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the federal government rounded up the Cherokees and other tribes in the Southeast, some Native people escaped and created their own community. Nearly 200 years after the Trail of Tears, Author LeAnne Howe (Choctaw) visits the Eastern Band of Cherokee in North Carolina to discover how tourism, community and cultural preservation are the keys in maintaining the tribe's health and prosperity in the 21st Century.

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Documentary on Native American

Polka Music Debuts on PBS in April

Among the swaying giant arms of the saguaro cactus and clouds of dust that drift along isolated roads in southern Arizona is a soothing rhythm, a sound so distinct and stimulating that it arouses both the heart and soul.

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tribal members have made the mixture of accordions, saxophones and percussion all their own.

Taken from the word baila, which means dance in Spanish, Akimel and Tohono people have created waila, a form of music that embodies polka, waltz and Mexican music, tejano, cumbias and Norteno, creating a vibrant, whimsical tone.

The history of the music and its founding fathers are the subject of a new documentary for public television, Waila! Making the People Happy, a co-production of Daniel Golding and the Independent Television Service. The film was produced in association with Eight/KAET and Native American Public Telecommunications.

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We Shall Remain Screenings Throughout the U.S.; Get a Sneak Peak of the PBS Series

Get a sneak peak at the series that explores 300 years of Native American history in America. Screenings of American Experience's five-part We Shall Remain series are scheduled in Arizona, Connecticut, Indiana, New Mexico, Utah, Texas, Washington and many more states. Other screening include a showcase of amateur filmmakers in the the ReelNative project.

To find out if a screening is taking place in your community, go to the We Shall Remain's website and click on Local Events.

Don't see an event in your area? Contact your public library. Libraries across the country have received We Shall Remain event kits.

NAPT has provided funding for the series and served as an adviser. We Shall Remain will debut on PBS' American Experience on April 13.

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Coming to PBS'

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Starts April 13

American Experience

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PRESENTS:

WE SHALL REMAIN

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Five 90-minute documentaries spanning 300 years tell the story of pivotal moments in U.S. history from the Native American perspective:

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In 1621, the Wampanoag of New England negotiated a treaty with Pilgrim settlers.

A half-century later, as a brutal war flared between the English and a confederation of Indians, this diplomatic gamble seemed to have been a grave miscalculation.

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In the course of his brief and meteoric career, Tecumseh would become one of the greatest Native American leaders of all time, orchestrating the most ambitious pan-Indian resistance movement ever mounted on the North American continent.

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Though the Cherokee embraced "civilization" and won recognition of tribal sovereignty in the U.S. Supreme Court, their resistance to removal from their homeland failed.

Thousands were forced on a perilous march to Oklahoma.

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As the leader of the last Native American fighting force to capitulate to the U.S.

government, Geronimo was seen by some as the perpetrator of unspeakable savage cruelties, while to others he was the embodiment of proud resistance.

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In 1973, American Indian Movement activists and residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation occupied the town of Wounded Knee, demanding redress for grievances. As a result of the siege, Indians across the country forged a new path into the future.

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We encourage you to tune in tonight, to your local PBS channel at 9PM EST to watch the first episode of a American Milestone within the public media and television...

WE SHALL REMAIN is a Native American historical  journey  from the onset of the "settlement" and then forward moving into the present...giving you 5 weeks to finally see our history as it unfolded from the native American perspective...

Please do watch this program as it is futile for the inhabitants of this land to understand that its indigenous people are still here, and it is thru their blood, tears, shattered lifes and continueing struggle their undying tenacity that this nation came to be...

WE SHALL REMAIN ON PBS BEGINNING TONIGHT!!!

WIFE SWAP, ABC'S HIT PRIMETIME SHOW, SEEKS SUPERSTAR FAMILIES OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS!

The premise of Wife Swap is that one parent from each household swaps places for a week to experience how another family lives.  It is an incredible family experience and opportunity to both learn and teach different family values.

Wife Swap is a fascinating story of what happens when two couples see themselves and their partners in a whole new light. The New York Post says, "It should be called 'Life Swap' because it's not just the wives who learn something here. It's the families."

Potential families can live anywhere in the United States, but we ask that families applying for the show consist of two parents and have at least one child, age 7 or older, living at home. Specifically, I'm looking for families of independent film makers!  If you, along with your family, are hustling in the independent film scene, then I want to talk to you! To submit for the show please email a family photo and description to: gaby.wifeswap@gmail.com.

Each family that tapes an episode of Wife Swap receives a financial honorarium as compensation for their time.   Anyone who refers a family that appears on our program receives $1000 as a 'thank you' from us. 

