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“A GREAT CHARGE” Ted Shawn, the pioneer of American modern ballet, was deeply impressed by his 1924 visit to an Isleta Pueblo Winter Solstice ceremony and drew inspiration from the Native understanding of dance. His adaptations of the old traditions, he admitted, were only pale copies, but they brought a fresh spirit to the Euro-American art form. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


50 MERGING ANCIENT MEMORIES Using bone, bronze and stone, Inuvialuit sculptor Abraham Anghik Ruben illustrates the parallel spiritual worlds of two ancient Arctic cultures, the Inuit and the Viking Norse. His work is on display in the Sealaska Gallery, Second Level, from Oct. 4, 2012, to Jan. 3, 2013.


51 TAINOS DISCOVER COLUMBUS Workshop coordinator Jorge Estevez (Taino) presents the history and surviving culture of the peoples who welcomed the new arrivals of 1492.


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GUIDING THE WHITE BRETHREN Alumni of the Carlisle Indian School athletic program had remarkable careers as coaches in non-Indian institutions. Among their achieve- ments – revival of the Rose Bowl.


A NEW HEADDRESS FOR THE DANCE Each summer young Hopi girls about to perform the Butterfly Dance receive a kopatsoki, an elaborate headdress, from a male companion or relative. The Hopi artist Lavelle Frayne Mahle has made an elaborate new kopatsoki for the Circle of Dance exhibit at the Museum’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York.


54 EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS CALENDAR


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