Category: Culture
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22nd Navajo Council passes removal of language requirement just after midnight
The article is here, from Navajo Times. An excerpt: After hours of seemingly endless debating, the Navajo Nation Council voted just after midnight to remove the Navajo language requirement from qualifications to run for Navajo Nation President. Pro tem Speaker LoRenzo Bates had to step in and break a 10 to 10 tie to pass…
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This Is What Modern Day Discrimination Against Native Americans Looks Like
From News.Mic, here. An excerpt: Despite the furor over the Washington Redskins and Columbus Day, the most serious discrimination against Native Americans doesn’t take place at a football game or during a poorly-named day off from work. It starts in schools, and pervades all aspects of a Native American’s life as time goes on. Native…
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Suicide Chronicles, Part 4
Here is part four, entitled Slow Suicide, Slower Healing. An excerpt: In order to participate in this “continuing creation of reality”—the vitality of our communities—we have to be alive. That’s step one. Not just to exist, but to be alive. Present. Engaged. Aware. Intact. Suicide is not necessarily an isolated event. It is not always, as…
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FAI hosting Elders and Youth Conference – Livestream Online
First Alaskans Institute is hosting the 30th Anniversary Elders & Youth Conference from October 20-22, 2014 at the Dena’ina Civic & Convention Center in Anchorage. You can attend, too! Registration is in person starting Sunday Oct 19 from 3-5pm and Monday Oct 20 beginning at 7:30am. You can also follow along with the livestream on…
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TEDNA Giveaway
Don’t forget that TEDNA will be giving away a custom hand made drum by Aassanaaq Kairaiuak, among other things, at our Forum this Wednesday. The Forum will be from 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (Lunch and Forum) in the Chart Room at the Hilton Anchorage in Anchorage, Alaska. The agenda is here.
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Nome students’ culinary adventure: pickling muktuk
Here, from KTVA Alaska. NOME – It’s a home economics lesson you’ll only find in Alaska. “It’s fun,” said Sadie Ellison, smiling. “I like the feeling and how it’s all oily.” On a Friday in early October, Nome Elementary School fifth graders spent their afternoon wielding ulus and cutting up muktuk. “Muktuk is kind of…