Dreamcatcher 059 Aug 2014

AMERICAN INDIAN NATIONS CULTURE+EVENTS

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059 How To Say: Hello ...7 Gatherings

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Houser Celebration ...11 Osage Elections

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We Remember

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Artist Molly Murphy ...15

Oklahoma Casinos & Entertainment Oklahoma Indian ...20 Gaming 2014 Blackjack Book Review

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> American Indian Exposition Come and enjoy contest dancing, a carnival, parades, dance contests, pageants, a fry bread contest, arts & crafts.

Thursday thru Saturday August 6-9 Caddo County Fairgrounds http://www.americanindianexposition.org

Cherokee Heritage Center, 1192 S Keeler Dr Saturday August 9, 10:00 to 3:00 Contact Tonia Weavel at 918-456-6007 x6161 or email tonia-weavel@cherokee.org

Other Heritage Center Events http://www.cherokeeheritage.org

> Wichita Annual Dance

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Contest Pow Wow Thursday thru Sunday August 14-17 Wichita Tribal Park http://wichitatribe.com/culture/annual-dancecommittee.aspx

> Pow Wow of Champions

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08.10.1680 POPEÉ (TEWA) LEADS THE PUEBLO REBELLION

> Indian Nations Pow Wow Traditional dancers in full regalia, crafts, food, sports, traditional singing, gourd dancing, dance and drum contests.

Concho Pow Wow Grounds Weekend of June 27-29 Call 405-476- 1134 > >

OKLAHOMA CITY > Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association Annual Meeting and Trade Show Monday thru Wednesday, August 11-13

Cox Convention Center http://www.oiga.org > OKC Indian Clinic’s Anniversary Celebration Powwow Monday thru Wednesday, August 11-13

OK State Fairgrounds http://www.okcic.com

TULSA Annual gathering hosted by the Intertribal Indian Club of Tulsa featuring arts & crafts, traditional & contemporary jewelry, artwork, pottery, clothing, books, music & food.

Monday thru Wednesday, Weekend of August 8-10

ORU Mabee Center, 7777 S Lewis Ave http://www.iicot.org > >

SANTA FE, NM > Indigenous Fine Art Market A celebration of native art born out of a positive movement by artists who want a voice in how their market is produced, featuring quality artwork and cultural performances representing tribal diversity.

Wendesday thru Saturday August 20-23.

Santa Fe Railyard http://www.indigefam.org

> Santa Fe Indian Market A rare opportunity to meet the artists and learn about contemporary Indian arts and cultures. Most events are free and open to the public.

Week of August 18-24 Warious venues throughout Santa Fe http://www.swaia.org

Send us details or photos of your Gathering: edit@dreamcatchermag.net

GATHERINGS

MONTEREY, CA

LABOR DAY FESTIVALS

> Ohlon Costanoan Esselen Gathering

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Storytelling, crafts and music; not a pow wow.

Friday August 8 Contact Louise Miranda 408-629-5189 or http://www.ohlonecostanoanesselennation.org

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RADIO > 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 > >

WWW > 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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> Ottowa Pow Wow This annual event is hosted by the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma, and continues the tradition of holding no contest dancing—relax, dance and have fun!

Camping space and electrical hook-ups. Free.

August 30 thru September 1 Adawe Park, 11400 S 613 Rd http://www.ottawapowwow.com

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TALEQUAH > Cherokee National Holiday With an exciting array of entertainment, cultural and athletic events, this is one of the largest festivals in Oklahoma, attracting more than 100,000 visitors from across the world. The inter-tribal pow wow is always a crowd favorite.

Talequah Cultural Grounds and other area venues July 29-31 http://www.cherokee.org/AboutTheNation/ NationalHoliday

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TUSHKAHOMA > Choctaw Nation Labor Day Festival Come to this September festival to learn about Choctaw traditions and tribal customs and enjoy tribal heritage activities, cultural exhibitions, demonstrations of primitive weaponry, traditional and contemporary sporting events, arts and crafts, food, free concerts by national stars (bring your own lawn chair) and carnival rides.

Choctaw Nation Capital Grounds August 29 thru September 1 http://www.choctawnation.com/news-room/events/

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> Celebration of the 100th anniversary of Allan Houser’s birth continues with these exhibitions:

> Oklahoma City: Will Rogers Airport 7100 Terminal Dr OK State Capitol 2300 N Lincoln Blvd OK History Center 800 Nazih Zuhdi Dr Stillwater: OSU Museum of Art Postal Plaza Gallery 720 S Husband St For more information: http://www.okhouser.org

> > Opposite: Osage Inauguration Osage Casino Ponca City

> Congressman Tom Cole (top right) was the keynote speaker at the inauguration of Geoffrey Standing Bear (bottom right) as Principal Chief of the Osage Nation.

Also taking the oath of office were Assistant Principal Chief Raymond Red Corn, members of the Osage Supreme Court and the Osage Congress.

