As the first female Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller sought to resotre traditional Cherokee practices called gadugi, where men and women work collectively for the common good. Find out if it worked (without threatened males feeling she lived up to her name), and what non-Cherokees can learn.
IUPUI is hosting the 3rd Annual Native American Indian Education Conference. This year’s focus is on the many aspects of Native American Indians and New Media. All the tribes in Indiana maintain websites and are dealing with website development and maintenance. Tribes outside Indiana stay in touch with members through websites and many other electronic sources. (more…)
Sixty four works demonstrate how long-held artistic traditions of the Inuit inspire contemporary sculptures, prints, fiber art, photography and digital media. All of these forms reflect Inuit societal values of family, community, and worldview expressed through Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (Inuit Traditional Knowledge). (more…)
“Writing is a conversation,” says Diane Glancy. Read her poetry, the converse with her in person … see if you can tell a difference. (more…)
Calling Sherman Alexie the foremost Native American writer is damning with faint praise. Novelist, essayist, poet, screenwriter, he is at the top of anyone’s game. And maybe he’ll explain why basketball is so important to Native Americans as well as Hoosiers. (more…)
Creative Native 2008
“Be Local, Act Global”
Come watch local artists compete for $3000 in prizes as they reveal elements of Indy’s increasingly global character at Garfield Park Arts Center. (more…)
Considered one of the finest story-tellers in the country, for nearly thirty years Joseph Bruchac has been creating short stories, poetry, novels, and anthologies that reflect his Abenaki Indian heritage and Native American traditions. (more…)
Discover the world while in the dark. (more…)
“Wounded Knee” was the site of the last armed conflict between the US government and the Lakota Sioux in 1890, resulting in some 146 dead; more than 80 years after the massacre, beginning on February 27, 1973, Wounded Knee was also the site of a 71-day standoff between federal authorities and militants of the American Indian Movement. Eiteljorg is bringing veterans of the latter to discuss what the incidents at Wounded Knee mean to us all. (more…)
Native American composer “Stands With Eagles” Dr. Louis W. Ballard (July 8, 1931 – February 9, 2007) made it his life’s mission to illuminate the unique motivations behind Native American music. His piano concerto “Incident at Wounded Knee” is “an evocation of the traditions and moods of the Indian people.” (more…)
NUVO gives Provocate 2007 Cultural Vision Award
Provocate featured in Indianapolis Monthly
"Award combines film, activism: Festival to recognize social justice of Sept. 11, Congo in discussions,"
Indiana Lawyer April 16, 2008 ... on Provocate's Eric Parker Social Justice Award at the Indianapolis International Film Festival
