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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FYI: News Items of Interest, 4/25/2005 (3 items) Compiled by Victoria Jackson Additional information about sources available at the end of the message. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [1] "Pueblo Protest Albuquerque Tricentennial: Conquistadors No Cause For Celebration," Brenda Norrell, Indian Country Today, April 25, 2005. Copyright 2005 Indian Country Today, All Rights Reserved. ["Santa Ana Pueblo, NM- Santa Ana Pueblo and other pueblo are opposing the city of Albuquerque's Tricentennial celebration and sculptures of Don Juan de Onate in the Southwest, which they say celebrate the murders of pueblo and their leaders. Speaking at a protest at Coronado State Monument in Bernalillo, Manuel R. Cristobal, Santa Ana Pueblo councilman, said protesters oppose the Tricentennial celebration, construction of the statue of Onate commissioned by the city of Albuquerque and installation of the 'La Entrada' Monument at the Albuquerque Museum. Cristobal said at Coronado State Monument, 'With sorrow as old as war; warriors, women and children were massacred and died here. The spirit of 'Kuaua' are with me today as they stand with me in silence.' Kuaua refers to the early Tewa leader in the region. 'Another Native American holocaust will be remembered today, as we pray for justice, that this crime committed by the Conquistadors will remind the world of such violent acts in history.' Cristobal protested at the launch of Albuquerque's 18-month Tricentennial celebration on April 16 at the individual half-marathon run. Albuquerque named the celebration of its 300-year anniversary 'An Illuminating Experience.' However, pueblo protesters said the colonization of the region was darkness, not illumination, for the pueblo who were slaughtered."] [2] "Indian Youth Talk Tradition, Culture And The Future," Sara Watson Arthurs, The Times-Standard (Eureka, CA), April 25, 2005. Copyright 2005 Times-Standard, All Rights Reserved. ["How do you keep the traditions of generations past while going to high school in 2005? Around 200 American Indian high school students from 14 schools throughout the North Coast gathered at McKinleyville High School to talk about how to achieve 'success in both worlds.' McKinleyville High sophomores Rachel Provolt and Emmilee Risling put together a daylong event to educate their peers on tribal sovereignty and related matters. The 'Success in Both Worlds' conference takes place every other year. Along with a video created by Provolt and Risling, the recent event included speakers, dancing and sports. 'As a Native American youth you need to be successful in both worlds. That means you need to be successful in keeping our culture alive and you also need to be successful in the Western way of living,' said Tasha Norton, a Hoopa Valley High School junior of Hupa, Yurok and Karuk heritage. 'That means going to college and coming back to help.' Education is a big part of the message, Risling said. She said there's pressure to be educated in both traditional ways and on modern American terms, and education is a part of how."] [3] "A Spat Over a Spit; The Sequel To 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Has Johnny Depp Roasting Over A Fire. The Imagery Gets The Film In Hot Water With A Local Tribal Chief," Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times, April 25, 2005. Copyright 2005 Los Angeles Times, All Rights Reserved. ["Somewhere in the middle of the movie, natives are supposed to capture Johnny Depp's character, Captain Jack Sparrow, and spit-roast the swashbuckling pirate with fruits and vegetables 'like a shish kebab,' said Bruce Hendricks, the Walt Disney Pictures executive in charge of production. 'It's a funny, almost campy sequence,' he said of a film also populated by ghost pirates and zombies. 'There are a lot of silly moments in it.' But some of Dominica's Carib inhabitants are offended by what they consider an insinuation that their forebears were cannibals. They've called on the 3,500-strong indigenous group in the Caribbean to choose between fleeting fame and tribal honor. Chief Charles Williams asked his community to boycott the project, but most have welcomed the financial infusion. To those Dominicans who see the economic benefits of the film shoot, it is a frivolous spat over a fantasy story. To others such as Williams, it is a blot on the image of the Caribs. The group is a minority on Dominica, whose 70,000 people are mostly of African descent. Disney argues that the film is fiction, but Williams says it draws on history. 'Pirates did come to the Caribbean in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries,' he said. 'Our ancestors were labeled cannibals. This is being filmed in the Caribbean.' History books still cast the Caribs as cannibals during the time of the European settlement of the Caribbean that began in the 15th century but didn't reach Dominica, a tiny island in the eastern Caribbean, until 200 years later. But the indigenous people, the chief argues, were simply defending themselves. 'Today, that myth, that stigma is still alive,' Williams said, denying that the Caribs ever ate those they vanquished. 'Today, Disney wants to popularize that stigma one more time, this time through film, and film is a powerful tool of propaganda.'"] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FYI: News Items of Interest is a daily resource compiled by the H-AMINDIAN staff. It features a sampling of news stories concerning Native issues in Canada, the United States and Mexico. In order to comply with Academic Fair Use and copyright laws, only a summary of the news articles is offered here. We will not reproduce articles in whole. Only stories from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) offer a direct link to the article in question (the link follows immediately after the summary). However, online links to all of our sources are available at our website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/h- amindian/list.html. Your college, university, or public library may provide access to online data bases and services (such as Lexis-Nexis, ProQuest, or Dialog) with full-text versions of these and other stories. H-AMINDIAN is part of the H-NET family and is housed in the Department of History, Arizona State University.
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