tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352136462024-03-14T01:23:06.982-07:00Jim Pepper HouseDedicated to the legacy of the Flying Eagle, Jim PepperAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14818577155071008136noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35213646.post-21732859007083930352013-08-08T05:46:00.000-07:002013-08-08T05:46:51.196-07:00Out of Sight and Sound - The Free Spirits Reunion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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are honored and very happy to announce a partnership with <b>American Indian Movement (AIM) Portland Oregon Chapter</b>. AIM
Portland volunteers will provide public safety and security services for the
Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival, August 7 – 10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">A Brief History of the American Indian Movement</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">by Laura Waterman
Wittstock and Elaine J. Salinas</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In the 30 years of its formal history, the American Indian
Movement (AIM) has given witness to a great many changes. We say formal
history, because the movement existed for 500 years without a name. The leaders
and members of today's AIM never fail to remember all of those who have
traveled on before, having given their talent and their lives for the survival
of the people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">At the core of the movement is Indian leadership under the
direction of NeeGawNwayWeeDun, Clyde H. Bellecourt, and others. Making steady
progress, the movement has transformed policy making into<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>programs<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and organizations that have served
Indian people in many communities. These policies have consistently been made
in consultation with spiritual leaders and elders.The success of these efforts
is indisputable, but perhaps even greater than the accomplishments is the
vision defining what AIM stands for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Indian people were never intended to survive the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>settlement<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of Europeans in the Western
Hemisphere, our Turtle Island. With the strength of a spiritual base, AIM
has been able to clearly articulate the claims of Native Nations and has had
the will and intellect to put forth those claims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The movement was founded to turn the attention of Indian people
toward a renewal of spirituality which would impart the strength of resolve
needed to reverse the ruinous policies of the United States, Canada, and other
colonialist governments of Central and South America. At the heart of AIM is
deep spirituality and a belief in the connectedness of all Indian people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">During
the past thirty years, The American Indian Movement has organized communities
and created opportunities for people across the Americas and Canada. AIM is
headquartered in Minneapolis with chapters in many other cities, rural areas
and Indian Nations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">AIM has repeatedly brought successful suit against the federal
government for the protection of the rights of Native Nations guaranteed in
treaties, sovereignty, the United States Constitution, and laws. The philosophy
of self-determination upon which the movement is built is deeply rooted in
traditional spirituality, culture, language and history. AIM develops
partnerships to address the common needs of the people. Its first mandate is to
ensure the fulfillment of treaties made with the United States. This is the
clear and unwavering vision of The American Indian Movement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It has not been an easy path. Spiritual leaders and elders foresaw
the testing of AIM's strength and stamina. Doubters, infiltrators, those who wished
they were in the leadership, and those who didn't want to be but wanted to tear
down and take away have had their turns. No one, inside or outside the
movement, has so far been able to destroy the will and strength of AIM's
solidarity. Men and women, adults and children are continuously urged to stay
strong spiritually, and to always remember that the movement is greater than
the accomplishments or faults of its leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Inherent in the spiritual heart of AIM is knowing that the work
goes on because the need goes on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Indian people live on Mother Earth with the clear understanding
that no one will assure the coming generations except ourselves. No one from
the outside will do this for us. And no person among us can do it all for us,
either. Self-determination must be the goal of all work. Solidarity must be the
first and only defense of the members.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In November, 1972 AIM brought a caravan of Native Nation
representatives to Washington, DC, to the place where dealings with Indians
have taken place since 1849: the US Department of Interior. AIM put the
following claims directly before the President of the United States:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of treaty making (ended by Congress in 1871).<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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of a treaty commission to make new treaties (with sovereign Native
Nations).<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Indians to be governed by treaty relations.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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of 110 million acres of land taken away from Native Nations by the
United States.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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office to remedy breakdown in the constitutionally prescribed
relationships between the United States and Native Nations.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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of national Indian voting with local options; free national Indian
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(Anishinaabe) is an icon and ambassador of Native American music. He is one of
the most influential artists in the field today. Rising from the grass roots of
North America, he is a songwriter of the People. Critics have dubbed him the
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cars), his most popular song, is considered the contemporary Native American
anthem, achieving legendary status and earning him a well deserved cult
following. It has been the number one requested song on tribal radio since 1992.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #464848; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 2011,
Keith joined the ranks of Jimi Hendrix, Hank Williams, Crystal Gale, Richie
Valens and Jim Pepper when he was inducted into the Native American Music Hall
of Fame (NAMA).</span> His seven NAMA awards include Lifetime Achievement
(2011). Keith opens the 1<sup>st</sup> annual Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival
as a solo singer/songwriter and returns on Friday evening August 9 as the Keith
Secola band.<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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one has a longer history of musical collaboration and friendship with Jim
Pepper than Glen Moore. They performed as teenagers with the Young Oregonians.
Glen Moore went on to co-found the band Oregon, which continues to keep Jim's
music alive worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">World-renowned jazz singer Nancy
King's connection to Jim Pepper began in the 1960s. Both Glen Moore and Nancy
King have earned Grammy nominations in their respective careers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Moore have recorded three albums together and performed across Europe and North
America. Nancy King was a nominated for a Best Jazz Singer Grammy on two
different cds with two different bands the same year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is a classically trained violinist, Native American storyteller and actor. He
is an activist whose life mission is to bring healing and hope through music,
fine arts and storytelling. As a young boy, he was separated from his parents
and spent the remainder of his childhood in a series of foster homes. One of
his teachers encouraged him to enroll in a music program, and the violin became
his instrument of choice. Through music, he found his path to healing his childhood
wounds and reconnecting to his Native American roots. He credits his fourth
grade teacher and access to band at school with saving his life, and he wants
to tell you the story….<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Star Nayea: </span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When Star Nayea
was only two months old, she was taken from her Native American family because
of the 1950s-70s baby sweep perpetrated by the United States and Canada.
