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The arts can break new ground, "bringing human consciousness to bear on these flows of product and
capital, energizing our interpersonal connections, and opening new doors for invention and practice."

- - Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander

Updates

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NATIVE VOICES -- DEADLINE APPROACHES

For more information:
Email - Carlenne Lacosta at nativevoices@autrynationalcenter.org
Phone - Rose-Yvonne Colletta at 323.667.2000, ext. 299.
Online - www.nativevoicesattheautry.org or www.myspace.com/nativevoices

The Saline Courthouse
Becomes Cherokees First
National Park

If you would like to know more about
efforts to preserve the courthouse, visit
the official project website at
http://www.salinecourthouse.org/
for details on how you might be able to
help.

Call for Artists ‘09!
Deadline for Submissions is June 6, 2008.

NICWA invites artists to participate in Call for Artists ‘09. The selected artist will be awarded a cash prize of $1,000 for the image of
the 27th Annual “Protecting Our Children” National American Indian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect. The image will be
published on NICWA’s website and printed material reaching thousands, as well as being the centerpiece throughout the
conference. All art media will be considered, however, submissions must be available through electronic transfer (jpeg, tiff, etc.).
As this is an Indian child welfare conference, artwork created by American Indians/Alaska Natives is strongly encouraged.

For submission guidelines, go to www.nicwa.org/callforartists/.

Conference Info: www.nicwa.org/conference/

LEGACY YOUTH CAMP

The Legacy Cultural Learning
Community, Inc., a non-profit located
near Horseshoe Bend, in Cherokee
County, OK, hosted a Native Youth
Camp. The organization is in the
process of building a Legacy Art
Center. Anyone interested in more
information may contact the Legacy
Cultural Learning Community (LCLC)
c/o Tiger Gallery, 2110 E. Shawnee,
Muskogee, OK 74403.

The Cherokee Nation has released the new CD, Precious Memories, by the award-winning Cherokee National Youth
Choir. On the heels of their Macy's Day Parade appearance on national television, the youth choir takes a confident step forward
by recording their first acappella album. There are no musical instruments - just the beautiful voices of the youths - the
"instruments" given to them by the Creator. This might sound like a bold move for a choir who has built their reputation by collaborating on past
recordings with very talented musicians and world-class singers such as Rita Coolidge and Dolly Parton. But, on the first listen to Precious Memories it
becomes clear that the Cherokee National Youth Choir is strong enough vocally to strip everything away and reveal the rich depth and clarity of their native
vocals. As they lift their sweet voices in praise, the choir moves from strength to strength, highlighting each component of the group as they showcase their
beautiful Cherokee native language in song. Precious Memories demonstrates how the Cherokee National Youth Choir has won numerous NAMMY awards,
raising them to international prominence and placing them on the world stage at the White House, the Kennedy Center, and the Smithsonian Institute,
among others.
"Precious Memories is a collection of songs intended to provide comfort in those trying times of our lives," states Chad Smith, Principal Chief of the Cherokee
Nation. "It will provide remembrance of precious times and give us confidence to face future adversity and change."
Audio production and engineering for Precious Memories was provided by Jeffrey Parker, Margarett Parker, and Dixie Weathers, and was mixed and mastered
at Cimarron Sound Lab, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Precious Memories is available at CDBaby.com, Apple iTunes & DigStation.com. To learn more about
the Cherokee National Youth Choir, visit them online: http://choir.cherokee.org.
In Washington, DC, on the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage. This month's acts, June, include the U.S.
Air Force Singing Sergeants, the Cherokee National Youth Choir, and the Manhattan Transfer.

Have a look on the following NMAI website to learn about
funding available to Native artists in many genres:

http://www.nmai.si.edu/vaeag/

Please help spread the word on this opportunity to all
Cherokee artist and those who support them!
Howard Bass, Cultural Arts Manager
National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Institution
202-633-6628; fax 202-633-6897

PO Box 37012
MRC 590
Washington, DC 20013-7012

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Daniel Giles/timesDaily

This male American indian
costume is from the
Tennessee Valley Art
Center's exhibit "All Dressed
Up: Southeastern American
Indian Attire and Adornment
1750-1836."

A link to a full story about this
Exhibition is:
www.timesdaily.com/article/
20080424/NEWS/804240305
/1004

Taking Note:

American Experience and Comanche College invite you to take part in the Reel Native Video Workshops,
a cutting edge storytelling initiative that will be a centerpiece of the forthcoming PBS series WE SHALL REMAIN. The intensive two-day
video production workshop will be held July 26 & 27, 2008 at Comanche Nation College. Participants will receive a $500 stipend once
their project is completed.

WE SHALL REMAIN is a provocative multi-media project from the award-winning PBS series American Experience. Through a five-part
television series and extensive outreach activities in fifteen locations around the country, WE SHALL REMAIN presents Native history as
an essential part of American history. Reel Native Video Workshops enrich the project with contemporary stories from New England,
Arizona and Oklahoma. In these workshops we train and support Native people interested in creating short videos from their own
lives and experiences.

