Indigenous Arts

November 12, 2009 by Steve

A Native critique of American life, featuring the best of Indian Country Today's editorials and perspectives since 2000. Contemporary Native thinkers and writers meet the dominant issues in both Indian and non-Indian public life head-on in this unique publication. The book is a must-read for anyone who needs a contemporary view of the major issues affecting tribal communities across the country.

Available from Indian Country Today.

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April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 33 pages. International Funders for Indigenous Peoples, P.O. Box 1040, Akwesasne, NY, 13655, 518-358-9500, www.internationalfunders.org

http://sites.google.com/site/cagcircle/docs/allmyrelationsoct162008.pdf

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September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 326 pages. Published by New Village Press, PO Box 3049 Oakland, CA, 94609, 
(510) 420-1361, www.newvillagepress.net

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September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

Tell about the South. What's it like there? What do they do there? Why do they live there? Why do they live at all?

— William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom

The American South is a geographical entity, a historical fact, a place in the imagination, and the homeland of an array of Americans who consider themselves southerners. The region is often shrouded in romance and myth, but its realities are as intriguing, as intricate, as its legends.

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August 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 103 pages. University of New South Wales Press Ltd, Sydney, Australia www.unswpress.com.au (publisher); Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Paddington NSW (sponsor). Available through Hopkins Fulfillment Services, University of Washington Press, (800) 537-5487

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May 31, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

Crossing Borders and Boundaries was the theme of the GFE Conference in 2007, and shortly after the GFE and GIA conferences and the Arts and Education Weekend, I left for a trip to Asia including visits to Thailand, Cambodia, and Hong Kong. The GFE conference underscored the fact that one of the most important skills needed now is to be globally literate, which is pretty much being neglected in schools at the moment.

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October 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

When funders move into indigenous communities they tread a very fine line. On one side of the line they have a duty to undertake sufficient investigation to ensure that they properly understand a funding request and their own role in relation to it. On the other side, obtaining the information may conflict with the ability to acknowledge and give appropriate respect to the applicant's indigenous culture and its bounds.

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August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin

2006, 256 pages. The Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, 108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe, NM 87501, 505-983-8900

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August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin
For decades the prolific Jack Loeffler has attended to the sounds of New Mexico—sounds from nature, conversation, song, and storytelling—while also hanging out with its legendary iconoclasts and characters. Loeffler's extensive recordings, chronicles, and transcriptions have contributed to the revival of the traditional music of New Mexico. We invited Loeffler to steep us in the place through his medium of sound.
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August 31, 2007 by giarts-ts-admin
Early in our research on New Mexico, we were encouraged to look at its crops and cuisines for insight into how different cultures in the state have both come together and retained distinct traditions over centuries. In reading, we came across Ancient Agriculture, a text by Gabriel Alonso de Herrera that first appeared in Spain in the sixteenth century and later traveled from the old world to the new, influencing how agriculture is practiced in New Mexico today.
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