Despite the good intentions of the Lutheran Social Services of Detroit,
Michigan, she landed in an extremely abusive adoptive family that did not share
her heritage. After several years of pain and struggle, she escaped her
adoptive family and began to reach for her dreams of musical freedom.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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experience and circumstances that brought Star Nayea to Detroit were
unfortunate to say the least, the surrounding Motor City Rock and Roll scene
and the raved-about MO-Town sound influenced and shaped her tastes as she grew
into the young woman with the unique soulful style. Star began her musical
career in her home town of Detroit, but it was not long before she was selling
out shows in New York City, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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American artists such as Indigenous, Joanne Shenandoah, and Buffy St. Marie.</span>
She overcame her negative experiences and became a Grammy-winning and
Nammy-winning mentor and inspiration to many young aspiring Native American
singers. She’s bringing some of them with her. Her students will perform earlier
on the Flying Eagle Main Stage at 3:00. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a band that features Parkrose High School graduate, bandleader and guitar
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8:30 <b>The Free Spirits Reunion, pt 1: Larry Coryell, Ra-Kalam Bob Moses, Chris
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more than forty years after they last performed as The Free Spirits to remember
and celebrate their friend and bandmate Jim Pepper.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Free Spirits</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">, a
New York group featuring the guitar, songwriting, and singing of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Larry
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Augmenting the usual
guitar-bass-drums rock lineup with the tenor saxophone of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Jim
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the quintet's backgrounds were decidedly jazz. But their sound was considerably
closer to rock, investing the early psychedelic sounds of the day with
relatively adventurous, jazz-derived improvisation, horns (or one, anyway), and
elastic song structures. They weren't avant-garde by any means; on their LP,
their innovations were tailored to fit songs with vocals lasting between two
and three-and-a-half minutes. Their moderate use of jazz idioms within pop and
rock frameworks was innovative for its day and has always been unfairly
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Larry Coryell deserves a
special place in the history books. He brought what amounted to a nearly alien
sensibility to jazz electric guitar playing in the 1960s, a hard-edged, cutting
tone, phrasing and note-bending that owed as much to blues, rock and even
country as it did to earlier, smoother bop influences. Yet as a true eclectic,
armed with a brilliant technique, he is comfortable in almost every style, from
the most decibel-heavy distortion-laden electric work to the most delicate,
intricate lines on acoustic guitar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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recording artist, actor and activist whose international following reflects the
universal language of his words, work and message. Trudell (Santee Sioux) was a
spokesperson for the Indian of All Tribes occupation of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Alcatraz
Island</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> from 1969 to
1971. He then worked with the American Indian Movement (AIM), serving as
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to traditional Native music and in 1983 he released his debut album Tribal
Voice on his own Peace Company label. Trudell then teamed up with the late
legendary Kiowa guitarist Jesse Ed Davis. Together, they recorded three albums
during the 1980's. The first of these, AKA Graffiti Man, was released in 1986
and dubbed the best album of the year by Bob Dylan. AKA Graffiti Man served
early notice of Trudell's singular ability to express fundamental truths
through a unique mix of poetry, Native music, blues and rock. </span></span></div>
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of his early Peace Company cassettes. His 2002 CD, Bone Days, was executive
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double album, Madness & The Moremes, showcases more than five years of new
music and includes special Ghost Tracks of old favorite Trudell tunes made with
legendary Kiowa guitarist Jesse Ed Davis. This internet only release offers a
full range of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">classic</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Trudell poetry – there are lyrics
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played roles in a number of feature films, including a lead role in the Mirimax
movie Thunderheart and a major part in Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals. He most
recently played Coyote in Hallmark's made for television movie, Dreamkeeper.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The<b> National Museum of the American Indian</b>’s traveling exhibit
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an extended run at Portland Community College’s Cascade Campus, in the heart of
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August 7 – 10, at Parkrose HS Performing Arts Center in NE Portland. </span></div>
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Jimi Hendrix often spoke proudly of his Cherokee grandmother. He was one of
many African Americans who cite family traditions in claiming Native ancestry. </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Photo: Courtesy Experience Music
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African-Native American Lives in the Americas</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> was produced by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of
the American Indian (NMAI), the National Museum of African American History and
Culture (NMAAHC) and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
(SITES). The exhibition was made possible in part thanks to the generous
support of </span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">an anonymous donor </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">and the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A place of belonging. A true
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All people share this desire.
For those of dual African American and Native American heritage, this powerful
sense of home has been difficult to find. Because they have not fit into
society’s established racial categories, they’ve been denied a true sense of
belonging. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite this challenge, the
life experiences of African-Native American peoples have become a vital part of
our American identity. Faced with centuries of government policies and laws
that systematically oppressed and excluded them, they came together to find
creative and effective ways to fight back. They established new, blended
communities that drew strength from sharing traditions and philosophies. And,
for more than 500 years, with their music, dance, craft, and food,
African-Native Americans developed deeply rich cultural expressions that made
an indelible mark on American life. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For centuries, African American
and Native people have shared cultural traditions and practices, united in
common struggle and forged relationships, families and unique ways of life
throughout the Americas. But at times, racist policy and prejudice divided
these communities and denied their shared heritage. Notable figures in U.S.
history with dual African American and Native American ancestry include Crispus
Attucks, Langston Hughes and Jimi Hendrix. By focusing on the dynamics of race,
community, culture and creativity, “IndiVisible” examines an important and
often overlooked aspect of American history. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since its premiere on the
National Mall in 2009, the exhibition has traveled to museums and cultural
centers across the country, including the Chieftains Museum in Rome, Ga.; the
Standing Bear Museum in Ponca City, Okla.; New Mexico State University Museum
in Las Cruces, N.M.; the California African American Museum in Los Angeles; and
the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Ala. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Smithsonian’s National
Museum of the American Indian opens a 20-panel banner exhibition, “IndiVisible:
African-Native American Lives in the Americas,” focusing on the seldom-viewed
history and complex lives of people of dual African American and Native
American ancestry. Through the themes of policy, community, creative resistance
