OJIBWE IMMERSION SURVIVAL PHRASES

Aaniin (weweni) ekidong _______ anishinabemong? (How do you say _____________in Ojibwe?) Aaniin ezhinikaadeg (in) anishinaabemong?  (What is it called? (object not alive) Aaniin ezhinikaazod anishinabemong?  (What is it's name in Ojibwe? (something alive) Daga miinawaa ikidon!  (Please say that again.) Miinawaa ina gidaa-ikid?  (Could you say that again?) Weweni ina gidaa-ikid?  (Could you say that slower / more carefully please?) Gawiin ninisidotanziin. (What are you saying?) Gawiin ginisidotoosinoon.  (I don't understand you.)

Mii ina gwayak?  (Is that the way?) Niwanendaan ekidong. (I forgot how it's said.) Daga gagwejim!  (Please ask him.) Gidaa-gagwejimaa.  (You should ask him.) Daga wiindamaw!   (Please tell him.) Daga gidaa-wiindamawaa.  (You should tell him.) Wiindamawishin awengonen I'iw  (Tell me what that is.) Gawiin ingikendaziin  (I don't know.)

Niigaane Program: www.llojibwe.com/llojibwe/niigaane/index.html
http://www.nativebiz.com/community/News,file=article,nid=18231.html

Head Start Director Chosen for Panel
Kenaitze Indian Tribe, Alaska:  Debbie Shuey, director of the Kenaitze Head Start, is among 22 participants on a national Head Start panel. The panel will focus primarily on American Indian/Alaska Native Head Start Programs located throughout the country. They will address specific AI/AN concerns including health, nutrition, child development, early childhood education, native languages, family and community partnerships and program design and management
http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/032008/news_4655.shtml

Crow Agency's child advocacy center seen as model for tribes
Crow Reservation, Montana: The Child and Adolescent Care Center at the Crow-Northern Cheyenne Hospital is the first of its kind in Montana. "Having a child resource center is a good thing" said Dr.  Earl Sutherland, who helped develop and works at the center. " It pulls resources together; it makes life easier." Sutherland said it's time for all Montana tribes to do the same thing.  He's urging them to pull  together, learn from and mentor each other, and create care centers on reservations.  "The thing you learn over and over and over in Indian Country is that nobody is going to come do it for us," he said.  The Care Center streamlines the process of medical and mental health evaluations for children who may have been abused. It also works with law enforcement and prosecutors  to reduce the child's trauma . 
www.heraldnet.com/article/20080408/NEWS01/765103231/-1/news

School boards join reserve fight
 
Attawapiskat Reserve, Ontario: Ontario's public school boards are encouraging their 2,100,000 students to write letters to Ontario's government asking them to pay for a school for Attawapiskat's children.  Eight years ago, Attawapiskat parents pulled their children out of the town's grade school because a diesel spill contaminated the land.  The parents then moved their kids to portable school units which they thought were only temporary. Eight years later, the kids and run-down portables are still there. The wind blows through cracks in the walls; the pipes freeze, leaving students nowhere to go but home.  Each time the 400 students visit the school library, gym, computer room, etc, they must suit up in boots and coats. So poor is this setting for learning that they drop out by Grade 8, says Attawapiskat principal Stella Wesley.  "Portables aren't the whole problem, but they make children feel very isolated in a community already segregated from the rest of society," she said.  Last fall Ontario said a new Attawapisak school was in the works. Now Ontario's Indian Affairs says it doesn't have a plan or timetable at all.   Officials also said another Native community deserves a school first because their school was destroyed by fire.  That will cost $13,000,000 and push Attawapiskat school off the current waiting list.  But Ontario's schools boards disagree, and they and their students are responding.  "All children have the right to a quality education, and we want the students of Attawapiskat to know their peers care about them," said Catherine Fife from the Ontario Public School Boards' Association.
Learn more:  www.attawapiskat-school.com
http://www.thestar.com/article/345965

