Here’s another two spirit webinar hosted by Community of Practice. Go to SAMHSA Suicide Prevention Grantee Archived Webinars 2011 and look at the materials under “Tribal Learning Collaborative- Supporting & Outreaching to Our Native LGBTQQ/Two-Spirit Youth Presentation” (7/11/11). The two presenters are Karina Walter and Sharon Day.
October 4-5, 2001, NE2SS’ Harlan Pruden and Ben Geboe were joined by some of the leaders of the Two-Spirit Society of Denver, Amiee Wilson, Hiram Calf-Looking and Nate Jarosch, in Rapid City, SD to lend their support to the “Two-Spirit Then and Now: Reclaiming Our Place of Honor.” This is training based on the publication: Provider’s Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals and was offered and supported by the Prairieland Addiction Transfer Technology Center.
The training was well attended with 24 attendees from tribal, academic, and IHS clinics; reservation based hospital staff; representatives of the Administration of Health and Human Services; and local community leaders. The training enhanced the knowledge of participants and built skills so that sensitive, affirmative, culturally relevant, and effective treatment may be offered to LGBT/Two-Spirit individuals struggling with substance use disorders.
It was also a goal of both the leadership of the NorthEast Two-Spirit Society and the Two-Spirit Society of Denver that this greatly needed endeavor will be the first of many Two-Spirit trainings offered in the Dakotas. It was also NY and Denver’s hope that this work will result in the founding of a Two-Spirit Society somewhere in the North or South Dakotas. Because of Denver’s relative closeness to South Dakota, as compared to NYC, they have offered to be a local resource for the attendees and NE2SS would also be available to help but more in an electronic capacity.
This training in Rapid City was a part of a larger initiative by the University of Iowa’s Prairieland Addiction Transfer Technology Center. This training is the last in a series offered in North and South Dakotas. In September, Harlan and Ben traveled to Bismarck, ND and conducted this training at United Tribes Technology College and then in Sioux Falls, SD. Similar to the Rapid City training, both were well attended and participants were engaged and expressed the need for more information on Two-Spirit people, so they can be better frontline service providers when working with their Two-Spirit communities.
Join us!
Indigenous Peoples’ Day Demonstration
Where: Columbus Circle, at the Merchant’s Gate entrance to Central Park
When: Friday, October 7, 2011 11:30am-1:30pm
Join students and community activists in the New York City area in a demonstration celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day. This event is an opportunity for indigenous New Yorkers and their allies to raise awareness about the current condition of Native American communities in the United States and around the world. It is also a time to celebrate the rich cultures of First Peoples that have endured the legacy of colonialism. Issues to promote include:
This event is co-sponsored by the Indigenous Alliance (Fordham Law School) & The Native American and Indigenous Students’ Group (NYU)
For more information contact mirandagalindo@gmail.com (Fordham) and hop203@nyu.edu (NYU)
SNEAK PREVIEW | HERE I AM
Thursday, October 13, 2011, 6:30 p.m.
National Museum of the American Indian, Auditorium
Director Beck Cole returns to NMAI after a hit 2009 program featuring a selection of her award-winning short fictions and documentaries, including A Fair Go for a Dark Race from the groundbreaking the television series First Australians: The Untold Story of Australia. Join us for a preview of Here I Am, Cole’s acclaimed first feature. Along with the creative team behind Samson & Delilah (including producer Kath Shelper and cinematographer Warwick Thornton), Cole has marked out a place as one of the most important filmmakers in Australian Cinema.
Here I Am 2011, 87 min. Australia. Director, writer: Beck Cole (Lurita/Warrumunga).Producer: Kath Shelper. Cinematographer: Warwick Thornton (Kaytetye).
Fresh out of prison, a young indigenous Australian woman begins the difficult journey to remake her life. Finding initially no one to call for help, Karen (Shai Pittman) finds haven in a shelter for Aboriginal women like herself, and then begins the painful process of reconnecting with her tough mother (Marcia Langton), who is raising her young daughter, and with her own life. The film, shot in and around Port Adelaide, is a moving story about the strength and resilience of women.
