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hillbilly
Member
Post Number: 101
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Friday, October 8, 2004 - 1:06 am: | 
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canoebear,
Sounds like you had a good time. That is what it is all about.
Bill |
paul_hammersten
Member
Post Number: 123
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, October 9, 2004 - 7:46 pm: |
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'twas dream cum true indeed canoebear!
Late the afternoon before the morning of the Grand Opening, my wife and I walked past the Capitol and down the hill to see thousands of folding chairs spread out on the uncut grass under the old trees along the Mall in front of the First Nations Stage directly in front of the Capitol Building.
The empty chairs were reservered for the Tribes who would take their rightful seats the following morning at the opening ceremonies after first celebrating the opening of The National Museum of the American Indian with a glorious processional.
I stood among the empty chairs.
Someone was burning sweet grass.
I could also smell fry bread wafting through the cool afternoon air.
Laughter and joy was everywere present with those who had also arrived early to ' check things out '.
The sound tech where busy up on the stage getting all ready for the speeches,prayers,and songs of another day.
Then, a solitary figure walked out on the stage and took the mike and sang for an ' empty ' audience.
My God! It was Buffy!
Buffy Sainte-Marie sang her song STARMAKER.
She did not sing it just for Sharon and me and the few hundred souls present but she sang it, I know, for The Ancestors. She sand it for all they went through for us. All they went through for this ' triumphant moment ' that would take place the next day - the grand opening of the NMAI.
Many from those early days, when we listened to Buffy in the late '60's and early ' 70's while in Lame Deer and Pine Ridge, would not fill any of those seats spread out before her.
Their stories are known...the imprisonments, the murders,....
Yes...sounds of laughter and joy...and a shed tear that night and many more the next day.
Hearts being healed.
AY WAY HEY O HEYA!
Paul
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canoebear
Member
Post Number: 123
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 7:21 am: |
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Hey Paul,
U can fer sur define yer portage path trail/or serve yer-self & others while enjoyen tha trip,
fer tha voyage journey, may-be more chief,
than tha destination, but tha purose be destined.
'Tis destined place wood be yer take-out/or journeys end, Heya! |
paul_hammersten
Member
Post Number: 124
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Monday, October 11, 2004 - 10:38 am: |
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Hey canoebear,
Raven keeps one eye on the future yet one eye on the past so that his journey is always straight.
And Eagle goes after one rabbit at a time. To chase after two he gets none. [ I read this one on a painting called FOCUS at the First Nations Festival. ]
Stay focused!
Heya!
The Turtle |
canoebear
Member
Post Number: 125
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Monday, October 11, 2004 - 4:22 pm: |
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Hey Paul,
Like taken a snap shot of/or Indian brush an illustration of a road path! Concentrate distinctly on clear image/or fixed point of center of activity & hopen that tha
"Good Red Road" doesn't diverge at tha end of
tha village. Fer sur tha Raven & Paint Turtle wood no if, Prairie Wolf Coyote Trickster wood split path/or make fork, Heya! |
canoebear
Member
Post Number: 129
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2004 - 8:17 am: |
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Hey Paul,
Naturalists now hav tha power/or priviledge of maken tha right choice to save "Turtle Island".
Cleanen-up tha water + air round & leaven
wild lands & wild live be wood be paramount.
Far more Superior to all others problem matters, past/or present, now emergen.
It be crucial to find tha right pathfinder, who
discover new route to fix cores complications.
Sense of urgency to outfit right pack-animal
fer long journey ahead.
Paul, what pack-animal be much fit to
Bear tha load fer trip,
tha trunk elephant/or stubborn donkey?
Tha "Right to Bear Arms" with NRA as frontier scouts may be needed to forge-ahead?
Weather skies may show red/or blue changen conditions, Heya! |
paul_hammersten
Member
Post Number: 127
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2004 - 10:46 pm: |
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Hey canoebear! " Lightning Woman Thunderchild Star Soldiers one and all oh sisters, brothers all together aim straight stand tall..."
Starwalker
by Buffy Sainte-Marie
Heya!
The Turtle |
canoebear
Member
Post Number: 149
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 5:07 pm: |
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"Injun No-How"
Tools of tha trade that help move a
out-of-tha-ordinary culture of remarkable
people/or of a notable period, to venture thru
tha wild water frontier portage of path wilderness.
Tha primative resoureful Native
think-up design showed tha power of tha original
form of wares, of past, which deliverance showed
few changed alterations.
'Tis handy object fit a valued profit use that serviced tha Native Indian People & thats how
tha waters woods journey of passage movement
of/or in tha "Canadian Indian Canoe" cum to be.
'Twas tha skillful creation original canoe
form of past time, brought a hi-tech routine system to achieve a practical purpose to
a lead forward step mobile action to full-circle.
A kind of dead-end of practical functional perfection, Heya Paul!
