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)