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Agreg Page Symbolic Figure

'No man begins to be until he has seen his Vision.' ¦ Rhonda Angel.

¦ en 1996, lorsque cette Page a été lancée, la
"Question Indienne" était au programme
de l'agrégation interne.



Apache, by Rhonda Angel
© Rhonda Angel

used with special permission from the artist.
"No Indian has more virtues and none has been more
truly ferocious when aroused. He could travel as invisibly
as a ghost, appear or disappear as silently as a shadow.
The dusty warrior, with a dash of color at the headband,
was seldom seen, and if seen was seldom hit, and
if hit was seldom knocked down to stay...
Apaches were terribly hard to kill."
¦ Capt.John G. Bourk
e,
U.S. Calvary.



The Apache
{uh-pach'-ee}

were notorious for never being seen.

I read somewhere also that the first you'd see of an Apache was when his arrow pierced your chest. Maybe you'd not see him even then.

That's the background on my "Apache" portrait.

As for the painting itself, I had had a night of one nightmare after another... sat down the next morning and painted the Apache. I don't know why.

I really don't think he looks like a bad guy. He is half hidden in the dark, coming from the dark...

Are you sure you want this guy as your symbol ?... ¦
Rhonda.

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"Rhonda is deeply interested in the Native American culture, its people and its spiritualism.

She shares a blood bond by her great grandmother and a spiritual bond in her soul.

She is an avid student of the history and suppression of the sovereign Nations that populated North America."

¦ Chris Angel, her husband.
More about the artist.

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Apache in class:

Des élèves de Terminale Européenne

en Lorraine et leur prof Alain Nowak ont travaillé sur la section de la Page d'Agreg consacrée à
la question indienne aux États-Unis.

Un groupe a travaillé sur le portrait de l'Apache rétro-projeté sans commentaires.

Il s'agissait de décrire, puis d'imaginer une histoire dont ce portrait serait un plan fixe. Un autre groupe a travaillé sur le même portrait pour tenter d'en percer l'interprétation, toujours sans commentaires.

Un autre a consulté les règles de conduite à respecter quand on visite une réserve Indienne.

Il s'agissait de se saisir d'une règle, d'imaginer un incident - qu'un touriste ne la respecte pas, et un conflit prend naissance.

Puis de rédiger le dialogue, avec l'aide de l'assistante d'anglais pour la fluidité.

Le quatrième groupe a mené une recherche historique sur l'épisode de Wounded Knee, afin de présenter un exposé à toute la classe.

Le dernier, enfin, a mené une recherche sur la Page Internet d'Alain Nowak, en quête des stéréotypes que les Indiens tentent de démystifier.

La semaine suivante, grâce au lien d'actualité sur la fête de Thanksgiving, les élèves retrouvaient Indiens et gens du Mayflower à Plymouth...

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In the mail

WMW...

> I am a member of a college graduate group that is doing a case study concerning a Navajo Woman in crises.

I wanted to get as much information as possible - about Navajo Medicine Men, as the woman has a father who is the medicine man of his tribe.

Sorry, almost forgot to comment on your inspiring artwork - I get so caught up with my own selfish pursuits - in the White Man's World !

As you might have guessed, I took some of your lovely artwork and poetry, which I hope to present to our class.

¦ visitor, on
Rhonda's guestbook.


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IN THE NEWS


Cultural Enhancement Through Storytelling,
Native American stories may reduce violence...

In the 1993 school year, teachers at Baboquivari Middle School on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation sent students to the principal's office for discipline 1,399 times.

But over the next three years, disciplinary referrals dropped 54 percent, to 639 last school year.

The principal and some teachers at the school 60 miles west of Tucson credit the steady drop in violence and other misbehavior to revival of an O'odham tradition-telling stories.

In 1994, the school launched a program in which tribe members visit students, primarily at-risk students, and tell old stories and help renew fading cultural traditions.

The program, called Cultural Enhancement Through Storytelling, has a staff of three.

¦ Enric Volante, The Arizona Daily Star "Trouble-plagued reservation school has telling change" as published in The Seattle Times, May 31, 1998, A8
(quoted in
EDUPAGE).


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Whispered to rose-cheeked youth
In time of supple limb, but
Ecstatic song in 'West Wind' dispelled
So incongruous a face
Before silver rise'morrow...
€ Chris Angel.

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