Free Screening Followed by Filmmaker Q and A
Who: These free screenings will be followed by a question-and-answer session with filmmakers Charlie Soap (director/producer) and Kristina Kiehl (co-writer and producer).
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Free Screening Followed by Filmmaker Q and A
Camp registration forms are available at the Lushootseed Language Department, please contact either Michele Balagot at 716-4495 or Natosha Gobin at 716-4499 in the Lushootseed Department for a registration form.
The Tulalip Lushootseed Language Department will be holding two camp sessions.
Camp #1: August 5th – August 9th
Or
Camp #2: August 12 – August 16th
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Kenny Moses Building (KMB)
Ages: 5-12
Lunch: Will be provided
Activities:
Children will be learning traditional and new songs.
Children will be given language lessons.
Children will be given traditional teachings.
Children will play traditional and new games using Lushootseed.
All of the children will participate in a play based on a traditional story in Lushootseed.
Children will make crafts. They will make one for the giveaway, and keep one for themselves.
Each camp will end with a dinner for family and community members where the play will be presented and a giveaway.
PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND THE CLOSING CEREMONY ON FRIDAY August 9th (for the first camp) OR AUGUST 16th (for the second camp). THE PROGRAM WILL START AT 11:30 AM WITH A SONG, AND WILL END WITH OUR FEAST. FRIDAY CEREMONY LOCATED AT HIBULB CULTURAL CENTER: 6410 23RD AVE., TULALIP, WA
For questions or to get a registration form, please contact either Michele Balagot at 716-4495 or Natosha Gobin at 716-4499.
Angela Aleiss, Indian Country Today Media Network
As The Lone Ranger heads for the big screen this summer, many Native Americans are questioning Disney’s campaign to court their approval. They believe that the studio’s public relations gestures mask the real issues of the marketing and identity of indigenous people.
The movie, which stars Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as the Lone Ranger, will hit theaters July 3. Depp has enjoyed a long relationship with the film’s director Gore Verbinski and its producer Jerry Bruckheimer through Disney’s record-breaking Pirates of the Caribbean series. The megastar is also one of The Lone Ranger’s executive producers, and his production company Infinitum Nihil (Latin for “Infinite Nothing”) was involved with the picture.
But Depp’s claims of Cherokee heritage (put forth in 2002 on Inside the Actors’ Studio, although in 2011 speaking to Entertainment Weekly he added “or maybe Creek”) along with his streaked black-and-white painted face and a stuffed crow perched atop his head have caused many to cry foul. Still, others say that Disney—which has a long history of working with Native Americans—is not adequately addressing their issues.
For his part, Depp told MTV.com that the film is “an opportunity for me to salute Native Americans.” The actor has said he hopes to fix years of Indian misrepresentations in Hollywood and has repeatedly stated that his great grandmother had mostly Cherokee blood.
But Native American leaders and educators are not buying it. They question Depp’s claims of Cherokee heritage, particularly the studio’s attempt to keep it ambiguous.
“Disney relies upon the ignorance of the public to allow that ambiguity to exist,” says Hanay Geiogamah, Professor of Theater at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. Geiogamah (Kiowa/Delaware) was a consultant for Disney’s Pocahontas and served as producer and co-producer for TBS’ The Native Americans: Behind the Legends, Beyond the Myths aired in the 1990s.
“If Depp had any legitimate blood of any tribe, Disney would definitely have all the substantial proof of that already. It’s not that hard to establish tribal connections,” Geiogamah says.
Richard Allen, Policy Analyst for the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, agrees. He says that many celebrities have claimed Cherokee heritage—often based upon family stories they’ve heard—but like Depp they never try to verify it. “They all tell me they have high cheekbones,” Allen says.
Geiogomah believes that because so few roles in Hollywood go to Native American actors, Disney’s big-budget movie is a “missed opportunity.” Depp could have played the Lone Ranger and instead promoted a younger Indian actor to play Tonto, he points out. After all, Canadian Mohawk actor Jay Silverheels portrayed the character in the 1950s TV series.
“Now they re-introduce Tonto with a non-Indian. So can you call that progress?” Geiogamah asks.
Instead, he worries that Disney’s Tonto feeds into non-Native expectations of Indians frozen in a historic time frame. “That costume ends up making us look like a bunch of oddballs with dead birds on our heads,” Geiogamah says.
But William “Two Raven” Voelker, the movie’s Comanche consultant, says that the costume—including the Crow headdress—is authentic to Comanche culture. “Everyone’s got an opinion who has no knowledge of our culture,” Voelker says. “That’s the part that wears me down.”
Voelker is co-founder of the tribe’s Sia Essential Species Repository, an organization devoted to the rehabilitation and breeding of bald eagles. Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, who adopted Depp into her family, is also a member of Sia’s Board of Directors. Voelker says that Disney has agreed that The Lone Ranger will bring “open-ended” contributions to Sia.
But Gary Brouse, Program Director of Policy and Governance at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), questions claims of cultural authenticity. He had contacted Disney and met with the company’s Corporate Citizenship and Global Publicity divisions prior to The Lone Ranger’s production.
“That’s one thing that concerns us is a company’s lack of cooperation with indigenous leaders in this particular field, leaders that we recognize as leaders rather than someone they hire as a consultant,” he says.
