Manataka American Indian Council Volume XI Issue 11 NOVEMBER 2007
SMOKE
SIGNAL
NEWS
Manataka - Preserving The Past Today For Tomorrow
National American Indian Heritage Month
Red Elk's Version of Deganawidah
Reject Genocide - Denier's Propaganda
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UPCOMING EVENTS
November Month
National American Indian & Alaska Native Heritage Month
"Indian Health Service and Partners-In-Celebration Site"
November 05, 2007
Live and Learn Seminars - Maya Journey with Magdala
November 7- 9, 2007
Fostering Indigenous Business & Entrepreneurship in the Americas (FIBEA) Conference
Acoma Pueblo – Sky City Resort, New Mexico
November 10 - 12, 2007
10th Annual First Nations Film/Video Festival
Chicago, IL funded by Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT).
November 14 - 17, 2007
13th Annual NNALEA Training Conference
National Native American Law Enforcement Association And Indian Country "Homeland Security" Summit. NNALEA's 13th Annual Training Conference. MGM Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 2, 2007
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December 7 - 9, 2007
Peace and Conflict Resolution Conference Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Heal yourself - your physical and spiritual bodies. Regenerate yourself with light, and then help those who have poverty of the soul. Return to the inner spirit, which we have abandoned while looking elsewhere for happiness." -Willaru Huayta Quechua Nation, Peru
It is difficult to look inside ourselves, especially when we see conflict or confusion. During times of conflict we need to realize that we are talking to ourselves about our thoughts. This conversation is printing in our subconscious and forming our beliefs. During times of conflict we need to ask the spirit to control our self-talk. Only through finding that inner place and going there during troubled times will we ever find happiness.
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A
Brief History of National American Indian Heritage Month
By Andrea Cramblit
The Effort
to Establish a day of Recognition for American Indians.
What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of
recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the
establishment and growth of this Nation has resulted in a whole month being
designated for that purpose. But, it has been a long and winding trail that has
taken many turns during the last 84 years that has not resulted in an "official
day" of recognition.
For many years, Indians and non-Indians have urged that a special day be set
aside to honor America's first citizens. From time to time, legislation was
proposed in the U.S. Congress that would designate the Fourth Friday in
September of each year as American Indian Day. There has also been legislation
that would establish a Native American Awareness Week the fourth week in
September. Introduction of these bills, none of which were passed by Congress,
resulted in modern day almanacs listing the fourth Friday in September as
American Indian Day under the heading "Day usually observed -- not legal
holidays".
One of the very first proponents of an American Indian Day was Dr. Arthur C.
Parker, a Seneca Indian, who was the Director of the Museum of Arts and Science,
Rochester, NY. He persuaded the Boy Scouts of America
to set aside a day for the "First Americans", and for three years they adopted
such a day. In 1915, the annual Congress of the American Indian Association
meeting in Lawrence, Kansas, formally approved a plan. It
directed its President, the Rev. Sherman Coolidge, an Arapahoe, to call upon the
country to observe such a day. He issued a proclamation on September 28, 1915,
which declared the second Saturday of each May as an American Indian Day and
contained the first formal appeal for recognition of Indians as citizens.
The year before this proclamation was issued, Red Fox James, a Blackfeet Indian,
rode horseback from state to state seeking approval for the celebration of a day
in honor of Indians. he later presented the endorsements of 24 state governments
at the White House on December 14, 1915. However, there is no record of such a
national day being proclaimed.
The first American Indian Day in a state was declared on the Second Saturday in
May 1916, by the Governor of New York. Several states celebrate the fourth
Friday in September. In Illinois, for example, it became that day by legislative
enactment in 1919. In Massachusetts, in accordance with a law passed in 1935,
the Governor issued a proclamation naming the day that will become American
Indian Day for any given year. Presently, several states have designated
Columbus day as Native American Day, but, it continues to be a day we observe
without any recognition as a legal holiday.
Presidential Proclamations designating National Native American Heritage Month
Since 1995, President Clinton has issued a proclamation, each year,
designating the month of November as "National American Indian Heritage Month".
On November 5, 1994, President Clinton issued a proclamation based on
Senate Joint Resolution 271, designating the month of November 1994 as "National
American Indian Heritage Month".
