From Garbage Can Lid to Mask

One day the local hardware store had a garage sale and we found that we could get only garbage can lids without the cans. Our lids seem to always crack, probably because of our climate. We bought two kinds of lids and one kind fit and the other didn’t. Now…

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The Native American Zodiac

I came across this listing in a newsgroup and checked out the site where it came from and decided to place the info here. The info is from the book “Earth Medicine, a Shamanic way to Self Discovery” by Kenneth Meadows. Find your sign in the Native American Zodiac March…

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The White Buffalo

There was a long time where I hardly every thought of native American things until suddenly in early 92 I was ready to learn more again. I bought the book “Buffalo Woman Comes Singing” by Brooke Medicine Eagle. I just loved the book and when in 94 a white buffalo…

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My Introduction to Native Design

In August of 1978 I gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl. Once the children were around half a year I needed something to take my mind off taking care of them while they were napping. That’s when I remembered a page from a magazine…

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Karl May

My association with ‘Native’ was ‘Native American’. I had seen movies and read books by Karl May and had watched his movies where Pierre Briece, a French actor who played Winnetou (text is in German), the famous character from the May books. Here is a link to the website to…

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Who Was Kokopelli?

One summer I found in the reduced price bin at a local department store the book “She who remembers” by Linda Lay Shuler. I was immediately pulled into the story and later discovered that it was only the first in a series of 3 amazing books. What intrigued me was…

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