Siletz news /, October 01, 1998, Page 19, Image 19

Dedicated to Women of the Siletz....
MORNING STAR CHILDREN
by Suzan Shown Harjo
Morning Star radiates blessings
for Mother Earth
and all the worlds
Her brilliance is
a gift of the Spirit
Mabeo sent Morning Star Woman
with Corn and Squash
and Beans and Tobacco
to nourish the People
to feed the Spirit
She delighted the people
as a shining Star Childe
She inspired the People
as an Enlightened Elder
She encouraged the People
as an Everyday Woman
sparkling with hope
Mabeo told the Cheyenne People:
“The Nation will be strong
So long as the hearts of the
women
Are not on the ground”
Dakota and Osage People sing a song,
and it is Wakan:
“We are not defeated
While the women are strong"
Messages in the hearts of Native
National Science Graduate Fellowship
Women
The National Science Foundation will
for all ubo are touched in unkind award approximately 1,000 new Graduate
ways
Research Fellowships to support graduate study
for all who pray to end unholy
in science, mathematics and engineering.
days
Fellowships are awarded for graduate study
for ali who shelter the disbeart
leading to research-based master’s or doctoral
ened in loving ways
degrees in the fields of science, mathematics, and
“They Never Touched You”
“You Are Blessed By The
Morning Star Woman
And Your Heart Is Not On
The Ground"
“You are Blessed By The
Morning Star Woman
And Tl>e People Are Strong"
“You Are Blessed By The
Morning Star Woman"
“You Are Blessed By The
Morning Star"
Messages in the hearts of women from
Arawak and Acoma
as they turned away from hairy
faces
and fixed their eyes on severed
hands
and fixed their eyes, and fixed
their eyes
“You Are Blessed”
Thank you to Pat Darcy for sharing
that with the women of the Siletz.
January 23 - 30,1999
at the
Western Folklife Center
501 Railroad Street
Elko, Nevada 89801
Call them at (702) 738-7508 for more
information
AMERICAN INDIAN ABMASSADORS
Messages in the hearts of women from
Washita and Palo Duro Canyon
as they were stampeded and
invaded
to the sound of ponies screaming
in the sunset
to the sound of screams, to the
sound of screams
Messages in the hearts of women from
Bosque Redondo and the Crazy Horses
Bar
as they traded themselves for
their children
as they sold thenselves for food
and drink
as they gave nothing away, as
they gave nothing away
Messages in the hearts of women from
Warm Springs to Siletz
as they end a century of missing
memory
as they once again dance in
emergence dresses
as they sing their lost and found
song:
“They Never Touched Me”
“They Never Touched Me”
Each three-year fellowship provides a
stipend of $ 15,000 for 12-month tenure, and a
cost-of-education allowance of $10,500 per
tenure year. Applications are due by November
5,1998. Awards will be announced in March
1999.
For more information contact:
National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship Program
c/o Oak Ridge Associated Universities
P.O. Box 3010
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-3010
(423) 241-4300
(423)241-451 » (FAX)
“You Are a Blessed Star Child"
1999 COWBOY POETRY GATHERING
Messages of Creation
for all Peoples
for all Time
engineering supported by the NSF. Applicants
must be citizens, nationals, or permanent resident
aliens of the United States at the time of
application.
PROGRAM
Americans for Indian Opportunity
developed the American Indian Ambassadors
Program to foster leadership growth among the
Native American community. The purpose of
the Ambassadors Program is to rekindle dormant
vision, refresh current leadership and empower
emerging leades to create avenues for Native
Americans to express their cultural values in all
arenas of contemporary life. While participating
for one year, the Ambassadors remain in their
communities and come together in appropriate
locations, in and outside the United States, for
sever group meetings.
The 1998 Ambassadors Program is open
to American Indians and Alaska Natives from
the United States between the ages of25 - 36.
Interested participants must fill out and submit an
official application, which includes two
nominations and a written proposal outlining a
plan for a community-based project.
Deadline for applications is 12/15/98.
For more information, contact:
Americans for Indian Opportunity
681 Juniper Hill Road
Bernalillo, NM 87004
(505) 867-0278
(505) 867-0441 (Fax)
aiomail@unm.edu
1999 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral
Fellowships for Minorities
Approximaicly 25 Postdoctoral
Fellowships will be awarded in a nationwide
competition sponsored by the ford Foundation
and administered by the National Research
Council.
Applicants must be US Citizens or
nationals who are members of one of the following
ethnic minority groups: Native American Indian,
Alaska Native (Eskimo or Aleut), Black/African
American, Mexican American/Chicana/Chicano,
Native Pacific Islander (Polynesian or
Micronesian), Puerto Rican.
Awards are for study in research-based
doctor programs in the life sciences, physical
sciences, mathematics, engineering sciences,
behavior and social sciences, education, and the
humanities. Applicants must have completed a
PhD or ScD degree between 1/4/92 and 3/3/
99.
Application deadline is January 4,1999.
1999 Ford Foundation Predoctoral
Fellowships for Minorities
Approximately 50 Predoctoral
Fellowships will be awarded in a nationwide
competition sponsored by the Ford Foundation.
Applicants must be at or near the
beginning of study toward a PhD or ScD degree
in research-based doctor programs in the
behavior and social sciences, humanities,
engineering, mathematics, physical sciences and
life sciences, or for interdisciplinary programs
composed of two or more eligible disciplines.
Application deadline is November 14,
1998. For more information, contact the
Fellowship Office, National Research Council,
at (202) 334-2872.
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VETERANS OUTREACH
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(360) 696-4061, ext. 3413
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