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2D April 15,1984 Lincoln, Sunday Journal and Star NcDirttlk9 Me links HziIbeQ modeFim wofM. World of women i-y- I 0 f. By Katie Riley Native American activist, scholar, painter, writer, teacher, feminist, mother and grandmother Woesha Cloud North is almost apologetic that she doesn't have enough time for more interests. "I wish I could throw myself into more activities, but I'm just drawn into too many directions at the moment," she says with genuine regret North, 65, assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, seems to have been busy all of her life. Born in Wichita, Kan, where her parents founded a school for Indian boys, she developed an early interest in art and education.

Her father was born in a wigwam on Nebraska's Winnebago reservation; her mother, a half-Chippewa, hailed from the White Earth reservation in Minnesota. Both highly educated her father held a master's degree in anthropology from Yale and her mother was a schoolteacher they insisted that their daughter receive the best education possible. Today, North holds a bachelor's degree in art history from Vassar, master's degrees from Ohio and Stanford and a doctorate from UNL. She was the only Native American student at Vassar, where she graduated in 1940. After graduation, she signed on with the U.S.

Indian Service as an apprentice teacher in arts and crafts. She soon married, had five children and moved to California, where her non-Indian husband first studied and then taught at Stanford. Traveled to powwows Hoping to teach her children about their Native American heritage, she traveled with them to powwows across the country. She also became increasingly active in the Native American community in the San Francisco Bay area, especially with Indian artist groups and the Native American Women's Action Council In 1969, North joined more than 80 Native Americans occupying Alcatraz Island, the former penal colony in San Francisco Bay. Living in the damp and derelict guards quarters, the Indians hoped to establish a center for Native American studies, a spiritual center, an ecology center and an Indian training school North spent her weekdays on the island, teaching the children at the experimental All Tribes Elementary SchooL The mornings were spent on core subjects such as reading .4) and arithmetic while the afternoons were devoted lo Native American crafts, native dancing and storytelling, she said.

On weekends North commuted by tug boat to her family. Political pressure and lack of fresh water eventually forced the Indians to abandon Alcatraz, North said. Nevertheless, she considers the non-violent occupation a success. "It was such a beautiful dream," she remembers. North came to Lincoln in 1975, shortly before her 33-year marriage ended in divorce.

She said she chose to pursue her doctorate at UNL because it appealed to her Midwestern heritage, and because she had happened to find an old photograph of her father in the Nebraska Historical Society archives. 'An omen' "I took that as an omen. Psychologically, it helped verify a feeling I'd held for a year," she said. North said the Native American literature class she teaches attracts few Indians, possibly because so few are enrolled at UNL. Nevertheless, she finds that she has become something of a role model and mentor to the university's small Indian population.

"I take it very seriously. I try to be here for them," she said. "It's very important for them to see someone who keeps in touch with the tribe and yet functions in the fast-paced, modern world," she said. In 1980 North was awarded a fellowship from the National Research Council and the Ford Foundation to develop the manuscript for an illustrated book she is about to complete, "Art as Cultural Expression of Selected Native American Societies." The fellowship allowed her to travel the country, visit Indian reservations and universities, attend conferences, and do some writing. "It was a very rich year," she recalls.

Painter, fitness buff Apart from her academic life, North is president of the board of the Lincoln Indian Center and a member of the National Organization for Women. She paints when she can, i STAFF PHOTO BY ROBERT BECKER Woesha Cloud North has been painting since the fourth grade. The picture behind her, which she completed last year, is called "The Future." a part-time job, she hopes to catch up on her lifetime love, painting. North said she will miss Lincoln. "My first home is in Kansas.

My second home is in California, where I raised my children. My third home is Lincoln," she said. favoring Native American or spiritual themes. She also is a fitness buff, exercising daily at the Lincoln YWCA and running on the weekends. North plans to move to the West Coast in the fall to be nearer her daughters.

