Welcome to November. We're getting closer to having survived 2020. Two months to go, t-shirts and trinkets are already available. But enough of this silliness.
November is National American Indian Heritage Month. Other informative web sites include:
American Indian Cultural Corridor, Minneapolis
Photo by J. Harrington
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Locally, we would suggest a visit to Birchbark Books, but they're online and phone orders only due to COVID-19. You might take a look at Minneapolis' American Indian Cultural Corridor on Franklin Avenue. The Minnesota Humanities Center hosts the bdote memory map while the Historical Society has information on both the Dakota and the Ojibwe peoples. There's also an Ojibwe People's Dictionary.
Joy Harjo - 1951-
Remember the sky that you were born under,
know each of the star's stories.
Remember the moon, know who she is.
Remember the sun's birth at dawn, that is the
strongest point of time. Remember sundown
and the giving away to night.
Remember your birth, how your mother struggled
to give you form and breath. You are evidence of
her life, and her mother's, and hers.
Remember your father. He is your life, also.
Remember the earth whose skin you are:
red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth
brown earth, we are earth.
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their
tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them,
listen to them. They are alive poems.
Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows the
origin of this universe.
Remember you are all people and all people
are you.
Remember you are this universe and this
universe is you.
Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you.
Remember language comes from this.
Remember the dance language is, that life is.
Remember.
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Please be kind to each other while you can.
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