Please take a minute to complete a quick poll regarding the film festival this past Sunday...ONAI will really appreciate it.
http://www.polldaddy.com/s/D6B9C681B671A806/
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Film Festival A Success!
The inaugural ONAI Native American Film Festival was a great success!
We raised over $130 for blizzard relief efforts in South Dakota as
well as $150 for ONAI! :) Thank you to everyone who came out to
support ONAI and to watch some pretty interesting cinema.
If you can take a moment to fill out a quick survey about the
festival, we would very much appreciate it:
http://www.polldaddy.com/s/D6B9C681B671A806/
Sunday's event was a very nice start to what will now be a yearly event for ONAI and the Native American Studies department. Thank you for making it happen!
This will be our last open to the public event for this semester, so we're looking forward to meeting up with everyone in the new year. We have many events in the works for the spring semester, including the following:
- Native American Cooking Demo with the WVU Cooking Club (possibly frybread, bean bread and venison stew...just maybe...)
- Contemporary Native American Music special show with U92, the WVU radio station...possibly to feature the ONAI Singers (ONAI's drum group) in a live performance...
- Earth Day events (concert, workshops, activist lectures, etc.) with Dine political/punk rock band Blackfire (Album of the Year winner at the Native American Music Awards)
- Plus assorted trips, seminars, special events and the like for ONAI members.
If you would like to be added to ONAI's listserv for special events, please e-mail us at wvu.onai@yahoo.com ... if you would like to join ONAI and receive free admission to public events (plus invites and participation in members-only events)...membership is $15 (or $10 with a ticket stub from yesterday's festival). Add ONAI as a friend on Facebook as well to receive photos and other notifications, or check out our website at http://wvuonai.blogspot.com ... there are many ways to keep in the loop.
We would like to thank everybody who helped put the festival together and everyone who attended. Thanks to supportive NAS faculty, staff, students and community supporters. Most especially we would like to thank Bonnie Brown, NAS Program Coordinator, for her special assistance and guidance in setting up the festival. Thank you, everybody!
Sincerely,
Erin Clemens (President)
Matt Darwin (Vice President)
Melissa Pearson (Treasurer/Secretary)
Ryan Dunkerley (Historian)
We raised over $130 for blizzard relief efforts in South Dakota as
well as $150 for ONAI! :) Thank you to everyone who came out to
support ONAI and to watch some pretty interesting cinema.
If you can take a moment to fill out a quick survey about the
festival, we would very much appreciate it:
http://www.polldaddy.com/s/D6B9C681B671A806/
Sunday's event was a very nice start to what will now be a yearly event for ONAI and the Native American Studies department. Thank you for making it happen!
This will be our last open to the public event for this semester, so we're looking forward to meeting up with everyone in the new year. We have many events in the works for the spring semester, including the following:
- Native American Cooking Demo with the WVU Cooking Club (possibly frybread, bean bread and venison stew...just maybe...)
- Contemporary Native American Music special show with U92, the WVU radio station...possibly to feature the ONAI Singers (ONAI's drum group) in a live performance...
- Earth Day events (concert, workshops, activist lectures, etc.) with Dine political/punk rock band Blackfire (Album of the Year winner at the Native American Music Awards)
- Plus assorted trips, seminars, special events and the like for ONAI members.
If you would like to be added to ONAI's listserv for special events, please e-mail us at wvu.onai@yahoo.com ... if you would like to join ONAI and receive free admission to public events (plus invites and participation in members-only events)...membership is $15 (or $10 with a ticket stub from yesterday's festival). Add ONAI as a friend on Facebook as well to receive photos and other notifications, or check out our website at http://wvuonai.blogspot.com ... there are many ways to keep in the loop.
We would like to thank everybody who helped put the festival together and everyone who attended. Thanks to supportive NAS faculty, staff, students and community supporters. Most especially we would like to thank Bonnie Brown, NAS Program Coordinator, for her special assistance and guidance in setting up the festival. Thank you, everybody!
