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Different Indigenous events this week in NYC.

Tuesday, Nov. 11th
6:00 to 8:00pm
Rights Denied: the Struggle for the Sacred and the Sovereign
An examination of the successes and failures of the American Indian Religious Freedom & Indian Child Welfare Acts.

http://www.ne2ss.org/
The NorthEast Two-Spirit Society presents for this year's National Native American Heritage Month:

This year marks the 30th anniversary of American recognition of the rights of Native peoples to practice traditional spirituality, forced underground after centuries of persecution. At the same time, Native American governments began to exercise a formal role in the decision-making processes governing Indian families and children after the devastation of stolen children, boarding schools and adoption. A panel of Native American leaders will examine the struggle and impact of these two government acts in affecting the human rights of the Native peoples.

Tuesday, Nov. 11th
6:00 to 8:00pm

LGBT Community Center
208 West 13th Street, Room #101 (note room change)
New York, NY 10011

For more details and to download a flyer visit www.ne2ss.org

Panelists
Sharon Day, Executive Director of Indigenous Peoples Task Force, a full service urban Native American institution that helps Native peoples face the daily battles of survival in an urban environment including housing, health, food, spiritual access and child welfare.

Tonya Gonnella Frichner, President and Founder of the American Indian Law Alliance . Dedicated to preserving the sovereignty and human rights of all Indigenous peoples, Tonya is the current North American representative of Indigenous peoples on the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations.

Debra White Plume, Executive Director of Owe Aku, Bring Back the Way. Owe Aku is a cultural and educational organization of traditional Lakota people who fight for sovereignty. Deeply involved in preservation of cultural foundations, Owe Aku, under Debra's guidance, is on the front lines of defending sacred sites and communicating cultural tradition to future generations.

Moderated by Harlan Pruden

Admission is always free, though donations are accepted.

A growing List of co-sponsors (as of 10/25/08 ):
Hosted by the NorthEast Two-Spirit Society with the help of: the American Indian Community House, Audre Lorde Project, Owe Aku (Bring Back the Way), American Indian Law Alliance, First Voices Indigenous Radio, Indigenous Peoples Task Force, Native Peoples Forum of New York University, Native American Council of Columbia University and National Native American AIDS Prevention Center.

THE NATIVE THEATER FESTIVAL
November 12 – November 16
http://www.publictheater.org/content/view/160/
THE NATIVE THEATER FESTIVAL
Now in its second year, the Native Theater Festival is dedicated to presenting extraordinary theater from today's Native artists.
FREE TICKETS: 212-967-7555
FOR MORE INFORMATION: PUBLICTHEATER.ORG
Please Note: 2 reservations per show. Reservations will be held until 15 min prior to show time and then will be released. Subject to availability. General admission.
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Thursday, November 13 at 8pm — FREE
The Conversion of Ka'ahumanu
By Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl (Native Hawaiian/Samoan)
Directed by Marie Clements (Metis)
Set in Hawaii during the early 19th Century, this poignant piece explores the complex relationships amongst Christian missionaries and indigenous women forty years after the islands' first contact with the West. Honolulu-based writer Victoria Kneubuhl is a recipient of the prestigious Hawai`i Award for Literature.
Post Show Discussion: Writing About Early Cultural Contact
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Friday, November 14 at 8pm — FREE
Chasing Honey
By Laura Shamas (Chickasaw)
Directed by Alanis King (Odawa Nation)
With her loving father serving in Afghanistan and her drug-addicted mother coming back into her life, Sandy turns to Len, keeper of a struggling bee colony and new member of her college's Native American Studies Club. Chasing Honey has received workshops at Native Earth in Toronto and Native Voices at The Autry in Los Angeles.
Post Show Discussion: Contemporary Native Playwriting
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Saturday, November 15 at 4pm — FREE
Panel Discussion: Politics and Performance