If you are a family unit (two parents and children between the ages of 7 and 17) who love an adventure, I would love to hear from you today! Also, please feel free to send this casting along to any families you feel would be appropriate!

More information is available at: http://abc.go.com/primetime/wifeswap.

Radio Project Brings Modern Voices to History Series

It was only 20 years ago when poet, professor and musician Joy Harjo went to a gathering to discuss the Columbus quincentenary and heard an indigenous Bolivian woman say she was stunned to discover indigenous people still existed in the U.S. and Canada.

"She stood up and said, 'We all welcome you and we're really surprised to see you and so many people from North America because'--and she wasn't joking--'we all thought that John Wayne had killed all of you," Harjo (Muscogee) said.

As the series We Shall Remain using such imagery debuts on PBS' American Experiencetonight, a companion radio piece also rolls out today, which Native people say works to balance the historic visuals with sounds and conversation from contemporary people and culture--the remain part in We Shall Remain.

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The five-part We Shall Remain series, a look at 300 years of Native American history in America, airs April 13. NAPT served as a funder and an advisor for the American Experience series.

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VisionMaker Video Youth Video Contest Starts April 15

VisionMaker Video, a product of NAPT, will start accepting online entries for the Youth VisionMaker Video Contest on April 15.

VisionMaker Video/NAPT seeks to engage today's youth by aiding in the development of their storytelling abilities through video. Contestants will produce a short video that relates to this year's theme: "Youth Choices, Elder Voices." The contest is open to legal residents of the U.S. and its territories who are 14-21 years of age at the time of entry. There is no entry fee.

The top five videos will be screened at the biennial VisionMaker Film Festival Oct.

30-Nov. 5 in Lincoln, Neb. The VisionMaker Film Festival is a showcase of Native American documentaries and feature films.

Deadline to enter is Sept. 1.

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Native Sounds-Native Voices Special Spring Programming

Native Sounds-Native Voices is rolling out the special programming this spring in honor of great events in Indian Country. The following shows will air on the all-Native online radio network, AIROS.org. Check AIROS.org for times:

* Gathering of Nations - 4/17-4/25

* Earth Day - 4/21-/4/24

* Waila/Chicken scratch - 4/28-5/9

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Battling high unemployment, dropouts and teenage pregnancy, the Oklahoma Cherokee community of Cherry Tree said they had enough and started on a project to build a baseball field to illustrate how a grassroots effort can make a difference.

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Producer Dan Golding (Quechan) makes his public television station debut this spring with a form of music the O'odham Nations have made all their own. Mixing polka and Mexican tejano and cumbias, the O'odham have created waila, more commonly known as "chicken scratch," in southern Arizona.

Waila! Making the People Happy is slated to air on some PBS stations May 4 after Geronimo, part four of American Experience's new series on 300 years of Native American History, We Shall Remain.

We Shall Remain begins April 13.

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GaiaTv Earth Day Live Broadcast

GAIAPOD LAUNCHES EARTH FRIENDLY BROADCAST ON EARTH DAY APRIL 22, 2009
GAIA TV visits the Largest Native American Gathering; Celebration of Music, Art & Culture:
The Gathering of Nations Powwow
Albuquerque, NM - April 2, 2009 - GAIAPOD Launches it's website at GAIAPOD.COM on Earth Day, April 22, 2009.
GAIAPOD.COM offers multiple channels focused on Earth/Eco Sustainability and Native American Culture. Music
videos are featured from artists in both the Eco or GREEN arena and Native America. GAIAPOD honors Native America
and indigenous people as caretakers of the Earth Mother and the worlds first GREEN living people.
The main channel is GAIA TV, produced by GAIAPOD. GAIA TV is an ongoing broadcast featuring the newest in clean
energy products, sciences, discoveries, and GREEN culture. On Earth Day at 12:00 pm Mountain Time, GAIA TV will go
LIVE with a special audio visual web cast performed by New Mexico VJ/DJ act DJ TRIBE. Their Earth Day performance
is their artistic gift for the Earth, GAIA!.
Also, GAIA TV will be attending the world's largest gathering of Native American and indigenous people. The event will
take place in Albuquerque, NM between April 23 and 25, 2009 at The 26th Annual Gathering of Nations, the most
prominent Native American powwow in the world. Many of the artists as well as the event itself have been making
GREEN efforts to reduce their carbon footprint and GAIA TV intends to share their story with their audience.
If you'd like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with GAIAPOD, please call Pony Vigil at
505-508-3948 or e-mail Pony at electricbrave@gmail.com

If you know of any tribal teens (ages 15-19) that are interested in fine art, please pass this info on and also consider sending your child to participate, the "Journeys In Creativity" summer art camp program. Camp begins August 9th thru August 22nd.

