SNAG: Seventh Native American Generation

SNAG Weekly Workshops Begin Tuesday Sept 27th

2011-09-23T13:03:00.000-07:00

Seventh Native American Generation (SNAG) was established in 2002 to teach Native Youth to amplify their voice by making their own media. In the last 10 years, SNAG has published seven full color magazines, trained hundreds of youth, hosted packed annual community arts events, and provided free weekly workshops in SF for Native Youth to learn skills in graphic design, layout, photography, film, fine art and writing.

This year, our weekly workshops will be hosted in collaboration with PODER at 474 Valencia St, Suite #125 in San Francisco every Tuesday 4:30-7pm. Our calendar year begins Tuesday Sept. 27th. Youth Aged 12-18 are invited to participate. This Fall/Winter Youth participants will produce and layout the 8th print edition of SNAG Magazine, participate in a camp out on Alcatraz Island, and some will be selected to attend the Bioneers conference in Marin. The SNAG staff is excited to offer their skills in media training, and we look forward to another fun year of media making!

SNAG EARTHDAY CELEBRATION PHOTOS & VIDEO!

2011-04-27T13:52:00.000-07:00

Daygots

Backwordz Medicine

Aurora Mamea of Dancing Feathers

Vendors

Cy Wagoner and Spencer Cunningham

Dancing Feathers

Ta’c’wees (Traditional Acapella)

Sage Romero hoop dancer

Linda Koffman

Eco-fashion show

Guerilla Queens

Sista Hailstorm

SNAG Bio Bus!

SNAG EARTHDAY CELEBRATION

2011-03-27T13:02:00.001-07:00

SNAG EARTHDAY CELEBRATION

FRIDAY APRIL 22ND, 2011 7PM-11PM

SNAG PRESENTS..

Artists Exhibition:

Richard Castaneda (Pima), Rene Castro (Ohlone) Nizhoni Ellenwood (Nii Mii Puu/Nez Perce & Apache), Spencer Keeton Cunningham (Nez Perce), Rye Purvis (Diné), Anthony Sul (Ohlone), Cy Wagoner (Diné), Peps 357 (Huichol & Apache), Merisha Lemmer (Choctaw)

Eco Fashion Show w/designs by:
Amelia Berrumen (Itzpapalotl)
Laryssa Verdussen (Loft 1513)
Rachel Znerold (Loft 1513)

Performances by:

The Bluntest (Los Angeles), Sista Hailstorm (Seattle, Yaqui), Linda Koffman (Santa Cruz), Daygots (New York, Seneca), Guerilla Queens (Los Angeles), Backwordz Medicine (Spoken Word, NorCal) Ras K’dj & SNAG youth Dj’s

Traditional Song and Dance by:

Ta’c’wees (Traditional Acapella), Dancing Feathers (Youth Inter-tribal Dancers)

Fresh Squeezed Juice Bar &

Youth Art Exhibit on the new SNAG bio-bus

Native Arts/Crafts Vendors

@ Galeria De La Raza

2857 24th Street, SF

7pm-11pm

$5 suggested donation no one turned away!
NO ALCOHOL, NO DRUGS, NO HATE, NO DRAMA!!
Come out to support Indigenous Youth Media!!

“This event is made possible thanks to the support of Galería de la Raza’s GINAA Program (Grant Writing for Indigenous and Native American Artists), a small grants and capacity-building project funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission.”

Making Pathways w/ Bunky Echohawk! 6-11pm

2011-03-02T13:56:00.000-08:00

Time	Sunday, March 13 · 6:00pm - 11:00pm

Location	Eastside Cultural Center 2277 International Blvd., Oakland, CA



More Info	SNAG & ESAA presents.. Making Pathways Lecture Series & Fundraiser Featuring BUNKY ECHOHAWK (Pawnee), a multi-talented artist whose work spans both media and lifestyle. A graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts, he is an artist, graphic designer, photographer, writer and a traditional singer and dancer. ... With guest live artists Peps 357 (Huichol/Apache), Renee Castro (Ohlone) & Nice One (Hawaii) AND guest singers Ta'c wees (traditional womens acapella group). Ras K'dj on the one's and two's. $5-$15 suggested donation, Youth Free! No one turned away for lack of funds

Audio from Making Pathways in Oakland: PURA FE, JEREMY GOODFEATHER and QUESE IMC

2011-02-11T13:59:00.000-08:00

Thank you to Pedro Reyes for taking the audio we recorded at the event and putting it on AZTLANTV - where you can listen to PURA FE, JEREMY GOODFEATHER and QUESE IMC if you missed the event this past Sunday!

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/12624345

The audio begins with Quese IMC, then Jeremy Goodfeather, then Pura Fe (with Jeremy Goodfeather accompanying later on) begins around 45 minutes. Enjoy!

Thank you to our amazing performers, to everyone who came out and volunteered, to Jose and the staff at East Side Arts Alliance, and to Seventh Generation Fund, Akonadi Foundation, Honor the Earth, SFAC and our other supporters for helping us put on free community events and workshops!

To become a supporter of SNAG: With Paypal go to http://www.paypal.com and click on the button “send money online.” Our account is snagmagazine@yahoo.com. Or by mail:

SNAG Magazine
P.O. Box 40597
San Francisco, CA 94140

Making Pathways with Pura Fe and Quese IMC, Sunday Feb 6th

2011-01-28T00:50:00.000-08:00

SNAG & ESAA presents..

Making Pathways lecture series & Fundraiser

Featuring PURA FE (Tuscarora) singer, songwriter, guitarist and soulstress. She is an original member of the famed group Ulali, and has toured the world over as a renowned solo artist.
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With guest guitarist and vocalist Jeremy Goodfeather (Mohawk), and performance by MC/vocalist Quese IMC (Pawnee), and Ras Kdj on the decks (Afro-Pomo, Audiopharmacy).

$5-$15 suggested donation, Youth Free!
No one turned away for lack of funds

Sunday, February 6th
7pm-10pm @ Eastside Cultural Center, 2277 International Blvd., Oakland, CA

Bring your family, bring your Valentine, come see a dope concert!

FMI: http://www.snagmagazine.com/

SNAG's mission provides Native youth the opportunity to achieve balance and harmony, address historical and modern grievances, and explore and develop leadership and community skills through arts and cultural expression. Through a holistic approach that combines spirituality, tradition and multi-media skills, we aim to shape the next generation of Native leaders.

Making Pathways with Drew Lacapa, Sunday Jan 9th

2011-01-07T17:57:00.000-08:00

SNAG & ESAA presents..

Making Pathways lecture series & Fundraiser

Featuring renowned Comedian Drew Lacapa (Apache/Hopi/Tewa),
He believes his humor is not discriminatory because everyone is worthy of being teased regardless of ethnicity or religion
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with guest poet, weaver and educator Kim Shuck (Tsalagi, Sauk and Fox)

$5-$15 suggested donation, Youth Free!
No one turned away for lack of funds

Sunday, January 9th
7pm-10pm @ Eastside Cultural Center, 2277 International Blvd., Oakland, CA

Bring your family, bring a date, come out and laugh with us!!

FMI: http://www.snagmagazine.com/

SNAG's mission provides Native youth the opportunity to achieve balance and harmony, address historical and modern grievances, and explore and develop leadership and community skills through arts and cultural expression. Through a holistic approach that combines spirituality, tradition and multi-media skills, we aim to shape the next generation of Native leaders.

Making Pathways with Winona LaDuke, Sunday Dec 5th

2010-11-30T23:10:00.000-08:00

SNAG & ESAA presents..

Making Pathways lecture series & Fundraiser

Featuring renowned Activist, Economist and Writer Winona LaDuke
speaks about creating new pathways towards a green future.
with guest speakers Phillip Meshekey and Natural Man.

$5-$15 suggested donation, Youth Free!
No one turned away for lack of funds

Sunday, December 5th
7pm-10pm @ Eastside Cultural Center, 2277 International Blvd., Oakland, CA

FMI: http://www.snagmagazine.com/
http://www.honorearth.org/

Look for SNAG Youth in the streets in our New BIO-BUS!

2010-11-12T14:04:00.000-08:00

We will be offering Indigenous led tours throughout Northern California powered by bio-diesel and eventually waste vegetable oil. We'll be taking our first Toxic tour with PODER SF next week. If your interested in collaborating on a journey contact us at snagmagazine(at)yahoo.com, see you out on the road! Much Thanks to Honor the Earth for supporting our work! http://www.honorearth.org/

SNAG AND PODER SAY NO ON 23!

2010-11-01T21:34:00.001-07:00

Ceremonial Elements 2010

2010-09-16T22:31:00.000-07:00

Ceremonial Elements from SNAG Magazine on Vimeo.

Indigenous Delegation to Palestine Promo Video

2010-06-28T13:32:00.001-07:00

SEVENTH GENERATION RISE! May 15 at SOMArts

2010-05-05T12:48:00.000-07:00

HOSTED BY: SNAG, PODER & SF FRIENDSHIP HOUSE

A Fun-draiser to send our youth to the Allied Media Conference!

$5-20 suggested donation. ALL AGES family friendly!

