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15:01:11 06/07/09
Celtic Christianity Homily "The Cost and Joy of Discipleship" by Rev. Dr. George Cairns
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Celtic Christianity Today Homily "The Cost and Joy of Discipleship" by Rev. Dr. George Cairns
(Valparaiso, Indiana) - Rev. Dr. George Cairns of Chesterton, Indiana delivers a Sunday homily entitled “The Cost and Joy of Discipleship” on May 3, 2009 at the Union Community Church in Valparaiso, Indiana.
The homilies on Celtic Christianity take a look at several topics including the European roots of the Celts (primarily Scotland and Ireland) and how Earth-based cultures can impact the future of civilization including actively protecting the environment, respecting fellow humans, different cultures and nature.
Union Community Church
Cairns is working closely with Rev. Gregory Jones on several social fronts.
Rev. Jones is the pastor of the Union Community Church and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University.
Turtle Island Project logo
Founded in 2007, the non-profit Turtle Island Project is known for its ongoing work with Native American issues - and the other wing involves other Earth-based religions like the Celts. Dr. Cairns is the co-founder of the nonprofit Turtle Island Project.
Rev. Dr. George Cairns
Rev. Cairns continues to work closely with the foremost Celtic group in the world, the Iona Community in Scotland that is a dispersed Christian ecumenical community working for peace and social justice, rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship.
Cairns is a research professor of Practical Theology and Spirituality at Chicago Theological Seminary, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and lives in Chesterton, Indiana.
Cairns recently completed a six-part "contemplative reading and discussion" of Philip Newell's book "Christ of the Celts" at the Union Community Church.
Cairns and his wife, Nancy, recently hosted a conference on Celtic Spirituality, Ecology, and Participative Consciousness.
Dr. Cairns says:
Celtic Christianity is a strand of the Christian tradition which developed during the middle of the first millennium. Its full flowering in Ireland and Scotland continued for several hundred years before it was incorporated into the dominant church as many of its traditions were lost or suppressed.
There are two major reasons for this recovery and reconstruction of Celtic Christian practical theology for the church today: Church Renewal & Engaging and transforming the genocide and ecocide taking place today.
We are concerned that our current individual and systemic western consciousness is disembodied and ill. We believe that this process started several thousand years ago in the late Paleolithic. We are not trying to turn back the clock to the Stone Age. But we do know that a change in consciousness must begin if our planet and we are to survive.
What we have lost is participative consciousness, which understands that our lives are profoundly related to the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of all of creation. Another way of putting this is that we are completely relational beings. Reconnection with all of creation as sacred and responsive and alive is our great task in the early 21st century.
We have living guides to help us such as Celtic Spirituality, Native American Spirituality and post-modern science. I believe we need to integrate the profound gifts of these resources and open ourselves to deepen our relationships with all of creation.”
email Rev. Dr. George Cairns , Founder of Celtic Christianity Today
Related websites and information:
Celtic Christianity Today website
Spirit Cafe Blog with Rev. George Cairns (United Church of Christ website)
Iona Community, Scotland
Iona Community New World Foundation: Iona Community associates, friends in U.S.
Union Community Church, Valparaiso, IN
Web page of Rev. Gregory Jones, Theology Department at Valparaiso University
Turtle Island TV on bliptv
Turtle Island TV on youtube
email Turtle Island Project to get messages to Dr. Cairns
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Centering prayer/contemplative prayer & Father Thomas Keating:
Photos of Father Thomas Keating in Texas by Marion E. Melchiorre aka marimelch on flickr
Photo by Marion E. Melchiorre
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marionmelchiorre/1540058606
Marion E. Melchiorre is an artist, living in Los Angeles, who gave Celtic Christianity Today permission to use her photos.
http://artist.melchiorre.com
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Artwork of Saint Columba from Wikipedia shows: Saint Columba, Apostle to the Picts
Source: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall , Scotland's Story 1906 (published) Columba banging on the gate of Bridei, son of Maelchon , King of Fortriu .
Created in 1906 illustrator John R. Skelton
Copyright expired but credit given in the spirit of Celtic Christianity.
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Iona Island (Scotland) topographical map
Courtesy Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona
Iona Abbey photo from Wikipedia
The copyright on this image is owned by John Naisbitt and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/72548
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Old Iona Map from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona
This is an image that has come from a book or document for which the American copyright has expired and this image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other countries.
Iona, showing the sites of the monasteries and abbey
Source: Celtic Scotland, p.100
http://books.google.com/books?id=oJoQAAAAYAAJ
Author: William Forbes Skene in 1887
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August 1983 wide panorama shot of Iona Island from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona
Iona Island, Scotland, view from the Fionnphort-Iona ferry:
This image has been released into the public domain by its author, Dr. Torsten Henning, who grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DrTorstenHenning/photogallery
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Coracle boats on Wikipedia: Photo shows small coracle from Wales:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coracle
This image has been (or is hereby) released into the public domain by its author, LinguisticDemographer at the Wikipedia Project. This applies worldwide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LinguisticDemographer
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Author Ian Bradley biography of Saint Columba:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/rt/staff/icb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bradley
http://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/0947988815
http://ionabooks.com/0947988815-Columba.html
http://www.amazon.com/Celtic-Christianity-Making-Chasing-Dreams/dp/0748610472
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Photo of Stained Glass Window of Saint Columba in St Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh Castle from Rampant Scotland Website:
http://www.rampantscotland.com/know/blknow30.htm
Saint Columba & Celtic Spirituality websites:
http://www.columbacommunity.com/files/saint_columba.htm
http://leadershipinministry.com/an_introductory_reading_li.htm
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Contemplative Prayer or Centering Prayer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemplative_prayer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centering_prayer
http://www.contemplativeprayer.net
http://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_practices_centering
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Beehive Huts:
http://prayerfoundation.org/irish_monk_beehive_shaped_stone_huts.htm
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Father Thomas Keating:
http://www.tower.com/foundations-for-centering-prayer-christian-contemplative-life-thomas-keating-hardcover/wapi/101392659
http://www.pendlehill.org/bookstore/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=22_41%products_id=75%osCsid=682097dc7eaa43f4887360dafaab4e4e
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Rev. Dr. George Cairns at Sept. 2007 Conference on Centering Prayer in Munising, MI:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ3tLA_so_I
http://www.gather.com/viewVideo.action?id=11821949021854789
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On September 20, 2007, Rev. Cairns gave a presentation on centering prayer – also known as contemplative prayer – in Munising, Michigan at the first non-profit Turtle Island Project regional conference.
The Scotland-based Iona community is a good example of a group of people "who are unified by a covenant, worship together and who engage in very effective political action to change structural evil."
Rev. Cairns said "centering prayer" and "participative consciousness" that are techniques of deep meditation he learned from Father Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk and teacher. (Trappist refers to a branch of the Cistercian order of monks known for an austere rule including a vow of silence.)
"Silent meditation is a powerful tool to open ourselves to one another and to all creation which is what this participative consciousness is all about," said Cairns, TIP co-founder and board president.
Cairns said the intense form of meditation helps eliminate the "internal dialogue" or "chatter that's going on all the time" in people's minds.
"I found out how much of my life was consumed by internal dialogue," said Cairns, research professor of theology at the Chicago Theological Seminary.
Centering prayer allows "us to open our hearts to a deeper relationship with God and an increased openness to the movement of the Holy Spirit in our lives," said Rev. Cairns, admitting it's an easier technique to teach than for people to learn and practice.
"The technique to doing it - is simply to rest with God. It's not easy to do, it's easy to teach, but very difficult to do," Cairns said.
In fighting the world's evil, Cairns said "we can't get their with just our hearts - we need our heads and something more."
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16:19:51 05/24/09
Celtic Christianity Homily: The Goodness of Creation by Rev. Dr. George Cairns
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Celtic Christianity Today Homily: "The Goodness of Creation" by Rev. Dr. George Cairns at Union Community Church in Valparaiso, Indiana
(Valparaiso, Indiana) - Rev. Dr. George Cairns delivers the second of many Sunday homilies at the Union Community Church in Valparaiso, Indiana.
The homilies on Celtic Christianity take a look at several topics including the European roots of the Celts (primarily Scotland and Ireland) and how Earth-based cultures can impact the future of civilization including actively protecting the environment, respecting fellow humans, different cultures and nature.
Union Community Church
Cairns is working closely with Rev. Gregory Jones on several social fronts.
Rev. Jones is the pastor of the Union Community Church and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University.
Turtle Island Project logo
Founded in 2007, the non-profit Turtle Island Project is known for its ongoing work with Native American issues - and the other wing involves other Earth-based religions like the Celts. Dr. Cairns is the co-founder of the nonprofit Turtle Island Project.
Rev. Dr. George Cairns
Rev. Cairns continues to work closely with the foremost Celtic group in the world, the Iona Community in Scotland that is a dispersed Christian ecumenical community working for peace and social justice, rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship.
Cairns is a research professor of Practical Theology and Spirituality at Chicago Theological Seminary, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and lives in Chesterton, Indiana.
Cairns recently completed a six-part "contemplative reading and discussion" of Philip Newell's book "Christ of the Celts" at the Union Community Church.
Cairns and his wife, Nancy, recently hosted a conference on Celtic Spirituality, Ecology, and Participative Consciousness.
Dr. Cairns says:
Celtic Christianity is a strand of the Christian tradition which developed during the middle of the first millennium. Its full flowering in Ireland and Scotland continued for several hundred years before it was incorporated into the dominant church as many of its traditions were lost or suppressed.
There are two major reasons for this recovery and reconstruction of Celtic Christian practical theology for the church today: Church Renewal & Engaging and transforming the genocide and ecocide taking place today.
We are concerned that our current individual and systemic western consciousness is disembodied and ill. We believe that this process started several thousand years ago in the late Paleolithic. We are not trying to turn back the clock to the Stone Age. But we do know that a change in consciousness must begin if our planet and we are to survive.
What we have lost is participative consciousness, which understands that our lives are profoundly related to the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of all of creation. Another way of putting this is that we are completely relational beings. Reconnection with all of creation as sacred and responsive and alive is our great task in the early 21st century.
We have living guides to help us such as Celtic Spirituality, Native American Spirituality and post-modern science. I believe we need to integrate the profound gifts of these resources and open ourselves to deepen our relationships with all of creation.”
email Rev. Dr. George Cairns , Founder of Celtic Christianity Today
Related websites and information:
Celtic Christianity Today website
Spirit Cafe Blog with Rev. George Cairns (United Church of Christ website)
Iona Community, Scotland
Iona Community New World Foundation: Iona Community associates, friends in U.S.
Union Community Church, Valparaiso, IN
Web page of Rev. Gregory Jones, Theology Department at Valparaiso University
Nonprofit Turtle Island Project
Turtle Island TV on bliptv
Turtle Island TV on youtube
email Turtle Island Project to get messages to Dr. Cairns
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08:30:31 03/03/09
Tillie Black Bear: Her family, boarding schools & life on the Rosebud Reservation
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Lakota Domestic Violence Activist Tillie Black Bear: Her family, growing up in the boarding school era, and life (then and now) on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota
Near Lake Superior, Tillie Black Bear faces west while singing the four directions prayer in Lakota on September 2008 at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan. (Turtle Island Project Photo by Greg Peterson)
This the third in a series of videos about Tillie Black Bear and her visit to Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan in the fall of 2008..
In this video, Black Bear talks about her family, the boarding school era, the Rosebud Reservation and life now - and then - on the Rosebud.
Black Bear is the executive director and one of the founders of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society (WBCWS).
For 31 years, the WBCWS that serves the Lakota Sioux Rosebud Reservation in Mission, South Dakota.
Black Bear spoke to the Northern Michigan University 2008 Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED) Conference on September 23, 2008.
Black Bear spoke in the Great Lakes Room of the NMU University center and later held an informal discussion with the public.
Some quotes and paraphrases from Tillie Black Bear:
I come from ... a family of people who - back in the 60s and 50s - could not practice our traditional spirituality, it had gone underground with it - it had gone underground - the pipe.
And practiced those ways until the late 60s and early 70s.
I know by 1978 they did the Native American Religious Freedom Act.
We were able to do these things out in the open.
Leaned traditional ways from her mother, stepfather, teachers in her family
My family was one of the first ones that brought the Sundance back to Rosebud in 1960 and they had to go to Washington D.C. and get special permission to be able to do it out in the open.
The Sundance is held out in the country.
I come from that rich tradition of resistance and it's helped me become who I am as a woman.
I grew up with the boarding school background and in the years up until I graduated I was always like a visitor in my own home.
I come from a family of 11 (two older brothers, Tillie is third child, and the oldest of six girls).
The only time I ever went home was at Christmas time and during the summers for a couple months
So I was like a visitor in my own home but I hung onto speaking Lakota.
When I first went to school I spoke probably not more than four or five English words.
I remember going to first grade and even before that I could not speak English.
They came to the door at my grandmothers old log house and asked for my mother. She worked for this nurse.
I could say work nurse - work nurse
There was a small public school in our town - not more than 50 students.
After two weeks they sent home a note to my mother saying I wasn't quite school ready. I should start the next year because I could not speak English.
I was like 4 or 5 years old and my mother
Playing at home with cousin - people people came to visit - uncles (mom's two younger brothers) and said I thought she started school.
Her uncle said:
Tillie was so smart she finished her first year in two weeks.
This is the kind of family I grew up with - rich in humor and keeping ourselves humble.
Tillie then went on to college.
I was probably one of the first Indian women from our tribes in 1970 to get a bachelor's degree in sociology. One of the first to get a master's degree in 1974. Went back and did a doctoral study but I am one of those people with the ABD behind my back - all but dissertation.
When we look at who we are as woman. We really have to look at where we come from as women.
Black Bear’s visit was coordinated by the NMU Center for Native American Studies and the non-profit Turtle Island Project in Munising, Michigan.
The Turtle Island Project (TIP) has held several concerts and other events to raises funds for the WBCWS. TIP Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard travels several times a year to the Rosebud Reservation.
Black Bear was greeted by Dr. Judith Puncochar, an NMU Professor and an organizer of the annual UNITED Conference
Tillie Black Bear was introduced by Grace Chaillier, an NMU Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Native American Studies and a registered member of the Sicangu Lakota band of the Rosebud Sioux - the same tribe as Black Bear.
Please watch the other Turtle Island Project videos on Tillie Black Bear's talk in northern Michigan.
Black Bear addresses the Lakota teen suicide crisis, domestic violence, people respecting people and many other important issues.
The Turtle Island Project thanks Tillie Black Bear, NMU Center for Native American Studies , Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED) and White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc .
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Tillie Black Bear. Executive Director
White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc.
October is Domestic Violence Month
Tillie Black Bear is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation/Rosebud Sioux Tribe.
She is presently the Executive Director of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc. , which operates the oldest shelter for women who have been battered or raped on Indian reservations; and is the first shelter for women of color in the U.S. (1978).
Tillie Black Bear is recognized throughout the state, nationally, and in Indian Country as one of the leading experts on violence against women and children.
She is a founding mother of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) and a founder of the South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (SDCADV%SA) both in 1978.
She was the first woman of color to chair NCADV and continues to sit on the Board of Director for the SDCADV%SA.
Black Bear presently serves on the advisory board of National Sexual Assault Resource Center, Pennsylvania and is past member of the professional advisory board of the National Domestic Violence Hotline, Austin, TX.
Tillie Black Bear is pictured on Sept. 23, 2008 in Marquette, MI with Dr. Jos Cuellar of La Raza Studies at San Francisco State University, who spoke on "The Four Enemies of Diversity."
