WINTER SOLSTICE

I just wanted to wish everyone a happy winter solstice... It looks like it's gonna be a cold winter on the rez...

MEDALS TO BE AWARDED TO SANTA YSABEL POW

Howka tribal members, I am so excited by an email I just received. Tribal member and my late great uncle Augustine Quevas will finally get the military medals deserved to him. I just received an email from the office of Congresswoman Susan Davis. I had written to her requesting her to help me get the medals due to my uncle that was a POW. Uncle Augustine was captured and survived the Bataan Death March. He was later sent to 2 death camps and survived both of those. He was finally boarded with hundreds of other soldiers onto the Hell ship called the Shinyu Maru. This ship was ultimatelty torpedoed by the USS Paddle unknowing that it carried hundreds of our servicemen. Uncle Augustine never survived. His story will now be told and he will now get the medals he has been long overdue receiving.I will keep everyone posted of the actual ceremony.

Oklahoma Department of Libraries

With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Oklahoma Department of Libraries is sponsoring a 26-month course of study that will introduce selected participants to methods and strategies for designing research projects, identifying sources, accessing and using American Indian materials in local, regional, and national collections, and producing a short documentary using the information collected. A maximum of 20 Research Fellows from across the nation will be selected through a competitive process. Stipend awards are available.



Application guidelines, forms, and a sample application may be downloaded from the front page of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries website at http://www.odl.state.ok.us/. Applications are due by 5 pm CST on February 1, 2010.



Please let us know if you have questions or need additional help.



Best wishes for the happiest of holidays,



Susan Feller

Project Director, 2009-2012 Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums Initiative

405-522-3259



Melissa Brodt

Project Manager, 2009-2012 Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums Initiative

405-522-3515

Music teacher arrested for child porn

Howka tribal members, I am praying that none of our tribal members have been in contact with this man, he lived in Santa Ysabel. I just wanteed our parents to be aware of what happened.


Music teacher arrested for child porn
By Kristina Davis, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Originally published December 10, 2009 at 2:04 p.m., updated December 10, 2009 at 2:36 p.m.


Courtesy San Diego Sheriff's Department
Mark Lewis Kinney
NORTH COUNTY — A music instructor was arrested at his home in Santa Ysabel Wednesday on suspicion of child abuse and child pornography, the Sheriff’s Department said Thursday.

Mark Lewis Kinney, 47, who has a music studio in Ramona and teaches private lessons throughout the county, was booked into jail on eight counts of lewd acts with a child, two counts of manufacturing child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography.

Sheriff’s investigators identified multiple female victims under the age of 14 who were also Kinney’s students, said Sgt. Jim Walker. The exact number of victims and their ages was not released.

Walker said the abuse has been going on “for quite sometime.” The parents of one victim reported the allegations to detectives three months ago.

In the 1990s, Kinney toured with major bands, including country star Kenny Chesney, as well as with his own band, Mojave River, Kinney wrote on his Web site. He teaches drums and piano.

A warrant was issued for his arrest on Monday after an investigation by the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the District Attorney’s Office, sheriff’s officials said.

Authorities fear there may be additional victims. Many of his music students have been children.

Anyone with information about Kinney or other victims can call sheriff’s Detective Chris Davis at (858) 974-2310.

free $10 Macy's gift cards

Howka tribal members, In honor of Virginia O’Hanlon, the 8 year old girl that inspired the famous” yes Virginia” editorial published in 1897, Macy’s is handing out free $10 gift cards to anyone named Virginia or Virgil on Dec. 11th..

Meteor Showers this weekend

Howka tribal members, beacuse our rez is so high in the mountains we will have the best view of the upcoming meteor shower. This Sunday the Geminid meteor show will begin around 9pm. Expect to see about 140 meteors per hour.

Lincoln and Native Americans

Howka tribal members, As California Indians we sometimes don't learn about what happened to non- California Indians in the past. I just received an interesting link, that I thought I would share.
http://www.newberry.org/exhibits/LincolnLC.html
EXHIBITION LECTURE

Lincoln and Native America from the Black Hawk War to the Presidency

Saturday, December 19, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610
Panelists: Scott Stevens, The Newberry Library (chair); Gary C. Anderson, University of Oklahoma; Jennifer Denetdale, Northern Arizona University, John W. Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison

A few days before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the United States government executed 38 Dakota prisoners of war in Mankato, Minnesota after Lincoln himself had reviewed their cases. Just over a year later, in 1864, Lincoln’s administration supported the forced removal of the Navajo from their homeland to a reservation in New Mexico. As a young man Lincoln served in the Black Hawk War, a conflict that he used later to great political effect, but which had immediate, grave consequences for the Sac and Fox peoples in Illinois. How does an understanding of Lincoln’s treatment of and policy toward Native peoples help us reconsider Lincoln’s legacy? The panelists will engage in a discussion with the audience after their presentations.

Admission is free. No reservations are required.

Visit two exhibitions on display at the Newberry: With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition, a Library of Congress exhibition, and Honest Abe of the West, an exhibition of the Newberry Library's collections.