Heartsong - Dann Visits Long Walk
HEARTSONG a film about Indians in Boarding Schools
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Submitted by Monica Davis
We are seeking funding for this important story... appreciate passing the information on to any potential funders, or tribal leaders who might have an interest in backing this film and helping to tell the stories. Thank you. Michelle
Media Contact:
Michelle R. Shining Elk
THE SHINING ELK ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
Telephone: 818.302.6122
Email: michelleshiningelk@gmail.com
35 YEAR AMERICAN INDIAN VETERAN ACTOR, WRITER AND PRODUCER SONNY SKYHAWK TURNS THE TABLE ON WRITING AND PRODUCING INDIAN CINEMA
PASADENA, Calif. (Feb. 25, 2008) – At a time when so many others are telling the American Indian stories by simply re-writing their history; or, by creating historically incorrect contemporary productions, veteran American Indian actor turned producer, Sonny Skyhawk, is turning the table with a screenplay he has written and will be producing entitled HEARTSONG.
HEARTSONG is a story about American Indians, written by an American Indian, and will be produced by an American Indian.
HEARTSONG has a production and filming schedule for late 2009, and is currently seeking Tribal Nations, corporate or private investors to support this project that will allow an all too familiar and disconcerting story about American Indians in boarding schools to come to life before the big screen and to be told from an American Indian's perspective and direction.
It is an excellent and long overdue opportunity for Indian Nations and investors to become involved and support films that not only re-educate the mainstream about the truths and realities associated with American Indians, but to be entertained as well.
Through film, American Indians have discovered a medium that relates to their storytelling ability in which they have relied on for centuries, in order to preserve their cultural and traditional way of life, and to document the changes and experiences along the way.
HEARTSONG is a true story that takes place during the depression on an Indian reservation and illuminates the redeeming power of will and spirit, when children are forced into an oppressive way of life and treatment through bigotry and cultural genocide. This is their story and HEARTSONG.
For nearly a century, American Indian children suffered at the hands of Government sanctioned Boarding Schools on Indian Reservations. Run by various religious denominations, American Indian children became the victims of a silent, but deliberate genocide. Nevertheless, they stood strong and courageous while facing adversity head-on – and, against all odds – they retained what their captors could not forciby remove. . .their indomitable will and spirit.
Sonny Skyhawk has established the Heartsong Foundation, a 501(3) (c) nonprofit organzation. All profits from HEARTSONG, will go to benefit existing survivors and abused or neglected American Indian children who are descendants of boarding school survivors.
The effects of that experience did not end with the closing of those schools and funding will cover the costs associated with crisis counseling, life management, medical care and more.
Sonny Skyhawk is the first American Indian actor, writer and producer to have advanced to the stature of producing independent films. An enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Nation of South Dakota; he became inthralled with the art of storytelling at an early age.
Having been raised by his Grandparents, he remembers, as an adolescent, pretending to read the newspaper to his Grandmother, while making up the stories to fit the pictures. Pictures told the story for him then, and pictures still tell the stories today – only today, his stories are told through film.
Sonny Skyhawk moderated a panel discussion entitled "AmericanIndians in Film" at the Native American Finance Conference at the VenetianHotel in Las Vegas, February 27 - 29, 2008.
Dann Visits Long Walk
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Carrie Dann visits Long Walk
by Brenda Norrell
Human Rights Editor
U.N. OBSERVER & International Report
EUREKA, Nevada -- The Long Walk Northern Route was honored with a visit from Western Shoshone Carrie Dann on Thursday evening, after walkers arrived here on foot from Austin.
The Miwok youth, Round Valley singers and Cheyenne Arapaho Calvin Magpie sang traditional songs for Dann in the Long Walk circle, honoring her endless struggle for Indian rights.
Dann said the Shoshone are faced with the desecration of their sacred places, including Mount Tenabo, as gold mining expands its destruction on Shoshone lands. Further, nuclear testing and the nuclear industry are poisoning the land, air and water.
Dann remembered when the Long Walk passed through Shoshone lands 30 years ago. She joined the 1978 walkers in Austin, Nevada.
