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Indian Health Summit 2009

July 7-9, 2009
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Denver, Colorado

The Health Summit will be a national gathering of Indian Health professionals and administrative leadership, community health advocates and activists, and Tribal leadership.

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Native Communities

Enhancing the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of Native people and communities

Improving health outcomes, the delivery of services, and the experience of care across ages and health conditions in all settings of the Indian Health System

Preventing diabetes and its complications with plenary presentations, panel discussions, and in-depth, interactive workshops

Interactive learning sessions and special events including:

• Plenary session on the Future of the Indian Health System by Director, Robert McSwain
• Highlights from the Special Diabetes Program for Indians Community-Directed and Demonstration Project Grants
• Update on the Director's Health Initiatives: Health
  Promotion/Disease Prevention, Behavioral Health, and Chronic Care (Director's Initiatives website
• Session tracks on Leadership, Traditional Medicine, Telehealth, Self-Management Support, Delivery System Re-Design and Trauma Care
  

www.ihs.gov/publicinfo/healthsummit

Native American & Alaska Native Heritage Day & Month

Celebrating Tribal Nations: America's Great Partners
State Celebrations

The first American Indian Day to be celebrated in a state was declared on the second Saturday in May 1916 by the governor of New York. Several states celebrate the fourth Friday in September. In Illinois, for example, legislators enacted such a day in 1919. Presently, several states have designated Columbus Day as Native American Day, but it continues to be a day we observe without any legal recognition as a national holiday.

Heritage Month
In 1990 President George Bush approved a joint resolution designating November 1990 as "National American Indian Heritage Month." Similar proclamations have been issued each year since 1994.

National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month is celebrated to recognize the intertribal cultures and to educate the public about the heritage, history, art, and traditions of the American Indian and Alaska Native people. The Creation of National American Indian & Alaska Native Heritage Month A Brief History Source: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs

American Indian Month
November is National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month -- the perfect time to explore Education World's resources on the history and culture of America's original inhabitants.

Activities to Celebrate Native American Heritage
November is National American Indian Heritage Month. This week, Education World offers 12 lessons to help students learn about Native American history and cultures. Included: Activities that involve students in dramatizing folktales, learning new words, preparing traditional foods, and much more!

Blast stereotypes with across-the-curriculum activities for students of all ages. These activities will help teachers present a balanced portrayal of Native Americans today -- their history, their culture, and their issues.

Office of Tribal Self-Governance

www.ihs.gov/PublicAffairs/Heritage/index.cfm

Indian Health Service
801 Thompson Ave.
Suite 120
Rockville, MD 20852
301-443-5035

We Shall Remain on American Experience Links & Info

We Shall Remain on American Experience Events
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/beyond_broadcast/local_events
Find out about We Shall Remain events organized by your local PBS station, community coalition, public library or tribal community college. Don't see an event in your area? Contact your public library. Libraries across the country have received We Shall Remain event kits.

Native American Entrepreneurs

www.pbs.org/nbr/site/features/special/native_american_entrepreneurs_home

Like all entrepreneurs, Native American entrepreneurs have vision, strength of purpose, and a willingness to take on risk. But, Native Americans who start businesses face unique challenges, and their culture has given them a unique perspective on entrepreneurship.

NBR uncovers this uniqueness in "Native American Entrepreneurs," a series airing three, consecutive Mondays in April. The series is designed as a companion piece to "We Shall Remain," the definitive, multi-media history of Native Americans from PBS's American Experience. "We Shall Remain" also premieres April 13, 2009.

ReelNative
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/reel_native
This unique project offers Native Americans a venue to share their stories with a national audience.

New York
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/newyork/maps/index.html

Manhattan's southern tip has changed dramatically since the Dutch West India Company claimed it from Lenape Indians in 1626 for sixty Dutch guilders. Within 20 years of their arrival, the Dutch were working to fill and extend the natural shoreline. British and American residents continued to alter the island's geography in subsequent centuries.See how Lower Manhattan has changed -- from 17th century Dutch fortress to 21st century financial center.

Remember the Alamo:States of Texas

www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/alamo/maps/index.html
Texas's borders enclose over 170 million acres of land -- grassy prairies, harsh deserts, thick woodlands, and 624 miles of seacoast. The region also boasts many types of animals and plants. With these natural advantages, it supported a diverse population of Native Americans.

Spanish explorers first set foot in Texas in the 16th century, as Spain and France competed to claim New World lands. After years of colonization by Spanish- and English-speaking settlers, the region's residents fought against imperial forces for the right to claim Texas as their own.

From Native American territory to the 28th state in the U.S.A. -- explore all the states of Texas.

The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad on Native American life
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/index.html
In this interview, Donald Fixico, Thomas Bowlus Distinguished Professor of American Indian History and Director of the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies at the University of Kansas, talks about the West before white settlement, the impact of the railroad on Native American life, and the near-extinction of the American buffalo.

Art of George Catlin at the Smithsonian

George Catlin (26 Jul 1796-23 Dec 1872) was an American painter, author and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West.

