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Do you have a secret that you have kept secret for a long time? Are you almost breaking under the pain of it? Wayne Leman knows what it is to endure abuse and not be able to talk about it—until many years later. Our Creator hears and knows our situation and He wants to intervene. Wayne discovered that he can know his Creator as his Heavenly Father and you can too. Here’s how to ask Jesus into your life: • Tell God that you want to accept His way to know true peace and joy. • Tell Him that you know that without His help, y...
Hello Dear Friends, I have missed you, here it is Fall already! We have not had snow yet, but are nearly knee-high in leaves. This was a bountiful year for some things. We are fortunate to have many chestnut trees on this property that have always produced large nuts around the beginning of October. Last year we hardly got a one. Weather, squirrels or poachers are to blame. This year made up for all that and we harvested so many I didn’t think we had the energy to process them all. Usually we used a paring knife with a f...
This is the toast members of a tank crew all offer to each other at the end of a particularly intense battle sequence in the new World War II drama Fury. They're being sarcastic and/or ironic-all of them would rather be somewhere, anywhere else-but you get the sense that, even in the midst of the joke, they're also speaking the truth. The adrenaline rush of a kill-or-be-killed situation is addictive, and there's nothing like putting everything on the line for a cause that you...
ADA, OK-Following a nationwide search, the cast of "Te Ata" is set and filming is now underway in several Oklahoma locations. Experienced, award-winning Native American actors are among those selected to bring the story based on the life of Chickasaw actress Mary Frances "Te Ata" Thompson Fisher to the silver screen. Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby said "film is a great way to preserve the legacy of Te Ata and other Chickasaws who have made a difference in the world....
ADA, OK-Three young ladies were crowned Chickasaw Nation princesses September 29, 2014, bringing talent, poise and maturity in representing the Chickasaw people and tribe in the coming year. Taylor Nicole Weems, a 17-year-old Latta High School senior, will wear the coveted crown as the 2014-15 Chickasaw Princess. She is the daughter of Michael and Loraine Weems and will graduate in May 2015. Maegan Ann Carney, a 15-year-old Ardmoreite, will represent the Chickasaw Nation as...
RELIGION VERSUS JESUS A fellow inmate recently showed me his latest edition of the Indian Life newspaper. I was truly blessed. The stories and pictures are great! I am currently in the final stretch of a 97-month sentence for possession of child pornography. My incarceration made me realize I had been practicing religion without having a personal relationship with Jesus. That has changed now. When I read Luke Gilkerson’s “Husbands Who Watched Porn,” it touched me deeply. I was also impressed with how his “12 ways to reassur...
Twenty five years ago, our mission administrator told us he was requiring us to move from the Cheyenne reservation to one of our mission centers to get counseling. It was a shock to hear that but we moved. Counseling sessions were confusing. I didn't understand why we had been sent to counseling. But I did the best I could and talked about whatever I could think of might be a problem. I talked about how my father had abused me and our mother as I was growing up. My father...
WASHINGTON, DC-The White House announced on November 10, 2014, that Dr. Suzan Harjo will receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama on November 24 at the White House. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation's highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private...
Chickasaw Cultural Center Celebrates 4-year anniversary, honored with travel website, newspaper awards Since it opened four years ago, more than 250,000 guests from around the world have visited the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur. Many have been impressed with all aspects of the campus, from the natural stone and copper clad buildings to the peaceful trickle of the many water features. These visitors have helped the Chickasaw Cultural Center amass an impressive number of awards, honors and accolades. Three additional...
BEMIDJI, MN-Winds of Change magazine has named Bemidji State University one of the top 200 colleges in the nation for Native American students. The Winds of Change Top 200 Colleges for Native Americans list features schools where American Indians are going to school in significant numbers and where the community, Native programs and support are strong enough for these students to enjoy college and stay on to graduation. The list focuses on a college's native community and supp...
WINNIPEG, MB-Up and coming actress Misty Upham disappeared on October 5 and was later found dead. Actress Juliette Lewis believes that Miss Upham was murdered and she along with Misty's family is calling for an investigation into her murder. Upham appeared in over a dozen films including August: Osage County and Django Unchained. According to her family, she suffered from depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder. However, they do not believe that the actress was suicidal....
CENTRAL KALAHARI GAME RESERVE, BOTSWANA-Hundreds of Bushmen have been beaten, arrested and abused in Botswana according to a recent report from Survival International. The report details over 200 cases of violent abuse recorded between 1992 and 2014, abuses such as a Bushman who died after being tortured; a child shot in the stomach after his father refused police entry to his hut without a warrant; and a Bushman who was buried alive for killing an antelope. Bushmen were illeg...
