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Rez Biz is celebrating a year this month. I have been reading their on-line editions, but this week I am going to subscribe to the magazine. We need to support our rez businesses. Powwow season is right around the corner and if you are looking for great porcupine hair roach headdresses, my brother Eddie has been making them for over 30 years, you can check out his work at Neswabmi: Porcupine Hair Roach Headdresses and my cousins down in Texas make the most authentic Potawatomi clothing and their work can seen at SewNative: Potawatomi Clothing .
SSG Charles Colhoff and SPC Charles Kelly holding the Red Lake Nation flag in Iraq!
Eddie Joe: Anutha Cup of Coffee
"starbucks is worried about losing touch with their customers. i
always thought their coffee was over rated anyway. consumer reports
does also. they rated mcdonalds dark roast a better cup of coffee for
part of the cost. i would rather grind fresh roast beans and enjoy the
whole pot of coffee. i have kicked back at pow wows with a thermos of
my own coffee many times. marketing is a great ploy. it sells us on a
idea that something is the best for us.
i get a kick out of the commercials on t.v. that push magic pills. they have several that if taken will make us lose weight in no time and be all buffed up. wouldnt it be nice if life were so simple. they must be selling, because they are shown over and over. someone is buying into that. or believe there is an easy way. maybe its just that people want to take the easy road.
i see where they are retiring the chief illiniwek mascot after 81 years. protests have stated that the chief 'portrayed a degrading image of american indians'. though i felt there are more pressing issues that face indians, i agree with them retiring the mascot. i seen the 'chief' doing his dance on television and thought that looked totally ridiculous. costner dancing around the fire in dances with wolves was just as dumb. i doubt that racial stereotyping will end with the mascots being retired. maybe they ought to do something about the fakes running around the country passing themselves off as medicinemen or spiritual leaders now.
i seen some geese flying over this morning. i was reminded of what an old man here said one time. he said watch those geese. one will lead for awhile, then another will take over and lead, then another. he said indians were the same way. thats true. someone is always trying to take over the lead. they miss the point. the strongest leader we have is us acting in unity. and we are quite a ways from that. nobody remembers the best leader we ever had. i wonder what kind of force that indian people could be if we acted together.
at any rate, i wonder how close spring is now that the geese are moving. but then many of them dont even leave anymore."
Pan's Labyrinth got ripped off for best foreign film last night at the Oscar's! But it still won three Oscars! I saw that movie and if you haven't seen it you should...it is truly a magical movie!
AAOpinion says, We African American bloggers and African Americans in general need to pay more attention to our Native American brothers and sisters on the internet. We have a historical link to our Native American brothers and sisters. The internet can assist us in keeping our links strong. Check out these powerful bloggers, I’m sure you will be glad you did.
Hat Tip: The Native Blog and Angry Indian IntelligentaIndigena
ColorQ’s Color Club: Black Indians (Afro-Native Americans)
African Americans - Black Indians In American West History
BlackIndians & Intertribal Native American Association
Remember to visit and link to these Native American bloggers. We cannot complain about left wing bloggers not linking to us, if we do not link to our Native American Brothers and Sisters.
Learn more about our connection on Black History Pages : Black Indians
Voice of a Native Son added even more Native links!
Calif. tribe plays host to annual gathering.
"Most dancers typically start at age 3 or as soon as they start
walking, said Badger Wahwasuck, a Potawatomi from Kansas. They learn on
their own, though occasionally an elder will teach a younger dancer.
Progress depends on the individual and on their natural talent.
“It's all in your heart. It's how you feel,” Wahwasuck said. “If you're good in your heart, it comes out naturally.”
In
competitions, dancers are judged on movement and musicality, said Pow
Wow coordinator Debbie Bricker. There are Traditional Northern and
Southern styles of dance, and newer styles like the fancy shawl
performed with a fringed shawl and jingle dress performed in attire
that's adorned with bells.
Dances are intertribal, Wahwasuck
says, and differ from the ceremonial dances that are specific to
certain tribes and closed to the public.
Wahwasuck says the dances and traditions of a Pow Wow are a small percentage of a larger American Indian culture.
“This
is like the tip of the iceberg, where only 10 percent is visible above
water,” Wahwasuck said. “We still have a lot of Indians that live in
the cities that have strayed from their ways. A lot of people work
full-time and don't have time to get into it. ... This gets a lot of
people more back into their ways and they go home and get back into
their traditions.”
