Preserving Hopi Identity and Our Hope, One Word at a Time

(Photo associated with a 19th Century U.S. idea about “Manifest Destiny”; entitled “American Progress,” Autry National Center [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons This is a hopeful story about a small Native American tribe, the Hopi….

Lakota Language Being Saved By The Young

It calls to the heart when you see young people stepping up to save their treasured cultural heritage. Here’s a prime example, a video featured on the United Nations Human Rights page ( http://www.standup4humanrights.org/en/highlights.html). Background,…

A shamanic drumming for cowboys– What If?

If “Manifest Destiny” had never happened, if attitudes had been open, tolerant and less judgmental, just imagine what it could have been like…   Aho & Namaste, Bob Original image from circa 1930’s comic, then…