Native American Food Fest

10-31-2000

Westerly, Suzanne
News From Indian Country

Native American Food Fest

The annual Traditional Native American Food Festival is held each harvest
season at the Santa Fe Indian Hospital in New Mexico. The festivals are
focused on learning to return to traditional and healthy Native American
food. Last year corn was celebrated; at this year's festival, Sept. 26, the
focus was on squash.

The story of how the Harvest Festival came to be held at the Santa Fe
Indian Hospital is really about what a couple of determined woman can
create with loving care and effort.

In 1998, Rina Swentzell, (Santa ...

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Teaching art in a wholistic realm

10-15-2000

Westerly, Suzanne
News From Indian Country

Teaching art in a wholistic realm

Teaching art in a way that is exciting and exercises young minds is how
Allan Jim, of the Navajo Nation, and Dean of Fine Arts at Grey Hills
Academy High School in Tuba City, Arizona, teaches his students.

Last year at the Arizona Arts Educators Association Conference in Tempe,
Allan Jim was given the honor of being High School Division Art Teacher of
the Year in Arizona. He teaches his students to research the subject of
their painting. His approach is wholistic in educating and introducing
Native students to ...

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