Fw: Raiders Celebrate Native American Heritage

[Sal Camarillo]

--- On Wed, 11/11/09, Sal Camarillo <sal.ca...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Sal Camarillo <sal.ca...@yahoo.com> Subject: Raiders Celebrate Native American Heritage To: "sal camarillo" <sal.ca...@yahoo.com> Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 7:21 PM Several activities are scheduled for this Sunday's game... The Oakland Raiders will pay tribute to Native American Heritage Month this Sunday when the Silver and Black take on the Kansas City Chiefs at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The celebration includes a KTNN radio broadcast in the Navajo language, an on-field ceremony to honor Navajo Code Talker and Former Leader of the Navajo Nation Peter MacDonald and a performance by the Native American dance group – Native Boogie and Beats.   “We salute the Navajo Nation and the Navajo Code Talkers and we are proud to broadcast Raider games in Navajo for the fifth consecutive season,” said Raiders Chief Executive Amy Trask. “We are committed to reaching our global fan base in a variety of languages and through a variety of multimedia options. Broadcasting our games in Navajo allows us to do this and also presents another opportunity to preserve the Navajo language and to salute the Navajo Code Talkers.”   Native Boogie and Beats will welcome fans with a traditional dance performance at the Coliseum BART entrance gate. The dancers will celebrate the beauty and pageantry of Native American social dance and singing styles commonly viewed at Pow Wows.   During pre-game ceremonies, the Raiders will honor MacDonald for his contributions to the US Armed Forces by serving as a Code Talker during World War II. The Code Talkers are an elite Marine unit whose unbreakable code was instrumental in WW II.       Click the link below to read the rest of the article, use your back button to return to this page:       http://www.raiders.com/news/article-1/Raiders-Celebrate-Native-American-Heritage/ab19127a-540b-4875-b2a8-7eb1546b62d5       Material appearing here is distributed without profit or monitory gain to those who have expressed an interest in receiving the material for research and educational purposes. This is in accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. section 107.. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html