The Native Voice back issues from November 2002:
Media Power in Indian Country: Advertising as a tool for harnessing the winds of thought
Nov 07, 2002; ... Everyone's seen them: Madison avenue-quality advertisements featuring ...Indians. Television, radio and print campaigns with beautiful imagery and real people giving us important messages. They stick out in the media landscape because they are unique and are the first of their kind; messages ...
FINDING SARGENT TWO CROW: Part Two - Coming Home
Nov 07, 2002 ... Sgt. Alan Two Crow has been found. For over two months his body had lain exposed and forgotten beside a path at the West Point Military Academy where he was stationed. But he was not found by his Army comrades as he should have been, he was found because a circle of people had compassion for a ...
Kevin Locke Breaks Through The Barriers Of Ignorance And Racism
Nov 07, 2002; ... Kevin Locke, uses a flute, wit, hoop dancing, sign language and stories of Iktomi the Trickster, to teach children around the world the message of understanding and the oneness shared by all human beings. Locke recently brought his message of understanding to the school children of Lawrence, ...
A Visit With Eloise Cobell: A VOICE defending our right to accountability.
Nov 07, 2002 ... As the lead plaintiff in the class action litigation to force reform of the failed Individual Indian Monies (IMM) Trust, Elouise Cobell (Blackfeet) of Montana's Blackfeet Reservation took on the U.S. government and sued the Department of Interior on behalf of the Native people after she ...
Why Vote? A conversation with Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.)
Nov 07, 2002; ... TNV: What would you say to the Indian person who asks 'Why should I vote?' Sen. Daschle: I think that it is not an overstatement to say that for maybe the second time if not the third time in South Dakota history, the Native American community has the power to elect a United States ...
Know The Law, Know Your Rights: Voting and Election Law in South Dakota
Nov 07, 2002; ... With the recent fraud allegations, many are concerned that they will not be allowed to vote on election day (or with their absentee ballots), or that their votes will not count. EVERY VOTE CAST WILL COUNT! But, the only way to ensure your vote counts, is to show up to the polls on Tuesday, ...
"Empowering Our American Indian Youth": an event at the Crow Creek Sioux Reservation, Fort Thompson, South Dakota, October 25, 2002
Nov 21, 2002; ... I want to thank the Crow Creek tribal leaders for making this event possible. It's an honor to be here with the leaders of today - and the leaders of tomorrow. I'm also honored to welcome Geoff Hollister, president of NIKE's "Wings of America" running program, which is doing good things all ...
Dedicated to the Native women journalists who carry on the tradition of storytelling
Nov 21, 2002; ... Grandma Pauline was nice to sit next to. Her room was always warm, it smelled of freshly made bread and old wood, and the walls were filled with photographs, some yellowed and flaking with age. She liked to point each of them out and tell a story about the people staring back from their ...
Native women journalists Marley Shabala and Jodi Rave Lee
Nov 21, 2002 ... TNV: As a journalist for the Navajo nation you have a position of responsibility, Everyone reads what you write. Have you ever identified yourself as a storyteller, or seen journalism as being related to the tradition of storytelling? Marley Shebala: You know, that's what I ...
LITEFOOT: THE VISION OF A NATIVE RAPPER
Nov 07, 2002 ... The Native Voice caught up with Litefoot and his ndn goddess, Carmen Parker, after the Black Hills Pow Wow where he signed autographs and talked with fans non-stop for three days. In this exclusive interview, Litefoot tells us of his vision and his quest to become an enlightened human being and ...
Haskell Cultural Center Grand Opening brings tears To The Eyes Of Non-Indian Visitors
Nov 07, 2002; ... The Haskell Cultural Center's grand opening in late September has started to bridge the gap of ignorance about American Indians to members of the surrounding community. For many who live in Lawrence and surrounding communities, Haskell Indian Nations University has been little more than a place ...
National Attention Focused on Native Vote in South Dakota: Crucial Senate race may hinge on new voters registered
Nov 07, 2002 ... Concerns over voter registration irregularities in South Dakota are receiving national attention and may prove to be a critical factor in the state's tight Senate race. Popular incumbent Senator Tim Johnson, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Indian Affairs and Appropriations Committees, is ...
West Point Honors Sgt. Alan Two Crow
Nov 07, 2002; ... On Monday, October 7, 2002, at 2 p.m. a service was held at the West Point chapel in memory of Sgt. Alan Two Crow. Finding a place to park was difficult; upon arrival just minutes before the scheduled ceremony, the chapel was already almost full to capacity with young men and women in uniform, ...
The Slow Progress of Understanding
Nov 07, 2002; ... The times, they are a changing, evolving slowly like the ocean pounding the shores of our inner islands. It has always been difficult for human beings to comprehend the illusion of time. Like the little animals we are, we seldom realize that our existence is but the second hand clicking past ...
