October 2014 Calendar

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Through Nov. 15

“On Fertile Ground: Native Artists in

the Upper Midwest”

Join us to celebrate the wealth and

diversity of Native artists from this region. This exhibition will

take place once annually over a period of three years. Each show will

highlight 15 different artists, ultimately providing a comprehensive

overview of 45 artists from Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota and

South Dakota.

2014 artists include: Judith Allen,

Wendy Boivin, Alexandra Buffalohead, Julie Buffalohead, Nelson

Chasing Hawk, Jim Denomie, John Hitchcock, Wanesia Misquadace, Karen

Savage, Nelda Schrupp, James Star Comes Out, Jodi Webster, Dennis

White, Jennifer White, and Monte Yellow Bird.

Exhibition Events: Gallery Talk with

James Star Comes Out, Oct. 17, 6-7:30 p.m.

All My Relations Gallery, 1414 E.

Franklin Ave., Minneapolis, MN. Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5

p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Closed Mondays. For more

information, call 612-235-4970 or visit www.AllMyRelationsArt.com.

Oct. 7

Circle of Generations Community Staff

Building Project

Allen. 2 to 3 p.m.; Minneapolis

American Indian Center, 1530 E. Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN. For

more information, call Mi-zi-way Mi-gi-zi DesJarlait, Cultural

Resource Coordinator at 612-879-1785 or email

mdesjarlait@maicnet.org.

Oct. 8

Circle of Generations Teaching Circle

Dakota Language with Neil McKay, 4-5

p.m.; Teaching Circle, 5-7:30 p.m.; Tipi Painting with Endaso Giizhik

(Robert Desjarlait); Mazinigwaasowin (Beading) with Angela Kappenman;

Nagamowin miinawaa Niimiwin/Wacipi Dowan (Singing and Dancing) with

Ringing Shield, Zach RedBear and Alana Dickenson; Community Staff

Building Project, Allen.

Minneapolis American Indian Center,

1530 E. Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN. For more information, call

Mi-zi-way Mi-gi-zi DesJarlait, Cultural Resource Coordinator at

612-879-1785 or email mdesjarlait@maicnet.org.

Oct. 8

Linda LeGarde Grover & Erika Wurth:

Reading & Conversation

Join authors Linda LeGarde Grover and

Erika Wurth for an evening of reading and conversation. Linda LeGarde

Grover (“The Dance Boots”) will be reading from “The Road Back

to Sweetgrass” – a powerful debut novel of love, hardship, and

family bonds on an American Indian reservation. Erika Wurth will be

reading from her first novel, “Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend.” Filled

with complex characters overcoming and being overcome by

circumstances of their surroundings, “Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend”

thoroughly shakes up cultural preconceptions of what it means to be

Native American today. Book signing at Birchbark Books to follow.

Event is free, 7 p.m., Bockley Gallery

(next to Birchbark Books), 2123 W 21st Street, Minneapolis MN. For

more information, call 612-374-4023.

Oct. 9

Circle of Generations Ojibwemowin

Ojibwe Language with Joe Spears, 5-6

p.m. Minneapolis American Indian Center, 1530 E. Franklin Avenue,

Minneapolis, MN. For more information, call Mi-zi-way Mi-gi-zi

DesJarlait, Cultural Resource Coordinator at 612-879-1785 or email

mdesjarlait@maicnet.org.

Oct. 12

Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration

Indigenous People and Friends will

celebrate at Blackbear Crossings music by Jackie Bird, Mitch Walking

Elk, Raphael Szkowski, Comedian Rob Fairbanks "Rez Reporter",

AIM Slide Show by Dick Bancroft, Debut of Mass Incarceration Video,

and presentation by National Coalition Against Racism in Sports and

Media. Dance Exhibition by Chaske LaBlanc and Isabella LaBlanc.

Free Admission, noon to 5 p.m.,

Blackbear Crossing, Como Park Pavilion, St. Paul, MN.

Oct. 13

Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration

This past April, Minneapolis became the

first city in Minnesota to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples

Day. There will be a community meal with indigenous foods from

throughout North and South America provided by Native chefs Sean

Sherman and Cheo Smith, a film screening of "Women Are Sacred,"

by bfreshproductions, community speakers and cultural performances.

