I am Red-Running-Into-The-Water

My heritage is Dineh. I am Tachii'nii;  born for Kiyaa'aanii; Hooghan lani are my maternal grandparents; Todich'ii'nii are my paternal grandparents.

I am so proud of the fact that the first tribal college is the Dineh College in Tsailie, AZ. I thank Indian Country News Network for highlighting Dineh College during National Native American Heritage Month.

Last night I spent time with my children rehearsing their ancestry. I need to engage them more and to tell stories about their roots--roots they can draw upon to bear much fruit in this world for good, for helping, for the honor of the Infinite, Creator God.

Possible place of my clan, "Red running into the Rocks"
Photo: Thanks to mcaretaker from Flickr photostream

[LINKS] Engaging Native American Heritage Month

Txs to Craig B. Griffin

I thank those who are seeking to engage everyone with this month's emphasis on National Native American Heritage Month. Please check out the following links to engage this month with better awareness.

• A succinct overview of the heritage month from aianheritagemonth.org 
• American Indian Alaskan Native Heritage Month seeks to promote the month with a video from Native Youth, "That's My People!" who attended the 2011 National Intertribal Youth Summit in July 2011.
• Indian Health Service offers posters to download for the month as well as listing of tribes and census data links.
• National Museum of the American Indian also highlights this month's emphasis. They even promote the new memoirs of Jock Soto (Navajo), former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet.  His new book is entitled, "Every Step You Take" available from Amazon. 
• List of resources in several links for teachers who want to discover how to teach about Native Americans.

That's all for now.

Diyin God nihik'ijidlii doo (God Bless you)