Although she said she would like to find Medicines with alcohol may be harmful to children EVANSTON. UL fUPIt Children's merfira. Personality linked with order of birth cannot When taken with other drugs, however, medicines containing alcohol can cause unpleasant side effects, as well as interfering with drug absorption or impairing the breakdown of other drugs. In high doses, the major toxic effect of alcohol-saturated medicines is central nervous system impairment including decreased reaction time, muscle incoordination and behavioral changes, the committee said. Severe reactions such as nausea, vomiting, irregular heartbeat cardiovascular collapse, respiratory depression and convulsions can sometimes occur in people who take antibacterial drugs with alcoholic beverages.

"Continued efforts should be made to have alcohol removed from liquid preparations for children," the academy's Committee on Drugs said in the journal Pediatrics. tions, such as teething preparations, decongestants and cough medicines, often contain alcohol that could cause harmful reactions, the American Academy of Pediatrics says. The alcohol ethanol is present in more than 700 prescribed medications most of which are marketed for use by children, the academy said. Alcohol became a common ingredient of many liquid preparations because it dissolves drugs that water 3, ''4 Ok 4 i I By Andree Brooks 1984 The New York Times NEW YORK It probably was no accident that George Orwell used the term Big Brother for the omnipresent dictator in his prescient novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four." Psychologists long have been aware that birth order generally creates certain traits. A big brother usually develops leadership tendencies early in life, mainly because of the responsibilities for younger siblings thrust upon him by his parents.

The danger, experts on family and child psychology report, is that if he takes that role to an extreme, he can become an overbearing and tyrannical adult This was one of many aspects of the role that birth order can play in the development of personality that were discussed at a workshop called "Birth Order Factor," conducted by Maida Webster, a family therapist and school consultant in Norwalk, Conn. Studies of nearly 3,000 people conducted by Walter Toman, former professor of psychology at Brandeis University, in the past three decades have found that if no other overriding influences or abnormalities intervene, firstborn children usually are the most strongly motivated toward achievement. This, he maintains, is linked with parental expectations. This and other research suggests that firstborn children generally become more conservative than their siblings because 4hey take the brunt of parental discipline. Used to caring for others, they are more likely to gravitate toward such leadership professions as teaching and politics.

Less social and malleable because they became accustomed to acting alone, at Jeast in the very early years, they may have difficulty making close friends. By contrast, the researchers say, later children are more likely to be more relaxed and gregarious and less inhibited than the eldest child because their parents are more relaxed. The later children, however, often are less ambitious and are uncomfortable making decisions for others, and will seek work that fits such needs. This, according to the researchers, may help explain why younger siblings tend to favor the creative fields such as music, art or writing. They often make good salesmen because persuasion may be the only tool they have to counteract the power of the eldest Youngest children tend to remain forever "the baby," to be enjoyable to be around and to be compassionate, the researchers find, but they can become too dependent on others.

While birth order is clearly only one of many factors that affect development, knowing its impact can make a difference in the ability to change. "How we react in terms of our birth order helps us understand ourselves in a non-threatening way," says clinical psychologist Lucille Forer of Malibu, who has written extensively about the impact of birth order and profiles her clients according to their rank at birth. i 7 i a 'mi i iis xmrnimm. HAPPY EASTER HAPPY EASTER HAPPY EASTER HERITAGE CRAFT SHOP 1455 a 5S8fSiSS IMHWBI mmmmmnik mwmmimmmmmmmi Yiiiiif -1 rm iU mmmmmmmm mmmmmmmi lite- aiim -fiilt fiiii iff i wiikiiiwiii mpm mmmmlmm: Attn w---mimmimm mmsmmmmf lii.ta iiiiiiiiiif mimmmmimmmim mmwmm. n-m i.viiifii;v-- mmmmmmmmmm iisiiiiitl wmmmi fi sis i ft lliBiliiillfy KtlKiWlsfl it I i 1 if fi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O.

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