Director Chris Eyre: The soul searching storyteller; Cheyenne-Arapaho
Nov 21, 2002; ... TNV: Where did your journey in storytelling begin? Chris Eyre: I was adopted and I really feel like my journey to story telling began with that. I was always told that I was Cheyenne and Arapaho but I didn't know what that meant. I guess I knew there was something there, but I didn't ...
The Dogma That Was Abandoned
Nov 21, 2002; ... A story is an extension of your inner self; if creates the foundation of all human beliefs including the laws upon which human beings govern themselves. Human imagination developed the creation stories of all our races, which are the core beginnings of all religions. Isn't it ironic, ...
Historical Memories: The History and complexity of Ledger Art. An art contest presented by The Native Voice and artist Donald Montileaux.
Nov 21, 2002; ... Long ago our ancestors developed a religion and through time that religion was influenced by the ways of another race. Our people back then were free, they moved like reeds floating on the rivers of time, they understood the meaning of what we call traditionalism today as a balance within the ...
The Importance of Story Telling
Nov 21, 2002 ... Teaching has many forms and is spoken in many tongues. It flows like a rushing river over the rocks of time, splashing its influence on the riverbanks of our children's thoughts. We sit in our individual classrooms and try to comprehend the reality of it all, but seldom do we look into the ...
Indigenous Issues Forum to Bring ITVS Outreach Project to Native Communities
Nov 21, 2002; ... We are an accumulation of stories, stories told and stories waiting to be told. Some of us hold our stories so tightly within that they begin to consume us. And many of us forget them thereby denying how they have shaped us. I believe it is a gift to be able to share our stories ...
New ITVS Outreach Initiative Energizes Native Media: Efforts to Promote Filmmaking and Community Action Underway
Nov 21, 2002; ... With an assertive "commitment to do active outreach to the Native community in 2003 and 2004," the innovative film production funding source ITVS (the Independent Television Service) is coming to a community near you. In the business of facilitating documentary filmmaking in "underserved ...
THE MOUSE AND HIS EGO
Nov 21, 2002; ... Long age the field mouse was out gathering beans to store for the winter, and his neighbor the buffalo came down to graze. The mouse did not like this for he knew that the buffalo would eat all the long grass with his prickly tongue, and there would be no place for the mouse to hide from the ...
Interactive Blame Game
Nov 21, 2002; ... Like any male I love video games. I love video games where I can blow things up and shoot guns or drive vehicles that crush other vehicles. When I broke up with my girlfriend I went and bought a PS2 (Play Station 2 for all you video game neophytes). I have to admit it was a great distraction ...
Weapons of War: Native artists preserve culture of storytelling through rap, comics, painting, writing, filmmaking
Nov 21, 2002; ... Back in the mid 20's two young boys played in a barn swinging from the rafters and diving into piles of hay. The two would fantasize about having the strength of Hercules or Samson. Able to leap over tall buildings and be impervious to bullets. Together they created a hero that would rescue ...
Geraldine Goes In Center appointed first Community Connections Project field organizer
Nov 21, 2002 ... Now entering its seventh year, the Community Connections Project initiative for the Independent Television Service is making independent public television programs relevant and vital to local communities. Geraldine Goes In Center, a full time college student at Oglala Lakota College, has been ...
Truth Gatherers and Storytellers
Nov 21, 2002; ... Whether you come to it by trade or by tradition, journalism will test your mettle. It's like living out on the desert or prairie where you are constantly exposed to the elements - you either love it, get used to it, or find another place to live. If you do your job right and stand up for the ...
Honoring Senator Paul Wellstone: Minnesota's liberal Senator fought for Indians, for all people
Nov 21, 2002; ... The memorial message on Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone's Web site begins with the words: From Paul's Staff. For anyone who ever met the man, and even for those who never did, the familiarity comes as no surprise. To most he was, simply, Paul. Titles meant very little to the scrappy ...
528 Native Votes Tip Senate Race: Last votes counted in South Dakota Give Democrats Win
Nov 21, 2002; ... A mere 528 votes helped Sen. Tim Johnson hold his seat against a challenge from Rep. John Thune in a brutally close race where the final ballots were not tallied until after 9 a.m. Today. The closeness of the vote makes a recount likely, and state officials said that would be held on ...
American Indian Film Festival Illuminates Native Life
Nov 21, 2002 ... The American Indian Film Institute (AIFI) presents the landmark 27th annual American Indian Film Festival. Native American producers, performers, and writers will gather to present more than 50 feature, documentary, and short films by, for, and about American Indians and Canada's First Nations ....
AIFF Poster honors legacy of California Indians
Nov 21, 2002; ... This abstract collage experiment is a chronological progression of the Southern Californian indigenous people. This project reflects the building of cultural preservation and symbolic significance as an indigenous representation from two periods. The petrogrlyphs and pictoglyphs are a legacy ...