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Frog Catches a Song ♫
©
Robin Carneen 11-10-05
Frog
sings with wind
“A
new storm is coming”
Lyrics
“More
rain”
The
rhythm
Blows
the leaves
Across
the floor
Ash
and smoke
Unite
and spiral dance
It
shifts the rafters
Above
my head
A
beautiful
Power
filled song
Is
birthing….
Composer
Mother
Earth…
Teachers
My
ancestors…
Frog
catches a song
During
smokehouse season
And
shared it with me
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thurs
7-8pm PST Nov 10th, 2005
Teachings
of the Tree People
NAMAPAHH
First People's Radio
Host/Producer: Robin Carneen (Swinomish)
Co-host/Producer: Jerome Edge (Upper Skagit)
Webstreaming live!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.ksvr.org
LISTEN LOCALLY! KSVR 1.7 FM
Mt
Vernon, WA
Sunday 4-5pm PST (Special Veteran’s Day
Show!)
website: http://mysite.verizon.net/res7dwhg/
Tracy Rector : Co-Producer of Teachings of the Tree People
And extra special guest: Upper Skagit Elder Vi Hilbert
who was one of the two elders featured in this
documentary
Tracy will be filling us in about.
Teachings of the
Tree People:
20-minute film
To
see a clip of Teachings of the Tree People, please visit :
www.islandwood.org
Produced and directed
by:
Former KCTS producer Katie Jennings
Co-Produced by :Native
Education specialist Tracy Rector
It is an introduction to the life and work of
Miller who raced time and ailing health
to pass his knowledge on to those who wished to learn.
Teachings of the Tree People was created for screening
as part of the Seattle Art Museum exhibit, Song,
Story,
Speech: Oral Traditions of Puget Sound’s First
People, which runs through December 2005. The short is
part of a one-hour documentary premiering February 2006.
Credits:
Teachings of the Tree People:
Producer/Director: Katie Jennings. Co-Producer:
Tracy
Rector. Photographer: Diana Wilmar. Editor:
Michael Gross. Composer: Janice Giteck. Musicians:
Paul Taub (alto flute),
Sid Law (guitar and violin),
Rich Eckert (cello), Mimi Dye (viola), Matt
Kocmieroski (vibraphone), Dobie Tom (Skagit drum).
Filmmaker
Bios
Katie Jennings, Producer/Director, Teachings of the Tree People
Katie
Jennings has 20 years of experience making documentary films. As a producer and executive producer at KCTS Television, her
work won awards from the National Educational Media Competition, the American Film & Video Festival, American Women in
Radio and Television and Women in Film/Seattle. Her 1995 film about native elder Vi Hilbert’s
language work, Huchoosedah: Traditions of the Heart, was broadcast on PBS and BBC/Wales. It screened at the American Indian
Film and Video Competition, the Exploratorium, Women in the Director’s Chair, the Northern Lights International Film
Festival and the 21st Annual American Indian Film Festival.
Since
2001, Jennings has been producing independently, primarily for Bainbridge
Island’s IslandWood learning center
and the Seattle Art Museum.
She was a founding instructor in the University of Washington
Documentary Filmmaking Certificate Program and has taught at George
Washington University, 911 Media Arts Center
and the Seattle Art Institute. She earned her B.A. Cum Laude in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard-Radcliffe College
in 1983.
Special notes about Tracy:
Tracy Rector, Co-Producer is earning her Masters in Education from Antioch University Seattle, in conjunction
with the Muckleshoot Tribal
College, after having majored in Communications and Native American Studies
as an undergrad. As a Native Education specialist she brings unique insight to her projects. Her vision is to bring traditional
and contemporary education together in a foundation based in environmental stewardship, utilizing film and nature as a pathway
for learning.
Her involvement in the Pacific Northwest Native American community includes experience as a community advocate,
indigenous garden designer and curriculum developer. In conjunction with the Seattle
Art Museum, her Teachings of the Tree People curriculum has been recognized
as the “Gold Standard” model by the Northwest Folklife Council.
She is currently working with the museum as a consultant for the Olympic Sculpture Park and planning for the
new expanded Native American wing of the Seattle Art Museum and traveling Coast Salish Exhibit. She is a co-founder of the Indigenous
Film Initiative: Native Lens. In this program they work with the Swinomish Tribe and local Native youth introducing them to
media as a vehicle for self expression. She is also looking forward to producing a film about a local indigenous community,
the Suquamish, and their relationship to the land.
Tracy Rector, Co-Producer
My
given name is Tracy Rector and my Native name is yohoo sn’eweets. From
my mother I am Dine from Artesia, New Mexico,
Scottish and Hungarian. From my father I am Seminole, African American and Mexican. I am a multi racial woman.
In
the hot summer evenings of New Mexico, my grandmother would
tell me stories of growing up on the reservation. Through these stories I learned
that we are always bound to the earth as our mother and our sense of cultural history is the umbilical link to her. By tending to our families and ancestors we are stewards of our environment.
As
an American Indian, I am committed to the preservation of traditional knowledge and wisdom.
Film is a vehicle for the personal expression of self and culture. As
an educator I am looking towards film as a modern tool for story telling. I hope to engage Native Youth in various communities
to tell their own stories and explore their own sense of identity.
My
cultural identity has been an important aspect of my life always. My commitment
to the Native community is heartfelt and deeply personal. It has been taught
to me to give back to the people what I have learned on my path of education.
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National American Indian
and
Alaska Native Heritage Month
2005
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
GEORGE W. BUSH
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051102-16.html
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Veterans Day, 2003
A Proclamation
by the President of the United States of America
GEORGE W. BUSH
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/11/20031110-5.html
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Links:
http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/nativeamerican01/
http://www.ihs.gov/PublicAffairs/Heritage/index.cfm
http://www.infoplease.com/xwords/americanindian.html
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