Today was good day.
Had a day solely for me and my fellow natives. Woke up this morning drove an hour to the Four Directions group meeting. We finished loading a forty foot trailer with food, clothes, blankets, and toys. It should be shipped out next weekend to a Pueblo in New Mexico. Then drove almost two hours in the opposite direction to visit Ed ( Wampanoag decent ) and David ( Mic Mac decent) to attend a funeral for a fellow native ( Mohawk ). It was my first funeral ever let alone a traditional native funeral. When we entered the funeral parlor the women running the establishment continued to call David "Chief". We had a laugh about that after. After the ceremony the head of the funeral parlor asked us for a number to reach us at. David gave them the number to a pizza parlor in Wells Maine.
Finally finished up the work on my medicine pouch.
Bought a new Rez Dogs cd.
I wish I could have more days like this.
*Randomness*
I wanted to relay to you a story David shared with us.
He has been asked many times to preform traditional ceremonies at funerals all over. Well a couple years back he was on the Mic Mac reservation he grew up on. Doing his thing. Well towards the beginning of the ceremony a fellow Mic Mac warrior shot off a flaming arrow into the sky. About thirty minutes latter there ceremony was disturbed by some locals in the distance making a commotion. Now as the majority of the tribe is at the funeral. They are feeling very disrespected by the noise and actions of some of the locals. Well come to find out the wind had carried the arrow quite a distance further then planned. Crashing threw the window of a house setting the whole house on fire.
( no one was hurt )
Those silly Mic Mac's. Never where known for there flaming arrow archery
Had a day solely for me and my fellow natives. Woke up this morning drove an hour to the Four Directions group meeting. We finished loading a forty foot trailer with food, clothes, blankets, and toys. It should be shipped out next weekend to a Pueblo in New Mexico. Then drove almost two hours in the opposite direction to visit Ed ( Wampanoag decent ) and David ( Mic Mac decent) to attend a funeral for a fellow native ( Mohawk ). It was my first funeral ever let alone a traditional native funeral. When we entered the funeral parlor the women running the establishment continued to call David "Chief". We had a laugh about that after. After the ceremony the head of the funeral parlor asked us for a number to reach us at. David gave them the number to a pizza parlor in Wells Maine.
Finally finished up the work on my medicine pouch.
Bought a new Rez Dogs cd.
I wish I could have more days like this.
*Randomness*
I wanted to relay to you a story David shared with us.
He has been asked many times to preform traditional ceremonies at funerals all over. Well a couple years back he was on the Mic Mac reservation he grew up on. Doing his thing. Well towards the beginning of the ceremony a fellow Mic Mac warrior shot off a flaming arrow into the sky. About thirty minutes latter there ceremony was disturbed by some locals in the distance making a commotion. Now as the majority of the tribe is at the funeral. They are feeling very disrespected by the noise and actions of some of the locals. Well come to find out the wind had carried the arrow quite a distance further then planned. Crashing threw the window of a house setting the whole house on fire.
( no one was hurt )
Those silly Mic Mac's. Never where known for there flaming arrow archery
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That arrow story is unbelievable!!
I think the work you and Four Directions are doing is awesome. Good for you! That story about the flaming arrow is pretty funny, really.
The Navajo is going slowly, but it's really exciting. My instructor doesn't know your tribe's language, I'm afraid. If you're interested in Navajo at all still, maybe I can find a way to get some materials to you. Since the pronunciation of the language is complicated, it's not something I can really represent online. I'm not even sure that mail would work. Most native languages seem so much more complex than European languages (which says something, in my humble opinion!) that you almost have to have an elder to teach you in order to really get it.