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Cover, “Allegra Sainte-Marie Knight (Eastern Band Cherokee),” and above, “Teenaged Apache Gaan Mountain Spirit Dancer (White Mountain/ San Carlos),” are from “Portrait of a Generation–The Children of Oklahoma: Sons and Daughters of the Red Earth” by MJ Alexander.
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Eye on NDN-Country with dg smalling Saturdays, 9 am on http://www.thespyfm.com Conversations with Native leaders and friends of NDN-Country on current affairs in Oklahoma. Research Your Indian Ancestry Oklahoma Historical Society website http://www.okhistory.org/research/dawes
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OKLAHOMA CITY Miss Indian OKC Competition Friday, March 23, 6:30 pm Destiny Christian Center 3801 SE 29th St, Del City, OK http://www.missindianokc.com
SHAWNEE Oklahoma American Indian Challenge Bowl Entry Deadline: March 23, 2012 Event: March 28, 2012 An academic competition for Oklahoma Indian students enrolled in grades 7-12. gprimeaux@shawnee.k12.ok.us
TULSA American Indian Festival of Words All month at various Tulsa Library locations. A celebration of the History, Culture, Arts and achievements of American Indians http://tulsalibrary.org/airc, 918-549-7323
PARK HILL Brother vs. Brother Cherokee involvement in the Civil War, includeing factions that fought on both sides of the conflict. Through April 15, 2012 Cherokee Heritage Center, 21192 S Keeler Dr http://www.cherokeeheritage.org
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One of the many works by Woody Crumbo on display
Artist Brent Learned (Cheyenne & Arapaho)
Al Deaver and Chickasaw Nation Governor William Anoatubby
A BIG NIGHT
Three American Indian events occurred on January 31: the opening of Brent Learned’s exhibition at the capitol, Bank2’s 10 Year Anniversary and Woody Crumbo’s Birthday celebration at the OK History Center.
Kennetha Greenwood helps Ben Harjo to some birthday cake
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THE CHILDREN OF OKLAHOMA : SONS & DAUGHTERS OF THE RED EARTH F R O M T H E B OO K B Y M J A L E X A N D E R
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MACY SOSTI RIDGE A G E 7, B R I G G S B O R N J U LY 5 , 2 0 0 3 I N TA H L E Q U A H
Attends Tsalagi Tsunadeloquasdi, the Cherokee Nation Language Immersion School. Lives on family’s original Dawes Roll allotment, now owned by maternal grandmother, Georgia Dick.
acy came here with the family and started to read the gravestones of our grandfather and his family–sisters, brothers, parents. Ancestors who came in the 1830s, on the Trail of Tears. The names are faded, written in Cherokee. She can read and write the syllabary. My uncle cried, because he had lost the language. She spoke their names again. –Wahlesah Dick, mother
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ll of our children dance. It is important to keep tradition alive. –Jessie Bohay, mother
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Phillip Tahlee Tsonetokoy Age 5 Chicken Dancer Leia OhnTahnMah Tsonetokoy Age 17 months Fancy Shawl Dancer DaeLena Jacqueline Tsonetokoy Age 2 Cloth Dancer Terrance Presley Tsonetokoy Age 4 Grass Dancer Photographed June 19, 2010 at the Red Earth Festival, Oklahoma City.
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ROBERT LEVI COLEMAN A G E 1 2, P I E D M O N T B O R N N O V E M B E R 1 2, 1 9 9 7 IN OKLAHOMA CIT Y
love the river. It’s full Imemories of life. I have good there with my grandparents.
Grandson of Mary Ann Childers whose home was destroyed by F5 tornado that killed 69 people in and around Antlers, April 12, 1945. Great-grandson of Wayland Childers, Oklahoma House of Representatives Speaker Pro Tem. Great-great-great-grandson of Polk McAlvain, who rode with the First Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Rifles, Confederate Army, U.S. Civil War. Photographed at Blue River Wildlife Management Area, Johnston County
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rt, weaving, life – it’s all interconnected. The creative thought: it’s what gives us meaning, it’s what gives us depth. It’s what makes us see the beautiful in the world. –Margaret Roach Wheeler Photographed July 29, 2010 at Chickasaw Summer Arts Academy, Ada, with longtime artist/mentor Margaret Roach Wheeler, master weaver and 2010 inductee to the Chickasaw Nation Hall of Fame
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YOUNG APACHE DANCER WA R M S P R I N G S C H I R I C A H U A A PA C H E S O F OKLAHOMA
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the ways. The dancers do not speak, and only understand Apache. The point of their dance is to bring healing and to ward off evil spirits. –Patricia Sahmaunt Unap, Apache Club advisor
Also known as Fort Sill Apache, the Warm Springs Chiricahua Apaches of Oklahoma are descended from Apache taken as prisoners of war in Arizona Territory in 1886. In 1894, Geronimo and 341 other Chiricahua Apache POWs were brought to Fort Sill, where they became the last tribe relocated to presentday Oklahoma. After 28 years of custody, the surviving 271 POWs and their descendants were released; 84 opted to stay in Oklahoma. Tribal enrollment, limited to the descendants of the 84 Fort Sill Apache who remained, is now 670. MJ Alexander’s book is available at Full Circle Bookstore in OKC or online at www.sliceok .com/portrait. An exhibition of images from the book is on display through April 15 in the State Capitol’s North Gallery.
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