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“TURNED AWAY”: This oil on canvas painting by Alan Goldstein is part of “(re)Frame: Community Perspectives on the Michener Art Collection,” on view June 18 through March 5, 2023, at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa.

The James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa., presents “(re)Frame: Community Perspectives on the Michener Art Collection,” on view June 18 through March 5, 2023.

The exhibition is a museum-wide initiative inviting multiple viewpoints based on culturally specific interpretations. Applying new lenses to Michener’s collection, guest curators and visitors will explore artworks’ social and environmental contexts beyond academic Euro-American art history.

“Each person’s personal experience, cultural background, and professional and scholarly interests influence how they understand a work of art and we want to embrace these varied interpretations,” said Laura Turner Igoe, Michener’s chief curator. “There are many ways to look at an artwork.”

Eight guest curators — Joe Baker, Reg Hoyt, TK Smith, and youth members of Doylestown’s Rainbow Room — have selected works from the Michener’s permanent collection to reveal new stories about identity and the environment in the Delaware Valley region. Historical and contemporary art selected by the curators include works by Diane Burko, Daniel Garber, Elaine Galen, Alan Goldstein, Richard Kemble, Harry Leith-Ross, Joan W. Lindley, Jan Lipes, Tim Portlock, Herbert Pullinger, Edward W. Redfield, William A. Smith, Robert Spencer, Dox Thrash, and William Earle Williams, some of which have never been on view.

Several stations throughout the Museum’s galleries invite visitors to share their own interpretations and what they would like to see at the museum in the future.

Baker is an artist, educator, curator, and activist who has been working in the field of Native Arts for the past 30 years. He is an enrolled member of…

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ANDERSON — Anderson Community Schools is discontinuing the high school basketball pregame routine involving the school’s Indian mascot and maiden.

The board unanimously acted Tuesday night on recommendations from Superintendent Dr. Joe Cronk, which also included moving toward initiating a formal partnership with the Delaware Tribe of Indians to modernize some of the district’s most visible traditions.

Under terms of the proposal, the Indians name and logo would continue to represent the district and its athletic teams, but the ritual is being eliminated immediately.

“We will continue our commitment to show our students that when the time comes, we do make right decisions, not necessarily the easy ones,” Cronk said during his presentation to the board.

The partnership, he said, would give Anderson High School “a chance to modernize through interaction with actual source resources to advance the school traditions and continue making AHS a special place for our students to attend.”

Shortly after a video depicting the basketball pregame routine — featuring the maiden and mascot plus the passing of a peace pipe among the school’s cheerleaders — was posted to TikTok, district officials formed an internal task force that spent weeks meeting, researching and documenting the ways the district represents Anderson’s Native American history.

Cronk noted that he and other ACS officials had heard from hundreds of people, both Native Americans and other ethnicities, from around the country about the issue.

“Really, all the comments that we had cluster around the dance and the peace pipe ritual,” Cronk said.

“That’s the part that we’re moving out. This is why we wanted to work with the Delaware Tribe of Indians, because it’s their chief that we say we’re honoring. Working with them, that’s the one thing they wanted to see gone because it doesn’t honor them. It mocks them.”

Several residents and representatives of Native American…

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To Anderson Community Schools’ School Board:

I don’t know how many of you are graduates from Anderson High or other area high schools. On this mascot problem, I can only hope you are using some common sense and some backbone.

Chief Anderson was chief of the Delaware Tribe and, through the years, descendants of his have visited here several times, visited our school and said we were showing great respect in all we do in regard to our mascot and his outfit.

They did point out that the Delaware headdress was only three feathers but ours, with numerous feathers, was respectful because it was the style of other Native American tribes.

You can’t change history, as much as some people think they can.

We have had an Indian mascot for over 90 years. For almost the last 40 years, a group of Native Americans has visited Anderson, set up Andersontown Pow Wow and shared with the public their traditions, dances and customs.

I have volunteered several years there, and our booth has been visited many times by Native Americans. We have had on our table the AHS yearbooks with the title “The Indian” on them.

We also have had a copy of “A Long Far View,” a big AHS history book that has our Indian mascot in color on the cover. We have always received complimentary feedback.

The official Anderson city seal is also the head of a Native American chief with a headdress, very similar to our mascot’s. Is that a problem?

By what power does Rachel Thunder and the American Indian Movement have to tell us what is right or wrong in the way we honor the Native Americans who settled here before us? (Editor’s note: Story ran on Page A3, April 13.)

As a 75-year graduate of Anderson High, I say to those who chose…

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Apr. 1—ANDERSON — As Anderson Community Schools returns from its two-week spring break, the district has begun an internal review of its Indian mascot, maiden and the pair’s basketball pregame routine.

For now, the district is only conducting an internal review of how it honors the Native American heritage of Anderson High School and the district.

Previously, ACS representative Brad Meadows told The Herald Bulletin that ACS was identifying external and internal people to be part of a review committee.

ACS hoped to have the committee start meeting within the first week of April to begin discussions about the mascot, maiden and pregame routines, according to Meadows.

While there was no external review being conducted as of Thursday, Meadows said, “We will certainly, at some point, seek input externally as well.”

Currently there is no Native American representation on the internal review committee, said Meadows, though the district plans on including Native American voices on the external committee.

The review committee was sparked by a video that was posted to TikTok in late February. It detailed the Indian mascot and maiden preforming their pregame routine and the passing of a peace pipe around a circle of cheerleaders before a boys’ basketball game.