The first 500 people will receive

Indigenous Peoples Day t-shirts and the first 250 people will receive

a limited edition silk screened poster. This event is free and open

to the public. Please invite your colleagues, family and friends! We

look forward to honoring and celebrating the decades of hard work to

achieve this historic community victory.

4 to 7 p.m., Minneapolis American

Indian Center, 1530 E. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis. For more

information, call the Native American Community Development Institute

at 612-235-4976 or email info@nacdi.org.

Oct. 14

Circle of Generations Community Staff

Building Project

Allen. 2 to 3 p.m.; Minneapolis

American Indian Center, 1530 E. Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN. For

more information, call Mi-zi-way Mi-gi-zi DesJarlait, Cultural

Resource Coordinator at 612-879-1785 or email

mdesjarlait@maicnet.org.

Oct. 15

Circle of Generations Teaching Circle

Dakota Language with Neil McKay, 4-5

p.m.; Teaching Circle, 5-7:30 p.m.; Tipi Painting with Endaso Giizhik

(Robert Desjarlait); Nagamowin miinawaa Niimiwin/Wacipi Dowan

(Singing and Dancing) with Ringing Shield, Zach RedBear and Alana

Dickenson; Community Staff Building Project, Allen.

Minneapolis American Indian Center,

1530 E. Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN. For more information, call

Mi-zi-way Mi-gi-zi DesJarlait, Cultural Resource Coordinator at

612-879-1785 or email mdesjarlait@maicnet.org.

Oct. 15-17

Minnesota Indian Education Association

Conference

The Minnesota Indian Education

Association will celebrate its 30th year of existence in 2014.

Throughout the years, MIEA has continued to grow with the many

changes in education, especially those that deal with American Indian

students. The purpose of MIEA is to establish and maintain

communications and the promotion of quality education and unity for

American Indians for the express purpose of continuity of

communications and on-going awareness of local and statewide

educational activities.

Shooting Star Hotel, Casino & Event

Center, Mahnomen, MN. For more information, visit

www.minnesotaindianeducation.org/2014-conference.html

Oct. 16

Circle of Generations Ojibwemowin

Ojibwe Language with Joe Spears, 5-6

p.m. Minneapolis American Indian Center, 1530 E. Franklin Avenue,

Minneapolis, MN. For more information, call Mi-zi-way Mi-gi-zi

DesJarlait, Cultural Resource Coordinator at 612-879-1785 or email

mdesjarlait@maicnet.org.

Oct. 18

Minnesota Two Spirit Society

Join the state’s Native LGBTQA alliance

at its quarterly meeting and potluck social. If you identify as

Native lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or a straight ally,

please join us to find a place to belong.

Council meeting, noon to 1 p.m.;

social, 1 to 3 p.m., Pow Wow Grounds Coffee, 1414 E. Franklin Ave.,

Minneapolis, MN. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/MN2SS.

Oct. 18

First Peoples Fund Community Spirit

Awards

This October, four American Indian

artists will receive the Community Spirit Award, joining 76 other

artists who have received the honor since the program’s inception.

In addition, six artists who were honored in 2013 at ceremonies in

their tribal communities will participate in the evening celebration

at The Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts in

Minneapolis, Minnesota. The celebration consists of an awards

ceremony interwoven with fully-produced performances by Native

artists.

Honorees include: Douglas Limón,

Delbert Miller, Jody Naranjo Folwell-Turipa and Anton Treuer. Tickets

are on sale, 7:30 p.m., The Cowles Center for Dance and the

Performing Arts, 528 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN. For more

information or to purchase tickets, visit www.firstpeoplesfund.org.

Oct. 21

Parents of Tradition Gathering

For parents with children, birth to 5

years-old. Topics include ways to support your child, introduction to

traditional parenting and language learning at home.

Lunch will be provided. 12:30 to 2:30

p.m., Division of Indian Work, Dakotah Lodge, 1001 E. Lake St.,

Minneapolis, MN. For more informaiton, call 612-722-8722.