Black Bear and Dr. Cuellar were both featured speakers at the 2008 UNITED Conference at Northern Michigan University.
Tillie Black Bear is currently a council member for Clan Star a technical resources for tribal grantees through Department of Justice.
Tillie Black Bear was the recipient of an award from the U.S. Department of Justice for her work with victims of crime in April,1988; and in 1989 was one of President Bush’s “Point of Light”.
In 1999 at the Millennium Conference on Domestic Violence in Chicago, IL, Black Bear was one of 10 individuals recognized as one of the founders of the domestic violence movement in the United States.
She was awarded an Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award in December, 2000 by President Clinton.
In May, 2003 Black Bear was a recipient of the first annual LifeTime Achievement Award from LifeTime Television.
Black Bear was selected as one of “21 Leaders for the 21st Century award by Women’s eNews in 2004.
In 2005, she received an award from NOW.
She is retired from Sinte Gleska University as a part-time instructor in Human Services; Casey Foundation as a licensed foster parent.
Currently, Black Bear works as a teacher of 13 years teaching students taking a course on cross-cultural ministry at Catholic Theological Union through Shalom Ministries out of Chicago, IL.
Black Bear and colleague Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D. have completed a poster series on D/Lakota women elders on each of the nine Dakota/Lakota Nations in South Dakota entitled: “D/Lakota Women – Keepers of the Nation”.
Another collaborative work is workshops on issues of Racism and Cultural Diversity, which has taken them to South Dakota, Vermont, New York, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa.
Black Bear has worked as a therapist, certified school counselor, administrator, college instructor and comptroller.
She holds a Master of Art (1974) from the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD; Bachelor of Science (1971), Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD.
She has served on the St. Francis Indian School Board of Directors, St. Francis, SD; and Sinte Gleska University Board of Regents, Mission, SD.
Black Bear is single mother of 3 girls, grandmother of thirteen and survivor of domestic violence.
Related Links:
Northern Michigan University (NMU)
NMU on Wikipedia
NMU Center for Native American Studies :
Center for Native American Studies
Northern Michigan University
112F Whitman Hall
Marquette, MI
49855
906-227-1397
906-227-1396 (fax)
e-mail:
nasa@nmu.edu
April Lindala, Director
Center for Native American Studies
(906) 227-1397
(906) 227-1396 (fax)
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Adriana Greci Green , Assistant Professor
112C Whitman Hall
Phone: 906-227-2374
Fax: 906-227-1396
E-mail Prof. Green
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Grace Chaillier
NMU Adjunct Assistant Professor
Sicangu Lakota band of the Rosebud Sioux
112G Whitman Hall
(906) 227-1390
White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc. (WBCWS)
PO Box 227
Mission, S.D.
57555
605-856-2317
605-856-2494 (fax)
Official website of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe - Sicangu Lakota
Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED):
Northern Michigan University
September 21-23, 2008
Other UNITED links:
http://webb.nmu.edu/UNITED/SiteSections/2008Schedule.shtml
http://webb.nmu.edu/Webb/PDFs/UNITED/UNITED_2008.pdf
http://webb.nmu.edu/UNITED/SiteSections/GD989.shtml
Organizers:
Dr. Judith Puncochar
NMU Professor
906-227-1366
e-mail Dr. Puncochar
Turtle Island Project
137 East Onota Street
Munising, MI.
49862
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard, TIP Co-founder, Director
Rev. Dr. George Cairns, TIP Co-Founder, Board President
Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard of Munising, MI was a guest speaker at the 2007 and 2008 UNITED Conference at NMU. Rev. Hubbard is pastor of the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising, MI.
Please see the videos on his talks on TIP TV.
For more information on the TIP call 906-202-0590 or 906-401-0109
Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
Turtle Island TV (youtube)
Turtle Island (myspace)
email:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net
In recent years, the Turtle Island Project has held several free concerts and other events to raise money for the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society. The latest concert was held in Munising, Michigan in Dec. 2008
Anishinaabe News:
NMU Native American student-run newspaper
Check out these web addresses to read more about the Lakota (and other Native American tribes) Prayer & Song to the Four Directions:
http://www.bci.org/prophecy-fulfilled/wbcalf.htm
http://www.manataka.org/page696.html
http://1onewolf.com/lakota/spirit1.htm
http://www.lakotabooks.com/news.htm
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3317793
http://www.aktalakota.org/index.cfm?cat=54%artid=130
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5088/is_/ai_n25221365
http://music.msn.com/music/album/calvin-standing-bear/wakan-olowan-lakota-pipe-ceremonial-and-spiritual-songs
http://musicishere.com/artists/Calvin_Standing_Bear/Wakan_Olowan-Lakota_Pipe_Ceremonial_&_Spiritual_Songs
http://payplay.fm/cstandingbear
http://www.imeem.com/shantiliu/music/yADoFkws/native_americans_prayer_for_the_four_directions
http://audreysblog.yuku.com/topic/403
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJKf8ts1gps%feature=related
http://www.highonlife1.com/four_directions_prayer.htm
http://music.yahoo.com/track/1452994
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Lakota Sioux & Rosebud Reservation:
http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/history.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosebud_Indian_Reservation
http://www.tradecorridor.com/rosebud/spirit.htm
http://www.sicangufund.org/rosebud/index.html
http://www.travelsd.com/ourhistory/sioux/tribes/rosebud.asp
http://pie.midco.net/lmrose/sicangu.htm
http://www.tolweb.org/treehouses/?treehouse_id=4571
http://www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/LewisClark2/TheJourney/NativeAmericans/LakotaSioux.htm
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20:43:13 03/02/09
Turtle Island Project: Nonviolent Spirit Jihad to combat evil; European explorers enslaved Natives
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Turtle Island Project: Nonviolent Spirit Jihad to combat evil; Christopher Columbus and other European explorers enslaved Natives spawning an evil tradition that lives on today
(Marquette, Michigan) - Calling it a nonviolent "Spirit Jihad," the founder of the nonprofit Turtle Island Project recounts the genocide and terror used by European explorers to steal North America from American Indians and other Indigenous peoples - and how some wealthy whites use those same ideals today to enslave Indigenous peoples and the poor using economic and spiritual controls.
During a recent talk, Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard said he was declaring a "Spirit Jihad" to "confront absolute black evil with humor and with satire" using "weapons of the spirit."
"Not with weapons of conquest, not with smart bombs but with smart people - smart spirits," he said. "Laugh it into goodness. Make fun of it into goodness. Satirize it into goodness."
"Stand up people of the spirit and fight it with weapons of the spirit - not weapons of conquest but holy weapons of the spirit," Rev. Hubbard told the audience at Northern Michigan University.
"The notion of European superiority over native peoples goes back to the European invasion" of North America as noted in the diaries of Christopher Columbus, Hubbard said.
Rev. Hubbard then quoted a excerpt from Columbus's diary dated Oct. 12, 1494.
"They ought to make good and skilled servants for they repeat very quickly what ever we say to them. I think they can easily be made Christians for they seem to have no religion. If it pleases our Lord, I will take six of them for your highness when I depart."
In another section of Columbus's diaries the loyal Catholic tells the King of Spain that the several Indigenous tribes can easily be made slaves.
"With 50 men we can subject everyone and make them do what you wish," Columbus wrote.
Dr. Hubbard said "all the Conquistadors" were "devout Catholics" who "had Mass every morning" before "they went on their genocidal rampages."
Dr. Hubbard was introduced by Dr. Adriana Greci Green, NMU Center for Native American Studies assistant professor (the first few minutes of the video).
This is the first of several videos from the Turtle Island Project in which Rev. Hubbard describes the genocide and atrocities tied to the "Doctrine of Discovery" - a document that led to the eventual creation of the United States of America on land originally occupied by American Indians and other Indigenous peoples.
This video was made as Rev. Hubbard made two presentations on September 24, 2008 during the third annual UNITED Conference at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan.
Related Links:
Turtle Island Project
:
Official website of Author Derrick Jensen
Wikipedia on Author Derrick Jensen
Derrick Jensen book "A language older than words."
Amazon.com U.S.
Amazon.com U.K.
Chelsea Green on Derrick Jensen book
More info on Derrick Jensen:
http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/awards12292006/
http://www.blackoakmedia.org/interviews/jensen.html
http://ascentmagazine.com/articles.aspx?articleID=282%page=read%subpage=current%issueID=38
http://www.nocompromise.org/issues/26jensen.html
Jensen's latest book "endgame"
White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc. (WBCWS)
PO Box 227
Mission, S.D.
57555
(605) 856-2317
(605) 856-2494 (fax)
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Official website of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe - Sicangu Lakota
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Northern Michigan University (NMU)
NMU on Wikipedia
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NMU Center for Native American Studies :
Center for Native American Studies
Northern Michigan University
112F Whitman Hall
Marquette, MI
49855
(906) 227-1397
(906) 227-1396 (fax)
e-mail:
nasa@nmu.edu
April Lindala, Director
Center for Native American Studies
(906) 227-1397
(906) 227-1396 (fax)
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Adriana Greci Green , Assistant Professor
112C Whitman Hall
Phone: 906-227-2374
Fax: 906-227-1396
E-mail Prof. Green
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Grace Chaillier
NMU Adjunct Assistant Professor
Sicangu Lakota band of the Rosebud Sioux
112G Whitman Hall
(906) 227-1390
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Great quotes about American Indian women by nations:
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Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED):
Northern Michigan University
September 21-23, 2008
Other UNITED links:
http://webb.nmu.edu/UNITED/SiteSections/2008Schedule.shtml
http://webb.nmu.edu/Webb/PDFs/UNITED/UNITED_2008.pdf
http://webb.nmu.edu/UNITED/SiteSections/GD989.shtml
UNITED Organizers:
Dr. Judith Puncochar
NMU Professor
906-227-1366
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Turtle Island Project
Munising, Michigan
Turtle island Project Co-founders:
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard
Rev. Dr. George Cairns
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Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
Turtle Island TV (youtube)
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http://www.indypendent.org/2008/04/25/discoverer-delusions
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http://www.kumeyaay.com/2008/01/johnson-v-mintosh-the-christian-right-of-colonization
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TIP 2008 Concert #2: Turtle Island Project Cowboys & Angels White Buffalo Calf Woman Society benefit
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Northern Michigan residents give generously during the Dec. 13, 2008 Cowboys & Angels free benefit concert to help fight American Indian domestic violence, teen suicide
"Cowboys and Angels": Third annual free northern Michigan benefit concert a success in effort to battle domestic violence and teen suicides on one of the the poorest American Indian reservations in the U.S.
(Munising, Michigan) - Northern Michigan residents helped fight American Indian teen suicide and family violence during December 13 third annual free benefit concert in northern Michigan.
The non-profit Turtle Island Project (TIP) in Munising organized the third annual "Cowboys and Angels" concert that was held to benefit the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society (WBCWS) in Mission, South Dakota – the first Native American domestic violence shelter in the world.
The WBCWS battles domestic violence, sexual assault and an alarming increase in teen suicides on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, the home of the Sicangu Lakota people.
Poverty, depression, a lack of jobs, drugs, alcohol and other social problems are among the reasons behind Rosebud suicides and family violence.
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard performed original songs and seasonal music during the concert on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008 from 7 - 9 p.m. at the Falling Rock Cafe and Bookstore at 104 East Munising Ave. in downtown Munising
The WBCWS was founded 30 years ago by a group of courageous Native American women including current executive director Tillie Black Bear.
"The White Buffalo Calf Woman's Society and its domestic violence shelter are vital to address social issues like teen suicide and domestic violence on the Rosebud reservation," said Dr. Hubbard, pastor of the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising, MI. "Women and children are treated with dignity."
"The Rosebud Reservation has been described as a Third World Country in America's heartland," Hubbard said. "Social problems on the Rosebud can sometimes seem overwhelming but the answer starts with a person donating money or volunteering their time and praying for the people.”
The TIP has organized numerous free benefit concerts in the U.P. and SD for the WBCWS including two by Iron County-based folk groups, White Water and Duo Borealis.
For more information call 906-202-0590 or email turtleislandproject@charter.net
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Related Information:
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White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc.
P.O. Box 227
Mission, SD
57555
Call Tillie Black Bear, co-founder & director of the WBCWS:
1-605-856-2317
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Turtle Island Project
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard, Director/Co-founder
137 East Onota Street
Munising, MI.
49862
wk: 906-387-2520
cell: 906-202-0590
hm: 906-387-5616
Turtle Island Project main website
Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
Rosebud Tribe official website
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TIP 2008 Concert #1: Turtle Island Project Cowboys & Angels White Buffalo Calf Woman Society benefit
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Northern Michigan residents give generously during the Dec. 13, 2008 Cowboys & Angels free benefit concert to help fight American Indian domestic violence, teen suicide
"Cowboys and Angels": Third annual free northern Michigan benefit concert a success in effort to battle domestic violence and teen suicides on one of the the poorest American Indian reservations in the U.S.
(Munising, Michigan) - Northern Michigan residents helped fight American Indian teen suicide and family violence during December 13 third annual free benefit concert in northern Michigan.
The non-profit Turtle Island Project (TIP) in Munising organized the third annual "Cowboys and Angels" concert that was held to benefit the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society (WBCWS) in Mission, South Dakota – the first Native American domestic violence shelter in the world.
The WBCWS battles domestic violence, sexual assault and an alarming increase in teen suicides on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, the home of the Sicangu Lakota people.
Poverty, depression, a lack of jobs, drugs, alcohol and other social problems are among the reasons behind Rosebud suicides and family violence.
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard performed original songs and seasonal music during the concert on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008 from 7 - 9 p.m. at the Falling Rock Cafe and Bookstore at 104 East Munising Ave. in downtown Munising
The WBCWS was founded 30 years ago by a group of courageous Native American women including current executive director Tillie Black Bear.
"The White Buffalo Calf Woman's Society and its domestic violence shelter are vital to address social issues like teen suicide and domestic violence on the Rosebud reservation," said Dr. Hubbard, pastor of the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising, MI. "Women and children are treated with dignity."
"The Rosebud Reservation has been described as a Third World Country in America's heartland," Hubbard said. "Social problems on the Rosebud can sometimes seem overwhelming but the answer starts with a person donating money or volunteering their time and praying for the people.”
The TIP has organized numerous free benefit concerts in the U.P. and SD for the WBCWS including two by Iron County-based folk groups, White Water and Duo Borealis.
For more information call 906-202-0590 or email turtleislandproject@charter.net
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Related Information:
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White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc.
P.O. Box 227
Mission, SD
57555
Call Tillie Black Bear, co-founder & director of the WBCWS:
1-605-856-2317
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Turtle Island Project
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard, Director/Co-founder
137 East Onota Street
Munising, MI.
49862
wk: 906-387-2520
cell: 906-202-0590
hm: 906-387-5616
Turtle Island Project main website
Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
Rosebud Tribe official website
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Photo stills of the Rosebud Reservation by KOTA TV Sioux Falls, SD
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Photos in "Sorrow on the Rosebud" graphic by photographer Lara Neel, Argus-Herald Leader newspaper
Kudos to reporter Steve Young, photographer Lara Neel & Argus Leader staff/management.
