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November 9, 2001 By MATT SEDENSKY Patricia A. Locke, who worked for decades to preserve American Indian languages and became a pioneer in an effort to grant the tribes greater authority in the education of their children, died on Oct. 20 at a hospital in Phoenix. She was 73 and lived in Wakpala, S.D., on […]
“In the beginning, the people were all Wyandots. They lived in Heaven. Hoo-wah-yooh-wah-neh, the Great Spirit or mighty chief, led them.
His daughter, Yah-weh-noh, was a beautiful virgin. She became very ill and could not be cured. At last the chief medicine men of the tribe held a council.
They said: ‘Dig up the big apple tree that stands by the lodge of Hooh-wah-yooh-wah-neh. Have the beautiful virgin laid on a bed of boughs near it, so that she can watch the work. She will then be cured.’
“The strongest warriors of the tribe dug all around the roots of the tree, and eventually, it fell through.
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The spreading branches caught Yah-Weh-noh and carried her with the tree down through the hole it left. Below all was water.
Two swans saw the beautiful maiden falling. One of them said: ‘I will catch her.’
The two swans then called a council of all the swimmers and water tribes to decide what to do with the beautiful young woman.
The turtle finally agreed that if some of the others would bring up from the bottom some earth and put it on his back he would carry the young woman. The earth was brought up and put on the turtle’s back.
Immediately a large island formed and became what is known as North America, which was to the Wyandots all the earth. The great turtle carried the island on his back.
Occasionally he became tired and tried to shift his great load, which caused the island to shake and vibrate.
Yah-weh-noh, in wandering about the island, found an old woman in a hut. She stopped with her and twins were born to Yah-weh-noh. They were boys.
One was good and the other was all that was bad. The good one was called Made-of-Fire. The bad one was known as Made-of-Flint.
“When the boys grew to manhood they enlarged the island and agreed to people it with the things of the earth. They separated each to do half, according to his ideas of the fitness of things.
Made-of-Fire made everything just as the Indians desired, for his heart was full of love. All the animals were kind and gentle and did not fear the Indians.
Made-of-Flint, however, made the rough mountains and monster animals, and everything he made was abhorrent to the Indians’ mind.
When they had done, each, by agreement, inspected the other’s work to modify it. Neither could completely destroy the other’s creations.
“In the beginning, the people were all Wyandots. They lived in Heaven. Hoo-wah-yooh-wah-neh, the Great Spirit or mighty chief, led them. His daughter, Yah-weh-noh, was a beautiful virgin. She became very ill and could not be cured. At last the chief medicine men of the tribe held a council. They said: ‘Dig up the big […]
There was probably no other individual who did so much to bring peace between the Indian people and the whites of Ohio as Chief Tarhe, the Crane.
The Iroquois people have what they call the three sisters, the “sustainers of life”. These sisters are called corn, beans, and squash. The corn Spirit was so thrilled at being one of the sustainers of life that she asked the Creator what more she could do for her people. The Creator said that a beautiful […]
Back when it was always dark, it was also always summer. One day, Coyote and Eagle went hunting. But Coyote was a poor hunter because of the dark.
Peggy Albright’s book is the first extensive study of Richard Throssel (1882-1933), a Creek Indian adopted into the Crow tribe, where he lived and worked beginning in 1902, photographing the Crow extensively for both artistic and official purposes.
After a brief introduction to Throssel as “an Indian who had no tribe” and the Crow community that took him in, Albright makes an extensive examination of his aesthetic foundation as someone with the ability–as well as the opportunity–to mediate between his adopted culture and the outside world.
She then reproduces numerous Throssel photographs with explanatory comments by contemporary Crows.
Near Oraibi, Arizona, there is a petroglyph known as Prophesy Rock which symbolizes many Hopi prophesies. Its interpretation is:
Hopi prophesy states that World War III will be started by those peoples who first revealed the light (the divine wisdom or intelligence) in the other old countries (India, China, Islamic Nations, Africa.)
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The story of White Buffalo Calf Woman as told by Leonard Crow Dog.
One summer so long ago that nobody knows how long, the OcetiShakowin, the seven sacred council fires of the Lakota Oyate, the nation, came together and camped.
The buffalo is a symbol of abundance.
Historically, Pueblo Peoples crossed the mountains to the north to hunt or trade for buffalo and bring back meat for the long winter.
The Legendary Richie Havens will appear in Concert on Saturday Night, November 24th at 8 PM, at the historic Provincetown Town Hall on Cape Cod.