The camp is completely free and is specifically tailored for Native American teens who are thinking about art, art school or an art profession in the future.  The application deadline is June 3^rd.  So please forward on, and contact us directly to receive a brochure and application!

Thank you,

Shirod Younker

Art Program Manager

A. Susana Santos "Journeys in Creativity" Program

Oregon College of Art & Craft

8245 SW Barnes Rd

Portland, OR  97225

503.297.5544 x148

syounker@ocac.edu

CBS Entertainment is now accepting applications for year seven of the CBS Diversity Institute's Writers Mentoring Program for the 2009-2010 Season.

The submission period for this next session is earlier this year and runs from March 1, 2009 thru May 1, 2009.

The deadline for 2009-2010 submissions is May 1, 2009.

Additional information and application materials can be accessed at: www.cbsdiversity.com

WRITERS MENTORING PROGRAM
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR
THE 2009 - 2010 SESSION

Applications are now being accepted for the seventh session of the CBS Diversity Institute's Writers Mentoring Program. Please note the submission period is earlier this year, March 1, 2009 - May 1, 2009.

The Writers Mentoring Program helps aspiring writers to break in and move up in the business. Each participant is matched with two mentors - one is a senior level writer/producer on a CBS or CW primetime series, the other is a CBS, CW or Paramount TV creative executive. Participants meet regularly with their mentors for advice and support on improving their writing skills as well as career advice and guidance.

With a total of 33 graduates in its first five years, the Program has launched 17 careers in episodic television.

The primary focus of CBS' Diversity Institute Writers Mentoring Program is to provide access and networking opportunities for talented and motivated diverse writers - with a focus on writers of color. The program is based in Los Angeles. It begins in September 2009 and runs through May 1, 2010.

The Writers Mentoring Program is not employment and there is no monetary compensation. It is, instead, a structured program of career development, support, and personal access to executives and decision-making processes; with the goal of preparing aspiring writers for later employment opportunities in television.

For more information and an application visit  http://www.cbsdiversity.com/.

Happy Earthday EVERYONE!!!

Lone Eagle Consulting's Free Online Resources

Teaching Everyone to be Both Learner and Teacher, Both Consumer and Producer

Click through these resources at http://lone-eagles.com/miba2009.htm

 

The FCC Lone Eagle Broadband Training Best Practices Web Site
U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Native American Division has posted broadband training best practices http://lone-eagles.com/best.htm on their www.fcc.gov/indians site (listed as Examples of Broadband Training Best Practices) in their Internet Resources listing: http://www.fcc.gov/indians/internetresources/     With a new FCC chairman anticipated and a new President we can expect to see a lot of innovation related to Broadband and Social Media.

America's Historic Challenge to Fund Mass Innovation
http://lone-eagles.com/getitright.htm  Submitted April 13m, 2009
Input regarding NTIA/BTOP and USDA/RUS stimulus program effectiveness with emphasis on  
Broadband Best Practices for Sustainable Families. See NCAI's listing of stimulus funding for tribes at http://www.indiancountryworks.org/tribal_stimulus.cfm

A Template Proposal for a Train-the-Trainers Web-Raising Event
Create Free Ecommerce websites for all tribal and individual businesses
Click through the Online Web Tour: http://lone-eagles.com/web-raising.htm        

The 21st Century Learn, Earn, and Serve Academy:
An Alaskan Native Youth Project Adaptable for Montana Immediately: All lessons and media are online and open to the public.  http://lone-eagles.com/workforce101.htm  Resources include a blog, http://www.loneeagleacademy.com/ a wiki, http://nativehearts.pbwiki.com, a youtube channel, www.youtube.com/fodasz  and a Ning social network, http://loneeagleacademy.ning.com/ . A wide array of new media applications and presentations are planned. The first lesson contains links to multiple alternative Ecommerce curriculums (SBA) and much more. We are using Google Groups for the private interaction for the class while showcasing the best integrated Google tools so youth can teach the course to others, and learn to create their own Instructional Entrepreneurship businesses.

Making the Living You Want, Living Wherever You Want.

The BIG opportunity is to identify broadband training best practices so Alaskan Native villages and all Native communities can be revitalized using broadband. Currently, even those villages with broadband are suffering serious out-migration. The Lone Eagle Train-the-Trainers program for Alaskan Native youth on state-of-the-art broadband entrepreneurship is underway in Alaska.