On March 2, 1992, President Bush issued a proclamation designating 1992
as the "Year of the American Indian" based on legislation by Congress (Public
Law 102-188).
On August 3, 1990, a Joint Resolution designating the month of November
1990 as "National American Indian Heritage Month" was approved by President
Bush, becoming Public Law 101-343 (104 Stat. 391).
On December 5, 1989, President Bush issued a proclamation base on Senate
Joint Resolution 218, designating the week of December 3-9, 1989, as "National
American Indian Heritage Week".
On September 23, 1988, President Reagan signed a Senate Joint Resolution
designating September 23-30, as "National American Indian Heritage Week".
In 1987, the week of November 22-28 was proclaimed as "American Indian
Week" by President Reagan, pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 53
Prior to that, President Reagan had twice earlier designated an American Indian
Day or Week. In 1986, he signed Senate Joint Resolution 390, which
designated November 23-30 as "American Indian Week"; and during his first term
he named May 13, 1983, as "American Indian Day".
In 1976, Senate Joint Resolution 209 authorized the President to proclaim
the week of October 10-16, 1976, as "Native American Awareness Week".
http://www.doi.gov/bia/namonthist.htm
President
Clinton's Proclamation for Native American Heritage Month 1999
Reject genocide - denier's propaganda
Suzan Shown Harjo
/ Indian Country Today
Michael Medved wants his audience to ''reject the lie of
white 'genocide' against Native Americans'' and says this is one of the ''most
urgent needs in culture and education.'' The neocon author blogged on Sept. 19
that ''the word 'genocide' in no way fits as a description of the treatment of
Native Americans by British colonists or, later, American settlers.''
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the
group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Tests of air freshener products
recently conducted by the Natural Resources Defense Council found
that 12 out of 14 popular air freshener products contained a chemical known
to be harmful to the health of humans. Phthalates, known to cause
reproductive problems and hormone disruption in humans, were found in
virtually all air freshener brands, including several Walgreens-branded air
fresheners that the popular retailer has now pulled off its shelves.
GRANDMOTHERS SPEAK
- EAST
Morning mist leaves a rich earth smell in the air, much as a
summer rain does. I love the smell of rain on the hot desert. It
reaches into my memory and touches a place I cannot go. The sage
bush drips with dew, small insects buzz and fill the air with
newly hatched swarms. Birds land on the brush and ruffle their
feathers in the wet leaves to wash them. A lizard peeks up from
his sand shelter and looks puzzled. Inch by inch, he creeps up
leaving, only his tail buried in the sand. I sit still and
listen to the morning sounds of the desert and drink in the
smells that drift around the weathered door jam.
Magpies and crow are awake and starting their morning arguments
over territory. The shrill cries pierce the silence and make my
ears ring. Wind blows gently against my dress and the windmill
blades turn lazy in the pale light of day. I hear the horses
nickering down in the lower corral and old Dolly, the Guernsey
Cow, lows soft where she waits in the barn stall.
On the
horizon, the high mound of Bear Butte is touched by the sun.
Rust red in the sun, standing as a landmark for many years. Bear
Butte, is the subject of many stories that are told around
campfires and in winter lodges.
I
throw my mind back to the first time I had seen this sacred
place, when I was very young. My father was helping a young man
to find his way back home after the war. We planned to stay for
several days at the site and had brought many provisions with
us. Dad would just curl up under a tarp in the back of the truck
bed, and I would sleep on the truck seat on these trips.
No offense intended for any individuals or tribes.
INDIAN WISDOM
I planted some birdseed. A bird
came up. Now I do not know what to feed it.
I had amnesia once -- or twice.
I went to San Francisco. I found
someone's heart. Now what?
All I ask is a chance to prove that
money can not make me happy.
If the world were a logical place,
men would be the ones who ride horses sidesaddle.
They told me I was gullible and I
believed them.
Teach a child to be polite and
courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to
merge his car onto the freeway.
Experience is the thing you have
left when everything else is gone.
One nice thing about egotists: they
do not talk about other people.
I used to be indecisive. Now I am
just not sure.
If swimming is so good for your
figure, how do you explain whales?
