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Issue
5.1 - Jan./Feb./March 2002
By
Ben Geboe
My
name is Ben Geboe, and I am a Yankton Sioux Indian, originally
from South Dakota. I'm also a bunch of other things like Norwegian,
French, Miami Indian and typical American. I am a social worker
and I work for the NYC Department of Mental Heath. Before the
disaster, I monitored clinics and programs serving mentally ill.
We were one of many city agencies mobilized to work at the Family
Assistance Center on Pier 92, which was created to help people
who lost loved ones in the WTC attacks...
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By
David Martine Dennis
King of the Shinnecock-Montauk people is a quiet man with a great
talent. His people, the Shinnecock people of Eastern Long Island,
New York and the Montauk with whom they are closely associated,
are famous in world history as hunters of the great whales and
seamen of the highest order. They were and are, also, great craftsmen
and artists. When I first knew Dennis several years ago....
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White
Myths, Indian Maidens |
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By
Sue Wilson
There
are several different published versions of the "Maid of
the Mist" legend. Some of these have become quite controversial
among the Huadenosaunee as a whole, and in particular among the
Senecas with whom the legend is associated, because of the misappropriation
and distortion of culturally important themes to the Haudenosaunee....
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By
Kathryn Cooper
In her new book, Red Woman With Backward Eyes and Other Stories, Cherokee author MariJo Moore has successfully woven the metaphors of traditional storytelling with the harsh sometimes grim realities of present day Indian society. Her finely crafted, double weave writing has as its strength multidimensional characters with hopeful yet pragmatic understandings of the challenges facing today's Indigenous peoples
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Don't
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IN
MEMORIUM
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AMERINDA
sadly acknowledges the passing of
Kyle
L. Dowdy, Sr. (Seneca) |
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