freedom Reign.” Newcomb lives with his wife, Paige, in Alpine, California.
Make No Bones About It 