and lifestyles, the exhibition includes stories of cultural integration and the
struggle to define and preserve identity. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The exhibition addresses the
racially motivated laws that have been forced upon Native, African American and
mixed-heritage peoples since the time of Christopher Columbus. Since
precolonial times, Native and African American peoples have built strong
communities through intermarriage, unified efforts to preserve their land and
by taking part in creative resistance. These communities developed constructive
survival strategies over time, and several have regained economic
sustainability through gaming in the 1980s. The daily cultural practices that
define the African-Native American experience through food, language, writing,
music, dance and the visual arts, will also be highlighted in the exhibition. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A 10-minute media piece is
featured with interviews obtained during research and work on the exhibition with
tribal communities across North America. Site work was conducted in Mashpee,
Mass. with the Mashpee Wampanoag community, in Los Angeles with the Creek and
Garifuna communities, with the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Okla., and at the
Tutelo Homecoming Festival in Ithaca, N.Y., which welcomed the Cayuga, Tutelo
and Saponi Indian Nations. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The topic of African-Native
Americans is one that touches a great number of individuals through family
histories, tribal histories and personal identities,” said Kevin Gover
(Pawnee), director of the museum. “We find commonalities in our shared past of
genocide and in the alienation from our ancestral homelands, and it
acknowledges the strength and resilience we recognize in one another today.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The National Museum of African
American History and Culture is proud to have contributed to this important and
thoughtful exhibition,” said museum director Lonnie Bunch. “African American
oral tradition is full of stories about ‘Black Indians,’ with many black
families claiming Indian blood. However, there have been few scholarly
treatments of this subject which, in the end, expresses the basic human desire
of belonging.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The exhibition was curated by
leading scholars, educators and community leaders, including Gabrielle Tayac
(Piscataway), Robert Keith Collins (African-Choctaw descent), Angela Gonzales
(Hopi), Judy Kertèsz, Penny Gamble-Williams (Chappaquiddick Wampanoag) and
Thunder Williams (Afro-Carib). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The accompanying exhibition
book, “IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas,” edited by
Gabrielle Tayac, features 27 essays from authors across the hemisphere sharing
firstperson accounts of struggle, adaptation and survival and examines such
diverse subjects as contemporary art, the Cherokee Freedmen issue and the
evolution of jazz and blues. The richly illustrated 256-page book is available
in Smithsonian museum stores and through the Bookshop section of the museum’s
Web site at <a href="http://www.americanindian.si.edu/bookshop">www.AmericanIndian.si.edu/bookshop</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the four members of the legendary, pioneering jazz-fusion band <i>The Free Spirits</i> coming to Portland in August
to celebrate their friend and bandmate Jim Pepper is world-renowned master
drummer and educator Rakalam Bob Moses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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composer, artist, poet, dancer, visionary, nature mystic (Rakalam) Bob Moses's life has been a continuous
quest for vision, spirit, compassion, growth, and mastery in a multiplicity of
art forms</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">.”—New England Conservatory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will arrive in Portland in time to conduct a master class in doing what he does
(time and place and other details TBA) before taking the stage Friday and Saturday
evenings August 9 & 10 for the historic reunion concert of The Free
Spirits. And then he’s off to tour Australia and New Zealand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dimensions and planes of reality. In my life I have seen through the veils,
kissed butterflies, envisioned animated three-dimensional scenes and stepped into
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stream that I swim in is the Great River of African Music in all its manifestations:
the importance of clave’, groove, swing, rhythm, dance, hip-shaking, rhythm and
rhyme sublime, shadows and light by day, by night, Jazz, Funk, Rhythm and
Blues, Hip Hop, Rap, Reggae, Calypso, Zouk, Soukous, Samba, Afro-Cuban, Salsa
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emerged as the possessor of one of the grander imaginations in America's true
classical music. No orchestral composer of this scope, mellow wit, and freshly
distinctive range of colors has come along since Gil Evans."-Nat Hentoff, <i>Modern
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balanced between discipline and freedom, compositional design and spontaneous
inspiration. A party with a purpose. This album is original, soulful, funny…and
very special. I hope a lot of people get as much enjoyment from it as I have”.
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shamanistic groovilator, to put all the pieces together. On <i>Time Stood
Still</i>, another sprawling production of DeMille-ian scale, he seamlessly
blends Monk, funk, tap, hip hop, bebop, big band, blues, Bahia, Tanzania, and
the avant garde into one organic package while paying homage to the spirits of
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Cultures Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 philanthropic organization dedicated
exclusively to the revitalization, appreciation and perpetuation of indigenous
arts and cultures. The Native-led national foundation supports American Indian,
Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native artists and communities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Native Arts & Cultures Foundation (NACF) is a 501(c)3 philanthropic
organization dedicated exclusively to the revitalization, appreciation and
perpetuation of indigenous arts and cultures. The Native-led national
foundation supports American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native artists
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Created after decades of visioning by Native
peoples, the arts and cultures foundation provides support to the field and
fosters creativity amongst Native peoples through grantmaking, convening,
advocacy and research. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are a powerful path for connecting one generation to the next. Thanks to the
generous support of the Ford Foundation and others, we were able to launch this
important new organization. Thanks to ongoing donations, we're able to carry
out our mission to provide support to artists and organizations to help our
cultures flourish. We look forward to fostering opportunities that help create
positive social change in communities across the nation,” said Foundation
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Native Arts and Cultures Foundation<br />
11109 NE 14th Street, Vancouver, WA 98684<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Phone: 360-314-2421 Fax:
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><a href="mailto:info@NativeArtsAndCultures.org?subject=Message%20sent%20via%20NACF%20Website"><span style="color: #6b2e08;">info@NativeArtsAndCultures.org</span></a> <a href="http://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/"><span style="color: #6b2e08;">www.nativeartsandcultures.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Michael Looking Wolf and Friends</b> will headline the Flying Eagle Main Stage
on Saturday, August 10, at 5:00 p.m., closing out the series of free concerts
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Michael Looking Wolf has a lot of friends, as you can see in this live
performance of his NAMA Record of the Year <i>Live
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14818577155071008136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35213646.post-31774426708861960582013-06-25T20:03:00.000-07:002013-06-25T20:03:04.586-07:00John-Carlos Perea remembers Jim Pepper<div class="MsoNormal">
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music of Jim Pepper while studying for my undergraduate degree in Music at San
Francisco State University. At that time I was listening to John Coltrane and
also to pow-wow and Native American flute music. I knew there was a connection
there but I did not understand how to make that connection in my playing and in
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spoke to saxophonist Francis Wong at that time about my interests and he loaned
me his copy of Pepper’s <i>Dakota Song</i>.
