Fawn Wood’s “Kikāwiynaw” is my favorite record at the moment. Her voice is quite captivating. And she really knows how to write a love song. Not sappy or romantic, just simple enduring love.
This record’s title is a Plains Cree word that translates to “our mother.” Therein she honors the female spirit.
My favorite track is “For Dallas,” but they’re all hauntingly beautiful.
This is my biggest peyote project yet, and my first time using odd-count! Made with high-quality glass beads and a silver plated slide clasp. It's 23 beads wide(!) so lots of time and love went into it 💗 Check it out:
"Between 1845 and 1852, the potato crop in Ireland failed and caused what became known as the Great Famine...
"In 1847, during the height of the famine, the Native American Choctaw Nation raised $170, which is the equivalent of around $5,000 today. The money helped to supply food to the starving Irish...
"In the small town of Midleton in County Cork, Ireland, there’s a sculpture that commemorates the Choctaw Nation’s contribution titled Kindred Spirits...
"It looks extra beautiful at night and is lit by rainbow-colored lights."
Puye Cliff Dwellings | The village consisted of two levels of caves cut into the cliffs and the ruins of a large pueblo on top of the mesa. There are over a dozen “stairs” from the top of the mesa to the base of the cliff. The stairs linked the Community House on top of the mesa to the dwellings at the base of the cliff, as well as to sources of water north of the pueblo - https://newmexiconomad.com/puye-cliff-dwellings/
It took eight years of legal wrangling with the owners of the property, a parking lot under which lies a sacred burial site and shell mound of the Ohlone people, and $27 million dollars to secure the location and for the City of Berkeley, CA. to sign the deed over to the Sogorea Te' Land Trust, but the tribe now owns the land again. They will build a new mound and cultural center. This is a good thing that happens far too rarely. #nativeamerican#sovereignty#politicshttps://boingboing.net/2024/03/13/sacred-cultural-site-returned-to-ohlone-people.html
There was a time when Native Americans were going to be given the West, at least from the Great Plains into the Rockies. The U.S. govt created this map to look at the practical border, as system of forts and roads that would be established west of Missouri, Arkansas, etc.
This was a possible configuration in 1838.
It was dismissed in a matter of years.
Scott George and his fellow Osage Tribal Singers just finished a performance of his Oscar-nominated song, “Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)," at the ceremony. Here's an interview with him from the Oklahoman about his music-writing process and how he came to write for the "Killers of the Flower Moon" soundtrack.
Danis Goulet talks about the weight/responsibility of handling the Reservation Dogs episode about boarding schools, an issue she says isn't well understood in the U.S. compared w/ Canada.
"That episode really felt like it takes a village, because no one could hold that alone ... to handle something that big, it felt like this is a collective endeavor... it was a difficult experience but a really beautiful one."
Today in Labor History March 9, 1911: Frank Little and other free-speech fighters were released from jail in Fresno, California, where they had been fighting for the right to speak to and organize workers on public streets. Little was a Cherokee miner and IWW union organizer. He helped organize oil workers, timber workers and migrant farm workers in California. He participated in free speech fights in Missoula, Spokane and Fresno, and helped pioneer many of the passive resistance techniques later used by the Civil Rights movement. He was also an anti-war activist, calling U.S. soldiers “Uncle Sam’s scabs in uniforms.” 1917, he helped organize the Speculator Mine strike in Butte, Montana. Vigilantes broke into his boarding house, dragged him through the streets while tied to the back of a car, and then lynched him from a railroad trestle. Prior to Little’s assassination, Author Dashiell Hammett had been asked by the Pinkerton Detective Agency to murder him. Hammett declined.
I'm excited to introduce my latest project, the Sacred Darkness Collection!
Beadwork really is medicine. When I started working on this, I didn't realize what it would become--that it would be so therapeutic for me, and so healing. Crafting these pieces has brought me strength, and I hope they can do the same for you when you wear them.
Please check out the collection and more beaded jewelry on my website: