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“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola
― Émile Zola
Op-Ed: My First Poetry Slamby Sage Addington '18
Well, first I had to put on my big boy pants and get the courage to walk downtown. I found out about the event because I am on the gallupARTS mailing list. As it turns out, there is a poetry slam every first Friday of the month at ART123 from 6:30 - 8:30 PM. The monthly poetry slams aren’t to be confused with Gallup’s Annual Poetry Slam each April. Here is the event structure and guidelines from the gallupARTS website: Open-Mic1. Advanced registration is not required, but is encouraged. Sign-ups will be handled on a first-come-first-served basis. Sign up via e-mail to [email protected] or starting at 6:20pm the night of the event. 2. Poets may share either original or credited work for the Open Mic. Slam Competition1. Advanced registration is required for the Slam Competition, either via e-mail to [email protected] or in-person by 7:15pm the night of the event. 2. Performers must present original work for the Competition. 3. Judges will be selected onsite. Since this was my first time, I was not able to tell the difference between my experience and a typical experience at a Gallup Poetry Slam, but according to the slam director, this slam was not a “real one” for many reasons. For starters, the slam did not start at 6:30, it started at 6:50. Most slams end around 8:30 because there is a guest reader, but this month there was none so the slam ended at 7:30. There was no slam competition at this event. This month also included a theme: women. This month’s slam celebrated Women’s History Month with poems by women, about women, for women. Luckily for me, I am a woman. I decided to come to this poetry slam a bit last minute, so all I had were some cheesy love poems. Turns out, you don’t have to read poetry of your own, if you don’t have any. You can share a poem, as long as you give credit to writer. I found this fact out while “Sign-ups” happened; sign-ups are done by writing your name on a clipboard that gets passed around. I was at a corner seat and was never passed the clipboard, but when the sign-up sheet made it back to the front, the director informed the audience that if they didn’t sign up, they’re still allowed to read a poem after the list is completed. The director broke the ice and opened with a poem she had wanted to share, and a poem she had written herself. The first person other than the director to read was a girl I unfortunately can’t remember the name of. She was an indigenous woman and confessed to the audience that she, “[Hadn’t] done this since high school.” I was able to talk to her after the poetry slam, and we shared some words. She told me her poem was inspired by her and her friends time at Standing Rock, protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline. She said, “There’s just so much to fight for.” In her eyes we spoke a silent language, one that understood perfectly. She told me of a time where she was homeless and struggling, advising me to, “Just keep writing, [because] that’s all you can really do. This world is so… Everything is so… [Bad]. And all you can do is write, and let it out. You can’t keep everything bottled up.” Poem Inspired by Standing Rock"The greed, money, and power, they are selling the soul of the Earth. Father Sky and Mother Earth, crying out to stop the pain. Destroying lands, building oil companies. Chemtrails fly above. Air polluted, toxic waste. My ancestors fought for the distance land. They were terrorized for their rights; mocked, jailed, terminated against. Our heritage pushed away. I’m doing history, fighting for our existence. We’re fighting for water. My brothers and sisters stand and resist, Praying to four corners, killing the black snake. Mother Earth arise and call for peace. We know water is life. Who are you to judge me? I am indigenous. The hardest thing is seeing those frozen to death, homeless, drinking; trying to testify the struggle I face today. My soul is fighting inside, my ancestors are crying inside. Fighting, blood, money, destroying our tribal lands. We stand here in peace saying, “We are still here!” My relatives found murdered with no justice. Left alone, every sister is murdered, or disappeared. All those missing and murdered, with no justice to proclaim; with a stroke of a pen, takes away who we are. First nations, we stand up, reviving the Earth. Stand with one nation, stand with justice that defines you. I’m just being real, from eyes you see my struggles. We stand unarmed, remain in peace, because I say enough is enough. We are still here." About two poems in an obvious walker from outside came in to listen. The poetry slam is free so the host of the slam provided him with a chair and for a while everything was fine, until people started to act rude. I personally appreciated the walker’s vibe and the fact that although he was a little intoxicated he was appreciating poetry! After each poem, not during, he would say something along the lines of, “That’s beautiful, man,” and “You’re an amazing writer.” Half the people around him would hush him and a man playing a keyboard would repeatedly say in clipped tone, “You need to be quiet.” Eventually, at the very end of the poetry slam, this lead to an argument in which the walker said, “I’m an American too, man. I have free speech.” The host asked that he’d be quiet if he didn’t have anything to say by women, for women, or about women. The man repeatedly said, “I’m sorry,” was quiet for the rest of the time, and went so far as to hold the door for every single person to leave the event. I enjoyed the experience, but not how most of the crowd treated the poetry-loving walker. It was sort of ironic how there were a few white individuals who introduced themselves in Navajo, talked about the various Native schools they had once taught at, and proceeded to be rude to the Native man that wandered into the Poetry Slam. Despite that I would definitely go again, I had a good time. http://www.galluparts.org/gallup-poetry-slam/?utm_source=Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=88af668513-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_489cca22ad-88af668513-186055013 What is the Hot Topic Foundation?by Sage Addington '18
“Everyone at the store explains it a little differently, but it’s actually really cool,” Pierce said, “The Hot Topic Foundation is a non-profit and the way it works is by donating your leftover change after a purchase. They use the money to bring music and art stuff to underprivileged children. They work four other non-profits I think.” She joked that during work there’s always the one angry lady at check out who glares and asks, “What’s that?” According to the Hot Topic website, the Hot Topic Foundation teams up with non-profit organizations to help inspire and encourage young people to express their individuality through fields like music and art. The foundation is over a decade old as it was founded in 2004 at the suggestion of some Hot Topic store associates. Over the past fourteen years, the Hot Topic Foundation has given nearly $9 million in grants to the non-profit teams they work with. The Hot Topic Foundation currently works with three organizations that help young people express their individuality through the arts. The three organizations include the GRAMMY Foundation, Little Kids Rock, and Notes for Notes. These foundations are actually really awesome. Little Kids Rock partners with school districts in training public school teachers innovative curriculum and donating all the instruments and resources they need to have amazing music programs. The GRAMMY Foundation’s mission is to develop an appreciation and advancement of recorded music in American culture by organizing programs and activities that engage the general public, cultural community, and music industry. Notes for Notes designs, provides, and staffs after-school program studios inside Boys & Girls Clubs where youth can create and record music all for free. The main goal of Notes for Notes is to educate kids on the behind the scenes of music production. https://www.hottopic.com/product/hot-topic-foundation-donation/991001-000.html https://www.calfund.org/hot-topic-foundation/ https://www.littlekidsrock.org/ https://www.grammy.com/grammy-foundation http://notesfornotes.org/ Movie Review: Emo The Musicalby Sage Addington '18 http://www.mcleodcasting.com/emo-the-musical/ This movie gave me emo P!TSD (Yes, that was a Panic! At The Disco joke). When I first read the title EMO The Musical while scrolling through Netflix, I literally gasped and yelled, “What is this?!” EMO The Musical is a 2016 production and has a Romeo and Juliet setup as an emo boy falls in love with a Christian girl. The main conflict is the main character, Ethan, and the love interest, Trinity, are in rival bands wanting to compete in a battle of the bands type of event. Ethan wants to prove himself to his friends and Trinity wants to maintain her faith. This setup made me excited to see the film because I was once Christian, once an emo kid, and once an emo Christian kid. The movie is about an hour and a half long at 94 minutes and is also a satire of high school based musicals. This movie is truly for emo kids and the formerly emo, but even if you never put on coon eyeliner or fried your hair straightening it, you can still have a good laugh. Baseline stereotype jokes about My Chemical Romance, not liking labels, and skinny jeans cracked me up because every emo has been a stereotype at one point. The movie went as far as including small details only true emo kids could appreciate like string chokers. It was hard for me not to laugh at the portrayal of how uncomfortable the Christian kids were around the emo ones; it was painfully and hysterically accurate on more than one occasion. This is a musical but it’s not like any other because it’s hilarious while still making catchy songs. It’s hard to find a balance where you can be funny but still produce musical style music. I found myself enjoying the songs, even the flat ones, because they sounded like a legitimate emo band I would have listened to when I was younger. However, I will warn you, if you are someone who doesn’t like an occasional messed up suicide joke, some aspects of this film will annoy you. This film not only pokes fun at emo kids, but also pokes fun at some negative aspects of Christianity, so If you don’t like jokes about religion, this film may not be for you. As an emo phase survivor, I have to say this film may be funnier to you if you can actually relate to it. Ambush! Art: Art and Literary MagazineAmbush! Is publishing their yearly art and literature magazine in April, and we want your submissions! Last year only four students made submissions and one teacher. The magazine still came out great, but this year we are hoping to include more Gallup High artists than in 2017. To allow total creative freedom, there is no limit to what you can submit (as long as it can be printed). Feel free to submit your drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, and short stories. There is also no limit to how much content you can submit, so go crazy. If you have art, we want to see it! Not only do we want your works, we want to know a little more about you. Who is the artist behind the art? It is completely optional, but if you want, you can choose to fill out a short questionnaire to go in your biography beside your artwork. The questionnaire will be left at the very bottom. If you want to submit any art or writing, you can do so in two ways. You can either physically drop off a copy of your work to Ms. Sweetwyne in room A202 or submit photos and documents to [email protected]. If you choose to submit any photos digitally, please send them in the highest resolution you can. If you choose to submit photographs of your work, please try to take the photos in the best lighting you can. If you have any questions regarding submissions or anything else, feel free to contact the newspaper. QuestionnaireQuestion: What is your name? Answer: Question: What grade are you in? Answer: Question: Why do you like art?/Why are you an artist? Answer: Question: What is your favorite media to work in? Answer: Question: What is your favorite content to create? Answer: Question: How long have you been practicing art? Answer: Question: What do you want to accomplish as an artist? Answer: WEEKLY POLLLast Week's Poll Results!Last week we asked Ambush! Readers a strange question because there was no article to go with it. We asked readers if they've ever been hospitalized and 100% of poll takers said no.