 

Articles, Grant Templates, and Resources

The Rural Broadband Challenge: Use It - Alaskan Native Projects, Issues, and Opportunities http://matr.net/article-32886.html Lone Eagle's published response to challenges as to whether rural broadband can produce jobs.

Wanted: Broadband and Broader Minds   (See the Navajo Youth Chocolate Success Story ) http://www.dailyyonder.com/wanted-broadband-and-broader-minds 
Rural Telework, Youth E-entrepreneurship, and rural broadband benefits.

What's Broadband Done for You, Lately? A Primer on What IS Broadband.
http://www.dailyyonder.com/whats-broadband-done-you-lately/2009/03/31/2033

Health I.T, Rural Broadband, and Common Sense
http://lone-eagles.com/natoahealthodasz.pdf
Combining connectivity and caring with common sense to produce the authenticity of widespread citizen engagement is where the promise of broadband best meets rural needs.

Lone Eagle Grant Templates:
 http://lone-eagles.com/rural-grant-templates.htm

A Proposal for a Montanan Statewide Digital Inclusion Program
 based on one online course  http://lone-eagles.com/montanan-innovations.htm

Rural "Greencollar" Workers:
http://lone-eagles.com/meda2008.htm
Resources for the Montana Economic Development Association  

The Indigenous Commission for Communications Technologies in the Americas
http://www.iccta-citca.org/    The Guatemala trip report http://lone-eagles.com/guatemala.htm
Joe Garcia, president of NCAI is a commissioner representing U.S. Tribes and attended the founding meeting in Antigua, Guatemala, March 2007.

Two Graduate Online Courses for Alaskan Educators taught by Lone Eagle Consulting for the last ten years via the Alaska Staff Development Network and Alaska Pacific University include the following listing of final projects by teachers in these classes  http://lone-eagles.com/teachercreated.htm  For example: Renee Estelle's online course for students to create their own electronic portfolios http://eportfoliocourse.bravehost.com/ 

Click on this link:  "Frank Odasz" for a quick "visual search engine" ( http://www.searchme.com/ ) overview of the volume of online resources offered online without restriction by Lone Eagle Consulting. Select "Search All."  Try searching using keywords, Native, Alaskan, Ecommerce.
Try using keywords: Native, Alaska, Ecommerce, Community, Youth, etc..

Founded by the Oneida Indian Nation, Four Directions Media was charged with achieving excellence in every endeavor. The people at Four Directions are diverse in talent and background, and excel at delivering your message.

Working with diversity groups at NBC Universal, Fox Entertainment and Disney ABC, we work together to increase employment opportunities for qualified American Indians. We also have joined with the Producers Guild of America to honor outstanding talent such as Maria Tallchief and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe to give up and coming students real world experience.

NBC Universal
Main Website: http://www.nbcuni.com/
Diversity Program: http://www.diversecitynbc.com/

Fox Entertainment
Main Website: http://www.fox.com/
Diversity Program: http://www.fox.com/diversity/

Disney ABC
Main Website: http://www.disneyabctv.com/
Talent Development: http://abctalentdevelopment.com/

Producers Guild of America
Main Website: http://www.producersguild.org/

Institute of American Indian Art
Main Website: http://www.iaiancad.org/

 

Four Directions Productions is a high end video, animation and multimedia production house, specializing in HD video, 3D animation, web and interactive projects. Our work includes a PSA with Graham Greene for Disney ABC and a tribute video for Maria Tallchief for the Producers Guild of America, an animated children's story and the website for the Oneida Indian Nation.

Four Directions Productions
4677 Route 5
Vernon, NY 13476
P: (315) 829-8810
F: (315) 829-8811

Indian Country Today is the Nations' Leading American Indian News Source, known for its award winning reporting, incisive analysis, and pointed commentary. In addition its weekly newspaper, ICT has expanded into web, magazines, books and podcasts.

Indian Country Today
3059 Seneca Turnpike
Canastota, NY 13032
P: 1-888-327-1013
E: editor@indiancountry.com
W: indiancountry.com

Standing Stone Records, a division of Four Directions Media, gives recording artists an alternative record label with an American Indian touch. The label has produces and distributes Jana, 2007 GRAMMY® Award nominee for "Best Native American Music Album" in the Folk Category and five-time Native American Music Award (NAMMY) winner.

Standing Stone Records
579 Main Street
Oneida, NY 13421
P: (315) 829-8388

Four Directions Talent brings American Indian actors, comedians, directors, models, singers and writers to the attention of the entertainment industry. With the support of NBC Universal, Four Directions Media has created an internet database of established and up and coming American Indian talent.

