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Gatherings
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OU-AISA Pow Wow ...9 Sovereignty Symposium
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Happy 4th of July ...12 Artist Jeffrey Palmer ...14
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Otoe/Missouria Summer Encampment (see p8); Dreamcatcher Images Opposite: Chickasaw Princess Savannah Burwell, Little Miss Chickasaw Jacee Underwood and Jr. Princess Faithlyn Seawright at the OU-AISA Pow Wow; Dreamcatcher Images Cover: Miss Indian OKC Liyahna Bender (Absentee Shawnee), Jr. Miss Indian OKC Kyrah Holata (Seminole) and Little Miss Indian OKC Nivy Yarholar (Comanche/Seminole); Cheryl Anquoe-Ahpahlohm Photography
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OKLAHOMA CITY
FLASGSTAFF, AZ
> Indian Hills Pow Wow
> Hopi Days
Weekend of July 25-27
Indian Hills Pow Wow Grounds 9300 North Sooner Rd 405-919-1572 > >
RED ROCK
July 29, 1968 American Indian Movement Founded
> 133rd Annual Otoe-Missouria Summer Encampment
World’s Oldest Hopi Show Weekend of July 5-6 Museum of Northern Arizona http://test.musnaz.org, 928-774-5213
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RADIO
Thursday thru Sunday, July 17-20 Javine Hill Rd (52 W Ave) & 193 St N Contact Donna Phillips at dkphillips2002@gmail.com, 918-381-7996
> Chickasaw Community Radio KCNP 89.5 FM > Indians For Indians Saturdays at 10 am on KACO 98.5 FM > Kiowa Voices Sundays at 12 noon on KACO 98.5 FM Music and more from the Kiowa and area tribes. > Seminole Nation Weekly Radio Show Live on Tuesdays, 11 am on KWSH 1260 AM > >
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WWW
Thursday thru Sunday, July 17-20 7500 Highwy 177, 14 mi S of Ponca City http://www.omtribe.org, 580-307-7911
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SKIATOOK > Kiheka Steh Pow Wow
STROUD > Sac and Fox Nation Pow Wow Weekend of July 25-27 Jim Thorpe Memorial Park, S of Stroud on Hwy 99 http://www.sacandfoxnation-nsn.gov 918-290-0554, 405-650-0129
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WALTERS > Comanche Homecoming Pow Wow Weekend of July 18-20 Sultan Park, 129 E Colorado St http://www.comanchenation.com, 580-492-3240
> Mvskoke Trail of Tears Virtual Tour http://www.muscogeenation-nsn.gov/Pages/ Tourism/virttot.html > Research Your Indian Ancestry Oklahoma Historical Society website http://www.okhistory.org/research/dawes > Eye on NDN-Country with dg smalling Saturdays, 9 am on http://www.thespyfm.com Conversations with Native leaders. > Tribal Scene Radio Fridays, 8 am live on http://www.kbga.org Conversations with host Jodi Rave
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> OU AISA POW WOW > Lloyd Noble Arena Norman, OK > The annual pow wow of the American Indian Student Association of the University of Oklahoma kicked off with honors being given to alumni, AISA royalty and others. > http://www.ou.edu/aisa > (Left to right, from top) +Honored Alumnus George Shannon (Osage) +Head Man Geoffrey Standing Bear (Osage) +Miss Indian OU T’ata Roberts (Choctaw/Taos) +Cozad Drum sings to Honored Ones and guests.
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GATHERINGS
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> SOVEREIGNTY SYMPOSIUM > Skirvin Hotel Oklahoma City > The annual Sovereignty Symposium was established to exchange ideas on common legal issues facing Indian Country. > (Opposite, left to right, from top) +Honor Guard of the Symposium: the Kiowa Black Leggings Society +U.S. Representative Tom Cole +Wichita and Affiliated Tribes President Terri Parton +Kiowa Tribal Princess Ahnawake Dahn Toyekoyah +Seminole Nation Chief Leonard Harjo +Kaw Nation Chairman Guy Monroe
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+Autry National Center President
and CEO Rick West, Jr.
