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Cihuapilli Rose Amador interviews Pegge Lemke and grandson Adam Cervantes. They discuss a situation where hair was cut on the school playground. Pegge has a six year old grandson whose hair was cut on the school playground, by an older girl student. The hair wasn’t cut because the boy was Native but this show brings up the subject of disrespect and the importance of hair in many cultures, specifically Native American culture.

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Steve Macias is one of the original founding members of the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps, a bass player, former jet dragster driver turned associate producer, director and editor for Native Voice TV in San Jose, California. We’re trying to meet and help promote Indigenous people from the music, movie and entertainment industries as well as artists and craftsmen of Native art. We also keep the Native community up to date with local and national political issues that affect the Native community and interview guests who are active and involved with the issues of today.

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Native American culture, art, dance and symbols.

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Dr. Donald Warne explains that Native Americans are the only U.S. group born with a legal right to health care. Historically, however, American Indian health care programs have been inadequately funded, especially compared with other federally subsidized health care.

This video is a Web-exclusive supplement to “Bad Sugar,” Episode 4 of “UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?” This ground-breaking documentary series looks at how the social, economic and physical environments in which we are born, live, and work profoundly affect our longevity and health. The series broadcast nationally on PBS in spring 2008, and can be bought on DVD from California Newsreel, www.newsreel.org

Visit www.unnaturalcauses.org to learn more.

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This video is NOT made by me….
Taken from the DVD : Legacy – Native American Photogravures & Music. (1890-1920)
Is a historical look at the photogravure work of Edward S. Curtis, who captured one of the most significant visual collections of traditional American Indian culture. Images illustrating the old time Indian, his dress, ceremonies life and manners are presented against the backdrop of beautiful Native American music performed by Mary Youngblood, Joanne Shenandoah and Lawrence Laughing. What is a “photogravure?” A photogravure is a method of printing from an intaglio plate that is etched, or engraved, according to a photographic image. The process was most popular during the turn of the century.

http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Native-American-Photogravures-Music/dp/B0000DG07G

Duration : 0:9:40

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DISCLAIMER BELOW.
Joanne Shenandoah is an Iroquois singer and acoustic guitarist. She is a member of the Wolf Clan of the Oneida Nation of the Haudenosaunee Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy. Her music is a mixture of traditional songs and melodies with a blend of traditional and contemporary instrumentation. She has recorded more than 14 albums and won a multitude of awards, including “Artist of the Year” at the Native American Music Awards. She is currently living in Oneida, new York. Ms. Shenandoah received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Syracuse University in 2002, the first ever given to a Native performer. She has received more Native American Music Awards (11 to date) than any other artist including a “Lifetime Achievement Award” in 2008. She has 14 albums and three GRAMMY nominations. She was awarded the GRAMMY for her part in the album “Sacred Ground” with Rita Coolidge and Robert Mirabel. She is the author of the book “Skywoman”. She has also received numerous Syracuse Area Music Awards (SAMMYS) and was presented with the Grand Prize by the Native Film Festival in Montreal, Canada for her soundtrack in the documentary “Our Land Our Life” in June of 2008.

Disclaimer; I don’t own the music nor the pictures. All credits go to the authors of the song and the pictures.
You Can Hear Them Dancing-Joanne Shenandoah

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Spine chilling video dedicated to Native American culture and Spirit. Sit back and get ready for spiritual enlightenment.

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This video is in honor of the Native American culture and people who will always be remembered.

