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Manataka - Preserving The Past Today For Tomorrow
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Manataka American Indian Council Volume XII Issue 11 NOVEMBER 2008
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Manataka - Preserving The Past Today For Tomorrow
November Issue Page 1 of 3 |
Special
Issue
Celebrate Native American
Heritage Month!
True Thanksgiving
A Day of Mourning
Dispelling Thanksgiving Myths
WANNA BECOME A MEMBER OF MANATAKA?
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO JOIN!
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Web Page Creator - Front Page Expert The
Manataka American Indian Council needs a volunteer to construct web
pages at home. Must have Microsoft 'Front Page' program.
manataka@sbcglobal.net Flute Player Needed Wedding on January 1 near Lafayette, LA. 1 hour only. Contact Simone. Travel expense and time paid. simoneaolivier@msn.com Help Wanted -- Immediately in France An Indian couple for craft demonstrations are needed in Le Mans, France, about 250 km from Paris. The lucky couple will have an opportunity to dance and drum for French tourists. Meals and living accommodations in a two-bedroom mobile home or a real tipi lodge are furnished. All travel expenses are paid, including travel documents. $2,000 per month salary. Contract from October 15 to April 15. The couple are requested to bring to wear during work hours. Contact Jean at les.tipis@aliceadsl.fr |
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2009 Calendar. Stunning artwork by Cherokee Artists. Months and days in the Cherokee language. Important historical dates and ceremonies marked. Model: CAL-01. Shipping Weight: 1lbs. 50 Units in Stock.
GET YOURS BEFORE THEY ARE ALL GONE!
Maggie's
SOAP NUTS
THE SOAP THAT GROWS ON TREESTM
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Put a few Soap Nuts into a small cotton sack (included) and drop it in your washing machine. Your clothes will come out clean, vibrant, and soft. Replace your laboratory detergents and softeners with the soap made from nature. Your skin, clothes, family and your planet will thank you.
"Once
you have achieved this oneness, when you talk, God talks; when you act, God
acts." --Chuck Ross, Lakota
In my innermost self, I know this to be true. I know of this oneness. The more
I am free of doubt, jealousy, judgment, selfishness, anger, the closer I am to
this oneness. When I am right with the Creator, nothing can touch me. When I
am right with the Creator I always say the right things. When I am right with
the Creator, my thoughts are always good. When I am right with the Creator, my
actions are always good.
Great Spirit,
remove from me those things
that block me from You.
Allow me this day
to experience the oneness.
OCTOBER WEBSITE UPDATES
| NEW ARTICLES | ||
| The Messenger Eagle Shadow Spirit | Elders Speak | |
| Blue Star Woman Message - Magdala | Elders Speak | |
| The Old Ways - Gram Selma | Elders Speak | |
| Healing With Love: Part 3 | Elders Speak | |
| Family: A True Blessing | Elders Speak | |
| We Can't Drill Our Way Out Of This Mess | Environment | |
| Manataka: Fountain of Youth? | Feature Story | |
| US Welcome Home Foundation | Feature Story | |
| Are You Eating Cloned Meat? | Health Watch | |
| Study: 12% of Indians Deaths Caused By Alcohol | Health Watch | |
| Kidney Patients Should be Notified of Potential Risk | Health Watch | |
| Needless vaccine - dangers of Gardasil | Health Watch | |
| Black Seed Oil | Herbal Medicine | |
| Exemplar of Liberty: Chapter 9 - American Synthesis | History | |
| Corn Cob Boy - Cochiti Legend | Legends | |
| Portal to Maya Underworld Found in Mexico? | Sacred Sites | |
| Take Your Power Back: Money Saving Wedding Planner | Women's Council | |
| NEW TRADING POST ITEMS | ||
TRUE THANKSGIVING - A Day of Mourning
By Roy Cook, Editor, American Indian Source
To understand an American Indian perspective on Thanksgiving, you need some
information and some new viewpoints.
Most school children are taught that Native Americans helped the Pilgrims and were invited to the first Thanksgiving feast. Young children's conceptions of Native Americans often develop out of media portrayals and classroom role playing of the events of the First Thanksgiving. The conception of Native Americans gained from such early exposure is both inaccurate and potentially damaging to others.
Therefore, most children do not know the following
facts, which explain why many American Indians today call Thanksgiving a "Day of
Mourning".
Traditional hospitality and generosity have and continue to be constant Tribal
virtues to be practiced at all times.
One of a series of feasts reaching back into the group memory has been seized upon by the current modern society. The Wampanoag feast, called Nikkomosach-miawene, or Grand Sachem's Council Feast. It was because of this feast in 1621 that the Wampanoags had amassed the food to help the Pilgrims thereby creating a new tradition European tradition known today as "Thanksgiving Day.