Links to stories and video by Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, SD on the tragic suicide epidemic involving Lakota youth and young adults
Photos in above graphic:
Marie Wilcox , (upper right) who lost her son, Stoney Larvie , to suicide more than two years ago, says his spirit visited her on the night he died. "He put his arms around me and said, 'Don't do that. Don't blame anyone.' " Wilcox says that not understanding why her son chose suicide is the most difficult thing to deal with. (Photo by Lara Neel / Argus Leader)
Angel Wilson (lower right) visits her son's grave on her property near Mission in south-central South Dakota on a recent summer day. Clay Wilson committed suicide at age 19 in January 2007, several months after two of his friends killed themselves. (Lara Neel / Argus Leader)
Lino Spotted Elk (lower left) visits the grave of his son, Lino "JJ" Spotted Elk Jr. The younger Spotted Elk committed suicide while in jail on a warrant for a speeding ticket. "I try to figure out what could I have done," the elder Spotted Elk says. "You can beat yourself to death with those kinds of questions." (Lara Neel / Argus Leader)
Lino Spotted Elk Sr. (upper left) sits in a St. Francis cemetery, reflecting on his son's life. Spotted Elk said images and attitudes from MTV videos of rappers and gangsta music are powerful influences on reservation young people. (Lara Neel / Argus Leader)
Tillie Black Bear , (center photos) the executive director of the White Buffalo Calf Woman's Society , tells a northern Michigan audience about the teen suicide crisis facing her reservation back home in South Dakota. Black Bear was a keynote speaker on September 23, 2008 at the Northern Michigan University 2008 United Conference in Marquette, MI
(Tillie Black Bear photos by Greg Peterson)
The youth suicide problem on and around the Lakota Rosebud Reservation is finally get the recognition it deserves.
Kudos to reporter Steve Young, photographer Lara Neel and any other members of the Argus Leader staff and management involved with this important story.
Lakota community leader Tillie Black Bear and others have worked tirelessly to bring this issue to the attention of many.
Black Bear and a few other brave native women founded the White Buffalo Calf Woman's Society 31 years ago this October - the first domestic violence shelter on an Native American reservation.
The WBCWS has done its best to provide counselors and alternatives - and held a suicide summit earlier this summer.
The non-profit Turtle Island Project in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Munising) and others have been trying to get South Dakota media to pay attention for over a year.
On Sept. 21, 2008, the Argus Leader newspaper did a thought-provoking, great but sad series of articles (and related videos) on the problem. Some 27 Rosebud members have killed themselves and over 400 youths have attempted suicide in the past few years.
Except for some American Indian media, only a handful of the white news media ( including KOTA-TV, South Dakota Public Broadcasting and the Lutheran Magazine ) have done much coverage of the issue that caused Rosebud Leaders to declare a state of emergency in the spring of 2007.
Numerous American Indian news outlets and websites helped the Turtle Island Project spread the word last fall. (That media includes Indian Country Today, Native Times, Native America Calling, News from Indian Country, Yahoo Indigenous Peoples Forum, Red Nation Society, Pow Wow TV, Native Radio, Mostly Water, and others we don't mean to leave out).
Thanks also to the Custer Lutheran Fellowship Church in Custer, SD.
Here are links to videos/Argus Leader newspaper stories:
Why are young Lakota killing themselves?
South Dakota reservation's suicide rate said to be among highest in world
Despite stable home, teen chose death
Mother struggles to understand reasons behind son's tragic act
Tribe takes steps to 'stop this pain'
Rosebud Sioux embracing range of strategies to stem tragic trend
Opportunity presents hope for youth
Son's death prompts desire to help
Links to 7 videos by Argus Leader newspaper in Sioux Falls, SD on Rosebud Suicides:
All Videos:
Video #1 - click on this link
Video #2
Video #3
Video #4
Video #5
Video #6
Video #7
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White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc.
PO Box 227
Mission, SD
57555
PH. 605-856-2317
FX. 605-856-2494
http://www.wbcws.org
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To see KOTA-TV news story, videos and other info on Turtle Island Project and its founders Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard and Rev. Dr. George Cairns:
Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
Turtle Island TV (youtube)
Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard myspace page
email:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net
Top Stories
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Pre-concert news coverage:
Mining Journal news story promoting 2008 TIP Coiwboys & Angels concert
TIP TV Journal on bliptv:
Gather:
Popular Helen Dagner blog:
Current TV:
Word Press story:
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Falling Rock Caf and Bookstore
104 East Munising Ave
Munising, MI
49862
Nancy & Jeff Dwyer, owners
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TIP 2008 Concert #4: Turtle Island Project Cowboys & Angels White Buffalo Calf Woman Society benefit
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Northern Michigan residents give generously during the Dec. 13, 2008 Cowboys & Angels free benefit concert to help fight American Indian domestic violence, teen suicide
"Cowboys and Angels": Third annual free northern Michigan benefit concert a success in effort to battle domestic violence and teen suicides on one of the the poorest American Indian reservations in the U.S.
(Munising, Michigan) - Northern Michigan residents helped fight American Indian teen suicide and family violence during December 13 third annual free benefit concert in northern Michigan.
The non-profit Turtle Island Project (TIP) in Munising organized the third annual "Cowboys and Angels" concert that was held to benefit the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society (WBCWS) in Mission, South Dakota – the first Native American domestic violence shelter in the world.
The WBCWS battles domestic violence, sexual assault and an alarming increase in teen suicides on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, the home of the Sicangu Lakota people.
Poverty, depression, a lack of jobs, drugs, alcohol and other social problems are among the reasons behind Rosebud suicides and family violence.
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard performed original songs and seasonal music during the concert on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008 from 7 - 9 p.m. at the Falling Rock Cafe and Bookstore at 104 East Munising Ave. in downtown Munising
The WBCWS was founded 30 years ago by a group of courageous Native American women including current executive director Tillie Black Bear.
"The White Buffalo Calf Woman's Society and its domestic violence shelter are vital to address social issues like teen suicide and domestic violence on the Rosebud reservation," said Dr. Hubbard, pastor of the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising, MI. "Women and children are treated with dignity."
"The Rosebud Reservation has been described as a Third World Country in America's heartland," Hubbard said. "Social problems on the Rosebud can sometimes seem overwhelming but the answer starts with a person donating money or volunteering their time and praying for the people.”
The TIP has organized numerous free benefit concerts in the U.P. and SD for the WBCWS including two by Iron County-based folk groups, White Water and Duo Borealis.
For more information call 906-202-0590 or email turtleislandproject@charter.net
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Related Information:
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White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc.
P.O. Box 227
Mission, SD
57555
Call Tillie Black Bear, co-founder & director of the WBCWS:
1-605-856-2317
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Turtle Island Project
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard, Director/Co-founder
137 East Onota Street
Munising, MI.
49862
wk: 906-387-2520
cell: 906-202-0590
hm: 906-387-5616
Turtle Island Project main website
Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
Rosebud Tribe official website
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Photo stills of the Rosebud Reservation by KOTA TV Sioux Falls, SD
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Photos in "Sorrow on the Rosebud" graphic by photographer Lara Neel, Argus-Herald Leader newspaper
Kudos to reporter Steve Young, photographer Lara Neel & Argus Leader staff/management.
Links to stories and video by Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, SD on the tragic suicide epidemic involving Lakota youth and young adults
Photos in above graphic:
Marie Wilcox , (upper right) who lost her son, Stoney Larvie , to suicide more than two years ago, says his spirit visited her on the night he died. "He put his arms around me and said, 'Don't do that. Don't blame anyone.' " Wilcox says that not understanding why her son chose suicide is the most difficult thing to deal with. (Photo by Lara Neel / Argus Leader)
Angel Wilson (lower right) visits her son's grave on her property near Mission in south-central South Dakota on a recent summer day. Clay Wilson committed suicide at age 19 in January 2007, several months after two of his friends killed themselves. (Lara Neel / Argus Leader)
Lino Spotted Elk (lower left) visits the grave of his son, Lino "JJ" Spotted Elk Jr. The younger Spotted Elk committed suicide while in jail on a warrant for a speeding ticket. "I try to figure out what could I have done," the elder Spotted Elk says. "You can beat yourself to death with those kinds of questions." (Lara Neel / Argus Leader)
Lino Spotted Elk Sr. (upper left) sits in a St. Francis cemetery, reflecting on his son's life. Spotted Elk said images and attitudes from MTV videos of rappers and gangsta music are powerful influences on reservation young people. (Lara Neel / Argus Leader)
Tillie Black Bear , (center photos) the executive director of the White Buffalo Calf Woman's Society , tells a northern Michigan audience about the teen suicide crisis facing her reservation back home in South Dakota. Black Bear was a keynote speaker on September 23, 2008 at the Northern Michigan University 2008 United Conference in Marquette, MI
(Tillie Black Bear photos by Greg Peterson)
The youth suicide problem on and around the Lakota Rosebud Reservation is finally get the recognition it deserves.
Kudos to reporter Steve Young, photographer Lara Neel and any other members of the Argus Leader staff and management involved with this important story.
Lakota community leader Tillie Black Bear and others have worked tirelessly to bring this issue to the attention of many.
Black Bear and a few other brave native women founded the White Buffalo Calf Woman's Society 31 years ago this October - the first domestic violence shelter on an Native American reservation.
The WBCWS has done its best to provide counselors and alternatives - and held a suicide summit earlier this summer.
The non-profit Turtle Island Project in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Munising) and others have been trying to get South Dakota media to pay attention for over a year.
On Sept. 21, 2008, the Argus Leader newspaper did a thought-provoking, great but sad series of articles (and related videos) on the problem. Some 27 Rosebud members have killed themselves and over 400 youths have attempted suicide in the past few years.
Except for some American Indian media, only a handful of the white news media ( including KOTA-TV, South Dakota Public Broadcasting and the Lutheran Magazine ) have done much coverage of the issue that caused Rosebud Leaders to declare a state of emergency in the spring of 2007.
Numerous American Indian news outlets and websites helped the Turtle Island Project spread the word last fall. (That media includes Indian Country Today, Native Times, Native America Calling, News from Indian Country, Yahoo Indigenous Peoples Forum, Red Nation Society, Pow Wow TV, Native Radio, Mostly Water, and others we don't mean to leave out).
Thanks also to the Custer Lutheran Fellowship Church in Custer, SD.
Here are links to videos/Argus Leader newspaper stories:
Why are young Lakota killing themselves?
South Dakota reservation's suicide rate said to be among highest in world
Despite stable home, teen chose death
Mother struggles to understand reasons behind son's tragic act
Tribe takes steps to 'stop this pain'
Rosebud Sioux embracing range of strategies to stem tragic trend
Opportunity presents hope for youth
Son's death prompts desire to help
Links to 7 videos by Argus Leader newspaper in Sioux Falls, SD on Rosebud Suicides:
All Videos:
Video #1 - click on this link
Video #2
Video #3
Video #4
Video #5
Video #6
Video #7
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White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc.
PO Box 227
Mission, SD
57555
PH. 605-856-2317
FX. 605-856-2494
http://www.wbcws.org
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To see KOTA-TV news story, videos and other info on Turtle Island Project and its founders Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard and Rev. Dr. George Cairns:
Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
Turtle Island TV (youtube)
Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard myspace page
email:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net
Top Stories
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Pre-concert news coverage:
Mining Journal news story promoting 2008 TIP Coiwboys & Angels concert
TIP TV Journal on bliptv:
Gather:
Popular Helen Dagner blog:
Current TV:
Word Press story:
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Falling Rock Caf and Bookstore
104 East Munising Ave
Munising, MI
49862
Nancy & Jeff Dwyer, owners
36 Views
22:21:18 10/11/08
Turtle Island Project : Silencing Native Americans & author hails American Indian genocide
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Silencing Indigenous People and Cultures: Wizard of Oz author celebrates death of Native American culture in Sitting Bull obit
This is the second in a series of videos from two talks that Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard - the Turtle Island Project Director and Co-Founder - gave on Sept. 23 during the 2008 UNITED Conference at Northern Michigan University in Marquette.
Zoologist and philosopher Neil Evernden wrote that vivisectionists cut animal vocal cords so they did not have to hear the tortured animal cry as they conducted experiments.
The vivisectionists silenced the animal and therefore did not acknowledge it was a tortured being.
The right of passage into the scientific (way of being) centers on the ability to apply the knife to the vocal cords - not just of the dog on the table - but to life itself.
It was about silencing voice then - and reflects the silencing of voices today.
Wizard of Oz versus today’s sneaky politicians and the way we treat the environment and one another .
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard, Turtle Island Project Director and Co-Founder:
“We are on the tip of an iceberg and the iceberg runs deep and the ship is running right into it.”
Industrial civilization is not sustainable. We all know that. It cannot be sustainable.”
“Any technology that relies on the use of non-renewables is by definition not sustainable.
“We could have solved these problems 50 years ago, but we are not going to solve these problems in the next 20 years. We can start, maybe. But I think we are in for a very, very difficult time. ”
“Dorothy is not in Kansas anymore. And Dorothy is not coming back to Kansas.”
“This is not going to be easy.”
“And like that Great Oz asked Dorothy and her friends - so are the politicians of our day - they ask us.”
“Pay no attention the Great Oz says ‘to the man behind the curtain.’ Because the great deception is alive and well.
Hubbard compared the yellow brick road to gold and the Emerald City to the green of money where Dorothy though she’d find her salvation.
The Great Wizard of Oz is “this old white guy doing his thing, pulling his levers, lying to the people to maintain is power.”
“This is what we have been doing as a culture for how many years – ignoring the man behind the curtain.”
“And now the chickens are going to come home to roost.”
Hubbard reminded the audience of how we all look forward to the Wizard of Oz because it was shown only once a year.
Wizard of Oz was written by L. Frank Bauman (Born May 15, 1856)
Originally author Bauman was a failed businessman as a store owner - then edited the local newspaper the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer.
“After the (first) Wounded Knee massacre in 1890, Native Americans were the targets of his editorials in his paper.”
“He explained that the safety of Euro-Americans depends upon the extermination of Indians.”
Upon hearing of the death of the Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, Baum wrote an editorial for the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer:
“Sitting Bull, the most renown Sioux of modern history, is dead. He was a chief but without kingly lineage - he arose from a lowly position to the great medicine man of his time by virtue of his shrewdness and daring.
The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce bloody wars for their possession lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull.
With his fall the nobility of the redskin is extinguished.
And what few that are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them.
The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians.
Why not annihilation?
Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they die than live the miserable wretches that they are.”
After reading the editorial, Hubbard then told the audience:
“That was act one – the great Wizard silencing nature.”
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Native American Genocide Advocate L. Frank Baum - ironically married kin of a civil rights activist.
Baum married Maud Gage, a daughter of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a famous women's suffrage and radical feminist activist who learned much from American Indian women.
Native Americans were the target of Baum's editorials after the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Miniconjou Chief Big Foot lies dead in the snow following Wounded Knee Massacre on Dec. 29, 1890.
Big Foot was the half-brother of famous Lakota Chief Sitting Bull. Two weeks earlier on December 15, Chief Sitting Bull was killed at his cabin on the Standing Rock.
Baum wrote that the safety of Euro-Americans requires the "extermination of Indians."
Baum written attacks on American Indians are evident in his obituary of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull in the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer.
L Frank Baum - the author of Wizard of Oz - promoted the genocide of Native Americans:
“Sitting Bull, most renowned Sioux of modern history, is dead. He was not a Chief, but without Kingly lineage he arose from a lowly position to the greatest Medicine Man of his time, by virtue of his shrewdness and daring.
He was an Indian with a white man's spirit of hatred and revenge for those who had wronged him and his.