Oct. 21

Circle of Generations Community Staff

Building Project

Allen. 2 to 3 p.m.; Minneapolis

American Indian Center, 1530 E. Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN. For

more information, call Mi-zi-way Mi-gi-zi DesJarlait, Cultural

Resource Coordinator at 612-879-1785 or email

mdesjarlait@maicnet.org.

Oct. 22

Circle of Generations Teaching Circle

Dakota Language with Neil McKay, 4-5

p.m.; Teaching Circle, 5-7:30 p.m.; Tipi Painting with Endaso Giizhik

(Robert Desjarlait); Mazinigwaasowin (Beading) with Angela Kappenman;

Nagamowin miinawaa Niimiwin/Wacipi Dowan (Singing and Dancing) with

Ringing Shield, Zach RedBear and Alana Dickenson; Community Staff

Building Project, Allen.

Minneapolis American Indian Center,

1530 E. Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN. For more information, call

Mi-zi-way Mi-gi-zi DesJarlait, Cultural Resource Coordinator at

612-879-1785 or email mdesjarlait@maicnet.org.

Oct. 23

Circle of Generations Ojibwemowin

Ojibwe Language with Joe Spears, 5-6

p.m. Minneapolis American Indian Center, 1530 E. Franklin Avenue,

Minneapolis, MN. For more information, call Mi-zi-way Mi-gi-zi

DesJarlait, Cultural Resource Coordinator at 612-879-1785 or email

mdesjarlait@maicnet.org.

Oct. 24

“Bittersweet Winds” Opening

Reception

The exhibit runs through Dec. 1, 2014,

and includes more than 200 items that intend to educate about

diversity, stereotyping and racism in the context of using Native

American imagery.

Free, 6 p.m., Richie Plass Collection,

Coffman Art Gallery, Coffman Memorial Union, 300 Washington Ave.

S.E., Minneapolis, MN. For more information, call Anitra Cottledge,

Office for Equity and Diversity at 612-624-0594 or email

cottlead@umn.edu.

Oct. 25

Indian Ed & Title VII Cultural Fall

Gathering

Activities for kids 12 years-old and

young: crafts, Star Lab, art, open gym and more!

Gathering for

parents and kids 13 years-old and older: Icebreaker, Jeopardy game;

Indian Education & Title VII Acceleration 2020 Strategic Plan

Update: School year 2014-15.

Lunch provided, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.,

Minneapolis American Indian Center, 1530 E. Franklin Ave.,

Minneapolis, MN.

Oct. 28

Circle of Generations Community Staff

Building Project

Allen. 2 to 3 p.m.; Minneapolis

American Indian Center, 1530 E. Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN. For

more information, call Mi-zi-way Mi-gi-zi DesJarlait, Cultural

Resource Coordinator at 612-879-1785 or email

mdesjarlait@maicnet.org.

Oct. 29

Circle of Generations Teaching Circle

Dakota Language with Neil McKay, 4-5

p.m.; Teaching Circle, 5-7:30 p.m.; Tipi Painting with Endaso Giizhik

(Robert Desjarlait); Mazinigwaasowin (Beading) with Angela Kappenman;

Nagamowin miinawaa Niimiwin/Wacipi Dowan (Singing and Dancing) with

Ringing Shield, Zach RedBear and Alana Dickenson; Community Staff

Building Project, Allen.

Minneapolis American Indian Center,

1530 E. Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN. For more information, call

Mi-zi-way Mi-gi-zi DesJarlait, Cultural Resource Coordinator at

612-879-1785 or email mdesjarlait@maicnet.org.

Oct. 29

The Native American Cancer Support

Group

If you or someone you know is a cancer

patient or survivor, we encourage you to join us. Every group session

is potluck style, bring something if you can or just bring yourself.

6 to 8 p.m., East Phillips Cultural & Community Center, 2307 17th

Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN.

For more information, call Joy Rivera

at 612-202-0588 or email jrivera@americanindiancancer.org.

Oct. 29

“In Whose Honor? American Indian

Mascots in Sports” Screening

Film will touch on issues surrounding

Native American mascots followed by a discussion with Charlene

Teters, a founding board member of the National Coalition Against

Racism in Sports and Media, and her work is the subject of the film

by Jay Rosenstein.

