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= * News about Indigenous Peoples in the Americas  = June, 2014 [] // In the wake of a Bundy Ranch crisis sparked by a militarized federal land-grab effort in Nevada, it seems that the Department of Interior has set its sights on a new prize - this time targeting once protected Indian reservation land on Pine Ridge in South Dakota.... //
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 * [[file:peabody2014/Tribal_Nations_Map_NA.pdf|Tribal_Nations_Map_NA.pdf]] ||  ||
 * Feds Threatening "Third Wounded Knee" with Eminent Domiain **

[] Discusses the reasons for loss of languages and the importance of preserving them.
 * Nuwer, Rachel. Languages: Why we must save dying tongues. BBC, 6 June 2014. **

For more on endangered languages see [] //intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level. //
 * UNESCO’s //Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger // **

//and // [] //A new report shows a direct link between disappearing habitats and the loss of languages. One in four of the world's 7,000 spoken tongues is now at risk of falling silent for ever as the threat to cultural biodiversity grows. //
 * Vidal, John. As forests are Cleared and Species Vanish, There's One other Loss: A World of Languages//. The Observer.//.7 June 2014 **


 * Hansi Lo Wang. The Map of Native American Tribes You've Never Seen Before. ** ** National Public Radio. ** [] Thank you Lisa S


 * Peru approves genocide for uncontacted tribes. [] **
 * Uncontacted Amazon Tribe: First ever aerial footage. ** []

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 * Two lawsuits to stop Peru’s biggest gas project in indigenous reserve. Operations by gas consortium in Amazon reserve for vulnerable indigenous peoples met with legal action. **

Feds move to recognize Native Hawaiian government []
 * Indigenous protests in Peruvian Amazon. //Revolution news.// [] **

[] En el Smithsonian de Nueva York obtuvo un puesto para diseñar un programa para niños, que procuraba llevar el conocimiento a niños y niñas sobre la cultura taína.
 * Rivera,Severo ** . ** Un proyecto cinematográfico para difundir la cultura taína: La folclorista e intérprete Irka Mateo encabeza el proyecto en NY **

**Kim, Susanna. Washington Redskins Trademark Revoked: What Does it Mean for the Team? ABCNEws. June 18, 2014.** New ruling on the Redskins trademark. The government agency ruled 2-1, following a petition by five Native Americans, today that the team's name is "disparaging of Native Americans." See history of the controversial Redskins logo ** [] **
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May,2014 Mazza, Ed. Christopher Columbus' Ship, The Santa Maria, May Have been Found off the Coast of Haiti. Huffington Post, May 13, 2014. Article led to === @http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-lost-fort-of-columbus-8026921/?no-ist which led to this story about the Taino people: @http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/what-became-of-the-taino-73824867/. Thank you Tom Parlapiano. ===

Land conflict in the Lacandon Jungle.
 * Conflicto en la Selva Lacondona 2014 ** []

Did the Polynesians beat Columbus to South America? Not according to the tale of migration uncovered by analysis of ancient DNA from chicken bones recovered in archaeological digs across the Pacific.
 * Chicken bones tell true story of pacific migration. **@http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140317155201.htm

@http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-faeces-reveal-origins-of-puerto-rican-natives-1.15203
 * Ancient faeces reveal origins of Puerto Rican natives. **

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**Teenage girl’s 13,000-year-old wisdom tooth sheds light on early Native American origins.** ====== []

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">@http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424053111903454504576486421307171028?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424053111903454504576486421307171028.html <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">"The silk would cause a sensation in Spain, as the silver would in China. But the crowds that greeted the returning ships had no idea what they were truly carrying. We usually describe globalization in purely economic terms, but it is also a biological phenomenon." .
 * Mann, Charles C.The Real Story of Globalizatio ** n:"1493" on stowaway earthworms, far-flung potatoes and the world made by Columbus.
 * //The Wall Street Journal.// August, 2011. **