JUNEAU, AK-Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell finally signed a Native language bill, six months after lawmakers approved it. House Bill 216 designates 20 Native languages as official in Alaska. Parnell intentionally delayed signing it into law in order to present it during the Alaska Federation of Natives convention held October 23-25 in Anchorage. "It passed in April," Georgianna Lincoln, an AFN board member and former state lawmaker, told The Alaska Dispatch News. "One half a year...
CACHE, OK-The Comanche Nation of Oklahoma has offered to buy the Quanah Parker Star House, the home of famed Chief Quanah Parker that's fallen into disrepair: The Star House today belongs to Wayne Gipson and his sister, who inherited it from their uncle, who obtained it through a trade with Quanah Parker's daughter in the 1950s. Quanah's daughter left the future of Star House up to the Gipson's uncle. "... if anything is to be done with the Star House, she felt it would be up...
WINNIPEG, MB-Several hundred gathered at the University of Manitoba's Engineering and Technology Complex to hear Justice Murray Sinclair, chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada on October 30, speak and issue a challenge on how to alleviate the pain of victims of residential schools. "Things are going to change, and if they're going to change, we need to set the terms of what those future changes are going to result in," Sinclair said. "Reconciliation is...
PHOENIX, AZ-The Heard Museum is proud to present its 11th annual Spirit of the Heard award to Ernest H. Siva (Cahuilla/Serrano). The ceremony took place during the Arizona American Indian Excellence in Leadership Awards on November 4 at the Hilton Scottsdale Resort & Villas in Scottsdale, Arizona. "We are honored to bestow this award upon Ernest Siva for his lifetime accomplishments in sharing his deep knowledge of Serrano and Cahuilla language, culture and musical heritage...
MARYVILLE, WA-Leaders and members of the Tulalip Tribes of Washington expressed shock following a fatal shooting at a local public school that left three young people dead and three others injured. News reports identified the shooter as a 14-year-old tribal member who took his life after opening fire at the Marysville-Pilchuck High School on October 24. Two teen students were killed while three others-including two more tribal members-remained in the hospital in critical...
by Shamin Brown Goldrock Press ISBN 978-1-927410-17-2 Paper 65 pages $19.95 Shamin Brown was a straight A high school student and excelled in athletics. By the following year, she was an addict who was broken in body and spirit. This book is the Shamin's story of the first five years of her recovery. She does this in a journal format with entries written over this five-year period. I found it sometimes painfully hard and heartbreaking to read but it made me understand what...
“Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits— who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s” (Psalm 103:1-5 NIV). This is the perfect passage to look at when wanting to be encouraged and bring healing to your broken...
“Ouch!” I screamed really loud (some say like a little girl), as boiling water swallowed my left hand. The pain and surprise of the sting made me lose my grip on the hot pot. As the pot crash-landed, the remainder of its boiling water baptized the floor. The morning started pretty good. The church was having a special “Freedom” service. Both the English and Spanish bodies were coming together to celebrate our freedom in Christ. Special messages were planned. Special songs. And...
Even before the first snow falls, Christmas begins to make its appearance in our shopping malls, on our streets, and even in our homes. For those who live in cities and towns where winter weather is present for five months or more, beginning in October, images and lights of Santa, angels, and the birth of the Christ Child begin to appear in homes in early October after Canadian Thanksgiving. Christmas in our dominant society is not always a happy, peaceful time. It has become more about getting presents for our family and...
Christmas was the most memorable time during my childhood years on the prairies. It was uncomplicated but valuable, humble but rich. Each one special to our family. Every member made the effort to get 'home for the holidays' and travelled under extremely difficult conditions most of the time. No one had cell phones or road assistance. Somehow they always got through, by the grace of our mothers' hours of prayers, I believe, and another Prairie Christmas would begin. For years...
With the 2014 election only a week away, the National Congress of American Indians opened its 71st annual convention on October 27, in Atlanta, Georgia. The event drew thousands to an urban area not necessarily known for its Indian connections. But tribes from the South and Eastern regions provided a warm welcome to delegates as they prepared to hear from government officials on housing, education, health and other issues. The opening day agenda included Jodi Gillette, the Senior Policy Advisor for Native American Affairs at...
WINNIPEG, MB-Métis lawyer Brian Bowman was sworn in as Winnipeg's new mayor on November 4, 2014. The former privacy lawyer's first speech as mayor was an emotional one. According to the Winnipeg Free Press, Bowman appeared "uncharacteristically nervous and choked up when speaking about his Métis heritage and honoring city hall's location in Treaty One territory." The new mayor was not the only Aboriginal candidate who ran for the mayor's office. Saskatchewan-born and raised i...
ANCHORAGE, AK-Thousands of Alaska Natives gathered in Anchorage October 23-25, for the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) annual convention, the state's largest convention of any kind. Some 5,000 people gathered at the Dena'ina Center in Alaska's largest city. This year's conference theme was "Rise as One" with emphasis on unity on issues like language, subsistence and child welfare. While these issues took up much of the discussion and debate, there was a lot of politicking...