The New York City-based ICCR encourages member institutions to integrate social values into investor actions and has fought against offensive portrayals of Native Americans in corporate commercials and sponsorships. The organization has successfully campaigned against Denny’s “Chief Wahoo” images on company uniforms and Liz Claiborne’s “Crazy Horse” fashions.
Brouse says that there is no indigenous person at Disney responsible for the company’s policy toward Native American people.
Disney responded that Christine Cadena, Senior Vice President of Multicultural Initiatives, instead played a key role in liaising with the Native American community for The Lone Ranger.
“I think Disney should hire more indigenous people in all kinds of roles,” Brouse says, adding that the company should also have a publicly disclosed statement on record of their policy when dealing with indigenous issues.
But Disney points out that its Human Rights Policy applies across all populations and regions. “Our collaboration with a broad range of interested constituencies, including indigenous people, keeps us sensitive to the potential impacts of our products and services and the interests of our employees, customers and communities around the world,” a Disney representative replied through email.
Still, Brouse explains that part of the problem was that Depp had “a lot of say so” in the film yet did not fully grasp the project’s impact on Native American communities. When Brouse tried to invite Depp to conference calls with Indian leaders, nothing ever happened. “Disney conveyed that Depp was very concerned about this and just passed the message along. We never really knew the reason why he didn’t do it,” Brouse says.
Read more at https://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/06/17/johnny-depp-indian-he-or-isnt-he-149941
Twin Lakes, Sundays, 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
Hike a two-mile round trip to the lakes and back through dense old-growth forest and learn about the magnificent trees of the cascades, plants, wildlife and some unusual history of the area.
Source: The Herald, June 16, 2013
This coming week is the swan song for spring 2013 in the Northwest skies as summer officially begins at 10:04 p.m.Thursday.
The bad or good news, depending on your perspective, is that we start losing daylight and gaining stargazing time.
Once it finally gets dark, what’s left of the spring constellations are hanging in the western sky. The spring constellations are not exactly celestial barnburners.
Constellations like Cancer the Crab, Corvis the Crow, and Coma Berenices the Cut Hair don’t exactly make the highlight film for backyard astronomers.
Leo the Lion is a little better. That’s the constellation that looks like a rightward leaning, backward question mark in the western sky after evening twilight.
The moderately bright star at the bottom of the leaning question mark depicts the lion’s heart. The rest of the cycle outlines the head of the beast. In about another month we’ll lose the Lion in the twilight as Earth turns away from that part of space in its orbit around the sun.
In the eastern sky right now the stars and constellations of summer are on the rise and from night to night and week-to-week, they’ll start out the evening higher in the sky as darkness sets in.
Among them are the three bright stars that make up what’s known as the “Summer Triangle” that’s very easy to find.
Simply look in the northeastern quarter of the sky for the three brightest stars you can see and that’s it. This triad of stars is one of the best tools for getting around the summer sky because each of the stars is the brightest member in it’s respective constellation.
The highest and brightest is Vega in the constellation Lyra the Harp. The second brightest star is Altair on the lower right side of the triangle that is also the brightest luminary in Aquila the Eagle.
The third brightest on the lower left corner of the triangle is Deneb, brightest star in Cygnus the Swan, also known by its nickname the Northern Cross.
Deneb is the dimmest of the Summer Triangle as we see it, it’s the biggest and most powerful of the three stars.
Its diameter is a little more than 200 times that of our sun, which would give it a girth of 150 to 200 million miles.
Deneb is the faintest stellar member of the Summer Triangle because of its immense distance. It emanates from more than 1,500 light-years away. Just one light-year, the distance that light travel in year’s time equals just under 6 trillion miles.
In miles that would make Deneb 8,700 trillion miles away.
As far away as Deneb is it’s still a fair close-by star in our home Milky Way Galaxy that that stretches more than a 100,000 light-years in diameter.
Don’t ever forget the vastness of what you’re peering into when you spend a summer night under the stars.
Mike Lynch is an astronomer and professional broadcast meteorologist for WCCO Radio in Minneapolis.
Lauren Salcedo, Marysville Globe
MARYSVILLE — Victory Foursquare Church will host its third annual Victory Car Show to benefit the Allen Creek Community Food Bank, on July 27, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
“All the proceeds go to the food bank, and we are trying to get something together to help seniors and widows get small car repairs as well,” said Robin Taylor, who started the event three years ago.
“I’ve always liked hot rods and cars, ever since I was a little kid. I thought that the grounds of the church had a nice property for a car show, and that it would be a good way to connect with the community in Marysville.”
The car show will host a silent auction and give trophies to winners of four different categories.
“We will also have a cash drawing done by car registration number for one $500 prize and 10 $100 prizes,” said Taylor. “It gives people the chance to win something just for bringing a car even if it’s not the best car in the lot.”
Visitors can fill up at the Famous Dave’s barbecue truck on burgers and hot dogs, all the proceeds of which will also be donated to the food bank. The car show’s first year saw 35 vehicles, a number which doubled the following year. Taylor is hoping for more than 100 cars this year, and $2,500 in donations.
Victory Foursquare Church is located at 11911 State Ave. in Marysville. For more information call 360-651-1110.
By Monica Brown
TULALIP, Wash. – Family and friends joined together to watch their precious ones graduate from Tulalip Montessori school. The ceremony, which took place at the Tulalip Don Hatch/Greg Williams Court on June 13, 2013, included songs sung by the children and a slideshow of the children’s photos that had been taken throughout the school year. School staff honored the children for their graduation achievement and cake and refreshments were served.