Introduced by Faye Ginsburg, Director of NYU’s Center for Media, Culture and History.
Discussion follows with the director, producer and cinematographer, moderated by Sonia Smallacombe (Maramanindji), Social Affairs Officer with the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations.
Admission is free. Reservations are recommended: FVC@si.edu or (212)514-3737. 4/5 to Bowling Green, R to Whitehall, 1 to South Ferry. Bus stops nearby.
This program is presented by the NMAI Film and Video Center in partnership with New York University’s Center for Media, Culture and History and Center for Religion and Media and with MoCADA/Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art. Its current exhibition, curated by Bindi Cole (Wathaurung), Saying No: Reconciling Spirituality and Resistance in Indigenous Australian Art, is on view through November 6. For more information visit mocada.org.
We are grateful for the support of the Office of the Australian Consul General in New York and NYU’s Department of Anthropology and Native Studies Forum.
MAYAN EYE
Saturday, October 29 & Sunday, October 30, 2 pm
National Museum of the American Indian, One Bowling Green, New York, NY
Auditorium, Free Admission
This program is presented in cooperation with Cinema Tropical and the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Award-winning filmmaker Pedro Daniel López (Tzotzil) follows the stories of young adults who leave their villages to seek artistic and intellectual life in the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, in La Pequeña Semilla en el Asfalto/The Little Seed in the Asphalt. Lopez’ short films document traditions and music in his own community of Zinacantán. Programs are in Tzotzil and Spanish with English subtitles. Discussion with the director and with producer Dolores Santiz Gómez (Tzotzil) follows the screenings.
Saturday, October 29, 2 pm
K’in Santo ta Sotz’leb/Day of the Dead in the Land of the Bats 2004, 31 min. Mexico. K’evujel ta Jteklum/Song of Our Land 2005, 36 min. Mexico. Batik Xa ta Sna’K'ak’al/Let’s Go to the House of Father Sun 2007, 3 min. Mexico. Ilan Vingurt with Pedro Daniel López. All produced by Proyecto Videoastas Indígenas de la Frontera Sur. Nuestro Barro/Our Clay 2011, 30 min. Mexico. Produced by Mundos Inéditos.
Sunday, October 30, 2 pm
La Pequeña Semilla en el Asfalto/The Little Seed in the Asphalt 2009, 77 min. Mexico. Produced by Dolores Santiz Gómez and the director.
Visit the website at sqpa.org/1st-annual-pow-wow-at-baisley-pond-park.html
The 2011 International Iroquois Beadwork Conference is a month away. Reservations are coming in and we hope that you are interested in joining us at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York for a weekend of fun and sharing our interests in Iroquois beadwork. The $25 registration fee is due by September 1.
Visit The Conference Homepage for registration form, vendor form, and paper proposal form. Accommodation information is also included.
For any questions, contact Dolores Elliott at 607-729-0016.
On Wednesday, June 15, over 400 of Stonewall Community Foundation’s supporters came to South Street Sea-Port’s Bridgewaters for the annual Stonewall Vision Dinner.
As a Racial Equity Initiative Grantee, the NorthEast Two-Spirit Society was given an informational table at this event to highlight NE2SS and our work to Stonewall’s supporters.
Othell Begay and Harlan Pruden served as NE2SS’ representatives.
Taking place from Aug 31st to Sept 4 at Liscomb Lodge, Nova Scotia, this conference is called Mawita’jijk Puoinaq. Wapanaki means “the People for the Dawn” and the traditional alliance includes members of the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Passaquoddy, Penscobot and Abenaki tribes but an Alliance also included other New England tribes.
Presented by: Harlan Pruden, Council Member & Co-Founder, NorthEast Two-Spirit Society
June 1, 2011
5:00 – 7:00PM
Marks Intercultural Center
Drexel University
Corner of 33rd Street and Chestnut Street
To RSVP & for more info:
Joe Hancock at jhh33@drexel.edu