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Gallup High Drama Presents Alice in Wonderlandby Sage Addington '18 The Gallup High Drama Club is putting on a performance of Alice in Wonderland April 13th, 14th, and 15th in Kenneth Holloway Performing Arts Auditorium. On Thursday, April 13th and Friday the 14th the play will be held at 6:00 PM; on April 15th, the show will be at 3:00 PM. The play is a one act adaptation by T.C. Baker describing Alice's adventure in Wonderland and her journey to get out. This is the first drama club production to be directed under the new drama director Georgia Savage after the former director, Nona Edelson, left Gallup High in December. Although the cast list has already been announced, the drama club needs backstage hands to help with costumes, props, and sets! Alice - Tea Aragon Alice’s friend, Three - Raechelle Sandoval Alice’s mom, White knight, bailiff - Sydney Teran Caterpillar - Christian Santiago Cheshire Cat - Austyn Teran Dormouse, Ace - Elijah Jack Iris and Four - Lizbeth Sanchez King, Alice’s dad, lily - Lancey Shack Mad Hatter - Lucy Martinez March Hare - Madelyn Nielson Red Queen and Alice’s sister - Alora Garcia-Archunde Tweedledee - Rose Laughter Tweedledum - Santera Hernandez Two & Rose - Aja George White Rabbit, Alice’s sister - Shaiana Acevedo Contacting Demons and Ghosts?by Derek Curely '19 The Ouija board were made to be a game to contact ghosts, demons and many other types of supernatural beings. The game consists of a flat board with the alphabet, numbers 0 to 9, a “yes”, “no” and “goodbye” along with a teardrop device. The Ouija board is said to have an obsession with spiritualism. Spiritualism is the belief that the dead are able to communicate with the living. No one knows for sure where this board came from and why a toy company started producing them. Since 1992, historian Robert Murch has been trying to figure out the background of the Ouija board. He had said “no one really knew anything about its origins”. It had confused him and made him question many things. “For such an iconic thing that strikes both fear and wonder in American culture, how can no one know where it came from?” Murch said. The Kennard Novelty Company was the first company in the United States to manufacture Ouija boards Kennard left the company in 1891, and the Kennard Novelty Company became the Ouija Novelty Company. There are many ways to play the game but but there is one common one. Step one would be to designate one person to ask all the questions. The second step is to have all players gently place their index and middle fingers on the planchette and slowly move the planchette in circles to let the board warm up. Third you would the board questions. A fourth step is to concentrate and watch the device move around to make words. The last step after finished playing the game is to say goodbye. When playing the game, it is said to not yell and be polite when asking or speaking to the board. There have been many stories about people who don’t play the game right or those who don't say goodbye. There have been cases where the board talks people into doing what it wants. Another case is where the board allows a being from the supernatural world to possess a living body. There are a lot of dangers and risks when playing the game. Still, to this day, no one knows the exact origination of the Ouija board. https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.wikihow.com/Use-a-Ouija-Board%3famp=1#ampshare=https://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Ouija-Board http://www.kennardnoveltycompany.com https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-strange-and-mysterious-history-of-the-ouija-board-5860627/ http://mentalfloss.com/article/12952/brief-history-ouija-board Ambush! Art: Art and Literary MagazineAmbush! Is publishing their yearly art and literature magazine in April, and we want your submissions! Last year only four students made submissions and one teacher. The magazine still came out great, but this year we are hoping to include more Gallup High artists than in 2017. To allow total creative freedom, there is no limit to what you can submit (as long as it can be printed). Feel free to submit your drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, and short stories. There is also no limit to how much content you can submit, so go crazy. If you have art, we want to see it! Not only do we want your works, we want to know a little more about you. Who is the artist behind the art? It is completely optional, but if you want, you can choose to fill out a short questionnaire to go in your biography beside your artwork. The questionnaire will be left at the very bottom. If you want to submit any art or writing, you can do so in two ways. You can either physically drop off a copy of your work to Ms. Sweetwyne in room A202 or submit photos and documents to [email protected]. If you choose to submit any photos digitally, please send them in the highest resolution you can. If you choose to submit photographs of your work, please try to take the photos in the best lighting you can. If you have any questions regarding submissions or anything else, feel free to contact the newspaper. QuestionnaireQuestion: What is your name? Answer: Question: What grade are you in? Answer: Question: Why do you like art?/Why are you an artist? Answer: Question: What is your favorite media to work in? Answer: Question: What is your favorite content to create? Answer: Question: How long have you been practicing art? Answer: Question: What do you want to accomplish as an artist? Answer: WEEKLY POLLLast Week's Poll Results!Last week we asked Ambush! Poll takers if they've seen Black Panther and 75% said yes! and 25% said they really want to.
Op-Ed: Culture and Costumes: Black Panther
by Sage Addington '18
The movie includes many famous faces like Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan, but the movie also includes a large handful of African born/raised actors. Danai Gurira is from Zimbabwe, Florence Kasumba is from Uganda, Daniel Kaluuya is from Uganda, Lupita Nyong’o was raised in Kenya, and John Kani is from South Africa.
As someone who isn’t black and only has a small knowledge of Africa, the entire time I watched the film I was wondering what cultural references were flying over my head. I could tell the costumes were intricately designed and some references such as lip plates and and neck rings were obvious. Yet, I wondered about other things I saw such as hats, scarves, blankets, body paint, and scarring throughout the entire film. After watching this film and doing some researched, I learned about many of the different African cultures represented in this film. Hardly does one get to learn about Indigenous African culture.
Blankets/ScarvesBasotho Blanket
Awotele
The awotele is like an undercoat. The second layer was made of silk and was pressed in pleats in the Issey Miyaki style. Part of the coat was also a lightweight black tunic with long sleeves and large cuffs; the cuffs stick out from beneath the second layer. Carter said that she also used small silver metals made by the Tuareg people of the Sahara desert. The metal pieces “highlighted their [the Tuareg’s] intricate design in their silversmithing.” Each piece of Tuareg jewelry has a special meaning and combining the different cultures made it so that not just one culture was represented.
Accent Layer
The accent layer featured a long front piece made out of hundreds of tiny beads. The neck piece was crafted out of a rope wrapped in leather and joined by magnets.
Sokoto
The final layer is simply a long pair of red trousers.
Colors
Headdresses
Lip Plates
Masks
Neck Rings
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Tribal Markings
Wakanda Language
Although Wakanda is a made up place, the language used in Black Panther is not. The language heard at several points throughout the movie is isiXhosa, one of South Africa's eleven official languages. isiXhosa is spoken by more than eight million South Africans, or 15% of the population.
Warriors
https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2018/01/new-stills-behind-scenes-images-marvels-black-panther/
https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/black-panther-cultural-references.1446325/
http://www.theglimpse.com/the-surma-and-mursi-tribes-lip-plates http://afritorial.com/tribe-the-mangbetu/ https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/product/x73-631-mgbedike-mask/ http://www.hamillgallery.com/IGBO/IgboSpiritMasks/IgboSpiritMasks.html http://www.krugerpark.co.za/africa_ndebele.html http://www.rebirth.co.za/igbo_tribal_art_history_and_culture.htm http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2561949/Ethiopian-Sudanese-tribes-intricate-raised-patterns-created-using-THORNS.html http://sc2218.wikifoundry.com/page/Mursi+and+the+Lip-Plate http://www.rebirth.co.za/hats/zulu_hats.htm http://www.thegeektwins.com/2018/02/top-10-african-tribes-featured-in-black.html http://www.onlytribal.com/the-himba-tribe-history-and-culture.asp https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0728_040728_tvtabooscars_2.html https://softkenya.com/kenya/maasai-tribe/ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/us/wakanda-black-panther.html https://fashionista.com/2018/02/marvel-black-panther-movie-costumes-hair-makeup https://www.zkhiphani.co.za/ndebele-choker-more-than-just-a-fashion-trend/ Op-Ed: #ArmMeWith School Supplies
by Sage Addington '18
Thousands of teachers and students joined the movement and made photos with suggestions that don’t involve arming teachers with firearms.
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Yes, schools should focus on security, but schools shouldn’t just be safe, they should feel safe. If I knew any one of my teachers could be in possession of a gun, I wouldn’t feel safe. School is stressful enough and making students feel safe, shouldn’t also make students feel like they are in prison. As a student, I believe we need to focus on mental health, family life, bullying, and making our schools an all around better environment for the students.
