December 2008
“Corncob constellation,
oyster shell, drawstring pouch, dry bones.
Gris gris in...”
– At Inauguration, Poetry and Politics Unite for Elizabeth Alexander - NYTimes.com (via curate)
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True Dragon
I am drinking each day by 10:00
Beautiful diners, leather coats, the newest shoe/boot
The vitamin, herbs, roots. One tablespoon of dragon bones in grain
Pure water, enough fiber
I too want to tell lies
And leave the garbage bill, water bill and Lovers
To pile up
Fruit, cheese- all sustenance
Left to rot
Make it go away
All go away
For I have gone
~ moi
If You Don't Stop That
I used to live in
A cramped house with confusion
And pain.
But then I met the Friend
And started getting drunk
And singing all
Night.
Confusion and Pain
Started acting nasty,
Making threats,
With talk like this,
“If you don’t stop that’ -
All that fun -
...
Big Foot Memorial Ride begins today →
WOUNDED KNEE — Kim Cameron is about to set off on a nearly 300-mile journey into the past. She and other American Indian horseback riders plan to begin the annual Big Foot Memorial Ride on Monday at Sitting Bull’s grave site. They hope to finish at Wounded Knee battle site in two weeks. The trek has been made the past 23 years to honor the more than 250 men, women and children shot...
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, and if faced with...”
– Maya Angelou, “On the Pulse of Morning,” 1993. (via larebelde) (via curate)
“In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The...”
– William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (via psychotherapy) (via curate)
“If you can’t stand the heat, park the Pinto.”
– UNREMITTING FAILURE: To Thine Own Self Be Litigious and Other Proverbs (via nevver)
Native Hawaiians Bill could pass in 2009 →
Long-stalled legislation to create a governmental entity that would represent Native Hawaiians will have the best shot ever of passage next year. The entity created by the bill named for Democratic U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii would be similar to Native American tribal governments. A process would be set up for Native Hawaiians to participate. The legislation opposed by the Bush...
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Npollo Cordial
Looking for an elixir or concoction for a “strong back man”?
Besides Guinness Punch? Well here it is. Of course it is sutible
for the ladies as well . A powerful cordial that is warm delicious and sexy.
2 medium size mangoes- still firm but not green, cut in chunks
1 vanilla bean split but left whole
80 grams of Maca
60 grams of cacoa bean, roughly ground
15 grams Ashwaganda,...
“Not Only Will Your Teachers Appear, But They Will Cook New Foods For You.”
– Alice Walker
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What Are Winter Counts? →
Winter counts are histories or calendars in which events are recorded by pictures, with one picture for each year.
The Lakota call them waniyetu wowapi.
Waniyetu is the ...
“The only thing more pathetic than Indians on TV, is Indians watching Indians on...”
– Thomas Builds The Fire
