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This is a great story.......

From: American Indian Resource Center <AIRC@library.lacounty.gov>

Subject: A Bison Story

Thought I'd send this your way - in case you want to share with others - aaaaaye!

Just found this story again. I saw it some time back - thought you all my enjoy this submitted by Sal Camarillo

<http://vids. myspace.com/ index.cfm? fuseaction= vids.individual&videoid=2631187>

As you may have heard, the Bush Administration recently said that

each and every one would now get a nice rebate.

If we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China.

If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Arabs.

If we purchase a computer it will all go to India.

If we purchase fruit and vegetables it will all go to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala.

If we purchase a good car it will all go to Japan.

If we purchase useless crap it will all go to Taiwan.

None of it will help the American economy.

We need to keep that money here in America.

The only way to keep that money here at home is to buy Native Art,

since its the only original business still in the USA.

Thanks Peggy Fontenot

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Subject: Free Native American Film Series 2008 Schedule

Bringing the Circle Together: A Native American Film Series

Presents a free screening on Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 7pm

Black Indians: An American Story
Narrator James Earl Jones brings to focus a forgotten part of American
history – the cultural and racial fusion of Native and African Americans.
Black Indians: An American Story explores what brought the two groups
together, what drove them apart and the challenges they face today.

Scheduled discussion to follow screening with Valena Broussard Dismukes
(Choctaw), author of The Red-Black Connection. Poet Asani Charles

(Choctaw/Chickasaw) will open the screening!

Asani Charles is coming all the way from Texas to be with us, please come
and show your support!

We are Located at The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy

at 111 North Central Ave., Los Angeles, 90012, directly across from the
Japanese American National Museum

join us at www.myspace.com/nafilmseries or for inquiry at
nafilmseries@aol.com

(Bringing the Circle Together: A Native American Film Series is sponsored in
association with the Japanese American National Museum, National Center for
Preservation of Democracy, the Southern California Indian Center, Inc., and
Haramokngna American Indian Cultural Center)

Other Upcoming Screenings:

Thursday, August 14, 2008
7pm
In Whose Honor?
Filmmaker Jay Rosenstein focuses on the story of Charlene Teters (Spokane)
whose campaign against Chief Illiniwek, mascot of University of Illinois,
forced many to rethink the larger issue of culture and identity and their
representation in the media, and effects on both Native Americans and
non-Natives. Poetry by Los Angeles Native American artist Tschetan to start
the screening!

Thursday, September 11, 2008
7pm

Discovering Dominga
When Denese Becker, an Iowa housewife who was adopted, looks into her
birthplace in Guatemala, finds that she is the last survivor of her family
after a massacre of Mayan peasants. Denese's journey home is both a voyage
of self-discovery that permanently alters her relationship to her American
family and a political awakening that sheds light on an act of genocide.

Thursday, October 23, 2008
7pm
Aleut Story
In the turbulence of war, the Aleuts of Alaska would redefine themselves –
and America. From indentured servitude and being put into concentration
camps during World War II, to Congress and the White House, this is the
incredible story of the Aleuts’ decades-long struggle for our nation’s
ideals.

Thursday, November 20, 2008
7pm
Alcatraz Is Not An Island
When a small group of Native American students and “Urban Indians” began the
occupation of Alcatraz Island in November 1969, they sparked a movement
joined by thousands, retaking “Indian land” for the first time since the
1880s. This historic event altered U.S. Government Indian policy and
programs, and how it forever changed the way Native Americans viewed
themselves, their culture and their sovereign rights.

Thursday, December 4, 2008
7pm
Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School
On June 10, 2008, the government of Canada formally apologized to the world
for its treatment of American Indians in the last century. This story
examines the harrowing story of young Native American and First Nation’s
children who were taken away from their families and sent to boarding
schools designed to destroy their culture and tribal unity.

I was hoping you would be willing to send out to your email list this notice of my book "Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery." Below are two links, one to an article I wrote some time ago, and a review of my book by Richard Marcus...Links below...