Don’t waste money on providing teachers with firearms, use that money to provide teachers with the resources they need to make school a better environment. Provide students books. Provide students school supplies. Provide students with more teachers so they’re in a less crowded environment and get more one on one attention. Provide students with counselors to help them with bullying and other rough times. Provide students with basic knowledge of mental health. Provide students with after school clubs and fun things to do outside of home. Providing teachers with firearms sounds like a dangerous step in the wrong direction. If a shooter was to be on campus and teacher was to use their firearm, a potential firefight could break out and put even more students in harm's way. If a shooter were to be on campus, the authorities would have trouble identifying the shooter with so many people in possession of guns. And what happens when a teacher one day fights with a student and someone ends up getting shot?
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School can’t protect students at home or shield them from the ugliness of the world, but what they can do is try and make the place where students spend a majority of their time, better. Besides, if schools cannot afford to make the school better, than how can they afford lots of guns? Teachers aren’t paid nearly enough to do their jobs and they sure aren’t paid enough to protect my life. Students shouldn’t have to worry about staying alive, they should be able to worry about their education. #ArmMeWith school supplies.
http://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/threat-prompts-2-hour-delay-at-belen-high-school/4798947/ https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/02/23/teachers-say-armmewith-classroom-resources-instead-of-guns/23369746/#slide=7254340#fullscreen https://www.facebook.com/NowThisPolitics/videos/1933360976695383/ Ambush! Art: Art and Literary Magazine
Ambush! Is publishing their yearly art and literature magazine in April, and we want your submissions! Last year only four students made submissions and one teacher. The magazine still came out great, but this year we are hoping to include more Gallup High artists than in 2017. To allow total creative freedom, there is no limit to what you can submit (as long as it can be printed). Feel free to submit your drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, and short stories. There is also no limit to how much content you can submit, so go crazy. If you have art, we want to see it!
Not only do we want your works, we want to know a little more about you. Who is the artist behind the art? It is completely optional, but if you want, you can choose to fill out a short questionnaire to go in your biography beside your artwork. The questionnaire will be left at the very bottom. If you want to submit any art or writing, you can do so in two ways. You can either physically drop off a copy of your work to Ms. Sweetwyne in room A202 or submit photos and documents to [email protected]. If you choose to submit any photos digitally, please send them in the highest resolution you can. If you choose to submit photographs of your work, please try to take the photos in the best lighting you can. If you have any questions regarding submissions or anything else, feel free to contact the newspaper. Questionnaire
Question: What is your name?
Answer: Question: What grade are you in? Answer: Question: Why do you like art?/Why are you an artist? Answer: Question: What is your favorite media to work in? Answer: Question: What is your favorite content to create? Answer: Question: How long have you been practicing art? Answer: Question: What do you want to accomplish as an artist? Answer: WEEKLY POLLLast Week's Poll Results!
Last week we asked Ambush! Poll takers if they liked Kylie Jenner's baby name Stormi and 50% said for my dog, and the other 50% said yes.
It's Stormi in North West Chicago
by Sage Addington '18
I'm sorry for keeping you in the dark through all the assumptions. I understand you're used to me bringing you along on all my journeys. My pregnancy was one I chose not to do in front of the world. I knew for myself I needed to prepare for this role of a lifetime in the most positive, stress free, and healthy way I knew how. There was no gotcha moment, no big reveal I had planned. I knew my baby would feel every stress and every emotion so I chose to do it this way for my little life and our happiness.
Pregnancy has been the most beautiful, empowering, and life changing experience I've had in my entire life and I'm actually going to miss it. I appreciate my friends and especially my family for helping me make this special moment as private as we could. My beautiful and healthy baby girl arrived February 1st and I just couldn't wait to share this blessing. I've never felt love and happiness like this I could burst! Thank you for understanding.
Khloe Kardashian, Kylie’s pregnant sister, made a post on Instagram saying:
Congratulations My Sweet Kylie! What a magical ride it has been! I'll miss you bumping along with me. Never in a million years did I think we would do this together but it's been that much more special because of it. God is so great!! He had his plan all along! I love you little mama love big mama Although Stormi is currently the newest child until Khloe gives birth, Kim also had an addition to her family. Chicago West was born on January 15, 2018. The thirty-seven year old actress has had two high-risk pregnancies in the past and was eventually forced to hire a surrogate mother. The baby girl was named as a tribute to Kanye West’s mother Donda who raised him in Chicago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhIEIO0vaBE&feature=youtu.be https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/4411458/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-baby-girl-name-chicago-surrogate-latest/ Movie Review: Black Panther
by Rocco Addington '20
The only problem I found was with the main character itself. I don’t have a problem with him so much as I had a problem with his action scenes. The main character has a suit of armor that is close to impenetrable, this makes all of the action scenes he is in seem a bit redundant. What’s the point of him dodging bullets, and sneaking around if literally nothing could hurt him? In no point in this movie did I feel suspense, everything just seemed a little predictable. Unlike other Marvel movies they did a great job in balancing out the humor. If you have watched any Marvel movie in the past two years you probably came into this thinking will be laughing the whole way through. The humor didn’t seemed forced, it just came naturally and the punchline never fell short. Black Panther is not really a jokey character so it was nice to see him stick to his roots.
Personally when I watched this movie I got a little bored through it, but after hearing similar and different stories I think I know why. It’s a cultural thing; as a Native American it was very easy for me to laugh at some of the music, references, and motive behind some characters. This movie goes over some cultural aspects of the black community, and from an outside perspective I think it had a different impact on me, opposed to someone who is in that in the culture. The times where this movie brought up culture really made me think, even if I didn’t understand fully I was intrigued. This movie makes you think adding on to what is an amazing movie. Although the action was predictable, this movie was great. Black Panther goes over so much no matter who you are you’ll find something to like about this movie. Even a Marvel hater like me found something to like about this movie. Black Panther will make you laugh, think, and have you wanting more by the end of it. This is a movie definitely everyone should see. VIOLENTine's Day
by Sage Addington '18
Whether you love it or hate it, you probably know Valentine’s Day celebrates love. It’s a day to remind those closest to you that care about them. Unfortunately, a trend of violence also follows this affectionate holiday.
On February 14th, around 278 A.D., St. Valentine, a Christian martyr, was beheaded for performing marriages in secret. The holy priest was executed by Emperor Claudius II. Under the rule of Claudius the Cruel, Rome made many bloody campaigns; all the emperor wanted to focus on was maintaining a strong army. Unfortunately, he was having a hard time recruiting soldiers for his unpopular campaigns. Claudius believed men were unwilling to join his army because of their strong attachment to their wives and families, leading him to outlaw all marriages in Rome. St. Valentine rebelled against Claudius and would marry young lovers in secret, but was eventually found out. Upon Valentine’s outing, he was condemned to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off. Valentine’s sentence was carried out on the fourteenth of February. Legend has it, St. Valentine left a farewell letter to the jailer’s daughter, whom he had become friends with, and signed it, “From Your Valentine.” After his death, Valentine was named a saint for his service. Besides Claudius the Cruel, Chicago’s most notorious gangster also left his bloody mark on February the 14th. In 1929 one of Al Capone’s longtime enemies George “Bugs” Moran lost seven members of his operation. At the garage the Irish gangster ran his bootleg operations out of, seven of his men were gunned down while standing lined up, facing the wall. The overkill was insane, some 70 rounds of ammunition being fired. When policemen arrived, one member of Moran’s gang, Frank Gusenberg, was still clinging to life. In the final minutes of Frank’s life, authorities pressed him to talk and reveal what happened, but he refused. Moran and others immediately blamed Capone’s gang for the massacre, but no one was ever brought to trial for murder. In this the year 2018, there was another Valentine’s Day massacre. On Wednesday, in Parkland Florida, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was shot up. The suspect is nineteen year old, former student Nikolas Cruz.The shooting racked up a body count of seventeen with fourteen other injuries. Fourteen students died and so did three faculty members. The ages of the victims ranges from fourteen to forty nine. On Valentine’s Day Al Capone killed seven, Nikolas Cruz killed seventeen. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/us/florida-shooting.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/us/florida-shooting-victims-school/index.html http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/st-valentine-beheaded https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-respond-shooting-parkland-florida-high-school-n848101 Ambush! Art: Art and Literary Magazine
Ambush! Is publishing their yearly art and literature magazine in April, and we want your submissions! Last year only four students made submissions and one teacher. The magazine still came out great, but this year we are hoping to include more Gallup High artists than in 2017. To allow total creative freedom, there is no limit to what you can submit (as long as it can be printed). Feel free to submit your drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, and short stories. There is also no limit to how much content you can submit, so go crazy. If you have art, we want to see it!
Not only do we want your works, we want to know a little more about you. Who is the artist behind the art? It is completely optional, but if you want, you can choose to fill out a short questionnaire to go in your biography beside your artwork. The questionnaire will be left at the very bottom. If you want to submit any art or writing, you can do so in two ways. You can either physically drop off a copy of your work to Ms. Sweetwyne in room A202 or submit photos and documents to [email protected]. If you choose to submit any photos digitally, please send them in the highest resolution you can. If you choose to submit photographs of your work, please try to take the photos in the best lighting you can. If you have any questions regarding submissions or anything else, feel free to contact the newspaper. Questionnaire
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Answer: Question: What grade are you in? Answer: Question: Why do you like art?/Why are you an artist? Answer: Question: What is your favorite media to work in? Answer: Question: What is your favorite content to create? Answer: Question: How long have you been practicing art? Answer: Question: What do you want to accomplish as an artist? Answer: WEEKLY POLLLast Week's Poll Results!
Last week we asked Ambush! Readers if they've ever had an art class with Mrs. Thomas and 100% of poll takers said yes.
11 Years At Gallup Highby Sage Addington '18 It makes me happy to see people’s eyes light up when they start to reminisce. When I interviewed Mrs. Thomas about her time at Gallup High, her eyes were so bright. It is Mrs. Thomas’ last year teaching because she will be retiring after this year. She told me that she has been a teacher for twenty-five years in total. Mrs. Thomas began her career at as an art teacher at Gallup Cathedral, teaching there for three years. Gallup Cathedral had closed down and just reopened when she began her job there and is now Gallup Catholic School located at 515 Park Ave. Mrs. Thomas has been teaching at Gallup High for a total of eleven years, first arriving in 2007. Before she taught at Gallup High she taught at Gallup’s Junior High School which is now Miyamura High School. Mrs. Thomas said quietly with a big grin, “I like Gallup High better. I think we have great teachers and great students.” I asked her what her favorite Gallup High Memory was and she laughed out loud and asked sadly, “Is this a retirement interview?” I felt bad for having caught her off guard and apologized, but she laughed it off and smiled. “Wow… That’s a big question,” She leaned into her desk and cupped her face in her hands. “A lot of memories for eleven years?” I chortled. “No kidding!” She exclaimed and leaned back in her chair to think. She told me she loved watching the girls and boys basketball team play. In correspondence to that question, I asked Mrs.Thomas what she would miss about Gallup High. “My students.” “Even the ones in hoodies?” I asked jokingly. “Even the ones in hoodies,” she smiled, glancing around briefly to make sure no one was out of dress code. “I’m going to miss my classroom. My classroom and my students,” Mrs. Thomas added on. “I’m going to miss you classroom too,” I confessed. I’ve always been fond of the art room from the colorful paintings, to the seasonal decorations, to the cluttered cabinets, to paint stained sinks, clay stained tables, and the wooden letters glued to the wall beneath the chalkboard. I even love the skeletal bird Mrs. Thomas took out of a vent in my 5th hour class in 2015. “This question is kind of fun,” I began, “What won’t you miss about Gallup High?” Mrs. Thomas chuckled and the students in my 1st hour ceramics class tuned in while they worked. “What won’t I miss?” Mrs. Thomas repeated the question. “I don’t like… I don’t like the system of teacher evaluations and observation days. Sometimes administration doesn’t realize each class is taught differently depending on circumstance and you can’t generalize things.” “What do you plan to do after you retire?” “Probably work hard,” Mrs. Thomas joked, “No, don’t say that… Golfing, gardening… And just enjoying time with my grandchildren.” I love my art teacher and sometimes forget she has a life outside of her classroom. She has a family and she’s a grandma. I know it doesn’t impact me, because I will be graduated, but future classes won’t have the art teacher I had. My final question was, “Did you enjoy teaching at Gallup High School?” “Yes, of course. If I have to leave a final word, it’s that I’m proud of it, proud of the school. I’m proud of the students and the staff, and I’m proud to be a part of it.” New Drama Group on the Sceneby Sage Addington '18 gallupARTS newsletter The Gallup Repertory Theatre is a recently formed group in the Gallup arts scene. The Gallup Rep is introducing themselves to the community with their 2018 lineup including The Frybread Queen by Native playwright Carolyn Dunn, a Performing Arts Festival, and a summer children's theater production, and a presentation of Dr. Faustus in the fall. The group held a meet-and-greet on February 9th. The meet-and-greet featured a raffle and a silent auction. Gallup Rep is currently seeking Native American actresses to audition for their production of The Frybread Queen. Overview: Three generations of Indian women come together for the funeral of a beloved son. The collision of personalities forces them to confront long-simmering tensions that threaten to tear them apart. Available roles: There are for available roles for 4 women of any Native American background. The age range is approximately 16-20,30-45, and 55-75. Audition Dates: February 18 and 19 at 6pm at the Gallup Cultural Center. Those auditioning may prepare a 1-2 minute piece to perform, but it’s not mandatory, as we will also provide readings from the script. For any additional information, contact Gallup Repertory Theater at [email protected] or 505-879-9835 (ask for Suzanne). Source: gallupARTS newsletter gallupArts Call to Native American ArtistsBackground: gallupARTS has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America grant to fund a Native American Guest Artist Program, involving a three-month paid residency and culminating month-long solo show. Overview: gallupARTS’ Native Artist-in-Residence program at ART123 Gallery in downtown Gallup will provide a Native artist from the greater Gallup region the opportunity to create original works of art responding to a relevant, community-based social justice issue/s (e.g., exposure deaths, environmental concerns, domestic violence, etc.). The residency will take place from May 1, 2018 through July 31, 2018 and involve open studio hours, artist-led youth workshops, artist talks and live demos. It will culminate in a solo show of the created work at ART123 Gallery during the month of August 2018. The selected artist will be offered a $4,200 honorarium, $1,000 materials stipend, $600 studio equipment budget and rent-free studio space for three months. Eligibility Requirements:
Download/print the Application by clicking here. Application deadline: Friday, March 16 at 5pm www.gallupARTS.org/Native-AIR Questions? Contact Rose at [email protected] or call 505-488-2136. Ambush! Art: Art and Literary MagazineAmbush! Is publishing their yearly art and literature magazine in April, and we want your submissions! Last year only four students made submissions and one teacher. The magazine still came out great, but this year we are hoping to include more Gallup High artists than in 2017. To allow total creative freedom, there is no limit to what you can submit (as long as it can be printed). Feel free to submit your drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, and short stories. There is also no limit to how much content you can submit, so go crazy. If you have art, we want to see it! Not only do we want your works, we want to know a little more about you. Who is the artist behind the art? It is completely optional, but if you want, you can choose to fill out a short questionnaire to go in your biography beside your artwork. The questionnaire will be left at the very bottom. If you want to submit any art or writing, you can do so in two ways. You can either physically drop off a copy of your work to Ms. Sweetwyne in room A202 or submit photos and documents to [email protected]. If you choose to submit any photos digitally, please send them in the highest resolution you can. If you choose to submit photographs of your work, please try to take the photos in the best lighting you can. If you have any questions regarding submissions or anything else, feel free to contact the newspaper. QuestionnaireQuestion: What is your name? Answer: Question: What grade are you in? Answer: Question: Why do you like art?/Why are you an artist? Answer: Question: What is your favorite media to work in? Answer: Question: What is your favorite content to create? Answer: Question: How long have you been practicing art? Answer: Question: What do you want to accomplish as an artist? Answer: WEEKLY POLLLast Week's Poll Results!Last week we asked students if they've ever eaten a Tide Pod and 50% of students said no and the other 50% said what?
Glee Star Dies From Suicideby Sage Addington '18
The actor was arrested three years ago after he showed his girlfriend child pornography on his computer; she reported him to the police. Salling’s career on Glee lasted six years and ended in 2015. On December 18th Salling pleaded guilty to a federal charge of possessing child pornography. Apparently, Salling had admitted to downloading 25,000 images and 600 videos of childpornography onto his computer. According to court documents, he had content depicting children as young as three years old being abused.In October 2017 Salling struck a plea deal in his case and was expected to face seven years in prison. Not only that, the actor would also have had to register as a sex offender, enter a treatment program, have no verbal/electronic contact with anyone under the age of 18, stay 100 feet away from places where there are children (schools, parks, public pools, playgrounds, etc), and pay $50,000 in restitution to each victim. In the final days leading up to his suicide, Mark’s lawyer had said he was “focused on accepting responsibility.” Mark Salling is the second cast member of Glee to have died. In 2013 Cory Monteith, Finn Hudson, died from a lethal mixture of heroin and alcohol. The star was 31 years old when he had accidentally overdosed on heroin. Mark Salling is also not the only Glee member to be charged with a crime, his ex-girlfriend Naya Rivera was charged with misdemeanor domestic battery in November 2017 for assaulting her husband. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/glee-star-mark-salling-dead-apparent-suicide-2-183521198.html http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/30/mark-salling-dead-suicide-dies/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2018/01/30/reports-glee-actor-mark-salling-who-pleaded-guilty-child-porn-found-dead/1079288001/ http://people.com/tv/mark-salling-dead-apparent-suicide-everything-we-know-child-porn-case/ https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/mark-salling-dead-glee-costars-celebs-react/ http://people.com/tv/inside-mark-salling-glee-days/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-mark-salling/glee-actor-mark-salling-35-dies-before-child-pornography-sentencing-idUSKBN1FJ2QO https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/26/entertainment/naya-rivera-arrested/index.html Ambush! Art: Art and Literary Magazine Ambush! Is publishing their yearly art and literature magazine in April, and we want your submissions! Last year only four students made submissions and one teacher. The magazine still came out great, but this year we are hoping to include more Gallup High artists than in 2017. To allow total creative freedom, there is no limit to what you can submit (as long as it can be printed). Feel free to submit your drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, and short stories. There is also no limit to how much content you can submit, so go crazy. If you have art, we want to see it! Not only do we want your works, we want to know a little more about you. Who is the artist behind the art? It is completely optional, but if you want, you can choose to fill out a short questionnaire to go in your biography beside your artwork. The questionnaire will be left at the very bottom. If you want to submit any art or writing, you can do so in two ways. You can either physically drop off a copy of your work to Ms. Sweetwyne in room A202 or submit photos and documents to [email protected]. If you choose to submit any photos digitally, please send them in the highest resolution you can. If you choose to submit photographs of your work, please try to take the photos in the best lighting you can. If you have any questions regarding submissions or anything else, feel free to contact the newspaper. QuestionnaireQuestion: What is your name? Answer: Question: What grade are you in? Answer: Question: Why do you like art?/Why are you an artist? Answer: Question: What is your favorite media to work in? Answer: Question: What is your favorite content to create? Answer: Question: How long have you been practicing art? Answer: Question: What do you want to accomplish as an artist? Answer: WEEKLY POLLLast Week's Poll Results!Last week we asked Ambush! Poll takers if they thought Kim Kardashian was a clone and 50% of poll takers said yes while the other 50% said they didn't care.