GRANDMOTHERS SPEAK
- SOUTH
Cherokee Ceremony
By Grandmother Selma Two numbers are sacred to the Cherokee. Four is the
first number, it represented the four primary directions. At the center of their
paths lays the sacred fire. Seven is the other and most sacred number. Seven is
represented in the seven directions: north, south, east, west, above, bellow,
and "here in the center" (Lewis & Kneberg, p. 175), the place of the sacred
fire. Seven also represented the seven ancient
Six of the ceremonies
took place every year, the seventh was celebrated every seventh year. They
were held between March and November, based on the phases of the crescent or
new moon. The First New Moon of Spring Ceremony was the first. The First New Moon of
Spring Ceremony took place "When the grass began to grow and the trees send
out their pale new leaves..." (Lewis & Kneberg, p. 176-77), around the first
new moon of March. This festival initiated the planting season and
incorporated predictions concerning crop success or failure. It lasted seven
days and included dancing and the re-lighting of the sacred fire by the fire
maker. The ceremony included sacrificing a deer tongue in the fire. All the
home fires were extinguished and rekindled from the sacred fire’s coals.
"The Moral
Reserve of Humanity" The UN Declaration was adopted by a majority of
144 states in favor, with only four votes against: Australia, Canada, New
Zealand and the United States. Interestingly, these are precisely the four
nation-states where
Declare yourself free from the
mediator a person or church, temple or doctrine that has bound
you with Baptisms, Dikshas, empowerments, initiations, rituals,
spiritual ties, ascended masters, gurus, certificates from
institutions, identifications and astral projections new age or
old age and Reincarnations. This is a powerful
decision. This is different than engaging in a choice to
express spirituality. Also it pertains to taking a looks at
what you're psychically carrying perhaps wiping the slate with a
personal ceremony then choosing spiritual allies. Once you
create an intentional reality choose to create a co-creative
intentional reality. Love seek to love
All religions and
branches thereof are gathering souls for karmic profit and
destroying the planet. Be Aware of
evangelism. Of all the major and minor religions their goal is
to capture your being essence or soul for the afterlife mission
which is continued slavery. Purgatory is an enslaved waiting
place. Your name is in a data base under lock and key of a major
religion. Even after death of the body your name which is
emotionally attached to your body and ancestors can be bought
and sold by religious institutions and re-baptized. Evangelism
profits from the poor and innocent. They make business on
concepts with fast rising temples, churches and enticements of
Oneism’s: One, Oneness. Robbing you of your unique expression
they manipulate cultural leaders with spiritual euphemism.
GRANDMOTHER'S SPEAK
- NORTH
Beautiful Sisters and Brothers
All Over the
World:
This is an old message, I have been making a big
cleaning in my computer as well as all my temple, I love this
one...so I am just re-sharing
I am talking to you my husband, brother, son, father.
I am the living bridge for love and understanding.
My dress is a rainbow garment and I made it shine
because of love but this time I want something in return,
I want you to be aware of me, i am the force behind
you that connects you to light and reminds you who you are
Do not pollute me or imprison, ignore, possess me or
force me or rape me cause I am your nurturing of life
See my flowers, my jungleness my dessert and deep
forest, cause many faces and languishes I have for you to
I am
you
Magdala
Upcoming
Seminars
Yucatan, Mexico
Seminar Booking:
Books by
Magdala -- "Sacredness of the Union of Polarities", "I Am You", "Sacred
Sex", "Mayan Runes"
http://www.manataka.org/page996.html
Bureau of Indian Affairs American Indian Heritage Month Program
http://www.doi.gov/bia/naheritage.html
Links to other Government Agencies celebrating NA Heritage Month
http://www.doi.gov/bia/namonlinks.html
Colonial and American government ''never endorsed or practiced a policy of
Indian extermination,'' wrote Medved. Rather, ''official leaders of white
society tried to restrain some of their settlers and militias and paramilitary
groups from unnecessary conflict and brutality.''
Medved rose to national prominence as guest-host for talk radio star Rush
Limbaugh and as a movie critic who defended director Mel Gibson's ''The Passion
of the Christ'' when many other Jewish-Americans denounced it as anti-Semitic.
Medved claims that the ''real decimation of Indian populations had nothing to do
with massacres or military actions, but stemmed from infectious diseases that
white settlers brought with them at the time they first arrived in the New
World.'' Would that Medved were correct in his use of the word ''decimation.''
