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Northern Indigenous Games - Bemidji State University and Red Lake Nation

Northern Indigenous Games - Bemidji State University and Red Lake Nation

Thursday to Sunday, April 21 to 24, 2016

Click On This Link For Event Details: http://www.honorearth.org/northerngames

Northern Indigenous Games

Bemidji State University and Red Lake Nation

Thursday to Sunday, April 21 to 24, 2016

Click On This Link For Event Details:

http://www.honorearth.org/northerngames

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Indigenous Games Instructor and Officials Training

Red Lake Nation and Bemidji, Minnesota

Thursday, April 21:

Northern Indigenous Games: Red Lake Nation

http://www.honorearth.org/redlakechildhoodcenter

Friday, April 22:

Classroom Sessions, Seven Clans Casino Hotel, Red Lake, 9 am to 3 pm

Movie Screening, Bemidji State University American Indian Resource Center, 6 to 9 pm

Saturday, April 23:

Northern Indigenous Games, Red Lake Nation: Ponemah, 10 am to 2 pm

http://www.honorearth.org/nigredlake

Symposium, Bemidji State University American Indian Resource Center, 5 to 9 pm

Sunday, April 24:

Northern Indigenous Games, Bemidji State University, 9 am to 6 pm

Secondary Location Due To Weather: Bemidji High School Main and Auxiliary Gyms

Additional Requirements:

Video & Reading/Writing Assignments and Direct a Northern Indigenous Games Day

Sessions Include: Cultural Responsive Pedagogy, Indigenized Curriculum and Strategies, Universal Tribal Values Implementation, Principles for Instruction Success, Fundamental Sport Skills Instruction (Grades K to 12 and Adults), Goal Setting and Motivation, Philosophy of Instruction and Rules, Mechanics and Positioning as an Official and Event Management Basics

Evaluation Includes: Written Assessment

Instructors:

Dan Ninham (Oneida), PhD, Director, Northern Indigenous Games

Paul Ninham (Oneida), Northern Indigenous Games

Jill Martus-Ninham (Pala Band of Luiseno Mission Indians), Northern Indigenous Games

Ben Spears (Red Lake Ojibwe), Stick- and Ball-maker Demonstrations

General Information: Certification Training Program is open to high school juniors and seniors and adults. Registration fee is $149 per person up to April 21, 2016 and no event day registration. Breakfast and lunch are included on Friday and no additional meals will be provided.

Send name, mailing address, cell number, email address and check for registration fee to: Dan Ninham, PO Box 351, Bemidji, MN, 56619-0351. Northern Indigenous Games are free to participate in and observe and the fee covers the professional training. Red Lake Band of Ojibwe Members Are Free with support from the Oshkiimaajitahdah Program.

The training program is limited to 15 Adults and High School Juniors and Seniors and currently there are registrants from the Red Lake Nation and Catawba Nation of South Carolina. Instructor and Officials Training Certificate Provided.

Airport is located in Bemidji, Minnesota.

Profiles of Indigenous Games Instructor/Officials Certification Training:

Dan Ninham is Wolf Clan from the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin. A veteran thirty year middle school physical education teacher, Dan has worked at Wingate High School (New Mexico), Oneida Tribal School (Wisconsin) and Bemidji Middle School (Minnesota). In November of 2009, Dan earned a PhD in Physical Education with an emphasis in Sport Pedagogy at the University of Northern Colorado. Although receiving honors as a state teacher of the year, a state basketball coach of the year, and a Bemidji State University Outstanding Alumni, Dan believes it's an honor to be a dynamic leader and educator with our most valuable community resources: Our youth. Dan and his wife Susan (Red Lake Ojibwe) are the first husband and wife to receive a Bush Leadership Fellowship during the same time, are former regional coordinators of the Wings of the Great Lakes Indian Youth Running Project, and directors of the National Youth Sports Program and All Star Athletic Promotions. Also holding leadership positions on the Wisconsin Governor's Council on Fitness and Sport and the Minnesota Physical Education Council, Dan has extended his leadership into national endeavors with the Northern Indigenous Games encouraging the development of indigenous games programming throughout Indian Country. Dan and Susan are proud parents of their children, all graduates of the University of Minnesota system: Byron, Lydia and Simone, and grandparents of Saniya and Adeline.

Paul Ninham is Wolf Clan and a proud member of the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin. He graduated from Arizona State University with a bachelor's degree in Physical Education in 1984 and has enjoyed working in the Native Youth Development field ever since. Physical Education, Parks and Recreation Management and Native Traditional Games is his passion and has allowed him to live, work and play in Durango, CO, Santa Fe, NM, Albuquerque, NM, Tempe AZ and at home on the Oneida Reservation. Paul also taught Physical Education and was the Recreation Director at the Indian Community School in Milwaukee, WI where he successfully implemented Native Traditional Games into both programs. In August of 2014 Paul completed his duties and responsibilities as an elected Tribal Councilman for the Oneida Nation, 12 years of serving his Community and Nation on the local, state, federal and international levels have been an invaluable experience for him. He is currently contributing to a book on behalf of the National Indian Gaming Association on Economic Diversity in Indian Country.

Jill Martus-Ninham was born in California and is a descendent of the Pala Band of Luiseno Indians, Mexican and Irish cultures. She currently lives on the Oneida Reservation with her husband Paul. After graduation from high school Jill moved to Anchorage and was immersed in Alaskan Native Lifeways, specifically subsistence, foods and native traditional games. Jill participated in the World Eskimo Indian Olympics in Fairbanks during the mid-1980's prior to moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico and earning an AFA in two dimensional and three dimensional art. After moving to Wisconsin Jill helped coach, teach, manage and mentor the team from the Indian Community School in Milwaukee that was invited and participated in the Native Youth Olympics in Anchorage, the first ever team to do so from the lower 48 states. Jill went on to earn her bachelor's degree in film production from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Jill is an active member in the food sovereignty, food security and slow food movements. She cultivates connection between traditional foods, ceremony and traditional games.

 

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