Honoring the names of the Native Americans in this video are as follows:

Bears Belly Arikara
Chief Garfield Jicarilla Apache
Naiche – Chiricahua Apache
Bull Tongue Apsaroke
Crazy Bear Lakota Sioux
Bluebird Sioux
Little Horse Oglala Sioux
Little Hawk Brule
Long Soldier Hunkpapa Sioux
Old Eagle Oto
Mad Bear Yankton Sioux
Medicine Crow Crow
Chief Ouray Ute
Wolf Lies Down Apsaroke
Two Leggings Crow
Red Fish Dakota Sioux
Chief Dull Knife Northern Cheyenne
Little Wolf and Dull Knife Cheyenne
Chief Joseph Nez Perce
Black Eagle Nez Perce
Bread Apsaroke
Crazy Thunder Ogalala
Crow Eagle Piegan
Does Everything Apsaroke
Double Runner Piegan
Fog in the Morning Apsaroke
Four Horns Arikara
Grizzly Bear Nez Perce
Iron Plume Ogalala
Lawyer Nez Perce
Little Wolf Cheyenne
Lone Chief Oto
Medicine Pipe Piegan
New Chest Piegan
Three White Cows Atsina
Two Moons Cheyenne
Weasel Tail Piegan
White Bull Umatilla
Bull Chief Apsaroke
Little Big Man Oglala Sioux
Black Bear Sioux
Two Strikes Brule Sioux
White Belly Sioux
Many Horses Oglala Sioux
Red Armed Panther Cheyenne
Scabby Bull Arapaho
Rain in the Face Hunkpapa Sioux
Curly Bear Blackfoot
Standing Bear Ponca
Yellow Bull Nez Perce
Bear Bull Blackfoot
Red Pipe Arapaho
Gall Hunkpapa Sioux
Geronimo Bedonkohe Apache
Manuelito Navajo
Esteemed Son Pawnee
Low Dog Oglala Sioux
Weasaw Shoshone
Shot in the Hand Apsaroke
Revenger Crow
Magpie Cheyenne
Looks Cloud Sioux
Young Hairy Wolf Apsaroke
Thunder Hawk Dakota Sioux
Wolf Robe Southern Cheyenne
Touch the Clouds Sioux
Crows Heart Mandan
White Duck Hidatsa
Wicked Bear Brule Sioux
Spotted Tail Brule Sioux
Big Head Cheyenne
Red Blanket Cheyenne
Sitting Bull Hunkpapa Lakota Chief – Sioux
Red Cloud Oglala Sioux
Two Whistles Apsaroke
Billy Bow Legs Seminole
Medicine Bear Cuthead Sioux
Kills in Timber Ogalala
Good Voice Hawk Yanktonai
Crowkin Hunkpapa Sioux
Big Ox Apsaroke
Alchesay White Mountain Apache
Gambler Piegan
Hastobiga Navaho medicine man
Ten Bears Yamparika Comanche

I was born upon a prairie where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures and where everything drew a free breath. I want to die there, and not within walls.
Ten Bears Yamparika Comanche (1790 1872)

Source of available pictures for use at::
http://www.firstpeople.us
American Indians
First People is a child friendly site about American and Canadian Indians. 1400+ legends, 400+ agreements and treaties, 10,000+ pictures, free clipart, Pueblo pottery, American Indian jewelry, Native American Flutes and more.

Music was taken from free downloads at:
http://music.download.com
Music by J. Gordon
Song: Over the Horizon
Free downloads on that website.

Other pictures were available on internet under fair use and
Wikipedia

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http://www.thehillshavethighs.com Country Boy Can Survive Hank Williams Jr. Country Boy Can Survive Hank Williams Jr. Native American Indian culture meets Appalachian Hillbilly Nation! That’s where you’ll find THE HILLS HAVE THIGHS! Country Boy Can Survive Hank Williams Jr. Country Boy Can Survive Hank Williams Jr. Country Boy Can Survive Hank Williams Jr.

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Ramp it Up celebrates the vibrancy, creativity, and controversy of American Indian skate culture. Skateboarding combines demanding physical exertion with design, graphic art, filmmaking, and music to produce a unique and dynamic culture.

The exhibition features rare and archival photographs and film of Native skaters as well as skatedecks from Native companies and contemporary artists.

Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture in Native America runs from December 11, 2009 to June 27, 2010 at the National Museum of the American Indian’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York.

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