In his day he saw his son and his tribe gradually driven from their possessions: forced to give up their old hunting grounds and espouse the hard working and uncongenial avocations of the whites.
And these, his conquerors, were marked in their dealings with his people by selfishness, falsehood and treachery.
What wonder that his wild nature, untamed by years of subjection, should still revolt?
What wonder that a fiery rage still burned within his breast and that he should seek every opportunity of obtaining vengeance upon his natural enemies.
The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull.
With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them.
The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians.
Why not annihilation?
Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they die than live the miserable wretches that they are.”
After the massacre, Baum’s second editorial on Jan. 3, 1891 said Americans should exterminate Native American Indians because “having wronged them for centuries we had better, in order to protect our civilization ... and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth.”
Baum wrote:
“The peculiar policy of the government in employing so weak and vacillating a person as General Miles to look after the uneasy Indians, has resulted in a terrible loss of blood to our soldiers, and a battle which, at best, is a disgrace to the war department.
There has been plenty of time for prompt and decisive measures, the employment of which would have prevented this disaster.
The PIONEER has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extermination of the Indians.
Having wronged them for centuries we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one or more wrong and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth.
In this lies safety for our settlers and the soldiers who are under incompetent commands.
Otherwise, we may expect future years to be as full of trouble with the redskins as those have been in the past.
An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that 'when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."
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Related Links:
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Zoologist and philosopher Neil Evernden:
http://www.derrickjensen.org/essay.html
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/07/168159.php
http://haydon4.tripod.com/id20.htm
Neil Evernden books: The Fragile Division; Nature and the Ultrahuman; The Natural Alien: Humankind and Environment:
http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Alien-Humankind-Environment/dp/0802077854/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8%s=books%qid=1223868003%sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8%search-type=ss%index=books%field-author=Neil%20Evernden
http://www.derrickjensen.org/comm.html
http://www.derrickjensen.org/books01.html
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Anti-Vivisectionists - cutting of animal vocal chords:
http://www.adaptt.org/animalrights.html
http://www.samizdat.com/micah/animal_rights.html
http://pharyngula.org/index/science/comments/good_for_doug_bjerregaard
http://www.infonature.org/english/world_news/eng-nature_news_animal_torture.htm
http://www.tonglen.oceandrop.org/Letter_Ban_Vivisection.htm
Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum celebrated the death of Sitting Bull:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Baum,+L.+Frank
http://www.put.com/oz/ozdi/199712.TXT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz
Apology by fans of Baum and others - plus public comments:
APOLOGY AND PLEDGE: From Planners and Anticipated Participants in the L. Frank Baum Conference for Aberdeen, South Dakota Planned in 1997
http://www.dickshovel.com/roeschbaum.html
http://www.dickshovel.com/TwistedFootnote.html
http://www.dickshovel.com/baumcom.html
Provide comments on apology website:
http://www.dickshovel.com/com.html
Photo credits:
Oz photos/video:
http://battellemedia.com/images/wizard-behind-curtain.jpg
http://www.milfordtheatreguilde.org/WOCastHome.html
http://oblivio.com/archives/02011701.html
http://www.mulholland-drive.net/pics/reference/wizard_shot.jpg
http://www.reelclassics.com/Musicals/Wizoz/wizoz.htm
http://ayearofoz.blogspot.com/
http://filmfanatic.org/reviews/?p=3361
http://ozproject.egtech.net/book.php?book_ID=676
http://www.moviejustice.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3038
L. Frank Baum circa 1901 - Wikipedia:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/L_frank_baum.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:L_frank_baum.jpg
L Frank Baum Poster from Wikipedia (unknown artist):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Baum_poster_1b.jpg
Baum photo from Looking Glass Review website:
http://www.lookingglassreview.com/html/l_frank_baum.html
Baum photo from Pixie Palace website:
http://www.pixiepalace.com/2007/06
Baum photo from Literary Traveler website:
http://www.literarytraveler.com/literary_articles/l_frank_baum.aspx
Baum with Green outline from oz.org website:
http://wizardoz.home.att.net/index.html
Wizard of Oz Poster of Tin Man from Wikipedia (The Tin Man).
Poster for Fred R. Hamlin's musical extravaganza was created by "The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." - 1903 U.S. Lithograph Co .
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Tin-Man-poster-Hamlin.jpeg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tin-Man-poster-Hamlin.jpeg
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Vivisection photos from Ocean Drop website:
http://www.tonglen.oceandrop.org/Letter_Ban_Vivisection.htm
http://www.tonglen.oceandrop.org
White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc. (WBCWS)
PO Box 227
Mission, S.D.
57555
For more info on the WBCWS :
Javier H. Alegree
Public Relations Specialist
Media and Education
(605) 856-2317
(605) 856-2494 (fax)
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Official website of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe - Sicangu Lakota
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Northern Michigan University (NMU)
NMU on Wikipedia
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NMU Center for Native American Studies :
Center for Native American Studies
Northern Michigan University
112F Whitman Hall
Marquette, MI
49855
(906) 227-1397
(906) 227-1396 (fax)
e-mail:
nasa@nmu.edu
April Lindala, Director
Center for Native American Studies
(906) 227-1397
(906) 227-1396 (fax)
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Grace Chaillier
NMU Adjunct Assistant Professor
Sicangu Lakota band of the Rosebud Sioux
112G Whitman Hall
(906) 227-1390
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Great quotes about American Indian women by nations:
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Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED):
Northern Michigan University
September 21-23, 2008
Other UNITED links:
http://webb.nmu.edu/UNITED/SiteSections/2008Schedule.shtml
http://webb.nmu.edu/Webb/PDFs/UNITED/UNITED_2008.pdf
http://webb.nmu.edu/UNITED/SiteSections/GD989.shtml
UNITED Organizers:
Dr. Judith Puncochar
NMU Professor
906-227-1366
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Turtle Island Project
Munising, Michigan
Turtle island Project Co-founders:
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard
Rev. Dr. George Cairns
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Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
Turtle Island TV (youtube)
Turtle Island (myspace)
email the non-profit Turtle Island Project:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net
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Anishinaabe News:
NMU Native American student-run newspaper
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Top Stories
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14:15:43 10/08/08
NMU UNITED Conf: Turtle Island Project examines Pres. Bush tribal sovereignty gaff
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President George W. Bush’s apparent lack of understanding on tribal sovereignty is examined by Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard, executive director and co-founder of the non-profit Turtle Island Project in Munising, Michigan.
This video was made as Hubbard made two presentations on September 24, 2008 during the third annual UNITED Conference at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan.
This video is about infamous comments about Native American Tribal Sovereignty made by President George W. Bush on August 6, 2004 at the UNITY conference in Washington D.C.
President Bush was asked the tribal sovereignty question by Mark Trahant, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial Page Editor, a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe in Idaho and former president of the Native American Journalists Association.
Bush answered the question but that answer was so bizarre it caused journalists to laugh:
“Tribal sovereignty means that. It’s sovereign," President Bush said. "You’ve been given sovereignty and you’re viewed as a sovereign entity.”
The conference involved about 7,500 journalists of color from the Native American Journalists Association, the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the Asian-American Journalists Association.
Hubbard said it’s funny, scary and sad that President George W. Bush doesn’t understand the important issue of Native American tribal sovereignty.
The Turtle Island Project thanks Democracy Now for the use of their video of President Bush’s remarks on tribal sovereignty.
Democracy Now
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Related Links:
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White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc. (WBCWS)
PO Box 227
Mission, S.D.
57555
For more info on the WBCWS :
Javier H. Alegree
Public Relations Specialist
Media and Education
(605) 856-2317
(605) 856-2494 (fax)
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Official website of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe - Sicangu Lakota
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Northern Michigan University (NMU)
NMU on Wikipedia
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NMU Center for Native American Studies :
Center for Native American Studies
Northern Michigan University
112F Whitman Hall
Marquette, MI
49855
(906) 227-1397
(906) 227-1396 (fax)
e-mail:
nasa@nmu.edu
April Lindala, Director
Center for Native American Studies
(906) 227-1397
(906) 227-1396 (fax)
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Grace Chaillier
NMU Adjunct Assistant Professor
Sicangu Lakota band of the Rosebud Sioux
112G Whitman Hall
(906) 227-1390
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Great quotes about American Indian women by nations:
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Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED):
Northern Michigan University
September 21-23, 2008
Other UNITED links:
http://webb.nmu.edu/UNITED/SiteSections/2008Schedule.shtml
http://webb.nmu.edu/Webb/PDFs/UNITED/UNITED_2008.pdf
http://webb.nmu.edu/UNITED/SiteSections/GD989.shtml
UNITED Organizers:
Dr. Judith Puncochar
NMU Professor
906-227-1366
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Turtle Island Project
Munising, Michigan
Turtle island Project Co-founders:
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard
Rev. Dr. George Cairns
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Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
Turtle Island TV (youtube)
Turtle Island (myspace)
email the non-profit Turtle Island Project:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net
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Anishinaabe News:
NMU Native American student-run newspaper
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Democracy Now :
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More from Democracy Now on President Bush comments on Native American Tribal Sovereignty:
"Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a — you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities." — President Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004
Asked about Indian tribal sovereignty issues, President Bush so fully flubbed his response that journalists in the room began laughing at him.
Watch following video first minute - then - got to 27 minutes into the 1 hour video - you’ll see Jesse Jackson joking about comment - and then interview with the reporter who asked bush the question
Video & Audio - several formats (do right click “save as”):
http://www.archive.org/details/dn2004-0810_vid
President Bush youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5xVRXLgLxw
Stories:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/186171_bushtribes13.html
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushvideos/v/bushismtribal.htm
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White House Press Release: What Bush meant to say if he’d stuck to his script:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040806-1.html
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Book “Pagans in the Promised Land” by Steven T. Newcomb (2008):
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/archive/28405454.html
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/archive/28407494.html
http://www.indypendent.org/2008/04/25/discoverer-delusions
http://www.wiccanweb.ca/modules.php?op=modload%name=News%file=article%sid=19853
http://www.kumeyaay.com/2008/01/johnson-v-mintosh-the-christian-right-of-colonization
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/602-1027866-8825436?asin=1555916422%afid=yahoosspplp_bmvd%lnm=1555916422|Pagans_in_the_Promised_Land:_Decoding_the_Doctrine_of_Christian_Discovery_:_Books%ref=tgt_adv_XSNG1060
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1%ISBN=9781555916428%ourl=Pagans-in-the-Promised-Land%2FNewcomb
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Lakota Sioux & Rosebud Reservation:
http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/history.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosebud_Indian_Reservation
http://www.tradecorridor.com/rosebud/spirit.htm
http://www.sicangufund.org/rosebud/index.html
http://www.travelsd.com/ourhistory/sioux/tribes/rosebud.asp
http://pie.midco.net/lmrose/sicangu.htm
http://www.tolweb.org/treehouses/?treehouse_id=4571
http://www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/LewisClark2/TheJourney/NativeAmericans/LakotaSioux.htm
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Native American Religious Freedom Act (1978):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Religious_Freedom_Act
http://www.nps.gov/history/local-law/FHPL_IndianRelFreAct.pdf
http://www.answers.com/topic/american-indian-religious-freedom-act
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During its first year - Aug. 2007 to Aug. 2008 - the non-profit Turtle Island Project held free concerts, free conferences, and many other events including fundraisers for the Northern Michigan University EarthKeeper Student Team in Marquette, MI and for the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society in Mission, SD.
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13:57:26 09/28/08
Tillie Black Bear: Lakota domestic violence activist sings Four Directions prayer in Michigan
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Tillie Black Bear addresses the Northern Michigan University 2008 UNITED Conference
Tillie Black Bear is the executive director and one of the founders (31 years ago) of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc. (WBCWS) that serves the Lakota Sioux Rosebud Reservation in Mission, S.D.
She spoke to the Northern Michigan University 2008 Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED) Conference on September 23, 2008.
This is the first of several videos about her talk in the Great Lakes Room of the NMU University center and a roundtable discussion that followed down the hall.
In this video, Black Bear is introduced to the northern Michigan audience and sings the “Direction Song.”
With traditional sage burning, Black Bear sings as she and the crowd face the four directions - West, North, East, South - and honor the Sky and Earth.
Her visit was coordinated by the NMU Center for Native American Studies and the non-profit Turtle Island Project in Munising, Michigan.
The Turtle Island Project (TIP) has held several concerts and other events to raises funds for the WBCWS. TIP Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard travels several times a year to the Rosebud Reservation.
Black Bear was greeted by Dr. Judith Puncochar, an NMU Professor and an organizer of the annual UNITED Conference
Tillie Black Bear was introduced by Grace Chaillier, an NMU Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Native American Studies and a registered member of the Sicangu Lakota band of the Rosebud Sioux - the same tribe as Black Bear.
Please watch the other Turtle Island Project videos on Tillie Black Bear's talk in northern Michigan.
Black Bear addresses the Lakota teen suicide crisis, domestic violence, people respecting people and many other important issues.
The Turtle Island Project thanks Tillie Black Bear, NMU Center for Native American Studies , Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED) and White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc .
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Tillie Black Bear. Executive Director
White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc.
October is Domestic Violence Month
Tillie Black Bear is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation/Rosebud Sioux Tribe.
She is presently the Executive Director of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc. , which operates the oldest shelter for women who have been battered or raped on Indian reservations; and is the first shelter for women of color in the U.S. (1978).
Tillie Black Bear is recognized throughout the state, nationally, and in Indian Country as one of the leading experts on violence against women and children.
She is a founding mother of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) and a founder of the South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (SDCADV%SA) both in 1978.
She was the first woman of color to chair NCADV and continues to sit on the Board of Director for the SDCADV%SA.
Black Bear presently serves on the advisory board of National Sexual Assault Resource Center, Pennsylvania and is past member of the professional advisory board of the National Domestic Violence Hotline, Austin, TX.
Tillie Black Bear is pictured on Sept. 23, 2008 in Marquette, MI with Dr. Jos Cuellar of La Raza Studies at San Francisco State University, who spoke on "The Four Enemies of Diversity."
Black Bear and Dr. Cuellar were both featured speakers at the 2008 UNITED Conference at Northern Michigan University.
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Black Bear is currently a council member for Clan Star a technical resources for tribal grantees through Department of Justice.
Tillie Black Bear was the recipient of an award from the U.S. Department of Justice for her work with victims of crime in April,1988; and in 1989 was one of President Bush’s “Point of Light”.
In 1999 at the Millennium Conference on Domestic Violence in Chicago, IL, Black Bear was one of 10 individuals recognized as one of the founders of the domestic violence movement in the United States.
She was awarded an Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award in December, 2000 by President Clinton.
In May, 2003 Black Bear was a recipient of the first annual LifeTime Achievement Award from LifeTime Television.
Black Bear was selected as one of “21 Leaders for the 21st Century award by Women’s eNews in 2004.
In 2005, she received an award from NOW.
She is retired from Sinte Gleska University as a part-time instructor in Human Services; Casey Foundation as a licensed foster parent.
Currently, Black Bear works as a teacher of 13 years teaching students taking a course on cross-cultural ministry at Catholic Theological Union through Shalom Ministries out of Chicago, IL.
Black Bear and colleague Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D. have completed a poster series on D/Lakota women elders on each of the nine Dakota/Lakota Nations in South Dakota entitled: “D/Lakota Women – Keepers of the Nation”.
Another collaborative work is workshops on issues of Racism and Cultural Diversity, which has taken them to South Dakota, Vermont, New York, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa.
