Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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BEMIDJI - The crowds were steady for the opening reception honoring the Anishinaabe Arts Initiative Exhibit on Thursday evening at the Watermark Art Center. Many of the artists on hand at the center at the Carnegie Library listened to the praise of visitors and answered questions about their work, which came as a direct result of having been awarded AAI grants by the McKnight Foundation as administered through the Region 2 Arts Council, which is also located in the building. "We coordinated...
BEMIDJI – The fourth annual Art from Within juried show proved to be both painful and joyful for the artists and those families there to accept the cash prize in lieu their relative who submitted art work. The winners were announced Friday for the show, sponsored by the Greater Minnesota Racial Justice Project North of the American Civil Liberties Union. Most of the art submitted came from the heart, minds and hands of the artists, many who were behind prison walls. The artwork from those who are affected by incarceration was introduced to t...
BEMIDJI—A July 2011 performance of Puccini’s “Tosca” from the Royal Opera House in London was shown using the enhanced digital screens at the Bemidji Amigo Theater Saturday to an appreciative audience. The event is the culmination of a year’s worth of work by dedicated opera lovers here in Bemidji and the help of theater manager Duane Black. It was Black who put the committee in touch with Dwight Gunderson, the Director of Film Buying for Cinema Entertainment Corp (CEC), the parent company o...
BEMIDJI – When two cultures co-mingle to become one, the wisdom that ensues erases the earthly boundaries to become one spiritually. This week Bemidji children have listened to the “Fable of Old Turtle” as narrated by composer Linda Tutas Haugen and Native American flutist Keith Bear. The story of Old Turtle by Douglas Wood, with illustrations by Cheng-Khee Chee in the new printing, reaches across generations and cultures with its message of love and forgiveness. “I was in Grand Forks from 19...
Just before appearing to an overflow audience at the Bemidji Public Library last Saturday, David Treuer agreed to sit and talk about himself and his newest book, “Rez Life.” It is his first full length non-fiction book, having had success as a fiction writer with three previous novels and a book of criticism on Native American Fiction. But, it is the publication of this newest tome that brings this Bemidji son back to his home to share it with his family, nuclear and extended, and explain wha...
The legacy of Pazahiyayewin (She Shall Radiate In Her Path Like the Sun) lives on in the lives of her descendents. “We are strong women,” Margaret Kitto Butz, great-granddaughter of Pazahiyayewin, asserted to her own granddaughter, Alice Storey. “We are the descendents of Mazaadidi (Walks on Water) and Pazahiyayewin, who suffered and survived the harsh winter of 1862.” Mazaadidi escaped execution at the stockade prison in Davenport, Iowa, with a stay of execution by President Lincoln. Pazahiy...
