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Thoughts on Prosperity
The challenges we face as indigenous peoples with our reservation economies is frequently in the news. From many places, there are discussions about health, schooling, violence, and the lack of good housing and transportation. The stories are so personal. To each of us they are our stories, our relatives, sometimes they are us, in the […]
<span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links">Posted in</span> Contemporary Native Issues
<span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> colleges, economy, hope, indigenous, investment, prosperity, tribal
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Being in the Lone Ranger
This past summer the College Fund was the beneficiary of the ticket sales for the Lone Ranger premiere. The opportunity, of course, prompted great discussions about misappropriation and Native star power. It wasn’t an easy decision but I kept my focus on the tribal colleges students who benefitted through the scholarship funds raised by the […]
<span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links">Posted in</span> Contemporary Native Issues
<span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> American Indian, college fund, Disney, indigenous, Lone Ranger, premiere, stars
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Going To places where our Grandfathers went
Recently, I took a journey to two cities that thrive with political and social relationships that are so defining to the ways of people in the USA. I went to Washington DC and New York City. In many ways these cities represent this country in ways that are both grounded in the best of intentions […]
<span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links">Posted in</span> Contemporary Native Issues
<span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> American Indian college fund, indigenous, Manhattan, Native, travel, tribal colleges, Washington DC
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Idle No More Brings Native Voices Native Education To The Forefront
Like many Natives and our allies across our Grandmother Earth, Unci Maka, I have joined the Idle No More movement, attending round dance gatherings, praying for Chief Theresa Spence and her supporters, sharing the stories I hear and read and perusing news and opinion pieces. Like many indigenous people, I am acutely aware that our […]
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<span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> activism, American Indian college fund, culture, higher education, Idle no more, Native, teaching, tribal, tribal colleges, voices
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SIGNS OF PINES AND SPIRITS
There is a smell of pine A smell that brings memories Bearing down upon the present day Tangy, pungent, clean The smell of freshness Carried on cool winds left behind by thunderstorms Warm in the summer sun Crisp with winter ice Sticky bark and prickly pine needles I have stood many times in the shelter […]
<span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links">Posted in</span> Contemporary Native Issues
<span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> indigenous, Native, nature, pines, spirits
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Red Language
RED LANGUAGE There is a foreign language That trips on the tongues of the elders Skirts around the hearts of the young Sets itself to music and writes itself sonnets and epic poems It is the language of the end The end of ourselves As indigenous It is a white language Translucent in some places […]
<span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links">Posted in</span> Contemporary Native Issues
<span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links">Tagged</span> American Indian, language, Native, poetry, red, story tellers
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