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U.N. Report Chastises U.S. for Status of Native Population

Carey L. Biron, News Report: “According to the most recent U.S. census statistics, a quarter of all Native Americans live in poverty and nearly a third lack health insurance, suffering from several health problems at far higher rates than the rest of the country. According to 2003 data, fewer than half of Native American youths were expected to graduate from high school. Such marginalization has led to rights abuses that advocates say have yet to be addressed by either the U.S. government – or, some suggest, by Anaya’s report.”



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Indian Summer

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Indian Summer Festival

The Indian Summer festival tells the real stories of Native Americans.

Milwaukee's Indian Summer festival offers storytelling

Photo courtesy of Indian Summer

The Indian Summer festival tells the real stories of Native Americans.

By Jackie Loohauis-Bennett of the Journal Sentinel

Sept. 5, 2012

When Indian Summer, one of the largest American Indian festivals in North America, takes over Maier Festival Park Friday through Sunday the storytelling visitors will hear won't be the Hollywood version.

"Stories to Tell" is the 2012 festival theme, and that's what Little Big Mountain and his partner, Laura Alcorn, will offer with their new "Once Upon a Time" Indian Summer presentation.


He also will teach visitors to say "Hello" in ways Hollywood scriptwriters ignore: "Sekoh" is "hello" in Mohawk; "Maruawe" means "greetings" in Comanche.


The "Native Words, Native Warriors" Smithsonian traveling exhibit also is new this year and explains how American Indians from tribes across the country used their languages in the service of the United States Armed Forces in World Wars I and II.

The Apache Crown Dancers will bring their traditional performances and stunning outfits to Indian Summer for the first time this year 

And visitors can revisit the ancient days of canoeing along Lake Michigan shores by taking a canoe ride, offered for the first time at Indian Summer.



Milwaukee's Indian Summer festival offers storytelling

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American Indian writers' conference in Milwaukee this week - JSOnline

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Poet and musician Joy Harjo is one of the “Returning the Gift” headliners.

By Jim Higgins of the Journal Sentinel

Sept. 3, 2012 8:17 p.m.

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UWM professor Kim Blaeser is the organizer of "Returning the Gift."

The first "Returning the Gift" conference of Native American writers, in Oklahoma in 1992, gave Kim Blaeser both a spiritual and professional boost as a writer. Now she's co-director of the 20th edition of the conference, which will bring both widely known and emerging writers and storytellers to Milwaukee from Wednesday through Sunday.

Because the conference is dovetailing with the Indian Summer festival at the lakefront, Milwaukeeans can catch many readings and performances for modest or even no cost.
Native literature wants to be both "affective and effective," "be beautiful and make change" in the world, said Blaeser, a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa who grew up on the White Earth Reservation.

That first conference led to a flurry of publishing and inspired such then-younger writers as Sherman Alexie, Blaeser pointed out.

Most conference events Wednesday and Thursday will take place at UWM's Hefter Conference Center, 3271 N. Lake Drive. The conference will feature panel discussions on writing from nature, indigenous languages in contemporary writing, working with Native youth through writing, and practical business-of-writing stuff. Conference co-director Jim Stevens, editor of the Yukhika-latuhse journal, will chair the panel "Music, Resistance, & Story: A Cornucopia of Wisconsin Writing" at 3:15 p.m. Thursday.

Conference registration at the door will be $125. Visit yukhika-latuhse.org for information.
The action moves to Indian Summer at the lakefront Friday through Sunday, with all those events included with regular Indian Summer admission.

Headliners Joy Harjo and Joseph Bruchac will give a public reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E. Locust St. Harjo, a leading poet and musician, will read from her new memoir "Crazy Brave." Bruchac is renowned for preserving and extending Native traditions through books, storytelling and music for both children and adults. Both writers were part of the first "Returning the Gift" conference. Admission is $8, $7 for students and seniors, $6 for Woodland Pattern members. Call (414) 263-5001.

Harjo will perform a poetry and music show at 7 p.m. Thursday at Marquette University's Weasler Auditorium, 1506 W. Wisconsin Ave.

Philip Red Eagle will show the documentary "Canoe Way: The Sacred Journey" both during the conference at UWM and 5:15 p.m. Sunday at Indian Summer.

Also at Indian Summer, Joseph and Jim Bruchac will give several presentations of "Animal Stories & Songs," and Blaeser will stage a set of three children's plays several times. A Native poetry slam competition begins at 8:30 p.m. Friday and 8:45 p.m. Saturday.

Blaeser also recommends seeing the Twin Cities-based New Native Theatre, which will perform comic sketches at 5:15 p.m. Saturday and 11:05 a.m. Sunday.
Download a complete schedule of "Returning the Gift" events at bit.ly/PDg3N7.

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Rules for Living

At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama issued eighteen rules for living:


1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

3. Follow the three Rs: 1. Respect for self 2. Respect for others 3. Responsibility for all your actions.

4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

8. Spend some time alone every day.

9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

15. Be gentle with the earth.

16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.

17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Quotes by famous folks

 
“Imagination is more important than knowledge”
- Albert Einstein


“To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge”
- Henry David Thoreau

 
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand”
- Albert Einstein
 


“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will”
- Vince Lombardi
 


“Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people”
- John Adams
 



“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge”
- Daniel J. Boorstin
 



American King James Version
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.
- Ecclesiastes 1:18


“Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind”
- Bertrand Russell
 


“There is no knowledge that is not power”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 


“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful”
- Samuel Johnson
 


“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination”
- Albert Einstein
 


“The only source of knowledge is experience”
- Albert Einstein
 


“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge”
- Albert Einstein
 


“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle”
- Khalil Gibran
 


“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information”
- T. S. Eliot
 


“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child”
- George Bernard Shaw
 


“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance”
- Socrates


“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life”
- Emmanuel Kant



“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers”
- Plato



“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness”
- George Santayana


“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education”
- Theodore Roosevelt


“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it”
- Thomas Fuller M.D.


“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge”
- Confucius


“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives”
- James Madison



“The great end of life is not knowledge but action”
- Thomas Henry Huxley



“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest”
- Benjamin Franklin




“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers”
- Alfred Tennyson




“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen”



“A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms—it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man”
- Albert Einstein

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