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URBAN "SMOKE SIGNALS"
March 1, 2009
To view last week's events, please click this link.
This newsletter includes many more events at the AIC’s Trickster Gallery in Schaumburg, IL
Trickster Gallery
190 South Roselle Road
Schaumburg, Illinois, 60193
Hours of Operation:Tue/Wed/Thu/Sat, 11am-6pm & Friday, 11am-8pm
Suggested Donation: Adults $5 Seniors and Children $2
For more information: 847.301.2090 trickstergallery@aic-chicago.org
AIC’s 54th annual Powwow is on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/169360130
Trickster Gallery is on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/trickstergallery
Welcome to our new format. If you would like to add some news please submit one short paragraph to: cyndee@aic-chicago.org. Events outside of the American Indian Center of Chicago will be posted for approximately 2 weeks. The AIC E-Events email goes out on Sunday or Monday and your paragraph must be received by Wednesday, the week before it is to be posted. Please do NOT send flyers or attachments.
JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE POW WOW
Joliet Junior College will be presenting its 13th annual Pow Wow on Saturday, March 14th, 2009. The Pow Wow is sponsored by the Joliet Junior CollegeNative American Club in cooperation with the American Indian Center of Chicago
The Pow Wow hours are from noon to 9 p.m. with Grand Entries slated for 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. The daylong activities will include Native American dancing, music, along with a variety of vendors exhibiting and selling their crafts. Native American food will also be available in the cafeteria from noon to 6 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for seniors and children 12 or under.
For general information, please contact Fred Harris, Advisor of the JJC Native American Club, at 815-280-2566 or e-mail at fharris@jjc.edu and for vendor information Cynthia Fox-Starr, cyndee@aic-chicago.org
Host Drum is: Hochunk Station - Baraboo, WI.
Native Lynx 2nd bout is coming up on Sunday March 1, 2009 at the Columbia college 623 s. Wabash at 10 am. Tickets are 8$ per person. For more info: contact Negwes White @ Postive Paths.
Urban Explorers Maple Sugar Trip
Where? Menominee Reservation
When? Friday, March 20, 2009 to Saturday, March 21, 2009
Looking for middle school students to join us. Limited space. Please contact Cynthia Soto, 773-318-8842 or email c-soto@northwestern.edu for more information ASAP
Job Opportunity at the AIC
*Maintenance/Security position, 40 hours per week. Check out website for complete job description. www.aic-chicago.org; or contact Celeste St. Germaine celeste@aic-chicago.org; or call (773) 275-5871-ext. 18
Prize Bingo at the AIC on Friday, March 6, 2009. Doors open at 6:00 pm and games begin at 7:00 pm. Join us for an evening of family fun. Prizes for all games with a special surprise for the cover-all. Food service will be available. Sponsored by the Miss/Jr. Miss Indian Chicago Committee.
Welcome, Everybody to the first monthly Family Fun Night !
Wednesday, March 18
Activities for the whole family: Traditional StoryTelling-Fun Family Cooking Ideas -Native Games;
Prizes ! Games ! Raffles !
Don't Miss It!
Time: 6pm - 6:30 = Pot Luck Dinner: Bring a favorite dish to share;
If you can, bring your own plate, bowl, cup & utensils to help us be more MotherEarth friendly
6:30 - 8pm = Activities, Presentations and Family Circle.
Place: American Indian Center
Wednesday, March 18
6pm - 8pm
Monthly Family Nights are Brought to you by the Wellness Department and Circles of Care LEEP Program
Join Our Fun, Free After-School Program
Parents, enroll your children in the Positive Paths after-school program today! We work with at-risk Native youth to increase students' academic success, self-confidence, interpersonal and social development, cultural identity, and leadership skills in a positive, safe, supportive, and culturally appropriate environment. Positive Paths will provide your child with services such as tutoring, mentoring, leadership development, and cultural and community service activities. We are open from 3pm to 8pm Mondays through Thursdays. Everyday from 3pm-5:30pm we tutor students and provide homework help, then break for a healthy, delicious, free meal cooked by AIC's master chef, Angel Starr. From 6pm-8pm we have literacy, fitness, wellness, and technology programming where we do things like turn Native stories into plays, hold spoken word workshops, breakdance, play kickball, do Native drumming, and hold talking circles. For an application, please contact Positive Paths' program coordinator, Jannan, at jannan@aic-chicago.org or call the American Indian Center at (773) 275-5871 x28.
Volunteer Opportunity To Work With Native Youth
Positive Paths, the American Indian Center's after-school tutoring and mentoring program, relies very heavily on the kind selflessness of volunteer staff. Our program is designed to benefit at-risk Native youth and provides a range of coordinated services such as tutoring, mentoring, leadership development, and cultural and community service activities. We are looking to recruit interested volunteers for our spring '09 school year to tutor and mentor our program's participants. We are seeking reliable, caring adults who are willing to make a commitment to the tutoring/programming sessions. Our hours of operation are 3pm to 8pm, Monday through Thursday. We especially need volunteers to tutor from 3pm to 5:30pm during homework time on all days that we are open. For further information on how you can become involved with Native youth in the Positive Paths program as a tutor/mentor, please e-mail the Positive Paths' program coordinator at jannan@aic-chicago.org or call the American Indian Center at (773) 275-5871 x28.
Positive Paths and the Education Department would like to extend a chii migwetch (great thank you) to the funders that make our program possible, including: The Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, CDBG, Chicago State University, and the National Science Foundation.