That would mean that only 10 percent, rather than 95 percent, of Native people
actually died by 1900.
Medved is wrong about his main point, too. While many Native people died of
foreign diseases, non-Natives killed and nearly killed entire nations and
cultures, and meant to do so. Thus, genocide is the right word.
The most widely accepted definition of genocide is in the United Nations' 1948
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Article 2
defines genocide as ''any of the following acts committed with intent to
destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group,
as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.''
Article 3 lists the following punishable acts: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to
commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d)
Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide. Article 4 states,
''Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article 3
shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public
officials or private individuals.''
A reasonable person (or even just a reading person) would be hard-pressed to
make a case that there were no European or American genocidal crimes committed
against Native peoples. Did officials, entities or individuals intend, direct,
incite or conspire to commit genocide? Yes. Were some complicit in genocide?
Yes. Did they succeed in genocide in some cases? Yes. Did they attempt genocide
without actually succeeding? Yes.
That about covers it.
Medved claims that describing early colonists and settlers in ''Hitlerian,
mass-murdering terms represents an act of brain-dead defamation.'' Official
colonial and territorial bounty proclamations, which announced pay scales for
scalps as proof of Indian kill, were Hitlerian, mass-murdering edicts that
produced Hitlerian mass murders.
All the forced marches of Native peoples under President Andrew Jackson's Indian
removal policies - notably, the Muscogee and Cherokee Trails of Tears, the
Potawatomi Trail of Death and the Navajo Long Walk - resulted in Hitlerian mass
murders, ethnic cleansings and generational dislocation and damage that
continues today.
It is more precise chronologically to say that Hitler's Holocaust or the
genocides in Rwanda or Cambodia may be described in Jacksonian or Sheridanesque
or Custerish, mass-murdering terms. In analyzing genocidal plans, it is fair to
compare the ''Final Solution to the Jewish Question'' to the federal ''Indian
Crania Study'' or to the ''Civilization Regulations'' that brutalized, confined
and killed American Indians, criminalized traditional ceremonies and customs and
wrenched Indian children from their families.
The world knows there was genocide and attempted genocide against Native
peoples. Only fools and propagandists would make a claim to the contrary, which
brings us back to Medved, who is no fool.
We need not guess why he is raising this issue now. He tells us. And he reveals
much along the way: ''The notion that unique viciousness to Native Americans
represents our 'original sin' fails to put European contact with these
struggling Stone Age societies in any context whatever, and only serves the
purposes of those who want to foster inappropriate guilt, uncertainty and shame
in young Americans. A nation ashamed of its past will fear its future.''
Where to start? Let's jump right in at ''Stone Age societies,'' shall we? Medved
is very smart, so he probably knows about those Native peoples who perfected
irrigation systems, performed brain surgery and formed democracies and
confederacies, which some Europeans dreamt about but never saw until coming
here. He might respond that only some Native peoples did that. And I would like
to say to him that, of all the ships and wagons filled with white folks, there
wasn't a Shakespeare among them.
Medved uses that ''Stone Age'' term to plant a falsehood in readers' minds that
advanced Europeans simply had to do something about the backward Native peoples
- kill them or tame them. Using this ''context,'' Medved actually pins genocide
on the colonists and settlers. As Christians, they were supposed to help
struggling societies, not try to exterminate them.
I don't know what ''inappropriate guilt'' means, but a quest for historical
truth is not the same as a guilt trip. Honorable people are strengthened by
facing their fears, even if acknowledging past shame is part of it.
Medved calls on his readers to discard the ''stupid, groundless and
anti-American lies that characterize contemporary political correctness'' and
''to confront, resist and reject the all-too-common line that our rightly
admired forebears involved themselves in genocide.''
The truth is that many admired forebears did involve themselves in genocide.
Georgians and Coloradoans and Californians and all those who killed Indian
people in their rush for gold were involved. Those who massacred innocents at
Sand Creek and Wounded Knee were involved. Those who raped Native women and
children were involved. Those who killed Indian people for praying, decapitated
them and robbed their graves were involved. Anyone who looked the other way was
involved.
Here are a few lies that are anti-American Indian: that Native children and
women and men had it coming; that massacres were battles; that ''harvesting
skulls'' was science; that torturing little kids for speaking their mother's
language was OK in anyone's culture; that genocide wasn't genocide when it was
committed against Native peoples.
