STURGIS — Three rifle volleys echoed through the Hills Tuesday afternoon, bidding farewell to the nation’s last Oglala Lakota code talker. Clarence Wolf Guts, an 86-year-old World War II veteran, was laid to rest in the Black Hills National Cemetery with the Lord’s Prayer and drum beat resonating inside the rock rotunda. A procession of [...]
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A new brochure, “Native American Culture; Rich in the Tulsa region” is now available through the Tulsa Convention and Visitors Bureau and local tribal tourism offices. The brochure was created as an educational and informational piece to inform local citizens and visitors of Tulsa’s rich Native American history and tradition. The three Tulsa regional tribes [...]
Acclaimed actor from Oklahoma, Wes Studi, will be honored by the Circle Cinema on Saturday, May 1, with a dedication of a medallion on the Circle’s Oklahoma Walk of Fame. Activities start at 11am with the dedication, followed by a reception. Sterlin Harjo, Native American filmmaker from Oklahoma, will read the dedication. The Circle will [...]
via BoingBoing: Young adult author Lorie-Ann Grover sez, “In 2008 and 2009, readergirlz, GuysLitWire, and YALSA orchestrated publishers’ donations of 20,000 new young adult books to hospitalized teens across the country. For 2010, If I Can Read I Can Do Anything has joined forces with these three organizations to drop over 10,000 new YA books, [...]
My five minutes of fame! Thanks to the entire team at Ignite Tulsa, as well as all the sponsors, the fellow speakers, and everyone who came out and supported us! It was a great night. I was QUITE nervous (and sick!), but I made it through thanks to my wife and daughter who were there to cheer me on.
well, we’re starting march of RIGHT! ‘got a fresh new email newsletter setup and ready to rock, thanks to mailchimp (hey, subscribe please!), and we’ve got a project set up on indegogo (i won’t mention that we haven’t been accepted yet by kickstarter, or that they’re a great service and you should check them out…maybe [...]
Ignite Tulsa
Feb 15
Huge News! the Native Language Project was selected to speak at Ignite Tulsa this year! I’m very excited about this. The event in tulsa is part of Global Ignite Week, and is produced by local event organizers and sponsored by O’Reilly Media, so this is our 5 minutes of fame on a national and global [...]
more than i can chew
Jan 15
it occurs to me that i’ve bitten off more than i can chew. obviously, you say? …well not so obvious to me i guess. in any case, i now see a little more clearly how to approach and develop this project a little better, thanks IN GREAT PART to feed back from andrew, rebecca, ken, [...]
life is too short
Dec 15
part of the motivation for this project of course, is that our lives on this planet are too short. there’s not enough time to write down / record all of our thoughts, not enough time to sit and listen to our elders for months or years, as much as we would want to completely just [...]
powerpoint presentation
Nov 1
i spent today putting together a nice little powerpoint file that i hope takes all the notes, ideas, etc. that i’ve cobbled together, in to one cohesive presentation. ideally i’ll be able to take this around and show the scope of the project as well as talk about what is the next step we need [...]