Conceptual artists address cultural taboos and challenge ethnic stereotypes
By Katie Emerick, Homer Tribune
November 12, 2008
Prejudices exist. We all know it. Interpretations occur whether fair or not and stereotypes spread through the thick waters of society.
James Luna, a Luiseno Indian born in La Jolla, Calif. and Guillermo Gomez-Pena from Mexico City have found a way to [...]

Posted on November 12th, 2008 by hunwut
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After more than a dozen novels and a couple of serious but foredoomed relationships, Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police found true love, at last, in 2003. “Who the hell was he,” Chee pondered of himself in the Tony Hillerman mystery “The Sinister Pig,” “to think he could find the perfect love? … [...]

Posted on November 7th, 2008 by hunwut
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The base is home to 147 of the species. The U.S. is working on a comprehensive management plan for bison on federal lands.
By Tony Perry
November 4, 2008
Camp Pendleton — They roam freely over the grassy hills, American royalty in a most unusual setting.
Nearby, young Marines are being tutored in the controlled application of violence, but [...]

Posted on November 4th, 2008 by hunwut
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A new Writers Guild caucus hopes to extend that heritage into Hollywood.
By Lynn Smith
No one really had any idea how many Native American writers there were in Hollywood. But when the Writers Guild of America West sent out the call for qualified writers to form their own diversity committee, only three turned out for the [...]

Posted on October 24th, 2008 by hunwut
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By Victor Morales, Today correspondent
Oct 12, 2008
SAN DIEGO - It happened more than 100 years ago. But the 300-mile Long Walk of the Navajos and the events that led up to that tragedy stayed in the heart of Navajo John Hood when he created what has become one of the iconic symbols for illegal immigration [...]

Posted on October 12th, 2008 by hunwut
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Tamara Browning, THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER
American Indian visual and performance artist JAMES LUNA of San Diego already had his multimedia installation show “TALKING STONES” in mind when he was invited to participate in a citywide memorial exhibition.
“Talking Stones” is part of “Through the Eyes of Artists: Looking Back, Looking Forward,” which notes the Springfield race riot [...]

Posted on September 25th, 2008 by hunwut
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By Robert Johnson

Our story begins nearly 20 years ago. During the early ’90s a new fad was born. The phrase “Politically Correct” entered the lexicon and brought us the suffix “-American.” Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians became “African-Americans, Spanish-Americans, and Asian-Americans.”
Everything was bubblegum, sunshine, and puppies until someone said, “what about the Indians?”

Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Larry Banegas
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By Nellie Andreeva
April 18, 2008
Adam Beach is departing NBC’s crime drama “Law & Order: SVU” at the end of the season.Beach joined Dick Wolf’s crime drama last fall under a one-year deal, which had an option for a second. The two sides have decided not to exercise the option.

Posted on April 18th, 2008 by hunwut
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by: Steven Newcomb / Indigenous Law Institute
March 28, 2008
When a gifted Native storyteller recounts a story, those listening are being invited to enter a world. Together, storyteller and audience are transported by way of the human imagination to an experiential realm, a mutually shared reality. The storyteller invites us to imagine the world in a [...]

Posted on March 28th, 2008 by hunwut
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Infoplease.com via San Diego Union-Tribune lists the top ten largest Indian reservations in the United States the ten tribes with the highest population. Try to guess before you click below to see for yourself.

Posted on November 9th, 2007 by admin
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