That loan led me to research Pepper’s discography and eventually to Pepper’s
performance of Coltrane’s “Naima” on <i>Everything
is Everything featuring Chris Hills</i>. Hearing Pepper play “Naima” helped me
finally make that connection between jazz and intertribal Native American
music, a connection that set me on my own career as an electric bassist, cedar
flutist, singer, and composer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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music sets a precedent in jazz and Native American music for the way he crossed
back and forth between straight-ahead, fusion, avant garde, and many other
styles. When I listen to Pepper’s playing and composing I also hear bravery and
fearlessness. He understood the importance of “Witchi Tai To” as a peyote song
but he also saw the importance of rearranging it into the new song that
circulates globally today in so many different versions and styles. I feel
grateful to have learned these lessons from Jim Pepper and I am happy that the
Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival will provide a space to remember Jim Pepper and
to present new music inspired by him in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14818577155071008136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35213646.post-30423886293870240932013-06-25T19:56:00.000-07:002013-06-25T19:56:54.742-07:00John Betsch remembers Jim Pepper<div class="MsoNormal">
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session in NYC with Chris Hills and a couple of others whose names escape me,
and I was stunned by his sound and spirit. He was complaining about his chops
and that special horn that I eventually took to Selmer for repairs, beginning
their special relationship, and which is now in the Smithsonian National Museum
of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Austria when he was with Don Cherry and I was with Archie Shepp, Mal Waldron
and Santi Debriano, who became key players in our lives later. We realized we
were neighbors in Park Slope and thus began our close association, playing
together in the Park and at the home of Gordon Lee where Jim was staying. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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friendship continued to grow and at his and Caren's apartment I met Pura Fe
among others. When I moved to Europe in 1985, invited by trombonist Marty Cook,
Marty and I began bringing Jim over for tours a year or so afterward. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with ENJA and TUTU Records things began to take shape with tours and recordings
with first Marty's quartet with Jim's Portland friend Essiet Essiet, then with Ed
Schuller on bass, and later the quartet with Ed and Mal Waldron, Santi and Kirk
Lightsey, Claudine Francois with whom I was living near Paris and finally guitarist
Bill Bickford. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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said, "I was crying and didn't know why". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“My personal high water mark was a
gig in a club near Vienna where Jim finally relocated: when we did the songs
from the ‘Comin and Goin’ recording, everybody in the club sang all of the
words. I will never forget the look on Jim's face when he turned around and
looked at me with a ‘Do you believe this shit?!?!’ look on his face. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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right shoulder bone and Jim's lymphoma forced us into being on chemo at the
same time, we decided to phone each other every Monday morning and talk about
our experiences. We called each other "the brothers we never had"
because of both having sisters as siblings and our musical and personal
relationship remains the most special of my life.” – John Betsch, June 21, 2013,
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1956-1959 when I was a member of the great bassist Oscar Pettiford's big band,
we would often go to his house after playing at Birdland and he would show me
dances and sing songs he learned as a boy in Oklahoma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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he talked about the great trombonist Big Chief Russell Moore, Jack Teagarden,
pianist Mary Lou Williams and other masters of jazz who like Oscar had
Native American heritage and how the various nations comprising what was known
by most people as all being "American Indians", each had their
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Oscar always had pride in his Choctaw and Cherokee heritage, and felt that jazz
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articulated in the old saying "Respect, Love and Sharing-The Indian Way."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the 50s, Oscar had two French horns, Julius Watkins and myself, as well as a
harpist, and Oscar occasionally playing cello.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Maybe
this will hip the symphony cats to opening up their minds as well as their
ears" he used to say, when we would talk about Jazz, Native American music
and all the sincere forms of music built to last that were mostly
ignored by the classical music establishment as well as the Pop and rock world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Someday,
if our band hits it, we won't be going to them, they'll be coming to us."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Oscar
passed away in 1960 and we never got the chance to work with any symphony
orchestras, but in every symphony I ever worked with, the classical bass players
all knew and revered Oscar Pettiford. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
I met Jim Pepper in the 60s, he knew all about Oscar and shared the same
interest in having the treasures of jazz and Native music receive the same
respect awarded to the treasures of European classical music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim
and I crossed paths many times over the years, and musicians I worked with like
Mal Waldron, Colin Wolcott and Don Cherry all loved his music and his spirit.
We also appeared together in many benefit concerts for Native American
rights during the years I played as the accompanist for Floyd Red Crow
Westerman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the summer of 1990, Jim was the featured artist in a concert we did at Prospect
Park, where I conducted the Brooklyn Philharmonic in an evening celebrating
Native American music and jazz. Jim was his usual dynamic self and when the
concert was over, Jim and his group played almost an hour more and the whole
symphony stayed to listen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
left us way too early, and in 1993, we did a memorial tribute to him,
which included his mother reading Chief Seattle's famous speech, accompanied by
the orchestra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
wish I could be there to lend my support and am so happy that Jim is receiving
this honor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
have been blessed to know and play with three of the people at this
concert...Joy Harjo, Pura Fe and John Trudell, and I know how happy Jim would
be to have them there as well as the original members of "The Free Spirits."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim
opened up a lot of doors to take people to places that they had never been
before, and we all have to work to keep his legacy alive and open more doors
for young people to inspire them to live their lives creatively and make a
contribution to the world while we are here, the way Jim did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thank
you, Sean Aaron Cruz for your years of hard work to make this dream a reality,
as well as to all the people in Portland for sharing the gift of Jim's
creations with the world with the first Annual Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">David
Amram<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Putnam
Valley, New York<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">June
10, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">David Amram</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">(born
November 17, 1930) is an</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">American</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">composer</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">conductor</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">multi-instrumentalist</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, and</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">author</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">. As a classical composer and performer, his integration of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">jazz</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, folkloric and</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">world music<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">has led him to work with the likes of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Dizzy Gillespie</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Lionel Hampton</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Willie Nelson</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>Floyd Red Crow Westerman, </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Langston Hughes</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Charles Mingus</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Pepper Adams</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; 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font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Tito Puente</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Mary Lou Williams</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; 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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14818577155071008136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35213646.post-45670430610849942692013-05-24T15:19:00.000-07:002013-05-24T15:19:24.930-07:00I'm Gonna Be Free - Rare Jim Pepper - The Free Spirits Live - on KBOO 90.7FM<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tune into KBOO 90.7FM this Saturday May 25 2:00-3:30pm
PST for an hour and a half of rare Jim Pepper audio tracks, Jim PepperFest 2013
updates and more on <b>The Motif’s</b>
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tracks from the recently-released cd <b><i>The Free Spirits Live at The Scene</i></b>,
NYC, 1967…. Pioneering jazz/rock mayhem…<i>I’m
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What Larry Coryell, Rakalam
Bob Moses, Chris Hills, Columbus Chip Baker and the late Jim Pepper were up to
on February 22, 1967….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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August 7-10, 2013 at the Parkrose HS Performing Arts Center in Portland, Oregon….
