 Not just a concert...a cultural event!...
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PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT
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Artist Info:
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Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Your Sins, and The Land is Your Mother and most recently A Tribute to Johnny Cash. His concerts in support of Human Rights for Indigenous People of the World have taken him on more than 60 trips all over the world. Red Crow's many personal appearances include concerts and song writing collaborations with such well known artists as Willie Nelson, Joni Mitchell, Kris Kristofferson, Richie Havens, Buffy Saint Marie, Jackson Browne, Harry Belafonte and Sting. Red Crow made his big screen debut in the motion picture Renegades. He also appeared in Dances with Wolves, The Doors, Buffalo Girls, Lakota Woman, Clearcut, and Grey Owl. His television career includes parts in Walker Texas Ranger, Northern Exposure, The Pretender, L.A. Law, X-Files, Millennium, Roseanne, Dharma and Greg, and Son of the Morning Star. Red Crow is a leader in the North American Indian Movement and involved in all aspects of human rights. He is national co-Chair of the Coalition Against Racism in Sports. See www.eyapaha.net.
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Dennis Banks
Native American leader, teacher, lecturer, activist and author, was born in 1937 on the Leech Lake Reservation in northern placeStateMinnesota. In 1968 he co-founded the American Indian Movement (AIM). Dennis has had roles in the movies War Party, The Last of the Mohicans, and Thunderheart. A recording, Still Strong, featuring Banks' original work as well as traditional Native American songs, was completed in the 1990s and re-released on CD in 2001. Dennis can also be heard on other musical CD's: Peter Gabriel's Real World Records Les Musiques duMonde and Peter Matthiessen's No Boundaries. He is co-author of the acclaimed books, Ojibwa Warrior and Sacred Sole, telling his own inspirational story of what one person can do to change the world around them. Dennis founded a non-profit organization, The Nowa Cumig Institute, which supports Native American youth programs and the Indian community. Dennis travels the globe lecturing, teaching the Native American traditions, providing drug and alcohol counseling, and sharing his experiences. See www.nowacumig.org and www.sacredrun.org.
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Pete Sears
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Joseph Langham
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Masaou Yamamoto
Entrepreneur for ecologically responsible businesses; President and CEO of Sumida-Piazza Group in the U.S. and Japan; honorary Chair of Harajuku Omotesando Merchant Association of the most fashionable area of Tokyo. In the 1960's he attended universities in Chicago, Illinois and Valparaiso, Indiana. While in Chicago, he witnessed the great fish die-off in Lake Michigan (due to foreign fish species introduction, pesticides, and endangered bird predators) that inspired his involvement for greater ecological awareness and changes needed in business to be eco-friendly. He has been associated with Dennis Banks as well as other Native American leaders and artists for the past 17 years. He has been the main sponsor of the Great Anishinabe Canoe Race (Yamamoto Cup) and Nowa Cumig Institute since 2001. He is a leading promoter in Japan for establishing ecologically friendly businesses that include a solar powered biodiesel gas station, an organic farm (Piazza Eco Farm) near Tokyo, and a restaurant featuring Native American organic food. Using both Japanese and Native American principles of human beings living in harmony with Nature, he continues to promote the value of eco-friendly businesses. www.piazzatrading.com
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NOWA CUMIG INSTITUTE MISSION STATEMENT
To establish peace among the races through education. To share values and traditions, and in doing that, to find a common ground. To build on this foundation of respect, understanding, and love so that future generations of every race enjoy the differences of each group while inherently embracing the human family as one. To build up and sustain the welfare, pride, and condition of indigenous communities by establishing Native businesses based on local historic cultural practices of food gathering, production, processing and distribution as well as converting natural resources into marketable art and cottage industry products for sale outside Native communities.
Nowa Cumig Institute strives to create educational programs, seminars, events, conferences, rallies, and retreats designed to share with men, women and children throughout the world.
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