Navajo Nation Reacts to Children at Border
I am currently camping out near the Four Corners area of Colorado. I picked up a Navajo Nation newspaper, and I noted an article citing the Navajo Nation's reaction [...]
An excerpt from “Concerning Smoke” by Jordan Paper
“The bowl of the pipe is a sacrificial vessel that itself is a miniature cosmos. Often tobacco is added pinch by pinch, each explicitly dedicated to the [...]
Quotations from Black Elk, Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Black Elk was a holy man of the Oglala Sioux. The following quotes are from Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala [...]
Order and Connection, A Quote from Vine Deloria Jr.
“…From observing the world around them, they could see orderly processes that marked the way organic life behaved. From the obvious motions of the sun and moon to the [...]
War, Peace, Reconciliation, by Glenda Taylor
This article, War, Peace, Reconciliation, is by Glenda Taylor, who notes: "I wrote this in 1989, but amazingly, as I read it in the year 2018, it is as [...]
Chinook Blessing
We call upon those who have lived on this earth, Our ancestors and our friends, Who dreamed the best for future generations And upon whose lives our lives are built, [...]
Four Corners
"I stand, silent and in awe, before the mystery and uniqueness of each tradition and each individual and hold them sacrosanct in their way of being." Glenda Taylor I [...]
Prison
On November 28, 1990, Glenda Taylor, at the request of a prison chaplain, addressed the assembled staff of the federal prison at Bryan, Texas, speaking on the subject of [...]