More on (traditional) stone carving and lung hazards HazArt

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Study probes link between soapstone and cancer – Waterloo Record
Forty-six-year-old Jimmy Cookie feels dizzy and has trouble breathing every time he carves into a slab of soapstone.
Now, University of Manitoba researchers are looking at whether Cookie’s lung problems could be linked with the traditional [...]

E Holomoana Käkou I Mua” – Nutes tai dathl ~ To Journey Forward Together

This looks to be a very interesting opportunity in Alaska to find out more about civic groups in Hawai’i and their work on grassroots organization and governance, tradition, sustainability and development, education, and fun. The convention is for registered participants. However, there is a public open house on the evening of the 16th. I put [...]

Other examples for use in HazArt mitigation

I still don’t have access to my deep storage of projects (wouldn’t your community like its very own “overqualified” thinker?) but there are other sources of information to understand and protect one’s self and environment. I will point to these sources here.
Pottery (shaping and firing) has already been mentioned here
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Lydia T. Black 1925 to 2007

I just received notice my friend and guide, Dr. Lydia T. Black, an anthropologist whose research restored to Alaskan peoples important features of their history and culture, has died early this morning in Kodiak, AK, with family, friends, and Orthodox services present. She was 81.
from the family (to be continued)–

Dr. Black’s research of the Russian [...]

Native Crafts Health Effects Project

As part of the HazArt project | Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople Project (HazArt) | we tested the ambient air quality during a firing of black-on-black (reduced) pottery. This field project was a collaboration of Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, Inc., Sandia National Laboratory, and Tewa Women United.
The project [...]

Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople Project (HazArt)

HazArt Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople

Survey of Environment, Safety, and Health Concerns of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople

Lung Protection Pamphlet Released

Pamphlet—Pueblo Crafts & Healthy Lungs

Native Crafts Health Effects Project

Other examples for use in HazArt mitigation

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Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts & Crafts Show

[revised 2008july15, 2008july19]
“Friday morning people from various pueblos hustled in the hot sun to prepare for the weekend’s 35th Annual Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts & Crafts Show.”
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/46448.html This link no longer works.

A direct link to this year’s show is
2008-07-15
http://www.eightnorthernpueblos.com/
My apologies. There has not been a permanent link to ENIPC, Inc or to the [...]

AUTHENTIC ALASKAN ARTS AND CRAFTS

AUTHENTIC ALASKAN ARTS AND CRAFTS
http://www.dced.state.ak.us/ oed/student_info/learn/nativearts.htm

The stores and gift shops of Alaska are filled with delightful items – fine art pieces worked in walrus ivory, soapstone, jade and other natural materials prints, paintings and pottery; clothing and jewelry; and fun souvenirs to bring home to family and friends. But not all of these items are [...]

How to Buy Genuine American Indian Arts and Crafts

Because I have been concerned with the

Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople Project (HazArt) -
safety and environmental aspects

[and here, http://13C4.wordpress.com/2006/01/11/pueblo-envtl-concerns-solutions/] of Native crafts and art, and in

Small Business in Western Alaska -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/01/11/small-business-in-western-alaska/

selling such crafts to the public for artisans, I have also had to learn [...]

Small Business in Western Alaska

In 2004 I set up this discussion page linked from our regular webpage that I set up through the ISP. The QuickTopic is a wonderfully easier way to update information than a regular webpage or even a blog.—

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Since 1943, the Moravian Book Store has served the peoples of the Yukon Kuskokwim [...]