Date:	Saturday, May 15, 2010
Time:	7:00pm - 11:00pm
Location:	SOMArts Cultural Center
Street:	934 Brannan Street
City/Town:	San Francisco, CA
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TRADITIONS:
HA-BIDA (Pomo dancers)
ALL NATIONS (Powwow drum)
MEDICINE WARRIORS (Oakland Friendship House youth)
More dancers to be confirmed!

GALLERY:
YOUTH SKATEBOARDS by SNAG Indigenous Arts Program
SAMMY TANGUILEG (Pomo visual artist/Skateboard design)
CY WAGONER (Diné visual artist/Muralist)
CHANDRA NARCIA (Pima photographer/Mixed media)
SILO (Mexica/Xicana visual artist)
MIGUEL "BOUNCE" PEREZ (Nicoya visual artist/Trust Your Struggle)
DESI (Weapons of Mass Expression)
OZI MAGANA (Salvadorean/painter)

BIG ART (wildlife photography)

LIVE ARTISTS:
NIKILA BADUA (Native Hawaiian visual artist)
JAIV1 (Filipino live painter/Visual artist)

PERFORMANCES:
JEREMY GOODFEATHER (Mohawk acoustic soul music)
PHILLIP MESHEKEY & BLUEBIRD WOMBYN (Anishinaabe/Lakota poetry dance)
DEFINITION RARE (Pueblo/Diné hip-hop)
RAS KDJ & TEAO (Pomo nation/Audiopharmacy)
SHA ONE (Pomo/Zulu nation DJ)
SANTERO (Cuban/Latin, Hip-hop, Cumbia)

FOOD:
7TH GENERATION NATION (Buffalo, wild rice & blue corn tortillas)
CHILE LINDO (Vegan pastries & empenadas)

VENDORS!!

OUTDOORS:
COMPOSTING WORKSHOP
OPEN MIC/STORYTELLING

SKATEBOARD EXHIBITION
PHOTO BOOTH by Gustavo Rodriguez

and more....

RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120258111333505

Urban/Rez Native Foods Exchange Program

2010-04-13T19:41:00.000-07:00

As part of our Urban/Rez Native Foods Exchange (Funding for Traditional Food Economies) program, youth are learning to grow edible plants and vegetables at the Secret Garden, an urban community garden in the Mission District of San Francisco. The program is funded by Honor the Earth's Resilience in Indigenous Communities Initiative and we are conducting it in partnership with the Friendship House and PODER. As part of the program, we took the youth up north to Ya-Ka-Ama in Forestville for a camping/gardening/cultural trip.

These are some images they took.

Stronghold Youth Conference 2010

2010-04-06T14:39:00.000-07:00

Stronghold Youth Conference 2010

The Friendship House Association of American Indians brought together youth and leaders to discuss problems affecting their community and possible solutions March 29-30, 2010.

Friendship House Association of American Indians, Inc. of San Francisco is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) community-based organization that provides residential substance abuse treatment for American Indians. Since its founding in 1963, Friendship House has maintained a strong track record of providing holistic prevention, treatment, and recovery services that are culturally-relevant to American Indians.

Friendship House operates two residential treatment facilities: an 80-bed four-story healing center for adults located in the Mission District of San Francisco, and the Friendship House American Indian Lodge located in Oakland for American Indian women with their children. Both residential treatment facilities are licensed and certified by the State of California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs. Additionally, Friendship House is nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. (CARF)

Our Mission: The mission of Friendship House is to promote healing and wellness in the American Indian community by providing a continuum of substance abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery services that integrate traditional American Indian healing practices and evidence-based substance abuse treatment methods.

Designing Skateboards: Arts Entrepreneurs!

2010-04-01T11:31:00.001-07:00

Thanks to funding from the San Francisco Arts Commission, we were able to take our creative arts teaching to another level: Designing skateboards. Taking our cue from Apache Skateboards and Rezolution Skateboards, both Native-owned skateboard companies, we have been showing our youth how to become entrepreneurial designers by using Photoshop to select and alter images that they will then screen-print onto skateboards they have either hand-painted or spray-painted. The entire process is taking a few months because the youth are learning every step involved in the design process.

Above are images taken by the youth. Below are a few images of their background creation process taken by our newest staff member - Chandra Narcia.

Stronghold Native Youth Conference in SF

2010-03-29T00:42:00.000-07:00

The Stronghold Youth Conference will be at the Friendship House SF, @ 56 Julian Street, 8am-5pm, March 29-30. All youth are welcome! SNAG will be in the house filming and tabling.

Ras K'dee Represents Indigenous Delegation to Palestine at U.C. Santa Cruz

2010-03-08T13:00:00.000-08:00

Finding Common Ground
By Katelyn Jacobson
City on a Hill Press Reporter

Four centuries after the first white settlers landed in New England, Native American groups are reaching across the ocean to war-torn Palestinians.

Aiming to support a liberation struggle some think is analogous to the early days of America’s manifest destiny, the Bay Area-based Indigenous Youth Delegation to Palestine made their first international contact during a two-week tour through refugee camps along the Israel-Palestine border in August 2009.

Ras K’Dee, a member of the delegation and editor of Seventh Native American Generation (SNAG) magazine, shared his experiences from the trip prior to a concert in Kresge Town Hall. The event, a publicity venture in ongoing efforts to increase awareness of minority struggles, was hosted by UC Santa Cruz’s Native American Resource Center.

K’Dee described his goals.

“There isn’t that international wedge of support for Palestine either,” K’Dee said. “In the long run, we want to create a solidarity movement.”

An ethnic Californian Pomo Indian, K’Dee drew multiple parallels between the two groups. He equated the Cherokee Trail of Tears with the forced migration of Palestinians from Israeli lands, and compared placement of Native American children into boarding schools with Palestinian families separated by impassable military checkpoints.

“The U.N. created a land for Jews, who have been historically kicked around Europe,” UCSC student Eliot Rosenstock said. “[The Jewish people] wanted a base, and it hurts me to see my own people now marginalizing another religion.”

Native American Indians are a minority in their own home country. A 2008 diversity report revealed that they make up about 1 percent of the student population at UCSC.

Fourth-year Merrill student and attendee Amalia Coronado stated that as a Native American, she felt a connection to Palestinians in what she felt was a battle for visibility and equality.

“There’s just so much going on everywhere, it’s great to make these cross-cultural ties,” Coronado said. “We’re all fighting for similar things.”

Debates rage over the legitimacy of Israeli settlements, pitting Israelis against Palestinians.

The divide permeates Rosenstock’s own life as well. While his family consists of unequivocal supporters of a Jewish nation, Rosenstock was found tabling on behalf of Palestine.

“To them, as soon as I stop supporting Israel, I become ignorant,” Rosenstock said.

The event culminated in a performance by hip-hop group Audiopharmacy, whose mellow-feeling beats incorporated lyrics of indigenous opposition, a message coinciding with the one carried by the delegation. Or in K’Dee’s words, “resisting the exportation of oppression with solidarity.”

Cross-continental connections were made with the youth of Palestine, who welcomed the delegation as the culmination of a program of study centered around Native American and immigrant populations of the United States.

“It was dope, man,” K’Dee said. “They were doing their traditional dances for us. We did an exchange with them, did some of our own cultural things.”

K’Dee spent two years prior to the trip learning about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the situation of displaced Palestinian refugees.

“We could never provide the real truth if we hadn’t been there,” K’Dee said. “We want to educate people … and the ultimate goal is change.”

In a closing remark, K’Dee noted that Palestinians have so far counted 42 years of what has been considered occupation, while American Indians have counted 560.

33rd Annual California Conference on American Indian Education

2010-03-08T00:21:00.000-08:00

CIEDA is the main sponsor of the annual California Conference on American Indian Education being held this year March 25-27, 2010 in Santa Clara at the Marriott Hotel. This year’s theme:

“Saving Our Language-Saving Our Culture”

SNAG will be there!!

Gathering of the Pomo Nations

2010-03-06T18:47:00.000-08:00

Gathering of the Pomo Nations 2010 from on Vimeo.

SNAG held a writing and skateboard design workshop at the Gathering of Pomo Nations, in Redwood Valley, CA at the Consolidated Tribal Health Project, Friday March 5, 2010.

Winona LaDuke Speaks at Stanford 3/3/10

2010-03-04T20:48:00.000-08:00

Winona LaDuke Speaks 3/3/10 from Shadi Rahimi on Vimeo.

SNAG filmed WINONA LADUKE, internationally acclaimed activist, orator, and author, as she gave a lecture entitled "Economics for the Seventh Generation" 3/3/10 at Stanford University in CA.

Save the Date March 5th!

2010-02-11T11:28:00.000-08:00

SNAG TO PRESENT AT

GATHERING OF THE POMO NATIONS

SNAG will be doing a writing workshop at 1pm for the Gathering of Pomo Nations, in Redwood Valley, CA at the Consolidated Tribal Health Project, Friday March 5th! For more info or Registration call 707-463-1454 or email angelajames2276@yahoo.com.

"One Mission" Peace March

2010-02-04T10:36:00.000-08:00

On January 28, SNAG youth attended a rally that the Mission Community Peace Collaborative, a group of the Mission Community Council made up of more than 25 Mission organizations, held called - "One Mission" Peace March. It ended in a rally on 16th and Mission.

