Native Americans | Native Americans
Apr.08.2013
Humbly pitching:
AMERICAN GALAXY: Celebrating the People and the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave / Remembering the Union's Faith Foundation / A Loving Higher Purpose for the People: http://uwachuku.googlepages.com/americangalaxy + http://ugowach.tigblog.org/post/503605 + http...
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Feb.12.2013
It all comes down to this: no matter how you parse it—art, politics, spirit, planet; body, mind, heart, and soul—the realms that are reckoned separate in the official version of our current reality are in truth a unity, and recognizing that is the path to wholeness. When we violate—ignore,...
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Feb.12.2013
As a teenager (who was fortunate to have an accomplished older sister who studied linguistics at a prestigious graduate school and married a cultural anthropologist,) I was aware of the existence of two competing hypotheses for the peopling of North America, one being the Bering land bridge...
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Feb.07.2013
The Ojibwe, Native Americans, say, “Sometimes I go about with pity for myself and, all the while, Great Winds are carrying me across the sky.”
One of the hardest things for me has been learning how to dream big dreams for my life but, at one-and-the-same time release all inner attachment to the...
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Nov.21.2012
Let us gather
The spirit is great for some ---
For some, the flesh unwilling.
Remembrance strong-gnawing
At the bloodied bone,
Still screams, massacres
Echo centuries
Of denial and desecration.
A festival of conquest
Becomes a feast of family,
Where this day the uninvited claw
At...
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Nov.15.2012
Literature often speaks louder than military or political strengths or the press' muscle, and Louise Erdrich's new novel, "The Round House," speaks to the ways of Native Americans, a submerged minority we often hear little about.
Louise Erdrich
Congratulations to Erdrich, a Native American, for...
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Sep.10.2012
Author Jamie Haden had the opportunity to interview some of the characters from her novel, Illuminate-Alive, She Cried.Talisa Santiago's life is in grave danger. The tricksters from her past have found her and want her dead. Only one place can keep her safe—a remote Indian reservation deep within...
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Aug.23.2012
Talk about the "New Normal", I turned sixteen out west in 1968 surrounded by colorful fashions, music that stirred the highest emotions, confused young men in camouflage and fights for the rights of minority groups like Indians, African Americans, Farm Workers, Drug Users, Pimps and Prostitutes. No...
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Aug.20.2012
Author Jamie Haden tells how she came to be a published author. Her latest release Illuminate-Alive, She Cried is available now in print and on Kindle. You can get it here: http://goo.gl/g6qKF (it is FREE to Prime users)A few years ago, I was at the library with my daughters...
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Aug.06.2012
During the panel discussion convened on March 29th at the Greenwich Historical Society, as part of Joseph McGill's Slave Dwelling Project, I listened to fellow panel member Dale Plummer of Norwich, CT talk about the beginnings of slavery in New England.
Dale spoke of how, following the Pequot...
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