(press release from the Ojai Valley Museum…) For the second time in the past few years the Ojai Valley Museum is hosting an exhibition produced by the California Resources Alliance (CERA). The first one, Votes of the Women, aroused a large interest in the Ojai community in 2001. The second, Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home: Art and Poetry from Native California will also be a “must-see” because of the museum’s access to these engaging, high quality exhibits.
All over the world people have handed down their stories, be they English ballads, Irish whaling tunes, native and Inuit and African-American tribal stories and tunes. All stories have played and important role in our collective oral history. Native California and Chumash traditions, arts, and crafts have done this in the same way for California. Like the state itself, the California Native peoples are remarkably diverse with over 300 languages and distinct geographical centers that shape communities, traditions, ideologies and ceremonies. The works exhibited in Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home are embedded with California forests, rivers, deserts, valleys and mountains. Native California surrounds us everywhere we look.
This extraordinary exhibition, which will open on Thursday, December 4, is based on a publication by Heyday Books, The Dirt is Red Here: Art and Poetry from Native California and shares the lives, stories, songs and dances of American Natives. More than 40 pieces of art – paintings, sculpture, photography and basketry by 22 contemporary California artists – are featured. The artists take us on a journey, formed by cultural knowledge and family history that honors California Native peoples’ everlasting connection to their ancestral homelands and traditions.
Special presentations include an evening with Chumash elder Julie Tumamait, detailing the history and location of native villages in the Ojai Valley, and a with Robert Lopez, a Ventura County archeologist who is an expert on local tribes and life at the missions, will be offered during the month of January. Special tours and enrichment programs will be available for students in Ojai Schools.
This exhibition will debut a new technology that will enhance the use of audio-guided tours via visitors own cell phones. “This is the first time we will use this technology,” said Ann Scanlin, President of the Museum Board of Trustees, “and we are very excited about it. It will certainly change the future of this type of tour at the museum.”
An opening party will be held on Saturday, December 7, from 3 to 5 p.m. Hors d’Oeuvres created by Chef David Cagnacci of the Event Caddy will be served. Chumash elder, Julie Tumamait will have a table of tasty Chumash tidbits, and The Somala Singers from the Santa Inez Tribal Council will provide entertainment. Cost is $20 per person. Contact the Museum at 640-1390 for reservations, hours, and full information. Sing Me a Story, Dance Me Home closes on January 25, 2009.
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haku Julie, haku Tyler!
our World Songline, HER Song of Dreaming, is returning!!
of, with, and for all our relations!!!
kiwanon …
an example for the people of Goddess Moon …
“and the first shall be last and the last shall be first”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
People of Lakota Launch Private Bank for Only Silver and Gold Currencies
Hill City, Lakota – November 24, 2008 – In a stunning development, the Free & Independent People of Lakota announced today the introduction of the world’s first non-reserve, non-fractional bank that accepts only silver and gold currencies for deposit.
“Today is a great day for us, a day that we begin to exercise our rights as a sovereign people with strength and pride,” comments Canupa Gluha Mani, Tetuwan Council Judicial Member of the Cante Tenza “Strong Heart” Warrior Society. Mani’s 2500 member warrior society has contracted to provide private security services for the Free Lakota Bank.
“We invite people of any creed, faith or heritage to unite in an effort to reclaim control of wealth. It is our hope that other tribal nations and American citizens recognize the importance of silver and gold as currency and decide to mirror our system of honest trade.” Mani, also known as Duane Martin Sr, is a member of the delegation that declared Lakota independence on December 17th, 2007.
The launch of the Free Lakota Bank is also an incredible victory for StrikeForce Technologies, the access control experts providing depositor Out-of-Band Authentication. As the Free Lakota Bank does not require a name, photo identification or social security number to transact, StrikeForce’ s technology met the challenge of limiting fraud without requiring controversial biometric technology.
The People of Lakota invite depositors to establish accounts and invest in the Free Lakota Bank’s General Investment Fund, the fund it uses to develop profitable free-market enterprise inside Lakota territory. Mani comments that the nation despises donations and charity, and instead insists instead on “earning our wealth by creating value for those that place their faith and trust in our system.”
The Free Lakota Bank issues an American Open Currency Standard Approved currency, making it readily accepted for trade by over 10,000 merchants and businesses across the continent.
For more information, visit the Free Lakota Bank website at http://press.freelakotabank.com
Contact:
Canupa Gluha Mani
service@freelakotabank.com
P.O. Box 512
Hill City, LK 57745
888.784.9996
While this is an interesting story, MT, I would hope that people don’t blindly put their money into an “institution” that has no financial backing, no management team (”Comming Soon…”), and is associated with but a single individual, who may or may not represent the Lakota tribe, according to many online articles, and has no apparent financial background. Also the “incredible victory” for the security firm raises an eyebrow, not to mention some basic web research that shows the website and the company appear to be set up anonymously (if it is even a company at all).
So again, I think that while the press release is worthy of discussion, there are some really obvious reasons why any individual should be incredibly hesitant to put a single penny into a company that has a nice website, and really nothing else.
very glad to hear you consider indigenous economics and sovereignty — and local economics and sovereignty — “worthy” Tyler, in a discussion thread on the legacy of the natives peoples.
will be interesting to hear if this FreeLakotaBank is a one-person corporation, or represents a large number of the Lakota peoples — in particular the Republic of Lakotah spearheaded by Russell Means. at wikipedia Canupa Gluha Mani, is listed as also having the white name of Duane Martin Sr — and being one of the signatories of the Lakotah Declaration of Independence last December.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Lakotah
I have forwarded an inquiry to a Lakota GrandMother who will know the veracity of this bank … will reply further when I know more!
considering the serious possibility of other North American states seceding from the Union — perhaps on this coming 21 January 2009 — a much much expanded dialog on local banking and local barter economy I expect will be materializing here at the Ojai Post in the days and weeks to come.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22January+21%2C+2009%22+secession
with and for all our sacred relations …
MT,
When will you secede from the Union? And when you do, will you please take Jock with you.
