Monday, January 03, 2005

Math in Indigenous Weaving - An Overview

Math in Indigenous Weaving
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/
An Overview
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/overview.html
BASKETRY RESOURCES ON THE WEB Compiled by Steve Henrikson
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/resources.html
Tlingit Weaving Glossary
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/glossary.html
Tlingit Elders Traditional Education Checklist
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/educationchecklist.html
Math in Tlingit Art curriculum project Power Point slide show
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/MathinWeaving/MathTlingitArt.html

See also
Tlingit Basketry: Art~Math~Technology:
http://uashome.alaska.edu/~jflmh/TlingitBaskets/

Andy Hope

July 2004



Approximately twenty educators gathered at the Sitka Campus of the
University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) in August 1999 for an Indigenous
Curriculum Development in Science Institute. Dr. Claudette
Engblom Bradley (UAF), Dr. Tom Thornton (UAS), Michael Travis, Dr.
Richard and Mrs.Nora Dauenhauer (Sealaska Heritage Foundation) served
as the Institute instructors.

The purpose of the institute was: (1) to develop classroom
adaptations of science lessons based on the Cultural Atlas (which
began in 1997 in the Southeast Region) and Axe Handle Academy (Which
began in 1996)curriculum projects; (2) To inform teachers about the
work of Tom Thornton, Michael Travis, Lydia George (Tlingit Elder)
and Jimmy George on the Angoon Cultural Atlas (which was produced in
1998); (3) To familiarize teachers with the bioregional, thematic
curriculum of the Axe Handle Academy developed by Richard and Nora
Dauenhauer (1996-present); (4) To provide teachers with field
experience with middle school student science projects at Dog Point
Fish Camp of Sitka, AK.; and (5) To facilitate development of science
curriculum for Southeast Alaska schools in the 1999-2000 school year.

Tlingit Whale House Series

Nine years ago, brilliantly carved Tlingit artifacts linking the
Chilkat people with their ancestors were sold and removed from the
village of Klukwan. Since then, families, neighbors and lawyers have
fought bitterly over ownership. No one sees them now.

By Marilee Enge

Whale House Series
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/
Series At A Glance

Part 1 : The sale of the Whale House legacy.
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/part1.html
Part 2 : Carving the masterworks.
Modern-day carvers and anthropologists follow the trail of a Tlingit
artist of profound skill and vision
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/part2.html
Part 3 : A Tlingit buyer of Tlingit artifacts.
Tlingit nobleman Louis Shotridge, so of a keeper of the Whale House,
becomes a scholar of his people - and a controversial collector
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/part3.html
Part 4 : A dealer's passion for the Whale House.
A Seattle art dealer's decade of obsession ends in bitterness and in court.
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/part4.html
Part 5 : Epic sage becomes litigation.
A tangle of bloodlines and birthrights is now a court's to unravel.
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/Battle/part5.html

See also
CHILKAT INDIAN VILLAGE, IRA v. JOHNSON Decision
Summary
In an action brought by the Chilkat Indian Village, IRA against an
individual and a corporation and individuals comprising the "Whale
House Group" for the conversion of tribal trust property and
violation of a tribal ordinance which prohibits the removal of such
property from the village without prior notification of and approval
by the Chilkat Village Council seeking declaratory and injunctive
relief and monetary damages, the Chilkat Indian Village Tribal Court
orders the return of artifacts and the payment of expenses for the
artifacts' return as well as costs and fees of litigation.
Full Text
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Tlingit/ChilkatIndianVillage/

US forces on Diego Garcia had advance warning of tsunami

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US had advance warning of tsunami:

Canadian professor: A Canadian expert has claimed that the US
Military and the State Department were given advance tsunami warning
and AmericaÂ’s Navy base on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian
Ocean was notified but the information was not passed on to the
countries that bore the brunt of the disaster.
http://207.44.245.159/article7600.htm

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[excerpt]

The team contacted the US State Department, which apparently
contacted the Asian governments. The Indian government has confirmed
that no such warning was received. The Director of the Hawaii Warning
Centre stated that "they did not know" that the earthquake would
generate a deadly tidal wave until it had hit Sri Lanka, more than
one and a half hours later, at 2.30 GMT. "Not until the deadly wave
hit Sri Lanka and the scientists in Honolulu saw news reports of the
damage there did they recognise what was happening. Then we knew
there was something moving across the Indian Ocean," McCreery told
the New York Times on 27 December. "This statement is at odds with
the Timeline of the tidal wave disaster. Thailand was hit almost an
hour before Sri Lanka and the news reports were already out. Surely,
these reports out of Thailand were known to the scientists in Hawaii,
not to mention the office of Sec. Colin Powell, well before the tidal
wave reached Sri Lanka," argues the Canadian professor.