Their reason and message was:

We are sending a message of love and peace to our youth, and because of that love, speaking as One Mission, we will not accept or tolerate violence as a way of life in our community
We want to highlight the work that Community Based Organizations & members do on a daily basis in preventive crime reduction in our community (Mayor and Police are trying to take the sole credit for the reduction of crime)
We are fighting back against the Mayor's Office for the incredible and devastating Cuts of not only funding of programs through the DCYF, but complete elimination of entire programs that serve our youth in our community. We are literally fighting for keep our children & youth alive and safe so that they may have the right to a good quality of life and the pursuit of happiness

SNAG reporter Anastacia Diaz, 17, reports: "Valerie Laiwa spoke about bringing peace to the Mission. She said the Mission was One Mission and there should be no block, your block and my block, and how a lot of families have lost members from gang violence."

SNAG reporter Lavinia Morris, 11 - Interviewed some youth at the rally:

Juan Carlos said, "I believe we should unite and show that we are all human and we are all friends and not enemies. Everyone wants peace. Certain people have strategies to stop violence. We need to bring peace to everybody. We can make history together."
Jasmine said,"It takes the hood to save the hood. If you don't work together then nothing will happen so you have to work together to make it through."

Their Brief History of a "Systematic Attack" on the Mission District Community

Our entire community is under a systematic siege of attack by The City at a time when we have successfully cut the murder rate in half. Entire neighborhoods have fallen under unconstitutional "gang-injunctions", then the very same programs that been endlessly working successfully to reduce gang recruitment by doing crime prevention work, are now going to be cut. Other programs that were working specifically with youth on probation/parole by teaching then real job skills and then placing them directly into employment, will be completely eliminated and cease to exist. Programs that in one case, stopped an all-out gang-war from breaking out between Surenos and Nortenos in the Mission District, because of real life interventions, are now in jeopardy.

From violating the Sanctuary Ordinance Law by calling ICE on our undocumented youth when detained before even being charged, to entire after-school programs completely eliminated and locations shut down, we have completely gotten the message that The City does not care about the Mission. This cutting of funding and programs will only leave our youth susceptible to gang recruitment, more idleness with nowhere to go but to "hang-out" in the streets with "friends" and exposing themselves to the possibility of violence and criminal behavior. That in turn will eventually cause a huge rise of crime, leaving merchants & patrons feeling unsafe, less people will want to buy property or open up businesses in the Mission District. We deserve “quality of life.”

If we do nothing, if we don't stand as One, if we don't fight back, then the sad reality will be that our Supervisor will have to attend more than the 3 funerals he had to attend in one week during the sad month of September, when we dealt with gang related triple homicide shooting in one dark Sunday afternoon. As we say in our culture, “God forbid, through all of our collective work, from that ever becoming the "norm" in our communities!”

A Thank You for 2010

2010-01-04T15:20:00.000-08:00

As we look ahead at an amazing 2010 to come, we'd like to thank our longtime fiscal sponsor, Community Futures Collective and its executive director Marina Drummer for her ongoing support of SNAG. Thanks to CFC and Marina, we have for the past eight years had a wonderful relationship that makes it possible for us to receive tax-deductible donations and have all the tax and reporting work necessary done for us to receive grants and keep our work flourishing. Very importantly, more than 100 Native prisoners each year are gifted SNAG Magazine via CFC and Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival. We look forward to many years to come with these amazing organizations!

2009-12-29T15:00:00.001-08:00

Happy Holidays from SNAG!

It's been an amazing year, and we at SNAG (Seventh Native American Generation) are writing to encourage your support in helping us continue our work!

This year we released two issues of SNAG Magazine: Urban Rez and Roots of Resistance, both with music, art, photos and writing from more than 125 Native youth artists. We led free weekly workshops at Friendship House Association of American Indians Inc. and held our third annual Holiday Marketplace at Intertribal Friendship House with our largest turnout.

Our other accomplishments in 2009:

· Our co-founder Ras K'dee was a featured guest on Grit TV and was awarded KQED's 2009 American Indian Local Hero Award, for his commitment to the Native community.

· Our staff were guest speakers at the Green Festival and helped lead workshops with PEP at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, and with our partners 7th GIV helped to establish an Indigenous Media track for 2010.

· Our staff led workshops in CA, NY, CO and Palestine and were featured guests on radio programs including Native America Calling, Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and KPOO's Eagle and the Condor, and Southern Ute radio.

· We held a "College Day," during which our staff writer and youth leader Obasi Turrentine, applied and was accepted to the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA).

· Over the summer we fundraised $9,000 to help take an Indigenous Youth Delegation to Palestine!

We are honorecd to receive your continued support for our work. It is because of you that we thrive! We know that times are tough and we appreciate any amount of support you can offer! For any amount over $10 we will send you a Thank You Gift of our new issue of SNAG Magazine: Roots of Resistance featuring stories, photographs and art from Palestine!

Thank you and have a wonderful new year!

Sincerely,
Ras K'dee & Shadi Rahimi
SNAG co-founders

SNAG Holiday Events: Get Involved!

2009-11-09T20:57:00.000-08:00

Thank you for supporting us in 2009:

If you weren't able to make it and want to donate to help purchase gifts for Native foster youth in the Indian Child and Family Preservation Project:

Ras K'dee receiving "2009 American Indian Hero Award"

2009-11-09T08:07:00.000-08:00

KQED is honored to be partnering with The San Francisco Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services, Friendship House Association of American Indians, Native American AIDS Project and Native American Health Center to celebrate the rich culture of the American Indian community.

Please join us on Thursday, November 12, 2009 from 5pm-7:30pm at the San Francisco City Hall Rotunda for dancing, drumming and a special awards ceremony where we will honor local heroes doing outstanding work in the American Indian community.

2009 American Indian Heroes

Gayle Burns
Native American AIDS Project

Mary Jean Roberts
Voices of the Native Nation, KPOO Radio

Ras K'dee
Seventh Native American Generation, Audiopharmacy

Lehman Brightman
United Native Americans, Inc.

Cathy Chapman
Native American Health Center

For More Information Visit:
http://www.kqed.org/community/heritage/americanindian/index.jsp

SNAG leading Southern Ute Native Hip-hop Workshop

2009-10-28T15:17:00.001-07:00

Listen to the Bay Native Circle program hosted by Ras K'dee to hear the workshops that SNAG Magazine and POOR Magazine held with youth on the Southern Ute reservation:

http://www.kpfa.org/node/100

Ras K'dee On The Eagle & The Condor

2009-10-26T10:05:00.000-07:00

SNAG co-founder Ross Cunningham (Ras K'dee) was featured on the The Eagle and The Condor radio show on KPOO FM on "Black Native Americans." George Galvis, Ross Cunningham (Pomo) and Val Shadow Hawk (Cree/Blackfoot / Choctaw/Missouria) discuss being Black Native Americans, their family histories, the intersections of the African and Native diaspora, and tribal dis-enrollment.

LISTEN HERE!

Call for Submissions!

2009-10-20T09:56:00.000-07:00

CALL FOR WRITING, ARTWORK, MUSIC FOR ISSUE 7

SNAG Magazine is currently seeking Native youth 24-year-old and younger to submit their work for the upcoming issue. We are working with youth in the San Francisco Bay Area to produce content for this issue, and if you want to contribute as well submit by November 5, 2009.

Issue #7 of SNAG Magazine will feature the following themes:

- Shared Struggles:
Overseas, Borders, Sacred Sites, Environment

- Pop Culture
Music, Fashion, Slanguage, Art

- Culture & Family
Tell us how you are surviving and thriving

-Politics
Your involvement, your thoughts on issues

If you are interested in submitting writing or artwork to the magazine, please email snagmagazine(at)yahoo.com.

My Hands

2009-10-11T23:13:00.000-07:00

by Bianca Lynn Brugger

I remember looking down at my hands in the rain as I was being handcuffed. They looked like an old woman’s — cracked, swollen and marked with scars. My grandma told me they came from my great-grandma, who worked so hard she passed down her worn hands to her children. They would carry a great burden.

When I was with my grandmother I was content. With my mother it was different. My mother’s mind was scattered like leaves in the wind, my grandmother said once. It was a nice way of saying she was mentally ill. When grandmother died, I was 15 and had to move back with my mother. On the bus to California, I watched the land change from fertile grassland with farmhouses and cows to a city with people of all shapes and colors, like sand when you look close. The buildings reached the sky. I felt like an ant on a sidewalk.

I thought of my grandma’s face. Her skin was like a dry lake bed; lush mud brown with cavernous cracks where stories of sorrow and glee lay hidden like artifacts. She smelled of tobacco and white sage. I would sit beside her by the fire as she beaded. Her hands looked like shale, tanned by the sun and coated with ash from the fire. I imagined them crumbling like cookies in milk. Her stories taught me to be patient and aware. Patient like the salmon swimming up waterfalls, making their way home to lay their eggs. Aware like the caribou sensing a menace by smelling the wind and listening to its surroundings. I learned dignity from her.

I waited for over two hours at the station. I hadn’t seen my mother for five years. She was bow-legged with slumped shoulders, wearing tight jeans and a faded black “Harley Davidson” shirt. We walked to the car. A man was sitting in the driver’s seat with a cigarette in his mouth. She didn’t introduce us. I watched the city fill with lights as the sun settled to sleep. It reminded me of Christmas, but there were no stars. I asked where they were, but my mother did not hear me.

