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DESERT RAIN CAFE
The Desert Rain Café, located in Sells, Arizona is now open!

The café is dedicated to providing delicious and healthy meals that feature traditional Tohono O'odham foods. The Cafe extends the ongoing mission of the Tohono O'odham Community Action program to reinvigorate culture, health and sustainable economic development within the Tohono O'odham Nation.
Visit them at www.desertraincafe.com to view their menu, get directions, see pictures and read their blog. They invite you to join them as they share the bounty of the Sonoran Desert with their community and visitors.
The Café is open Monday – Friday, from 7am to 3pm. Breakfast is served from 7am to 10:30 and lunch from 11:00 to 3:00.




A five minute video from the American Indian College Fund that is well worth the time to watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm0OG4cdLgYwww.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm0OG4cdLgY









Rhiana Lewis

From the National Audio Theatre comes news of a new young American Indian playwright: Rhiana Yazzie. She is a Minneapolis Playwrights' Center Jerome Fellow for 2006/2007. She was invited to The Kennedy Center's 2006 New Visions/New Voices theatre for young audiences residency to further develop WILD HORSES, a play commissioned by Native Voices Theatre at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles.
Read more about her at: www.natf.org/atw2007/trainers.html

Frank C. Dukepoo, Ph.D.
1944-1999

This is the first time we have high-lighted someone posthumously, but Frank Dukepoo is deserving of more attention, more honor for his work, for founding AISES for...well read his biographical sketch and you will understand: http://members.aol.com/natamcan2/fm10.htm



    


(top Photo: Joe Spring for The New York Times)   Chantel Hunt, 16, training for the national cross-country championships near her home on the Navajo reservation.
(bottom Photo: Rick Scibelli Jr. for The New York Times)   Dillon Shije, 16, does his distance-running training at dawn and at dusk, after attending school an hour’s drive from his home.

WINGS OF AMERICA
This month we are recognizing another organization, Wings of America, for their twenty year dedication to encouraging Native youth to compete in long distance running and all the benefits that come from that training and self-discipline. Wings of America is a program of The Earth Circle Foundation, Inc. – more information on them can also be found at: www.wingsofamerica.org

Read the New York Times article about Wings of America: www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/sports/othersports/16runners.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin





Science Award
Garrett Yazzie, an 8th grader from Pinon, Arizona is one of 40 national science awards and the first Native student to win.   A terrific story.     http://www.azcentral.com/

ALSO an article in School Discovery Magazine: http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/dysc/finalists /profiles/yazzie_garrett.html

Also written up in ASU news: http://www.poly.asu.edu/news/2005/10/04/


(Click logo to go to AAIP website. www.aaip.com)

This quarter we are recognizing not an individual, but an organization: The Association of American Indian Physicians.
AAIP is dedicated to pursuing excellence in Native American health care by promoting education in the medical disciplines, honoring traditional healing practices, focusing on cross cultural training between western and traditional medicine, and providing assistance to Indian communities.




Gregg McVicar, of Tlingit (Alaska Native) heritage, an award-winning producer, has worked for thirty years in the public radio industry, producing 46 national programs for public radio, including the critically acclaimed 13-part series "The Privacy Project: Personal Privacy in the Information Age." He is also the producer of Earthsongs, which broadcast Native music which you can listen to in realPlayer via AIROS or on your radio at KNBA with Window Media Player.

link: www.airos.org/earthsongs.html

Also, for more information on the history of Native American journalism go to: http://newswatch.sfsu.edu/journal/su2002/050602moments.html


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Peter Littlehat, a Navajo Environmental Engineer. In December he received the University of Arizona's Centenial Achievement Graduate Award. Read more: http://ali.opi.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/1/wa /Engineering?wosid=xn52OC6lNekugYrxRQbOLM

The following article appeared in the Arizona Daily Star on Dec. 16, 2002: UA HONORS SIX STUDENTS WITH TOP AWARD

By Inger Sandal
ARIZONA DAILY STAR

The UA is honoring several students this week for exceptional achievement, including an engineering student who plans to return home to the Navajo Nation to help the environment and rural families. Peter Littlehat is one of six students who will receive a Centennial Achievement Award, given each winter to recognize achievement of minority or economically disadvantaged students. Littlehat, who said he is humbled by the honor, will receive a master's degree in chemical and environmental engineering in May.

John Herrington, Chickasaw astronaut, is the first American Indian astronaut. A brilliant and talented role model for aspiring Native scientists. For more information on Herrington: www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/herrington.html
For more information on the mission: www.nasa.gov/newsinfo/herrington.html
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Naomi and Peter Emerge as Team to Watch in 2006
For more information: http://indiancountry.com/?1014393652

      Naomi Lang, a member of the Karuk tribe, is the first American Indian woman to compete in the Winter Olympics.

      "I'm so proud," she said Saturday after she and Peter Tchernyshev won their fourth ice dance title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.   "I can't even describe the feelings I have to be the first Native American.  I hope everyone's proud of me."

      Lang is Karuk on her father's side.   She said she is a tribal member and her heritage has been an important part of her life since she was a girl.  You can read more about her at:
www.figureskatersonline.com/lang-tchernyshev/
*Photo by Leah Adams   www.leahadams.com


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