Journal #4519 from sdc 10.4.19 Navajo filmmaker’s project stays playful Lithium Nevada hires mining contractor Hemp Cleans Up Radioactive Soil and So Much More Arts Sector Contributed $763.6 Billion to U.S. Economy—More Than Agriculture or Transportation For Northwest tribes, wildfire on Rattlesnake Mountain ravages 'a ceremonial place' How the Kansas City Chiefs got their name and the Boy Scout Tribe of Mic-O-Say Emmett Van Fleet, last of the Mohave creation song singers Episode 64: Monumental Sculpture of Preclassic Mesoamerica More and More Movies Indigenous Canoes Will Cross the SF Bay to Honor 50th Anniversary of Alcatraz Occupation We are looking for hand drum singers, vendors and Frybread & Stew chefs that would like to participate in our upcoming event! Please reach out to our center and ask for Judyann, Toni or Leona so we can get you all signed up!! We are also looking for donations to help promote your business. This is a free event, open to the ALISA BANKS via Associated Press Micah Chee and Colleen Biakeddy, front, star in an ad project by Christopher Nataanii Cegielski, back right. Navajo filmmaker’s project stays playful A spec is a made-up commercial that filmmakers use to showcase their talent and potential. For Diné filmmaker Christopher Nataanii Cegielski,that project became a New Balance spec called “For Any Run.” The video is a product of the Commercial Directors Diversity Program, an organization that provides guidance, exposure and tools for minority directors who hope to work in the industry. For Cegielski, 28, the story began with an idea of a Diné, or Navajo, grandmother who chased her sheep and did flips in the Arizona desert. His goal was to create something that Indian Country could watch. “For far too long there has been non-Native people making Native material,” Cegielski said. “It’s always about oppression. ... I just wanted to change that.” The commercial led him to meeting Diné actors Colleen Biakeddy, who plays the grandma, and Micah Chee, who portrays the grandson. In true Diné fashion, the trio discovered they all belong to the Ta’chii’nii, or Red Running Into Water clan, after they met in person. Watch the project here: vimeo.com/357925005. http://e.startribune.com/Olive/O “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.” – Stephen Hawking “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” – Isaac Asimov Lithium Nevada hires mining contractor elkodaily.com Lithium Nevada Corp. has entered into an agreement with a contract… Hemp Cleans Up Radioactive Soil and So Much More rxleaf.com Could hemp be the plant that saves the planet? It is the best soil… Arts Sector Contributed $763.6 Billion to U.S. Economy—More Than Agriculture or Transportation artsy.net “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr. ****************************************************************************** Indigenous Media Network "I never want to be seen as an equal to settler society. Nor do I ever want to be seen as an equal in the eyes of the colonizer. And I never want to be seen as “successful” within colonial systems." "These colonial systems hand-select indigenous young people and “mentor” them in a way where they perceive success as meaning being front and centre in colonial systems. “Achievement and success in colonial systems as an indigenous person is a strong step in the realm of equality.” What a crazy belief! Because to be equal to the colonizer means to also accept the continued acts of genocide against indigenous peoples." ***************************************************************************** Again, states/tribes have the right to establish standards above that of the feds Beginning Tuesday, New Hampshire is tightening restrictions on PFAS contaminants in public water systems. The new limits require utilities to routinely test for four types of PFAS chemicals, and then change or treat their water source if the compounds are detected above new state limits. The state has allotted $6 million to help smaller water utilities make the necessary changes. AP For Northwest tribes, wildfire on Rattlesnake Mountain ravages 'a ceremonial place' | Crosscuthttps://crosscut.com/2019/08/northwest-tribes-wildfire-rattlesnake-mountain-ravages- ceremonial-place US wants to block tribes from protecting historical and cultural areas on public lands intercontinentalcry.org ****************************************************************************** How the Kansas City Chiefs got their name and the Boy Scout Tribe of Mic-O-Say byVincent Schilling Sep 19-edited The Mic-O-Say was founded in 1925, under the leadership of Harold Roe Bartle, a two-term Kansas City mayor known