Autumn - Time of the Grasshoppers! Tachquoak - Fall National Indian Day - Sept. 23, 2005. Celebrate! Ninth century king Charlemagne once said, "To know another language is to have a second soul." His words are still true in the twenty-first century. Learning a language is more than just learning words in the new language. It's also learning the culture of the people, understanding their dreams, their spirit, and their values. When you learn another language, you can see the world with a whole new set of eyes. GO Native!
Joint Program:
Lenape/Colonial Children's Poetry Contest:
www.netaxs.com/~katz/contest.htm Avoid Myths RE:Background Illustration:
To find out more read The Walking Purchase Hoax of 1737 : How the sons of Wm. Penn tricked the Lenape out of 1200 square miles of prime land in Pennsylvania, by Ray Thompson. AmericaÂs Surprisingly Diverse Reservations by Darrel Smith
http://www.citizensalliance.org/CERA%20News/CERA%20News%202003%2001/Diverse%20Reservations%20by%20DS.htm The view that Indian reservations are simply the home of American Indians lacks accuracy and causes many destructive misconceptions. According to the 2000 census there are 2,475,956 Indians, Eskimos or Aleuts in the United States (.9 percent of the total US population of 281,421,906). | |
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