Mark your calendars….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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across dramatic modes, and re-imagined spaces of diverse music genre, hosted
by The Motif, aka Yugen Kelsaw.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Community Radio) is that the station’s programmers have such wide latitude with
their time, with time itself, in that they can play tracks that most stations
won’t touch because of their length. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his recorded tracks are longer than five minutes. You need a long attention
span to really hear and understand his music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Portland proclamation of Jim Pepper Day, May 20, 2005<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Whereas, Jim Pepper, a resident of Portland and a Native American
of the Kaw and Creek nations, was recognized best for his eclectic playing
style as a jazz musician and collaborated with many world-renowned musicians
including several from the State of Oregon; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Portland, was an unforgettable tenor and soprano saxophone player, singer,
composer, dancer and bandleader; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Whereas, Jim Pepper has become one of the most important
musicians and composers in jazz history—his unique style and blend of
traditional Native American rhythms with African and Latin American jazz
created a whole new style of music; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Spirits, were one of the first to fuse Native American song with the harmonic
structures of jazz and rock to define a new genre of music that remains
important worldwide; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and recognitions both during his lifetime and posthumously including the
Lifetime Music Achievement Award by the First Americans in the Arts, and has
been inducted into the Indian Hall of Fame and the Native American Music Awards
Hall of Fame; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pepper titled “Pepper’s Powwow” was produced by Sandra Osawa and will be shown
at this year’s 2005 Portland Jazz Festival; and,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tribute to the “remembrance” of Jim Pepper, where many of his songs will be
performed; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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innovative genre of music serves as an inspiration to all indigenous peoples
around the world;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now, therefore, I, Tom Potter, Mayor of the City of
Portland, Oregon, the “City of Roses”, do hereby proclaim May 20, 2005 as </span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jim Pepper Day</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> in
Portland and encourage all citizens to observe this day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14818577155071008136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35213646.post-18060703490932576982013-05-05T21:54:00.000-07:002013-05-05T22:06:58.798-07:00Rakalam Bob Moses -- When Elephants Dream of Music<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“Drummer,
composer, artist, poet, dancer, visionary, nature mystic (Rakalam) Bob Moses's life has been a continuous
quest for vision, spirit, compassion, growth, and mastery in a multiplicity of
art forms</i>.”—New England Conservatory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Among the four members of the legendary, pioneering jazz-fusion band <i>The Free Spirits</i> coming to Portland in August
to celebrate their friend and bandmate Jim Pepper is world-renowned master
drummer and educator Rakalam Bob Moses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Born in New York City, Bob Moses began his career as a teenager performing
with the great Rahsaan Roland Kirk. In 1965, Bob Moses, guitarist Larry
Coryell, bassist Chris Hills, guitarist Columbus Chip Baker and Jim Pepper
formed <i>The Free Spirits.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Free Spirits</i> jazz-rocked New
York City in 1965-67, releasing just one LP, <i>Out of Sight and Sound</i>, before parting, each taking his own path,
and now more than four decades later reuniting in the neighborhood where Jim
Pepper first picked up his saxophone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">August
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I can see two major traditions or trains of
thought colliding and merging in my music. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“One is the path of the nature visionary;
one who can travel without moving, to and through various dimensions and planes
of reality. In my life I have seen through the veils, kissed butterflies,
envisioned animated three-dimensional scenes and stepped into those scenes,
talked to and played with spirits of other worlds, past, present and future. I
have been a flower, a mountain, a raging river, a stone….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The other tradition or stream that I swim
in is the Great River of African Music in all its manifestations: the importance
of clave’, groove, swing, rhythm, dance, hip-shaking, rhythm and rhyme sublime,
shadows and light by day, by night, Jazz, Funk, Rhythm and Blues, Hip Hop, Rap,
Reggae, Calypso, Zouk, Soukous, Samba, Afro-Cuban, Salsa are all psychically if
not geographically emanating from Africa….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“So the streams merge and become one vast, deep,
infinite music:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Music with groove
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Music of hope and
love and humor”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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--Rakalam
Bob Moses, from <i>When Elephants Dream of
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">–on Bob Moses’ </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Elephants Dream of Music</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Bob Moses
has now emerged as the possessor of one of the grander imaginations in
America's true classical music. No orchestral composer of this scope, mellow
wit, and freshly distinctive range of colors has come along since Gil
Evans."-Nat Hentoff, <i>Modern Recording and Music<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of
people, has created a musical environment that is balanced, between discipline
and freedom, compositional design and spontaneous inspiration. A party with a
purpose. This album is original, soulful, funny…and very special. I hope a lot
of people get as much enjoyment from it as I have”. –Gil Evans<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">–on <i>On Time Stood Still<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Leave it to Moses, a multi-directional shamanistic groovilator, to
put all the pieces together. On <i>Time Stood Still</i>, another sprawling
production of DeMille-ian scale. He seamlessly blends Monk, funk, tap, hip hop,
bebop, big band, blues, Bahia, Tanzania, and the avant garde into one organic
package while paying homage to the spirits of Gil Evans, Charles Mingus,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Jaco Pastorius."-Bill Milkowski, <i>Down
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Regional Arts & Culture Council<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Parkrose Neighborhood Association<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 112%;">“Today
we opened a letter that stated: “Congratulations! It is my pleasure to inform
you that the Regional Arts & Culture Council is awarding funds for your
Special Opportunity Grant proposal. Your award amount for this cycle in 2012-13
is <b>$10,000</b> based on the review panel scoring as approved by the RACC
Board of Directors.” These are the first funds formally committed for our <i>Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival</i> this
August 7-10 at </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 112%;">Parkrose</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 112%;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 112%;">High School</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 112%;">, an exciting project led by Sean
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Free Spirits</i>
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jazz in 1966-67. Their LP, <i>“Out of Sight
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Jim Pepper (Flying Eagle)
was the heart and soul of The Free Spirits. For me, in terms of being touched,
moved and healed by his soaring, majestic, instantly recognizable sound, he is
in the top four saxophonists of all time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was an absolutely
unique, soulful, visionary musician who had a way of playing on changes that
was all his own and borrowed nothing from Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Sonny
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was also a great
