Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources

Wed Jul 7 04:05:42 UTC 2010

I think you'll enjoy these pics, Rolland  and MJ,
rzs

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Rolland Nadjiwon <mikinakn at shaw.ca> wrote:

>  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....
>
> -------
> wahjeh
> rolland nadjiwon
> ______________________________________________
>
> A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory…
> ______________________________________________
>
>
> 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>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>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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