Gathered in a circle with the walkers and runners in Eureka, she said she was encouraged by Indian youths and their courage. "I want you to know that I'm proud of you," Dann said.
Jimbo Simmons, coordinator of the Longest Walk Northern Route, presented Dann with a new poster of the Longest Walk, which includes the faces of the northern route walkers in the Four Directions. Dann asked walkers to sign the poster to remember them. She said she would place it in the Western Shoshone Defense Project office.
Long Walker Tomas Reyes told the walkers that Dann was one of the great Indians of our time and a great deal could be learned from her example.
Walkers and runners will rise early on Friday, traveling on foot to Ely, Nevada, to carry the message that all life is sacred and to honor Mother Earth.
Read more about the Western Shoshone Defense Project
http://www.wsdp.org/
Mission: To affirm Newe (Western Shoshone) jurisdiction over Newe Sogobia (Western Shoshone homelands) by protecting, preserving, and restoring Newe rights and lands for present and future generations based on cultural and spiritual traditions.
"We are who we are because our nation survived here. It is written on our earth."
Bernice Lalo, Western Shoshone-Western Shoshone Defense Project
P.O. Box 211308
Crescent Valley, NV 89821
primary Ph: 775-468-0230,
email: wsdp@igc.org
South Fork office: Larson Bill and Julie Ann Fishel,
775-744-2595--
Brenda Norrell
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
TO SUBMIT an ARTICLE, OPINION PIECE, COMMENTS to the Native Unity Digest, e-mail bobbieo@digitaldune.net.
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'MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR HYPOCRISY' By Joe Perez
http://www.mtwsfh.blogspot.com
NATIVE ISSUES BLOG
Professor Robert J. Miller
http://lawlib.lclark.edu/blog/native_america/
AIROS NATIVE NETWORK plays music, news and other great programs from Indian Country - www.airos.org
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http://www.indianz.com/board/topic.asp?TO
Submitted by Monica Davis
We are seeking funding for this important story... appreciate passing the information on to any potential funders, or tribal leaders who might have an interest in backing this film and helping to tell the stories. Thank you. Michelle
Media Contact:
Michelle R. Shining Elk
THE SHINING ELK ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
Telephone: 818.302.6122
Email: michelleshiningelk@gmail.com
35 YEAR AMERICAN INDIAN VETERAN ACTOR, WRITER AND PRODUCER SONNY SKYHAWK TURNS THE TABLE ON WRITING AND PRODUCING INDIAN CINEMA
PASADENA, Calif. (Feb. 25, 2008) – At a time when so many others are telling the American Indian stories by simply re-writing their history; or, by creating historically incorrect contemporary productions, veteran American Indian actor turned producer, Sonny Skyhawk, is turning the table with a screenplay he has written and will be producing entitled HEARTSONG.
HEARTSONG is a story about American Indians, written by an American Indian, and will be produced by an American Indian.
HEARTSONG has a production and filming schedule for late 2009, and is currently seeking Tribal Nations, corporate or private investors to support this project that will allow an all too familiar and disconcerting story about American Indians in boarding schools to come to life before the big screen and to be told from an American Indian's perspective and direction.
It is an excellent and long overdue opportunity for Indian Nations and investors to become involved and support films that not only re-educate the mainstream about the truths and realities associated with American Indians, but to be entertained as well.
Through film, American Indians have discovered a medium that relates to their storytelling ability in which they have relied on for centuries, in order to preserve their cultural and traditional way of life, and to document the changes and experiences along the way.
HEARTSONG is a true story that takes place during the depression on an Indian reservation and illuminates the redeeming power of will and spirit, when children are forced into an oppressive way of life and treatment through bigotry and cultural genocide. This is their story and HEARTSONG.
For nearly a century, American Indian children suffered at the hands of Government sanctioned Boarding Schools on Indian Reservations. Run by various religious denominations, American Indian children became the victims of a silent, but deliberate genocide. Nevertheless, they stood strong and courageous while facing adversity head-on – and, against all odds – they retained what their captors could not forciby remove. . .their indomitable will and spirit.
Sonny Skyhawk has established the Heartsong Foundation, a 501(3) (c) nonprofit organzation. All profits from HEARTSONG, will go to benefit existing survivors and abused or neglected American Indian children who are descendants of boarding school survivors.