Restaurant Review: The Perfect Piccadillyby Sage Addington '18
https://www.facebook.com/pg/FUNNY-Navajo-MEMES-163300343833676/posts/?ref=page_internal Kim Kardashian Calvin Klein Clone?by Sage Addington '18
While people have been tearing photos up demanding to know whether or not the 20 year old star is pregnant, others have realized something a little strange… In an image where Kim is kneeling besides her sisters modelling black lingerie, some became seriously confused. Upon first glance the image is fine, but then more you start to focus, the more Kim starts to stand out. http://people.com/style/khloe-kardashian-talks-calvin-klein-campaign/ Fans are confused because that is supposed to be Kim Kardashian… But is it? The photograph looks like an Instagram model attempting to look like Kim perhaps Kim doesn’t look like herself because of some filtering and post-production photoshop, right? Others seem to disagree and have expressed their concerns on the internet. http://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/a15867098/kim-kardashian-lookalike-impersonator-calvin-klein-campaign/ https://twitter.com/Tamrinsummer/status/955811152713281537 https://twitter.com/xylotoo/status/955774535923634177 https://twitter.com/quenblackwell/status/955617455250001920 Ambush! Art: Art and Literary Magazine Ambush! Is publishing their yearly art and literature magazine in April, and we want your submissions! Last year only four students made submissions and one teacher. The magazine still came out great, but this year we are hoping to include more Gallup High artists than in 2017. To allow total creative freedom, there is no limit to what you can submit (as long as it can be printed). Feel free to submit your drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, and short stories. There is also no limit to how much content you can submit, so go crazy. If you have art, we want to see it! Not only do we want your works, we want to know a little more about you. Who is the artist behind the art? It is completely optional, but if you want, you can choose to fill out a short questionnaire to go in your biography beside your artwork. The questionnaire will be left at the very bottom. If you want to submit any art or writing, you can do so in two ways. You can either physically drop off a copy of your work to Ms. Sweetwyne in room A202 or submit photos and documents to [email protected]. If you choose to submit any photos digitally, please send them in the highest resolution you can. If you choose to submit photographs of your work, please try to take the photos in the best lighting you can. If you have any questions regarding submissions or anything else, feel free to contact the newspaper. QuestionnaireQuestion: What is your name? Answer: Question: What grade are you in? Answer: Question: Why do you like art?/Why are you an artist? Answer: Question: What is your favorite media to work in? Answer: Question: What is your favorite content to create? Answer: Question: How long have you been practicing art? Answer: Question: What do you want to accomplish as an artist? Answer: WEEKLY POLLLast Week's Poll Results!Last week we asked Ambush! Poll takers if they thought Shane Dawson was a pedophile and 100% of poll takers said they thought Dawson was just making a joke.
Is Shane Dawson a Pedophile?by Alizay Chavez '21
Dawson made a 15 minute video apologizing for the things that he said and did (LaCroix, 2018). Shane repeatedly said that he was not a pedophile and that the accusation were just “disgusting.” According to Dawson, "I was doing [things] that were racially insensitive, homophobic, fat-shaming, I was doing some [messed] up comedy stuff that I'm not proud of. I've changed so much as a person." He was so insecure with himself he didn’t know how to make “smart jokes.” All he wanted to do was to make people laugh. In the podcast that Pop Blast used, Dawson was talking about a six year old that he had met when he was taking a selfie for Instagram. He looked her up on Instagram and he talked about that on his podcast. When he mentioned her he called her “sexy.” Many people were not okay with it. There is a rumor going around that Logan Paul’s team paid Pop Blast to create the video (Heintz, 2018). This may or may not be true. Pop Blast has been deleted from YouTube due to all this drama. http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/shane-dawson-pedophile-claims-151090 http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/jeffrey-levin-logan-paul-151361 New to Gallup: Maloney's Nutritionby Lucia Kezele '18
Lead Singer of The Cranberries Pronounced Deadby Sage Addington '18
Last year O’Riordan told the Guardian the hit song Linger was inspired by “being dumped, publicly, at the disco.” She claimed, “Everything’s so dramatic when you’re 17, so I poured it into the song.” The Cranberries had so much more to talk about than love, however. Linger came out in 1993 on their album Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? 1994’s No Need to Argue followed, showing the deeper side to the band and Dolores’s voice. The song Zombie was written in the wake of a 1993 IRA bombing in Warrington that resulted in the death of three year old Johnathan Ball and twelve year old Tim Parry. After No Need to Argue, The Cranberries released three more albums before taking a break in 2008. While The Cranberries was on hiatus Dolores released two solo albums: Are You Listening? (2007) and No Baggage (2009). The band reformed in 2009 initially just to perform live, but eventually released new content. In April 2017 the band released Something Else that includes acoustic versions of songs such as Linger. In regards to the bands final tour, O’Riordan told the Irish Times, “Hopefully, after this tour we’ll write new material, but at the same token I genuinely don’t expect to be as successful as we once were. The 1990s was our time for that, I think -- we were hungry and on fire. Now, we’re older, we have kids, and I know we’ll never get those earlier moments back again. Not that I want them.”