Students granted broadcast scholarships
Hopi Reservation, Arizona - Two Hopi High School radio students were awarded scholarships to attend a prestigious national radio conference. The students, Povi Lomayaoma and Paul Quamahongnewa, will attend the National Federation of Community Broadcasters Youth in Radio Journalism Project in Atlanta.  The Youth in Radio Project offers training  in radio journalism and First Amendment rules and rights.  It also helps students learn how to select, research, and write a story.  The Youth In Radio Project is funded by the McCormick Tribune Foundation.
Photo: Navajo Hopi Observer
http://www.nativebiz.com/community/News,file=article,nid=18038.html

Student named national scholar
Saginaw Chippewa Reservation, Michigan: Autumn "Ellie" Mitchell, a graduate of Oasis High School, has been named a 2008 national Morris K. Udall Scholar. "In the 12 years that I've served as principal, I've never been so impressed by a student," Principal Jeff Platte said. "Everybody calls her Ellie."  Mitchell, 19,  is a sophomore at Michigan State University and Honors College member. She is majoring in linguistics, including French and the Ojibwe language, which she's studied since her days in the reservation's Montessori School.    "I feel really proud to receive this national scholarship," Mitchell said. "It means that somebody is recognizing an issue that is important to me, preservation of the Ojibwe language."  Ellie is among 80 Udall Scholarship recipients.
http://www.themorningsun.com/stories/041208/loc_scholar.shtml

Complaints grow against Indian education bureau
Navajo Nation, Arizona: A grassroots movement against the Bureau of Indian Education is gaining momentum.  They are supporting two former employees who filed a lawsuit against the Shiprock Education Line Office. The lawsuit claims harassment, hostile work environments, wrongful termination and misusing funds.  Educators in the Eastern Navajo and Western Navajo agencies have joined the movement.  For months Bureau of Indian Education officials have denied comment on the complaints.
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Tribal College Erects Small Wind Turbine
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indian Reservation, ND: Turtle Mountain Community College has erected a 660 kW Vestas V47 660 wind turbine. The turbine is designed to dramatically cut the school's electricity costs which now average $300,000 per year.  With the power generated with this new turbine, TMCC expects its costs to drop by 33-50%
http://www.aer-online.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.1386

Lacrosse offers lessons in community, Native American culture
Laguna and Taos Pueblos, New Mexico:  Tracy Goodluck knows about the days when lacrosse was used to train Native Americans for war, solve tribal disputes between tribes, end tribal ceremonies, and just bring out the competitive spirit.  Lacrosse is immensely popular among tribes in the eastern United States and in Ivy League schools. And now students at the Native American Community Academy are proving the sport is popular elsewhere.  Nearly 50 players and coaches from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania traveled to NACA to teach young tribal members the basics of the game. "It was really neat to see a bunch of Native American students playing an indigenous game but not really indigenous to the Southwest," said Goodluck, the dean at the academy. "This is something I never thought I'd see."The Dickson group conducted lacrosse clinics at the academy and at Laguna and Taos pueblos. They also planted trees along the Rio Grande and made a walkway and garden area at the academy. "It was a decision we made as a team," said head coach Dave Webster. "Part of the commitment we're making is to make a difference on and off the field, and this is part of our learning experience."  The team also donated 20 full sets of equipment to the American Indian charter school that represents students from 45 tribes.
Graphic: www.american-native-art.com
http://www.timesleader.com/news/ap?articleID=347601

Sorority put on yearlong probation for Indian party
North Dakota: A UND sorority has given a year's conduct probation after hosting a party where students wore mock Indian clothing and red face and body paint.  The Dean's office says Gamma Phi Beta sorority may still participate in university events and host parties but will be suspended if they violate the school's Code of Student Life again.  The sorority must also design a diversity education program for its members.
H-Amindian Listserve

