Over the next few weeks I am visiting west and southwest US reserves, ceded, and unceded landscapes. The western viewscape easily holds my attention for hours. Yet, while driving, I am bound to turn to the radio. A couple hours south of the Paskentia landscape I listened to Martin Kaste, of NPR, doing a piece on Tribal … Continue reading Trusting We Matter to Our Siblings
Beloved Creation
Quail are a good measure of the day’s cold. Each evening a covey settles in the wild willows west of home near the cattle’s water trough. During summers height they sometimes don’t make it back from the wonder of a day’s wandering and instead roost in the bramble of a long-abandoned irrigation ditch. Walking by them on a … Continue reading Beloved Creation
Becoming Place
When talking about US racism the words colonialism and assimilation are often used interchangeably. Fair enough. After all, the goal of State colonialization is that people, all people, integrate State values as their own. Oppressed and privileged alike learn to accept US ideology, laws, values, and religion as if they are natural. Colonialism is the practice of assimilation—subtle and forced. … Continue reading Becoming Place
You—We
clouds held predawn,siblings no longer, sky and earth, become one. before light of distinction imagination unbinds. You. were there. sibling, friend, one of ground,one of sky,bound by ancestors,freed by family. solstice, the fifth season,unfetters the mystical,existence becomes singular. We.are one. imagination is truth,friendship is kinship,siblings one.
Chewing the Cud 