Cherokee Honored With Tree Planting - Voice Of Leonard Peltier
Cherokee Man Honored With Tree Planting
The cast and crew of The Nation, an episode within the PBS series, We Shall Remain, has honored a cast member who died during filming with a tree planting in the original homeland of the Cherokee people in New Echota, Ga.
Cleo Deerinwater, 74, of Tahlequah, Okla., died of a heart attack on June 1 while filming episode three of the We Shall Remain series in Georgia. Deerinwater, a Navy veteran and bus driver for the Cherokee Nation's Sequoyah High School in Oklahoma, was a fluent Cherokee speaker and playing the part of a tribal leader in the early 1800s in the film.
Actor Joshua Nelson (Cherokee), said Deerinwater had a great sense of humor, often cracking jokes every five minutes on the set, including one about the period costumes. After putting on a coat and tie of the era, Deerinwater said in Cherokee: "Talisgohi adela aya (I'm a $20 bill)!"
A memorial tree was planted on June 4 in New Echota, the site of the original capital of the Cherokee before the federal government forcefully removed them to Oklahoma.
"The oak tree that will grow there where our Cherokee mothers and fathers lived, fought, and loved will stand for ages to remind us of the Cherokee spirit--its grand humility, its independent communitarianism, its rebellious traditionalism and its solemn humor that Cleo embodied with endearing facility," Nelson said.
"All of us at We Shall Remain send our prayers to Cleo's friends and family and take comfort in the selfsame assurance that he modeled."
NAPT has provided funding for the five-part series that brings to life more than 300 years of Native American history in America.
The series will debut on PBS' American Experience in April 2009.For information on the series, go to the film's Web site:
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FZzHDybN1
The Voice Of Leonard Peltier
An Eagle's Cry
Submitted by Harvey Arden
Listen to me!
Listen!
I am the Indian voice.
Hear me crying out of the wind,
Hear me crying out of the silence.
I am the Indian voice.
Listen to me!
I speak for our ancestors.
They cry out to you from the unstill grave.
I speak for the children yet unborn.
They cry out to you from the unspoken silence.
I am the Indian voice.
Listen to me !
I am a chorus of millions.
Hear us !
Our eagle’s cry will not be stilled !
We are your own conscience calling to you.
We are you yourself
crying unheard within you.
Let my unheard voice be heard.
Let me speak in my heart and the words be heard
whispering on the wind to millions,
to all who care,
to all with ears to hear
and hearts to beat as one
with mine.
Put your ear to the earth,
and hear my heart beating there.
Put your ear to the wind
and hear me speaking there.
We are the voice of the earth,
of the future,
of the Mystery.
Hear us!
--from Leonard Peltier's PRISON WRITINGS: MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE
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The cast and crew of The Nation, an episode within the PBS series, We Shall Remain, has honored a cast member who died during filming with a tree planting in the original homeland of the Cherokee people in New Echota, Ga.
Cleo Deerinwater, 74, of Tahlequah, Okla., died of a heart attack on June 1 while filming episode three of the We Shall Remain series in Georgia. Deerinwater, a Navy veteran and bus driver for the Cherokee Nation's Sequoyah High School in Oklahoma, was a fluent Cherokee speaker and playing the part of a tribal leader in the early 1800s in the film.
Actor Joshua Nelson (Cherokee), said Deerinwater had a great sense of humor, often cracking jokes every five minutes on the set, including one about the period costumes. After putting on a coat and tie of the era, Deerinwater said in Cherokee: "Talisgohi adela aya (I'm a $20 bill)!"
A memorial tree was planted on June 4 in New Echota, the site of the original capital of the Cherokee before the federal government forcefully removed them to Oklahoma.
"The oak tree that will grow there where our Cherokee mothers and fathers lived, fought, and loved will stand for ages to remind us of the Cherokee spirit--its grand humility, its independent communitarianism, its rebellious traditionalism and its solemn humor that Cleo embodied with endearing facility," Nelson said.
"All of us at We Shall Remain send our prayers to Cleo's friends and family and take comfort in the selfsame assurance that he modeled."
NAPT has provided funding for the five-part series that brings to life more than 300 years of Native American history in America.
The series will debut on PBS' American Experience in April 2009.For information on the series, go to the film's Web site:
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FZzHDybN1
The Voice Of Leonard Peltier
An Eagle's Cry
Submitted by Harvey Arden
Listen to me!
Listen!
I am the Indian voice.
Hear me crying out of the wind,
Hear me crying out of the silence.
I am the Indian voice.
Listen to me!
I speak for our ancestors.
They cry out to you from the unstill grave.
I speak for the children yet unborn.
They cry out to you from the unspoken silence.
I am the Indian voice.
Listen to me !
I am a chorus of millions.
Hear us !
Our eagle’s cry will not be stilled !
We are your own conscience calling to you.
We are you yourself
crying unheard within you.
Let my unheard voice be heard.
Let me speak in my heart and the words be heard
whispering on the wind to millions,
to all who care,
to all with ears to hear
and hearts to beat as one
with mine.
Put your ear to the earth,
and hear my heart beating there.
Put your ear to the wind
and hear me speaking there.
We are the voice of the earth,
of the future,
of the Mystery.
Hear us!
--from Leonard Peltier's PRISON WRITINGS: MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE
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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