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Vol. No. 02 Issue No. 06 · June 30, 2009 · www.AmericanIndian.si.edu
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SPORTS
'Ramp It Up' tells story of Native America’s vibrant skateboard subculture

The new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian traces the sport’s lineage from Native Hawaiian surfing through its latest incarnation at the All Nations Skate Jam

All photos by Walt Pourier, Nakota Designs, Inc.
Images from the All Nations Skate Jam in 2008 and 2009, held in the Los Altos Skate Park in Albuquerque, N.M., on the same weekend as the Gathering of Nations Powwow.

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ENVIRONMENT
Climate change symposium illuminates Native values, approaches

Participants in the gathering at the museum discuss uniquely American Indian responses to climate threats

Photo by Robert Gough
Among the examples of Native answers to climate change are wind turbines on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s reservation in South Dakota. The turbines produce electricity, replacing sources with heavier environmental impacts such as hydropower and coal-produced power.

Photo by Robert Gough
A new form of power production provides a backdrop to traditional cultural activities such as powwows on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s reservation.

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HISTORY
Hopi view fresh facets of their history in museum trip

The group of students, educators and elders is part of a six-year program to promote cultural knowledge among Hopi youth

By Joelle Clark, Northern Arizona University
Irvin Poleahla, who is Hopi, films at Spruce Tree House in Mesa Verde National Park, Colo., during a day with Footprints of the Ancestors, a six-year project to deepen cultural knowledge among Hopi youth. The Northern Arizona University program brought high-school-age students together with Hopi elders at archaeological sites.

By George Gumerman, Northern Arizona University
As part of the Footprints of the Ancestors program, Hopi students came to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian to see artifacts and enjoy a potluck with staff.

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CULTURE
Transcontinental trip to 23 Indian boarding school sites concludes at National Museum of the American Indian

The journey’s organizers promote forgiveness and healing for harm from the boarding school system

By Abby Benson, Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
The Wellbriety Journey for Forgiveness arrives in the Potomac Atrium of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian on June 24, to complete a 6,800-mile cross-country pilgrimage. Participants stopped at 23 current and former boarding schools, seeking healing for the schools’ survivors and their families.

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