Jannan Cotto
Positive Paths Coordinator
Positive Paths Workshop
We are starting to teach a photoshop workshop on Wednesday February 25 6:30 - 8:30 pm. It will be taught by Joe Yazzie from Trickster GAllery, and assisted by our volunteer Pascha who graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. We will teach the students the basics of photoshop using a cs photoshop program. The workshop will last tentatively for six weeks beginning February 25. Contact April Tsoise in Positive Paths (773) 275-5871 ext. 17.
TRICKSTER GALLERY
CURRENT EXHIBITS
Art by Dawn Dark Mountain ( Oneida )
Native American Veteran Exhibit- Wall of Honor & art by Joe Yazzie (Navajo) and Bruce King ( Oneida )
New Art by Kyle Wauneka (Navajo/Zuni)
Return of Ancestors
50 Years of Powwow
FEBRUARY 28th 3:00pm- NATIVE AMERICAN BOOK Club: "Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage" by William Loren Katz
MARCH 6th, 13th, 20th, & 27th 6:00pm- "INTO THE WEST" Movie Series
Movie will be shown in 4 parts throughout the month
MARCH 8th- TRICKSTER GALLERY'S 4TH ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT DINNER
Exhibit Opening with Robert Upham, Music by Mark Jourdain & Mark Cleveland. Call 847-301-2090 to purchase tickets
APRIL 7th- EXHIBIT OPENING: ART BY ROBERT MARTINEZ
JUNE 6th- EXHIBIT OPENING:OFFICE OF INDIAN EDUCATION STUDENT ART
Visit us at www.myspace.com/trickstergallery where you can sign up for our mailing list, see pictures of our current exhibits, and find out about our upcoming events!
HOURS:
Tuesday-Saturday 11:00am-6:00pm
Friday 11:00am-8:00pm
Suggested Donation: Adults $5; Children, Seniors, & Students $3
TRICKSTER GALLERY 190 S. Roselle Rd. Schaumburg , IL 60193
847-301-2090
SUPPORT YOUR AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE OF CHICAGO!
Native American patients needed for American Indian Health Service-We are in jeopardy of being closed by the Indian Health Service if we do not see more Native American patients. We are happy to be your primary care provider but if you already have a primary care provider that you are happy with, you do not have to leave that person - just come to Indian Health for one thing like getting your flu shot or to have your blood pressure checked or to get your pap smear or to get a bone density test and we can work in collaboration with any other provider you are seeing. If you have any questions or ideas or for an appointment please call 773-883-9100.
Thank you from the staff at American Indian Health Service.
Tuesday, March 10 at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S Lincoln Avenue, Urbana | 6:00pm
Meet the Chief
John P. Froman, Chief of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, and Jason Dollarhide, Second Chief, will give a presentation about the Peoria nation's history, services, and programs.
For info contact: John McKinn (Maricopa, Gila River Indian Community)
Assistant Director of Academic Programming
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Native American House and American Indian Studies
1204 W. Nevada Street
Urbana, IL 61801
217.265.9870
Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
3001 Central Street Evanston, IL 60201
Phone 847-475-1030
www.mitchellmuseum.org
Sunday, March 1
Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University; book signing and talk on the fur trade. Indian Women and French Men.
March 8 - April 15
New Exhibition opens!
Office of Indian Education - 2008 Student Art Competition: Circle of Empowerment: Education, Language, Culture, Tradition
Saturday, March 14
10:00am - 5:00pm
Artists Marketplace: More than 15 artists will have an variety of artwork and crafts available for sale, featuring special guest artists.
Sunday, March 15
12 noon - 4:00pm
Artists Marketplace: More than 15 artists will have an variety of artwork and crafts available for sale, featuring special guest artists.
Thursday, March 19
1:00pm
Book discussion group: Fort Dearborn, a novel by Gerald A. Danzer and Jerry Crimmins
Sunday, March 22
1:00pm
Patricia Locke, Lakota, video with commentary by representative from the Bahai National Center
Coming to WTTW11 on Mondays, April 13 through May 11, 2009, 9:00-10:30 p.m.:
We Shall Remain (an American Experience production)
This five-part television series shows how Native peoples valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture -- from the Wampanoags of New England in the 1600s who used their alliance with the English to weaken rival tribes, to the bold new leaders of the 1970s who harnessed the momentum of the civil rights movement to forge a pan-Indian identity. We Shall Remain represents an unprecedented collaboration between Native and non-Native filmmakers and involves Native advisors and scholars at all levels of the project.
Among the producers of the series’ five episodes are Chris Eyre and Ric Burns. The cast of Native actors is headed by Wes Studi, and the films are narrated by Benjamin Bratt.
To access the We Shall Remain website and watch a video preview, log onto: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/
AIC Flea-Market: Second Saturday of each month. See You in the Spring!
AIC Bingo is on the first Friday of the month. The AIC Board of Directors is sponsoring Bingo, Friday February 6th.
Powwow Committee meets the 3rd Thursday of every month @ 7:00 pm at AIC. Come get involved!!! Join the committee!!! Call the AIC for monthly meeting times and dates
AA MEETINGS EVERY SUNDAY! 4 PM - 5 PM
AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER 1630 W. WILSON, CHGO. IL 60640
I AM RESPONSIBLE
"When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want the hand of A.A. always to be there and for that, I AM RESPONSIBLE." (Bill W. - Toronto 1965).
If you would like to add some news please submit one short paragraph to: cyndee@aic-chicago.org. Events outside of the American Indian Center of Chicago will be posted for approximately 2 weeks. The AIC E-Events email goes out on Sunday or Monday and your paragraph must be received by Wednesday, the week before it is to be posted. Please do NOT send flyers or attachments.