Category: native american
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It’s Deer Season and Native American Heritage Month!
November is Native American Heritage Month and deer season. There are innumerable resources on the web if you want to learn more about Native America, and lots of old timers about who will tell you stories of deer camp. Today is a stereotypical New England November day, overcast, damp, and chilly. Being the end of…
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Humor: When Cultures Go Bump In the Night
Humor is at the heart of many shamanic traditions around the world. Indeed, Indigenous people, contrary to popular perception, are very funny. We like to laugh; at the same time, our humor often has teeth. A splendid example of this is the writing of Sherman Alexi. Another, more recent set of poignant, heartbreaking, often hilarious…
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In Good Faith
The other evening I received a distressing phone call. It was one of those calls that stuns: confusing, painful, and shaming; it was also a misunderstanding, a misreading of an action I had taken in good faith. The caller’s response was understandable given what I now know, although their approach to addressing the problem was…
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