The ancients all had greater powers and cunning than either animals or people. Besides the ancients, real people lived on the earth at that time. Old One made the people out of last balls of mud he took from the earth. They were so ignorant that they were the most helpless of all the creatures Old One had made.
The difficulty with the early world was that most of the ancients were selfish, and they were also very stupid in some ways. They did not know which creatures were deer and which were people, and sometimes they ate people by mistake.
At last Old One said, “There will soon be no people if I let things go on like this.” So he sent Coyote to teach the Indians how to do things. And Coyote began to travel on the earth, teaching the Indians, making life easier and better for them, and performing many wonderful deeds.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Important Dates in April
April 9, 1884: Sacajawea dies in Wyoming on the Wind River Reservation.
April 13, 1946: Congress creates the Indian Claims Commission.
April 14, 1614: John Rolfe marries Pocahontas.
April 20, 1988: Congress repeals Termination of Tribes resolution.
April 13, 1946: Congress creates the Indian Claims Commission.
April 14, 1614: John Rolfe marries Pocahontas.
April 20, 1988: Congress repeals Termination of Tribes resolution.
Film shot around Fond du Lac Reservation to debut in Cloquet
By: Ann Klefstad
A feature film freighted with the ghostly but real stories of hundreds of people and the hopes of healing even more, “Older than America,” will debut on Thursday at the Premier Theater in Cloquet, near where it was filmed on the Fond du Lac Reservation last winter.
The film sets several subplots swirling around a dark secret. Rain, the protagonist, is unable to commit to her police officer boyfriend, Johnny (Adam Beach). Rain’s Auntie Apple (Tantoo Cardinal) raised her because her mother was committed to a mental institution. Rain fears her mother’s madness in herself when she begins to see a figure from her dreams in real life.
At the center of all the plots lies an old Catholic boarding school. Everyone wants something from it or wants to keep something about it hidden: The Catholics want a cover-up, a geologist wants to investigate, a developer wants to build — and something in the school wants to be known.
Georgina Lightning, the film’s co-writer, director and lead actress spoke Monday of the sorrow, hopelessness and suicides that she grew up with on a reservation near Edmonton, Alberta. Much of this pain she attributed to the common experience in her parents’ generation of forcible attendance at Catholic boarding schools. Such schools were part of the attempt by government and church to suppress Indian culture in the name of assimilation.
Lightning’s own father experienced a school like this, so the subject is very close to her. And when she was younger and lived on her reservation in Canada, she worked at the youth center with kids of parents scarred by the same experience. After two of those children, 13 and 14, killed themselves during her time in Los Angeles studying film, she decided that she “couldn’t be in just any movie; some fun thing, some silly thing.”
Get the whole story here: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id=63492&freebie_check&CFID=21859745&CFTOKEN=50543351&jsessionid=88307cd7e5b732363c34
A feature film freighted with the ghostly but real stories of hundreds of people and the hopes of healing even more, “Older than America,” will debut on Thursday at the Premier Theater in Cloquet, near where it was filmed on the Fond du Lac Reservation last winter.
The film sets several subplots swirling around a dark secret. Rain, the protagonist, is unable to commit to her police officer boyfriend, Johnny (Adam Beach). Rain’s Auntie Apple (Tantoo Cardinal) raised her because her mother was committed to a mental institution. Rain fears her mother’s madness in herself when she begins to see a figure from her dreams in real life.
At the center of all the plots lies an old Catholic boarding school. Everyone wants something from it or wants to keep something about it hidden: The Catholics want a cover-up, a geologist wants to investigate, a developer wants to build — and something in the school wants to be known.
Georgina Lightning, the film’s co-writer, director and lead actress spoke Monday of the sorrow, hopelessness and suicides that she grew up with on a reservation near Edmonton, Alberta. Much of this pain she attributed to the common experience in her parents’ generation of forcible attendance at Catholic boarding schools. Such schools were part of the attempt by government and church to suppress Indian culture in the name of assimilation.
Lightning’s own father experienced a school like this, so the subject is very close to her. And when she was younger and lived on her reservation in Canada, she worked at the youth center with kids of parents scarred by the same experience. After two of those children, 13 and 14, killed themselves during her time in Los Angeles studying film, she decided that she “couldn’t be in just any movie; some fun thing, some silly thing.”
Get the whole story here: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id=63492&freebie_check&CFID=21859745&CFTOKEN=50543351&jsessionid=88307cd7e5b732363c34
Feds should give final OK to peak’s name change
East Valley Tribune editorial
The time has arrived to permanently name one of the Valley’s most prominent mountains for a fallen soldier, and to set aside years of lingering resentment about how the change came about.
The U.S. Board of Geographic Names is scheduled to vote April 10 on the designation of Piestewa Peak, the craggy desert mountain along state Route 51 that is still known by many longtime residents as Squaw Peak.
The vote really is a formality, as Arizona changed the mountain’s name five years ago to honor Army Spc. Lori Piestewa, who died in March 2003 during the Iraq invasion and became the first American Indian woman to be killed in combat while serving in the U.S. military. The freeway’s secondary name, along with local maps, the park around the mountain and various government facilities in the area, has been updated as well.
The federal board didn’t join Arizona in adopting Piestewa Peak, keeping with its policy of requiring five years to pass before a geographic feature can be named for someone who has died. The wisdom of that policy is evident as some Valley residents still are angry that Gov. Janet Napolitano and her appointees on the state geographic names board rushed through the original change in 2003 while running roughshod over those who wanted more time for deliberation.
But requests that the federal government reject the name of Piestewa Peak now are pointless. Arizona won’t turn back the clock, and a variety of local political forces including the state’s Indian tribes are committed to protecting the legacy that already has grown up around Lori Piestewa’s memory.
The eventual transition to the universal use of Piestewa Peak would take longer if the federal government doesn’t embrace the name next week. Postponing the inevitable would only needlessly foster old political wounds and likely would tear open new ones.
The time has arrived to permanently name one of the Valley’s most prominent mountains for a fallen soldier, and to set aside years of lingering resentment about how the change came about.
The U.S. Board of Geographic Names is scheduled to vote April 10 on the designation of Piestewa Peak, the craggy desert mountain along state Route 51 that is still known by many longtime residents as Squaw Peak.
The vote really is a formality, as Arizona changed the mountain’s name five years ago to honor Army Spc. Lori Piestewa, who died in March 2003 during the Iraq invasion and became the first American Indian woman to be killed in combat while serving in the U.S. military. The freeway’s secondary name, along with local maps, the park around the mountain and various government facilities in the area, has been updated as well.
The federal board didn’t join Arizona in adopting Piestewa Peak, keeping with its policy of requiring five years to pass before a geographic feature can be named for someone who has died. The wisdom of that policy is evident as some Valley residents still are angry that Gov. Janet Napolitano and her appointees on the state geographic names board rushed through the original change in 2003 while running roughshod over those who wanted more time for deliberation.
But requests that the federal government reject the name of Piestewa Peak now are pointless. Arizona won’t turn back the clock, and a variety of local political forces including the state’s Indian tribes are committed to protecting the legacy that already has grown up around Lori Piestewa’s memory.
The eventual transition to the universal use of Piestewa Peak would take longer if the federal government doesn’t embrace the name next week. Postponing the inevitable would only needlessly foster old political wounds and likely would tear open new ones.
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