Tag: native
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December 03, 2007 02:08 AM EST --
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, . . .
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September 22, 2009 01:34 PM EDT --
Many of you know that I'm moving soon. In all moves you have to go through your belongings to see what to keep and what to get rid of. Shudder.
Even though I hate clutter, it happens. . . .
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June 15, 2006 12:35 AM EDT --
On a night flight to Mexico recently, I heard soft voices in Spanish and English and I thought about how they all seemed to blend together. . . .
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June 11, 2007 12:52 PM EDT --
If you're walking around New England this time of year, you'll often see hedges of this beautiful plant blooming around now. It's known as Spiderwort ( the folk name is Widow's Tears) . . .
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December 01, 2007 02:25 AM EST --
The little Wren is the messenger of the birds. It pries into everything. She gets up early in the morning and goes round to every house in the settlement to get news for . . .
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April 11, 2008 09:07 PM EDT --
I had to write a letter of appreciation to someone in my life for the Personal Development class I am taking for my job as a Native Counselor. Here is a copy of the letter I wrote to my husband. It is . . .
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September 18, 2008 06:49 PM EDT --
May the sun
bring you new energy by day.
May the moon
softly restore you by night.
May the rain
wash away your worries.
May the breeze
blow new strength into your being.
May you walk
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September 30, 2008 07:21 PM EDT --
In some communities in Alaska we don't celebrate Columbus Day. We call it Alaska Native Heritage Day. Just because we feel it isn't appropriate for us to celebrate someone who brought death . . .
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February 26, 2009 12:28 PM EST --
I will preface this with the fact that I am not a Native American...many times I wish I were. Nost of my friends since childhood are. I recently lived in Arizona, where I spent a great deal . . .
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March 04, 2009 06:01 PM EST --
I recently moved to Canada from Arizona where I lived at the junction of three Native American Reserves: Navajo, Hopi, Apache. I have discovered a kindred among the first nations that is not . . .
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January 17, 2009 06:42 PM EST --
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In Nature A Time . . .
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August 21, 2006 09:42 AM EDT --
My Kentucky grandmother gave me many secrets.
"Don't tell your momma, Birdie," she laughed as she lifted sage embers toward the ceiling of her dirty house. The smoke swirled a silent cry . . .
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October 30, 2006 12:23 PM EST --
Invited to address a major gathering of the American Indian Nation last weekend in Arizona, President Bush spoke for almost an hour of his future plans for increasing every Native American's present . . .
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August 04, 2007 03:29 PM EDT --
ELDER
Bow your head, an elder passes
Behind him the trees weep.
His mother earth opens her arms
Welcoming him gently into her last embrace.
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February 03, 2008 01:39 AM EST --
What is the last thing a Groundhog ever hears? That tree falling in the forest!
I don't really know how the Groundhog got the name Whistlepig. I suppose if one of the top-hatted handlers . . .
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February 26, 2008 03:14 PM EST --
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Brown Bear ( August 22 - September 21)
and their partner
Otter . . .
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February 28, 2008 11:03 AM EST --
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The Brown Bear (August 22 - September 21)
and his partner
The Falcon . . .
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December 26, 2008 01:19 AM EST --
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The Goose Period
In Nature a Time of Renewal
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September 12, 2006 10:24 AM EDT --
As the Iraq war grinds deeper into its fourth year with sectarian strife increasing, not abating, and with more and more U.S. servicemen and women dying in -- not departing from -- that nation, I find . . .
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February 18, 2007 09:29 PM EST --
Wood smoke and embers
spiraling high into night
stirs something ancient.
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