February 2009
Spirit & Smoke →
If you cultivate cannabis as spiritual medicine, using it to offer up prayers, you are still subject to arrest and prosecution. But two Native American brothers whose crops were raided last summer passionately disagree – because the name of their tribe, Tuscarora, literally translates to “People of the Hemp.”
“The soldiers got your brothers.”
The women who lived next-door gave Ross Johnson the...
Red Lake Drug and Gang Summit: Speaker: Alcohol... →
indigen:
When Cecil White Hat was 5 years old, he stood in the back of his dad’s car in Mission, S.D.
The streets were jam-packed with cars. It was 1953 and the first day it was legal for American Indians to buy alcohol.
White Hat described the scene he witnessed as a young boy in his presentation, “How Alcohol Came To The People,” Wednesday at the third annual Red Lake Drug and Gang Summit in...
“We are a spirit, we are a natural part of the earth, and all of our ancestors,...”
– Trudell
John Trudell, Look at Us/Aim Song
At times they...
Two-spirited →
The Two-spirited person is a native tradition that anthropologists have been able to date to some of the earliest discoveries of Native artifacts. Much evidence indicates that Native people, prior to colonization and contact with European cultures, believed in the existence of three genders: the male, the female and the male-female gender, or what we now call the Two-spirited person. The term...
Yosemite Half Dome Indian legend →
“If you ever read the book “Legends of the Yosemite Miwoks”, you might come across the legend of Tissayack, the legend of Yosemite’s beautiful Half Dome. The book was done by the Yosemite Association. In the “Legends of the Yosemite Miwok” written by Yosemite National Park Indian Ethnologist Craig Bates and others you will read a ‘sanitized’ version of Tissayack. I write sanitized because in...
Radio Show Bridges Gaps Between Natives and... →
SPOKANE, Wash.—Thin Air Community Radio, KYRS, 92.3 and 89.9 FM, airs “Inner Tribal Beat,” a weekly, hour-long Native American show sharing Native news, interviews and music. It airs Tuesdays at 3 p.m. PST.
The show’s two hosts and producer say their goal is bridging the gaps between Native communities, and even non-Natives.
I Tried
And here’s the.. still incomplete list of my arsenal. Why is this even news worthy? Because I have not had to take antibiotics for… forever, so it’s a big deal that I am on them as of today.
Have had the super flu and coughing up crud for two and half weeks.. blahh. So, here are some of the herbs and resins I have been taking. I am still taking some of them mainly Reishi,...
Inuit throat singers share tradition →
By Kerry Davis
The sound of mosquitoes filled the air in Indianapolis recently when Charlotte Qamaniq and Kendra Tagoona (Inuit) visited the Eiteljorg Museum and demonstrated the traditional art of throat singing.
Also known as katajjaq, throat singing is a musical performance found only among the Inuit (though similar overtone singing can be found in Tibet, Mongolia and other places)....
How Many of These Native Films Have You Seen? →
February 19, 2009
By Gemma Givens
At the 2008 American Indian Film Festival Awards Ceremony, held Nov. 15 in San Francisco, the following winners were announced:
Best Film “Before Tomorrow,” Director: Marie –Helene Cousineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu, Canada
Best Director Georgina Lightning, “Older Than America,” USA
Best Actor Trevor Duplessis, “In a World Created By a Drunken God,”...
“History, despite its wrenching pain,
Cannot be unlived, and if faced
With...”
– Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou on Her 70+ Birthday
I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when...
John Henry - The Music - Lyrics →
An Early Version
Construction Crew Version
Folk Version
Prison and Chain Gang Version
Other Versions
John Henry- A Podcast
The story of John Henry has come to represent the heroic struggle of men and women against encroaching technology and the loss of jobs. But it wasn’t always so.
Oral Traditions Manual →
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Getting Started in Oral Traditions Research
1.1 Introduction
1.2 How the Manual is Organized
2. The Oral Tradition
2.1 What is an Oral Tradition?
2.2 The Written Tradition
2.3 Traditional Knowledge
2.4 The Crisis of Losing Traditional Knowledge
2.5 Helping to Maintain Traditional Knowledge
2.6 Oral Traditions and Oral History ...
The ‘redface’ era returns →
Non-Natives make the best Natives, says Hollywood
By Rob Schmidt, Today correspondent
Story Published: Feb 18, 2009
Story Updated: Feb 18, 2009
LOS ANGELES – The great era of the Western movie – the middle of the 20th century – was also the era of “redface.” Non-Native actors played Indians in dark makeup, horsehair wigs and “leathers and feathers” costumes. The long list of such...
“Does anybody besides me think that there is erotic beauty in naked women of...”
– brownfemipower
Red Salmon Arts/Resistencia Bookstore Calendar,...
lalilster:
salmonrojo:
6:30pm Thursday Feb. 19, 2009
TThe Indigenous Studies Speakers Series, a program of the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement at UT, and Red Salmon Arts present a book signing and discussion with Andrea Smith, author of Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances (Duke Univ. Press)and Conquest: Sexual Violence and...
lalilster:
sistermarymartha:
aja:
Joni...
I did that color quiz thing
littleorphanammo:
And it’s 100 percent accurate, like disturbingly accurate. This is upsetting primarily because the profile it’s accurate about is fucking miserable.
Highlights:
“It would appear that you are experiencing one problem after another. When one problem is resolved, another seems to immediately take its place. It could well be that you are trying too desperately to evade or to...
Valentine
(For You)
you are the phosphorescence
my leaf
my wing
lunar moth
and are sweet in my mouth as Douglas fir tips
a scent i know well on you, citrus combined with fir
I seek you always
on the singed wings of angels
in the moist tongue
furled in dream
i lay down in the loam with Michael, with Gabriel
who are assigned to the cardinal directions
of your astral body
i hear you on the empty sea
...
Nearly extinct american indian languages →
Achumawi. 10 nonfluent speakers (1997 Nevin). Ethnic population: 1,000 (1997 Bruce Nevin). More information.
Ahtena. 80 (1995 M. Krauss). Ethnic population: 500 (1995 M. Krauss). More information.
Apache, Kiowa. 18 (1990 census). Ethnic population: 1,000 (1977 SIL). More information.
Apache, Lipan. 2 or 3 (1981 R. W. Young). Ethnic population: 100 (1977 SIL). More information.
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The last speaker of the Wichita →
ANADARKO, Okla. - Doris McLemore looked up at the ceiling and tried to think of the words. She knew they’re somewhere, caught in the back of her mind, ready to come out, but the more she tried to come up with the Wichita word for sage or rainbow or tumbleweed, the more she knew it wasn’t going to happen.
NAICA Online: Winter Edition 2009 →
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