Black Bear has worked as a therapist, certified school counselor, administrator, college instructor and comptroller.
She holds a Master of Art (1974) from the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD; Bachelor of Science (1971), Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD.
She has served on the St. Francis Indian School Board of Directors, St. Francis, SD; and Sinte Gleska University Board of Regents, Mission, SD.
Black Bear is single mother of 3 girls, grandmother of thirteen and survivor of domestic violence.
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Related Links:
NMU Center for Native American Studies
Center for Native American Studies
Northern Michigan University
1401 Presque Isle Avenue
Marquette, MI
49855
(906) 227-1397
(906) 227-1396 (fax)
e-mail:
nasa@nmu.edu
April Lindala, Director
112F Whitman Hall
(906) 227-1397
(906) 227-1396 (fax)
e-mail:
alindala@nmu.edu
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Grace Chaillier
NMU Adjunct Assistant Professor
Sicangu Lakota band of the Rosebud Sioux
112G Whitman Hall
(906) 227-1390
e-mail:
grachail@nmu.edu
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White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc. (WBCWS)
PO Box 227
Mission, S.D.
57555
For more info on the WBCWS:
Javier H. Alegree
Public Relations Specialist
Media and Education
(605) 856-2317
(605) 856-2494 (fax)
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Official website of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe - Sicangu Lakota
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Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED):
Northern Michigan University
September 21-23, 2008
Other UNITED links:
http://webb.nmu.edu/UNITED/SiteSections/2008Schedule.shtml
http://webb.nmu.edu/Webb/PDFs/UNITED/UNITED_2008.pdf
http://webb.nmu.edu/UNITED/SiteSections/GD989.shtml
Organizers:
Dr. Judith Puncochar
NMU Professor
906-227-1366
e-mail:
jpuncoch @nmu
(close above gap to email Dr. Puncochar)
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Turtle Island Project
137 East Onota Street
Munising, MI.
49862
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard, TIP Co-founder, Director
Rev. Dr. George Cairns, TIP Co-Founder, Board President
Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard of Munising, MI was a guest speaker at the 2007 and 2008 UNITED Conference at NMU. Rev. Hubbard is pastor of the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising, MI.
Please see the videos on his talks on TIP TV.
For more information on the TIP call 906-202-0590 or 906-401-0109.
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Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
Turtle Island TV (youtube)
Turtle Island (myspace)
email:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net
In recent years, the Turtle Island Project has held several free concerts and other events to raise money for the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society. This concert was held in Munising Michigan in Dec. 2007
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Anishinaabe News:
NMU Native American student-run newspaper
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Copy and paste any of these web addresses to read more about the Lakota (and other Native American tribes) Prayer & Song to the Four Directions:
http://www.bci.org/prophecy-fulfilled/wbcalf.htm
http://www.manataka.org/page696.html
http://1onewolf.com/lakota/spirit1.htm
http://www.lakotabooks.com/news.htm
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3317793
http://www.aktalakota.org/index.cfm?cat=54%artid=130
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5088/is_/ai_n25221365
http://music.msn.com/music/album/calvin-standing-bear/wakan-olowan-lakota-pipe-ceremonial-and-spiritual-songs
http://musicishere.com/artists/Calvin_Standing_Bear/Wakan_Olowan-Lakota_Pipe_Ceremonial_&_Spiritual_Songs
http://payplay.fm/cstandingbear
http://www.imeem.com/shantiliu/music/yADoFkws/native_americans_prayer_for_the_four_directions
http://audreysblog.yuku.com/topic/403
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJKf8ts1gps%feature=related
http://www.highonlife1.com/four_directions_prayer.htm
http://music.yahoo.com/track/1452994
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Lakota Sioux & Rosebud Reservation:
http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/history.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosebud_Indian_Reservation
http://www.tradecorridor.com/rosebud/spirit.htm
http://www.sicangufund.org/rosebud/index.html
http://www.travelsd.com/ourhistory/sioux/tribes/rosebud.asp
http://pie.midco.net/lmrose/sicangu.htm
http://www.tolweb.org/treehouses/?treehouse_id=4571
http://www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/LewisClark2/TheJourney/NativeAmericans/LakotaSioux.htm
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25 Views
11:06:02 06/12/08
TIP Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard: Many of world's rich view Indigenous Peoples "as expendable commodities”
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Northern Michigan University Indigenous 2008 Earth Day Summit
Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard: Indigenous Peoples, women and children “are all thought of as expendable commodities”
“We have lost any sense of the sacred.”
(Marquette, Michigan) - Many of the rich around the world view Indigenous Peoples, women and children as “expendable commodities,” said Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard during Northern Michigan University 2008 Indigenous Earth Day Summit.
Hubbard added he fears for the future of mankind and the planet because “we have lost any sense of the sacred.”
NMU Photo
Victor Steffensen performing on the didgeridoo at the Indigenous Earth Day Summit. The summit was a two-day event to gather and discuss ideas on how to obtain and share traditional ecological knowledge from Indigenous elders and put it in to practical use.
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The summit was held on Earth Day 2008 on the NMU campus in Marquette, Michigan near the shores of Lake Superior.
The two-day summit - the first of its kind at NMU - was April 22-23.
Photo by Ms. Aime Cree Dunn, NMU Center for Native American Studies, Adjunct Instructor
The summit keynote was the Australian Aboriginal Delegation (Barry Hunter, John Hunter and Victor Steffensen). The delegation is bringing the Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways project to Native communities in Michigan.
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The other keynote presenter was Garry Morning Star Raven , a traditional Ojibwe teacher from Manitoba.
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Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard of Munising, Michigan was part of the Panel II discussion.
Rev. Hubbard said some Christians condemn Native American spirituality.
He said that amounts to spiritual terrorism.
“I think we have here two different forms of religion,” said Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard. “And it’s this religion of my ancestors that I participate in that I think really has been the problem.”
“I think we have to come to understand that religious consciousness evolves just like anything else does,” Hubbard said. “It's not just the material world that evolves but also our cultural world evolves and the realm of the concept evolves.”
Rev. Hubbard, who is pastor of Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising, Michigan, said Christians should wake up and begin listening to Earth-based cultures.
“We are going now, as a people - there was a time from prehistorical religions to historic religions - the religions of the book Judaism, Christianity, Islam - to this historic period,” Hubbard said. “Now I think that religious consciousness is transending to this transrational understanding of spirituality.”
Hubbard said that “as part of this transrational understanding of spirituality is an appropriation of this knowledge and spirituality of Earth-based cultures.”
“So its not going back, it's not criticizing buts it's learning from one another,” Hubbard said.
“It's very difficult because Euro-American people have had power for so long its subconscious to us,” Hubbard said.
“We don't even realize how imperialistic we are,” Hubbard said.
“It's very difficult for us to understand that - to get in contact with our own badness - because we have been projecting that on other people for so long it's very difficult for us but we have to do this now.”
Photo courtesy: johntrudell.com
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Rev. Hubbard, who co-founded the TIP, quoted ideas from well-known Native American author and activist John Trudell.
“I think we have to be open now to what John Trudell called ‘spirit making and escape.’ I love this idea. My spirit needs to make an escape from my religious consciousness.”
Hubbard said that “one of the ways my spirit has been greatly helped to make this escape from the techologic mining process that we all go through - is because of the grace of God.”
“I got to become friends with many people who extended friendship to me and taught me how to listen - taught me about myself and taught me these great learnings and teachings and wisdom that can come from our brothers and sisters - who still - despite their painful history at our hands that still goes on today.”
“The racial and cultural genocide that still goes on today inside this country - they taught me how to transcend myself and how to get to this other higher level of spiritual consciousness,” he said.
“And I am very grateful for that,” Hubbard said.
Responding to a question from the audience, Dr. Hubbard said some religions even resort to violence in proclaiming they are the superior religion.
“Judaism is an inherently ethical religion except you have to be a Canaanite,” Hubbard said.
“You may get your ass kicked or your head cut off but basically it's OK,” he said.
“But sky Gods and cultures that worship sky Gods are traditionally barbaric. Read the Old Testament. Wow! Talk about patriarchy.”
“But we are in a war,” Hubbard said. “It is not a war of my choosing but we are in a war.”
“I truly believe that it is a war for our hearts and our minds,” he said.
Answering a question from those gathered, Rev. Hubbard said even today it’s controversial to speak about the core beliefs of Jesus like poverty, social justice, and other issues.
Rev. Hubbard knows first hand the reaction that comes when you speak about the poor while criticizing some modern day entities that are part of creating a two-class system due to an incident at his church.
However, he encouraged those present to keep fighting for racial and environmental justice.
“We have to continually fight,” Hubbard said. “It's multi-generational.”
“We fight against great principalities and powers,” he said. “It's amazing.”
“If you stick your head up out of the foxhole just a little bit and you start speaking on behalf of the poor - those bullets are flying,” Hubbard said.
Hubbard said the incident start when “I said something about a corporation.”
“I said we created these corporations and political structures that aren't moral entities because if you are a moral entity you have to say things like: ‘I'm sorry. I made a mistake.' You have to admit your humanness.”
“When's the last time your heard a politician ever admit a mistake unless they were forced to? ‘I did not have sex with that woman - I did not inhale - yes I smoked but I did not inhale.’”
“I said some corporations are like this too - they are not moral entities because they cannot do these things like apologize,” Hubbard said.
“Well, good Lord that's attacking a sacred cow,” he said.
“There's a guy in my congregation who just went ballistic - who quit the church because he had spent his entire life benefitting from, working for, a non-moral entity,” he said.
“I did not say all corporations were liked this - I just said some corporations are like this,” Hubbard said. “Well that's all you have to say.”
“And you start talking to Euro-American people about the reality of Native American peoples - in my world,” Hubbard said with a look of exasperation while shaking his head and pointing to another audience member who had a question.
Rev. Hubbard said Americans - and all people who call Earth home - need to protect the environment.
He said we have lost the sense of the sacred - a lesson that can be learned from Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples.
“I understand this because I feel desperate,” Hubbard said. “What John Trudell was talking about is the same way - we've lost our way.”
Photo courtesy Public Broadcasting Corp. PBS.org
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“We do not have any spiritual sense because we have lost any sense of the sacred,” Hubbard said.
Photo of Mircea Eliade courtesy:
http://autori.humanitas.ro/eliade
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“A great historian of the religions Mircea Eliade who was at the University of Chicago where I for many years - I did his funeral,” Hubbard said.
“Mircea Eliade had this notion that in order to have a hierophany - an experience of the sacred - you have to have sacred space,” he said.
“If this Earth is not sacred to you - which it isn't to Mickey Mouse - then you can't have an experience of the sacred,” Hubbard said. “I deal with people every day in my congregation who have lost or are losing any sense of the sacred.”
“And it's not only - like you were saying this relationship between Earth and women - and the earth and man. If you do not have power in a capitalistic society - you become part of - and you are thought of in terms of the Earth.”
Concerned about the future of the human race, Dr. Hubbard said the rich look down on the poor.
He said humans should not be measured by wealth.
“Women who have less economic power, children who don't have any power at all unless somebody gives it to them - Indigenous communities - you are all thought of as expendable commodities.”
I’m Greg Peterson and you’re watching Turtle island TV
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Related links:
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Watch Rev. Hubbard’s entire presentation and others on Panel II: Indigenous Earth Values and Philosophies
http://mediasite.nmu.edu/NMUMediasite/Viewer/Viewers/ViewerVideoOnly.aspx?mode=Default%peid=3826bb5a-34eb-4e80-810e-c0399158caa3%playerType=WM7%mode=Default%shouldResize=true%pid=d4934bee-4708-4bd7-a12a-aeb55bb75dfc%playerType=WM7
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All Summitt presentations:
http://mediasite.nmu.edu/NMUMediasite/Catalog/?cid=f8f4eb58b2d64f849144ef026e7088bb
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Center for Native American Studies
Northern Michigan University
112F Whitman Hall
Marquette, MI
49855
Ms. April Lindala
Center for Native American Studies, Director
Indigenous Earth Day Summit Project Director
906-227-1397
Ms. Aime Cree Dunn
Center for Native American Studies, Adjunct Instructor
Indigenous Earth Day Summit Project Coordinator
906-227-1397
NMU Center for Native American Studies homepage:
www.nmu.edu/nativeamericans
2008 Indigenous Earth Day Summit page:
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/Calendar/IndigEarthDaySummit.shtml
Office:
906-227-1397
Fax:
906-227-1396
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NMU Environmental Science Program (summit co-sponsor)
http://webb.nmu.edu/Departments/Geography/index.shtml
Dr. Ron Sundell
Environmental Science Program, Director
906-227-1359
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NMU Office of International Affairs (co-sponsor)
http://www.nmu.edu/iao/
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Summary of Turtle Island Project websites:
TIP Main website:
http://www.turtleislandproject.org
Other TIP News Sites:
http://groups.msn.com/WhisperingTurtle
Turtle Island TV - Video sites:
(blipTV)
http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv/
(youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse
(myspace)
http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject
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Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways project:
http://www.tkrp.com.au
NMU media meet interview with TKRP delegation by host Sonya Chrisman:
http://tkrp.com.au/index.php?option=com_content%task=view%id=114%Itemid=107
TKRP as hosted by Balkanu:
http://www.balkanu.com.au
Traditional Knowledge Recording Project:
http://tkrp.com.au
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Turtle Island Project:
http://www.turtleislandproject.org
http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv
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Three Fires Council Genealogy
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~minatam
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Native American author and activist John Trudell:
http://www.johntrudell.com/
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A203
John Trudell Photos:
http://www.johntrudell.com
http://www.pbs.org
http://www.visionmaker.org
http://www.nativetelecom.org/images/trudellsit.jpg
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Religions historian Mircea Eliade:
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761582232/Mircea_Eliade.html
Photos of Mircea Eliade from:
http://autori.humanitas.ro/index.php
http://autori.humanitas.ro/eliade/
http://www.viajechamanico.com
http://www.perennial.org
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Hierophany: "an experience of the sacred" - The Sacred and the Profane:
"The Sacred and Profane" by Mircea Eliade
http://www.amazon.ca/Sacred-Profane-Mircea-Eliade/dp/015679201X
A Synopsis of Eliade's The Sacred and the Profane
http://www.csun.edu/~rcummings/sacred.html
Hierophany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierophany
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Corporations Moral? Christian handbook:
http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=570372%kw=570372%event=PPCSRC%p=1010575
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Canaanite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanites_%28Movement%29
Judiasm:
http://www.judaism.com
http://judaism.about.com/library/3_askrabbi_o/bl_simmons_warviolence.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiasm
Here is additional information on summit presenters and the keynote delegation:
Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways (TKRP) project:
TKRP recently established a branch in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and, following on invitations extended to them from Indigenous communities, plans to expand TRKP to Turtle Island and Saamiland in an effort to unite Indigenous efforts at cultural and ecological restoration under an international Indigenous umbrella
Barry Hunter is a Indigenous Land Management Facilitator from TKRP hosted by Balkanu (http://www.balkanu.com.au/) and funded by the Australian Government’s Natural Heritage Trust. He has a B.A.S in Parks, Recreation and Heritage as well as a range of experience in land and sea management. His specialties include Aboriginal hunting and fishing rights particularly as they relate to turtle and dugong conservation and illegal commercial fishing issues.
