Resources
Additional Resources
- Tribal legends are captured in gourd art
- PAYSON -- According to legend, the White Buffalo Calf Woman, or Pte-san-win-yan, restored many sacred things to the Lakota tribe. Artist Mary Hogue captured this legend in her giant gourd carving, on display in the Lee Staheli Western Room at the Peteetneet Academy and Museum. ...
- Articles 2008-07-02
- Message From Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaelle Jean, Governor General of Canada, on the Statement of Apology to Former Students of Indian Residential Schools
- It was only a few days ago that I watched Chief Phil Fontaine of the Assembly of First Nations deliver a rousing speech about the tragic history of the Indian residential schools. In the presence of more than 200 young professionals from across the country, he laid bare horrific stories...
- Articles 2008-06-13
- Canadians apologize for policy on Indian kids
- OTTAWA -- In a historic speech, Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized Wednesday to Canada's native peoples for a former government policy of forcing their children to attend state-funded schools aimed at assimilating them. The treatment of children at the schools where they were often physically and sexually...
- Articles 2008-06-12
- Canada apologizes for failing natives
- OTTAWA AFP — Canada's prime minister on Wednesday officially apologized to natives for more than a century of abuses at boarding schools set up to assimilate its indigenous peoples. "The government of Canada sincerely apologizes and asks the forgiveness of the aboriginal peoples of this country for failing...
- Articles 2008-06-11
- John Bird
- Credo Social campaigner and founder of The Big Issue, 62 I believe... Homelessness hits you when it becomes associated with break-ups. My family was made homeless when I was a child and I ended up in an orphanage, separated...
- Articles 2008-06-08
- Back to the future
- More than 20 years after Susan Griffith last visited India as a backpacker, she returned to Jaipur on a luxury trip to find that a recognisably Indian way of life still prevailed wenty-two years, 11 months and 16 days: a nostalgic encounter with a dog-eared and long-expired...
- Articles 2008-06-07
- Ericsson and Apollo Hospitals to bring healthcare access to rural India
- Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and Apollo Telemedicine Networking FoundationATNF, a part of the Apollo Hospitals Group, the Indian healthcarepowerhouse, have taken a major step towards helping bridge thedigital divide in rural India by laying the foundation for theintroduction of mobile health services. Telemedicine delivered usingHSPA technology will enable the provision of...
- Articles 2008-06-05
- Indian blood
- I was very intrigued and overwhelmed with emotions when I read your article, "Indian Blood: Is It A Part Of Your Heritage?" (April 2008). I just finished a booklet in February on my family history that's based on information passed down to my ancestors, the Butler family. They are part...
- Articles 2008-06-01
- New developments in sickle cell disease research
- New developments in sickle cell disease research. Ed. by Paul D. O'Malley. Nova Biomedical Books 2006 252 pages $160.00 Hardcover RC641 Sickle cell anemia is an inherited blood disorder occurring in approximately 1 out...
- Articles 2008-06-01
- An eye on the future
- By Jan Biles THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL POWHATTAN - By October, Jessi Whitebird had earned enough credits to graduate from Kickapoo Nation School. She couldn't wait to leave the reservation near Horton and make her way in the world beyond Indian country. The...
- Articles 2008-05-26
- An eye on the future
- By Jan Biles THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL POWHATTAN - By October, Jessi Whitebird had earned enough credits to graduate from Kickapoo Nation School. She couldn't wait to leave the reservation near Horton and make her way in the world beyond Indian country. The...
- Articles 2008-05-26
- Two arrested after India bomb blasts kill 63
- JAIPUR, India AFP — Indian police have arrested two men after eight near-simultaneous bombings killed 63 people and wounded 216 in the Rajasthan tourist city of Jaipur, the state's chief minister said Wednesday. "We have arrested two people and have detained several more people for questioning," Vasundhara Raje...
- Articles 2008-05-14
- U. should not let Indian-education program die
- It was a celebration about the human spirit, pride in one's heritage and family and a commitment to serve one's community. It was about hope and the belief that people can make a difference. The drumbeat of the Honor Song set the tone. It was the University of Utah's 2008...
- Articles 2008-05-12
- Rushdie favourite for best Booker Prize winner award
- LONDON AFP — Salman Rushdie is the favourite to win the Best of the Booker prize after his novel "Midnight's Children" was shortlisted Monday for the "greatest of the greatest" award. Six books chosen from the 41 winners of the highly-regarded Booker Prize are up for the award....
- Articles 2008-05-11
- Calendar
- MUSIC/DANCE David Cassidy, today, 8 p.m., Tuacahn Amphitheatre, Ivins, $24- $36 (800-746-9882 or ww.tuacahn.org) Intermountain Children Strings, today, 7:30 p.m., Temple Square Assembly Hall, free Marilyn Smith, vocal, today, 7:30 p.m., Madsen Recital Hall, Brigham Young University, Provo, free ...
- Articles 2008-05-09
- Border Patrol lets some illegals go repeatedly
- EL PASO, Texas -- Josefa Gonzalez Loya has sneaked across the Mexican border at least 128 times in the past eight years. And each time, the Border Patrol has been nice enough to give her a lift home. Gonzalez and a group of other women and children...
- Articles 2008-05-04
- UNHOLY WATER
- The Yamuna is the largest tributary of the revered Ganges, but its polluted waters pose an increasing health hazard to the Indian capital. Now campaigners are calling for urgent action to clean it up. By Andrew Buncombe Delhi's rotting river On Delhi's sacred...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- African lion caught near Ottawa
- OTTAWA AFP — Police captured a young pet lion on the loose in Canada's backwoods near the nation's capital for nearly two days, without incident, officials said Thursday. Boomer had escaped late Tuesday from an Indian reservation and was last seen near the tiny village of Maniwaki, north...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- Raising an empire; children in early modern Iberia and Latin America
- Raising an empire; children in early modern Iberia and Latin America. Ed. by Ondina E. Gonzalez and Bianca Premo. U. of New Mexico Press 2007 258 pages $24.95 Paperback Dialogos HQ792 Gonzalez...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