For example, at the workshops in Arizona and New England participants produced videos that varied enormously in style and content.
The participants included a 30-year old Navajo painter whose arresting art explores his complicated feelings about his identity as a “city
Indian”; a 20-year-old Pima/Salt River woman who tells how she recreated the Christmas of her childhood for her younger brother, and in
doing so reveals the bonds that tie her family together; and a ceramic artist recounts the day a whale beached near her home in
Shinnecock and how the experience affected her tribe and changed her artwork. These stories will be prominently featured online as
part of the WE SHALL REMAIN site on PBS.org.

The Reel Native Project is seeking to support a diverse group representing many tribes and age groups. No prior filmmaking experience
is required. WGBH staff and our partners at Native American Public Telecommunications will select the final twelve participants with an
eye toward representing as many different types of stories as possible. WGBH will provide, equipment, training and support for each
participant throughout the process starting with a two-day workshop.

Participants can expect to devote approximately seven days of their time over five weeks to the project – two days at the workshop, one to
two days of planning and writing, two days of taping and one day of editing. Co-instructors Tvli Jacob and Angélica Brisk will also
schedule individual meetings with all participants during the week after the workshop to get participants started on a strong foot.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Angelica Brisk for an application as soon as possible. The deadline is July 7th.

Please send to Angelica Brisk:
e-mail angelica_brisk@wgbh.org
fax 617-300-1018
or

Angélica Allende Brisk
We Shall Remain
American Experience
One Guest Street
Boston, MA 02135

Cherokee Nation seeks quilt entries

The Cherokee Nation is seeking quilters to enter the 2008 Quilt Show at the 56th Annual Cherokee National Holiday over Labor Day
weekend in Tahlequah, Ok.

This year's quilt show offers nine categories for quilters to enter. Ribbons will be awarded in each category for first through third place.
Overall ribbons will be presented for Viewer's Choice, Principal Chief's Choice and Deputy Chief's Choice.

The deadline to enter the quilt show is Aug. 15, and no entry fee is required.

All entries must remain on exhibit for the duration of the show. Items previously entered in a Cherokee Nation Holiday Quilt Show will not
be accepted.

The event will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29; from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30; and from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug.
31, in the old gym on the grounds of Sequoyah Schools. Admission is $1.

For an entry form, contact Rhonda Stanley at (918) 453-5598 or by e-mail at rhondastanley@cherokee.org.

Cherokee Nation Enterprises is still looking for more personal stories and photos
from Cherokee citizens in an effort to boost tourism in northeastern Oklahoma.

The corporation owned by the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma — and which operates Cherokee Casinos Inc. — originally set a May 1
deadline to receive written narratives and photographs of Cherokee life. Submissions will now be accepted through June 30.

"We have had a wonderful response to our request so far. But, we are still asking our tribal citizens for more stories and photos to fill in
the gaps and offer the richest, most real-life account of our history as possible," said Talisha Nichols, CNE culture and tourism manager,
in a press release.

CNE is particularly interested in information pre-1975, particularly stories about students at the Cherokee Female Seminary in
Tahlequah, Civil War soldiers, historical buildings, traditional meals and foods, spirituality, school life and government. CNE also
welcomes photos showing daily Cherokee life, buildings and families.

The information may be used in video presentations, brochures or Web publications, said Kelly Bruer, CNE public relations manager.

Stories need to be about 500 words and submitted to Cherokee Nation Enterprises, 777 W. Cherokee St., Catoosa, OK 74015. Photos
will be returned if accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope or if prior arrangements have been made.

Submissions also may be sent by e-mail to cady.shaw@cnent.com or faxed to (918) 439-4364. All entries should include the sender's
contact information along with a phone number.

Thursday, Oct. 2

Wilma Mankiller to speak and sign books: 7 p.m., Steele Auditorium, Heard Museum, 2301 N. Central Ave. Wilma Mankiller,
Cherokee, former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation and internationally known Native rights activist, will deliver the second Simon
Ortiz and Labriola Center lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture and Community at the Heard Museum. Her topic is Challenges Facing
21st Century Indigenous People. Book signing to follow immediately after lecture. Free and open to the public. www.heard.org.

"In A Modern World:
www.vindy.
com/news/2008/jun/13/thistledown-
results/
Youngstown Vindicator, Ohio reports the
5th—Purse $10,000, Claiming $5,000, 3
yo’s & up, One Mile.
Cherokee Nation, O. Pereira, 118"
Signed Signiatwo 6/15/08
(Not really "on topic" but thank you.)

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If you'd like to be a Dreamer
Concepts featured artist.....
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Exhibit of Native art debuts in
Brooklyn
Indian Country Today, NY - Mar 25,
2008
Elements of world cultures
appeared, as in the sinuous
blue coils of a Chinese dragon
in a painting by Jeffrey Gibson,
Choctaw/Cherokee. ...

Oklahoma Arts Council Conducting Survey

Please forward it to as many artists/individuals in your network as possible. It becomes more meaningful the more people participate.
The link for the survey is http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=75xHKnmkcDt_2bWywb1wbH6Q_3d_3d

If you have any questions, contact Linda.Garrett@arts.ok.gov or call 405-521-2013.