And by the way, please stop deleting my replies to your posts(or re-writing them) , unless your fragile mind is too weak to handle opposing views or views that expose your psychosis.
MT’s done the same thing to me! Why does Jock get banned for conspiracy theories and not this guy?
It’s because you’re so outrageously hateful to MT…what has he done to you that makes you so impartial to “hating” him?
Look, I’m not his biggest fan or Jocks or that other guy who can’t stop writing while he’s ahead…but your rancor is uncalled for…it’s compeltely mean-spirited and rude…
If “calling out” charlatans and hypocrites who trade in hate speech, racism, anti-Semitism, financial fraud and perpetrate ludicrous conspiracy theories while hiding behind all too thin veneers of new age symbolism is rude, then so be it.
and calling our next president a spook and comparing him to Osama is disgusting, mean-spirited, rude and hateful. calling him on it is not.
I think it’s totally reasonable that journalists should be banned by editors for daring to have ideas contrary to others’.
It’s Amerika!
Jock
Since Jock seems intent on adding his bile to the pages of the Ojai Post, I repeat the following:
At this stage in their lives, don’t Millennium Twain, Jock and even poor Dennis remind us all of Russell Crowe’s portrayal of John Nash in “A Beautiful Mind.” (No Nobel prizes or Academy Awards here though)
I believe the correct term is paranoid schizophrenic for people who see conspiracies everywhere and use their fantasies as a substitute for living in the real world and actually taking responsibility for their daily actions.
Add a touch of megalomania and manic depression to multitudinous folklore on a webpage and you’ve got Millennium Twain in color. Isn’t the name give away enough?
And didn’t Jock try to crucify himself on stage in the image of some other well know persona?
These poor deluded souls weave existing facts and images together with improbably delusions using moments of theatrical brilliance as if to prove that they and only they have the power and insight to expose the dark secrets of the underworld to us mere mortals.
They prey upon the fear and ignorance of those naive enough to think there is a whit of truth in anything conclusions they reach.
If only half of what these schlockmeisters continually throw out to the rest of the community as dark and hidden conspiracies of world domination and control, wouldn’t those very evil persons have snatched MT & Jock and Dennis off the streets already and whisked them into some secret prison and force them to undergo rendition and water torture to silence them? Prevent them from warning the rest of us? Oh, the horror!
Think about it, with Google, it would take a secret agent hiding in the shadow world that MT and Jock have postulated into existence, maybe five seconds or less to locate these two and be done with them.
It is a truly sad and pitiful spectacle to watch the mind of fellow humans disintegrate right before our eyes.. Even sadder to watch other struggling souls flock to these troubled men like so many moths to a flame.
LA PAZ, Nov 28 (IPS) – Journalists from indigenous communities in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Guatemala and Bolivia came together in La Paz to take the first step towards creating a network to work together and support each other.
Some 20 professionals from radio stations that cover rural areas shared their work experiences in a Nov. 25-26 workshop sponsored by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and organised by the Inter Press Service (IPS) global news agency.
Participants also presented initiatives aimed at establishing an ongoing exchange of information concerning the activities of their communities and their hopes and objectives in terms of social development.
At the workshop, called ”Journalistic Minga: Developing Indigenous Reporting in Latin America”, the 20 or so reporters representing a variety of indigenous cultures — from Central America to Bolivia’s Andean highlands region — identified common interests and opened up ways to communicate with each other.
The indigenous term ”minga” was aptly chosen for the workshop’s title as the word refers to a traditional indigenous gathering convened to achieve some sort of collective purpose … full story here,
http://globalnewsblog.com/wp/2008/11/28/latin-america-indigenous-journalists-plant-a-seed
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Comment #10 JOCK: When you said: “I think it’s totally reasonable that journalists should be banned by editors for daring to have ideas contrary to others’. It’s Amerika!”
It’s precisely because it is America that we’ve put up with you for sooooooo longgggggg. And it’s precisely because this is America that YOU CAN START YOUR OWN BLOG instead of abusing this one. Go be the revolutionary “star” somewhere else…because honestly, you have no clue of how boring you are.
You weren’t banned for having ‘another opinion. You were banned for being so F-boring, uninteresting, uncreative, unhelpful. What you think is your “gift of controversy” is you “gift of boredom”. As soon I even see your name, I scroll down to the next comment (unless it’s short, which is rare!)
Your articles evoke distaste instead of peaking anyone’s interest in your opinions. If you really want people to pay attention to you, try a creative approach, maybe a more loving, friendly approach, or dare I say “a little humor wouldn’t hurt either, instead of your boring ordinary sarcasm.
Your “Jock” needs a soft “crotch” to give it a little levity and perspective, cause right now you’re “rock dense” and definitely not listening to anyone or anything but your “Jock” – and all it’s desires of “sex, revolutionary fame and glory”.
Go plant another tree, or play with your dog, something to keep your mind off all the misery and wrongdoings of life and how your boring rhetoric is going to change the world.
Of course, the other side of this, is you’re probably a great guy when you’re being your natural intelligent, friendly, helpful, working, useful, nice guy Jock self, instead of this made up persona…I’d like to see that beautiful guy a little more often. I’d be anticipating what “that” guy writes, cause then maybe I’d learn something and be inspired.
Hoping for the best, Dvorah