Singing Heart Allan Houser; photograph by Peter Vitale

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> Excerpted from a message to the Choctaw Nation from Chief Gregory E. Pyle

> As I walked carefully down my drive during the last bout of freezing weather [of the season] I thought of the steps made by our ancestors on the Trail of Tears. We read of the hardships and the disease, hunger and death along the trail. It is difficult for us to fully comprehend everything they endured. ¶ The Choctaw Nation’s commemorative Trail of Tears Walk is held annually to honor those who died along the way and the men, women and children who survived to begin a new life. ¶ This year’s Trail of Tears Walk will end at Wheelock Academy. The grass will be green and the small lake behind Pushmataha Hall will reflect the tall trees surrounding the water. It’s a peaceful location, and will come alive again that day with hundreds of people exploring the campus. ¶ It’s a time to follow our ancestors’ path, a day for fellowship, and an opportunity to learn more about the history of the Choctaw Nation.

WE REMEMBER

Courtesy Choctaw Nation

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D E L I CAT E S E E D S : T H E A R T O F M O L LY M U R P H Y A DA M S

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by heather ahtone

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HE TRADITION of stringing beads amongst Native American communities, which

started with shells and pearls, has been an important manner of material decoration and personal adornment ever since it began around 750 A.D. Still a matter of pride amongst tribal people, beadwork is often done in the intimate spaces of a home and for the personal use of family and friends. There are a few, though, who have taken this art form and transcended the boundaries of tradition, elevating the form into a medium marketable in the finest of art

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galleries. With award winners like Jackie Larson Bread, Marcus Amerman, Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty, and Emil Her Many Horses the tradition has a strong foundation that continues to foster innovations. One of those bridging the tradition into new expressions is Molly Murphy Adams (b. 1977; NTA Oglala Lakota).

> Adams began her art training at a very young age, initially learning beadwork and sewing from her mother. She went on to earn a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Montana and served as Artist-in-Residence at several arts organizations that kept her near her home community. Her work “Six Horses Counting Blanket” (2004) was included in the exhibition “Changing Hands 2: Art Without Reservations” produced by the New York Museum of Art and Design. Born and raised in Montana, Adams moved from Missoula to Tulsa a few years ago seeking new opportunities. Since arriving in Oklahoma, she has continued to actively exhibit and work on commissions that draw from those early skills and a very curious mind.

> > ORKING IN a tradition with such timehonored history, skill is as important as artistic vision. Adams does not run short on either, stitching the tiny beads to create compositions that are as smart as they are beautiful. In “Body/Continent” (2009), a commission by Harborview Hospital, King County, Washington, Adams was responding to the “request to provide an atmosphere of welcome and comfort while illustrating medical concepts.” Using the landscape of the Northwest as a reference, which in local tribal creation stories is often described as the body of a woman, Adams compared the human circulatory system through undulating lines in the upper sections to the geologic river system in the lower section. Between these two critical flow systems are the angular lines of the Rocky Mountains and the tipi lodges, rising and falling like the readings of a heart monitor. Each landscape is

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bounded within a circle that holds a care­fully balanced sky of stars and birds over a landscape of mountains, hills, and plains within which the lodges sit breeching between earth and sky. Positioned as a diptych, the two panels physically create a divide, a visual interpretation of the Continental Divide, marking the threshold of space and cultures which pveople move through when entering the hospital. Adams wrote on her website, “I hope my work brings a sense of welcome and comfort for families visiting Harborview Hospital.”

> > HE SEVER AL overt responses to the request for “an atmosphere of welcome and comfort” belie the subtle nuances that Adams has incorporated. Each panel is superficially the extension

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of the other, but the details within each provide glimpses to Adams’ unique vision. In the left panel, along the lower border of the ground plane upon which the lodges rest flows a stream of abstracted fish; on the right panel, the same flow is made of buffalo hoof prints. Working as mirror opposites, the blood flow shifts between the blue and the red as the undulating lines form the traditional designs symbolizing the flow of water, curving in and out across the top of the panels against a black background. Just below is the night sky with beaded four-pointed stars almost twinkling as a gracefully flowing Milky Way is formed by the tiniest beads individually attached to the dark blue background. The sky transitions from night to day on bands of lighter blue fabric that connect to meet the pointed green tops of the mountains. The mountains are pushed into the distance, cleverly creating a sense of space by a row of gently flowing hills in a olive green cloth. The sandy-colored ground plane forms the nearest portion of the landscape, with three lodges on each panel. All six lodges are each individually identifiable in both color and design. The river systems, easily read as much as water as lightning, vibrate across the lower area of the panel in white against a red background. The outside edges of each panel are finished with ribbon and dangling beads, treating even the finishing touches as the most refined of surfaces.

The overall composition is a delight, inviting the viewer to look ever closer at the details invested in the overall composition.

> Every piece that Adams constructs is treated with the same attention to detail and delicacy. It is not unusual for her to build a box, decorating both the interior and exterior with the same level of attention. On a small octagonal sewing box titled “She Sews a Flight of Fancy” (2009) that holds fully beaded cases for the needle cushion and the scissors, as well as a needle case, Adams covered the surface with birds, both realistic and abstracted. A woodpecker flies around with a male and female blue jay and a sparrow. Every

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edge is treated with a row of traditional beadwork designs. Each of the eight panels is beaded to feature a realistic bird in flight or is alternated with a traditional motif that symbolizes the birds, all using the same blue color palette on red cloth background. The interior is covered with traditional cloth ribbon work, utilizing a blue the color of a bright summer sky. The overall presentation defies the utilitarian nature of the box, but carries forward in an original presentation a tradition of making objects beautiful that has survived from prehistory into the twenty-first century.

