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Or a Different Kind of Cat More Or Less $$ to Alley The Alley Online! www.alleynews.org MayDay Parade and Pageant May 5th The Alley Keep up to date on is social! Twitter @HOBT @alleynewspaper “Rain and Snow?” May 12th NEWS & VIEWS OF PHILLIPS SINCE 1976 Listen to KFAI Radio 90.3 FM MAY 2013 • VOLUME 38, NUMBER 5 Seeds Planted “I’m Not Your 40 Years Ago 40 Indian Any More” BY DAVID O’FALLON In this age of disconnection, we seek each other. In our isolation, we 40 + Years of hunger for eyes to meet ours. Faced with problems and dangers that are, literally, world-size, we doubt our own strength to change energy M 40 History ם into creation rather than consumption, into collaboration rather than competition. Always some spark in each of us believes that we can. 40 has been a mark of time and BY LAURA WATERMAN WITTSTOCK From such sparks came the fire that glows and warms us now as In a symbol for centuries within the The American Indian Movement will open its first exhibit telling the the Heart of the Beast Theatre. myths, literature, and story-telling story of its history on May 10th at the All My Relations Gallery. Planning Wandering back into Minneapolis, 40 years ago, after travels and of many cultures--- often a time for the exhibit has been underway for months, as Executive Director studies from California to Pennsylvania to Vermont, I brought images of trial and tribulation endured Clyde Bellecourt and AIM’s board of directors worked to narrow down Seeds see page 8 because of hope for a better future. thousands of choices to a fraction of the holdings that depict the history It has often been only a figurative of the Movement. They chose a photographic exhibit, featuring the work measurement of time. Some see of Dick Bancroft, long known informally as the “AIM photographer,” it as a cycle of the world or the and Roger Woo, a photographer who worked in black and white in rhythm of cyclic repetitions of the AIM’s earliest years. Universe. Woo joined the AIM patrol in 1968, at the beginning of the organiza- The figure with the numeral tion’s formal activities. He took photographs of elders in Minneapolis 40 above is the 13th letter of the neighborhoods, some of the early pow wows and children at play. He Hebrew alphabet called Mem. It also represents 40 and Water. In the ancient script, the pictograph for Mem was drawn as a wavy line – – indicating waves of water and is evident in the Latin CLOSED M. When written at the end of a – ם – word, it takes the final form which is more square, and smooth like calm water. In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre is 40 years Laura Waterman Wittstock old. The 40th MayDay Parade and Harvey Winje Pageant will be next year. recorded the poor living conditions in the Indian community and stu- Sandy Spieler, HOBT Artistic Director, choreographs a MayDay In the Heart of the Beast has dents in schools and after school programs. Woo was born in Canton, Puppet’s bow on Kaplan Bros. Plaza after Kaplan Bros. clothing done exceptional dramatic and China and he came to Minneapolis as a youth, graduating from West store has “bowed-out” after 86 years. Kaplan Bros. and HOBT’s Avalon Theatre are across the street from each other at Lake St. educational work for 30 years High School and the University of Minnesota. He began his journalistic and 15th Ave. about the significance of water to career by following his curiosity and his heart, reaching out to popula- each individual and to the world. tions in need, just as he remembered those in his homeland China. The need for hard work “in the Dick Bancroft is a Minnesota native, who had an interest in photog- The Store That heart of the beast,” yes, even trial raphy since childhood. When he and his wife Debbie went to Africa, and tribulation, becomes obvious. Dick learned the power of capturing portrait images of people whose It is the focus on hope for “calm- personal dignity and humanity shown through in his photographs. When Worked for Working ing the water” in the future that he returned to Minnesota, he sought out other places and people he sustains the work and the celebra- could photograph and by happenstance came to be introduced to AIM in People Closes tion. St. Paul. He never left his subject, following the Movement throughout the U.S. and overseas. His collection of slides, photographs, and AIM BY CARSTENS SMITH posters numbers into the many thousands. Bancroft has put together People who work outside year round know where to find high-quality color photographs and slides from his association with AIM into a book, work clothes at a reasonable price. For decades, that place was Kaplan “We Are Still Here: A History of the American Indian Movement in Brothers, at 1414 East Lake. “Word of mouth was very good to us,” says Photographs,” co-authored by this writer, which chronicles the sweeping Jerry Kajander, one of the store’s owners. But even word of mouth and history of the Movement from 1970 to 1981, including some of the most a loyal customer base couldn’t keep the 86-year-old business alive after well-known events in the organization’s history. The book, published by a series of setbacks. The combined stresses of Lake Street construction, the Minnesota Historical Society Press will be released in May. a broken water pipe flooding the store and forcing a 4-month closing, In addition to the primary photographers’ work, several photographs and years of mild winters that lessened the demand for warm outdoor Clarasophia Gust by Kevin McKiernan, the only working journalist to issue reports from clothing, resulted in the current owners’ reluctant decision to close this inside Wounded Knee in 1973, and other photographers will be on past February. The flooded basement, which destroyed large amounts exhibit. An AIM patrol jacket, buttons, booklets, school literature, other of inventory and forced the store to be closed for four months, was the Walker Community Church documents and objects will be on display. th greatest factor influencing the owners’ decision. rises again out of the ground at The exhibit will feature traditional foods on May 10 and spiri- Kaplan Brothers came to East Lake Street in 1988. The original 31st Street and 16th Avenue 40 tual elder Edward Benton Banai will officiate at the exhibit opening. store was founded by Joseph and Jacob Kaplan in 1926 and located at weeks after it’s devastating fire Not your Indian see page 8 Kaplans see page 9 in 2012. Phillips Aquatic Tayler Hill All Big TEN MEMORIAL DAY Pioneers & Center Needs You & Drafted by MYSTICS at PIONEERS Soldiers Named Pg 5 of WNBA Pg 7 AND SOLDIERS BEST of TC by City CEMETERY Pages Pg 3 Monday, MAY 27 BackYard Initiative 10 AM “Warda” Pg 12 Pg. 3 2 The Alley Newspaper • May 2013 BY ERIN THOMASSON Children & Family Programs Programs at Midtown Farmers Market ECFE: Reading Fun the Franklin Fri. May 3 & 17, 10:30a.m.– opens May 4! 12:30 p.m. Parents, infants & P.O. Box 7006 Library Market welcomes Miguel Goebel as new Minneapolis, MN 55407 preschoolers! Early Childhood Editor’s Cell Phone 612-990-4022 Family Education (ECFE); learn manager [email protected] fun, interactive activities to build www.alleynews.org literacy skills. The Midtown Farmers Market be a part of this amazing farmers Follow us twitter.com/alleynewspaper Hands-on Hoopla and the Corcoran Neighborhood market.” Sat. 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