"We wanted to try to do something, but without a plan in place then,
it was not an effective way to issue a warning, or to have it acted
upon," Dr. McCreery said. "There would have still been some time -
not a lot of time, but some time - if there was something that could
be done in Madagascar, or on the coast of Africa," he added. The
Canadian academic finds the statement "inconsistent." The tidal wave,
he argues, reached the East African coastline several hours after it
reached The Maldives islands. According to news reports, Male, the
capital of the Maldives was hit three hours after the earthquake, at
approximately 4.00 GMT. By that time everybody around the world knew.

Prof. Chossudovsky writes, "It is worth noting that the US Navy was
fully aware of the deadly tidal wave, because the Navy was on the
Pacific Warning Centre's list of contacts. Moreover, America's
strategic Naval base on the island of Diego Garcia had also been
notified. Although directly in the path of the tidal wave, the Diego
Garcia military base reported 'no damage'," All that was needed was
for someone to pick up the phone and call Sri Lanka, he adds. Charles
McCreery, director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, said, "We
don't have contacts in our address book for anybody in that part of
the world." The fact is that only after the first waves hit Sri Lanka
did workers at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre and others in Hawaii start making
phone calls to US diplomats in Madagascar and Mauritius in an attempt
to head off further disaster. "We didn't have a contact in place
where you could just pick up the phone," Dolores Clark, spokeswoman
for the International Tsunami Information Centre in Hawaii has said.
"We were starting from scratch."

Prof. Chossudovsky argues that these statements on the surface are
inconsistent, since several Indian Ocean Asian countries are in fact
members of the Tsunami Warning System. There are 26 member countries
of the International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning
System, including Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia. All these
countries would normally be in the address book of the PTWC, which
works in close coordination with its sister organisation the ICGTWS,
which has its offices in Honolulu at the headquarters of the National
Weather Service Pacific Region Headquarters in downtown Honolulu. The
mandate of the ICGTWS is to "assist member states in establishing
national warning systems, and makes information available on current
technologies for tsunami warning systems."

Australia and Indonesia were notified. The US Congress is to
investigate why the US government did not notify all the Indian Ocean
nations in the affected area: "Only two countries in the affected
region, Indonesia and Australia, received the warning" Although
Thailand belongs to the international tsunami-warning network, its
west coast does not have the system's wave sensors mounted on ocean
buoys. The northern tip of the earthquake fault is located near the
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and tsunamis appear to have rushed
eastward toward the Thai resort of Phuket. "They had no tidal gauges
and they had no warning," said Waverly Person, a geophysicist at the
National Earthquake Information Centre in Golden, Colorado, which
monitors seismic activity worldwide. "There are no buoys in the
Indian Ocean and that's where this tsunami occurred

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Writing and Photography Awards

The American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) annually recognizes
excellence in the journalistic crafts of writing and photography.
ASNE is the premier organization of editors in the Americas and its
activities concentrate on improving the diversity, readership, and
credibility of newspapers. ASNE will present eight awards for work
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writing on Diversity. No entry fees. Complete descriptions of
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Deadline February 1, 2005
http://www.asne.org/awards

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The ASNE Distinguished Writing Awards and Jesse Laventhol Prizes are
designed to foster, recognize, and reward excellence in writing in
daily newspapers, eligible news services and ASNE member
publications. The Community Service Photojournalism Award recognizes
a body of work that contributes to an improvement or heightened
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Entry form
http://www.asne.org/files/2005awardsentryform.pdf
Frequently asked questions
http://www.asne.org/files/2005awardsfaq.pdf

When Nations' Decisions Cause or Intensify Environmental Damage In Ways that Hurt Humans

Monday, January 3, 2005 12:40 PM PST

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/leavitt/20040103.html

FindLaw's Writ - Leavitt: When Nations' Decisions Cause or Intensify
Environmental Damage In Ways that Hurt Humans, Is
FindLaw Mon, 03 Jan 2005 0:06 AM PST
When Nations' Decisions Cause or Intensify Environmental Damage In
Ways that Hurt Humans, Is There An International Legal Remedy?