American Indian grants returned
Utah: The University of Utah has returned $2,000,000 in grants to the Department of Education.  The grants were meant to help students who want to be teachers for American Indian populations. However, the grants also required the University to invest another $1,000,000 to start the program. According to Michael Hardman, dean of the college of education, the university doesn't have the money.  "(Returning the grant) is not something that anyone at the U wanted to do," he said. "We wanted to broaden the range of students assisted, and we couldn't do that and commit to the additional million."  Dozi Lynn, a graduate student in the Native American Teacher Training Program, wonders why Native American communities and reservations weren't asked to assist with the funding. "I think this is one more example of how the University couldn't care less about native Americans on campus," Lynn said. "It is sad to see this program leave because of the difference it's made to students in the program and the communities they go to."  The Four Corner States Aid to Teachers grant would have helped provide distance learning, teacher training, and mentoring for program graduates during their first year of teaching.
http://www.nativebiz.com/community/News,op=visit,nid=18242.html

 
american Indian College Fund Event Celebrates 40 Years of Tribal Colleges and Honors Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Colorado: The American Indian College Fund will host a special event in Dallas, Texas, to celebrate 40 years of tribal colleges.  The Fund will also honor the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma by repatriating historical artifacts. The items include a telegram from Will Rogers.  “The Choctaw nation is honored to be the recipient of these valuable items from our past. Tribal history is very important to all generations...” said Chief Gregory E. Pyle. “The Council, Choctaw People and I are very thankful that the American Indian College Fund has ensured the return of these artifacts to the great Choctaw nation.” The first tribal college opened in 1968 when the Navajo nation founded  Diné College, in Tsaile, Arizona.
See where they are: Tribal College map and list
http://www.collegefund.org/news/News08/dallas.html

American Indian Higher Education Consortium Prepares for New Leadership
Navajo Nation, New Mexico: On June 1, Carrie Billy will become executive director of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium. The Navajo woman will replace Dr. Gerald Gipp from of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. Gipp has served as executive director since 2001. Billy is currently AIHEC's deputy director and director of STEM development.  She has also worked in American Indian higher education circles for many years.
American Indian Higher Education Consortium: http://www.aihec.org/
H-Amindian Listsve

Aztecs devised sophisticated arithmetic system
Mexico: Using written symbols, the ancient Aztecs maintained an arithmetic system far more complex than previously understood.  Scientists examined hundreds of Aztec drawings in manuscripts created between 1540-1544. The manuscripts used symbols such as hearts, arrows and hand to create fractions for agricultural counts and parcels of land.  "What we thought we knew about the Aztec measuring system was a little simplistic," said researcher Barbara Williams.   "We've determined that it was more complex.  They used the four mathematical operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. But in almost all of the early societies, they could do everything they needed to do, with just those four. They didn't need square roots.  They didn't need trigonometry. " The Aztec empire ruled much Mesoamerica until Spanish invasion. Their capital,  Tenochtitlan -- with towering pyramids and amazing architecture -- was larger than any European city of the era.  Since 1980, scientists knew  the Aztecs mathematically calculated areas, but they didn't understand how it was done. 
http://www.reuters.com/

Location of Mass Graves of Residential School Children Revealed for the First Time
British Columbia:  Hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Native children are buried in mass or hidden graves at residential schools once run by the Catholic, Anglican and United Church and the Canadian government.  Many of those children were secretly buried and never identified.  One eyewitness described how he helped bury a young Inuit boy at the United Church's Edmonton residential school in 1953. "We were told never to tell anyone by Jim Ludford, the Principal, who got me and three other boys to bury him," said Sylvester Green. " But a lot more kids got buried all the time in that big grave next to the school."  At a public ceremony, the FRD (Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared) released a list of 28 mass graves of Aboriginal children who died in Indian Residential Schools.  FRD leaders will ask the United Nations to supervise the mass graves and observe an inquiry and judicial prosecution against those responsible for the children's deaths. 

http://www.mohawknationnews.com/

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