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News from I notion Country Page 7 Spilyay Tyrooo April 23, 2 0 0 9 Tribes tell their stories in new exhibit v Greg Leo photo for the Spilyay. The Museum at Warm Springs in April hosted its annual Honor Dinner. During the event, the museum honored former U.S. Senator Gordon Smith (second from left) with Twanat Award, presented annually to an individual for outstanding service to Native Americans. Also on hand for the dinner were former governor Vic Atiyeh (left), Congressman Greg Walden (second from right), and Tribal Council Chairman Ron Suppah. Echohawk tabbed for BIA post FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — President Barack Obama has nominated Larry Echohawk to lead the Bureau of Indian Af fairs, pending confirmation by the U.S. Senate. E ch o h aw k , a B righam Young University law profes sor and Pawnee Nation (Okla.) m em ber, served as Idaho's Democratic attorney general from 1990-94. He grew up across the street from Farmington High School, in New Mexico, where he gradu ated in 1966. E chohaw k was the first American Indian elected to a statewide constitutional office in Idaho. He and his wife, Terry, have six children. Rep. Tom Taylor, R- Farmington, graduated from high school with Echohawk. Taylor said Echohawk's experi ence as attorney general and work with American Indians in Idaho qualifies him for the po sition. Echohawk declined com ment, citing a request by the Obama administration not to co n d u ct news m edia in te r views while confirm ation is pending. Indian town erased by colonists honored MIDLOTHIAN, Va. (AP) - Virginia will add a new histori cal marker near Richmond to commemorate a Monacan In dian town that was destroyed by colonists. Sunday's ceremony will pay homage to Mowhemcho (mow- H E M -cho), w hich was d e stroyed in the late 17 th century and most o f its .people killed. French Huguenots later settled there and renam ed the P ow hatan C ounty tow n Manakin. Karenne Wood is a member of the Monacan Tribe and di rector o f the Virginia Indian Heritage Program. She said the historical marker "completes a historic circle" encompassing the importance of the Monacan town and Virginia history. Representatives of the Mo nacan Indian Nation plan to at tend Sunday's ceremony. clerk and bondsman when she stole the money between 2006 and 2008. She pleaded guilty in federal court in Pierre to embezzlement and theft from an Indian tribal organization. Man plans guilty plea in artifacts theft case SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Court documents say 78- year-old John M. Sheild, a retired pastor from Wiscon sin, plans to plead guilty to trafficking in archaeological resources taken from South D ak o ta public lands or American Indian lands. The top penalty is a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. Federal prosecutors said they would recom m end a sen tence o f probation. Sheild is expected to change his plea this week during a hearing in U.S. Dis trict Court in Pierre. He is one of at least five m en being prosecuted in South Dakota federal courts for archaeological resources crimes. Federal prosecutors indicted them, saying they looted or traded ancient ar chaeological items, such as military items, gun flints, lead balls and bullets and brass copper pieces. The exhibit, which was three years in the making, is divided into six chapters that form a cycle, each one flowing into the next until the circle is com pleted. By the end, a display shows visitors where the tribes started and where they find themselves now. The exhibit was set up to describe theLiistory of the tribes th ro u g h N ative A m erican voices, beginning just before E u ro p ean c o n ta c t, m oving through their forced relocations to Oklahoma around 1830 and into thè cultural revival that has defined recent decades. It in cludes more than 160 artifacts from the tribes. ‘We try to make sure that the words you read are from Native Americans,” Bennett said. ‘We wanted to have a Native Ameri can interpretation.” To do that, the m useum sought tribal advisers from each nation who helped mold the exhibit into a reflection of their historical and contemporary ex periences, as passed down in the tribes. Ardina Moore is a Quapaw tribal historian and a teacher of the Quapaw language, but is also part Osage. She said the name A rkansas com es from early French explorers who were told by an Illinois tribe that the people who inhabited what is now the state were the “A kansea,” w hich m eans “People of the South Wind.” The museum also was able to display item s fro m the Smithsonian Institution, ranging from buffalq hides to traditional weapons, that are on loan from the National Museum of the American Indian. Those arti facts supplement items from the Arkansas museum's own grow ing collection and some pro vided by the tribes. Moore even donated the cradle board made for her by her grandfather, the last hereditary chief o f the Quapaw nation, Victor Griffin. The space was blessed before the opening with a cedar wood smoke ceremony, a traditional Native American ceremony for new beginnings. ‘W hat pleases us the most is the idea that people are going to recognize our heritage and our culture, which to this point has been kind o f ignored,” Moore said. “It helps to be ap preciated.” MILLER FORD-NISSAN (Mlisiw. Center Inter-Industry Conference On Auto Collision Repair (l-CAR) Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) Certified COME SEE US FIRST We repair all makes and models! Let us help negotiate your vehicle damage claim Rosebud tribal court worker must repay $4,000 PIERRE, S.D. (AP) _ A Mis sion woman working as a Rose bud Sioux Tribe court staffer m ust repay $4,000 she stole from the tribe. Forty-three-year-old Patricia Rose Thin Elk was a tribal court LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) — The names mark rivers, valleys, schools and communi ties across the state, recalling the people who were settled in Ar kansas when Europeans first arrived in the 1500s. But while the names may be familiar to many, the history of the Quapaw, Osage and Caddo American Indian tribes might not. To help change that, the His toric Arkansas M useum ’has opened a perm anent exhibit called “We Walk in Two Worlds” to pass along the history and culture o f the three Native A merican nations that were once settled in Arkansas. To m ark the event, Gov. Mike Beebe sent each tribal council the state's first formal invitation to come back to Ar kansas since the tribes were forced from the land in the early 1800s, said Swannee Bennett, the museum's chief curator and deputy director. 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