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Vol. No. 02 Issue No. 05 · May 29, 2009 · www.AmericanIndian.si.edu
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MUSIC
Native American school band rocks the oldies–and the ancients

Standing Rock High School visits the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian to perform an ancient Lakota warrior song, “The Land You Fear”

Courtesy of Kim Cournoyer
North Dakota’s Standing Rock High School Band, which will perform at the National Museum of the American Indian in June, doesn’t march. Instead, as band director Kim Cournoyer likes to say, it floats on the back of a flatbed truck.

Courtesy of Kim Cournoyer
Kim Cournoyer, trumpet in hand, directs the band as it prepares for its June tour, including performances of a Lakota warrior’s prayer that Cournoyer transcribed and arranged from the oral tradition.

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CULTURE
Latest crop to spring up in museum garden: Native farmers

A group led by two tobacco farmers demonstrates traditional practices, both religious and horticultural, adding a new educational dimension to the indigenous landscape

Photo by Katherine Fogden National Museum of the American Indian
Women plant tobacco beside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

Photo by Katherine Fogden National Museum of the American Indian
A man joins in the tobacco planting on the grounds of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian with a song of blessing.

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PEOPLE:
Retirement, yes–but not from helping Indian people

Helen Maynor Scheirbeck, 74, leaves the museum as her lifetime of influential work moves into a new phase

Photo by Marilu Lopez-Fretts
Helen Maynor Scheirbeck, who is Lumbee, recently retired from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, capping a long career in public service on behalf of Indian causes. She was awarded an honorary doctor of law degree in May from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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THEATER:
Play leaves museum echoing with Hawai'ian historic themes

“The Conversion of Ka'ahumanu” brings the Hawai’ian queen, and her epic political and religious dilemmas, back to life

Photo by Katherine Fogden National Museum of the American Indian
Missionary Sybil Bingham, played by Charity Pomeroy, ministers to Hawai’ian Queen Ka'ahumanu (Melonie Leihua Stewart) in the museum’s recent production of “The Conversion of Ka'ahumanu.”

Courtesy of Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
Playwright Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl’s “The Conversion of Ka'ahumanu” in May became the first play to be mounted at the National Museum of the American Indian with a local cast and production.

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CULTURE:

Courtesy of The Mountain Apple Company
A concert by top Hawai’ian contemporary musical group The Brothers Cazimero, plus hula demonstrations, games and activities from lei-making to poi-pounding, will entice families at the “Celebrate Hawai’i” festival June 12-14 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. The Brothers Cazimero, with guests the Aloha Boys, will kick off the museum’s Indian Summer Showcase outdoor concert series on Saturday, June 13. For information, go to www.nmai.si.edu/hawaii/2009.

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