> > DAMS CONTINUES to push the boundaries of form and the limits of beadwork, through the ongoing demand of commissions, such as the untitled purse shown here. In addition to the depictions

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of nature, Adams sees a relationship between the traditional abstract beadwork designs that she learned as a child and the abstraction of scientific information into visual graphs and illustrations. Last year, for an exhibition hosted as part of an international conference on water at the University of Oklahoma, Adams beaded the various states of water: gaseous, liquid, and solid. Each small panel utilized the same palette of silver blue beads showing the active state of water molecules, as if each were a glass slide viewed under a microscope. She also has beaded the Periodic Table of Elements, which hangs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she was the 2013 Great Plains Artist-in-Residence.

> What is most evident about Molly Murphy Adams’ art is that her commitment to making each piece exquisite and thoughtful continues unabated.

As she expands her own interests to include functional beaded QR codes and other contemporary visual designs, she continues to exceed any expectations.

Perhaps that is the most striking aspect of viewing her beadwork, that there are always unexpected details that delight and spur interest in what she might create next. More information on Molly Murphy Adams is available at her website; she also has work for sale on Etsy including beautifully crafted earrings, bracelets, and ornaments. In addition to her ongoing market demands, Adams continues to develop commissions that allow her to expand the scale and scope of her craft. One can only imagine what her next big project will involve.

> http://mollymurphybeads.com

> > heather ahtone (Choctaw/Chickasaw) is a curator and writer living in Norman, OK. She 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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> OKLAHOMA IN DIAN GAMING 2014 > Cox Convention Center OKC > Oklahoma City will be the center of the casino universe in August when Tribal leaders, gaming and facilities vendors gather for the 20th Annual Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association Conference and Trade Show.

Conferees will network, attend educational sessions, discuss the industry, and check out the latest in casino equipment and technology. Since legalizing tribal casinos in 2004, Oklahoma has grown to the third-biggest state in gaming revenue in the country among states with legalized casinos (after Nevada and California) and it is the second-largest market for Indian gaming. According to Sheila Morago, Executive Director of OIGA, “Those attending get the best training available. Last year we had 95 speakers from across the country on the training panels and they get to see the newest technology available on the market.”

OIGA 2014

> Tribal Gaming Exclusivity Fees (2006-present)

> Data showing the amount of exclusivity fees collected by the State of Oklahoma.

The fees are paid on a monthly basis by compacted tribes for the exclusive right to operate compacted gaming.

> 2006 $ 14,233,539 2007 $ 46,824,163 2008 $ 81,423,554 2009 $105,586,890 2010 $118,214,261 2011 $122,237,727 2012 $123,872,079 2013 $128,097,759 2014 $122,621,630 Source: https://data.ok.gov

> > In addition to direct fees paid to the state, tribes provide a positive fiscal impact on the state in the form of direct services provided both to tribal members and nonmembers living in their respective service areas.

These are financial burdens that, in the absence of tribal governement assistance, the State of Oklahoma would be obligated to provide.

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BOOK REVIEW

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and other blackjack endeavors : finding profit and humor in card - counting >

By Glen Wiggy iUniverse, 232 pages ISBN-10: 1475945647

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so boring that the lessons gleaned are barely worth the read. This book, however, is full of tales that balance humor with education. Part how-to manual, part memoir, 1536 Free Waters and Other Blackjack EndeavorsFinding Profit and Humor in Card-Counting chronicles Wiggy’s amusing experiences while playing blackjack

during more than eight hundred casino visits from January 2001 thru May2008. It also introduces blackjack card-counting in a fun, easy-to-learn format.

> Glen Wiggy was born in Midwest City, the son of the golf pro and seasoned gambler. He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy and had a twenty-year career as an Air Force officer including duties as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and a Scientific Analyst. He has a BS in mathematics from the Air Force Academy, an MBA from Boston University, and an MS in mathematics from the University of Arizona. His approach is that of a statistician; the book won’t teach you how to “kill” the dealer or make a living playing the game. You will learn basic strategy and introductory card-counting skills that give you enough confidence to approach the table with a positive attitude and reasonable expectation of winning.

> “I originally started card-counting because I wanted to make a few dollars,” he says. “Then, I started noticing all these funny things. I would notice strange things other players did, the superstitions people have.

It turns out that winning and losing wasn’t the biggest thing; it was how much fun I was having.” That’s the lesson of the book: the pleasure is in the journey.

> Glen Wiggy has many comments and stories on http://blackjackstories.com/author/glenwiggy

Undoubtedly, the most enjoyable blackjack book I’ve read in my 20 years as the editor of a gambling publishing company. It had me laughing out loud.

Deke Castleman, Huntington Press

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