Suzan Shown Harjo, Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee, is president of the
Morning Star Institute in Washington, D.C., and a columnist for Indian Country
Today.
Consumer alert: Popular air
fresheners found to contain toxic chemical
Neither the FDA nor the EPA conducts any safety testing or spot checking of
toxic chemicals in air freshener products.
Essentially, consumers could be exposed to any number of toxic airborne
chemicals from air freshener products, with no warning whatsoever. The
safety of chemicals used in these products is utterly ignored by
the
FDA in much the same way that
perfumes and cosmetic products containing
cancer-causing chemicals are routinely
ignored by the agency. The FDA makes virtually no effort to protect American
consumers from cancer-causing or hormone-disrupting chemicals in tens of
thousands of
consumer products, and were it not for the
efforts of consumer advocacy groups and environmental protection groups like
the NRDC, no one would be protecting consumers at all. (U.S. government
agencies usually have to be sued by groups like the CSPI or Public Citizen
before they will take any pro-consumer action...)
Only two products tested by the NRDC -- Febreze Air Effects and Renuzit
Subtle Effects -- contained virtually no detectable levels of
phthalates, yet the twelve other products tested positive for the
chemical even though some were labeled "unscented" and none of them listed
phthalates as an ingredient. Some products were even labeled "All natural!"
(Which just goes to demonstrate, yet again, that the "All natural" claim is
meaningless.)
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Vision Quest at Bear
Butte
Just
a few minutes longer, as I cuddle my hot coffee cup to my chest
and breathe in the fresh coffee aroma. The day can wait I say,
and I drift off into another path of my on-going vision.
Traveling down long tunnels, I reach the land of my father. The
plains and desert spread for miles into the sky, one starting
where the other leaves off.
Show me a man with
both feet firmly on the ground, and I will show you a man who cannot take
his pants off.
Indigenous Peoples' Day
CounterPunch October 10, 2007
By ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ
"I'm convinced that indigenous peoples are the moral reserve of humanity."
Evo Morales, Aymara, President of Bolivia, Democracy Now! September 26,
2007. Every year as October 12 approaches, there is a certain sense of
dread that can be felt in indigenous communities in the Americas. That it
is a federal holiday in the United States is regarded as hideous, a
celebration of genocide and colonization However, beginning thirty years
ago, indigenous peoples formed an international movement, demanding, for one
thing, that October 12
be commemorated as an international day of mourning for the Indigenous
Peoples of the Americas. Informally, the day has been appropriated as
Indigenous Peoples Day.
This year feels different in indigenous communities asthey celebrate the
great victory of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the General Assembly on September 13, 2007
http://www.manataka.org/page844.htm, the culmination of a three-decade
struggle by indigenous activists at the United Nations.
intentional genocidal policies were pursued, policies that sought to
exterminate all the indigenous peoples living in the lands seized by
settlers from the British Isles. The populations of those states should be
ashamed, not only of their horrific pasts, but of the present refusal of
their representative governments to make amends with the descendants of
those indigenous peoples who survived these genocidal policies.
Perhaps those governments and their citizens think they do not have to
recognize the rights of indigenous peoples within their claimed boundaries
because the populations are small. Yet, the survival and flourishing of
indigenous communities and nations is important to the future of humanity
and to the survival of habitation on earth.
Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly on September 16, Bolivian
president Evo Morales stressed the need to understand the indigenous way of
life, saying that living well in a community meant living in harmony with
Mother Earth. "This new millennium must be the millennium for life, placing
our bets on human dignity." (UN webcast.)
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a longtime activist, university
professor, and writer. In addition to numerous scholarly books and articles
she has published two historical memoirs, _Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie
(Verso, 1997), and _Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960; 1975
(City Lights, 2002). She can be reached at:
_rdunbaro@pacbell.net
mailto:rdunbaro@pacbell.net
Spiritual Sovereignty
I am the living bridge the sacred pipe that brings all relations
together. I am the land that you walk, a voice inside of
your heart. Have being nurturing you in body mind and
spirit since the beginning of time.
because I am your mother, wife, sister, daughter I am the all for
you the love is the connection and bonding of all.
in all the ways love me, talk to me listen to me, I will whisper to
you beautiful songs, make love to me in a complete surrender then i
will be good to you I will give you life and light to you until you
and I become one.
recognize me in the all so you become the all.
