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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FYI: News Items of Interest, November 19, 2009 (5 items) Compiled by Kendra Kennedy Additional information about sources available at the end of the message. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [1] "KU film professor’s ‘The Only Good Indian’ wins three awards at festival,” Mary Jane Dunlap. November 18, 2009. © Copyright 2009 University of Kansas. All rights reserved. Full text available at: http://www.kansasprogress.com/wordpress/index.php/2009/11/18/researcher-to-talk-about-assessing-life-of-the-worlds-oceans/ “Lawrence - A film by a University of Kansas faculty member won three top awards at the 34th annual American Indian Film Festival held Nov. 14 in San Francisco. Kevin Willmott, KU associate professor of film and media studies, won best director for his latest film, “The Only Good Indian.” The film also received awards recognizing the performances of Wes Studi, best actor, and Winter Fox Frank, best supporting actor. The awards were presented at the American Indian Motion Picture Awards Show, the concluding event for the nine-day festival presented by the American Indian Film Institute. The American Indian Motion Picture Awards Show recognizes excellence in American Indian cinematic achievement…" [2] "Riverton agreement with tribe raises concerns,” The Associated Press. November 18, 2009. © Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Full text available at: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Indian-And-Northern-Affairs-Canada-997123.html “Riverton -- Some residents of the Riverton area are expressing concern about a proposed agreement between the city and the Northern Arapaho Tribe to cooperate on common interests. The city and tribe have agreed to work together on issues, such as zoning and land-use planning and economic development efforts. They also agreed to enter into mediation on future disputes instead of going directly to the courts. "The idea of these agreements is to try to develop a process by which people can work together," Riverton Mayor John Vincent said..." [3] "Treasure trove of history found at SugarHouse site," Jennifer Lin. November 18, 2009. © Copyright 2009 The Philadelphia Inquirer. All rights reserved. Full text available at: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20091118_Treasure_trove_of_history_found_at_SugarHouse_site.html “Under a tent on the grounds of the future SugarHouse Casino, archaeologists sift through buckets of debris, picking out and bagging the choicest broken bits. Half a teacup. The neck of a blue bottle. A shard of thick brown pottery. The artifacts come mostly from 18th-century brick privies, the colonial equivalent of Dumpsters. But the items are practically newfangled compared with what the archaeologists have uncovered in a nearby plot about the size of a tennis court. In the last month, they have found hundreds of relics left behind by people who lived along the Delaware River not 300 years ago, but 3,500. The cache, found in the southwest corner of the property, constitutes the largest single discovery of Native American artifacts in Philadelphia…" [4] “Diabetes hits home for American Indian students,” Colette Maddock. November 18, 2009. Copyright © 2009 Montana Kaimin. All rights reserved. Full Text Available at: http://www.montanakaimin.com/index.php/news/news_article/diabetes_hits_home_for_american_indian_students/4317 “Meryl Barlow, University of Montana student and American Indian, has a long history of type 2 diabetes in her family. Her grandmother and two of her uncles have been diagnosed with the disease, and her mother was diagnosed at the beginning of the year. “I try to tell my mom to be a better example for my little brothers and sisters,” Barlow said. “It’s hard to eat healthy when you have five kids and don’t make very much money.” For the last five years, Blakely Brown, a Health and Human Performance professor at UM, has been working on developing and testing a diabetes prevention program for Montana Native American youth. The JOURNEY to Native Youth Health project focuses on ways to increase physical activity and healthier eating habits in Chippewa, Cree and Crow Indian youth, ages 10 through 14…” [5] “EchoHawk unveils BATmobile units,” Lee Davidson. November 18, 2009. Copyright © 2009 Deseret News. All Rights Reserved. Full Text Available at: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705345494/EchoHawk-unveils-BATmobile-units.html “Batman drove his Batmobile to fight crime. Now, Larry EchoHawk is using four BATmobiles to combat drunken driving on American Indian reservations. EchoHawk, the Utahn who is assistant interior secretary for indian affairs, announced Wednesday that the department purchased four, 40-foot-long BATmobiles (BAT stands for breath alcohol testing) at a cost of $300,000 each to help tribes "reduce injuries and save lives, especially during the upcoming holiday season." The units each have an Intoxilyzer 8000 to precisely measure breath-alcohol levels, a containment cell to transport suspects, and an interior camera to produce court-quality videos of the testing process…” - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FYI: News Items of Interest is a daily resource compiled by the H-AMINDIAN staff. It features a sampling of news stories concerning Native issues primarily in Canada, the United States and Mexico. In order to comply with Academic Fair Use and copyright laws, only an excerpt of the news articles is offered here. We will not reproduce articles in whole. Links are provided for articles located online without subscription to an academic search database. Your college, university, or public library may provide access to online data bases and services (such as Lexis-Nexis, ProQuest, or Dialog) with full-text versions of these and other stories. H-AMINDIAN is part of the H-NET family and is housed in the Department of History, Arizona State University. Visit our website at http://history.clas.asu.edu/h-amindian
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