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Whiteriver, Arizona—On this particular night at a basketball game last winter in the Chief Alchesay Activity Center in Whiteriver, the loudest cheers wasn’t for basketball players, it was for a young athlete who competes professionally in another popular Indian sport, the sport of rodeo.

“There are people who grow up to become professionalathletes such as professional basketball players and baseball players. Indian country we have athletes in the rodeo circuit who participate in rodeo professionally. The INFR recognizes the ability of our Indian people. We’revery proud of a young man from our community who recently won the World Champion Bull Riding title at the Indian National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. It took one bull rider 12 tries before he became a World Champion but Larren made it on his first try as a high school student. He’s a role model to our children. Let’s show this young man how proud we are of him, Larren Daley!” said White Mountain Apache Tribal councilman Rubert Lupe as he introduced Daleyduring half—time to a roar of cheers and loud applause.

Washington, DC—“ As a young person I was shy and I didn’tfind my voice until I went to law school,” said Kim Teehee, Senior Policy Advisorto President Obama for Native American Affairs, to about two dozen Native American students attending the annual UNITY mid-year conference in Washington,DC. UNITY stands for United National Indian Tribal Youth, Inc. The national non-profitorganization, founded in 1976 and headquartered in Oklahoma City, promotespersonal development, citizenship and leadership among Native American youth.

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Native Americans have incredibly profound and fascinating beliefs, many of them involving wolves. To several tribes (past and present), the wolf itself is known as a protective spirit or totem. They view the wolf as a wise fellow hunter to be respected and admired.

In spite of what some Twilight fans think, Stephenie Meyer wasn’t the one that came up with Native American werewolves, no, I’m afraid that is a very old belief that many tribes have. Since Twilight is causing a stir of interest in Native American lore and beliefs -especially with the second movie, New Moon coming out soon which has much more of Jacob Black and the rest of the wolves involved- we’ll shed some light on the subject.

The Quileute Tribe is located in La Push, Washington, on the shores of the Pacific Ocean The Quileute Tribes have lived and hunted in this area for thousands of years. Although the village of La Push is only about one-square mile, the tribe’s original territory stretched along the shores of the Pacific from the glaciers of Mount Olympus to the rivers of rain forests. Much has changed since those times, but Quileute Elders remember “back in the days” When the “old people” dared challenge kwalla, the mighty whale, and recounted the story of how the bayak (raven) placed the sun in the sky.