Her driveway was filled with broken down cars and motorcycle parts. Dogs were rummaging through trashcans. The house was a pea soup green, with rusted burglar bars. The kitchen counter was littered with beer cans and fast food containers. My room had a mattress with no sheets and a crate for a table. The streetlight shone in through a sheet used as a curtain. I waited until my mother left to cry.

As rain started to rap on the window, my thoughts drifted to summer rains on the reservation. I dreamt I was in my grandma’s garden, hiding in her cornfield, listening to the wind rustle through the leaves. My hair danced upon my face and my knees were wet from kneeling on the rich, wet black soil. My grandmother’s songs lay in the air as she hung laundry on the clothesline. She would call to me. I would giggle to let her know I was okay.

A car horn awakened me. I fumbled my way to the bathroom. The toilet seat was broken and mold covered the walls. My hair still smelled like sage. It reminded me of my grandma’s story of the washi hunters who would kill or cage our relatives and could not understand why animals should be respected. Now I was the prey.

I walked into the living room. My mother and the man were passed out on a dirty plum sofa, naked. I looked at my mother’s body: She had acne scars on her face and knotted, unkempt hair. Her inner elbows had purple spots. Bones protruded through her skin. The man woke up and screamed. He walked towards me and began to strike me with his fist, dragged me into my room. He shut the door.

The man smelled of cigarettes and beer. He grabbed my throat with one hand and tore my clothes with the other. He pushed me on the bed and raped me. He stumbled out. I looked up and saw the light had dimmed. I picked my clothes up. My shirt was ripped and my pants were filthy. I slowly put them on. I quietly walked to the bathroom; I wiped dirt off of the mirror. My left eye was swollen and my nose was bleeding. My body looked like a freshly skinned deer. I was wet and bloody, with purple and blue bruises.

I did not feel anything. I walked into the living room. My mother was awake. She smiled. She said now, I was a woman.

I grabbed my bag and walked out. My body was no longer mine. It took me where it wanted. I let the rain wash over me cleansing my blood, tears, and sweat. The streetlights went off. I did not feel scared. I was finally safe. Darkness was a haven.

I came upon a dim light. There was an old woman by a fire under a bridge. She talked out loud to no one. She was cooking a can of beans. I collapsed on some cardboard beside her. When I awoke, I saw the old woman rustling around as a cop car rolled up. She fled. The cop picked me up, walked me to his car, and asked me questions. I did not answer. I looked up at the sky. The rain hit my face.

I felt him put cuffs on my wrists. I peered down at my hands and looked at their texture. I thought of my grandmother, and how she told me it was a great honor to have them. I screamed.

This story by Bianca Lynn Brugger, 24, was featured in SNAG Issue #5. Bianca is a member of the Osage Nation who lives on the Shoshone Paiute reservation in Owen's Valley, CA. Art by Ryan Singer.

Rise and Fall

2009-10-11T22:58:00.000-07:00

by Urvin Yazzie

i’m from the navajo nation....i moved to utah becuz there is hardly any jobs out on the navajo rez. i’m working becuz i could go to places that i want to go. i also want to help the dooda desert rock group. i work mostly everywhere even in texas. i get jobs to help my brother and sisters to. i started to work ever since i was young.

i pledge allegiance to the feathers
of the united tribes in this land
we stand for no greed and power
under no god or president
we will live by the sun and the moon
not by the time that was made
we will not live behind those
imaginary lines
this land belongs to nobody
our history before 500 years was
our freedom
the present is our prison of
technologies and wars
we will live in peace and harmony
with the earth and creator on our side
blinding ourselves with their medias and plots
advertising on the billboards and on tv
stuffing us with cotton and put us behind the glass case
making profits out of our bones
our bodies belong deep into the earth
not behind glass case to be look at
controlling our minds with alcohol, drugs, materials
causing us to hate amongst each other
fighting, killing, forgotten the way of life
not accepting the traditions
ashamed by it
what have they done to us?
what are they doing to us?
just to let u know we still exist
we will never fade away
we will not be ignored

DOODA DESERT ROCK

on november 8, 2007 me and my friend decided to go to the desert rock camp for the gathering. we planned it for almost a year. dooda means “no” in navajo and desert rock is the name of a power plant they are trying to build on navajo land in new mexico. people are trying to stop it. we hitchhiked to blue, just between cottonwood and pinon on the navajo reservation, then chinle, then tsaile, where we got off at dine college. we started walking towards my friend’s house to get some more stuff like water, tent, sleeping bags, and some munchies.

we got back on the road with the bags and they were kind of heavy. we walked for three hours and the sun was going down hoping we could make it before dark. finally we got picked up when the sun was almost down. they drove us all the way to crystal and it was kind of cold in the back of the truck. when we got to crystal, new mexico and we stood on the road towards sheepsprings. we waited for awhile then finally some lady picked us up and took us to sheepsprings. when we got there she told her husband, to take us to the burnham junction and he did. we headed towards the road to the burnham chapter, then our ride pulled over. we asked where he was going and he told us he was headed to shiprock. he knew we were headed to the camp. after awhile we got into an argument of what we think about the power plant being built. he was for the plant but we opposed it. he stopped the ride and we got chased off. we were getting our bags in the back but he took off with our stuff still in the back.

we walked for along time to try and find the camp. we didn’t have any food or water. we walked for five hours or more looking for the camp. the security that patrols the area stopped beside us and told us where the camp was. he took us to the camp and we were so hungry and cold and dehydrated for walking along time. at the camp we told them what happen to us; they called the cops. we told the cop what happen and we really didn’t see who the person was and didn’t find out the license plate. they can’t really do anything about it so we just went to sleep. the next day we had fun.

LONGEST WALK II

when we were on the longest walk we did a 24 hour walk...we did it twice – the first one we did we covered 56 miles and i don’t know how many miles we did on the second....the second 24-hour walk was hard and challenging for all of us but one of us made it all the way with one of the supporters.

this walk was for the people in this world. Dennis Banks dropped us off at the starting point and talked to us for awhile then prayed for us. we started walking at midnight, some of us were tired and sleepy but we kept going for two hours then we rested for awhile. we ate some snacks, when we were finished we started walking again for another hour and a half. that’s when Verna started to feel pain in her leg, but we still kept going until we reached a store in a small town.

Verna and Andre were told to go to the hospital to get it checked; her leg had swollen up. Chino and I got on the bus even though we still wanted to walk. we sat on the bus thinking we should keep walking, but people wanted us to end it cause our legs were hurting. when the walkers rested and started walking we joined them again, we walked for 10 miles then we took a break and ate lunch.

once we were finished me and Ben started walking, Chino’s leg hurt so she caught a ride with Henry. Ben and I walked and walked for two hours, we walked into Louisiana. we were surrounded by green trees, swamps and bugs were all around. we rested for awhile then PJ joined us then we started walking again. we walked for a long time, then it got dark but we still walked until a support vehicle came and gave us some food to eat.

we started walking again until a cop pulled up and asked us what we were doing. the cop called for backup so another cop pulled up and asked us the same thing but she was mean. another cop pulled up and asked the same thing again we told him what we are doing and why. they checked our background but we were clean so they let us go.

we continued our journey again. we walked for another couple of hours then Henry showed up and picked us up then took us back to the camp. I was so tired and my leg was hurting cause of my bad knee, but I made it the whole 24-hours. this second walk we did was hard and challenging and a struggle but it felt good even though I was hurting. Ben and I made it all the way which was pretty cool and PJ and Ben sang some songs which made the walk more exciting. me, Chino, Verna, Andre – we’re known as the “midnight walkers.”

the walk was fine then things started to go crazy like people getting kicked out of the walk for drugs. when we walked to taos i met more people and they offered some of us to stay at their place rather then staying at the skater rink. we stayed for one night then went back to the rink. that night was cold and i couldn’t sleep.

when it was time to leave we walked in the snow again. we walked for like 15 miles then got on the bus. the runners finished the rest of the miles. every day we walked and walked and sometimes we rested for a day or two. the food we ate was all leftovers, we didn’t eat food that was freshly made. some people got sick off of it.

soon it seemed the whole walk wasn’t really for the environment – it was just for some guy who was trying to make money off of us that’s all. we got into so much conflict when we were getting closer to washington D.C. people were arguing amongst each other. most of the time i enjoyed some scenery with someone i met on the walk. when we were somewhere in north carolina some girl got run over by a car on her foot. that’s was drama and we separated.

we still walked to DC. on the blueridge parkway. some people supported us and helped us out. we went to those places that the longest walk II was suppose to go. we were threaten by the longest walk organizer. we still made it to D.C. when we got there we were headed to the teepees but the security from the walk was pushing us around and threatening us. we never got a chance to get into those teepees. the goons of the longest walk told the cops that i had a gun and they started to search me. i almost started to resist.
when we left those guys followed us and threw signs at us. we ran some stop lights just to get rid of of them. when we got to our destination we set up and went to sleep. the next day we did some ceremonies and during the evening we left and went back home.

This story by Urvin Yazzie, 20, was featured in SNAG Issue #6. He is from the Navajo Nation.

The Seventh Generation

2009-10-11T22:47:00.000-07:00

by Librada Peters

We the first people had a way of life superior to any other brought to us. We lived in balance with our Great Spirit, sky and earth. Then unbalance was brought, leaving many of our people lost for some time, many heartbroken to see our way of life disappear to king who white men called great. Though 200 years of genocide, oppression, colonization, could not erase who we are.