Free, 6 to 8 p.m., Coffman Theater,

Coffman Memorial Union, 300 Washington Ave. S.E., Minneapolis, MN.

For more information, call Anitra Cottledge, Office for Equity and

Diversity at 612-624-0594 or email cottlead@umn.edu.

Oct. 30

Circle of Generations Ojibwemowin

Ojibwe Language with Joe Spears, 5-6

p.m. Minneapolis American Indian Center, 1530 E. Franklin Avenue,

Minneapolis, MN. For more information, call Mi-zi-way Mi-gi-zi

DesJarlait, Cultural Resource Coordinator at 612-879-1785 or email

mdesjarlait@maicnet.org.

Oct. 30

“Sovereignty Matters” Program

Hosted by the American Indian Studies

Department, topics include the 1862 Dakota homelands, the environment

of American Indian sovereignty, the Ojibwe people’s dictionary,

sovereignty and archaeological heritage.

Free, 3 to 5:30 p.m., Best Buy Theater,

Northrop, 84 Church Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN. For more

information, call Anitra Cottledge, Office for Equity and Diversity

at 612-624-0594 or email cottlead@umn.edu.

Oct. 30

Perspectives Panel

Panelists and attendees include Delise

S. O’Meally, executive director, National Consortium for Academics

and Sports; Michael Taylor, professor of sociology and anthropology,

Colgate University; and Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of the American

Indian Movement; coordinator, National Coalition Against Racism in

Sports and Media. Facilitated by Charlene Teters.

Free, 6 to 8 p.m., Great Hall, Coffman

Memorial Union, 300 Washington Ave. S.E., Minneapolis, MN. For more

information, call Anitra Cottledge, Office for Equity and Diversity

at 612-624-0594 or email cottlead@umn.edu.

Nov. 1

11th Annual Gathering for Our Children

& Returning Adoptees Powwow

Emcee: Jerry Dearly; Arena Directors:

Windy Downwind and Kirk Crow Shoe; Host Drum: Maza Kute; Color Guard:

Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Kit Fox Society.

Grand Entry, 1 p.m.; Wablenica

Ceremony: The Wablenica Olowan (Orphan Song) will be sung for those

returning adoptees and fostered individuals and their families. A

ceremony will be offered to heal the grief caused by separation from

family and heritage. Feast, 5 p.m.; Kwatsan (Quechan) Bird Singer,

6-7 p.m.; Grand Entry, 7 p.m., a special honor song and recognition

for our young relatives who have experience foster care.

This pow wow is a celebration our

community’s strengths. As we continue to gather and acknowledge the

strengths of our families, we heal from the intergenerational trauma

within our extended family systems. As our families and communities

heal we are better able to adopt and foster our Native children.

Sponsored by: First Nations Repatriation Institute; Division of

Indian Work; Indigenous Women’s Life Net; Hennepin County; Bois

Forte Urban Office; Department of Human Services

Event is free and open to the public.

Minneapolis American Indian Center, 1530 E. Franklin Ave.,

Minneapolis, MN. For vendor information, call Tina Knafla at

612-348-9662. For general information, contact Sandra White Hawk, at

651-442-4872 or email sandywhitehawk@gmail.com or Jacque Wilson at

612-871-6618 or email urbanoffice@boisforte-nsn.gov.

Nov. 2

No Honor in Racism Rally

Join us as we protect our children and

future generations from the racist imagery and mascot of the

Washington football team. Please invite all friends and family. We

hope to see you there.

Gathering at the 10 a.m., Tribal

Nations Plaza at TCF Stadium, 420 SE 23rd St., Minneapolis, MN. For

more information, call the National Coalition Against Racism in

Sports and Media at the American Indian Movement Interpretive Center

at 612-886-2107 or email info@coalitionagainstracism.org.

Nov. 2

#NotYourMascot Rally

Join grassroots efforts to march

against the use of the culturally offensive Washington mascot and to

end the use of a racial slur by the Washington team. The Minnesota

Vikings and The Washington team will be playing at the U of M at

noon. Supported by: Protect Our Manoomin; Idle No More Twin-Cities,

Minnesota; AIM of Twin Cities & AIM Patrol of Minneapolis;

“United Urban Warrior Society”; Twin Cities Save the Kids;

IdleNoMore Wisconsin; OccupyMN; March Against Corruption; Institute

for Critical Animal Studies, North America; Minnesota Two Spirit

Society; #NotYourMascot

10 a.m., 1845 E. Franklin Ave.,

Minneapolis, MN. For more information, visit

www.facebook.com/events/706699092737997.