May,2014 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">@http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140317155201.htm
 * Conflicto en la Selva Lacondona 2014** http://youtu.be/HhlXRYJe7io
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Chicken bones tell true story of pacific migration **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">@http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-faeces-reveal-origins-of-puerto-rican-natives-1.15203
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ancient faeces reveal origins of Puerto Rican natives **

** Teenage girl’s 13,000-year-old wisdom tooth sheds light on early Native American origins. **
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/teenage-girls-13000-year-old-wisdom-tooth-sheds-light-onto-early-native-american-origins/

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">"The silk would cause a sensation in Spain, as the silver would in China. But the crowds that greeted the returning ships had no idea what they were truly carrying. We usually describe globalization in purely economic terms, but it is also a biological phenomenon" Charles C. Mann "1493" on stowaway earthworms, far-flung potatoes and the world made by Columbus. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">@http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424053111903454504576486421307171028?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424053111903454504576486421307171028.html
 * Globalization**-

October
The Importance of Language; Keeping our Mother Tongues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecceZQCOTvQ September

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In August 1576, in the midst of an outbreak of the Plague, the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and 22 indigenous artists locked themselves away in the school of Santa Cruz de Tlaltelolco in Mexico City with the mission to create nothing less than the first illustrated encyclopedia of the New World. The manuscript, divided into 12 volumes and now known as the Florentine Codex, is the single most important artistic and historical document for the study of the peoples and cultures of pre-Hispanic and colonial Central Mexico. The completed manuscript reflects both indigenous and Spanish traditions of writing and painting, including parallel columns of text in Spanish and Nahuatl and over 2,000 watercolor illustrations prepared in both European and Aztec pictorial styles. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">New research has revealed the complexity of meanings inherent in the selection of pigments used in the manuscript, providing a fascinating glimpse into a previously hidden symbolic language. Drawing upon new approaches in art history, anthropology, and materials science, Diana Magaloni Kerpel explores one of the world's great manuscripts, created at a pivotal moment in the early modern Americas. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Diana Magaloni Kerpel is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Harold M. Williams Auditorium, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Getty Center <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2862c5; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">@http://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/florentine_codex.html
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"The Colors of the New World: Artists, Materials, and the Creation of the Florentine Codex" **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Lecture by Diana Magaloni Kerpel **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Helmet,Freesans,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">The US Library of Congress in Washington DC holds the largest collection of Hispanic literature in the world. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; display: block; font-family: Helmet,Freesans,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Among the treasures in its vaults is the original 1605 copy of Miguel de Cervantes' classic novel Don Quixote, one of the most influential novels ever written. 1531 Court case- vassals of Hernan Cortes protest treatment -First instance of indigenous peoples using European law, they won the case. []

Ledger Drawings at Harvard Peabody https://peabody.harvard.edu/exhibits/current?q=node/292

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">H-SHEAR, network for scholars of the early American republic <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">@http://networks.h-net.org/h-shear
 * <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">History List Serve on the Early American republic. **

**Native Americans and the Railroad-**book list https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/fredmurr/lists/3155499

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Row-erupts-in-Mexico-over-chocolate-museums-at-Mayan-sites/30236
 * Row Erupts in Mexico over Chocolate Museum at Archaeology site**

August [] in the process of being updated.by <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Edward J. Gallaghe, Lehigh University
 * Pocahontas Archive **

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 * Huffington Post -Mashco-Piro Indians Make Tense Attempt at Contact**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,Century,Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">"LIMA, Peru -- Members of an Indian tribe that has long lived in voluntary isolation in Peru's southeastern Amazon attempted to make contact with outsiders for a second time since 2011, leading to a tense standoff at a river hamlet. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,Century,Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Authorities are unsure what provoked the three-day encounter but say the Mashco-Piro may be upset by illegal logging in their territory as well as drug smugglers who pass through. Oil and gas exploration also affects the region.