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John Hunter is a TKRP Indigenous Land Management Facilitator for southern Queenslanda Ph.D. research scholar through Macquarie University and a professional artist. He has taught at the University of Western Sydney, Macquarie University and, currently, at the University of Queensland as both a permanent and part-time faculty member. He has various degrees including an Associate’s in Park Management; a B.A.S. in Parks, Recreation and Heritage; and a Master’s of Indigenous Studies in Research. His current Ph.D. work is focused on developing a Gamilaraay TKRP and Indigenous capacity building project. In addition, he plays the didgeridoo and will be bringing along an art exhibit and a display on the Stolen Generations.
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Victor Steffenson has a varied background on numerous issues such as methods of traditional knowledge recovery, application of traditional ecological knowledge in natural resource management, aboriginal history, the synergies between science and traditional Indigenous knowledge, Aboriginal culture and spirituality, and a range of contemporary Aboriginal issues
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The Turtle Island Project:
Turtle Island Project founders are concerned about the environment, global warming, climate change and species extinction and its effect on Indigenous peoples because over the past 500 years humans have killed off nearly 1,000 species.
TIP founders believes that species extinction and global warming are among the measures that demonstrate the dire future for Earth and humans if we don't change our attitudes.
Tip points out that nearly 15,600 species are threatened with extinction, according to several 2007 United Nations reports.
The U.N. reports state that almost one-third of the world's species of animals and plants are expected to be at risk of extinction within 50 years due to climate change.
During the interfaith retreat for religious leaders in late 2007, TIP director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard said it's the responsibility of clergy to speak out on social issues like the abuse of the environment and racism.
Turtle Island Project founders say Euro-Americans can learn a lot from Earth-based cultures like the Celts and Native Americans.
TIP co-founder rev. Dr. George Cairns of Chesterton, Indiana said the human race and the planet (therefore its wildlife) are facing a “Kyros Moment” that demands a change in the basic way humans view and treat the planet and its natural inhabitants.
Kyros is a Greek word for “occasion' or timing.”
Kyros is the art of seizing the moment - a combination of understood context and proper timing.
Additional bio info on Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard:
Lynn Hubbard, M.DIV. D.MIN., is founder and director of the Turtle Island Project (TIP) in Munising, Michigan.
He is currently the minister of Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising.
In addition to graduating from Valparaiso University and holding advanced degrees from the Lutheran School of Theology and Chicago Theological Seminary, Lynn has studied at the Pedagogishe Hochschule in Reutlingen, German, the Religious Studies Department at the University of Indiana, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.
For many years he worked as the Associate Dean of Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago.
He has had extensive experience in both the interfaith and ecumenical communities, and served as the Director of Development for the Parliament of World’s Religious.
Most recently, in working in his capacity as spiritual director for Juvenile sex offenders, he has given national and international conference presentations on “Creating Ritual Process for Juvenile Sex Offenders from a Cross Cultural Perspective.”
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17:52:56 04/09/08
TIP Founder Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard speaks at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, MI
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TIP Founder Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard spoke during the Unity Conference in Sept. 2007 at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, MI
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11:11:28 02/01/08
Turtle Island Project: Respect for Indigenous Peoples, Environment
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Turtle Island Project: Respect for Indigenous Peoples, Environment
The Turtle Island Project in northern Michigan was founded in July 2007 by two Midwest pastors who believe the future of mankind and world is at a crossroads.
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard and Rev. Dr. George Cairns believe that Christians could learn a lot about nature and the environment by listening to Earth-based cultures like Native Americans, Celts, and other Indigenous peoples.
Rev. Hubbard is a Lutheran pastor, and Rev. Cairns is an ordained United Church of Christ minister.
Both have extensive backgrounds in interfaith and multicultural work.
The Turtle Island Project (TIP), based in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, promotes respect for the environment and Native Americans.
Two Midwest pastors created the TIP to foster a national discussion and debate on a wide variety of issues involving the future of the planet and mankind including encouraging Christians to learn how to appreciate nature like Earth-based religions such as American Indians, Celts and other Indigenous peoples.
Turtle Island Project volunteer media advisor Greg Peterson has more on the founders and their goals.
Video #14 Turtle Island Project
Time: 9:50
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White Buffalo Calf Woman Society:
http://www.wbcws.org
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Turtle Island Project related websites:
Turtle Island Project main website:
http://www.turtleislandproject.org
Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv/
Turtle Island TV (youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse
Turtle Island (myspace)
http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject
Turtle Island Project websites/Blogs:
http://groups.msn.com/WhisperingTurtle
http://turtleislandproject.wordpress.com/
email:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net
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Rate of Species Extinction:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en%q=rate+of+species+extinction%btnG=Google+Search
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/01/31_olsond_biodiversity/
http://www.iucn.org/themes/Ssc/red_list_2004/Extinction_media_brief_2004.pdf
http://www.iucn.org/en/news/archive/2001_2005/press/species2000.html
http://www.earthportals.com/extinct.html
http://www.rainforestweb.org/Rainforest_Information/Species_Extinction/
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Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore:
http://www.climatecrisis.net/
http://www.climatecrisis.net/aboutthefilm/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/060524-global-warming.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497116/
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Existentialist Theology of Paul Tillich:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_existentialism
http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=169
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Kairos
An artistic representation of Kairos by Francesco Salviati:
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Image:Francesco_Salviati_005.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tillich
http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/cms_content?page=590630%sp=1018%event=1018
Paul Tillich’s gravestone in the Paul Tillich Park, New Harmony, Indiana:
(Tillich died in Chicago in 1965. A park was named after him in New Harmony, Indiana, where his ashes were interred.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Paul_Johannes_Tillich%27s_gravestone_in_the_Paul_Tillich_Park%2C_New_Harmony%2C_Indiana.jpg
http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/tabid/68/id/9706/Default.aspx
http://www.quodlibet.net/stephens-luther.shtml
Rosebud Tribe official website:
http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/
1973 Wounded Knee Incident & the earlier 1890 massacre of 146 Indians by government troops:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Incident
http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Incident
Pine Ridge Reservation Info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Ridge_Reservation
Pine Ridge shocking photos:
http://www.aaronhuey.com/
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Links to groups/organizations in video/bios (see bios below) of the founders of the Turtle Island Project:
"The Community of Religions" - a book by Rev. George Cairns and Wayne Teasdale:
http://www.amazon.com/Community-Religions-Voices-Images-Parliament/dp/0826408990
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/002-2408734-6876016?initialSearch=1%url=node%3D1000%2C22%field-keywords=george+cairns++teasdale%x=12%y=15
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0826408990/ref=dp_image_text_0/002-2408734-6876016?ie=UTF8%n=283155%s=books
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Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church Munising, MI - Rev. Lynn Hubbard:
http://edenonthebay.org/HomePage_1.html
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Turtle Island Project founder bios:
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard, M.Div., D.Min.
Rev. Hubbard is founder/director of the Turtle Island Project in Munising, MI
He is the pastor at Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising
In addition to graduating from Valparaiso University and holding advanced degrees from the Lutheran School of Theology and Chicago Theological Seminary, Lynn has studied at the Pedagogische Hochschule Reutlingen, Germany, the Religious Studies Department at the University of Indiana, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. For many years he worked as the Associate Dean of Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago.
He has served a number of churches throughout the Chicago area, and lived on the island of St. Croix, in the Virgin Islands, pastoring two Afro-Caribbean Lutheran congregations. He has had extensive experience in both the inter faith and ecumenical communities, and served as the Director of Development for the Parliament of World's Religious.
Most recently, in working in his capacity as spiritual director for Juvenile sex offenders, he has given national and international conference presentations on "Creating Ritual Process for Juvenile Sex Offenders from a Cross Cultural Perspective".
He is currently the minister of Eden on the Bay, Lutheran Church in Munising Michigan. He travels regularly to the Lakota Sioux reservations in South Dakota, where he helps prepare graduate theological students in cross-cultural ministerial training. He has been honored by members of the Sicangu tribe of the Lakota people in being asked to serve as a fire keeper for their Sundance ceremonies.
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George F. Cairns, M.Div., Ph.D.
Rev. Cairns is chairman of the board of the Turtle Island Project in Munising, MI
George is a semi-retired minister, professor of practical and spiritual theology at Chicago Theological Seminary, and is a clinical psychologist. George helped found the Parliament of the World's religions and with Wayne Teasdale wrote/edited a book about this process.
His current work concerns Celtic spirituality, centering prayer, and their integration into a theology of practical action for healing, justice, and peace.
He has practiced and taught Centering Prayer since 1986. He has taught centering prayer in several unusual settings including a Native American cultural center and a maximum security prison. He has published papers on this work.
George and his wife Nancy have taught an early and little known Christian practice known as "jubilation." This form of sung praise produces a whole chord of sound by an individual. When practiced in community, sounds appear which no one is making.
He is a former member of the Forge Guild, an international group which encourages spiritual teachers from different religious traditions to explore one another's practices and Spiritual Directors International. He and Nancy are associates/members of two covenantal Christian communities: The Iona Community based in Scotland, and; the Shalom Community based in Chicago.
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The Iona Community - Worldwide:
http://www.iona-nwf.org/
http://www.iona.org.uk/abbey/main.htm
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Spiritual Directors International:
http://www.sdiworld.org/home.html
http://www.sdiworld.org/logo2.html
http://www.sdiworld.org/our_story.html
http://www.sdiworld.org/coordinating_council.html
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Parliament of the World's Religions:
http://www.cpwr.org/
http://www.cpwr.org/how/how.htm
http://www.cpwr.org/what/what.htm
http://www.cpwr.org/who/history.htm
http://www.cpwr.org/who/who.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Parliament_of_Religions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_the_World%27s_Religions
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Chicago Theological Seminary:
http://www.ctschicago.edu/
http://www.ctschicago.edu/150th/events.php
http://www.ctschicago.edu/general/alumresources/index.php
http://www.ctschicago.edu/general/life/index.php
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University of Chicago - Rockefeller Chapel:
http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/Architecture/architecture.html
http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/history.html
http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/specialevents.html
http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/religion.html
http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/
http://divinity.uchicago.edu/
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Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago:
http://www.lstc.edu/
http://lutheran.uchicago.edu/
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Valpraiso University:
http://www.valpo.edu/
http://www.valpo.edu/christc/
http://www.valpo.edu/lutheranlook/
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University of Indiana:
http://www.indiana.edu/~relstud/index.shtml
http://www.indiana.edu/~relstud/about/
http://www.indiana.edu/~iuvis/
http://www.indiana.edu/~iuvis/see.shtml
http://www.iub.edu/~iubmap/mapredirect.pl?select=BL149%Go=Go%21
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Lutheran/Church sites in St. Croix, Virgin Islands:
List of St. Croix Churches:
http://www.usvi.net/usvi/stcroix/attractions/churches.php
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ELCA Carribean Synod:
http://www.caribbeansynod-elca.org/
http://www.caribbeansynod-elca.org/modules.php?name=Content%pa=showpage%pid=1
http://www.caribbeansynod-elca.org/modules.php?name=My_eGallery
http://www.caribbeansynod-elca.org/modules.php?op=modload%name=My_eGallery%file=index%do=showgall%gid=13
ELCA St. Croix Churches:
(Christus Victor Lutheran Church, Kingshill Lutheran Church, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Lord God of Sabaoth Lutheran Church)
http://www.elca.org/ScriptLib/OS/Congregations/cdsSearch.asp?state=VI
http://www.elca.org/ScriptLib/OS/Congregations/cdsDetail.asp?Id=A59D9DA991
http://www.elca.org/ScriptLib/OS/Congregations/cdsDetail.asp?Id=A59D9DA993
http://www.elca.org/ScriptLib/OS/Congregations/cdsDetail.asp?Id=A59D9DA994
Lord God of Sabaoth Lutheran Church - St. Croix, Virgin Islands:
http://www.lgosalive.com/
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St. Croix Tourism site:
http://www.stcroixtourism.com/st_croix_pictures.htm
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Lakota Rosebud Sioux Reservation - official website of Sicangu Lakota Tribe:
http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/
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Lakota Newspaper:
http://lakotacountrytimes.com/
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Catholic Theological Union - Claude Marie Barbour:
http://www.ctu.edu/Our_Faculty/Biographies/Claude_Marie_Barbour.html
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Other Books in video:
http://www.amazon.com/Mystic-Heart-Discovering-Universal-Spirituality/dp/157731140X/ref=sr_1_2/002-2408734-6876016?ie=UTF8%s=books%qid=1189372885%sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.com/Mystic-Heart-Discovering-Universal-Spirituality/dp/157731140X/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product/002-2408734-6876016
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0826413978/ref=cap_pdp_dp_0/002-2408734-6876016
http://www.amazon.com/Encountering-Religious-Pluralism-Challenge-Christian/dp/083081552X/ref=sr_1_4/002-2408734-6876016?ie=UTF8%s=books%qid=1189372885%sr=1-4
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19:34:13 09/30/07
TIP examines centering prayer, fighting structural evil, the Iona Community
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Centering prayer, the Iona Community in Scotland, and structural evil were among the topics discussed during the first Turtle Island regional conference in northern Michigan.
TIP Board Chairman and Co-Fouder Rev. Dr. George Cairns explains why centering prayer helps fight structural evil and other problems in life.
TIP volunteer media advisor Greg Peterson has the story:
Time: 9:25
**Notice we have additional information/websites and information on all these topics in this script.
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Summary of Turtle Island Project websites & TV (video) sites:
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Turtle Island Project websites/Blogs:
TIP website:
http://www.turtleislandproject.org
TIP Sacred Places website
Upload your own Sacred Place:
http://www.NorthAmericaSacredPlaces.org
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Other sites:
http://groups.msn.com/WhisperingTurtle
http://turtleislandproject.wordpress.com/
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Turtle Island TV - Video sites:
(blipTV)
http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv/
(youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse
(myspace)
http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject
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Centering Prayer was one of the topics of the first Turtle Island Project Regional Conference.
You heard Rev. Cairns say he learned centering prayer from Father Thomas Keating , a trappist monk.
Keating defines centering prayer as "a very simple method in which one opens one's self to God Centering prayer is a form of meditation, where a person uses a point of focus such as concentration on the breath or repetition of a mantra, centering prayer relies more on intention than attention.
Releasing any distractions caused by thoughts or emotions, the practitioner simply "waits for God." Beyond words, emotions, and thoughts, centering prayer is, says Keating, like "two friends sitting in silence, just being in each other's presence."
At one point, a member of the audience question Dr. Cairns - asking how he accomplishes his goals simply by centering prayer or meditation - instead of taking action.
Dr. Cairns countered - he does both - and that centering prayer makes his concrete actions more effective.
Supers (words on screen that state what speaker is saying):
Rev. Dr. George Cairns:
"People say - 'Well how about structural evil?' - well believe me - I believe in structural evil - and I engage it - throughout my life."
"You can't get from where we are - to where we are called to be with our heads. We just can't to that."
Audience member:
"There is no way you can get there without your head."
Cairns:
"No I did not say that."
"I said that we can't get there - again another kind of cultural constraint - with our heads. We need our heads and something more."
"We need our heads and we need something more. And that something more I think is a deep empathic relationship with one another and with all creation."
"And that something more I think is a deep empathic relationship with one another and with all creation."
"Whenever I talk about being in silence - and this has happened to me dozens of times - is that someone says - "Yeah but - Well how about doing some of the suffering with us." - Well, I am saying do both."
"But I don't think we can be as effective, or as wise, or as empathic about that kind of work. - Until - or I should say while - we are engaging ourselves - with ourselves and with others, and any other kind of way."
"Rational thinking. - Rational thinking is wonderful but it is not - the 'ne plus ultra' ."