Dolores O’Riordan was not just a voice beloved from the 90s, she was so much more. Don Burton, tour manager for Duran Duran, was married to Dolores for over twenty years until their divorce in 2014. O’riordan was a mother of three and had told the Irish News, “The best time in my life was the years spent at home with my family. I love being a mum. My kids don’t see me as a famous person, or have any kind of expectation; I’m just their mom.” The mother of three left behind a twenty year old son, and a sixteen year old and twelve year old daughter. Dolores O’Riordan will be missed dearly by her family, friends, and millions of people scattering the globe. Dolores left behind a legacy and a voice that cannot be replaced by anyone. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/dolores-oriordan-dead-cranberries-age-singer-frontwoman-cause-of-death-a8160581.html http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/15/cranberries-dolores-oriordan-dead-dies/ http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/dolores-o-riordan-lead-singer-cranberries-dead-46-article-1.3757938 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/15/cranberries-singer-dolores-oriordan-dies-aged-46 Do You Believe in Bloody Mary?by Alizay Chavez '21
mysterious unseen force. The parents followed her and screamed at her. It seemed like she couldn’t hear her. Supposedly there was a light at the end of the forest. According to them Mary Worth was holding a wand, pointing it towards the Miller’s house and the Miller’s daughter continued to follow the light. After the villagers found out what Mary Worth was doing, they followed her into the forests with guns and pitchforks. Mary Worth broke the spell and ran to the forest, but she wasn’t quick enough. Miller fired his gun and the bullet hit Worth in the side of her hip. The villagers captured her. She kicked and screamed (Haunted Rooms, 2017). She was trying to get away from them. She was tied to a stake and a bonfire was built so the witch would be gone for good. As she was burning she set a curse on the villagers and told them that whoever dared to say her name in a mirror, she would come back for them. Her spirit would be summoned and she will seek her revenge on them. Another theory about the origin of Bloody Mary is that she was Queen Mary I. Queen Mary reigned from July of 1553 to November 1558.She’s better known as Bloody Mary due to the things she enjoyed doing while she reigned. Queen Mary I was responsible for burning at least 300 protestants at stake in order to make England more Catholic. This earned her the nickname of Bloody Mary. She even pretended to be pregnant (Linic, 2017). Since she couldn’t get pregnant she faked it for months. When the baby was due Queen Mary I was bedridden and the doctors got ready for labor, but the baby never came. Soon after that Queen Mary thought that she was pregnant again. This time she kept the pregnancy secret. Once again it was a false alarm. This ended up killing Queen Mary I in the process. Many people play Bloody Mary as game. If the game actually works the consequences can be deadly. If you play the game the following things may happen: your eyes may be ripped out, claw marks on your body, disappearing and living in the mirror with her for eternity, seeing the witch, being driven insane, claw marks on your face, or death. There are also many different variations of the game. One way to play is calling out “I stole your baby Bloody Mary” into the mirror. This is referring to Queen Mary I. Another way is to say “I killed your baby, Mary Worth” into the mirror. This variation is referring to Mary Worth. The next variation is calling out “I believe in Mary Worth” in the mirror. This also refers to Mary Worth. The last variation of the game is to turn around one to one hundred times in a mirror and blowing out the candles (this is optional). Then calling out to the witch (Castle Of Spirits, 2018). If you decide to play this you really want to be careful well doing it. There are some real life consequences of playing this game. According to many people when you play Bloody Mary you are summoning a demon. Obviously summoning a demon is a bad thing to do. It allows bad spirits and negative energy to enter your home. If this happens many things can go wrong. For example you or someone you love can get possessed by that spirit (if you believe in it). Other consequences of playing Bloody Mary is seeing a corpse in the mirror. People who have played the game has said that they have seen an “apparition [that] takes the form of a corpse.” This can leave the kids scarred for life. Seeing a corpse can have psychological effects on a child. They can develop PTSD. PTSD also known as post traumatic stress disorder is a mental health problem that people develop after they witness a life threatening event that happened to them. Last week I did a survey on 21 students. Out of these 21 students only 38.10% believed in Bloody Mary. 61.90% of those 21 students do not believe in Bloody Mary. Only 42.86% of those students knew something about the origin of Bloody Mary and 57.14% didn’t know anything about it. If you decide to play this game, remember to be extremely careful well doing it. https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/the-bloody-mary-legend https://omgfacts.com/the-terrifying-true-story-behind-bloody-mary-345e4126f7e http://www.castleofspirits.com/bloodymary.html https://thoughtcatalog.com/lorenzo-jensen-iii/2015/10/13-blood-curdling-accounts-from-people-who-were-brave-enough-to-play-bloody-mary/ Yíiyáh, Skinwalkers!by Sage Addington '18
There are many different Skinwalker stories, but one very interesting story comes from Rehoboth student Talon Tsosie. I remember Talon had told me of his father’s Skinwalker encounter before, so I asked again just to be reminded. It was 2006 and Talon’s father was driving back to Gallup from Chinle, AZ late at night. The main road was closed so Mr. Tsosie was forced to take a dirt road back home. While driving, he saw a man wearing all black and a hoodie on a hill as he passed by. When Talon’s dad looked in his rearview mirror, the man that had been standing on the hill was chasing his car. The car must have been going at least 50 miles an hour and the running man was catching up to the car. Nervous, Talon’s dad sped up. Eventually Mr. Tosie thought he outran the figure when suddenly, an eerie feeling seeped in and beside the driver’s window was the hooded man, running 60, and then 70 miles an hour… The hooded figure had the head of a horse and the body of a man. Scared to death, Talon’s father drove as fast as he could until he reached the main road. Upon leaving the dirt road, the horseman stopped chasing the vehicle. Skinwalker stories have attracted the attention of many, including the popular TV series Ghost Adventures. In June 2017 the Ghost Adventures team came to New Mexico to investigate the Skinwalker phenomenon. The Ghost Adventures team wanted to make an episode in Ojo Amarillo Canyon, or Skinwalker Canyon, and received the film rights from the Navajo Nation. The Travel Channel told the Indian Country Media Network, “We can confirm: The producers of “Ghost Adventures” received permission from the Navajo Nation Film Office’s Office of Broadcast Services to shoot in Ojo Amarillo and Upper Fruitland, New Mexico.” Although the TV stars got the approval to film, many Navajos do not approve of the episode they aired. My friend, Gallup High student, Peyton Skeet was furious with the episode saying, “They are so stupid! They were looking for the Skinwalker like they were looking for ghosts!” The Ghost Adventures team also pissed off others by influencing stereotypes: the episode featured shots of a staged fire, with an animal skull, feathers and a bullet. Navajo actor Loren Anthony told the Indian Country Media Network, in reference to a woman that performed a ceremony on Zak Bagans and his crew, “No one that I know is called Walking Thunder on our rez. I gave the Ghost Adventures episode a 10 out of 10 for shaking my head. I enjoyed every over-exaggerated minute of it.” It’s easy to imagine the legend of the Skinwalker was tarnished by the Ghost Adventures team in that they accidentally made the legend sound cheesy. But how many people believe in Skinwalkers? How many people know which culture the myth originated from? I interviewed 0.05% of the Gallup High student population and found out that 72% of the freshman believe in Skinwalkers while 28% don’t; 28% of freshman know the origin, while 72% don’t. A whopping 80% of sophomores believe in Skinwalkers while 20% don’t; 60% of sophomore students know the origin while 40% don’t. Tied with the freshman, 72% of Gallup High juniors believe in Skinwalkers while 28% don’t; the difference between the freshman is 54% of the juniors know the origin of Skinwalkers while 46% don’t. The senior class seems to believe in Skinwalkers the most out of all of the classes with 85% of the class believing in Skinwalkers and 15% not. 80% of the senior class know the origin of the legend while 20% don’t. I also interview 0.04% of Gallup High’ teachers. 75% of Gallup High teachers, including Navajo Teacher Mr. Nez, don’t believe in Skinwalkers, while a measly 25% do. 100% of teachers interviewed knew that the Skinwalker legend was of Navajo origin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker https://thoughtcatalog.com/jacob-geers/2016/10/14-facts-about-skinwalkers-that-will-100-scare-the-shit-out-of-you/ http://www.navajolegends.org/navajo-skinwalker-legend/ https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/culture/arts-entertainment/many-outraged-ghost-adventures-navajo-skinwalker-episode-another-episode-sat/ Ambush! Art: Art and Literary Magazine Ambush! Is publishing their yearly art and literature magazine in April, and we want your submissions! Last year only four students made submissions and one teacher. The magazine still came out great, but this year we are hoping to include more Gallup High artists than in 2017. To allow total creative freedom, there is no limit to what you can submit (as long as it can be printed). Feel free to submit your drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, and short stories. There is also no limit to how much content you can submit, so go crazy. If you have art, we want to see it! Not only do we want your works, we want to know a little more about you. Who is the artist behind the art? It is completely optional, but if you want, you can choose to fill out a short questionnaire to go in your biography beside your artwork. The questionnaire will be left at the very bottom. If you want to submit any art or writing, you can do so in two ways. You can either physically drop off a copy of your work to Ms. Sweetwyne in room A202 or submit photos and documents to [email protected]. If you choose to submit any photos digitally, please send them in the highest resolution you can. If you choose to submit photographs of your work, please try to take the photos in the best lighting you can. If you have any questions regarding submissions or anything else, feel free to contact the newspaper. QuestionnaireQuestion: What is your name? Answer: Question: What grade are you in? Answer: Question: Why do you like art?/Why are you an artist? Answer: Question: What is your favorite media to work in? Answer: Question: What is your favorite content to create? Answer: Question: How long have you been practicing art? Answer: Question: What do you want to accomplish as an artist? Answer: WEEKLY POLLLast Week's Poll Results!Last week we asked Ambush! Readers if they thought Logan Paul's YouTube channel should be deleted from the internet and 25% of poll takers said that was a bit far, while 75% said his channel should be deleted.