Biography
Catlin was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Following a brief career as a lawyer, he produced two major collections of paintings of American Indians and published a series of books chronicling his travels among the native peoples of North, Central and South America. Claiming his interest in America’s 'vanishing race' was sparked by a visiting American Indian delegation in Philadelphia, he set out to record the appearance and customs of America’s native people.

Catlin began his journey in 1830 when he accompanied General William Clark on a diplomatic mission up the Mississippi River into Native American territory. St. Louis became Catlin’s base of operations for five trips he took between 1830 and 1836, eventually visiting fifty tribes. Two years later he ascended the Missouri River over 3000 km to Ft Union, where he spent several weeks among indigenous people still relatively untouched by European civilization.

He visited eighteen tribes, including the Pawnee, Omaha, and Ponca in the south and the Mandan, Cheyenne, Crow, Assiniboine, and Blackfeet to the north. There, at the edge of the frontier, he produced the most vivid and penetrating portraits of his career. Later trips along the Arkansas, Red and Mississippi rivers as well as visits to Florida and the Great Lakes resulted in over 500 paintings and a substantial collection of artifacts.

When Catlin returned east in 1838, he assembled these paintings and numerous artifacts into his Indian Gallery and began delivering public lectures which drew on his personal recollections of life among the American Indians. Catlin traveled with his Indian Gallery to major cities such as Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New York. He hung his paintings “salon style”—side by side and one above another—to great effect.

Visitors identified each painting by the number on the frame as listed in Catlin’s catalogue. Soon afterwards he began a lifelong effort to sell his collection to the U.S. government. The touring Indian Gallery did not attract the paying public Catlin needed to stay financially sound, and Congress rejected his initial petition to purchase the works, so in 1839 Catlin took his collection across the Atlantic for a tour of European capitals.

Catlin the showman and entrepreneur initially attracted crowds to his Indian Gallery in London, Brussels, and Paris. The French critic Charles Baudelaire remarked on Catlin’s paintings, “M. Catlin has captured the proud, free character and noble expression of these splendid fellows in a masterly way.”

Catlin’s dream was to sell his Indian Gallery to the U.S. government so that his life’s work would be preserved intact. His continued attempts to persuade various officials in Washington, D.C. failed. He was forced to sell the original Indian Gallery, now 607 paintings, due to personal debts in 1852.

Industrialist Joseph Harrison took possession of the paintings and artifacts, which he stored in a factory in Philadelphia, as security. Catlin spent the last 20 years of his life trying to re-create his collection. This second collection of paintings is known as the "Cartoon Collection" since the works are based on the outlines he drew of the works from the 1830s.

In 1841 Catlin published 'Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians', in two volumes, with about 300 engravings. Three years later he published 25 plates, entitled 'Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio', and, in 1848, Eight Years’ Travels and Residence in Europe. From 1852 to 1857 he traveled through South and Central America and later returned for further exploration in the Far West.

The record of these later years is contained in Last Rambles amongst the Indians of the Rocky Mountains and the Andes (1868) and My Life among the Indians (ed. by N. G. Humphreys, 1909). In 1872, Catlin traveled to Washington, D.C. at the invitation of Joseph Henry, the first secretary of the Smithsonian. Until his death later that year in Jersey City, New Jersey, Catlin worked in a studio in the Smithsonian “Castle.” Harrison’s widow donated the original Indian Gallery—more than 500 works—to the Smithsonian in 1879.

The nearly complete surviving set of Catlin’s first Indian Gallery painted in the 1830s is now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection. Some 700 sketches are in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City.

The accuracy of some of Catlin's observations has been questioned. He claimed to be the first white man to see the Minnesota pipestone quarries, and pipestone was named catlinite. Catlin exaggerated various features of the site, and his boastful account of his visit aroused his critics, who disputed his claim of being the first white man to investigate the quarry. Previous recorded white visitors include the Groselliers and Radisson, Father Louis Hennepin, Baron LaHonton and others. Lewis and Clark noted the pipestone quarry in their journals in 1805. Fur trader Philander Prescott had written another account of the area in 1831.

Family
Many historians and descendants believe George Catlin had two families; his acknowledged family on the east coast of the United States, but also a family farther west, started with a Native American woman.

Two other artists of the Old West related to George Catlin by family bloodlines are Frederic Remington and Earl W. Bascom.

Sources
Vaughn, William (2000). Encyclopedia of Artists. Oxford University Press, Inc. ISBN 0-19-521572-9.

Brian Dippe, Christopher Mulvey, Joan Carpenter Troccoli, Therese Thau Heyman (2002). George Catlin and His Indian Gallery. Smithsonian American Art Museum and W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-05217-6.

Steven Conn (2004). History's Shadow: Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century and University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-11494-5.

References
SAAM: George Catlin and His Indian Gallery

Pipestone County History - National Register of Historic Places Pipestone, Minnesota Travel Itinerary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Catlin

We Shall Remain on American Experience

Check your local PBS Listings but on the West Coast American Experience is generally on at 9 pm.

We Shall Remain is a groundbreaking mini-series and provacative multi-media project that enables Native History as an essential part of American History.

Five 90 minute documentaries spanning three hundred years of pivotal moments in U.S. History from the Native American perspective.

Earthquake Italy

For the latest Earthquake News, Response & Recovery in Italy check out the CDC Disasters Website
http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/earthquakes/