composer, who was able to draw on his Native American roots in a most original
way, his best known piece of many being WitchiTai-To, which is still played by
people all over the world. To my ears, he excelled at all styles, particularly
jazz ballads, R&B/fund and free playing. He had the most beautiful scream
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We often started our sets
with a 10-minute unaccompanied free saxophone solo, which was quite radical for
rock clubs. I remember people like Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Jack
deJohnette coming to our gigs, mostly to hear Jim Pepper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was also a great
dancer, a consummate ladies’ man and a proud, defiant and profoundly hilarious
individual…To this day, he is one of the few musicians who can bring me to
tears with the heart-piercing beauty of his sound.” Bob Moses, liner notes, <i>The Free Spirits Live at The Scene, </i><st1:date day="22" month="2" year="1967"><i>February
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historic reunion concert of The Free Spirits to kick off the first annual Jim
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a two-year hiatus, we are re-forming the <b>Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival</b>
Steering Committee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the beginning, our number one priority has been to
establish a home closely allied to an educational institution, where proceeds
from Pepper-related events would be dedicated in support of Native American
students, and music and arts programs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our earlier efforts were focused on building a partnership
with <st1:place><st1:placename>Portland</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>State </st1:placetype></st1:place></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">University, in largest part due to this language in </span><st1:stockticker style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SJR</st1:stockticker><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
31, the 2005 senate resolution honoring the life and achievements of Jim
Pepper, but also because </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jim’s mother Floy Pepper retired there after a career
spanning some 60+ years as an educator:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(3) The members of the
Seventy-third Legislative Assembly direct that a copy of this resolution be
delivered to the Leroy Vinnegar Jazz Institute at Portland State University for
inclusion in its permanent collection and encourage the creation and endowment
of a Jim Pepper (hUnga-che-eda “Flying Eagle”) Chair at the university to
further the study of Native American music and its relationship to jazz.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the University is a very crowded and busy place, its
Leroy Vinnegar Jazz </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Institute faded away several years ago and, practically
speaking, the increased costs of parking and public transportation to that part
of the city make accessibility an issue and a hindrance for many.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, we are exploring a partnership with Jim’s alma mater,
the <st1:place><st1:placename>Parkrose</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>School
District</st1:placetype></st1:place> in outer <st1:place>NE Portland</st1:place>,
where as a student in 1955 Jim first made his mark in <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>
music history as a member of the Young Oregonians, which was also the beginning
of his lifelong friendship and musical relationship with Glen Moore, co-founder
of the band <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>. <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>
continues to carry Jim’s music to the far reaches of the globe to this day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then there is the wind and the water to consider, and the
views of the mountains that <st1:place>Parkrose</st1:place> offers, close to
the Columbia Gorge and the <st1:place><st1:placename>Big</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>River</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
Also from the Resolution:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whereas Floy Pepper said during
her acceptance of her son's First
Americans in the Arts award in 1999, “Jim Pepper was a member of the Kaw Indian
Nation known as ‘The Wind People’ from his father. From me, his mother, he was
a member of the Creek Indian Nation known as ‘The People of the Waters.’ It's no wonder his music was so strong and powerful--with
the wind to carry his music to the four directions of the Earth. And as long as
the grass shall grow and the waters flow--which is forever--may his spirit
remain alive for time immemorial”; now, therefore,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><st1:place>Parkrose</st1:place> also offers wide open spaces
and abundant free parking. There is a much different pace here than in
downtown, and the <st1:place><st1:placename>Parkrose</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>School
District </st1:placetype></st1:place></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">offers a different set of charitable purposes. These are
likely to have a broader reach, and to make a difference in more students’
lives, and in their families’ lives as well, supporting music and the arts
“from the ground up.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our earlier planning had two charitable purposes: to fund
scholarships for Native students to <st1:stockticker>PSU</st1:stockticker>, and
to support the endowment of the Jim Pepper Chair as described in the Resolution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Among its first orders of business, our Steering Committee
should develop a charter that contains language directing proceeds of Jim
Pepper-related events to be used to support music and arts-related programs
throughout the <st1:place><st1:placename>Parkrose</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>School
District</st1:placetype></st1:place>, including college scholarships in Jim’s
name, and to provide pathways for Native students wherever they are, to
wherever they are goin’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, we must identify some sources of funding to move
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About the music of Jim Pepper<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is not enough to describe Jim Pepper as a jazz musician.
His first album, <i>Pepper’s Powwow</i>, for
example, recorded in 1970, featured traditional Native American songs and
chants, Jim’s original compositions, rock, blues, bebop, free jazz and two
songs by Peter LaFarge that had been famously sung by Johnny Cash. Wow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jazz trombonist Marty Cook, who recorded with Pepper in <st1:city>Munich</st1:city>,
<st1:city>Nuremberg</st1:city> and <st1:city>New
York City</st1:city> in the 1980s, described Jim's world wide musical
range in these liner notes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Jim Pepper is hard to categorize.
He is an eclectic player. Known best as a jazz player for his work with Don
Cherry, Paul Motian and Charlie Hayden, his playing and writing embrace the
traditions of African, Caribbean, South American and his own Native American
cultures, as well as the traditional standards, and pop and rhythm and blues
repertoire."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Bill Siegel’s excellent biograph, posted on his <b><i>Jim
Pepper Lives! </i></b>website, has this to say:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But at the base of it all, there was
always Pepper’s commitment to the power of music and to its healing message.
“The emotion most prevalent in his music,” says mother Floy Pepper, “is
intense spirituality.” World-renowned saxophonist Joe Lovano has said that he
still thinks of Pepper and that he will sometimes ask himself, “What would Jim
do now?” before launching into one of his own solos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pepper spent most of his final years
living and performing in <st1:country -region="-region">Austria</st1:country>,
where he was wildly popular. According to Hoch, “they loved him in <st1:country -region="-region">Austria</st1:country>…
loved him. He never got that kind of recognition here. It’s too bad… more
people should know about him, they should know his music.” Thorne remembers
that Pepper </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“complained bitterly about <st1:country -region="-region">America</st1:country>’s
lack of support for jazz. That’s why he went to <st1:place>Europe</st1:place>.
It’s a typical story – they’ve made movies about it, written books about it,
how jazz musicians had to leave <st1:country -region="-region">America</st1:country>.”