in his social circles as ‘Chief’ In our series of articles on the Boy Scouts, three factions or offshoot groups came about as a result of the initial organization based on the young men’s group of Woodcraft Indians by Ernest Thompson Seton. These three organizations are the Order of the Arrow, which is more of a secret-based honor society of the Boy Scouts of America, the tribe of Mic-O-Say, which is a “tribe” of sorts with specific regalia, adornments and paint styles that has specific traveling dance groups, and the Koshare, which is a Boy Scout Troop with a museum and dancers based in La Junta, Colorado. The creation of the Mic-O-Say by Harold Roe Bartle, a non-Native man with a 25-cigar-a-day habit and a booming voice, was the man behind the catalyst leading to the eventual creation of the name for the Kansas City football team, the Chiefs. As previously reported in Indian Country Today, the Mic-O-Say was founded in 1925, under the leadership of Harold Roe Bartle, a former Scouting leader for the Cheyenne Council of Boy Scouts in Casper, Wyoming. H. Roe Bartle and a group of scouts. Video screen capture. Bartle claimed he was inducted into a local tribe of the Arapaho people and according to another “traditional Mic-O-Say legend,” Bartle was also given the name Lone Bear by an Arapaho chief. Thus he went by the name Chief Lone Bear in his Mic-O-Say organization. H. Roe Bartle was known as 'Chief' As chief, Bartle conducted ceremonies on new members by placing an eagle claw around their necks and giving them a ‘Native name.’ The Mic-O-Say became wildly popular and increased camp attendance in scout summer camps by young men who wished to incorporate Native American traditions into their scout activities. In 1928, Bartle was named the Scout Executive of the Kansas City area council, and Mic-O-Say had become so successful, other Mic-O-Say camps were formed. Bartle’s Mic-O-Say camp in Osceola, Missouri, now called the ‘Bartle Scout Reservation” still exists today Mic-O-Say and Kansas City Chiefs connection Bartle, who was known in many of his circles as ‘chief’ served as mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, for two terms and in 1962 he helped to persuade Lamar Hunt, the owner of Dallas Texans football team to bring his team to Kansas City. As written about in a Kansas City Star article from 2016 by Rick Montgomery: “Bartle learned on a business trip that Hunt was thinking about relocating his American Football League franchise. Not yet ready to sever his football ties in Texas, Hunt originally declined the mayor’s invitation to check out Kansas City. So Bartle promised total secrecy, which included mailing papers to Hunt from a location outside City Hall. When Hunt visited, Bartle introduced him as ‘Mr. Lamar’ and referred to Steadman as “Jack X.” Team owner of the Dallas Texans Lamar Hunt who was also the founder of the American Football League met with Bartle under a veil of secrecy that he truly enjoyed according to the article, and after what then Kansas City Star sports columnist Joe McGuff cited as “a remarkable selling job on Lamar Hunt,” the team owner agreed to have his team named the Kansas City Chiefs after Bartle. In 1963, after Hunt had moved his Dallas Texans to Kansas City, the name ‘Chiefs’ “popped up time and again in a name-the-team contest.” Lamar Hunt’s general manager had stated years later, “I finally told Lamar, ‘There’s just no other name we can select.’” The Kansas City Chiefs were not named for a Native American, but for Bartle’s namesake and his involvement with Mic-O-Say. Stories in the Boy Scout article series by Indian Country Today associate editor Vincent Schilling Boy Scouts ‘have been one of the worst culprits’ of cultural appropriation Order of the Arrow is a ‘secret’ scout society ‘in the spirit of the Lenni Lenape’ - a Lenape leader disagrees The Tribe of Mic-O-Say dance teams regularly perform’ in ‘Native-style regalia’ The Koshare museum raises money and its ‘Native’ dancers perform even after being told they shouldn’t Native voice helped create the Boy Scouts, Charles Eastman ‘Ohiyesa’ Solutions for moving beyond appropriation in the 21st-century scouts. Star Wars? **************************************************************************** Matt Fitzsimons Emmett Van Fleet, last of the Mohave creation song singers. As a child in 1892, he was taken to a US government Indian boarding school on the California- Arizona border, and forbidden from speaking even a word of Mohave. When caught, he was whipped with something his teachers called "the black snake." Emmett was in the third grade. Unlike most kids, he managed to get out after just a year.