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As first lady, she stirred controversy throughout the nation in regard to poverty, child welfare, and equal rights for women. “We must do those things which we think we cannot do.”, was her challenge to the nation.

As the chairperson of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, she travelled throughout the world stirring support among leaders for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which she had helped author and enact.

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Deciding "man can no longer live his life for himself alone," he left his career in Europe to finance, build, and equip a hospital in Equatorial Africa.

He articulated a philosophy of ‘reverence for life’ to get beyond an improverished understanding of reality. Insisting nothing comes to pass without inwardness, he proclaimed a “faith in a new humanity, casting it as a torch into the darkness of our age.”

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.

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"The fire that never dies' is a symbol for a tradition that began centuries ago when a man they called the Peace Maker persuaded them to make a 'Great Peace' by forming a confederacy among themselves, based on a 'Great Binding Law.'

He taught them that the way to overcome their conflicts was through a greater perspective. He said, "Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of the continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground."

• Leon Shenandoah Tribute at peace4turtleisland.org
• The Heart Forest
• Discover Turtle Island Earth Day Celebration in KC, 1992

When endless wars and blood feuds had brought five nations to anarchy and despair, a man called the Peacemaker persuaded them to make a 'Great Peace' by forming a confederacy among themselves, based on a 'Great Binding Law'.

With all of the 50 chiefs of the first grand council assembled, the Peacemaker planted the original tree of peace, beneath which they buried their weapons of war. All nations were invited to take shelter beneath the tree.

• Jake Swamp planting tree in Kansas City, World Peace Celebration, 1988.
• Tree of Peace Society
• Chief Jake Swamp - contact

He has travelled tirelessly since the 1940s, proclaiming the importance of caring for the Earth and the value of traditional wisdom.

Teaching a Native American worldview that everything has spirit, he encourages us to enter the realm of spirit, to see as the wind sees, to talk with the animals, and to welcome everything on Earth.

He tells how native people are caring for the Earth with songs and spirituals, "You will learn from us the sacredness of everything."

Haskell Medicine Wheel (scroll down page) Mr. Banyacya was in Lawrence, KS for the dedication on the Medicine Wheel, as were Jake Swamp and Leon Shenandoah.

During the late 1930s, his band was already considers as a precursor of modern jazz with its unique style of lightness, precision, and relaxation.

Basie's syncopated and spare but exquisitely time chording, commonly termed "comping," became a model for piano accompaniments the next 30 years of jazz.

Many musicians considered Basie's to be the major big band in jazz history. His rhythmic conception and tonal balance provided a basis for several soloists to develop their own style.

With exceptional ability of interpretation, and with a voice which afforded her an operatic range, she was able to reinvent any song she chose for her repertoire.

Recording extensively, she became a major concert attraction in Europe and the United States. She performed a in a variety of settings from intimate nightclubs with jazz trios to large stadiums with symphony orchestras. Later she toured in South America and the Orient.

Vaughan poster

History has shown that through his teaching and writing he anticipated and stimulated many artistic developments. He laid the foundation of modern piano composition with his new method of writing and he invented the symphonic poem for the orchestra.

Among his seven hundred compositions were piano concerti, symphonic poems, sacred choral works, and various solo piano pieces. His continued interest in the music of the gypsies was the foundation for his Hungarian Rhapsodies.

Liszt curriculum resources, posters & books.

On the 500 dance pieces he wrote more than 150 were waltzes. The Blue Danube, Strauss's most famous composition, continues to be a favorite. Also well known were Artist's Life, Wine, Women and Song, Vienna Blood, and Tales from the Vienna Woods.

Of the many successful stageworks written by Strauss, Die Fledermaus was the one accepted as the classical example of Viennese operetta. Also successful were The Roman Carnival, The Gypsy Baron and A Night in Venice.

Strauss curriculum resources, posters & books.

Our world is changing so dramatically that this is difficult, if not impossible. Who could have known seven generations ago about nuclear weapons, or anticipate the effect of the telephone, the airplane, the computer, or the satellite?

Even so, this question challenges us to build new bridges, to concern ourselves with education, and to create foundations for a new order.

What about the children? is an urgent question we all understand and share.

'Pow Wow,' which refers to the ceremonial dancing, comes from the Algonquin words 'pau wau,' meaning medicine man, or spiritual leader who offers the rituals and ceremonies to activate deep primordial levels of the unconscious.

With constantly beating drums echoing a 'cosmic heartbeat, dancers circle to an endless rhythm of chants, as their prayers to the 'Great Spirit' are carried up in the smoke.

Belonging, dignity, love, respect, and esteem are essential to provide an intangible unity which sustains the life of the community and individual, even under the conditions of extreme prosecution.

The challenge is even more difficult in our drastically changing world: How can the elders maintain contact with the 'Great Spirit' in the face of materialism and technology? What in the traditional way is essential in order to have songs and spirituals as the basis of Native American life?

The 'shamanic crisis' is usually experienced in early adolescence with a youth, during a time of stress, even with danger to life, begins to contact spirits from the deep unconscious.

Through song and dance, the shaman often goes into a trance to contact forces of transformation.

The prayers and rituals of the shaman are essential for the community to have creative contact with the spiritual dimension.

A contemporary pow wow gives graphic evidence of the struggle: discarded cans litter the ground, expensive vans and trailers are parked by the teepees, eagle feathers imported from Europe are sold; while, in what seems to be and endless rhythm of chants and prayers, the drums call forth the powers of regeneration.

Will the youth be sensitive to the Earth and sky, to hear them laugh and cry, to understand the anger, and to seek forgiveness?