Four Directions Talent
3059 Seneca Turnpike
Canastota, NY 13032
P: (315) 829-8375
E: marketing@fourdirectionstalent.com
W: fourdirectionstalent.com

First Allies is a historical production company with Revolutionary and Civil War living historians. Prop specialties include period artillery, firearms and uniforms.

 First Allies
579 Main Street
Oneida, NY 13421
P: (315) 829-8900

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Michelle R. Shining Elk

SHINING ELK ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

Telephone: 818.813.3701

Email: michelleshiningelk@gmail.com

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA - HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER DOCTOR BY DAY

AND AN AWARD-WINNING MUSICIAN EVERY CHANCE HE GETS

Darryl Tonemah, Ph.D, M.Ed aka Award-Winning Native Musician Tonemah Releases

Fifth CD "Ink Blots & Random Thoughts" at a CD Release Party in Norman, OK

"I remember sitting in the backseat of my parents' station wagon and hearing Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" for the first time. I was just a little boy, but that music stirred something in me. I knew right then that I needed to play music someday." --D. Tonemah

Norman, OK (April 27, 2009) -- Darryl Tonemah aka Tonemah had no idea that when he began writing songs while in college that several years later his singer/songwriting talent has lead him to hundreds of performances and garnered him award-nominations, radio, TV appearances, and awards. But it did! And now, four CDs later, Tonemah is poised to release his fifth CD "Inkblots & Random Thoughts" via an official CD release party, Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 7pm, at the Norman Santa Fe Depot, 200 South Jones Avenue, Norman, Oklahoma 73069.

No matter the number of degrees, awards or appearances, Tonemah still holds on to his small town Midwestern points-of-view that fuel his organic storytelling style; a storytelling style that has become his trademark.  Tonemah's life experiences of growing up on, and off, reservations coupled with his professional undertakings have given Tonemah a truly unique perspective that he brings to his songwriting. 

When talking about what prompted the making of his latest CD "Ink Blots and Random Thoughts" Tonemah stated, "I have had the blessing of seeing and experiencing a lot of things since the last CD ("Welcome to Your Rainy Day") -- some great, some heartbreaking, some funny -- I had started writing song ideas, and lines, and chord progressions, and drum patterns on pieces of paper I had in my pocket; somehow, they all managed to end up in the back seat of my car...when I couldn't fit anything else back there, I figured it was time to record. Which was great...now, I have a new CD AND a clean car!"

As with Tonemah's previous releases, "Ink Blots & Random Thoughts," possesses Tonemah's honest singing style with honest lyrics that cut to the heart of the matter: "It is a challenge trying to put everything I want to say or express into a three minute song. I wanted to write this CD more efficiently than in the past. I thought it was important that each line was significant. Kind of like a movie short. In a movie short everything on screen has some symbolic value. I used a lot of metaphors while writing this CD to get the most mileage from each line." 

Like his last CD, Tonemah made the trip to Nashville, TN to record "Ink Blots" allowing him to incorporate some of Nashville's finest session players and together they produced another truly heartfelt piece of music -- touching on feelings and experiences inherent in everyone. Tonemah is, at times; the Trickster; the son; the father; and, at times, the seeker - but he is always a storyteller. A storyteller, who offers meaning where the listener needs to find it. "In all the years I've performed with Darryl, one thing has always been evident, Darryl's songs touch people on a very personal level. You see it in their faces at every show. You hear it when they meet him afterward. People feel like they know him, and in a way they do." states Tonemah guitarist Ed Koban.

Tonemah has been receiving airplay in dozens of local markets throughout the US, Canada & even Alaska. A singer/songwriter in the purist sense, Tonemah combines the energy of rock, the intelligence of folk and the heart of country, to create a musical niche he calls, "Native Americana". In 2009 French record label, Dixie Frog Records, included the song "There's a Train" from the "Welcome to Your Rainy Day," as part of their compilation CD entitled, "Indian Reservation Blues," a multi-disc release that included other Native American Musicians.

Tonemah has three Bachelor's degrees and a Masters degree, as well as a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and Cultural Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His undergraduate degrees are in Psychology, Sociology and Gerontology, and his Master's degree is in Community Counseling. He's the director of the Health Promotion Program at the University of Oklahoma College of Continuing Education

Tonemah's' live shows, full band electric or an intimate acoustic set, always finds him connecting with his audience. Whether reaching out to Native youth through his many workshops & speaking engagements, or pouring it all out on stage and in the recording studio, Tonemah's personality always shines through. Tonemah co- producer Larry Pacheco says it best; "During a recording project the artist usually brings ego, attitude or talent to the table, and rarely honestly lays it all out on the line. Working with Darryl Tonemah was different, he brought himself".    

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