The CAHC Meetings. We usually meet the first Sunday of each month. The location: Cherokee Nation Community Room, behind the Restaurant of the Cherokee - same building, near the Cherokee Nation Gift Shop.

NEXT MEETING TO BE ANNOUNCED; August 2010. Place: Kenwood, Squirrel Ridge. Immersion Camp.

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CherokeeHeritage Center Announces

New website

www.cherokeeheritageevents.com

For more up-to-date information, quick link to facebook and their new E-Newsletter.

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NEWS MAKERS:

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Old News Worth Remembering.

A RESOLUTION AMENDING RESOLUTION NUMBER 74-88, ESTABLISHING THE
NATIONAL TREASURES PROGRAM

Passed in General Council on June 15, with four changes:

1. Up to three recognized each year,

2. at least one within 14 county area, C.N. proper,

3. no residency restrictions, and

4. an advisory coucil of five members will be appointed by the Chief and confirmed by theCouncil.

Nomination Form

July 13: C.N. Council confirms Advisory Board - Bill Andoe, Al Herrin, Jane Osti, Lori Smiley, and Mary Horsechief.

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NEWS BRIEFS --

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New Foundation to support tribal arts

[IS NOW ACCEPTING GRANT APPLICATIONS][Formed in 2009]

A new foundation has been formed to preserve and nourish the artsof American Indians and other native groups with the help of $10 million from the Ford Foundation, the new Native Arts and Cultures Foundation will begin establishing itself in Portland, said Walter Echo-Hawk, an Oklahoma lawyer who chairs its board.
Among the board members is Elizabeth Woody of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in Central Oregon.
The foundation's scope encompasses Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians. Its new president, Tara Lulani Arquette, a Native Hawaiian, will move to the city next month to select an office site, Echo-Hawk said. By the end of the year, the foundation hopes to start awarding grants to artists and organizations that support native art and culture.
Those grants will not only boost efforts to preserve what remains of the nation's traditional tribal cultures and customs that historically were suppressed or prohibited, but also support contemporary native painting, theater, music and other art, Echo-Hawk said.
But there is still a need for more financial support, and this foundation could fill that void, said Elizabeth Theobald Richards, a Cherokee and Ford Foundation program officer.
"These are the indigenous peoples of this country," she said. "The art forms and the cultural heritage of these people have been underfunded and not recognized enough."
A 2006 study funded by the Ford Foundation showed there was no government support for American indigenous art and culture and relatively little philanthropic assistance, according to the Native AmericanRights Fund. The study led to the founding of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation.
It's not the first national organization devoted to supporting tribal arts and culture, Echo-Hawk said, but it is the first to be permanently endowed.

In the future, he said, the foundation hopes to partner on projects with other organizations, namely the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. He also expects the foundation's mission to support tribal arts and culture won't be set back by the down economy because funding was secured before the start of the recession.

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A Genealogical, family history, database of the Cherokee Nation is maintained, updated and extended on a regular basis. From time-to-time the number of individuals in that database will be updated at the bottom of the left-hand column. If you would like to contirbute data or pictures, images, to this database contact Roy Hamilton at gwytutsi@yahoo.com or info@cherokeeculture.org. If your family has a website, we would be honored to link it here. Send the website address (url) to Roy as well.

CHEROKEE FAMILY & GENEALOGY WEBSITE LINKS

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