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096416407

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/27/094038.php

Thanks very much,

Steven Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape)

Indigenous Law Research Coordinator

Sycuan Education Department

Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation

5478 Sycuan Rd. #10

El Cajon, CA 92019

(619) 445-6917

It is with great pleasure that Southern California Indian Center, Inc (SCIC) & InterTribal Entertainment announce the 2008 Summer TV & Film Acting Workshop.

The purpose of this program is to offer an opportunity for Native youth in the Los Angeles area to participate in a TV & Film Acting Program. The outcome of this program is to promote self-esteem, build confidence, increase communication abilities, develop performing skills and introduce students to TV and Film Acting.

The students will be exposed to acting in a variety of situations including: Commercial Acting, Auditioning, Monologues, Scene Study and Acting for Film. The program will end with a taping of a Public Service Announcement about the importance of protecting the environment. Each student will finish the Acting program with a Headshot and Resume.

The program will be conducted in August 2008 for 4-weeks (Tuesdays & Saturdays). All class sessions will be held at the Los Angeles Southern California Indian Center. The workshop is ideal for youth 13-17. (However, students under this age range with strong interest are encouraged to apply).

The 4-Week Acting Workshop will be facilitated by SCIC & Intertribal Entertainment and Eva Thomas as the Project Director. Eva is an actress who lives in Los Angeles and is currently enrolled in the Master's Program in American Indian Studies at UCLA.

In addition, several Guest Lecturers are scheduled to appear, including Princess Lucaj Tonantzin Carmelo and Zahn McClarnon.

We have also attached the application and a flyer. Please distribute to anyone who may be interested in the summer acting program. The application deadline is JULY 7, 2008.

If you have any questions, please contact via e-mail either Eva Thomas msevathomas@yahoo.com or Pamela Peters at PJ1217@att.net.

Sincerely,

Eva Thomas, Project Director

Pamela Peters, Project Coordinator

Cherokee Messenger

Index of Native American Health Resources on the Internet

"Equestral Stardancers" acrylic on canvas, by artist B. Granados Jr.

"Scrubbed White" DVD available

Petition to Repatriate Geronimo's Skull

Buffalo Field Campaign West Yellowstone, Montana

THE LAUGHING HORSE SANCTUARY, Sandy Level, Virginia

National Horse Protection Coalition

International Institute for
Indigenous Resource Management
www.iiirm.org

Leonard Peltier's

stage play MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE

 is a soul-transforming
theatrical experience that is a living expression of his own words, his own
pain, his own dreams--as well as the suffering and dreams of his People.
We are seeking  patrons, donors, sponsors, theater owners & plain
old long-suffering Peltier supporters (Bless'm)--to assist Keith and me
in bringing this amazing production starring Lakota actor/singer Doug Good
Feather on tour to cities and rez communities around the nation this
spring & onwards.

Leonard has his official parole review in December 2008--the last month of
Bush's administration. His next formal parole review, if  he's not freed,
will not be until 2017.  He's now 63; has been in prison since he was 31.
I personally ask EACH of you to step forward NOW-and assist us with ideas,
theater info,  purchases of CDs, Books or any of our Peltier support Items,
and--yes,please, a modest donation to our just-created In Peace
Productions at www.mylifeismysundance.com. Keith Rabin has already gone
deeply into debt just  to create it so we have a legit professional
production company.

As co-playwright with Leonard, I have given outright my entire
co-playwright's share, plus quite a few personal thousands, to
In Peace Productions to make MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE a reality.
Please reach into your heart and your soul and your pocketbook to help us
stage this play and bring Leonard's continuing CRUCIFIXION--33 years on the
Cross of American Injustice--to center-stage of AMERICA'S CONSCIENCE.
I know most of us still have a conscience.   Let's use it to FREE LEONARD
PELTIER!!

Again, please go to www.mylifeismysundance.com and inspire yourself and
others to help us!

Leonard DOES enthusiastically support Keith Rabin
and In Peace Productions.

Any suggestions or comments about the play should go
to keith@mylifeismysundance.com



Harvey Arden

Have you Thought Publishing

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