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ELDER MOMFEATHER SPEAKS Coho Learns To Jump
On
a cold winter night, a young boy sat in a carving shed watching his
Grandfather working on a totem pole. The boy asked, "Grandfather, how did
you learn to carve such a big log?"
Grandfather smiled and sat down with his grandson by the warm fire. "Let me
tell you the story of Coho salmon. That will help you find the answer to
your question.
"Coho was born in the river. When he was very young, just like you, he swam
down the river into the ocean. Along his journey he watched others and
learned from them. He also learned from his own mistakes and successes. Soon
he knew when to use his strength and when to use his knowledge to survive.
Worm Composting A-Z
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kitchen waste into soil for your lawn, garden, or houseplants -- all with
the help of thousands of new friends!
Worm Composting: All-Natural Recycling
“I saw our enormous trash bins being filled up with these plastic bags just overflowing from the top, and I thought, ‘This is an enormous problem,’” says Stewart, who began looking for creative ways to reduce her volume of trash. Soon, Stewart found part of her solution in indoor worm composting (also called vermi-composting), a simple, compact and low-maintenance way to recycle organic household waste into nutrient-rich soil. Worm composting is so compact, it even works for apartment dwellers. All you need to get started is a bin, some worms and a habitat moist and temperate enough to keep your worms happy.
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Tree Of Life Reborn
Every
morning, for most of my life, I sent out prayers for my people and my community
for guidance and protection. Before the Earth Shift, the answers and signs were
slow to reach us all. Now, answers are coming faster and have grown stronger in
these past few months. We all need to understand that this change of events in
the world will effect us all.
Those who wish to
live in peace will survive, those who cannot live in peace will not. This will
take years to undo what these past forty years have created.
This has filled a space in my heart that has lain bare and sad for too many
years now. We are given purpose and light when we need it most. I have prayed
for this so that I can find the next foothold on this path of life.
READ MORE...
No offense intended for any individuals or tribes.
BEAR
REMOVER
A man wakes up one morning in Alaska to find a bear on his roof. So he looks in
the yellow pages and sure enough, there's an ad for 'Bear Removers.'
He
calls the number, and the bear remover says he'll be over in 30 minutes.
The bear remover arrives, and gets out of his van. He's got a ladder, a baseball
bat, a shotgun and a mean old pit bull.
'What are you going to do,' the homeowner asks?
'I'm going to put this ladder up against the roof, then I'm going to go up there
and knock the bear off the roof with this baseball bat. When the bear falls off,
the pit bull is trained to grab his testicles and not let go.
The bear will then be subdued enough for me to put him in the cage in the back
of
the van.'
He hands the shotgun to the homeowner.
'What's the shotgun for?' asks the homeowner.
'If the bear knocks me off the roof, shoot the dog.'
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By Gram Selma, Ocali Nation
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Beautiful Ones,
The emerging of the divine feminine is bringing the awakening of the true human being all over the world, for the love of the Great Mother is showing the way…..
A crop circle have appeared when the new year of our calendar began
There
she is, showing us the way….so beautiful!
For long time human being have a bad dream, for they dream that they live in a separate world, despair came into their hearts and many things was created through suffering and pain….human being through the world of separation become genetic engineering, so was some trees and pants and the food, and went into a big distortion for the creation was based on separation…..the heart was broken, for human being was grown with the idea of having no mother, and didn’t understand the true father, for the world of separation show them a distorted father, so the despair grow for many generation, and for long time finally human being is encountering the Mother….
Bayer Pesticide Chemicals Linked to Devastating Collapse of Honeybee Populations
(NaturalNews)
German government researchers have concluded that a bestselling Bayer
pesticide is responsible for the recent massive die-off of honeybees across
the country's Baden-Württemberg region. In response, the government has
banned an entire family of pesticides, fueling accusations that pesticides
may be responsible for the current worldwide epidemic of honeybee die-offs.
Researchers found buildup of the pesticide clothianidin in the tissues of 99
percent of dead bees in Baden-Württemberg state. The German Research Center
for Cultivated Plants concluded that nearly 97 percent of honeybee deaths
had been caused directly by contact with the insecticide.
"It can unequivocally be concluded that a poisoning of the bees is due to
the rub-off of the pesticide ingredient clothianidin from corn
seeds," said the federal
agricultural research agency, the Julius Kuehn Institute.
The pesticide was applied to rapeseed and sweet
corn seeds along the
Rhine River Valley, which borders Baden-Württemberg to the west and south.
"Beekeepers in the region started finding piles of dead bees at the entrance
of hives in early May, right around the time corn seeding takes place," said
Walter Haefeker, president of the European Professional Beekeepers
Association.