We are finally coming home.

Many when finding out the true history of the U.S. are enraged. They thought we were just dumb Indians, just waiting to be discovered. But the truth is we had math, astronomy, we had civilizations before the white man ever set foot.

We had all this and a higher understanding, we knew who we were, how we were created, and where the Creator placed us, the birth land of our people. And we did not come across the Bering Straight. We reigned many nations upon this land in peace, from Cape Horn Argentina to Canada.

The only thing we didn’t know that was brought was war. In all of the many languages we spoke there were no words for stealing, war, rape, or greed, no word for guns or alcohol, or money, we did not need it.

We had endurance games such as running, wrestling, sports like hockey, originally from far Northern Nations. They called it “hoo-kee” or “la crosse.” Now compare European games such as poker. Look at the ethics behind it, it’s secretive, you have to lie without emotion to win. Chess is about conquering, imprisonment, and the white side always starts first. Some say chess helps you think. We say, “Think like who?”

Though all the games or sports Europeans brought, no one plays them better then our people. Jim Thorpe, for example, of the Sac and Fox Nation was voted the Great Athlete of the first half of the 20th Century. We are not the stereotype of drunken Indians. We are business owners, teachers, doctors, writers, poets, and singers. Don’t support the stereotypes. Support your people.

Instead of a 50 Cent CD, buy a War Club CD or some Quese IMC. Instead of Slipknot, buy Blackfire or Unofficial, hit up the bookstore and buy “The People Shall Continue,” by Simon Ortiz of the Acoma Nation.

In our prophecies it is said after the sixth generation is a time of disturbance and change. We will be lifted up by the Seventh Generation to carry on the true ways of our people. Our heritage, everything our ancestors stood for is in our hands. We are the Seventh Generation.

Remember, we are not Indian, or Native American, we were Native before America, we are the first people, we do not belong to tribes, we belong to Nations. You are not Navajo! You are Dine! You are not Sioux! You are Dakotah, Lakotah, Nakotah! You are not Arapaho! You are of the Blue Sky People! It is your duty to find the true name of your people, not the name they gave to put you on reservations, the name that our Great Spirit gave us.

When our land was free we were a Great people, and will be again.

This story by Librada Peters, 17, was featured in SNAG Issue #5. She is Mdewakanton, Dakota Nation. Art by Mathew Barkhausen.

Free Leonard Peltier

2009-10-11T22:43:00.000-07:00

by Joe Britton

In 1973, a shoot out between the F.B.I. agents and the AIM members took place at the Ogala Sioux Pine Ridge Rezervation. Two F.B.I. agents in separate cars followed a truck with about four AIM members in it because they were looking for a guy who had a warrant out and they thought he was in the truck. The agents followed them to the Jumping Bull property where more than a dozen AIM members were camped. The truck parked and the shoot out started.

About four AIM members were arrested and went to trial and Leonard Peltier was one of them. Leonard Peltier has been imprisoned for 33 years and was recently transferred from Louisberg to Canaan Penitentiary. There he was attacked and was brutally beaten by other inmates. A protest was then organized in San Francisco about what had happened to him. The protest was to demand Leonard’s freedom and to have him transferred back to the prison he was at. He was transferred back to Louisberg and was named a hero in the Indian Community.

I think what took place at the Canaan Penitentiary was fixed by officers and the security guards of the prison. Peltier is now going up for parole and I think the system is trying to keep him until he dies. What happened I think was because he is going up for parole and because his people have not forgotten about him and will keep fighting until he is free or at peace. My personal feelings are that because Leonard Peltier is such a huge part of the Indian community they want to keep him locked up until we forget about him and the AIM is no more.

For me and my family to be able to participate in this event was an honor and we are very proud that Indians are still fighting for this individual. It is something that I would get heavily involved with and would put most of my time trying to stay involved. I’m very proud that my family was a part of the rally. It shows my little siblings what is going on in the community and to their people and what they could learn from events like this. Introduce other people to the problem and educate more about what is happening to native people in the prison system. Teaching the younger generation to stand up for their people, and trying to make a difference at the age they are at will make them stronger in the future, and get them more involved in their community events on helping our people out such as the the GONA {gathering of native Americans} and other native resources that help out our families.

Leonard Peltier going up for parole is a huge achievement for us who protested and for the ones that did not lose faith and stop fighting. We were not fighting for nothing and will not stop until he is free. There is still anger from what happened and feelings of racism and unfairness of color of skin. Anger of how many years he lost of his life because of imprisonment. In spite all of this, I think it makes young Natives today stronger and willing to stay together and stand up for their beliefs and their people.

This story by Joe Britton, 17, was featured in SNAG Issue #6. He is Washoe, lives in Hayward and is part of SNAG's workshop team.

Running Comanche

2009-08-07T20:36:00.000-07:00

by Patrick Wahnee Gay

I was born in Oakland and raised all over the San Francisco Bay Area. But never lived in Oakland until now – since I've been out of California Youth Authority. The first time I went to the CYA, my crime was assault and escaping from foster homes.

I was sent to the Karl Holton California Youth Authority in Stockton for two and a half years. My stay there made me see that I want to live life different and make major changes. There, the days were hot and I had to wake up early every morning for school. On the weekends, we would kick back and have recreation time, we could play dominoes, basketball, handball, or lift weights. If anyone disobeyed any orders, they had to stay in their room all day.

My family would put money on my books so I could eat. I ate noodles, meat and "spreads" (which is Top Ramen crushed up with meat, eggs, Doritos, cheese and mayonnaise). All the food tastes like rubber, like it was sitting up in the refrigerator for five years. Sometimes we would get frozen burgers that were halfway cooked. The carpets smelled like feet and ass. Some people smelled like funk because there was no support system for hygiene.

Every day there was a fight or a group disturbance caused by the Native gangs, Norte, Southern, or the Fresno Bulldog's. It was always all over stupid stuff. The worst part about being in CYA was always having to try to avoid fighting, 'cause when there is a fight they would use "fog guns" (which burn you and makes you not able to breathe), mace on people's eyes, and sometimes they used physical force.

The first time I was out of the CYA, it was for one year and two months. I had a lot of goals. I wanted to go to college, get a job and a house, and spend time with my family. Fights happen all the time in CYA and usually become a "group disturbance." But even when I was out, it was still happening to me. I got jumped by my own cousin and his friends on High Street in Oakland, over money. The fight lasted awhile and there were bats and bottles flying.

We shouldn't have been fighting at all 'cause we're family. But my cousin was beat badly and the police came. Later, my parole agent asked what happened. My other cousin lied and she said I was going to get a knife and flatten her tires, and that I was violent. The police took what she was saying as truth and they said I violated my parole and put out a warrant for my arrest. When I found out, I drove to Oklahoma to get away.

It took me two days to get down to the Oklahoma Indian Reservation, where my family is from. I'm related to Ten Bears, chief leader of the five bands of recognized Comanche Tribes. When I got to the reservation, the tribal police couldn't do anything. The FBI has jurisdiction over the tribal police so the only way they could arrest me was through the FBI. The FBI wanted the tribal police to do a Federal Indian Reservation Arrest on me. It had taken months for them to find me.

The FBI finally caught me at my cousin's house, and put me in a U.S. marshal paddy wagon. There were 48 agents, including the federal tribal police. They put me in the Oklahoma County Jail. I was there for two days, and then the county jail bus transferred me to the Oklahoma City Airport. They put me in Santa Rita County Jail. I was then transferred to Oakland for two months. I went before the parole board and they said I had 15 months to do in CYA, so I went back.

I was at the CYA when those two young guys were beat down on video, which they showed on TV. They were 18 and 19. They were beat because they attacked a youth correctional counselor, and it took 10 officers to restrain them. They put them on their stomach in handcuffs, and were still beating them even though they were in restraints. They sprayed them with the fog guns. I think it was messed up because they shouldn't have been fighting in the first place, and the staff should have stopped when they put them in handcuffs. They were doing too much, they were already on the ground and couldn't do anything, and they still beat them.

While I was serving my time, I got tired of eating nasty food; I got tired of looking at stupid things that go on in there. I was sick of being told what to do. I got tired of seeing Indian gang leaders or others starting up stuff, 'cause I knew they would be stuck in there or max out on parole. I was tired of making poor decisions that made me end up in there.

Now, I am finally free. Being an Indian Reservation parole violator means I have to check in with a regular parole officer, and a federal parole officer. But my beliefs have changed and my mentality is different; I want to stay out of trouble. I want to be successful, do positive activities, and have goals to accomplish every day. I want to attend sweat lodges, because I know they will keep me strong and keep me following the red road. I want to meet new friends who can help me stay positive.

Today, I set an example as a good role model. I try to be a productive person, and not smoke weed or drink. My goals are to be a family man. I want to have kids when I get older to keep my bloodline going. I've been looking into casinos, and I am proud to see Native's owning their own land and doing something with it. Now, I got support and money in my pocket from my tribe. We have oil on our land and casinos, but on the rez back home, most people who get money don't do anything with it.

