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For special meals like those on birthdays and Christmas, members of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians include hominy on the menu—but hominy, essentially dried corn kernels, is expensive to purchase. That’s why USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is working to help the tribe grow and harvest hickory king corn and other heirloom white varieties and process them to make hominy. Hominy is a traditional food for Native Americans during the winter. To help resto...
I am forsaken by friends I am a reproach of men I am despised by the people They shoot out the lip at Me They shake their heads at Me They encircled Me like angry bulls They threaten Me like a roaring lion I am poured out like water All My bones are out of joint My heart is like wax It is melted in the midst of My bowels My strength is dried up like a potsherd My tongue is sticking to My jaws I have been brought into the dust of death Dogs have compassed Me about The assembly...
WASHINGTON, DC—President Barack Obama will nominate Sally Jewell, the chief executive officer of Recreational Equipment Inc., to run the Interior Department, according to news reports. Jewell led REI in 2000. She also has 19 years of commercial banking experience and has worked for Mobil Oil Corporation in Oklahoma and Colorado. Jewell currently serves as a regent for the University of Washington. She was nominated twice to the post by tribal-friendly governors but o...
“Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder”, but “excitement is in the mouth of the taster”. I think the beauty of a fresh snowfall is wondrous to behold yet you cannot eat it. Well, that’s not true, you could pour fresh maple syrup over it, but that’s another story. Here we are coming into Mozokas, the moose-hunting moon of March and Zogalikas, the maple sugar-making moon of April. Lovely as it can be, I think we have all grown weary of winter for this year. And, I believe w...
Growing Up North By Morris Bradburn iUniverse 2011 170 pages Hardcover Here is an exciting account of Morris Bradburn growing up in the isolated community of Oxford House, Manitoba. Bradburn writes that everyone spoke Cree. Here’s some of what makes this book exciting. “I had nearly aborted my attempted dive when I remembered the laughter of the big boys when I’d suggested that I could dive from the rocks like them. I decided I was going to do this and surprise those big b...
“Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones” (Proverbs 16:24). These words of wisdom from Proverbs are exactly what we need in our Indigenous communities. Many of us have been wounded from the harsh words and actions of others in society, and also from those within our immediate families, tribes or clans. When we experience harsh words from others, it hurts and often leads to other sins such as hatred or revenge. Following these natural ins...
Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln is deceptively titled; this isn’t a biopic in the traditional sense of the form. A better title would be “The 13th Amendment,” but it’s pretty easy to see why Spielberg and company didn’t go with that. Lincoln plays like a 19th century version of The West Wing. It focuses on a few weeks in Lincoln’s White House, and the struggles, contriving, deal making, scheming, and pleading it took to get an abolishment of slavery into the Constitution....
PRIOR LAKE, MN—A 15-week experiential, intensive beekeeping course will be offered this spring and summer by staff from Wozupi, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s organic garden, orchard, honey, maple syrup, and organic egg producing enterprise. Open to the public, this course will be held Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to noon from April through October. The course will cover all phases of beekeeping, including extracting and bottling honey. The course is designed for tho...
WOUNDED KNEE, SD—Just recently, flyers were distributed across the Pine Ridge Reservation asking the residents to honor the “Liberation of Wounded Knee in February of 1973.” Those who would celebrate and hand out flyers have a delusional recollection of the past. Wounded Knee was a small village on the Pine Ridge Reservation. There were homes where approximately 35 families dwelled and there was a so-called Trading Post which was the only grocery store for miles to serve the r...
There is an old legend about a gentle young woman named Autumn Sunset who loved all the creatures in the forest. She could talk to the birds and the deer and the rabbits and no animal was afraid of her because they knew she was their friend. Every day Autumn Sunset would walk in the forest and the animals would gather around her and follow her. When she would lay down in the soft grass to rest, the animals would lay down in a circle around her. Sometimes the warriors in the...
I am a member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation (Algonquin), a husband, a graduate student, and most important, a brother in Christ. And I am a supporter of Idle No More. I want to see Canadian Christians have a better conversation on one of the most pressing issues of our time. We need to keep the conversation going. This is a moral and relational issue; Jesus Christ is in this issue if you look hard enough—beyond what you hear in the mainstream media. At the h...
Throughout the autumn and winter of 1812-13 the residents of Akwesasne were being drawn into the war between Britain and the US. Since the controversial Seven Nations of Canada treaty of 1796 there had been restrictions on the movement of the Native people living on the “reservation” but the international border had not yet become internally divisive. Both English and American authorities recognized the importance of the St. Lawrence River as vital to the movement of tro...
