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NATIVE VILLAGE YOUTH and EDUCATION News
OCTOBER 1, 2008 Issue 190
 Volume 1

Annual Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island October 13, 2008
Love dilemma for Caribbean people
Many Cherokee Following Ancient Traditions Of Balance And Harmony
Canada Creates New Reserve in the NWT
Native American Panel Loses Chairman
Border Wall endangers Indigenous Peoples ceremonies and cultures
IUPUI professor's reburial of Native remains earns international award
Exploring NAGPRA at UCSD Teach-in
Chief of Golden Hill Paugussett tribe dies
The Asiatic Fathers of America
Japan Officially Recognizes Ainu  
Find a forgotten past

Volume 2

Canada Supports Inuktitut Language Preservation
OHA gives $1M to Na Pua Noeau program
Traditional pursuits keep Déline youth out of trouble

Lummi Tribe opens boarding school to support students, strengthen pride
Teaching native language helps reach Indian students

Diné teen has crowded speaking calendar
Made-in-Nunavut curriculum meets university standards
Textbook guides teachers on author's racial messages
Indian Schools Face Unique Challenges, Witnesses Tell Education Subcommittee

Rose Duhon-Sells Award Goes to Penn State Program
Miami University Presents Myaamiaki Iisi Meehtohseeniwickiki
Haskell degree opportunities expand
Let's hear it for Google scholarship winners

 Volume 3

Venezuelan official seeks solidarity among  indigenous peoples
Native Hawaiian Convention to hold first-ever session in Hawaiian
Bush familycleaning up on transfer of public lands to private hands
New Mexico study backs state park for sacred site
Mohegan gaming net income drops 89 percent
COPS Office Awards $14.9 Million in Grants to Native Law Enforcement Agencies
Villagers can't kick soda pop habit
 Youth cultural restoration tour kicks off 
Indians' Water Rights Give Hope for Better Health
Navajo Healers, Sand Paintings Keep Tribal Traditions Alive
Indigenous Herders and Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction
Foundation awards a chance to preserve Native Hawaiian plants

 Volume 4

Alaska Natives Watch Traditions Melting Away
Along the Louisiana coast, indigenous cultures and communities in peril
 Native environmental hero: Jesus Leon Santos
 Freshwater fish in America in peril, study says
 Graphic Deal to aid endangered sturgeon
Tlingit helmet sells at auction for nearly $2.2 million
 October 4: Live  Broadcast of the Native American Music Awards
 Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carrying the medicine, sharing a message
Hannah Duston, Passaconaway bobbleheads criticized
Toronto win just sinking in for Nunavut women's film group
Stadium plaza to honor all 11 state tribes
Depp and Clooney may star in THE LONE RANGER


NATIVE VILLAGE Opportunities and websites

September 15, 2008  Issue 190

Opportunities Highlights

The Lost Ladybug Project
Codetalkers House Bill Number 4577
First Nations Composer Initiative       
Help IYE Protect the San Francisco Peaks
Wild Ones Seeds for Education Grant Program
Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Language Summit
International Day of Peace
2008/09 Global Virtual Classroom Program
Kamehameha Schools 2008 Research Conference
When Your Hands Are Tied

Libraries Highlights

Christian the Lion
Storytelling Project
Conquests of Chocolate
Drake’s West Indian Voyage 1588-1589
Cradleboard Social Studies
The Huexotzinco Codex
Jim Thorpe
Musica del Pueblo
We Do Not Know His Name: Klatsassin and the Chilcotin War
The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization
the international council of 13 indigenous grandmothers World Youth Forum 
HOME Page:  The international council of 13 indigenous grandmothers

Timeline of the Efforts by Indigenous Nations and Peoples Calling upon the Vatican Revoke the Inter Caetera Papal Bull of 1493

Open Statement to Pope Benedict XVI  Revocation of the Three Papal Bulls
                                                         Grandmothers To Pope     Grandmothers Movie scheduled for WIF Film Festival

Film on Historic Meeting of indigenous grandmothers to receive premiere screening on october 10
 
 
Grandmother Clara Shinobu Iura Grandmother Julieta Casimiro Grandmother Rita Pitka Blumenstein
 Grandmother Maria Alice Campos Freire
Grandmother Tsering Dolma Gyaltong
 
  Grandmother Aama Bambo

Grandmother Agnes Baker-Pilgrim

Grandmother Mona PolAcca

Grandmother Floredemayo

Grandmothers Rita and Beatrice
Long Visitor Holy Dance

Grandmother Margaret Behan

Grandmother Bernadette Rebienot

 

Native Village Resources

 native Village LIBRARIES  Opportunities and opportunity archives
 
Quotes Art Gallery editorials Highlights
In Memory of Audrey Link
Our Children Are Dying
Murder on a Reservation

Percent of Population Under Age 18 that is American Indian or Alaska Native Alone
Papal Bull, Columbus Day and European Invasion
Petition for American Indian Day
 Messages From the People Highlights
2008 NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDs nominees and winnerS

2008 100 Best Communities for Young PeopleLocation of Mass Graves at former residential schools and hospitals across canada
The Kingdom of Hawaii Announces Secession
Native Food Information
The Team That Invented Football
Celebrating an Indian summer
This Halloween Think Green
walking a mile the first step to understanding
21 Ways to Scalp and Indian
 Inspiration Highlights
Five Years After the Makah Historical Whale
Navajo Codetalkers Dictionary
Resolution of the Declarations of Indigenous Peoples Plain Text Version: Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
 This Month in Native American History
October
Inupiaq culture by mary lum sage
 
Messages to Youth from Leonard Peltier
 
Supporting THE Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

 Link center foundation
2008 LCF Emergency Heating/Utility Assistance PRogram
LCF Heating Assistance Application Form

 
In Memory of Audrey Link

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