Sincerely,
Erin Clemens (President)
Matt Darwin (Vice President)
Melissa Pearson (Treasurer/Secretary)
Ryan Dunkerley (Historian)
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
1st Annual ONAI Native American Film Festival
The 1st Annual ONAI Native American Film Festival will take place this coming Sunday, November 16, from 12:00 - 6:00 pm at the Gluck Theater in the Mountainlair. Admission for the entire festival is $5 - participants cane come and go as they please. This event honors Native American Heritage Month and will be taking place along with Mountaineer Week festivities.
For more information, contact the ONAI President at wvu.onai@yahoo.com.
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Schedule of Events: (Click on titles to view trailers)
12:00 PM - Four Sheets To The Wind (1997)
1:30 PM - 30 Days: Life on an Indian Reservation (2008)
2:15 PM - Edge of America (2003)
4:15 PM - Christmas in the Clouds (2001)
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Peace Tree Ceremony 2008
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The following is excerpted from the press release about the upcoming Peace Tree Ceremony...
Expert, archivist to preside at WVU's Peace Tree ceremony
Jamie Jacobs, an authority and archivist of Iroquois Indian history who has worked to reclaim burial grounds through the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act, will preside over West Virginia University’s Peace Tree rededication ceremony Tuesday (Oct. 14).
The event will be from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the site of the tree between Elizabeth Moore and Martin halls on the Downtown Campus. It will feature native drumming, talks and other testimonials to the culture.
WVU’s Native American Studies Program is hosting the ceremony, which is part of the University’s annual Diversity Week observances.
Jacobs is a collections assistant with New York’s Rochester Museum and Science Center. He’s an expert in Iroquois history, culture and ceremony. He speaks Seneca and other Iroquoian languages and is a member of the Tonawanda Seneca, Turtle Clan.
Part of his work at burial sites is to identity and rescue artifacts and relics contaminated by pesticides and other compounds.
He’ll discuss other ways to acknowledge the culture in his talk, “Honoring the Sacred Past, Planning for Seven Generations,” which will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday in G-21 Ming Hsieh Hall on the Downtown Campus.
WVU’s Peace Tree was planted Sept. 12, 1992, to commemorate the University’s commitment to the rediscovery of America’s Indian heritage. In 1996, vandals cut down the tree, but a second tree – planted Oct. 19, 1996 – stands today on campus as a visible symbol to the power of peace.
Visit http://www.wvu.edu/~nas/peacetree/about for more on the history and symbolism of the tree.
For more on Native American Studies at WVU, contact program coordinator Bonnie M. Brown at bonniem.brown@mail.wvu.edu or 304-293-4626, or go to http://www.wvu.edu/~nas/.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Sycamore Circle Event -- 22 September 2008 -- Dr. Ildiko Kristof-Szyonyi
Tonight! At 6:30 PM! In G21 Ming Hsieh Hall (the new annex to Oglebay)!
Dr. Ildiko Kristof- Szonyi will be presenting a talk entitled "Images of American Indians in 18th & 19th Century Europe". Dr. Szonyi is a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute of Ethnology (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and is visiting WVU from Szegend, Hungary. There will be a light reception for our guest. As always, Sycamore Circle lecture series events are free and open to the public, so grab some friends and check this out.
- Erin Clemens (President)
Dr. Ildiko Kristof- Szonyi will be presenting a talk entitled "Images of American Indians in 18th & 19th Century Europe". Dr. Szonyi is a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute of Ethnology (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and is visiting WVU from Szegend, Hungary. There will be a light reception for our guest. As always, Sycamore Circle lecture series events are free and open to the public, so grab some friends and check this out.
- Erin Clemens (President)
Friday, September 19, 2008
Hello! Welcome to a New Year!
Hello, everyone! Welcome to a new year with the West Virginia University Organization for Native American Interests! ONAI has some very neat things in the works that we're really excited about...a Native American film festival, several day-trips and a concert by an award-winning Native American rock band among them...plus our new blog! Of which this is the inaugural entry! Please stop in regularly to check in about issues of local and national interest, in addition to updates about meetings and Native American Studies events here at WVU! We'll be looking forward to sharing these things with you!
- Erin Clemens (President)
- Erin Clemens (President)
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