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Real People...Real Places...
Wednesday 16 April 2008
Week 12 Day 23
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Features of the Day


16 April 2008
UMD medical student shares the limelight
A UMD medical student honored for his scholarship thanks those who contributed to his success, taking a page from his American Indian heritage.

Chuck Branch (left) gives a beaded pen and lanyard to Dr. Deborah Powell, dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School, during a traditional American Indian feast and giveaway Tuesday at the University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth campus. The event was to recognize those who helped him during his two years at the school. He will finish at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus. The pen has turtles in its design, representing his clan. CLINT AUSTIN / NEWS TRIBUNE

Chuck Branch holds his son, Marcus, while singing with the Onigamising Singers from Grant Language & Arts Magnet School during a traditional American Indian feast and giveaway Tuesday at the University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth campus. It was to recognize those who helped him during his two years there, before he moves to the Twin Cities campus of the medical school. CLINT AUSTIN / DULUTH NEWS TRIBUNE

Chuck Branch holds his son, Marcus, while laying out gifts during a traditional American Indian feast and giveaway Tuesday at the University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth campus to recognize those who helped him during his two years there. He will finish at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus. CLINT AUSTIN / NEWS TRIBUNE
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- Cf., Paul Buffalo paper: "Nature and the Concept of Power among Mississippi and Lake Superior Ojibwa"
- Cf., Paul Buffalo Chapter 23: "Drums"
- Cf., Paul Buffalo Chapter 31: "An Indian Curing Ceremony"
- Cf., Paul Buffalo Chapter 35: "Fireballs, and the Shadow Man"
- Cf., Excerpts from Interview with Paul Buffalo (18 min., 1971, VC 266B)
- Cf., A Gift to One, a Gift to Many / James Jackson, Sr. (60 min., 1992, VC 2238)
- Cf., An Interview with Jimmy Jackson, Ojibway Medicine Man (61 min., 1987, VC 1043)
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Assignments
- Read: Ch. 11, "Acculturation," pp. 299-310
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Notes
- Monday 14 April 2008: viewed video: Excerpts from Interview with Paul Buffalo
(18 min., 1971, VC 266B), and listened to audiotape: The Work of Brazilian Healer, Arigo, Dr. Henry Puharich
(45 min., 1971, PC 287)
- Wednesday 16 April 2008: Anishinabe Curing (Slides) to gifts, #36
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