As of now, my life is good. I travel back and forth from Oakland to Oklahoma, and I have relatives everywhere in the Midwest. I am a strong Native American man who wants to learn more about my culture and attend Native American sweat lodges. I am not a perfect man – nobody is. All that matters is that we respect one another and all our cultures.

by Patrick Wahnee Gay, who was 21 when he wrote this story for SNAG Issue #4. He lives in Oakland. Art by Taraka Goodman-Robinson, 22

Get Involved

2009-08-07T19:36:00.001-07:00

Events

ANNOUNCEMENTS/OPPORTUNITIES

BAAITS now has a two-spirit drum. All Two-Spirits and their allies are welcomed to come learn to sing and drum our traditional songs on the 1st Thursday of every month from 7:15 - 9:00pm at LGBT Center at 1800 Market in SF. Jaynie Lara teaches the songs, sings and drums on the Sweet Medicine Drum, an all Native women drum.

Native blog welcomes subscribers. The blog contains news of interest to Native Americans, Hawaiian Natives & Alaskan Natives, with news and action requests and an occasional humorous entry. To subscribe: http://andrekaruk.posterous.com/ From Andrew Cramblit.

The SF Native TANF Program has moved downtown to - 33 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. Toll free 1-888-618-TANF, 415-284-9661.

LGBTQ teen suicide/crisis hotline: *1 866 488 7386 * From The Trevor Project.

The Women's Self Worth Foundation has pledged $250,000 to the American Indian College Fund over four years for 14 scholarships to American Indian women. The grant funds 2-4 year scholarships for Native women pursuing degrees at tribal colleges (11) and mainstream colleges or universities (3). Preference to applicants who show academic achievement and community involvement. The Fund is the nation's largest provider of private scholarships for American Indians, providing 6,000 scholarships annually. FMI: www.collegefund.org SOURCE American Indian College Fund.

For free events in the Bay Area, check out mybart.org, and sf.funcheap.com. Also in Oakland, kids eat for free.

TV: San Jose, Channel 15, Native Voice TV, Sat 4-5 pm. Hosts Cihuapili and Michael New Moon. Also 1st, 3rd, 4th Mon, 8 pm courtesy La Raza Round Table.

Radio:

Bay Native Circle, Wed 2-3 pm, kpfa.org 94.1 fm, McVicar / Antoine producers, Berkeley.

Indian Time Tues 8-10 pm, kkup.com 91.5 fm, Jack Hyatt/David Romero.

Native Way, 2nd/4th Sun, 1-3 pm, David Romero / Veronica Gonzales. San Jose.

On Native Ground - Where Art Speaks! kdvs.com, 90.3 fm, Thurs 8:30-9:30 am, Jack Kohler / Patrice Pena. Sovereignty Sound, DJ Ya-nah, Sun 3-6 am, 916.380-2818. Davis.

Webworks: Voices of the Native Nation, 3rd/4th Wed, 6-8 pm, kpoo.com 89.5, Mary Jean Robertson, San Francisco.

Calendars:

Bay Area native community network.

Bay Area Indian Calendar.

News from Native California Quarterly newsletter. Submissions email, or PO Box 9145, Berkeley, CA 94709 or fax 510.549-1889.

East Bay (To Tuolumne)

Four Directions AA Meetings, Sundays at 2, IFH, 523 International Blvd, Oakland. Meetings: 1st Sun: Birthdays; 2nd Sun: As Bill Sees It; 3rd Sun: Step Study; 4th Sun: Basket Drop. Children welcome, open meeting. FMI Brandi, 510-776-8946.

Medicine Warriors All Nations Dance Practice. Free, open to all. Thurs, 7-9 pm, IFH, 523 International, Oakland. Gilbert Blacksmith and Mike Bellanger organize with help from the MWAN planning committee. Welcome to Lakota Holder, the new organizer for the MWAN Thursday nite events! Motto: Friendship, Fitness, Fun.

Gathering Tribes, 1412 Solano, Albany. 510.528-9038. Weekend artist presentations.

Intertribal Friendship House, 523 International Blvd, Oakland. 510.836-1955. Classes: Tues: 6-9 pm, Beading Circle w Gayle Burns (Muskogee Creek), Drum, Aerobics. Thurs: Medicine Warriors/All Nations Dance, Fri: Talking Circles, Sat: Gardening, Parenting. Library open some Tues/Thurs.

Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak St, Oakland. 501.238-2200. Includes an historical display of California lifeways and basketry. Free First Sundays.

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, 103 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley. 510.643-7649. Wed-Sat, 10 am-4:30 pm, Sun 12-4 pm. Free; $5 tours, $2 children.

North Bay (To Sacramento)

CN Gorman Museum, 1316 Hart Hall, UC Davis. Closed Jun 14 - Sep 27 due to State and University budget cuts in 09-10. FMI: cngorman@ucdavis.edu 530.752-6567.

California Indian Museum, 1020 O St, Sacramento. “American Masterpieces: Artistic Legacy of California Indian Basketry,” Through early 2010, Admission.

California Indian Museum & Cultural Center, 5250 Aero Drive, Santa Rosa, 707.579-3004, cimandcc@aol.com. “Ishi: A California Indian Story of Dignity, Hope, Courage and Survival.”

Jesse Peter Native American Art Museum, Santa Rosa Jr. College, Bussman Hall, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.527-4479. California cultures, artists change monthly.

Maidu Museum and Historic Site, 1960 Johnson Ranch Dr., Roseville. 916.774-5934.

Marin Museum of the American Indian, 2200 Novato Blvd., Novato, 415.897-4064. “Sharing Traditions,” last Sat, 1-4 pm. Tues-Sun 12-4 pm. Free.

Mendocino County Museum. 400 E. Commercial St., Willits, 707.459-2739. Wed-Sun: 10 am-4:30 pm. Pomo baskets and basket weavers. Free.

Northern California Flute Circle. 530.432-2716. Native Am. Flute concerts & workshops.

Pacific Western Traders, 305 Wool St., Folsom. 916.985-3851 Wed-Sun, 10 am-5 pm. Native American arts, books, recordings, videos, Pendleton blankets. Changing exhibits.

Vallejo Inter-Tribal Council. Mugg’s Coffee Shop, Ferry Building, 495 Mare Island Way, Vallejo. 707.552-2562 or 707.554-6114. Call to confirm Wed 7 pm meetings.

West Bay (SF Peninsula)

Cantor Arts Center, Stanford. 650-723-4177. “Living Traditions: Arts of the Americas,” Northwest Coast, California, Southwest, and Mesoamerica collections. Wed–Sun. Free.

de Young Museum, Teotihuacan murals, California baskets, Inuit/Eskimo art, Pueblo pottery. Free 1st Tues, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, SF, 415.750-3600.

Images of the North. Inuit sculptures, prints, masks, jewelry, plus several exhibits per year, and Oct. Cape Dorset Print Show. 2036 Union St, SF, 415.673-1273, gallery@imagesnorth.com.

Kaululehua Hawaiian Cultural Center, 423 Baden Ave, So. SF. Mon: Men & Women (13-40) 6:30-7:30 pm; Tues: Kupuna (50+) 6-7 pm; Wed: Keiki (5-12) 6-7 pm; Thurs: Makua (35-50) 6:30-7:30 pm. Need only bring an open mind and a willingness to learn. ($10/class for the month of September) rsvp: info@apop.net or call 650-588-1091.

Mission Dolores. 3321 16th St, SF, 415.621-8203, Andrew A. Galvan, (Ohlone), Curator. SF’s oldest intact building and the only intact Mission Chapel of the original 21. Final resting place of 5,000 First Californians. Native plants and artifacts.

South Bay (To Santa Cruz)

Indian Canyon, Ceremonial Refuge/Facilities, w. of Hollister, ams@indiancanyon.org.

ANNUAL EVENTS

The “Annual Events” section aims to help community and event planners avoid scheduling conflicts and plan in advance. For inclusion email listings in same format as listings below. Wopila! Also, you can post your events on the Bay Area Native American Indian Network with full details and see what else is happening!

Nov 5-13, Sat, AIFF American Indian Film Festival, SF, filmfestival@aifisf.com.

Nov 13, AIFF Awards Night, SF, www.aifisf.com.

Nov 22-24, AIM National Conference, SF, eltonyg@earthlink.net.

Nov 25, Sunrise Ceremony, Alcatraz Island, morningstar@treatycouncil.org.

Nov 26, Black Fri Shellmound Mall Protest, Emeryville, shellmoundwalk@yahoo.com

Dec 4-5, AICRC Powwow, Laney College, Oakland, mary@aicrc.org.

Jan 29, MWAN B-Day Party, IFH, Oakland, gilbert_blacksmith@hotmail.com.

Apr 30-May 1, CA Indian Market, San Juan Bautista, fourcornerstrading@msn.com.

May, Mothers Day Weekend, Stanford Powwow, info@stanfordpowwow.org.

May, c. 15, Sat, CA Indian Market, Tuolumne, jbates@blackoakcasino.com.

Jun 5, Sat, Gathering of Honored Elders, Sacramento.

Jun 19, Sat, Storytelling Festival, Indian Canyon, Hollister, ams@indiancanyon.org.

Jun 20, Sun, Fathers’ Day, Native Contemp Arts Festival, SF, janeenantoine@mac.com.

Jul 17, Sat, Kule Loklo Big Time, Point Reyes National Seashore, 415.464-5100.

Sep 11, Sat, MWAN Powwow, Oakland, gilbert_blacksmith@hotmail.com.