"I think the Iona Community is a good example of a group who are unified by a covenant who worship together..."
"... and who engage in very effective political action to change structural evil in the places that it can."
"So it's not like this is not happening, it's just that they are not happening in places where we can see them - except maybe on the web."
"Western civilization as it has developed - has developed a huge shell structurally - so that they work the systems - the structures - to perpetuate themselves."
"So as ths process has been going on for at least 10,000 years - in this 10,000 years we've become dehumanized."
"We've done great things - but we have lost a precious dimension."
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TIP Drector/Co-Founder Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard:
"Because we have been so oppressed by so many of these structures. You know we have created structures - this is so evil."
"That are not moral entities. If you can not say 'I'm sorry' - If you can not admit a mistake. Then you are not a moral entity."
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Iona Community website:
http://www.iona.org.uk/
Isle of Iona:
http://www.isle-of-iona.com/
Iona Community - U.S. Outreach:
http://www.iona-nwf.org/
Iona on Answers.com
http://www.answers.com/topic/iona-community
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Centering Prayer websites & Rev. Thomas Keating, Trappist monk
Arkansas Catholic:
http://www.arkansascatholic.org/article.php?id=616
University of Flordia - Spirituality and Health:
http://www.spiritualityandhealth.ufl.edu/events/details_past_event.asp?id=1007
Hartley Foundation:
http://hartleyfoundation.org/contemplative-life
The Centering:
http://www.thecentering.org/
http://www.thecentering.org/centering_method.html
http://www.thecentering.org/therapy.html
Keating to talk in San Francisco on Nov. 3 and 4, 2007
http://www.thecentering.org/Keating%202007.pdf
Belief Net.com reprint of article on Keating: "Resting in God."
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/2/story_217_1.html
Another reprint:
http://www.livingrosaries.org/interview.htm
Centering Prayer:
http://www.centeringprayer.com/cntrgpryr.htm
http://www.centeringprayer.com/frntpage.htm
Lighthouse Trails Research: Who is Thomas Keating?
http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/keating.htm
What is Enlightenment (WIE):
http://www.wie.org/directory/person.asp?id=160
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Contemplative Prayer—A mystical prayer practice that leads one into the "silence" but in actuality leads away from God.
Definition of Contemplative Prayer: As it is expressed in a modern day movement is mystically (i.e. based on a technique or method) in which one empties the mind of thought through repetition, usually of a word or phrase or focus on the breath. In this case the silence would be an absence of thought, all thought.
Keating defines centering prayer as "a very simple method in which one opens one's self to God and consents to his presence in us and to his actions within us." Centering prayer is a meditative method, but where Buddhist Vipassana meditation or Christian meditation, as developed by Benedictine monk John Main, use a point of focus such as concentration on the breath or repetition of a mantra, centering prayer relies more on intention than attention. Releasing any distractions caused by thoughts or emotions, the practitioner simply "waits for God." Beyond words, emotions, and thoughts, centering prayer is, says Keating, like "two friends sitting in silence, just being in each other's presence."
The purpose of contemplative prayer is to enter an altered state of consciousness in order to find one's true self, thus finding God. This true self relates to the belief that man is basically good. Proponents of contemplative prayer teach that all human beings have a divine center and that all, not just born again believers, should practice contemplative prayer.
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Iona Community - Scotland:
Iona is a small island off the west coast of Scotland, where in 563 Columba founded a Celtic monastery that was very influential in its own times. In the middle ages it was the site of a Benedictine abbey and over the centuries has attracted many thousands of people on their own pilgrim journeys.
The Iona Community, founded in 1938 by the Rev George MacLeod, then a parish minister in Glasgow is an ecumenical Christian community that is committed to seeking new ways of living the Gospel in today's world. Initially this purpose was expressed through the rebuilding of the monastic quarters of the mediaeval abbey on Iona and pursued in mission and ministry throughout Scotland and beyond. The Community today remains committed to
rebuilding the common life, through working for social and political change, striving for the renewal of the church with an ecumenical emphasis, and exploring new more inclusive approaches to worship, all based on an integrated understanding of spirituality.
Iona community member John Bell will be the music leader at UMC Summer Collegium (June 25-July 3, 2008)
The Summer Collegium, a project in support of small congregations, is now accepting applications for the Summer 2008 event, which will take place at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, VA , from June 25-July 3, 2008. This nine-day, all expenses paid conference for clergy and their spouses or partners is open to those who pastor small congregations (100 or fewer average Sunday attendance) and are committed to small church ministry. Singles and non-ordained pastors are welcome to apply for the one of the 25 openings. The conference consists of keynotes and workshops on all aspects of small church ministry, with a special emphasis on worship and preaching. Keynotes include Tony Pappas, who has written extensively on small church life, and Peter Bush and Christine O'Reilly, authors of the new book Where 20 or 30 are Gathered: Leading Worship in the Small Church. John Bell of the Iona Community in Scotland will be our music leader. This is an ecumenical project sponsored by the Lilly Endowment Inc. Applications may be downloaded from our website, www.vts.edu/education/collegium, or contact Marilyn Johns, mjohns@vts.edu, or 703-461-1760; applications must be postmarked by December 15, 2007.
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"ne plus ultra" - French saying used in English
Nothing further; the uttermost point or extreme perfection of anything.
"With his close friend and comrade in arms, Eugene of Savoy, Marlborough (the British commander) subsequently visited humiliation after humiliation on Louis 16's head. Ramilies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, the lines of Ne Plus Ultra and innumerable sieges brought the France of the Sun King to its knees."
In Latin: not further beyond
In August 1711 Marlborough forced the supposedly impregnable lines of ‘Ne Plus Ultra', built by the French to guard their northern frontier, and captured the fortress of Bouchain.
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/1090837
http://www.allwords.com/word-ne%20plus%20ultra.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Bouchain
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09:13:42 09/11/07
Part 1 Native America Calling Radio Show: Rev. Lynn Hubbard Turtle Island Project Director
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Native America Calling Radio Show Part 1
Turtle Island Project founder/director Rev. Lynn Hubbard was a guest recently (August 28, 2007) on the national Native America Calling radio show to talk about “Bordertown Racism” along with Art Neskahi, director of Southwest Intertribal Voice in Cortez, NM
The Turtle Island Project would like to thank the Cortez Journal and the Navajo Times newspapers because our video includes a few of the newspaper’s photos of the 2007 Walk for Peace and Justice organized by Art Neskahi. A map of Michigan Indian tribes was created by Edwards Outdoor Marketing.
Harlan McKosato is the host and producer of the national radio show Native America Calling.
McKosato broadcasts from Studio 49 as the host of the nationally broadcast radio show Native America Calling.
Here is the first half of the one hour show - be sure to check out part two after this.
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Below is additional information on this and other shows produced by the Native American Radio Network - plus links to related sites in Michigan and other information..
McKosato is a member of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma.
The show is produced at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and airs Monday through Friday at 1PM Eastern Standard Time.
The director of the Turtle Island project, Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard of Munising, MI, was one of two guests for the show on Tuesday, August 28, 2007.
The topic: Bordertown Racism.
This is how the producers described the show on their website:
The ongoing violence, hate crimes and other discriminatory actions toward Native people in reservation and village bordertowns is cresting.
But instead of fighting back with an eye-for-an-eye attitude, tribal members are seeking healing through promotion of racial tolerance and understanding.
How are false stereotypes fostering resentment of Native people, and how do Native people fight back without causing an “Indian Uprising?”
Guests are Art Neskahi of the Navajo Nation, organizer of the upcoming Walk for Peace and Justice, and Rev. Lynn Hubbard of the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church.
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Listen to Native America Calling live at 1:00pm EST on the following radio stations.
http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/
KNBA-FM 90.3 Anchorage, Alaska
NV1 Albuquerque, NM
KILI 90.1 Porcupine, SD
KISU 91.1 FM Pocatello, Idaho
KGLP 91.7 FM Gallup, New Mexico
KUNM-FM 89.9 FM Albuquerque, New Mexico
KSJD 91.5 Cortez, Colorado
KSUT-FM 91.3 FM Ignacio, Colorado
KSFC 91.9 FM Spokane, Washington
WOJB-FM 88.9 FM Hayward, Wisconsin
CFIE 106.5 FM Aboriginal Voices Radio Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Other shows of Native American Radio Service:
Links to radio stations that carry these shows follow the program information:
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Specials
NEWSFLASH
Interested in being featured on REZERVATIONS WITH DAWN KARIMA? Each weekly episode features interviews with two Native guests, followed by a "what I like" review segment, which reviews native books/movies/music/products. Each episode includes a Native "featured musical artist" as well. Please send a complimentary copy of your cd or dvd, film or book, or product along with your press kit and tribal affiliation to:
REZERVATIONS
Attn:Dawn Karima
PO BOX 22114
Albuquerque,NM 87154
We can't promise to feature everything that we receive or to contact everyone who contacts us, but we'll gladly consider the submissions we receive.
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Programs:
News & Public Affairs
American Indian Living
American Indian Living is a one-hour weekly talk show focusing on health issues in Indian country. The live talk show was developed for radio by the Native Education and Health Initiative, a non-profit organization providing comprehensive services for the health needs of American Indians through education. The show covers a broad range of health issues, viewed in a holistic way in keeping with traditional Native perspectives.
Acting as show host is David DeRose M.D., president of the Oklahoma-based CompassHealth, Inc.
CompassHealth:
http://www.compasshealth.net
Find out more at:
http://www.nativeministries.com/article.php?id=11
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National Native News
A weekday, five-minute radio newscast, anchored by Antonia Gonzales (Navajo). NNN is produced in Albuquerque, NM. It is a headline radio news service dedicated to Native American issues and events that compiles spot news reports from around the country. NNN is the first Native-produced, Native radio newscast that is distributed nationally. National Native News provides the nation with Native news and information, linking all listeners, whether Alaskan Yupik or Boston-Irish.
Daily headlines and more at:
http://www.nativenews.net/
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Native America Calling
Harlan McKosato (Sac & Fox) hosts this one hour live call-in program, linking public radio stations, the Internet and listeners together into a thought-provoking national conversation about issues specific to Native communities. Each program engages noted guests and experts with callers throughout the United States.
Daily program descriptions and more at:
http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/
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Rezervations with Dawn Karima
Dawn Karima Pettigrew (Creek/Cherokee) hosts this one hour weekly program that features lively, insightful discussions with fascinating Native American artists, authors, musicians, educators, media professionals and thinkers. Each episode features interviews with individuals who are active in media, arts, culture and education.
---
MUSIC
Earthsongs
Are you looking for radio that is authentic and hip, informed and indigenous? Then tune into Earthsongs, a modern mix of today's Native artists who are setting new directions in music. Listeners are invited to explore the rich variations of sound, language and indigenous expression from the Arctic to South America -- listening for their messages and fundamental contributions to the evolution of American music. Each week, Earthsongs gives Public Radio and Internet listeners the chance to explore the Native influences that help shape and define contemporary American music. Host Shyanne Beatty (Hangwichin Athabascan) provides knowledgeable commentary, weekly artist features and a smart music selection in a way that is unexpected, warm and culturally authentic.
Playlists and more at:
http://www.earthsongs.net/
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Reach the Rez
A one hour weekly high energy, program featuring Hip-Hop, Rap and R%B with a Native twist, hosted by well-known actor and rapper Litefoot (Cherokee). The broadcast updates listeners on Reach the Rez Tour progress and events, as well as carries a positive message of hope and empowerment to Native communities, especially the youth.
Find out more at:
http://reachtherezradio.com
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UnderCurrents
A thoughtful yet playful freeform music mix. Based in AAA, the mix includes Rock, Folk, Blues, Reggae, Dub, Electronica, HipHop, World and Roots music, and an excellent selection of contemporary Native artists. Host Gregg McVicar (Tlingit) began broadcasting in 1972 in the heyday of freeform radio and dives deep into an expansive music library of favorites and new finds. Old School meets Cool School. The show runs 5-hours every day, seven days a week.
Playlists and more at
http://www.undercurrentsradio.net/
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COMMUNITY RADIO
AlterNativeVoices
A one hour Native radio magazine that features Native music, interviews, and news reports relevant to Indian Country. We mix music by Native artists, news from Native communities, events and information of interest to many people. The program's mission is to entertain, educate, empower and generally promote positive excellence and appropriate role models by and for American Indian people. alterNative Voices is produced and hosted by Z. Susanne Aikman (Eastern Band Cherokee) and originates from KUVO-FM in Denver.
Playlists and more at:
http://www.alternativevoices.org/
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Voices from the Circle
This weekly program highlights Native news, music, issues, entertainment and storytelling from reservations and urban communities. Co-hosts Jim DeNomie (Bad River Chippewa), Barbara Jersey (Menominee/Potawatomi) and Shadow (Radio Dog) bring you traditional and contemporary Native music, entertainment, storytelling, poetry, powwow trail information, and a calendar of events with an emphasis on the Western Great Lakes, Canada and North East.
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CULTURAL
Wisdom of the Elders
Wisdom of the Elders Series One is a three part Native American radio series containing eight one hour weekly shows which present messages and stories of distinctive indigenous role models from numerous tribes across Turtle Island. Each show features prophetic wisdom from gifted elders combined with special features on natural health and healing, storytelling, and traditional and contemporary Native American music. This project includes an enhanced radio website, and educational/outreach materials.
Program descriptions and more at:
http://www.wisdomoftheelders.org/
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Radio stations that carry the Native American Radio Service:
ALASKA:
KNBA 90.3 FM, Anchorage
KBRW 680 AM, Barrow
KYUK 640 AM Bethel
KCUK 88.1 FM, Chevak
KIAL 1450 AM, Unalaska
ARIZONA:
KUYI 88.1 FM, Keams Canyon
KOHN 91.9 FM, Sells
KNNB 88.1 FM, Whiteriver
KGHR 91.5 FM, Tuba City
CALIFORNIA:
KIDE 91.3 FM, Hoopa
COLORADO:
KRZA 88.7 AM, Alamosa
KSUT 91.3 FM, Ignacio
MONTANA:
KGVA 88.1 FM, Harlem
NEW MEXICO:
KABR 1500 AM, Alamo
KCIE 90.5 FM, Dulce
KGLP 91.7FM, Gallup
KTDB 89.7FM, Pinehill
KSHI 90.9 FM, Zuni
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NORTH DAKOTA:
KABU 90.7 FM, St. Michael
KMHA 91.3 FM, New Town
KEYA 88.5FM, Belcourt
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OREGON:
KCUW 101.1 FM, Pendelton
KWSO 91.9 FM, Warm Springs
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SOUTH DAKOTA:
KLND 89.5 FM, Little Eagle
KILI 90.1 FM, Porcupine
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WASHINGTON:
KYNR 1490 AM, Toppenish
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WISCONSIN:
WOJB 88.9 FM, Reserve
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WYOMING:
KWRR 89.5 FM, Ethete
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MI Historical Society map quiz on tribes:
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/hal_mhc_mhm_tribal-locationsp65_93237_7.pdf
Great Map of Michigan Tribe locations::
http://www.edwards1.com/rose/native/indian-map.htm
Michigan Tribes great information - links to tribes:
http://www.500nations.com/Michigan_Tribes.asp
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Native American
Native American Health, a MedlinePlus topic sheet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/nativeamericanhealth.html
Indian Health Service (IHS)
http://www.ihs.gov/
IHS Publications & Reports
http://www.ihs.gov/PublicInfo/Publications/Index.asp
Native Health Research Database
http://www.ihs.gov/NonMedicalPrograms/IHS_Stats/Statistical_Databases.asp
Michigan Indian Tribes
http://www.500nations.com/Michigan_Tribes.asp
Michigan Native American Indian Reservations
http://www.edwards1.com/rose/native/indian-map.htm
Native American Institute - Michigan State University
http://www.msu.edu/unit/nai/
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Cortez Commemorative Walk/Concert for Peace and Justice:
http://www.cortezjournal.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news%article_path=/news/07/news070904_5.htm
300 attended on Sept. 1, 2006 (Saturday) in Cortez NM
Photo - 1
Cortez Journal Photos by John R. Crane
PARTICIPANTS in the Cortez Commemorative Walk/Concert for Peace and Justice head east on Main Street in Cortez Saturday. About 300 people took part in the walk, which started at Cortez City Park at 11 a.m. and lasted about an hour. Concerts and speeches were held as part of the event thoughout the day.
