Tag: native americans
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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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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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July 14, 2007 09:06 PM EDT --
Authors: Kathleen and Michael Gear
This is one of a series of books about the "first people", whom we call Native Americans or Indians. The authors are anthropologists and have done . . .
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October 07, 2007 11:25 AM EDT --
1. Rise with the sun to pray. Pray alone. Pray often. The Great Spirit will listen, if you only speak.
2. Be tolerant of those who are lost on their path. Ignorance, conceit, anger, jealousy and greed . . .
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October 14, 2007 09:46 AM EDT --
On Friday night a friend called and told me that she had read in the paper that Plimoth Plantation was hosting "A Night of Native Dance" featuring both our Eastern Woodland Native Americans, . . .
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June 09, 2008 07:59 AM EDT --
This is a slightly modified version of something I wrote in the summer of 1978 when I was amazingly young and the year 2000 seemed a long way off. I set it aside and it sat forgotten in a notebook . . .
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February 03, 2008 02:06 PM EST --
"We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children."
~Native American Proverb
" One does not sell the land people walk on." ...
Crazy . . .
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November 21, 2008 07:10 PM EST --
Last night I had my grandchildren over, and we had a little bit of Thanksgiving fun. First I told them the story of the Pilgrims and the Native Americans. Then we made Native American costumes, . . .
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September 11, 2006 07:59 PM EDT --
"Spirituality is not religion to Indians. Religion is not an Indian concept, it is a non Indian word, with implications of things that end badly, like wars in the name of individuals God's and . . .
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November 22, 2008 04:55 PM EST --
TULSA, Okla. –- Crimes of hate against American Indians totaled 75 incidents in the nation during 2007, said a Federal Bureau of Investigation report.
While the overall number of crimes against . . .
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January 22, 2008 11:04 AM EST --
The Hawkwing Indians of South Dakota are in need of help. This is one of the organizations I support. A lot of people do not know what these people face so I figure you can view the information . . .
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October 14, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
I thought never to hear the sound of a seal skin drum, nor the chants of the "People of the Dawn", nor the voice of a people saying "guyana"..."Guyana to the moon and the stars, . . .
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April 10, 2007 06:23 PM EDT --
Just as when we watch a film based on a book, we substitute the action in the film for the writing in the book (at least when the film is well done,) so do we from time to time substitute myths for religion. . . .
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November 18, 2007 01:16 PM EST --
Cahokia Mounds is about 10 miles north east of St. Louis. Around 1,000 AD it was a city of as many as 20,000, larger than London or Paris, and the center of the Mississippian culture.
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October 02, 2008 11:06 PM EDT --
One of the most perplexing problems in the field of anthropology over the last hundred years has been the relationship between language and culture. Does language shape culture? Does culture shape language? . . .
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October 18, 2008 10:56 PM EDT --
The idea of replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day was not a new one. It was first proclaimed by representatives of Native nations and participants at the United Nations-sponsored International . . .
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November 26, 2008 09:06 PM EST --
There are many historical references for Thanksgiving, but I wanted to share the one which most matched what we understand as "Thanksgiving" today, with the turkey, cranberries, etc.:
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November 02, 2007 10:11 AM EDT --
Coming back from the post office yesterday, I had driven about five miles on Indian land through the chaparral and rocky outcroppings where there are only five widely-spaced houses in remote high places . . .
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July 07, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
The Mud Chief is the only fictional story I have shared at Gather. I still like rereading it and present it again for the many new friends I've made and wonderful groups I've joined since . . .
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August 24, 2008 07:28 PM EDT --
Book Review: Death Without Company, by Craig Johnson
This mystery is set in Montana. It features a rather wonderful, eclectic set of characters, including Native Americans, Basques . . .
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