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Show Indian awareness week slated Ballroom. Indian Awareness Week activities end that evening with a 9 p.m. dance at the Paiute Tribal-Building. CEDAR CITY A firsthand account from a Navajo Code Talker, a presentation by an Indian poet and demonstrations on arrowhead chipping and bow making are a few of the activities planned during Indian Awareness Week April 12-17 at Southern Utah State College. Sponsored by the SUSC Multi-Cultural Center and the 80-member SUSC Inter-Tribal Club, the 1982 Indian Week theme is "Message of Heritage." Oliver Homer, a Navajo freshman fresh-man at SUSC, coined the phrase. Activities get underway un-derway April 12 with a 7 a.m. sunrise ceremony. They end April 17 with a dance at 9 a.m. at the Paiute Tribal Building, 600 North 100 East, Cedar City. Calberta Seciwa, a member of the Zuni Tribe from Zuni, N.M., will speak on "Tribal Government" April 12 at 3 p.m. in the Student Center Lounge. An administrator ad-ministrator for the Zuni Tribe, Seciwa graduated from Ft. Lewis College and has a degree in Southwestern Studies. At 7 p.m. that evening, poet Joy Harjo will perform in the Thorley Recital Hall. Affiliated with the Creek Tribe, Harjo's poetry has appeared ap-peared in numerous anthologies and publications and has been translated into German, Dutch and Indonesian languages. She has given over 30 readings across the nation, is a member of numerous professional and cultural societies, and is currently a writer of narrative and poetry and a production assistant for the American Indian Artist Film Series. According to Hans Hadley, Multi-Tribal president, the poetry reading and all other Indian Week activities ' are free to the public. A video tape showing of "Jim Thorpe" will be April 13 at 7 p.m. in the Student Center Lounge. During the week several additional documentaries will be shown. Carl Gorman Jr., a veteran of World War II and a member of the famous Navajo Code Talkers, will speak at 3 p.m. April 14 in the Library Special Collections Room. Gorman is coming to SUSC from his home in Window Rock, Ariz. - At 7 p.m. that evening the movie "Joe Panther" will be shown in the Student Center Lounge. Indian Week continues April 15 with an Indian arts and crafts workshop from noon to 6 p.m. in the SUSC Small Ballroom. La Van Martineau and his family from Globe, Ariz., will be on hand to demonstrate arrowhead chipping, bow making, quill work, tanning and beading skills. Married into the Paiute Tribe, Martineau spends much of his time in the perpetuation per-petuation of the Paiute culture. At 4 p.m. that afternoon an inter-tribal basketball tournament gets underway un-derway in the gymnasium gym-nasium at the Cedar City Middle School. A 7 a.m. sunrise ceremony (flag-raising) will be April 16, followed at U a.m. by a session on "Indian Curriculum Materials" in the Library Special Collections Room. Bill Rieske, Salt Lake City, a self-taught Indian historian and owner of Historic Indian Publishers, Salt Lake, will be the guest speaker. Basketball action continues that afternoon at 3 p.m. at the Middle School. Activities conclude con-clude that day with a dance beginning at 9 p.m. at the Paiute Tribal Building. The Jimmy Poyer Band, a Navajo group from Shiprock N.M., will provide music. Basketball continues April 17 at 8 a.m. in the Middle School Gym and the SUSC War Memorial Fieldhouse. A "Ten K Road Race" gets underway at 9 a.m. Sponsored by the Multi-Tribal Multi-Tribal Club and Steven's Company, runners will meet at the Cedar City store, 75 North Main, around 8:30 a.m. Everyone is invited to participate in the race, and additional information in-formation can be obtained ob-tained by calling the Multi-Cultural Center, 586-7770. Indian Hand Games will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., followed by a Pow-Wow Pow-Wow from 1 to 4 p.m. The afternoon activities are scheduled to be conducted con-ducted on the Upper Campus Quadrangle. In case of bad weather, they'll be in the Large |