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Photo 2
JOURNAL/JOHN R. CRANE
FAMILY AND FRIENDS of Clint John, who was shot and killed by Farmington police during an incident at a Wal-Mart in Farmington, participated in the peace-and-justice walk Saturday in Cortez, carrying signs and a banner in his memory.
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Photo 3
TAINYA MAY , 7, a Ute Mountain Ute Tribe member, walked in the Cortez Commemorative Walk/Concert for Peace and Justice Saturday. She walked in honor of her father and grandfather, both of whom served in the Army.
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Photo 4
JOURNAL/JOHN R. CRANE
BEVERLY CUTHAIR-WHITESKUNK , far left, a Ute Mountain Ute Tribe member and lay minister at Ute Mountain Presbyterian Church, delivers a Ute prayer during the opening ceremony for the Cortez Commemorative Walk/Concert for Peace and Justice Saturday. From left are Art Neskahi, the event's organizer and founder and president of Southwest Intertribal Voice, and participants who ran from Shiprock to the walk, Lenny Esson, Leonard Lee and Ambross Teasyatwho.
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Navajo Times Photo:
http://www.thenavajotimes.com/news/090607cortez.php
Photo #1
(Special to the Times - Donovan Quintero)
Flag bearers lead the way of the 2007 Cortez Commemorative Walk / Concert for Peace and Justice in Cortez, Colo., on Sept. 1.
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Photo #2
(Special to the Times - Donovan Quintero)
Della John, mother of the late Clint John who was shot to death by a Farmington police officer, waits for a memorial walk to begin on Sept. 2, 2006, along Highway 64 west of Farmington. A new walk will be held Saturday in response to violence against Native Americans in Cortez, Colo.
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Native America Calling My Space page:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile%friendID=206278924
Conact:
Art Neskahi, director of Southwest Intertribal Voice in Cortez, NM
Art Neskahi
(970) 739-0753
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08:56:18 09/11/07
Part 2 Native America Calling Radio Show: Rev. Lynn Hubbard Turtle Island Project Director
[LESS INFO] 15 VIEWS | ADDED 12:56:18 09/11/07
Native America Calling Radio Show Part 2
Turtle Island Project founder/director Rev. Lynn Hubbard was a guest recently (August 28, 2007) on the national Native America Calling radio show to talk about “Bordertown Racism” along with Art Neskahi, director of Southwest Intertribal Voice in Cortez, NM
The Turtle Island Project would like to thank the Cortez Journal and the Navajo Times newspapers because our video includes a few of the newspaper’s photos of the 2007 Walk for Peace and Justice organized by Art Neskahi. A map of Michigan Indian tribes was created by Edwards Outdoor Marketing.
Harlan McKosato is the host and producer of the national radio show Native America Calling.
McKosato broadcasts from Studio 49 as the host of the nationally broadcast radio show Native America Calling.
Here is the second half of the one hour show - be sure to check out part one if you haven’t listen to it already..
---
Below is additional information on this and other shows produced by the Native American Radio Network - plus links to related sites in Michigan and other information..
McKosato is a member of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma.
The show is produced at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and airs Monday through Friday at 1PM Eastern Standard Time.
The director of the Turtle Island project, Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard of Munising, MI, was one of two guests for the show on Tuesday, August 28, 2007.
The topic: Bordertown Racism.
This is how the producers described the show on their website:
The ongoing violence, hate crimes and other discriminatory actions toward Native people in reservation and village bordertowns is cresting.
But instead of fighting back with an eye-for-an-eye attitude, tribal members are seeking healing through promotion of racial tolerance and understanding.
How are false stereotypes fostering resentment of Native people, and how do Native people fight back without causing an “Indian Uprising?”
Guests are Art Neskahi of the Navajo Nation, organizer of the upcoming Walk for Peace and Justice, and Rev. Lynn Hubbard of the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church.
---
Listen to Native America Calling live at 1:00pm EST on the following radio stations.
http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/
KNBA-FM 90.3 Anchorage, Alaska
NV1 Albuquerque, NM
KILI 90.1 Porcupine, SD
KISU 91.1 FM Pocatello, Idaho
KGLP 91.7 FM Gallup, New Mexico
KUNM-FM 89.9 FM Albuquerque, New Mexico
KSJD 91.5 Cortez, Colorado
KSUT-FM 91.3 FM Ignacio, Colorado
KSFC 91.9 FM Spokane, Washington
WOJB-FM 88.9 FM Hayward, Wisconsin
CFIE 106.5 FM Aboriginal Voices Radio Toronto, Ontario, Canada
---
Other shows of Native American Radio Service:
Links to radio stations that carry these shows follow the program information:
---:
Specials
NEWSFLASH
Interested in being featured on REZERVATIONS WITH DAWN KARIMA? Each weekly episode features interviews with two Native guests, followed by a "what I like" review segment, which reviews native books/movies/music/products. Each episode includes a Native "featured musical artist" as well. Please send a complimentary copy of your cd or dvd, film or book, or product along with your press kit and tribal affiliation to:
REZERVATIONS
Attn:Dawn Karima
PO BOX 22114
Albuquerque,NM 87154
We can't promise to feature everything that we receive or to contact everyone who contacts us, but we'll gladly consider the submissions we receive.
---
Programs:
News & Public Affairs
American Indian Living
American Indian Living is a one-hour weekly talk show focusing on health issues in Indian country. The live talk show was developed for radio by the Native Education and Health Initiative, a non-profit organization providing comprehensive services for the health needs of American Indians through education. The show covers a broad range of health issues, viewed in a holistic way in keeping with traditional Native perspectives.
Acting as show host is David DeRose M.D., president of the Oklahoma-based CompassHealth, Inc.
CompassHealth:
http://www.compasshealth.net
Find out more at:
http://www.nativeministries.com/article.php?id=11
---
National Native News
A weekday, five-minute radio newscast, anchored by Antonia Gonzales (Navajo). NNN is produced in Albuquerque, NM. It is a headline radio news service dedicated to Native American issues and events that compiles spot news reports from around the country. NNN is the first Native-produced, Native radio newscast that is distributed nationally. National Native News provides the nation with Native news and information, linking all listeners, whether Alaskan Yupik or Boston-Irish.
Daily headlines and more at:
http://www.nativenews.net/
---
Native America Calling
Harlan McKosato (Sac & Fox) hosts this one hour live call-in program, linking public radio stations, the Internet and listeners together into a thought-provoking national conversation about issues specific to Native communities. Each program engages noted guests and experts with callers throughout the United States.
Daily program descriptions and more at:
http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/
---
Rezervations with Dawn Karima
Dawn Karima Pettigrew (Creek/Cherokee) hosts this one hour weekly program that features lively, insightful discussions with fascinating Native American artists, authors, musicians, educators, media professionals and thinkers. Each episode features interviews with individuals who are active in media, arts, culture and education.
---
MUSIC
Earthsongs
Are you looking for radio that is authentic and hip, informed and indigenous? Then tune into Earthsongs, a modern mix of today's Native artists who are setting new directions in music. Listeners are invited to explore the rich variations of sound, language and indigenous expression from the Arctic to South America -- listening for their messages and fundamental contributions to the evolution of American music. Each week, Earthsongs gives Public Radio and Internet listeners the chance to explore the Native influences that help shape and define contemporary American music. Host Shyanne Beatty (Hangwichin Athabascan) provides knowledgeable commentary, weekly artist features and a smart music selection in a way that is unexpected, warm and culturally authentic.
Playlists and more at:
http://www.earthsongs.net/
---
Reach the Rez
A one hour weekly high energy, program featuring Hip-Hop, Rap and R%B with a Native twist, hosted by well-known actor and rapper Litefoot (Cherokee). The broadcast updates listeners on Reach the Rez Tour progress and events, as well as carries a positive message of hope and empowerment to Native communities, especially the youth.
Find out more at:
http://reachtherezradio.com
---]
UnderCurrents
A thoughtful yet playful freeform music mix. Based in AAA, the mix includes Rock, Folk, Blues, Reggae, Dub, Electronica, HipHop, World and Roots music, and an excellent selection of contemporary Native artists. Host Gregg McVicar (Tlingit) began broadcasting in 1972 in the heyday of freeform radio and dives deep into an expansive music library of favorites and new finds. Old School meets Cool School. The show runs 5-hours every day, seven days a week.
Playlists and more at
http://www.undercurrentsradio.net/
---
COMMUNITY RADIO
AlterNativeVoices
A one hour Native radio magazine that features Native music, interviews, and news reports relevant to Indian Country. We mix music by Native artists, news from Native communities, events and information of interest to many people. The program's mission is to entertain, educate, empower and generally promote positive excellence and appropriate role models by and for American Indian people. alterNative Voices is produced and hosted by Z. Susanne Aikman (Eastern Band Cherokee) and originates from KUVO-FM in Denver.
Playlists and more at:
http://www.alternativevoices.org/
---
Voices from the Circle
This weekly program highlights Native news, music, issues, entertainment and storytelling from reservations and urban communities. Co-hosts Jim DeNomie (Bad River Chippewa), Barbara Jersey (Menominee/Potawatomi) and Shadow (Radio Dog) bring you traditional and contemporary Native music, entertainment, storytelling, poetry, powwow trail information, and a calendar of events with an emphasis on the Western Great Lakes, Canada and North East.
---
CULTURAL
Wisdom of the Elders
Wisdom of the Elders Series One is a three part Native American radio series containing eight one hour weekly shows which present messages and stories of distinctive indigenous role models from numerous tribes across Turtle Island. Each show features prophetic wisdom from gifted elders combined with special features on natural health and healing, storytelling, and traditional and contemporary Native American music. This project includes an enhanced radio website, and educational/outreach materials.
Program descriptions and more at:
http://www.wisdomoftheelders.org/
---
Radio stations that carry the Native American Radio Service:
ALASKA:
KNBA 90.3 FM, Anchorage
KBRW 680 AM, Barrow
KYUK 640 AM Bethel
KCUK 88.1 FM, Chevak
KIAL 1450 AM, Unalaska
ARIZONA:
KUYI 88.1 FM, Keams Canyon
KOHN 91.9 FM, Sells
KNNB 88.1 FM, Whiteriver
KGHR 91.5 FM, Tuba City
CALIFORNIA:
KIDE 91.3 FM, Hoopa
COLORADO:
KRZA 88.7 AM, Alamosa
KSUT 91.3 FM, Ignacio
MONTANA:
KGVA 88.1 FM, Harlem
NEW MEXICO:
KABR 1500 AM, Alamo
KCIE 90.5 FM, Dulce
KGLP 91.7FM, Gallup
KTDB 89.7FM, Pinehill
KSHI 90.9 FM, Zuni
---
NORTH DAKOTA:
KABU 90.7 FM, St. Michael
KMHA 91.3 FM, New Town
KEYA 88.5FM, Belcourt
---
OREGON:
KCUW 101.1 FM, Pendelton
KWSO 91.9 FM, Warm Springs
---
SOUTH DAKOTA:
KLND 89.5 FM, Little Eagle
KILI 90.1 FM, Porcupine
---
WASHINGTON:
KYNR 1490 AM, Toppenish
---
WISCONSIN:
WOJB 88.9 FM, Reserve
---
WYOMING:
KWRR 89.5 FM, Ethete
---
MI Historical Society map quiz on tribes:
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/hal_mhc_mhm_tribal-locationsp65_93237_7.pdf
Great Map of Michigan Tribe locations::
http://www.edwards1.com/rose/native/indian-map.htm
Michigan Tribes great information - links to tribes:
http://www.500nations.com/Michigan_Tribes.asp
---
Native American
Native American Health, a MedlinePlus topic sheet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/nativeamericanhealth.html
Indian Health Service (IHS)
http://www.ihs.gov/
IHS Publications & Reports
http://www.ihs.gov/PublicInfo/Publications/Index.asp
Native Health Research Database
http://www.ihs.gov/NonMedicalPrograms/IHS_Stats/Statistical_Databases.asp
Michigan Indian Tribes
http://www.500nations.com/Michigan_Tribes.asp
Michigan Native American Indian Reservations
http://www.edwards1.com/rose/native/indian-map.htm
Native American Institute - Michigan State University
http://www.msu.edu/unit/nai/
---
Cortez Commemorative Walk/Concert for Peace and Justice:
http://www.cortezjournal.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news%article_path=/news/07/news070904_5.htm
300 attended on Sept. 1, 2006 (Saturday) in Cortez NM
Photo - 1
Cortez Journal Photos by John R. Crane
PARTICIPANTS in the Cortez Commemorative Walk/Concert for Peace and Justice head east on Main Street in Cortez Saturday. About 300 people took part in the walk, which started at Cortez City Park at 11 a.m. and lasted about an hour. Concerts and speeches were held as part of the event thoughout the day.
---
Photo 2
JOURNAL/JOHN R. CRANE
FAMILY AND FRIENDS of Clint John, who was shot and killed by Farmington police during an incident at a Wal-Mart in Farmington, participated in the peace-and-justice walk Saturday in Cortez, carrying signs and a banner in his memory.
---
Photo 3
TAINYA MAY , 7, a Ute Mountain Ute Tribe member, walked in the Cortez Commemorative Walk/Concert for Peace and Justice Saturday. She walked in honor of her father and grandfather, both of whom served in the Army.
---
Photo 4
JOURNAL/JOHN R. CRANE
BEVERLY CUTHAIR-WHITESKUNK , far left, a Ute Mountain Ute Tribe member and lay minister at Ute Mountain Presbyterian Church, delivers a Ute prayer during the opening ceremony for the Cortez Commemorative Walk/Concert for Peace and Justice Saturday. From left are Art Neskahi, the event's organizer and founder and president of Southwest Intertribal Voice, and participants who ran from Shiprock to the walk, Lenny Esson, Leonard Lee and Ambross Teasyatwho.
------
Navajo Times Photo:
http://www.thenavajotimes.com/news/090607cortez.php
Photo #1
(Special to the Times - Donovan Quintero)
Flag bearers lead the way of the 2007 Cortez Commemorative Walk / Concert for Peace and Justice in Cortez, Colo., on Sept. 1.
--
Photo #2
(Special to the Times - Donovan Quintero)
Della John, mother of the late Clint John who was shot to death by a Farmington police officer, waits for a memorial walk to begin on Sept. 2, 2006, along Highway 64 west of Farmington. A new walk will be held Saturday in response to violence against Native Americans in Cortez, Colo.
----
Native America Calling My Space page:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile%friendID=206278924
Conact:
Art Neskahi, director of Southwest Intertribal Voice in Cortez, NM
970-739-0753
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