National Museum of the American Indian Library
Monthly Announcements
APRIL 2009
1. What's in an American Name?
2. Painting the Potawatomi Historical Mural Video
3. New Native American Arts Foundation Launched
4. Federal Websites for Tribal Libraries and Tribal College Libraries
5. California Missions Resource Center
6. The Native Sun News
7. Google Book Search Library Project
8. Brown U. Profs Vote to Replace Columbus Day With 'Fall Weekend'
9. U.S.Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
1. What's in an American Name?
National Geographic offers an interactive US map with translated Native names. Towns and
states with native names are labeled with their names' literal translations--so you see "Shakes
Himself" instead of "Kupunkamint Mountain, MT" and "They are killers" instead
of Yosemite, CA. Clicking on a translated name allows you to see the native name
again.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/04/departments/native-names-interactive
2. Painting the Potawatomi Historical Mural Video
This video is 19 minutes long and dpcuments the development of the Potawatomi Cultural
Center, Library and Museum's mural.
http://www.potawatomimuseum.com/media/35-media/59-potawatomi-mural-video.html
3. New Native American Arts Foundation Launched
The Native Arts & Cultures Foundation was launched this week, funded by a $10-million-dollar
grant from the Ford Foundation and a $1.5-million-dollar grant from the Rumsey Band of Wintun
Indians. This is the first foundation dedicated to supporting, developing and revitalizing Native
American artistic expression, says its President and CEO Tara Lulani Arquette. Guidelines for
the foundation, which will fund art programs for American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Alaska
Native communities, will be established in the months ahead.
http://www.nativeartsandcultures.org
4. Federal Websites for Tribal Libraries and Tribal College Libraries
This is the webpage that was created from a federal agency A-Z bibliography that was created as
a handout for the 2009 Partnerships for Indian Education National Conference that was held this
year in Norman, Oklahoma, April 17-19.
http://www.oklibshare.org/ieclinks.htm
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5. California Missions Resource Center
Guide to discovering the history behind the Spanish missions and the people who founded and
shaped the character of California." Features a map, timeline, contemporary and historical
photos, galleries of 19th-century drawings and vintage postcards, illustrated articles on topics
such as movies and the missions and women pioneers in California, and more. Includes links to
related sites.
http://www.missionscalifornia.com/
For timeline http://www.missionscalifornia.com/missions_timeline.html
6. The Native Sun News
Tim Giago, founder of the Native American Journalist Association, has been working as a
journalist for more than three decades. Now, despite the country's recession and a shrinking print
media industry, he's launching, a weekly newspaper for Native Americans. Giago explains his
inspiration and why he knows he will succeed. Native Sun News is produced in Rapid City, SD.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102593669
7. Google Book Search Library Project
Update about the copyright and intellectual property implications of the Google Book Search
Library Project. "On October 28, 2008, after several years of legal wrangling, Google,
the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and the Authors Guild reached a settlement
agreement concerning Google's scanning of copyrighted works." Includes links to the settlement
agreement, material about security standards and public domain works, and related material.
From the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).
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http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/google/index.shtml
8. Brown U. Profs Vote to Replace Columbus Day With 'Fall Weekend'
Brown University professors, at the request of student groups, have voted to rename the
institution's Columbus Day holiday as "Fall Weekend," The Providence Journal<
http://newsblog.projo.com/2009/04/brown-universit-1.html> reported. Student groups had called
for the change in light of "the nature of Christopher Columbus's conquests and treatment of
Native Americans." The vote is not going over well with Providence's Italian American
population. Raymond Dettore Jr., national historian for the Sons of Italy, told the Journal: "I don't
think this is right. Columbus was the one that opened up this part of the world to Western
civilization. Whether it was him or anybody else, it was going to happen eventually. Columbus
showed the world was not flat." He added, "Why don't they change the name of Brown? Was
it not founded by slave traders? Brown has gone just a little too far with some of these things over
the past few years."
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/04/09/qt#196107
9. U.S.Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
In 1984, the U.S. Senate voted to make the Committee on Indian Affairs permanent, and the
basic mission is "to study the unique problems of American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska
Native peoples and to propose legislation to alleviate these difficulties." Visitors can learn a bit
more about the Committee and its members in the "About" section. After reading through the brief
introduction there, users can click on sections that cover "Hearings", "Investigations", "Issues",
and "Legislation". The "Issues" section is perhaps the most informative, as it includes summaries
that provide a basic outline of primary issues affecting different Native American groups, such as
gaming, reservation roads, and tribal law. Visitors can also offer their own comments on these
affairs and view a list of relevant links.
http://indian.senate.gov/public/
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