UpDate: Dine _Navajo_ Rug Show NEEDS YOUR HELP

amt@teleport.com
Fri, 24 Mar 1995 10:30:18 -0800

Greetings!
A updated schedule of the Resisting Relocation Speaking Tour and Weaving
Project Rug show follows. If you live in San Francisco and would like to
help this tour, WE NEED YOU. We need an individual or group contact to
help find a hall and set up a show for April 11. We know this is short
notice but our sponsor for this show just cancelled and we would like to
still try for a San Francisco show. If you live in SF and own or know of a
place which could house the Rug Show please contact us and we'll give you
more info!

If you live on the tour route, please come out and see the beautiful rugs
of the Weaving Project and hear speaker Louise Benally on the Big Mountain
Sovereign Dine Nation.

The Weaving Project, Women in Resistance is a collective established in
1986 to directly support the Dineh women's resistance to forced relocation
and genocide. The Dine Nation was self-sufficient before the US federal
government intruded upon its sovereignty. For the Navajo (Dine in the
Navajo language), land is at the center of life and religion.
The Big Mountain rugs are not commercially woven rugs. They are
traditional forms of spiritual art, still woven with song and prayer. Each
rug pattern is created by the individual, and has its own meaning to the
weaver. It may tell a story or symbolize a revered part of Mother Earth.
The designs of this area reflect the colors and patterns of the naturally
dyed wool, taking from one to three months to complete. Weaving techniques
and traditions are handed down through the women from generation to
generation.

This tour will directly support Women in Resistance and Big Mountain.

Bellingham, WA Thursday March 30 YWCA
Port Townsend FRiday March 31 Community Centre
Olympia, WA Saturday April 1
Portland, OR Sunday April 2 Friends Meeting Hall, 6pm
Eugene, OR Wednesday April 5 Native Am.Longhouse, U of Oregon
Ashland, OR Thursday April 6 Looking Glass Beads, 4-8pm
Arcata, CA Friday April 7
Garberville,CA Saturday April 8 Mateel Community Ctr.
Mendicino, CA Sunday April 9
?San Francisco? Tues April 11 HELP!
Berkley, CA Wednesday April 12 La Pena, 7:30pm

Please contact Project PEACE, 503.246.5445 or amt@teleport.com if you can
help out in San Francisco.
Information and donations for Big Mountain Sovereign Dine Nation and
environmental work projects (Spring Gathering at Camp Anna Mae) can be made
to: Big Mountain, Louise Benally, P.O.Box 1042, Hotevilla, AR 86030

Donations to the Women in Resistance Weaving Collective can be made
directly to Weaving Resource Center, P.O. Box 865, Kykotsmovi, Arizona
86039, 602.527.2757

Help Support Us!

For All Our Relations,

Project PEACE