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Return to YouBy Carol Perez Petersen
When life was young The mirror held A time of yearning For beauty did speak The face of fear and the future
When life was ancient The moon held truths For wilderness did surge From mouths of love And loins of angels
Shattering ignorance Beheld the race of men Upon our shores of present time Shattering light beheld itself In running naked children
Believe you hear The hearts of wolves Leading in a crimson dawn Believe in ships you cannot see behind A veil of sea and foam
Our savior woman Born of corn and sun Walks among the unforsaken Mourning while healing Hear my song For you are so imprisoned
Men did call to the spear And spear cut loose the legions Silvery mist the Venus air Gave breath for Nations healing
Did you not see the melting fire? Did you not speak your heart’s desire? Then welcome this woman Born of soul memory, wind and water Daughter of the angels
Men we are your mother We gave our breast for the quiver. Love; your heaven is our season Truth did weave the rainbows
Carol Perez Petersen Clan Mother Deer Nation rainbowmedicineblanket@yahoo.com
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Indian agency accused of fraud
The Indian Health Service has lost at least $15.8 million worth of equipment and later falsified documents to cover up some of those losses...
(Washington) The Indian Health Service has lost at least $15.8 million worth of equipment and later falsified documents to cover up some of those losses, according to congressional investigators.
The 5,000 pieces of lost or stolen equipment included a computer that contained more than 800 Social Security numbers and sensitive health information. Also missing are trucks, tractors, all-terrain vehicles and about a third of information-technology items — including computers, video projectors and digital cameras — from the agency's headquarters in Rockville, Md.
The Government Accountability Office estimated losses between the 2004 and 2007 budget years in a report released Monday. Investigators blamed mismanagement at the top of the embattled agency, which often runs out of money to provide adequate health care to the American Indians it serves.
Seattle Times news services
Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company
Colorado resolution compares Indians'
deaths to Holocaust
By Colleen Slevin, Associated Press
DENVER -- The Colorado Legislature passed a resolution comparing
the deaths of millions of American Indians to the Holocaust and other acts
of genocide around the world.
The nonbinding measure passed 22-12 in the Senate and 59-4 in the House
after some lawmakers protested that it unfairly condemned all Europeans for
injustices against Indians.
The resolution says Europeans intentionally caused many American Indian
deaths and that early American settlers often treated Indians with "cruelty
and inhumanity."
It specifically mentions the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation in 1838
and the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in Colorado. It also refers to deaths due
to disease that were intensified by forced migrations, food deprivation and
enslavement by Europeans.
"Colleagues, this resolution is a recognition that up 120 million indigenous
people have died as a result of European migration to what is now the United
States of America," said sponsor Sen. Suzanne Williams, D-Aurora, a Comanche
Indian.
Senate Minority Leader Andy McElhany, R-Colorado Springs, said the
resolution painted all Europeans with a broad brush.
Sen. Paula Sandoval, D-Denver, said the resolution wasn't meant to blame all
Europeans.
Members of a group of American Indians who came to the Capitol to watch the
vote said they wanted recognition of what happened to their ancestors.
"It's nothing personal to the people of today but we have to recognize the
past," said Theresa Gutierrez, who works with American Indian students at
the University of Colorado in Denver.
A resolution formally apologizing to American Indians for centuries of
government mistreatment was passed by the U.S. Senate in February but has
not cleared the House.
TEACHING ABOUT AMERICAN INDIANS
Teaching Resources for Educators
Here are resources if you've ever wanted classroom-teaching activities on
American Indians beyond the Thanksgiving holiday or the history of American
Indian Education or best teaching practices addressing American Indian learners.
Resources include books, magazines, articles, bibliographies, maps, etc.
Although often times there is overlap, these resources are organized in four
categories:
Teaching About American Indians
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for American Indian Learners
Researching American Indian Education
Other Resources
The Buzzard, The Bat, and
The Bumblebee
THE BUZZARD:
If you put a
buzzard in a pen that is 6 feet by 8 feet and is entirely open at the
top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute
prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the
ground with a run of 10 to 12 feet. Without space to run, as is its
habit, it will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for
life in a small jail with no top.
THE BAT:
The ordinary bat that flies
around at night, a remarkable nimble creature in the air, cannot take
off from a level place. If it is placed on the floor or flat ground, all
it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt, painfully, until it
reaches some slight elevation from which it can throw itself into the
air Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.
THE BUMBLEBEE:
A bumblebee, if dropped into an
open tumbler, will be there until it dies, unless it is taken out. It
never sees the means of escape at the top, but persists in trying to
find some way out through the sides near the bottom. It will seek a way
where none exists, until it completely destroys itself.
PEOPLE:
In many ways, we are like the
buzzard, the bat, and the bumblebee. We struggle about with all our
problems and frustrations, never realizing that all we have to do is
look up!
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks
around, But faith looks up!
Live simply, love generously,
care deeply, speak kindly and trust in our Creator who loves us.
Today is God's gift, that's why
we call it the present.
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