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Marquette, MI band Terracotta half-life performs an original song entitled Call From Above written by Emmanuel Kawedi in cooperation with other members of the band.
A Northern Michigan University (NMU) international graduate student from Tanzania, Emmanuel Kawedi sings vocals, plays congas, percussion.
He is introduced by Obadiah Metivier, a founding member of Terracotta half-life, website designer & technical guru who manages Cedar Tree Institute related websites.
A supporter of CTI environment projects, Terracotta half-life performs July 14, 2009 at the annual nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute/Zaagkii Project Midsummer Festival

Terracotta half-life
http://www.terracottahalflife.com
http://www.terracottahalflife.com/bio
http://www.terracottahalflife.com/bio/obadiah-metivier

Jerry Kippola, Guitar
Aaron Kippola, Alto Saxophone, Percussion
Obadiah Metivier, Bass Guitar, Vocals, Percussion
mediatechdesign@yahoo. com
Jennie Peano, Vocals, Percussion
Steve Leuthold, Baritone and Tenor Saxophone, Flute
Dan Schaefer, Drums
Emmanuel Kawedi, Congas, Percussion, Vocals
ekaweds@yahoo. com
Alumni - Keyboards, Guitars, Drums, Sax, Trumpet, Congas, Timbales, etc.

Upcoming Shows:
Fri 2/26/2010: Harley's Lounge
Fri 3/12/2010: Marquette Food Co-op Meeting of Owners
Wed 3/24/2010: Upfront
Tue 7/13/2010: Menominee Summer Concert Series

Working alongside members of several Ojibwa tribes, at-risk teens with the U.S. Forest Service-sponsored Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project in Michigan's Upper Peninsula will continue protecting pollinators during 2010 by helping to build the first-ever native species plants greenhouse on an American Indian reservation and hope to trace the Mexico Monarch migration.
During the summers 2008-2009, some 23 at-risk teens from Marquette, MI planted/distributed over 26,000 native plants seeds, helped transplant hundreds of native plant seedlings, hiked through remote forests with Zaagkii Project Native American college interns to learn importance and uses for native species plants, and have built and painted 36 mason bee houses and 18 butterfly houses with one of each placed by the USFS in The Peoples Garden at U.S. Department of Agriculture Headquarters, National Mall, Washington, DC.
The Zaagkii Project is sponsored by the nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC), the United States Forest Service (USFS) and Marquette County Juvenile Court.
The at-risk teens put in 1,786 hours of community service working on the Zaagkii Project.
In 2010, the youths will help the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and the USFS build a native plants greenhouse near the shores of Lake Superior, the first time such a greenhouse has been built on tribal property in the U.S.
KBIC "is happy to be partnering with the Cedar Tree Institute and the U.S. Forest Service," said KBIC Tribal President Chris Swartz Jr. "We hope KBIC will be regarded as pioneers to bring these native plants back here.
Zaagkii youth will continue learning regional American Indian heritage, culture & language with Leora and Levi Tadgerson, Zaagkii interns from the NMU Department of Native American Studies
Zaagkii Project founder Rev. Jon Magnuson said a goal is bringing the youth to study the Mexico Monarch migration.
The Zaagkii Project thanks Larry Stritch, USFS national botanist in Washington, DC; and Jan Schultz, USFS Botany & Non-native Invasive Species Program Leader in Milwaukee.
Schultz has traveled to northern Michigan many times to meet with the teens.
The Zaagkii Project contributors include the Marquette Community Foundation, Marquette County Juvenile Court, the M.E. Davenport Foundation, the Kaufman Foundation and the Phyllis and Max Reynolds Foundation.

Larry Stritch
National Botanist USDA USFS Washington, DC
202-205-1279
lstritch@fs.fed.us

Jan Schultz, USDA USFS
Botany, Non-native Invasive Species
Special Forest Products Program Leader Milwaukee
414-297-1189
jschultz@fs.fed.us
www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers
www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/index.shtml

Rev. Jon Magnuson, Zaagkii Project Founder
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute Marquette, MI
www.cedartreeinstitute.org
906-228-5494
906-360-5072
magnusonx2@charter.net

Illustrator Diana Magnuson
dianamagnuson@charter.net
www.dianamagnuson.com

KBIC
www.kbic-nsn.gov
Pres. Warren C. "Chris" Swartz Jr.
906-353-6623
Todd Warner, Director Natural Resource Department
906-524-5757

NMU Center for Native American Studies
April Lindala, Director
906-227-1397
alindala@nmu.edu
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies

Marquette County Juvenile Court
www.co.marquette.mi.us/departments/courts/juvenile_court/index.htm

Borealis Seed Co. Big Bay, MI Judy Keast, Suzanne Rabitaille
www.ltbbodawa-nsn.gov/index.html
U.P. Children's Museum
www.upcmkids.org