An exploration of my pantheistic beliefs. Day 3 of the Emerson “Self-Reliance” project.
Tag Archive: Lakota
A New First
My first ever piece of flash fiction is published in Glossolalia Magazine! Yeah!
Remnants
The looming memorial of the September 11, 2001 tragedy has me thinking about things left behind.
In the “Nought”ies I:
Many of the things that I did in the Naughts Decade. I probably left out a bunch, but anyway.
The Stranger In Me
Although it’s been weeks since I’ve seen it, I’m still thinking about the movie The Brave One. Jodie Foster repeats throughout the film that after the horrific trauma she went through, it was like a new person emerged in her. Someone who was capable of doing things that she never would have dreamed of doing…
Braids for Uma
February 14, 2007 dear friends, the Lakota have a beautiful story behind braiding one’s hair. culturally, the hair is symbolic of a person’s spirit and that is why indians always traditionally have long hair. this is why the violent assimilation projects involved cutting an indians hair. braids are very special too. they are sacred. one…
Food for Thought
Yesterday, I did my yearly Thanksgiving Prayer Fast in honour of the world’s indigenous peoples who still struggle under colonial rule and whose genocide continues to go mostly unnoticed. The irony of the day never escaped me. That we celebrate one day of the year to give thanks to the peoples whose lands were stolen,…
Monthly Mourning
The Lakota believe that when a woman is on her period it is her time of monthly mourning. That her body knows the potential for a new life will be lost and on a very deep and primal level, she mourns that loss. This is their explanation for menstrual mood swings and all of the…
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