Category: First Nations

• Identity and Art Making

  

  I took the afternoon off to attend, via webcast, the Seizing the Sky: Redefining American Art symposium at the National Museum of the American Indian. The symposium honored the work of Kay Walkingstick, an American painter of Cherokee descent, who is the subject of a monumental retrospective at the museum. Hopefully, the entire symposium will…

  Michael Watson PhD

  November 5, 2015

  Arts, native american

  Arts, Kay Walkingstick, Native American, painting

• We are Still Here

  

  This morning dawned warm and bright, with autumn’s colors seemingly more prevalent across the landscape than they were last evening. While today is forecast to be in the mid-seventies, there is talk of snow in the mountains by the weekend. Today is Columbus Day,  a good day to consider the history of European influence in…

  Michael Watson PhD

  October 12, 2015

  First Nations

  columbus day, First Nations, genocide, healing, Native American

• Moccasin Tracks Radio Podcast

  Autumn is slowly unfurling across the landscape.  After a record warm September the weather has turned cool and damp. I found myself wearing a winter jacket to farmers’ market, and still being cold. Here is the Podcast from last week’s visit to Moccasin Tracks Radio: http://moccasintracksradio.podomatic.com/entry/2015-10-05T09_28_58-07_00  

  Michael Watson PhD

  October 6, 2015

  native american, Shamanism, Teaching

  Native American, Shamanism, stories

• Conversing Identities

  The rains have finally returned, refreshing the Earth and spurring the trees into leaf change. Now, as seems to be the pattern following dry late summers, we carefully watch a hurricane as it moves close to the coast. I awoke a little after 6 this morning; the world was still dark, and rain drummed lightly…

  Michael Watson PhD

  September 30, 2015

  First Nations, native american, Stories, Teaching

  colonialism, First Nations, identity, Native American, stories