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Navajo Life as a child

There are memories of our lives we would like to forget and there are those we loves to remember and share with others. If you were born Navajo and grew up between the 1930 and 1970 you will remember these times fondly.
   First, we survived being born to mothers who herd sheep in the cold, carried buckets of water, chopped wood, and worked the cornfields in the heat while they carried us. They ate mutton stew and blue corn mush, fried bread, drink black coffee, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Our baby cribs were flat cradle boards, with sacred stories and songs.
    We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets as we lived in Hogans and brush shade houses and when we rode our horses, we had no helmets, but we did have clan relatives who recognized us from a distant and picked us up while hitchhiking. As children riding in the back of a horse drawn wagon, absorbing all of nature on a warm day was always a special treat.  No such thing as seat belts. <Read More>

A Message for Lenard Pelletier

Greetings Sisters, Brothers, Friends, and Supporters.

I have sad news. A long time friend and Elder from the Lakota Oglala Nation, Ellen Moves Camp, has passed on. Those of us who really knew her will dearly miss her as she was a big inspiration to all of us. She loved and fought for her People and the Nation without ever once that I know of complaining or asking for something for her personal use. She had good reason to fight against Dick Wilson and the corrupt government regime. She lost family members at the Wounded Knee massacre. Then in Wounded Knee in 1973, they killed her nephew Buddy Lamont. So, for now, I will say this to you, Auntie Ellen... Soon I too will pass on. Remember me when I arrive wherever you're going, as I want to go there, too. Take care. <Read More>

– The White Buffalo –

In 1994, the white buffalo, Miracle, was born in Janesville, Wisconsin. According to reports, she was the first known white buffalo to be born since 1933. Yet, in the years since her birth, there have been at least 15 to 20 other white buffalo born. When miracles occur, many find them difficult to accept. <Read More>