Mondays

Indian Education Family Language Table

Experience the teachings of our

ancestors. Anishinaabe scholar and linguist James “Kaagegaabaw”

Vukelich and Dakota teacher and linguist Neil “Chantemaza” McKay

and explore the teachings of the Dakota and Ojibwe people.

All community members are welcome to

attend, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Anishinabe Academy, 3100 E. 28th St.,

Minneapolis, MN.

Wednesdays

Circle of Generations Men’s Basketball

4 to 6 p.m., Minneapolis American

Indian Center, 1530 E. Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN. For more

information, call Mi-zi-way Mi-gi-zi DesJarlait, Cultural Resource

Coordinator at 612-879-1785 or email mdesjarlait@maicnet.org.

Wednesdays

Enhancing Wellbeing with Chronic Health

Conditions, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Native American Community Clinic,

1213 East Frankline Avenue, Minneapolis, MN. For more information,

call 612-872-8086 or visit www.nacc-healthcare.org.

Wednesdays

Drumming

Meal served, participants are welcomed

to bring a dish to share. 4:30 to 7 p.m., Northwest Indian OIC, 520

Fourth Street, Bemidji, MN. For more information, call 218-759-2022

or visit www.nwoic.org.

Thursdays

Circle of Generations Men’s Basketball

10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Minneapolis American

Indian Center, 1530 E. Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN. For more

information, call Mi-zi-way Mi-gi-zi DesJarlait, Cultural Resource

Coordinator at 612-879-1785 or email mdesjarlait@maicnet.org.

Thursdays

Women’s Grief and Loss Support Group,

11 a.m.-noon, Native American Community Clinic, 1213 East Frankline

Avenue, Minneapolis, MN. For more information, call 612-872-8086 or

visit www.nacc-healthcare.org.

Thursdays

Anishinabe Academy Family Language

Table

Experience the teachings of our

ancestors. Anishinaabe scholar and indigenous linguist James

“Kaagegaabaw” Vukelich and Dakota star visionary and teacher Jim

Rock explore the teachings of the Dakota and Ojibwe people. All

community members are welcome to attend. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.,

Anishinabe Academy, 3100 East 28th Street, Minneapolis, MN.

First Saturday

Parent Resource Group Meets in

Minneapolis

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of

Minnesota provides support groups for families of children with

mental illness. The support groups will help parents discover

resources to meet the challenges of raising a child with mental

illness, learn coping skills and develop problem-solving skills.

Parent resource groups are facilitated by a parent who has a child

with a mental illness and who has been trained to lead support

groups. This group also offers bilingual support for

Spanish-speakers. 2:15-3:45 p.m., Lake Nokomis Recreation Center,

Arts and Crafts Room, 4955 West Lake Nokomis Pkwy, Minneapolis, MN.

For more information, call Susan at 612-424-1823.

1st and 3rd Saturdays of every month

Ojibwe Language Table

Everyone is welcome. Potluck dinner,

feel free to bring a dish to share, drinks can be purchased at the

coffee shop. 5:30-7:30 p.m., Pow Wow Grounds, 1414 E. Franklin Ave.,

Minneapolis, MN 55404. For more information, call 612-545-5598.

First Saturday

Parent Resource Group Meets in

Minneapolis

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of

Minnesota provides support groups for families of children with

mental illness. The support groups will help parents discover

resources to meet the challenges of raising a child with mental

illness, learn coping skills and develop problem-solving skills.

Parent resource groups are facilitated by a parent who has a child

with a mental illness and who has been trained to lead support

groups. This group also offers bilingual support for

Spanish-speakers. 2:15-3:45 p.m., Lake Nokomis Recreation Center,

Arts and Crafts Room, 4955 West Lake Nokomis Pkwy, Minneapolis, MN.

For more information, call Susan at 612-424-1823.