Sep 18, Sat, AmInd Heritage Celeb/Big Time/Powwow/Market, San Jose, vmcloud@ihcscv.org.

Sep 18-19, Black NA Assn Powwow, CSU Hayward, ltcloud@sbcglobal.net.

Sep 24, 4th Fri, California Indian Day.

Oct 2-3, NAHC Pow Wow, Treasure Island, catherinew@nativehealth.org.

Oct 2, Tlingit Haida Gathering, Oakland 1st Congre. Church, haidawoman1@yahoo.com.

Oct 3, Ohlone Gathering, Coyote Hills, Fremont, chvisit@ebparks.org.

Oct 9, IPD Pow Wow/Market, Berkeley, info@ipdpowwow.org.

Oct 11, IPD Sunrise Ceremony, Alacatraz, morningstar@treatycouncil.org.

Oct 30, Sat, Oakland Library N. A. Culture Day, rchacon@oaklandlibrary.org.

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Arizona Youth Summit, 2004

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Roots of Resistance

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Our latest issue of SNAG, Roots of Resistance features stories from our Indigenous Youth delegation to Palestine.

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Renting the Bio-Bus

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The SNAG Bio-Bus is a 14-passenger shuttle bus powered with 100% bio-diesel made from recycled waste vegetable oil. The SNAG Bio-Bus is perfect for youth outings, field trips, transport to meetings, camping trips and retreats!

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Bio-Bus Tours

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SNAG will be offering various Indigenous lead Native Experience tours in the near future including; CA Native History Tour, Seeds and Roots Permaculture Tour, Traditional Medicine Tour, and Effects of Wine Industry Tour. We would love to collaborate with your organization or group to offer educational tours. Please contact us with your ideas! Contact: snagmagazine@yahoo.com

Bio-Bus Activism

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In 2010, SNAG launched its current environmental justice project: SNAG BioBus.

About the bus: SNAG BioBus is a 14-passenger diesel bus running on bio-diesel. Future plans for the BioBus project are a full conversion to vegetable oil, installation of solar panels, mobile library, recording studio and organic juice bar. The Bus currently serves SNAG urban Native youth by providing life-science educational curriculum around this integral environmental sustainability project. The BioBus also serves youth by providing them transport to Native community events, pow-wows and traditional ceremonies and educational forums.

Booking transport: The BioBus is currently available for rent to community organizations, schools, groups and/or individuals who would like to be provided transport and/or tours! Please contact snagmagazine @ yahoo.com to book your ride today! All proceeds go to reach our conversion goals. Click here for more rental information.

Mission: Our mission for the SNAG BioBus project is to teach Native youth the importance of reduction of fossil fuel use, alternative energy sources, cycles of fossil fuel production and pollution, environmental sustainability, project planning and accomplishment, and living in balance with our natural world.

The goal of providing clean mobility to urban youth is to provide opportunities to expand their life experience and knowledge of their Native traditions. We also aim to provide mobile music/media workshops to youth in rural and reservation areas. The BioBus will be fully equipped to bring these resources to youth in areas that lack resources to modern media outlets.

The final component of SNAG BioBus is to provide Native youth with job experience and management skills through the mobile juice bar. The juice bar will also serve as an educational tool for healthy living/eating and a self-sustaining income earning component for SNAG and its youth leadership.

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Contact Us

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About

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Welcome to our new site! It's a work-in-progress with many features to come, so visit us often to check out our updates and the new sections soon to be published!

SNAG provides Native youth the opportunity to achieve balance and harmony, address historical and modern grievances, and explore and develop leadership and community skills through arts and cultural expression. Through a holistic approach that combines spirituality, tradition and multi-media skills, we aim to shape the next generation of Native leaders.

As a Native organization, we embrace traditional beliefs grounded in the interconnectedness of life and the understanding that illness stems from spiritual imbalance and unhealthy lifestyles. We utilize skits, films, field trips, tours, music, art and culture to engage learning about shared tribal journeys and struggles. With the overarching goal of healing, our youth are taught about the Native boarding schools and tribal relocation their grandparents and parents faced, current land struggles, and how to peacefully take action against the continued racial injustice of Native people though public education, arts creation, dance, video and writing. Our philosophy of the “seventh generation” is based on a Native prophecy of the rising up of Native people to demand their right of stewardship to mend their wounds from the devastation wreaked upon Mother Earth and her people.

Projects: We publish a magazine with art, essays, poetry, photos from young Natives across the Americas; a music CD featuring Native musicians from across the country; public events that draw hundreds of people to see traditional and modern Native culture and art; and three types of multimedia workshops: Seventh Generation Rising for youth 11-18 where they learn history, healing, spirituality, current events and multimedia skills including video filming and editing, music production, photography, writing, screen-printing and design; Audio Media for the youth 19-25 who learn how to make audio collages with the Freedom Archives Alcatraz project; and Rez Eyez, a collaboration with Robinson Rancheria that teaches youth on the reservation photography. We continue to expand our programming to meet demand.

History

SNAG was founded by Ross Cunningham and Shadi Rahimi in 2002. At the time, Ross was working in the youth services department of the Native American Health Center in Oakland. Shadi was attending college and working as a journalist for a few publications. They had been holding workshops for youth through a program they started, Youth Power Project, and discovered many were interested in performance and sharing their thoughts with a larger audience. Through a brainstorming session with a room of young people, SNAG was born.

Ross and Shadi began holding workshops with youth at the Oakland NAHC, and were invited to also in schools and on reservations from Northern California to Arizona to South Dakota. They also began working with the American Indian Friendship House in San Francisco. Since its inception, SNAG has been generously supported by the community and funders including NAHC, the Friendship House, Honor the Earth, the San Francisco Arts Commission, Tides, Galeria de la Raza and the Vanguard Foundation. We continue to expand our network to collaborate with other organizations including People Organizing in Defense of the Earth and her Resources (PODER).

Mission

SNAG's mission provides Native youth the opportunity to achieve balance and harmony, address historical and modern grievances, and explore and develop leadership and community skills through arts and cultural expression. Through a holistic approach that combines spirituality, tradition and multi-media skills, we aim to shape the next generation of Native leaders. Our name has two meanings that most people in Indian Country get right away. Our acronym SNAG is slang, referring to the “snagging” of a romantic partner at a gathering like a powwow; and our full name refers to the prophecy of the Seventh Generation that says this generation must leave the world a better place for the next seven generations. This is explained further by the Mohawk:

“According to the prophecy, after seven generations of living in close contact with the Europeans, the Onkwehonwe would see the day when the elm trees would die. The prophecy said that animals would be born strange and deformed, their limbs twisted out of shape. Huge stone monsters would tear open the face of the earth. The rivers would burn aflame. The air would burn the eyes of man. According to the prophecy of the Seventh Generation the Onkwehonwe would see the day when birds would fall from the sky, the fish would die in the water, and man would grow ashamed of the way that he had treated his mother and provider, the Earth.

Finally, according to this prophecy, after seven generations of living in close contact with the Europeans, the Onkwehonwe would rise up and demand that their rights and stewardship over the Earth be respected and restored.

According to the wisdom of this prophecy, men and women would one day turn to the Onkwehonwe, and particularly to the eastern door of the Confederacy, for both guidance and direction. It is up to the present generation of youth of the Kanien'kehake to provide leadership and example to all who have failed. The children of the Kanien'kehake are the seventh generation.”

Our Timeline of Success

2002 - SNAG was founded by Ross Cunningham and Shadi Rahimi after the success of their program the Youth Power Project (YPP), which through visiting instructors and workshop leaders taught youth about current events, arts, and culture. The youth organized a youth collaborative event and mini-zine which was the start of SNAG.

2003 - After a year of workshops with youth at the American Indian Friendship House in San Francisco, the first issue of SNAG magazine was published through a partnership with the POOR News Network presses in San Francisco, called "Indigenous Survival in the Information Age." The issue featured the youth's experiences at events like the American Indian Film Festival and interviewing a "frybread" vendor at the San Francisco Giants game, among other reporting experiences, and was released with a community event that featured young Native dancers, artists and poets.

2004 - After a year of workshops with youth at the Native Health Center in Oakland, the second issue of SNAG magazine was published, called "Life in the O-A-K." with stories about the struggles urban Native youth were facing in the East Bay Area and featuring photographs taken during workshops in the youth department. As part of that series of workshops, youth participated in exchanges with the Point Arena Pomo reservation. The magazine was sold at local powwows including De Anza and Stanford, increasing SNAG's presence in the Bay Area community as a forum for young Native people. An idea was born for a music CD for the next issue.

2005 - After a year of workshops with youth at the American Indian Friendship House in San Francisco and the Native Health Center in Oakland, the third issue of SNAG was published, featuring a music compilation CD of young Native hip-hop and rock artists from across the country. Demand for workshops and precense at non-Native community events including the Urban Youth Art Festival increased while Native funders such as Honor the Earth began funding the organization. By this time, SNAG staff members were being asked to appear on Native Voice TV and SNAG writers were being paid to be published in outside publications, promoting Native voices.

2006 - After a year of workshops with youth at the American Indian Friendship House in San Francisco and the Native Health Center in Oakland, the fourth issue of SNAG magazine was published, called "Walking With Our Ancestors." It was known as the "men's issue," because of it's focus on young men, who made up the majority of the workshop participants. At this point SNAG had solidified its relationship with other Bay Area organizations including Youth Outlook, which helped to publish its youth's work in other media outlets and fund its website, which is currently being revamped.