The effects of that experience did not end with the closing of those schools and funding will cover the costs associated with crisis counseling, life management, medical care and more.
Sonny Skyhawk is the first American Indian actor, writer and producer to have advanced to the stature of producing independent films. An enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Nation of South Dakota; he became inthralled with the art of storytelling at an early age.
Having been raised by his Grandparents, he remembers, as an adolescent, pretending to read the newspaper to his Grandmother, while making up the stories to fit the pictures. Pictures told the story for him then, and pictures still tell the stories today – only today, his stories are told through film.
Sonny Skyhawk moderated a panel discussion entitled "AmericanIndians in Film" at the Native American Finance Conference at the VenetianHotel in Las Vegas, February 27 - 29, 2008.
Dann Visits Long Walk
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Carrie Dann visits Long Walk
by Brenda Norrell
Human Rights Editor
U.N. OBSERVER & International Report
EUREKA, Nevada -- The Long Walk Northern Route was honored with a visit from Western Shoshone Carrie Dann on Thursday evening, after walkers arrived here on foot from Austin.
The Miwok youth, Round Valley singers and Cheyenne Arapaho Calvin Magpie sang traditional songs for Dann in the Long Walk circle, honoring her endless struggle for Indian rights.
Dann said the Shoshone are faced with the desecration of their sacred places, including Mount Tenabo, as gold mining expands its destruction on Shoshone lands. Further, nuclear testing and the nuclear industry are poisoning the land, air and water.
Dann remembered when the Long Walk passed through Shoshone lands 30 years ago. She joined the 1978 walkers in Austin, Nevada.
Gathered in a circle with the walkers and runners in Eureka, she said she was encouraged by Indian youths and their courage. "I want you to know that I'm proud of you," Dann said.
Jimbo Simmons, coordinator of the Longest Walk Northern Route, presented Dann with a new poster of the Longest Walk, which includes the faces of the northern route walkers in the Four Directions. Dann asked walkers to sign the poster to remember them. She said she would place it in the Western Shoshone Defense Project office.
Long Walker Tomas Reyes told the walkers that Dann was one of the great Indians of our time and a great deal could be learned from her example.
Walkers and runners will rise early on Friday, traveling on foot to Ely, Nevada, to carry the message that all life is sacred and to honor Mother Earth.
Read more about the Western Shoshone Defense Project
http://www.wsdp.org/
Mission: To affirm Newe (Western Shoshone) jurisdiction over Newe Sogobia (Western Shoshone homelands) by protecting, preserving, and restoring Newe rights and lands for present and future generations based on cultural and spiritual traditions.
"We are who we are because our nation survived here. It is written on our earth."
Bernice Lalo, Western Shoshone-Western Shoshone Defense Project
P.O. Box 211308
Crescent Valley, NV 89821
primary Ph: 775-468-0230,
email: wsdp@igc.org
South Fork office: Larson Bill and Julie Ann Fishel,
775-744-2595--
Brenda Norrell
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
TO SUBMIT an ARTICLE, OPINION PIECE, COMMENTS to the Native Unity Digest, e-mail bobbieo@digitaldune.net.
NATIVE UNITY - A place for Native American Peoples to solidify their tribes to make a positive impact on the cultural, social, economic and political fabric of American society and a place for non-Natives to better understand the ways of the American Indian.
'MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR HYPOCRISY' By Joe Perez
http://www.mtwsfh.blogspot.com
NATIVE ISSUES BLOG
Professor Robert J. Miller
http://lawlib.lclark.edu/blog/native_america/
AIROS NATIVE NETWORK plays music, news and other great programs from Indian Country - www.airos.org
FOR ANNIE'S NATIVE CELEBRITY NEWS - go to www.nativecelebs.com
CATCH COLORADAN PETER JONES AT:
http://indigenousissuestoday.blogspot.com
SUPPORTING NATIVE AMERICAN/FIRST PEOPLE - ARTISTS, FILM MAKERS, ENTERTAINERS, ETC. http://www.krystynmedia.blogspot.com.
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