[excerpt]

In mid-December 2004, the Inuit -- a group of about 150,000
seal-hunting peoples in Canada and Alaska -- announced that they plan
to seek an important ruling from the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights. They will ask the Commission to rule that the United
States, by contributing substantially to global warming, is
threatening their very existence. As part of their campaign, the
Inuit will invite the Washington D.C.-based Commission to visit the
Arctic Circle to see the devastation being caused by global warming.

In particular, the Inuit will allege that Washington is violating
their human rights by repudiating the Kyoto Protocol, and refusing to
cut U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, which make up fully 25% of the
world's total. The Kyoto Protocol - which will take effect in
February, and has been accepted by most industrialized nations -- is
the first international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases, and is
an addendum to an earlier convention on climate change. The United
States refuses to comply with the Protocol because it complains that
it will hurt the economy and that it unfairly exempts large
developing countries.

In this column, I will place the Inuit's claims in context -
explaining how they fit into the Inter-American human rights system.
I will also explore a few of the possible spin-offs of the Inuit's
campaign. Finally, I will describe how the legal framework
underpinning the Inuit's arguments might have implications for
thinking about the recent tragic disasters in South Asia.
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Photojournalists in war - James Fenton on witnesses to war

Interesting column and letter in the guardian over the past few days.

A handful of dust

James Fenton on witnesses to war

Saturday January 1, 2005
The Guardian

It used to be said - perhaps it still is - that there is a hierarchy
of courage among the journalists covering war. The reporters come
lowest in this. Anything that takes place in the war zone is grist to
their mill. It is good for them actually to have witnessed incidents
they write about, but often their most striking material comes from
what they have been told. And the reporters achieve excellence
through their writing, not through their great deed of daring,
although the latter might not come amiss.

Above the reporters come the photographers, who clearly must be
witnesses. But, again, it is a matter of anything that happens in the
war zone. The photographer may not spend his time most profitably at
the front line (assuming there is such a thing). It may be that the
most interesting sights
and events, from his point of view, are taking place at a certain
distance from the front.

Anyway, the crucial question is choice: the photographer sees
something that will make an expressive image, and he chooses to snap
it. Don McCullin used to get irritated that, if he was working in the
company of others, as soon as he snapped a certain object, fellow
photographers would rush to whatever it was he had seen, and try to
bag the same shot. One imagines, though, that they can seldom have
secured a great advantage thereby.

At the top of this courage hierarchy come the journalists least often
known by name: the cameramen. These are expected to be assiduous in
seeking out the action, and when fighting takes place they are
supposed to stand up and film it. Of course if there is no action to
be filmed, they will seek, somewhere in the war zone, those scenes
which most effectively express the news that is unfolding. But, in a
highly competitive profession, they are expected not to miss out on
the fighting. They work generally under the severest restraints.

More at: http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1381385,00.html

Monday January 3, 2005
The Guardian

James Fenton writes with insight and relevance about the work of
photojournalists in covering war and tragedy (A handful of dust,
Review, January 1). He wonders to what extent the suffering and
trauma of journalists has been researched or recorded.

At the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma in Europe, Australasia
and the US, we are building on what's now a substantial, although
still very new, body of research confirming the psychological trauma
that journalists, editors, and their support teams can indeed
experience.

Hacks, like other professional first-responders to trauma, are a
resilient bunch. Many of us at the Dart Centre are former
correspondents ourselves, and we know all too well how journalists
will keep working - and excelling - through reporting sometimes
unimaginable personal anguish and distress.

We also know of the longer-term price some of us pay - in broken
relationships, alcohol abuse, depression, anxiety, and also in terms
of full-scale post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

Anthony Feinstein, a South African psychiatrist working in Canada,
has researched the long-term experience of war reporters and
photographers. He found that levels of PTSD over a 15-year career are
the same as for military veterans - about one in four.

