Recognition and Thanks

A very special thanks is extended to the Nevada Humanities committe for providing the funding for (the paper based version of) "Celebrating Nevada Indians."

Recognition also goes out to Nevada's 125th birthday commission for providing the funding for the original typesetting and the printing of the curriculum.

Thanks to the dept. of Teaching and Learning Technologies at the University of Nevada, Reno, for making this material available over the web.

	Celebrating Nevada Indians - availability of curriculum materials
	Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada - for more information regarding Indian tribes of Nevada

Dedication:

This curriculum is dedicated to the Native Amercians of Nevada in the hope that our culture and traditions will be preserved and appreciated forever.

A special dedication is also made to Leah Brady for her untiring efforts on the cooperative learning units. The following poem is dedicated to her:

All I Want

All I want is the bread to turn out like hers just once
brown crust
soft, airy insides
rich and round

that is all.
So I ask her: How many cups?
Ah yaa ah, she says,
tossing flour and salt into a large silver bowl.
I don't measure with cups.
I just know by my hands.
just a little like this is right, see?
You young people always ask
those kinds of questions,
she says,
thrusting her arms into the dough
and turning it over and over again.
The table trembles with her movements.
I watch silently and this coffee is good,
strong and fresh.
Outside, her son is chopping wood,
his body an intense arc.
The dull rhythm of winter
is the swinging of the axe
and the noise of children squeezing in
with the small sighs of wind
through the edges of the windows.

She pats and tosses it furiously
shaping balls of warm, soft dough.
There, we'll let it rise,
she says, sitting down now.
We drink coffee and there is nothing
like the warm smell of bread rising
on windy, woodchopping afternoons.

- Luci Tapahonso