His mother has said that “he did not find respect and acceptance of his music
in <st1:country -region="-region">America</st1:country> –
but he did find it in <st1:place>Europe</st1:place>, where he was respected as
a person and as a jazz musician. There he found peace.“<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jim Pepper was posthumously granted
the Lifetime Musical Achievement Award by First Americans in the
Arts (FAITA) in 1999, and in 2000 he was inducted into the Native
American Music </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Awards Hall of Fame at the
7th Annual NAMMY Awards ceremony. In 2005, the Leroy Vinnegar
Jazz Institute and the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission named
Pepper Jazz Musician of the Year at the Portland Jazz Festival. In
April 2007, his legendary silver Selmer saxophone, beaded baseball cap, leather
horn cases, early LPs, and original sheet music were donated by the Pepper
family to the Smithsonian Institution for the National Museum of the
American Indian‘s permanent collection. In October 2007, he was inducted into
the Oregon Music Hall of Fame. And in 2008, the Paul Winter Consort recorded
the CD, “Crestone“, which includes two versions of “Witchi Tai To” sung
by John-Carlos Perea and which won a GRAMMY Award in the Best New
Age Music category.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> --- <a href="http://jimpepperlives.wordpress.com/">http://jimpepperlives.wordpress.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Steering Committee will hold its first meeting in
November in <st1:place>Parkrose</st1:place> at a date TBD. We will organize
ourselves and begin planning a series of small concert events that will start
in the Spring and lead to a major festival down the road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please contact me if you are interested in joining the
Steering Committee, participating in any other way, or being kept in the loop
via email.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Best wishes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sean<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sean Aaron Cruz</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Executive Director</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1000 Nations<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Public policy research
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[]Jim Pepper “Ya na ho” with Nana
Vasconcellos at Collin Walcott tribute 1985, NYC<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41HuypiWxaI&feature=relmfu"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41HuypiWxaI&feature=relmfu</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[] Jim Pepper, Grand Finale Witchi
Tai To at Collin Walcott tribute 1985, NYC<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Moore, Steve Horn, Dave Holland, Marty Ehrlich, Paul McCandless, John
Abercrombie, David Darling. Jack DeJohnette</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14818577155071008136noreply@blogger.com0Portland, OR, USA45.5234515 -122.676207145.345457 -122.9920641 45.701446 -122.3603501tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35213646.post-29897218958264094912011-04-07T15:44:00.001-07:002011-04-07T15:44:59.886-07:00The Grammys buries Best Native American Music category<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Author> </o:Author> <o:Version>10.6867</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /> <style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Portland, Oregon—</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Recording Academy, which produces the annual Grammy awards, has announced a major restructuring in how the organization will recognize accomplishments by musicians across North America, reducing total categories from 109 to 78.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This development underscores the importance of the Native American Music Association (NAMA) and The Nammys as the nation’s most vital resource serving the musicians and the audiences of Indian Country, second to none in its<span> </span>mission to provide greater opportunity and recognition for traditional and contemporary Native American musicians, and linking to indigenous cultures and audiences the world over. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Press releases issued by the Recording Academy indicate that someone over there thinks that this is good news for musicians, for the listening public, and for the cultural traditions that generate the new music.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">For Indian Country, the blockheaded recategorization is particularly offensive, marginalizing Native American accomplishments into a category freshly titled “Best Regional Roots Music Album.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The new “Best Regional Roots Music Album” Grammy is a catchall category where former candidates for “Best Hawaiian Music Album”, “Best Native American Music Album”, “Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album” will compete for the “Roots” Grammy title.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A note appended to the release adds: “NOTE: This category is intended to recognize recordings of regionally based traditional music, including but not limited to Hawaiian, Native American, polka, zydeco and Cajun music.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In essence, the Grammys consider “regionally based traditional music” an apt descriptor for the vastly fertile and complex grooves streaming up from the lands and cultures of Indigenous peoples.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In contrast, the Native American Music Awards (the Nammys), currently recognizes 30 distinct genres of music emerging from Indian Country, and plans to add more as strength in other musical styles grows with time and accomplishment.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Grammy announcement includes this load of hooey from the President:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">"Every year, we diligently examine our Awards structure to develop an overall guiding vision and ensure that it remains a balanced and viable process," said President/CEO Neil Portnow. "After careful and extensive review and analysis of all Categories and Fields, it was objectively determined that our GRAMMY Categories be restructured to the continued competition and prestige of the highest and only peer-recognized award in music. Our Board of Trustees continues to demonstrate its dedication to keeping The Recording Academy a pertinent and responsive organization in our dynamic music community."</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This decision by the Recording Academy underscores Alex Haley’s maxim that “History is written by the winners.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Clearly, this development underscores the importance of supporting the Native American Music Association and its awards program, The Nammys.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14818577155071008136noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35213646.post-15524237266752022552010-11-28T20:25:00.000-08:002010-11-28T20:25:20.636-08:00Jazz at the Native American Music Awards? Join the discussion!By Sean Cruz<br />
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Portland, Oregon--<br />
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My friend Marc Bowlegs Anderson, a jazz guitarist of Oklahoma Seminole descent, has instigated a spirited discussion regarding the absence of separate categories for jazz and classical recordings at the Native American Music Awards, now in its 12th year.<br />
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The Nammys currently place all jazz and classical nominees in a catch-all category labeled “instrumental,” although there are probably as many jazz and classical recordings with vocals as there are without.<br />
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The Nammys require a minimum of six nominations in each of the 28 categories that they currently recognize. They haven’t received the minimum six, they say, six this year, six last year and six next year to create the category.<br />
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Marc wrote to the Nammys: “The NAMMYS should take a proactive approach…and foster participation in jazz and classical music by offering these awards without regard to the number of entries in any year. This can only enhance the diversity and visibility of the NAMMYS and will certainly serve Native Classical and Jazz musicians well, thereby benefiting the entire Native American music community.”<br />
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The Nammys replied to Marc: “In our earlier years, we actually had a combined jazz/blues category. Over time, the jazz recording submissions vanished and were non-existent and thus gave way to a complete Blues category, as evidenced today. We are still attempting to hold on to the classical field through our Instrumental category.<br />
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"However, we continue to honor jazz and classical musicians with special awards as we have in the past with artists as Frederick Whiteface with a Lifetime Achievement Award, Jim Pepper - Hall of Fame, etc. and allow all jazz and classical artists to submit their recordings in whatever category they feel they are qualified to enter.<br />
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"We did not ask the Grammys to "break their rules", when we submitted the Native American music category proposal and sought their approval. In fact, we had to prove a marketplace existed five years prior and five years ahead showing hundreds of recordings each year in both the traditional and contemporary fields just to create ONE category for our genre. The same obviously does not apply to suggesting new categories in the Nammys, but to maintain our credibility among the mainstream music industry and media and keep the fairness among all competing categories - we require a minimum number of entries of six recordings for that year and continuous years just like any other national music awards show."<br />
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It’s a complicated subject. I intend to return to it several times over the coming months, any number of times going forward.<br />
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The argument is only in part about which should come first, the chicken or the egg, six entries each year for the foreseeable future or the category. <br />
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Music is often not easy to categorize or label, and that fact points to a separate but related issue, the arbitrariness of the nomenclature itself.<br />
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Coming off the stage after his set at the Isle of Wight music festival, Miles Davis was asked the name of whatever it was that his band had just performed. Miles said, “Call it anything,” and that’s how its labeled on the album. <br />
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There’s art, and then there are labels and categories.<br />