Several news organisations are now beginning to take trauma and the
need for educating news teams seriously, notably broadcasters and
news agencies such as the BBC, Reuters and CNN. The broadsheets are
taking longer to get the message.
Mark Brayne
Dart Centre
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Subject: Photojournalists in war

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Tsunami disaster and the Dutch Amateur Radio Emergency Service

Dutch Amateur Radio Emergency Service (DARES):
The Dutch Amateur Radio Emergency Service (DARES) aims to provide and
maintain knowledge and know-how regarding licensed radio amateurs and
registered listener amateurs for the support of professional aid
agencies to combat disasters and other major incidents.

http://www.dares.nl/tsunami_disaster.htm
Tsunami disaster
The Dutch Amateur Radio Emergency Service Foundation has started a
relief project on behalf of the radio-amateurs in the disaster area's.

http://www.dares.nl/ares_in_de_praktijk.htm
ARES in de praktijk
29 december
Amateur Radio "Saved Lives" in South Asia artikel op ARRL-website
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/12/29/100/?nc=1

Radiowereld.nl:
http://www.radiowereld.nl/2003/home/medianieuws/010.archief/2004/12/93286.html
Zendamateurs verzamelen radioapparatuur voor Azië Nederlandse
radioamateurs zijn begonnen met het inzamelen van oude
radioapparatuur voor de rampgebieden in Azië. De apparatuur kan
volgens de radioamateurs een cruciale rol spelen in de
noodcommunicatie. Dat meldde de stichting Dutch amateur radio
emergency service (Dares) vrijdag.

>From a private communication:

"Seems that Dutch fire brigades are collecting their old
communication stuff as well. Since [Dutch] Fire brigades, Police and
Ambulances turned to a new digital communication system, the old one
can be re-used."

See also mostly in Dutch
http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&c2coff=1&q=azie+apparatuur+nederlandse+radioamateurs&btnG=Zoeken&lr=

and

http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&c2coff=1&q=De+stichting+Dutch+Amateur+Radio+Emergency+Service+DARES+&lr=

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Asia Tsunami Relief Efforts (Dutch article, links to articles in English
and other languages):
http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2004/12/24072.shtml
English article:
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/12/112664.shtml

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"Several factors make bloggers' books attractive to agents and editors."

NYT Books: "Several factors make bloggers' books attractive to agents
and editors."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/books/15blog.html?amp;ei=5090&en=6a428f0391c35fb6&partner=rssuserland&ex=1260853200&pagewanted=print&position
[excerpt]

December 15, 2004
A New Forum (Blogging) Inspires the Old (Books)
By JOSHUA KURLANTZICK

Like many aspiring authors, Marrit Ingman had a tough time convincing
publishers that her big book idea - a wry, downbeat memoir of
postpartum depression - could sell.

"I had to convince the publisher that an audience for the topic
really did exist," said Ms. Ingman, a Texas-based freelance
journalist. "The big publishers kept telling us that mothers only
wanted prescriptive or 'positive' books about being a parent."

But Ms. Ingman had her own persuader: her Web log. She'd been writing
it for two years and had attracted a following of mothers.

"I turned to readers of my blog," she said. "I asked them to comment
on whether a book like mine would be relevant to them. Readers wrote
back expressing why they wanted to read about the experience of
maternal anger. I stuck their comments into my proposal as pulled
quotes."

Her readers were convincing. She and her agent, Jim Hornfischer, sold
her memoir, "Inconsolable," to Seal Press in August, she said. "The
blog showed publishers she was committed to the subject matter and
already had an audience," Mr. Hornfischer said.

Bloggers have their own Web sites, on which they write frequently
updated posts, almost like online diaries. The postings are about
current events, culture, technology or their own lives. Many of their
postings contain links to relevant sites.

During the last year many Web logs, or blogs, have focused on the war
in Iraq and the presidential campaign, and as these blogs gained a
wider audience some publishers started paying attention to them.
Sometimes publishers are interested in publishing elements of the
blogs in book form; mostly they simply enjoy the blogger's writing
and want to publish a novel or nonfiction book by the blogger,
usually on a topic unrelated to the blog.

One of the first to make the transition was Baghdad blogger known as
Salam Pax, who wrote an online war diary from Iraq. Last year Grove
Press published a collection of his work, "Salam Pax: The Clandestine
Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi."

In June a former Senate aide, Jessica Cutler, whose blog documenting
her sexual exploits with politicos dominated Capitol gossip in the
spring, sold a Washington-focused novel to Hyperion for an advance
well into six figures, said Kelly Notaras of Hyperion.

Meanwhile, a British call girl with the pseudonym Belle de Jour, who
had created a sensation with a blog about her experiences, has signed
a six-figure deal with Warner Books to publish a memoir, said Amy
Einhorn, executive editor at Warner Books who bought the book.

Ms. Einhorn said that after she heard about the blog, "I downloaded
the whole site, read it that night and then bought the book."

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