Short Films: A Brief History and Reviewby Alizay Chavez '21
Nathanael and Christina Matanick created a short film called ReMoved. ReMoved focuses on child abuse and foster homes and has two parts to it. A young girl named Zoe and her brother were taken away from their parents. Their dad was abusive and beat their mom. It got to the point where the mother got her parental rights taken away from her. Throughout ReMoved, Zoe suffered from depression and anger issues. She use to yell and hit her foster mom. All she wanted was her baby brother. Her life started to get better when her foster mom also got to take care of Zoe’s brother, but there was a family that wanted to adopt him. One day when Zoe was at school the family that wanted the baby brother adopted him. It broke Zoe’s heart. Her anger outburst got worse, but as time went on she got better and started to have a better life. Overall the short film was amazing. Christina Matanick is an excellent screenplay writer. If you want, you can watch ReMoved at: Young actor’s project also produces many short films. It also gives teeanagers and children the oppurtunity to act in films as well as plays and get discovered by many other agencies. If you our between the ages 5 and 18 you can join the summer workshop. They also have classes that teach the students anything that they would need. https://www.biography.com/people/charlie-chaplin-9244327 http://www.history.com/news/the-lumiere-brothers-pioneers-of-cinema http://www.shortreelz.com/interesting-facts-about-short-films/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvqRI1Wjn14 Ambush! Art: Art and Literary Magazine Ambush! Is publishing their yearly art and literature magazine in April, and we want your submissions! Last year only four students made submissions and one teacher. The magazine still came out great, but this year we are hoping to include more Gallup High artists than in 2017. To allow total creative freedom, there is no limit to what you can submit (as long as it can be printed). Feel free to submit your drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, and short stories. There is also no limit to how much content you can submit, so go crazy. If you have art, we want to see it! Not only do we want your works, we want to know a little more about you. Who is the artist behind the art? It is completely optional, but if you want, you can choose to fill out a short questionnaire to go in your biography beside your artwork. The questionnaire will be left at the very bottom. If you want to submit any art or writing, you can do so in two ways. You can either physically drop off a copy of your work to Ms. Sweetwyne in room A202 or submit photos and documents to [email protected]. If you choose to submit any photos digitally, please send them in the highest resolution you can. If you choose to submit photographs of your work, please try to take the photos in the best lighting you can. If you have any questions regarding submissions or anything else, feel free to contact the newspaper. QuestionnaireQuestion: What is your name? Answer: Question: What grade are you in? Answer: Question: Why do you like art?/Why are you an artist? Answer: Question: What is your favorite media to work in? Answer: Question: What is your favorite content to create? Answer: Question: How long have you been practicing art? Answer: Question: What do you want to accomplish as an artist? Answer: Op-Ed: YouTuber Seeks Views by Capitalizing on Suicideby Sage Addington '18 Have you ever seen a dead body on the internet? If you’ve stayed away from sketchy sites, you most likely haven’t, but dead bodies can be found on sites as simple as YouTube. Unfortunately, to kick off 2018, popular YouTube star Logan Paul broke YouTube’s community guidelines and filmed a corpse in the Japanese Aokigahara Forest. The forest is more commonly known as Suicide Forest. The video received 6 million views before the YouTuber took the video off his channel after receiving negative feedback on social media. Logan Paul has 15 million YouTube subscribers. Most of Paul’s audience is fairly young. Logan Paul’s video was titled “We found a body in the Japanese Suicide Forest” and featured a thumbnail of Paul wearing a Toy Story alien hat and the dead corpse in the background. The video opens up with Logan Paul claiming the video to not be click bait and instead to be “the most real video” he’s ever posted on his channel. The star went on to say, “I will say, before you watch, this is graphic. I think this definitely marks a moment in YouTube history because I’m pretty sure this has never, hopefully, happened to anyone on YouTube ever. Now with that said, buckle the f**k up, because you’re never going to see anything like this again.”
“Yo, are you alive?” when the body was clearly hanging from a tree. The crew had filmed so closely, you could see the blue coming out in the fingers of the victim. Logan Paul remarked after filming the body, “I’m so sorry about this, Logang, this was supposed to be a fun vlog.” A fun vlog? What kind of person searched for a dead body for fun? There is no way Paul and his friends went into the Suicide Forest not expecting to stumble upon a dead body. Most sane people criticized Logan Paul for uploading such inappropriate content and were outraged when Paul’s first apology did not seem genuine. Logan’s apology comes off arrogant as he makes comments like, I didn't do it for views. I get views. In the apology, Paul talks about himself a lot and inappropriately includes a hashtag and emoji at the bottom. This was Logan’s first apology: Logan later uploaded a video to his channel titled “So Sorry.” and did a slightly better job at apologizing. In the 1:44 video Paul said, “I should never have posted the video. I should have put the cameras down and stopped recording what we were going through. There were a lot of things I should have done differently, but I didn’t. And for that, from the bottom of my heart, I am sorry. I want to apologize to the internet. I want to apologize to everyone who has seen the video. I want to apologize to anyone who has been affected or touched by mental illness, or depression, or suicide, but most importantly, I want to apologize to the victim and his family. For my fans who are defending my actions: please don’t. They do not deserve to be defended.” Here is YouTuber ImAllexx reacting to fans defending Logan Paul (Warning, three incidents of profanity): YouTube took nearly a week to react to Logan Paul’s inappropriate behavior. Before the internet star had taken his video off the streaming platform, Paul’s video had made it into YouTube’s top ten trending. For not responding YouTube received backlash and has since removed Paul’s channel from Google Preferred and have placed his original projects on hold. Here is the statement YouTube released: Many of you have been frustrated with our lack of communication recently. You’re right to be. You deserve to know what’s going on. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/logan-paul-youtube-video-suicide-forest-ad-statement-latest-news-update-a8152891.html https://vimeo.com/250486740 https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/9/16871182/logan-paul-suicide-video-youtube-statement https://twitter.com/LoganPaul/status/948026294066864128 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwZT7T-TXT0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWz3W28YKqU WEEKLY POLLLast Year's Poll Results!Last year in December we asked Ambush! Readers if they believe they may have stumbled upon fake Native American jewelry and 50% yes while the other 50% said possibly.
Feature: The Blue Whale Challengeby Alizay Chavez '21 The Blue Whale Challenge, also known as, the Blue Whale Game is a suicide game causing many young deaths. The game lasts about 50 days and is runned by a team of curators that tells players what they have to do. After finishing a task they players must share a photo with the curators. On the 50th day players must commit suicide, At first the tasks are easy, but as time goes on it gets harder and harder (Express Web Desk, 2017). No one actually know how the players and curators keep in contact. Some sites say that they use instagram and facebook to contact curators. They use hashtags like #bluewhalechallenge or #i_am_whale (Express Web Desk, 2017). Other sites say they use the website VK.com. Once the game begins there is no way out. Some tasks players are asked to do is to carve a quote on their arm or hand. Even drawing a whale on a piece of paper. The 30th task to the 50th task get darker (Dwilson, 2017). At first many people believed that the blue whale challenge was a hoax, but many are now starting to believe it. At least 4 deaths were caused by the blue whale challenge in the United States. Outside of the United States the blue whale challenge caused about 130 deaths (Dwilson, 2017). The Blue Whale Challenge originated from Russia. A 21 year old man by the name of Philipp Budeikin founded the blue whale challenge. The Blue Whale Challenge started in the year 2013 on the website VK.com and was used to attract children.This past year Budeikin was charged with at least 16 schoolgirl deaths caused by the game. He was sentenced with 3 years in prison (Mann, 2017). After being asked about pushing the girls to their death, Budeikin’s response was, “Yes, I truly was doing that. Don’t worry, you’ll understand they were dying happy. I was giving them what they didn’t have in real life; warmth, understanding connections.” He also said that he was “cleansing society” and that he was getting rid of “biological waste.” According to psychologists, “[these] young girls have most likely fallen in love with Budeikin because they were lacking love in their own lives from their parents and [he] provided them with the attention [they needed]” (Mann, 2017). A 26 year old was also taken into custody for at least 30 teenage girls deaths, On November 4th a 17 year old boy was rescued from a railroad. He was trying to kill himself due to the blue whale challenge. The police found a notebook filled with many different ways that the boy plan to kill himself. For example they found a page where it said that he wanted to hang himself (Mann, 2017). The police all around the world have been reporting other cases like this. Isaiah Gonzalez a 15 year old boy killed himself in July of 2017. He lived streamed his suicide on facebook. It can still be seen on the internet. Gonzalez hung himself in his closet. He used a shoe to hold up his phone. No one saw his suicide coming. His family and friends described him as a caring and sweet person. He had just joined JROTC and was having a great time(Dwilson, 2017). A 16 year old girl from Atlanta Georgia also killed herself because of the blue whale challenge. Her family now realized that the pictures she was drawing gave them some hints that she was playing the game. She use to draw whales for her art classes. Her mother also said that she was doing weird things like sitting on the roof (Dwilson, 2017). Chase a 12 year old boy was another victim of the blue whale challenge. He took his life in August of 2017. His family loved him to death, but he was bullied a lot in school. As the law enforcement were investigating his death they found out that two other girls from his school were playing the game as well. They are now getting the help that they need (Dwilson, 2017). Natasha Cadena was the oldest of the group that were killed in the United States. She was 32 when she died. She committed suicide in July. The people around her said that she did hurtful things to herself. She used to cut herself and video taped it. She would send those videos to a woman named “Loretta” a woman from France. Family members also said that Cadena also sent “Loretta” money. Cadena hung herself and that is where police found her phone. This is how the police found out about “Loretta” (Dwilson, 2017). Some victims that weren’t from the United States was Rina Palenkova. Palenkova had taken a selfie right before stepping in front of a train (Dwilson, 2017). A student who was participating in the blue whale challenge, but was saved by his family said, “the manipulation was so deeply psychological that it was hard to say no” (Dwilson, 2017). All of the victims of the blue whale challenge have been manipulated in some way. Here are some signs that most players and victims have shown that they are playing the game. If someone you know starts sharing posts with these following hashtags: #f57, #f40, or #imawhale. Beware if they start looking for a whale. That is a huge sign that they want to join the game. If someone wakes up at 4:20 to do unusual tasks is another sign. Self harming