[] Medicinal and ritualistic uses of chocolate.
 * Heritage Daily- Archaeology News**

http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/08/10/world/americas/100000002383035/its-condor-vs-bull-in-peruvian-ritual.html In Peru's High Andes, villagers capture and then cast condors against bulls in a pageant celebrating freedom from Spanish colonial rule.
 * Condor vs Bull** -Peruvian ritual

<span style="background-color: #1a1a1a; color: #999999; display: block; font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif; text-align: left;"> Video presentation and slides; includes quilts, skins, pottery, photos, maps,ledger art.
 * Folk and Vernacular Art as American Art -** Janet Berlo http://www.primarysource.org/video/berlo_primarysource/index.html

http://amazonwatch.org/work/belo-monte-damB
 * Brazil's Belo Monte Dam:Sacrificing the Amazon and its Peoples for Dirty Energy**

**National Geographic** [] Enormous Maya frieze uncovered at the site of Holmul, Guatemala It depicts humans in a mythical setting. They may be deified rulers. It is 95% preserved. Traces of red, blue, green and yellow paint are still on it. The frieze dates to 590 CE when Tikal and Kaanul were at war. The frieze has an inscription related to Ajwosaj, ruler of Naranjo, a vassal city of Kaanul. Holmul was strategically located between Tikal and the coast as well as being in a position between the Kaanul capital of Dzibanche and the highlands. The highlands were the resource for basalt, obsidian and jade. Also, http://tulane.edu/news/newwave/080913_mayan_frieze.cfm

media type="custom" key="23577246" **The Dakota Unity Riders** in Danbury, CT- http://theunityride.com from Marie Monks


 * Facebook- Native Pride and Spirituality** https://www.facebook.com/NativePrideAndSpirituality

July
Replicas of preColumbian instruments-sounds emulate sounds of the jaguar.
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 * || Ik' B'alam - Tambor de Cuerda Maya ||

** Published on Aug 20, 2012 ** El único tambor de cuerda de Mesoamérica es maya, fue dibujado en un vaso cilíndrico ceremonial y el maestro laudero René Lemus lo sustrajo de la imagen y lo reconstruyó. Su sonido emula el rugido de un jaguar. Fue presentado por vez primera durante el Festival Internacional de Percusiones de Longueuil, Canadá, el 14 de Julio 2012. El Festival fue dedicado a la Civilización Maya. La grabación fue realizada por René Lemus y Carlos Mimendi, con réplicas de instrumentos precolombinos. [|www.daynews.comThe very first soap opera in the Mayan language will premiere next month in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. “Baktun” is a pioneer in the television industry, being the first Mayan speaking show of its kind. “Baktun” is intended to boost the presence of the language of the Mayan culture in mass media so…] [|The very first soap opera in the Mayan language will premiere next month in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. “Baktun” is a pioneer in the television industry, being the first Mayan speaking show of its kind. “Baktun” is intended to boost the presence of the language of the Mayan culture in mass media so…]
 * [|**First Mayan Language Soap Opera Premieres in August in Mexico**]**

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/08/sacred-cenotes/guillermoprieto-text
 * Secrets of the Maya Other World **

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/24/opinion/abandoned-in-indian-country.html?_r=0 Mandatory sequestration brings misery to the reservation.
 * Abandoned in Indian Country**

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 * First New World Fort (Megan)**

In Spanish- http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/07/24/ciencia/1374687783.html Settlements in the USA dating back to 1567-1568 and the contact with the indians in Appalachian Mountains where North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia come together: (Antonio Losada)

RECOMENDATIONS FROM JANET BERLO Navajo Philosophy

[] Includes links to the arts, business, __#|education__, environment,genealogy, news and pow wows.
 * Indian Country Today Media Network.com**

=<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">Blumenthal Stirs Opposition to Federal Recognition - Again = <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"> @http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/07/19/blumenthal-stirs-opposition-federal-recognition-again-150496

http://www.nativenewsnetwork.com/longest-walk-four-begins-today-in-dc-to-end-on-alcatraz-island-on-december-21.html =An 1894 Hopi Petition: Let Us Keep our Communal Land= @http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/07/12/hopi_petition_asks_government_to_allow_communal_land_owning_to_continue.html Hoopes, John. Conquest, Imagination and Dawn of the Modern Age: The Gold of Panama in it's Historical Context.
 * The Longest Walk. **