Moderated by Oskar Eustis (Public Theater Artistic Director) and Sheila Tousey (actor, director, and Native Theater Festival Consultant). Panelists will include Terry Gomez (playwright, director, actor and educator), Alanis King (Artistic Director, Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company), Yvette Nolan (Artistic Director, Native Earth Performing Arts), Jennifer Podemski (CEO and Executive Producer, Redcloud Studios), and Randy Reinholz (Artistic Director, Native Voices at the Autry and Director of the School of Theatre, Television and Film at SDSU).
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Saturday, November 15 at 8pm — FREE
Re-Creation Story
By Eric Gansworth (Onondaga)
Directed by Leigh Silverman
Novelist, poet, essayist and visual artist Eric Gansworth, winner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles National Literary Award for Fiction, brings us his personal exploration of the Haudenosaunee creation narrative. He playfully alters the oral tradition's fluid nature to reflect issues relevant to a contemporary Haudenosaunee life.
Post Show Discussion: Bringing Oral Tradition to the Stage
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Wednesday, November 12 at 9:30pm
SPECIAL PAID EVENT AT JOE'S PUB
Martha Redbone (Choctaw/Shawnee/Cherokee/Blackfeet)
TICKETS $18: 212-967-7555 or CLICK HERE
Please note that Joe's Pub has a $12 food or 2 drink minimum per person.
Call 212-539-8778 for table reservations.
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The Public Theater is honored to partner with the following organizations: Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, American Indian Community House, Amerinda, The Hemispheric Institute, and The National Museum of the American Indian.
The Public Theater's Native Theater Festival is made possible through the generous support of The Ford Foundation.
Native American Short Film Festival
Thursday, November 13, 2008
http://www.indian-affairs.org/
AAIA Hosts 4th Annual
Native American Short Film Festival
NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE AND TIME
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Deluxe New York
435 Hudson Street
New York, NY
7:00 PM
Free to the Public

Native American Short Film Festival
AAIA Hosts 4th Annual
Native American Short Film Festival
NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE AND TIME
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Deluxe New York
435 Hudson Street
New York, NY
7:00 PM
Free to the Public
www.indian-affairs.org

Sikumi (On the Ice), written and directed by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (Inupiaq). Andrew won the 2008 Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival. Sikumi which was shot in Barrow with an Inupiaq cast, tells the tale of a hunter who goes out on the ice looking for seal and inadvertently witnesses a murder.

Caleb’s Legacy, directed and produced by Raquel Chapa (Lipan Apache/Yaqui/Cherokee), through the American Experience Reel Indian project. In 1655 Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, an Aquinnah Wampanoag member, became the first graduate of Harvard Indian College. Over 300 years later four Native women at Harvard from different departments and tribes recount their journey to the prestigious institution and draw inspiration from their remarkable forerunner.
Ancestor Eyes, directorial debut by award winning screenwriter Kalani Queypo (Blackfeet/Hawaiian). After getting sick, a young Native American woman, Willa, returns to her mother's home where they both must come to terms with her illness. Willa's mother, who had been a long time 'shut in', begins venturing outside with her camcorder, taping the sunrise and mountains, bringing the outside world in to the bed ridden Willa.

In Horse You See Ross, by Melissa A. Henry (Navajo), explains the very essence of being a horse.
American Cowboys, written, produced and edited by Cedric (Umatilla) and Tania Wildbill. Narrated by Academy Award winner William Hurt, is a story about Jackson Sundown, a Nez Perce Indian, who was the first Native American to win the World Saddle Bronc Championship at the 1916 Pendleton Round-Up. George Fletcher was the first African American to compete in the 1911 controversial Saddle Bronc finals for the World Title at the Pendleton Round-Up. Sundown and Fletcher were two legendary cowboys who broke the color barriers in the rodeo arena at the turn of the 20th Century. American Cowboys was produced by Wildbill Productions, in association with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Funded, in part, by Native American Public Telecommunications. American Cowboys won the 1999 Great Plains Film Festival for Best Documentary Made for Public Television and also won the 2001 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival for Best Documentary.

Revised: 05/13/06