The video has since received over 771,200 views and has led members of various Native American tribes to contact ACS to express their concerns.

Meadows noted that the district has kept in contact with the Delaware Tribe of Indians and the Delaware Nation, two federally recognized groups of Lenape people.

Assistant Chief of the Delaware Tribe of Indians, Jeremy Johnson, said that he and Chief Brad KillsCrow received email communication from ACS Superintendent Joe Cronk on Tuesday, notifying the tribe of ACS’ internal review.

In the email, Cronk stated that the recommendations and feedback from the tribe will be used during the internal review, according to Johnson.

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Child care facilities close across Green Country over tribal money dispute | KTULPlease ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes ofwebsite accessibility-1; } // command = ‘getUSPData’, version = 1, callback = function(uspData: uspdata, success: boolean) window.__uspapi = function (command, version, callback) { if (command === ‘getUSPData’ && version === 1) { if (isFullMeasure() || getPrivacyKVP()) { // enable via KVP or if the site is fullmeasure.news // check trustarc for privacy info var uspString = getTrustArc(); if (uspString) { // if the uspString was created and returned properly // Then perform callback with correct object var uspData = { version: version, uspString: uspString }; return callback(uspData, true); } } } // Case where command !== getUSPData || uspString returns null || version !== 1 || !usPrivacyEnabled // call callback with uspData = null and success = false return callback(null, false); } function getTrustArc() { if (window.truste && window.truste.cma) { // if the trustarc object and methods are available var url = location.protocol + ‘//’ + location.host; // Get consent decision by calling trustarc api var consentDetails = window.truste.cma.callApi(“getConsentDecision”, url); /* returns consentDetails: {consentDecision:$integer, source:”asserted”} consentDetails.source can be “asserted” or “implied” – ignore for our purposes consentDetails.consentDecision can be 0, 1, 2, or 3 0 – no decision (closing banner without making a decision) 1 – required – “opted out” 3 – advertising – accepted */ var uspPrivacyString = formatUSPrivacyString(consentDetails.consentDecision); return writeUSPrivacyString(uspPrivacyString); } else { return null; } } // Handle getting the value of the notice_behavior cookie (provided for us by trustarc) function getCookieData(name) { var value = ‘; ‘ + document.cookie; var parts = value.split(‘; ‘ + name + ‘=’); if (parts.length === 2) { return parts.pop().split(‘;’).shift(); } return null; } function…

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Parents all over Washington county are trying to find a place for their kids to go after three daycare facilities announced they’re closing this week. The Washington County Child Care Foundation operates two centers in Bartlesville and another one in Sperry. Nearly 160 kids across the three facilities will have to find new childcare centers after all the facilities close this week.

“When they called me and told me they got in, I cried happy tears,” said Rachel Swindell. Swindell waited a year and a half to get three-year-old Lucas into her dream daycare: Ivy Academy West in Bartlesville. She and her husband both work full time jobs.

“The people there are wonderful, she said. “I have nothing bad to say.”

However, Monday she got an email from the director saying the centers would be closing on Thursday. The Washington County Child Care Foundation operates the centers. A source from the foundation said they’ve worked hand in hand with the Delaware tribe 25 years and that’s how the foundation is funded.

But they say the tribe decided to cut those ties. Now, the foundation said the tribe owes them more than $4 million. However, the Delaware chief said they don’t believe the tribe owes any money and said the daycares were primarily serving non-native children, which was against the tribe’s federal contract. He also said their audits of the foundation showed it was spending money unwisely.

“I’m learning that I’m losing childcare for my son,” said Swindell. Swindell said regardless of why it happened, she wishes she had more notice. “I was frustrated at the situation, but my heart broke for Lucas,” she said “His friends and teachers and his daily routine.”

60 employees will also be losing their jobs. Swindell said she’s relying on her family members until she can find a new daycare.

The foundation said…

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Over a decade ago, Michael Nickerson-Rossi traveled from his then-home of Long Beach to Palm Springs with some friends. By the end of the trip, he’d fallen for the city and its vibrant, artistic feel, but there was one big thing missing: a professional dance company. 

“I saw these beautiful works of art, from landscaping to architecture to fine arts, but there was no dance. And I was kind of surprised by that, because we’re so close to Los Angeles,” he said. “And I wanted to bring it.”

Now, Nickerson-Rossi Dance is a professional contemporary dance company consisting of seven full-time members. Under that umbrella, there’s also the Palm Springs Dance Academy and the Palm Springs International Dance Festival, the latter of which takes the stage this weekend.

The festival includes nine days of programming ranging from a ballroom social to a student showcase, and each event purposefully features dancers across a variety of genres to introduce guests to artforms they may be unfamiliar with. 

The Desert Sun caught up with Nickerson-Rossi and a few of his colleagues to learn what events they’re most excited for at this year’s festival. 

Indigenous Dance Residency Performance

The festival kicks off with an evening of three postmodern dance pieces by Julenda Satow Freeman, a card-holding member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians (Lenni Lenape) and the Cherokee Nation. Freeman choreographed these works during a week-long residency at Nickerson-Rossi Dance Theater, during which she learned new ways to tell her family’s story through movement. 

This is the dance company’s inaugural Indigenous Dance Residency, which is something Nickerson-Rossi has wanted to do for years to honor the tribal land that checkerboards Palm Springs. He got one step closer in 2021 when the company partnered with the Cahuilla Band of Indians to present a modern bird song dance during a Modernism Week home…

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