2007 - Because of the men's focus in the previous issue, it was decided that the next issue of SNAG magazine should focus on the contribution that "Wombyn" make in all our lives - our grandmothers, mothers, sisters, etc. So we asked even the young men to focus on how women and Mother Earth impact their lives in workshops, and incorporated straw-bale building projects into our projects as Ross Cunningham helped to build a home in Northern California, on the Hoopa reservation. Our staff continued to be involved in the Peace and Dignity Journey and hold workshops locally, in northern California reservations, and outreach to AZ, NM, WA and beyond. Our fundraiser raised more than $2,000 and drew hundreds of people.

2008 - By the time the sixth issue of SNAG magazine with the coinciding workshops came around, SNAG as an organization was fully established. Demand for our staff as visiting professors in schools and colleges, speakers at events, and workshop instructors reached beyond our staff capacity, and demand for our magazines resulted in us being sold out of every issue to date (we have a few archival copies of each). This issue, called "Urban Rez," was the result of a year of workshops with youth at the American Indian Friendship House in San Francisco and Galeria de la Raza that was funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission. The cover reflects a mural the youth painted in our workshops. Our culminating event drew 300+ people.

2009 - We continued our work with four workshop series: Seventh Generation Rising for youth 11-18 where they learned history, healing, spirituality, current events and multimedia skills including video filming and editing, music production, photography, writing, screen-printing and design; Innovative Partnership with PODER (People Organizing in Defense of the Earth and her Resources) where our youth learn about the environment and organizing and provide PODER youth with media materials; Audio Media for the youth 19-25 who learn how to make audio collages with the Freedom Archives Alcatraz project; and Rez Eyez, a collaboration with Robinson Rancheria that teaches youth on the reservation photography. We held a successful "College Day," that resulted in one longtime staff member, Obasi Turrentine, enrolling in the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) and returned from a trip overseas to Palestine where we worked with youth in refugee camps. We published another issue of the magazine with funding from the Friendship House, "Roots of Resistance," and held a collaborative event in San Francisco with PODER and in Oakland at the Intertribal Friendship House.

2010 - We are continuing our Seventh Generation Rising workshops for youth 11-18 with a focus on Skateboard Design and our Innovative Partnership with PODER (People Organizing in Defense of the Earth and her Resources) where our youth are learning about the environment and organizing and provide PODER youth with media materials. Both of those programs are funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission. We are also working on an Urban/Rez Native Foods Exchange (Funding for Traditional Food Economies) program, where youth are learning to grow edible plants and vegetables at the Secret Garden, an urban community garden in the Mission District of San Francisco. The program is funded by Honor the Earth's Resilience in Indigenous Communities Initiative and we are conducting it in partnership with the Friendship House and PODER. As part of the program, we took the youth up north to Ya-Ka-Ama in Forestville for a camping/gardening/cultural trip.

Audio

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Coming in the fall with our SNAG SOUND project funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Prints

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Dear Delegation Supporters,

I am Xicana. My family roots tie me to this land. My ancestors have moved across the Americas for thousands of years. I grew up in South San Diego just 10 minutes from the U.S.- Mexico border. Today my family still struggles to cross this (U.S.) militarized and surveilled line, sometimes waiting for hours, to cross the same land that only a few generations before they had freely moved across.

My life experiences, historical ties to this land, my spirituality, and my worldview all inform my politics. I stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine and see clear connections between our common struggles for land, life and self-determination. In my role as an artist-activist I have dedicated much of my time to developing young people as leaders of our locally grounded struggles for justice. This work has included teaching how art and culture play key parts in our movements.

The group I have worked with the most, Huaxtec, I been involved with since my arrival to the Bay Area in 1994. I am so happy to support folks representing this group as part of SNAG magazine’s delegation to Palestine.

As part of my support I will be printing a second edition of one of my favorite prints called Sobreviviendo. This print features Leila Khaled a Palestinian freedom fighter. It says “Long Live Free Palestine” in English, Spanish and Arabic. Since the first edition was printed in 2004 many people have asked how they can obtain the print and this feels like the perfect reason to print a second edition.

I will be reprinting a limited edition of prints to help support the fundraising efforts. The print is valued at $100. All proceeds will benefit the indigenous youth delegation.

In solidarity, in struggle, and with love,
Jesus Barraza
www.DignidadRebelde.com

MAIL CHECKS TO:

Delegation
P.O. Box 40597
San Francisco CA 94140

Photos

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Video

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Ceremonial Elements from SNAG Magazine on Vimeo.

A new age of Natives made an appearance in Window Rock for the 64th Annual Navajo Nation Fair to display their skills in dance, rhythm, turn-styles and art.

Gathering of the Pomo Nations 2010 from on Vimeo.

SNAG held a writing and skateboard design workshop at the Gathering of Pomo Nations, in Redwood Valley, CA at the Consolidated Tribal Health Project, Friday March 5, 2010.

Winona LaDuke Speaks 3/3/10 from Shadi Rahimi on Vimeo.

SNAG filmed WINONA LADUKE, internationally acclaimed activist, orator, and author, as she gave a lecture entitled "Economics for the Seventh Generation" 3/3/10 at Stanford University in CA.

SNAG youth filmed the 5th Annual American Indian Friendship House Powwow, conducting interviews and capturing the dancing and drumming of their friends and family. More videos are at our YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/SNAGrevista.

SNAG has teamed up with PODER (People Organizing in Defense of the Earth and her Resources) for an Innovative Partnership collaboration where PODER is teaching our youth environmental issues and organizing, and we are providing multimedia skills and training to produce a newsletter, t-shirts, posters and other promotional material. Here is a clip from the "Toxic Tour" the kids shot on their cameras while learning about environmental issues and gentrification in the Mission District of San Francisco.

A SNAG/Friendship House youth video that they wrote, filmed and edited as part of their learning with PODER about environmental toxins: Watch as Ari uses indigenous traditions to triumph over corporate polluters turning inner city residents into zombies!

Our 2009 event at the Women's Building in SF.

We helped organize a trip to Palestine and two events to fundraise for the trip with Huaxtec, PEP and 7GIV.

SNAG co-founder and Director Ras K'dee speaks about the trip to Palestine on Grit TV.

Our 2008 event at Intertribal Friendship House.

Digital Smoke Signals produced this video after attending our event in 2007.

The youth in our workshops filmed this video, took the photographs in it, did the interviews, and created the music beat you hear. Plus, they skateboarded!

Native Media

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Indian Country Today

Bay Native Circle

Outta Your Backpack Media

Native Public Media

Native America Calling

Curriculum

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Coming soon

Internships & Jobs

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The Washington Internships for Native Students (WINS) offers students of sovereign American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian (AI/AN/NH) nations the opportunity to build leadership skills while living, studying, and interning in Washington, DC.

http://www1.american.edu/wins/

Appointments are offered to Native American students, who are formally or informally related to a Native American community, to pursue internship projects related to Native American topics and using Native American resources at the Smithsonian. Appointments are spent in residence at the Institution's facilities under the supervision of Smithsonian research and professional staff members. Appointments of 10 weeks are available to undergraduate or graduate students, and provide stipends and a travel allowance. Contact to the Office of Fellowships for further information.

http://www.si.edu/ofg/intern.htm

National Congress of American Indians Youth Commission Ambassador Leadership Program (ALP). The ALP is a scholarship program open to males and females aged 17-25. The Ambassadors, one male and one female, serve a two year term leading the NCAI Youth Commission in its meetings and functions and will represent the NCAI youth when their presence is requested. Each Ambassador receives a $2,500 academic scholarship.

http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/ih/codetalk/planet/learn_college.html

National Native American Youth Initiative George Washington University - Washington, D.C.
The Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP) is now accepting applications from American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) high school students ages 16-18 who have an interest in the health field and/or biomedical research for the 13th Annual Patty Iron Cloud National Native
American Youth Initiative (NNAYI). The George Washington University campus in Washington, D.C. will be the site for NNAYI from June 19-27, 2010.

http://www.nafws.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=895:national-native-american-youth-initiative-scholarship-high-school-students&catid=114:for-high-school-students&Itemid=123

AAIP works to increase the number of American Indian/Alaskan Native trained and employed in the health professions by encouraging students to explore health careers, providing services that aid them in competing for entrance into and graduating from health professions training programs. Lots of scholarships related to this on their site:

http://www.aaip.org/?page=AAIPStudents

If you have a scholarship you want posted - contact us at snagmagazine@yahoo.com!

Resources

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The Latest Issue

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This issue is the outcome of two arts media workshops we held in 2009: Indigenous Media Workshops at the American Indian Friendship House in San Francisco and Innovative Partnership, where we teamed up with People Organizing in Defense of the Earth and her Resources (PODER) to exchange environmental education and media training together with Native and Latino youth.

As you may know, SNAG recently returned from Palestine - where we brought some young and older members of our staff to go with Huaxtec youth and students from Haskell Indian University in Kansas to do cultural/arts/media exchange. In this issue, we have published stories and photos from the youth living under military occupation in Palestine - who know the direct connection between what is happening to them and what happened to Native people. We are sharing the connections between our history and their present.

To find subscribe to this issue, click here for all the information.