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Then there is the much larger issue of how Native American music and musicians are perceived and categorized by the recording industry and recognized by the Grammys, its annual self-promotional showcase. The Grammys bestows awards, prestige and other support to artists in 109 categories. <br />
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In each of the past 12 years the Nammys have demonstrated the broad diversity of Native American music, while in an entirely separate process the Grammys distills all of Native American music down to one performer per year, regardless of genre.<br />
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This discussion reaches to how Native American music is categorized and marketed in record store bins, often clustered with “World Music”, irony noted….<br />
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The six-entry rule bars recognition of a lot of Indian talent. Robbie Robertson is an easy example. Among his accomplishments are movie scores for “The Departed” and “Gangs of New York”. The music itself was not “Native”, but regardless, the Nammys are not likely to get six Best Score or Best Song Soundtrack for Motion Picture or Television any time soon. The only option was to award Robbie a Lifetime Achievement Nammy, which he earned for his time with The Band and Bob Dylan alone.<br />
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There should be a way to recognize the accomplishment for the accomplishment.<br />
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It’s not like there isn’t any Native American jazz or classical music close at hand….<br />
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Gabriel Ayala, the Yaqui guitarist, won the 2010 Best World Music Nammy with a recording of Spanish classical guitar music. Most record stores consider World music to be synonymous with indigenous music, not the Spanish classical canon.<br />
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On awards night, Gabriel performed a medley of Concierto de Aranjuez (as popularized by Miles Davis) and Chick Corea’s Spain, and that was jazz played on a classical guitar. Gabriel Ayala plays classical and jazz guitar on the same instrument, in the same performance.<br />
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His Nammy performance included this duet with Skylar Wolf. Feel free to put a label on it, to place it in a single category. Is it Indian music? Sure, but then what…?<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g6Bd3codYA&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g6Bd3codYA&feature=related</a><br />
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Here are some thoughts going forward:<br />
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Muskokee Creek poet and musician Joy Harjo, last year’s Female Artist of the Year at the Nammys, has a new multimedia show titled “We were there when jazz was invented,” featuring her band, three Oklahoma stomp dancers and video.<br />
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The Nammies could make a powerful statement about Native Americans in jazz by featuring Joy Harjo’s program at the 2011 Nammys, I’m just saying….<br />
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And while we’re at it, let’s nominate Choctaw brother the late Don Cherry for the Native American Music Awards Hall of Fame, to join his soul mate Jim Pepper there….<br />
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And then there’s the late Don Pullen, whose “Sacred Common Ground” with the Chief Cliff Singers (Kootenai) is just as astonishing a concept today as it was when recorded shortly before his death….<br />
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I’m just saying….Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14818577155071008136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35213646.post-16814053731932431012010-11-07T11:01:00.000-08:002010-11-07T11:01:32.799-08:00On election to the Oregon Native American Chamber BoardBy Sean Cruz<br />
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Portland, Oregon—Members of the Oregon Native American Chamber recently elected me to its nine-member Board of Directors.<br />
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I am thrilled and honored to have this opportunity to make a contribution to ONAC’s mission and to the People the organization serves.<br />
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I am grateful for the friendship and support that ONAC members and friends of ONAC contributed to our work to establish the Jim Pepper Chair, the Jim Pepper Remembrance Scholarship Fund and the Jim Pepper Arts Festival at Portland State University. Their support was vital to our success.<br />
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I look forward to working alongside my fellow ONAC Board members on issues of significance to Native American populations statewide and throughout the NW region. <br />
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The Portland Metro Area is home to the ninth largest Native American population in the USA, with more than 380 tribes identified in the urban area alone.<br />
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<b>ONAC’s mission is:</b><br />
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“We are dedicated to working with all members of the community to advance the educational and economic opportunities for Native Americans in Oregon and Southwest Washington.”<br />
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<b>ONAC promotes and supports:</b><br />
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“The education, training and cultural understanding of Native Americans, ONAC members and ONAC partners through access to economic development programs, services and resources.<br />
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“The development, growth and advancement of Native American businesses, professionals and students in Oregon and Southwest Washington.<br />
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“Networking to increase business opportunities among Native American businesses, professionals, ONAC members and ONAC partners, thereby strengthening and growing economic opportunity for all communities in Oregon and Southwest Washington.”<br />
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I want to invite you to become a member of ONAC. You can thank me later. Find out more here:<br />
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<a href="http://www.onacc.org/">http://www.onacc.org/</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14818577155071008136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35213646.post-20895258432858629352010-10-24T11:29:00.000-07:002010-10-24T11:29:06.713-07:00Cornel Pewewardy sang the invocation, a Kiowa psalm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1cYa24Uce7w/TMR5qj39v0I/AAAAAAAAA7I/hQs0V6myDqk/s1600/cornel+at+NACF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1cYa24Uce7w/TMR5qj39v0I/AAAAAAAAA7I/hQs0V6myDqk/s320/cornel+at+NACF.jpg" width="212" /></a></div>Cornel Pewewardy (Comanche-Kiowa) sang the invocation, a Kiowa psalm, at the recent gathering of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, "Inspiring the Spirit", and he certainly did that!<br />
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Professor Cornal Pewewardy is the Director of Native American Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Portland State University, and is Co-Chair of the Jim Pepper Arts Festival Steering Committee.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14818577155071008136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35213646.post-13541016343826031172010-10-23T20:32:00.000-07:002010-10-23T20:32:02.283-07:00Celilo Falls: Time to start the clock ticking, time to light the fire....By Sean Cruz<br />
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Portland, Oregon--<br />
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We live with the consequences of many disastrous public policy decisions, arguably none more plainly evident than the flooding of Celilo Falls, radioactive nuclear sites aside.<br />
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This US Army Corp of Engineers movie was shot in 1956, one year before a confluence of short-sighted idiots at the state, local and federal levels deliberately destroyed all that you see here:<br />
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The US Army film documents the fact that there was no shortage of information available to the decision-makers. They knew what they were about.<br />
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Another video, “See Through the Water”, tells the Celilo story in the words of the Celilo people themselves:<br />
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The rock structure of Celilo Falls lies intact below the surface of the pond that now covers this place.<br />
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Someday, a study will be taken, weighing the costs and benefits of reclaiming Celilo Falls and all that it stands for versus the costs and benefits of maintaining the dam at The Dalles, and a decision will be made in favor of Celilo Falls and the salmon.<br />
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It is only a matter of time until we get to that place, as these two videos make plain. There are costs and benefits either way. It’s time to do the math.<br />
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No reasonable person living today would consider building a dam to flood Celilo Falls.<br />
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Were it not for the terrible decisions of a previous generation, were Celilo Falls flowing today, it would be regarded as one of the world’s greatest heritage sites, and every effort would be made to preserve it and the cultures it sustained.<br />
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No reasonable person living today would consider building a dam to flood Celilo Falls. The notion, just like draining the Aral Sea, would be unthinkable….<br />
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There is a way to engineer getting the occasional barge up and down the river, and a way to generate power and a way to bring Celilo Falls back to life as surely as there is a way for a man to walk on the Moon….<br />
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Were it not for the terrible decisions of a previous generation, were Celilo Falls flowing today, this place would be regarded as one of the world’s greatest heritage sites, and every effort would be made to preserve the Falls and the cultures it sustained forever, to the last human breath, we would all stand together….<br />
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It is time to start the Celilo Falls clock ticking, time to do the math, time to stand vigil for the day that the waters roar and the earth shakes anew….<br />
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It is time to light the fire that will still be burning when Celilo Falls reappears, when the salmon leap and all the world celebrates, it is time to light the fire….Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14818577155071008136noreply@blogger.com0