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canoebear
Member
Post Number: 154
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Friday, December 3, 2004 - 5:51 pm: |
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Turtle,
U fer sur be #1 in a birch bark wild river canoe, but how well can U prod cross that same river run wild, in a bison hide branched "bull boat" usen a short paddle, hey Paul? |
paul_hammersten
Member
Post Number: 150
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, December 4, 2004 - 6:48 pm: |
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Not well my friend...for the time I paddled a canvas covered rubber raft down the Tongue River in Montana [ from the Indians ' River of Tongues ' for the lapping tongues of light on the waters surface ] we nearly drowned.
Miles out, in the middle of nowhere, we hit a snag and ripped open the bottom/side of the raft!
From then on I have stuck to the canoe in river work.
Best
Paul |
canoebear
Member
Post Number: 162
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 7:00 pm: |
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Has tha "Turtle" sack packed Itself down in on
wild river bottom, mudded-up, neck deep fer
on-cum of freeze-up? Just wonderen cause havn't seen back-side of His 13 paint-on plates,
as of late. An Island in itself!
Its better to set-light to 1 candle than
curse tha darkness, Heya! |
paul_hammersten
Member
Post Number: 153
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 10:04 pm: |
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Hey good buddy.
I have been hard at work writing my story of The Frying Pan on the Waswanipi in '63 for the next book Doug McKown is writing and editing. It is finished and in the mail.
Here's hoping you will get to read it someday!
I hope it will be one book you will read canoebear?
Ha Ho
Turtle |
paul_hammersten
Member
Post Number: 156
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 6, 2005 - 3:41 pm: |
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Well good buddy - still haven't had much time to ' re-surface out of the mud ' for I went and wrote another story for Doug.
I am working on some more...what do you know about voyageurs and smoking?
Best
Paul |
canoebear
Member
Post Number: 180
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 7, 2005 - 3:12 pm: |
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Paul,
Blowen out cloud of smoke!
Travelers passen thru wilderness met-up with
Native Indians then smoked "Sacred Peace Pipe".
I reckon, Heya! |
canoebear
Member
Post Number: 185
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 7:42 am: |
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"Totemism be Parallelism"
Identification of a man with his totem!
Pinpoint mark connection of tha 2 be tha same,
matched together, standen side by side.
An image of man be his representation on tha
'tis here Totem Pole.
Totem Pole be moven in same direction as its
human statued figure along-side, but extended
out & up sum.
A person & thing much like each other,
almost identical/or same.
When both stand close together, they be alike,
like 1 another. May-be similar/or perhaps its =!
A matched set fer sur!
Totem Spirit Symbols on family/or Clan poles R
sign token imprints of counterpart equivalentcy,
perhaps an arranged union that stands fer.
Statue figure & pole symbols possible of selfsame speciman identity,
'tis be who tha person is; 'tis what tha thing is.
Case of a double-end river canoe that has symmetry done to its blunt rocker-upped ends be exact matches of balanced arranged parts facen 1 another.
A face-off amid tha man figure & his Spirit Symbol carved on own Totem Pole, be like peeren down into a mirrored lake river from canoe above & clearly be-en able to behold tha reflection of light that gathen thru tha shallows onto tha Painted Turtle's backshell, amongst rock garden sandy bed a few feet below.
Paul, U can prod in mud along now froze-up wild river bed, but U can't hide after ice-out then warm windless sun calm!
Is found Turtle shell slill nailed to fence post, Heya? |
canoebear
Member
Post Number: 189
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 10:14 am: |
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"snowshoe dance"
Ojibwas celebrate 1st big winter snowfall
with a snowshoe dance.
I've been shovelen 2' snow-bank & drifts fer 2 nights now. Upper Great Region be snow-bound with much snow-white. Looks to be 1 mass snow-field.
Blizzard snow-storm Bearen-down on NE as we speak.
If I wer U, I'd cover yer longhouse open doors with skins & get yer hearth firepit burnen with red hot. Then set-aspell by fire with warm wool blanket to watch sparks & smoke clouds go-up & out roof openen, shaddowen Cold Snow full Moon,
'tis cold wintry night.
Hey Paul, don't get too caught-up in tha dance,
cause that Ice-Monster, Windigo, stalken tha
blinden snow-fall of northwoods in
search of people to devour.
Agin, if I wer U, while sitten round heated-up fire pit, I'd hav a kettle of "tallow" boilen
& ready to spash pour on uninvited frightenen monstrous creature. 'Tis here " bubbled-up
mix potion will reduce horrible wicked being
much defenseless.
But, yer not me, so dance yer life-away, Heya!
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paul_hammersten
Member
Post Number: 159
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 11:39 am: |
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Hey good buddy...' the long snows ' are here with three feet of snow!
I wonder if I remember some of that old time Bear Dance I saw John Woodenlegs do in' 70! It might help me stay warm.
Listen to the howl of the weather!!
My...My!
Snow shovelling tomorrow! In my snowshoes!
Best
the turtle
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