Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources

[Rolland Nadjiwon]

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.

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....

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wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
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A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory…
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On 03/07/2010 2:25 PM, Richard Zane Smith wrote:
> Kweh Rolland!
> tizhamëh!
>
> I'm gunna say somethun you already know...with a few pictures!
> the grandfather you spoke of....somehow his words took root in *you,*
> and ....then you winged his words accross to me...
> so... do his "words" still somehow (((vibrate))) into...*the present*?
> cuz if they are still vibrating it means there's still *a heartbeat*
> and if there is still a *heartbeat* ...there is the possibility of *life*
> and that indigenous spiral that is wound up on itself just possibly 
> could unwind.
>
> Maori carvers carve it on their Morae ...Mound builders put it on 
> their pottery
> and it shows up in so many indigenous cultures.(see jpgs)
> Birth, middle age, death and, rebirth ....
> Actual detection of living culture is when culture itself is either 
> emerging or fading
> and there is only two times when all is silent and its invisible.
> One time is when Culture is at its highest - its like air, unseen and 
> no longer felt.
> "When the shoe fits the foot is forgotten"
> the other silent place is there at the center of the spiral right at 
> the moment before
> it turns...and becomes reborn...
> and YOU just might be one of those "on the turn!"
>
> I love this spiral, and have been incorporating it in some of my own 
> art work.
>
> ske:noh
> Sohahiyoh
> (Richard)
>
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Rolland Nadjiwon <mikinakn at shaw.ca 
> <mailto:mikinakn at shaw.ca>> wrote:
>
>     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...
>
>     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.
>
>     -------
>     wahjeh
>     rolland nadjiwon
>     ______________________________________________
>
>     A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory…
>     ______________________________________________
>          
>
>
>     On 03/07/2010 10:20 AM, Richard Zane Smith wrote:
>>      tizhamëh zharaseh !
>>     ndae' yawahstih trondi'
>>     (thanks cousin !
>>     that one's reelie good!)
>>
>>     Sohahiyoh
>>     (rzs)
>>     hatidare' nde wandat, akwatras ayömendeh
>>     (Wyandotte Oklahoma)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Rolland Nadjiwon
>>     <mikinakn at shaw.ca <mailto:mikinakn at shaw.ca>> wrote:
>>
>>         A good resource should you have an interest.
>>
>>         http://indigenouspeoplesissues.com/
>>
>>         -------
>>         wahjeh
>>         rolland nadjiwon
>>         ______________________________________________
>>
>>         A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory…
>>         ______________________________________________
>>
>>
>
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