is another sign. If they carve yes into their body is one of the things that their “whale” might ask them to do. Also if they all of sudden start standing on the edge of a roof or a bridge. If they are physically hurting themselves can also be a sign, but that one is tricky. With that sign they could be playing the game or there is another reason to why they are hurting themselves (Dwilson, 2017). Some of these signs could be a sign that someone is playing the game.. For example 4:20 is normally associated with weed. The sign about them doing weird things at 4:20 could also mean that they like weed. If they do more than one of these signs that is a huge clue that they may be playing the blue whale challenge, so beware of these signs (Dwilson, 2017). You might be able to save someone. According to psychologists teenagers are more vulnerable to these types of challenges because it is on the internet . They feel like it is a place that they can do anything. There is no restriction to what they do when they are on social media or any other part of the internet (IANS, 2017). Teenagers normally love taking risks. The Blue whale challenge gives them an opportunity to take huge risks. Some teenagers have really low self-esteem. The Blue Whale challenge helps them feel like they are worth something. Their curator shows them the love and attention they need for their own survival (IANS, 2017). To teenagers that have low self-esteem the Blue Whale challenge gives them a source of inspiration and that is why they would do anything for their “whale.” These teenagers are lost in a place where they are vulnerable . They are also lonely and crying out for the attention that they want. The “whales” give them the attention that they need (IANS, 2017). One way that psychologist are telling parents to do is to talk to your children when they are vulnerable. They also want parents to talk to their children about the dangers of challenges like the Blue Whale challenge. There are many opinions about the Blue Whale challenge. Many believe that it is real and others believe that it is a myth. According to the website xnspy the blue whale challenge is true. According to them the number of suicides caused by the challenge is increasing. They also said that at least 130 deaths in Russia are linked to the Blue Whale Challenge, but according to the investigation there are no reliable links to the game. According to Radio Free Europe, the teens that committed suicide “were simply attracted to this subculture (XNspy, 2017).” This might be true, but what if they were to scared to stop the game? Once you start the game there is no stopping it. According to Sarah Elsesser the author of the article, Is ‘Blue Whale Challenge’ real? What Parents Need to Know Now, said that even if the Blue Whale challenge is a hoax, it shines a light on the way social media influences young teenagers to do things that aren’t always right. There is no clear evidence that the Blue Whale challenge is real. Here are some useful links for you to use if you are struggling with mental health issues: National Suicide Prevention Hotline 1-800-273-8255 https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ Mental Health Hotline 1-877-264-4324 https://www.nowmentalhealth.com/sov.php?n=8885089446 Crisis Text line Text HOME to 741741 https://www.crisistextline.org/ Feature: The Fake Native American Jewelry Tradeby Sage Addington '18 Wu Gaun-Zhong once said, “If you plagiarize others’ techniques, you steal their emotions and tell your spectators a lie with your work. Works as such equal zero.” In the art world, art thievery is one of the greatest obstacles to overcome. When someone steals your art you are at a loss of credit, appreciation, and depending, a loss of income. For many native artists, their artwork is their economic and cultural livelihood. When your art is your livelihood and your livelihood is stolen and undermined by cheap imitations, it is devastating. Jewelry is not the market it used to be, people do not care about owning authentic jewelry. When I was a little girl, I remember my grandma making jewelry in her crowded little bedroom. I remember watching her and accidentally kicking over tins of polished stone beads, and then having to re-organize them. I remember being my grandma’s little helper and attempting to sell her products at the flea markets in Gallup, Window Rock, and Yatahee. I remember being awful at pushing merchandise, but my grandma being pretty good at it. For this feature, I asked my grandma why she had stopped making and selling her crafts and she told me, “Jewelry just doesn’t sell.” I remember mostly selling clothes and used toys. My grandma sat down beside me in the dining room and explained that she loved making jewelry, but even her friends who always made a killing, were struggling. In her words, “you can buy plastic that looks exactly the same.” In an awful way, she is right. Why drop $60 on a pair of earrings that you could have for $5? Cheap blue plastic can replace the sky-blue turquoise stones the Navajo once thought were shattered pieces of the rich colored sky. Zinc can replace beautifully molded sterling silver. Instead of authentic stones and metals hand crafted by the hands of hard working artisans, you can easily find machine-made imitation carnelian, coral, onyx, copper, and silver. However, plastic cannot replace the food one needs to eat to survive and the bills that need to be paid. Plastic cannot replace the tired hands that gently place the important stones in metal holds. Plastic cannot replace a culture’s integrity behind an artwork. Plastic cannot replace a culture. Plagiarizing Native American jewelry and design is appropriation and steals from already struggling communities. Appropriation is defined as the act of stealing something for one’s own use, without the owner’s permission. Artists who work very hard and are deeply connected with their culture must be insulted by cheap replicas, made without the same soul they put into their work. The stealing of designs from tribes has caused communities that depend on the jewelry trade to struggle immensely. Approximately $1 billion a year in fake Indian arts and crafts is stolen from Indigenous peoples. According to the Indian Country Media Network, approximately up to 80% of indigenous art on the market is FAKE. According to an article by the New York Times, Brazilians, Nigerians and Pakistanis have weaved copies of Apache, Navajo, and Pima baskets. Reportedly Mexicans weave imitation Navajo blankets and the Chinese carve animal fetishes. Thai workers make imitation jewelry, and Filipino workers “specialize” in Hopi kachina dolls and Zuni Inlaid jewelry. Most Indian art that is on the market is not even made by Indigenous people. The United States government has tried to make an Act to help ensure the buyers of Indian arts and crafts are getting authentic products, calling it the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990. The Act entails that it is illegal to misrepresent a product as made by an Indigenous American if it is not. In order for a product to be marketed using the term “Indian,” “American Indian,” “Native American,” etc. the creator must be either a member of a state or federally-recognized tribe, or be an individual that is certified by a tribe as a nonmember Indian artisan. If someone is caught having violated the law, their first violation could end up in fines up to $250,000 and jail terms up to five years. Repeated offenses can face fines up to $1 million and a sentence of 15 years in jail. Although it is against the law, many native artist still have to fight hard to protect their art and name. A recent case in October hits close to home. The owner of a few Old Town Albuquerque Jewelry Stores pleaded guilty to fraudulently selling “Native American-Made” jewelry, that was actually Filipino-Made. Nael Ali, owner of the shop, reportedly sold numerous pieces of fake Native American jewelry to undercover officers such as rings, earrings, bracelets and pendants; he had been representing them as by Native Americans from tribes such as the Navajo Nation and Zuni Pueblo. Luckily, the undercover officers were able to bust the faux jewelry handler. The two stores Ali owned that were busted for fraudulent jewelry were Gallery 8 and Galleria Azul. As stated earlier, countries that aren’t American are creating the counterfeits. The communities hit the hardest by the fake native jewelry trade are the Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni tribes. The Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni combined account for 90% of all Southwest Indian jewelry sold. In communities like Zuni, the jewelry trade is a main source of income. I attempted to get ahold of the Zuni trading post Turquoise Village and ask them a few questions, but was told that they are currently off work for the holidays. I wanted to know how many artists the business employs, whether or not is is hard to spot fake arts and crafts, whether or not counterfeits have negatively impacted the market, and what role jewelry makers play in Zuni’s community, economically. Unfortunately, my questions were not able to answered, but I was able to talk to Gina Bowekaty briefly. I was told that since Turquoise Village is located in the center of the village, the business employs many artists, and the manager Elaine has an easier time telling the difference between real and counterfeit art. Native arts and crafts are sold everywhere from tourist stores in gas stations, to art galleries, so it can be hard determining where to buy authentic jewelry and know that your money is going straight to the artist. It helps to buy jewelry from an established dealer who can give you a written guarantee or written verification of authenticity. If possible, get a receipt that includes all the “need to know” information like the metal used, stones used, and whether or not it was handmade by an Indian artisan. Some native artists sell inexpensive souvenir types, but typically authentic, high-quality jewelry can be expensive. As far as appearance goes, well-crafted jewelry does not have wavering lines or lopsided designs. Designs that are often stamped onto silver come out crisp, but imitations are often blurry. Make sure to look for an artist’s “hallmark,” symbol, or signature, as it is used to identify their work. If you come into contact with some Indian art that is not authentic, what do you do? The right thing to do, is not ignore it. Authentic native arts and crafts compete daily with the fraudulent ones and the purchasement of faux art not only harms one particular seller, it harms the overall Indian art/craft market, and threatens the livelihood of artisans and craftspeople. Plagiarized counterfeits hurt small communities in large ways. Plus, wouldn’t you be witnessing, or even supporting a crime? The Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB) receives and refers valid complaints about violations of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act to the FBI and to the Department of Justice for legal action. To file a complaint under the Act, call the Indian Arts and Crafts Board or the U.S Department of Interior at 1-888-ART-FAKE (1-888-278-3253). You can write the Indian Arts and Crafts Board at [email protected], or 1849 C Street, N.W., MS 2528-MIB, Washington, D.C. 20240. If you choose to complain to the IACB, you should include:
Stolen jewelry designs are worse than tank tops with “Navajo rug designs” on them, and hipsters dancing with headdresses at music festivals. Too many people are being ripped off, and too many people are losing respect for handcrafted jewelry. Jewelry making is a delicate art and is spiritual to some; for something of that importance to be desecrated, it genuinely hurts. For the sake of people trying to make an honest living and for the sake of people doing what they love, when you buy Indian arts and crafts, check to see if they are authentic, and report the seller if otherwise. https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/owner-old-town-albuquerque-jewelry-stores-pleads-guilty-fraudulently-selling-filipino http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/02/us/sales-of-indian-crafts-rise-and-so-do-fakes.html https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0179-buying-american-indian-arts-and-crafts https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/politics/millions-fake-native-art-shark-infested-waters/ https://www.doi.gov/iacb WEEKLY POLLLast Week's Poll Results!Last week we asked Ambush! Poll takers if they knew the origin of Christmas and 100% of survey takers said they did.
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