+Citizen Potawatomi Nation ‘
Chairman Rocky’ Barrett
+Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Principal Chief George Tiger and Chairwoman of the Kiowa Tribe Amber Toppah +Chairman of the Kickapoo Tribe Gilbert Salazar +Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby +Choctaw Nation Chief Greg Pyle +OK Representative Dan Kirby and OK Indian Gaming Association Executive Director Sheila Morago +Comanche Nation Chairman Wallace Coffey +Chairman of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe Jeff Haozous
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http://www.thesovereigntysymposium.com/Documents/Agenda2014.pdf
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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY
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DIGITAL STORYTELLER JEFFREY PALMER by heather ahtone One of the most iconic images in Native America is that of the storyteller. Embodied in clay figures in the Southwest and present in every tribal community, the figure of the storyteller as an elderly statesperson who paints pictures in the mind’s eye, brushed with strokes of mythic time, resonates as an important conveyer of intergenerational knowledge. It is a figure that defies stereotyping because the knowledge embedded in those stories often relied on a lifetime of memories to keep it told – just so. It is a figure that many Native families have lost in the business of living in the Twenty-first Century and subject to being replaced by the flow of information in social media and reality T.V., which also tell stories but arguably not so wise. Perhaps it is this gap between traditional practice and daily reality that has opened the door for filmmaker Jeffrey Palmer (b. 1977; Kiowa). In contrast to the elder statesman, Palmer is a young man who has received a wellbalanced formal education in anthropology, Native American studies, and filmmaking. He has returned to Oklahoma after serving as visiting professor at Cornell University, and has spent the last two years teaching Media at the University of Central Oklahoma in a growing department. He has primarily worked as a documentarian, looking at the
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world through his camera but using a Kiowa-centric lens to consider what it is to be Indigenous. Several of his projects are available to watch through online searches including “Emic/Etic�, a work that considers attending a pow-wow as a member of the Native community who is watching the non-Native observers. This veritable turning the gaze upon the gazer is a challenge to the status quo of being the Perennial Other in American culture. Forging the path of documentarian, Palmer continues to develop projects that speak to Indigenous issues, currently working on a project that examines the effects of climate change on the Native communities
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DIGITAL STORYTELLER JEFFREY PALMER in Oklahoma. So many consider this an issue as one that is primarily understood in the melting Arctic or sea-level islanders found in places like Hawaii. Palmer is working with scientists at the University of Oklahoma to document the local effects, engaging with farmers and other workers who have been noticing growing effects over the recent decades. That kind of first-person story is one that often gets digested into politic-speak through diagrams or quantitative data. Palmer brings the farmer’s voice directly into the room so that the data can have a face. However, it is a recent project that has shifted Palmer’s creative work into the realm of art house film. In 2014, he premiered “Origins” at a film festival in Canada to great acclaim. Utilizing the traditional pacing of Kiowa stories with imagery that shifts back and forth from enigmatic mythic time into the hyperfocused view of a magnifying glass looking at a leaf, Palmer tells a very ancient story of Kiowa creation through digital film. His story begins in the Time Of The Giants And Darkness but ends at a summer dance in Southwestern Oklahoma where he enjoys the social time of sitting with relatives. As with all good stories, ii takes many twists and turns. “Origins” is a story told not only with a Kiowa perspective, but with a Kiowa voice,
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Palmer’s father’s voice; Gus Palmer, Jr., is a professor of linguistic anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. In the film, Gus speaks as an elder from a past generation, speaking exclusively in Kiowa and engaging the son in dialogue that imagines a conversation across generations. Utilizing English subtitles, the story’s pacing is set by the natural harmony of Kiowa language, which often relies on drawn out syllables and deep breaths to express the weight of the conversation. But as a good storyteller, Palmer keeps the audience riveted with a combination of simple, natural sounds and images that leap alongside the narrative, providing just enough information to guide the imagination.
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DIGITAL STORYTELLER JEFFREY PALMER One of the most beautiful aspects of “Origins” is the natural flow of both story and image across time and the Kiowa range. Beginning in Oklahoma, the Kiowa can track their migration across the continent back to southern Canada. One of their most sacred sites, held in the cosmological cycle as the place of an auspicious event, is “Tso-Aa” (Rock Tree), or as it is more commonly referred to in the American vernacular: Devil’s Tower in Wyoming. Palmer constructs the digital version of the Kiowa story related to “Tso-Aa” through images of the site juxtaposed with sounds of children playing. His playful rendering of the story without fully describing every detail leaves room for the viewer to complete the image with imagination. This act of artistic trust in the audience is such a refreshing manner of filmmaking; like the storytellers of old, Palmer provides the audience with just enough information to paint their own picture. Setting the audience free to imagine is something that has been lost on many directors who seem to believe that the faster the edits the more story they can tell. Palmer provides an alternative that might be likened to Impressionism, just enough information to discover the images and revel in the light. What is most evident from watching “Origins”
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is that Oklahoma is primed to become an important mecca of Indigenous filmmaking. Between Palmer’s carefully composed film and the recent acclaim merited by Sterlin Harjo and Sunrise Tippeconie, among others, the Indigenous filmmaking community in Oklahoma is just beginning to hit a stride. To see samples of Jeffrey Palmer’s work: http://vimeo.com/user2833074 Heather Ahtone (Choctaw/Chickasaw) is the James T. Bialac Assistant Curator of Native American and Non-Western Art at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma.
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> INDIAN GAMING 2014 > San Diego, CA > National Indian Gaming Association Chairman Ernie Stevens, Jr. (right) addresses the crowd at the opening ceremony of the annual conference Trade Show and Marketplace. “This tradeshow encompasses so much of our lives, and a strong part of that is showcasing our culture,� said Chairman Stevens. Chairman Stevens celebrated the opening of the trade show with (left to right) actor Adam Beach, CEO of IGT Patti Hart, basketball great A.C. Green, retired U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Olympic champion Denean Howard-Hill, Hall of Fame boxer Virgil Hill and rodeo announcer Ray Champ. > >
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> INDIAN GAMING 2014 > San Diego, CA > The annual meeting, conference and trade show of the National Indian Gaming Association is the premier indian gaming industry event of the year. Tribal leaders, gaming and facilities vendors, craftspeople and celebrities gather for three days of commerce, culture and education. “We are here to teach, learn and develop our communities to be our very best. Our cultural heritage, our ancient songs and our dances accomplish that and more, as our ways of life are integral to the success to our future generations,� said NIGA Chairman Ernie Stevens, Jr. >
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