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Richard...thank you for the great thoughts and photos. In a couple of
weeks, I am doing a course at UBC(University of British Colombia) on
'Ancestral Memory'. I was thinking of using your post, with your
permission. There are so many good ideas in it...silence, spiral,
reborn, turning...much of it. The class is a seminar format and I will
use your post as a generator. Thank you very much for responding.<br>
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When I was growing up, our people did not 'gab' like they do now.
Speaking was very important but we lived most of our lives in the
silence between the words.... My wife, my children, my grandchildren
tell me I am becoming forgetful. More of the material/consumerism I see
today is becoming less important and I find myself thinking about the
many things from all my grandparents/elders I thought I had forgotten.
I realize now, they knew I would remember....<br>
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rolland nadjiwon
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On 03/07/2010 2:25 PM, Richard Zane Smith wrote:
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<div>Kweh Rolland!</div>
<div>tizhamëh! </div>
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<div>I'm gunna say somethun you already know...with a few pictures!</div>
<div>the grandfather you spoke of....somehow his words took root in <b>you,</b></div>
<div>and ....then you winged his words accross to me...</div>
<div>so... do his "words" still somehow (((vibrate))) into...<b>the
present</b>?</div>
<div>cuz if they are still vibrating it means there's still <b>a
heartbeat</b></div>
<div>and if there is still a <b>heartbeat</b> ...there is the
possibility of <b>life</b></div>
<div>and that indigenous spiral that is wound up on itself just
possibly could unwind. </div>
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Maori carvers carve it on their Morae ...Mound builders put it on their
pottery
<div>and it shows up in so many indigenous cultures.(see jpgs)</div>
<div>Birth, middle age, death and, rebirth ....</div>
<div>Actual detection of living culture is when culture itself is
either emerging or fading</div>
<div>and there is only two times when all is silent and its invisible.</div>
<div>One time is when Culture is at its highest - its like air,
unseen and no longer felt.</div>
<div>"When the shoe fits the foot is forgotten"<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">the other silent place is there at the
center of the spiral right at the moment before</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">it turns...and becomes reborn...</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">and YOU just might be one of those "on the
turn!"</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">I love this spiral, and have been
incorporating it in some of my own art work.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">ske:noh</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">Sohahiyoh</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">(Richard)</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Rolland
Nadjiwon <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:mikinakn@shaw.ca">mikinakn@shaw.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Good to hear cyber cousin! That is a good site. I'm looking for one
with only good news...lol...I even 'kliked' my heels three times...<br>
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For this elist, I think it is just great, great to see you respond in
your primary language and an incidental translation into English...love
it. I am not capable in our language but we don't use it either. An
grandfather, gone now, told us. If the creator put it here for us to
use and we don't use it, it will go back and we will lose it.
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rolland nadjiwon
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<div class="h5">On 03/07/2010 10:20 AM, Richard Zane Smith wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"> tizhamëh zharaseh !
<div>ndae' yawahstih trondi'<br>
<div>(thanks cousin !</div>
<div>that one's reelie good!)</div>
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<div>Sohahiyoh</div>
<div>(rzs)<br>
hatidare' nde wandat, akwatras ayömendeh</div>
<div>(Wyandotte Oklahoma)<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Rolland
Nadjiwon <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:mikinakn@shaw.ca" target="_blank">mikinakn@shaw.ca</a>></span>
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good
resource should you have an interest.<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://indigenouspeoplesissues.com/" target="_blank">http://indigenouspeoplesissues.com/</a><br>
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wahjeh<br>
rolland nadjiwon<br>
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