Do not hurt me because I am your mother that give you light do not
dishonor my gifts to you those are the
fruit of love that will give you the force for your walk and dance.
If you hurt me it will take long time for me to heal
so meanwhile you will starve and died of spiritual starvation but i
am integrating my broken pieces because of love and nurture you
again, that is my name love and your name is love.
Recognize me in all your sisters mothers wives, sisters daughters
cause all the flowers many colors bring
beauty into your heart so you heal with beauty, be honest live with
honor truly love in surrender to love, live in love.
November 5
Justice for the Six Nations
We express our warmest greetings and congratulations to the Six Nations people who one year ago asserted their claim to Kanenhstaton, "The Protected Place," and initiated a year of vigorous struggle for their lands and sovereignty.
The justness of their stand and the broad mobilization of their nations to step up their long standing struggle for sovereignty in their own lands has won the profound support of the First Nations across Canada, the Canadian working class and people and justice loving peoples around the world.
One year ago a small group of women from Six Nations
on the Grand River walked onto a stolen piece of their lands to stop a housing
development. This one stand and the mobilization of everyone to defend it
initiated what Hazel Hill, a spokeswoman for Kanenhstaton, described in a
January 20 update as a "year of unity and strength and assertion of our
sovereignty." "We furthered our position by forcing the crown to recognize and
deal with the only true government of the Haudenosaunee, the People, represented
by the Confederacy Council," Hazel said. The advances made over the year, and
those to come this year, were symbolized by the Confederacy Council moving back
into its historic council house on January 1, 2007.
On this occasion TML stands with the people
of Six Nations and all those who have fought shoulder-to-shoulder over this year
in demanding an end to colonial injustice. The Canadian state must recognize the
legitimate title of the Six Nations to their lands, end its stalling and
negotiate a just settlement, nation-to-nation. It must end the criminalization
of the people defending Kanenhstaton and its interference in the legitimate
government of the Six Nations -- the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Council.
TML calls on the working class and people to continue to go all out to support the Six Nations in their struggle including participating in the rallies and fax and e-mail campaign (see below) initiated to mark this one year anniversary and to forcibly put these demands to the Canadian state.
Uphold the Hereditary Rights of the
Six Nations!
Justice for the Six Nations!
Attention Educators:
TEACHING ABOUT AMERICAN INDIANS
Teaching Resources for Educators
Here are resources if you've ever wanted classroom-teaching activities on
American Indians beyond the Thanksgiving holiday or the history of American
Indian Education or best teaching practices addressing American Indian learners.
Resources include books, magazines, articles, bibliographies, maps, etc.
Although often times there is overlap, these resources are organized in four
categories:
Teaching About American Indians
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for American Indian Learners
Researching American Indian Education
Other Resources
Perception is a wonderful thing…
So unfortunate are we to be caught in a web of loneliness.
Struggling in this uncaring snare, we yearn for a loving heart to call
our own. Speak into the wind for it will carry our cries to the
right ears.
Is there an escape? Perhaps, yes…If only in the recesses of our minds.
Wait and listen…Hear the one searching for you. Reach out with
your soul and touch another to embrace it ever so close.
Restless, empty hearts… Stand still! Listen to the sounds of
silence as the wind softly kisses your skin. Reach out…Eyes
closed…To touch another just like you. They too need one to trust…To
share themselves…Not wanting to be alone.
Love is like the wind with many ways to go and so many stories yet to
tell. Speak…Then listen…Someone is waiting to hear and answer your
pleas. Open your arms to welcome the one calling for you.
Like a kiss in the wind, they're feelings are there…Carried by and
through the wind.
Answer the heart that is YOUR heart… They too are alone and have
need of someone they can trust with their love. Reach out…Hear and
FEEL them speaking to you! Softly, yet so loudly…Hear the voice
say, "Just kiss the wind…For I AM HERE."
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Art Gallery
Jewelry Store
Book Store
100's To Choose From
Furs, Hides, Robes
Gifts - Home Decor
Crafts
100's to choose
Teepee Store
Drums
Video Store
Code
Talkers
Cradleboards
Ghost
Trails to Manataka
Manataka
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