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Hoopa Valley Indian Tribe, CA - Hoopa Tribal Civilian Community Corps Offers Opportunities for Native Youth
Indigenous News Network - Northern California Indian Development Council, CA
Native Views: Influences of Modern Culture 2005 Tour Schedule
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By Dean S. Acheson, Daily News Staff, The Rhinelander Daily, WI
Tribes benefit from tourism promotion
Tribes and neighboring communities that work together on tourism promotion can reap financial rewards, according to several speakers at the annual Native American Tourism of Wisconsin (NATOW) summer conference held Tuesday at the Lake of the Torches Resort/Casino in Lac du Flambeau.
The Associated Press, www.tuscaloosanews.com, AL
Warren schools fight county allocation to Indian charter school
The school board in Warren County plans to sue the county's Board of Commissioners to stop them from giving $50,000 to an American Indian tribe.
The schools want to block the tribe from using any county money for the Haliwa-Saponi Tribal School, a charter school.
ThreeHoops note: Education funding for Indian schools and education for American Indian children remain chronically low. American Indian people pay personal income taxes as their nonNative neighbors do. However the distribution of tax benefits back to Native communities as equally as other communities can be fraught with obstacles for Tribes.
By Stan Bindell, For The Independent, NM
Native television starts in Arizona
PHOENIX — Native Americans are gaining television time thanks to Linda White Wolf, Debra Krol and Pat McMahon.
KAZ-TV, Arizona's only independent television station, has started airing eight minute segments of Native American News at least once a month...
by JUSTIN CLARK, LA Weekly, CA
A Native American in Venice
James Luna at the Biennale
At first glance, it is tempting to view performance artist James Luna’s inclusion in this year’s Venice Biennale as simply the latest amusing example of Europe’s fascination with cowboys and Indians...True, Luna, a Luiseño Indian who wryly calls himself “the country’s oldest emerging artist,” is one of the least-known of the artists representing the U.S. at this year’s Biennale, among them Ed Ruscha, Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger (who received the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement). Luna’s presence in Venice does not likely owe to romantic idealization or political correctness, however. For one thing, his work has always attacked nostalgia, even in its highbrow forms. In Luna’s best-known performance, 1987’s The Artifact Piece, the artist lay dressed in a loincloth beneath a Plexiglas case at the San Diego Museum of Man, an ironic reproach of a museum culture that has consistently treated his people as extinct.
Hoopa Tribal Civilian Community Corps, CA
Hoopa Tribal Civilian Community Corps Offers Native Youth Opportunities
Application Deadline - August 1 2005
Start Date - October 3 2005
The Hoopa Tribal Civilian Community Corps is currently accepting applications for Corps Members. Hoopa TCCC is a tribal residential national service program for young Native men and women, located in Hoopa Ca. (Northern Rural California) There is no better time than right now for you to make a difference. By serving as an AmeriCorps Hoopa Tribal Civilian Community Corps member. You can make a difference in your life and in the lives of others. We are now accepting applications for the 2005-06 class.
Eligibility Requirements: Young Men/Women Between Ages of 18-26; Be a Federally Recognized Indian or Descendant; Drug & A lcohol Free Upon Entry & Test Randomly Thereafter; Reside at Hoopa TCCC Campus; Be Able to Travel on "Projects" with TCCC for 2-4 Weeks; Be Dedicated, Dependable, willing to put TCCC's needs first; Requires an intense, ten-month and 1700 hours, full-time commitment; United States Citizen
Indian Country Today, NY
Waukazoo recognized for health work
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Martin Waukazoo, the Oakland-based head of the Native American Health Center, was one of three recipients of the 2005 Champions of Health Professionals Diversity Award.
The award was presented by the nonprofit California Wellness Foundation to individuals who have done exemplary work in the health field in underserved communities. The award also includes a $25,000 grant to each of the three awardees.
Potowatomi Traveling Times
Blue Corn Comics Highlighted
Adventure awaits at bluecorncomics.com. in the form of a comic book called Peace Party. This web site is home to an enterprise which is dedicated to fighting stereotypes, promoting peaceful solutions to violent situations and preserving humor through a multi-cultural perspective. Created by Robert Schmidt, Peace Party and Blue Corn Comics address issues in Indian country through the comic venue.
Two superheroes, Billy and Drew, are Hopi/Pueblo who have been given special powers. In the first episode, the cousins receive their powers. One of the duo, Billy, is a city Indian and lawyer who does not know much of his heritage. He teams up with his cousin, Drew, who keeps a strong tie to traditions.
IndianTrust.com
Cobell v. Norton - Interior Feigns Not To Understand What Indians Are Entitled To
"It's not the government's money. It's the Indians' money, money that the government collected for the Indians but never put into their trust accounts."
Indian Country Today, NY - by Philip Burnham
IRS guidance for tribes found wanting
WASHINGTON - America's tribes believe they are getting insufficient guidance and unfair enforcement in matters ranging from tax-exempt bonds to tribally chartered corporations, said a report unveiled at Internal Revenue Service headquarters June 8.
''Current enforcement efforts by the IRS,'' said the report, ''some of which are viewed by tribes as unfair and at odds with how the IRS treats state and local governments - coupled with a lack of progress on promulgation of past promised guidance - threatens to undermine the positive work that has been done.''
The report, entitled ''Survey and Review of Existing Information and Guidance for Indian Tribal Governments,'' was one of four projects sponsored this year by the Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT), an IRS public forum devoted to contemporary tax issues. It specifically cited the need for guidance on tribal businesses and tribal trusts, and clarification on the nature of ''essential government functions'' in Indian country.
ThreeHoops note: Download the "Survey and Review of Existing Information and Guidance for Indian Tribal Governments"
IndianTrust.com
Cobell v. Norton - Government Fails to Keep Secret its Effort to Skirt Internet Ban
Indianz.com, Washington DC & NE
Bush administration blasted on Indian education
Members of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee slammed Bush administration officials at an oversight hearing on Thursday, questioning their commitment to Indian education.
ThreeHoops note: Studies show that federal funding to Tribes across a variety of agencies has declined on a percentage basis since the 1980's.
Artrain USA - Native Views: Influences of Modern Culture, MI
Artrain USA's Native Views
Download Artrain USA's Native Views (Contemporary Native American Arts) schedule here
 Native Views:
Influences of Modern Culture
Is the compelling traveling by train exhibition of contemporaty Native American arts. The exhibition and tour is meeting Artrain USA’s mission of “enriching lives and building community through the arts”:
The Native American contemporary art exhibition travels across the United States bringing knowledge to nonnative communities. Nonnative neighbors learn directly about Indian Country from the arts and explanations of contemporary Native American artists.
Guided by Native American/Alaska Native board of advisors - Native Views has taken the initiative to provide direct benefits for Native people and resulted in new American Indian/Nonnative collaborations as a result of Native Views educational components.
Says Deb Polich of Artrain USA, "After our recent visit to Pembroke, NC, Rita Locklear, director of the Indian Education Resource Center reported 'Artrain USA brought four organizations together that all, at some point, work with students and community but this gave us the opportunity to develop a trusting and effective relationship.' and the first ever collaboration in Jessup Iowa between Arts in the Park and the Meskwaki Nation of Iowa was described in these words: ' [Artrain USA and the Native Views exhibition] gave us reason to go out and communicate to the Meskwaki Nation. We now have an outreach and willingness to share our cultures and mend some fences. Both societies are going to be mutually involved, in concert with each other because they have already resolved to communicate. There will be a lot of learning from one another.' ”< |
