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Indigenous (6)
I've raised my children in several different western states and followed this procedure each time.First,I read their newspapers,then once I got the local details I'd call the local police department about the neighborhood I would rent in,school,crime,drugs etc.You eventually compile a moving in phone list-landlord,utilities,etc.
Here's the best part of changing locations,IMHO,I study the original history at the local museum,why did other people move there,who were they culturally.Then I dig through maps and follow what nature provided before it was deemed a natural resource.I compare what uses it had for the indigenous people.Every time I found ghosts of the victims of greed,the wars,the hangings,disease,forts,extermination and attempted genocide.But I met in the flesh beautiful loving women:descendants of the indigenous,the immigrants' daughter who became a 1st generation American,city girls turned school marms,the store bought brides,cowgirls,artists,musicians,ministers of religions,healers,widows and mothers.They were women I met through performing daily assistance and hospice care located in the Teton Mountains,which divide Wyoming and Idaho,with Montana adjacent.
Their stories were of their childhood,becoming botanists,writers,
botanists,sacred pipe carriers-would never referred to themselves as "Settlers".Couldn't imagine them settling for the world as it is now.
I have always believed we can facilitate peace here and maintain a global family.If we don't cowtow* to greed.(*Which means to be servile to it)
Men do not expect us to be humanitarians without their support.We can stop being predictable,politically correct and stand for unifying principles-Let's be ingenious,anything but settlers.
Jean Craighead George
Mardi Murie
Ellen Dornan
Nola
The Betty's,Helen Wittmer
Other links about Moose,Wyoming would be Google images for Signal Mountain,Jenny's Lake,Dornan's Resort and the Betty's and Helene Wittmer.Their ranching neighbors include:
Jean Craighead George who's written My Side of the Mountain,turned into a family classic movie.Her life was spent in activism as well being a prolific children's book writer.She traveled to Alaska with her son to research wolves.Both sons had their research on grizzly bears documented by National Geographic Films.
Mardie Murie and Olaus honeymooned by dogsled and canoe while he researched caribou,later elk for Wyoming.When he passed away she continued activism and gave speeches and attended hearings.see Wikipedia.Grandmother of Conservation Movement.
Nola Brown deserves my gratitude as well as Ellen Dornan for sharing their childhood stories about dude ranching,tourists,mountain climbers and dance hall brawls.Her ranch and home are located nearby
Double Diamond Dude Ranch,also known as Climbers' Ranch is a historical site also.
The Glenn Exum and Paul Petzold biographies also overlap this period of time as well.From their adventures as teens to creating the Exum Mountaineering School and NOH Outward Bound Program and the National Outdoor Leadership school.
The kindest landlord I ever had was a driftboat fishing guide for Dornans on the Snake River.We lived in the cabins he relocated from the city of Jackson Hole to Wilson,Wyoming.They were originally owned by a famous 1930s actor,known for gambling/Poker back in the day.
The Dornans daughter Reade edited a clever book about both the learned art of gambling in miners' camps, and Wildlife Conservation at the Elk Refuge. "Preserving the Game". J.R.Jones,Reade Dornan
The Elk Refuge is a Fall season stop,for people from all over the world as it is at the entrance to Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone.Once the snow is deep enough the give you a tour by sleigh ride among the Elk.
Jackson Hole,Grand Teton Mountains film locations for: Spencer's Mountain,(Falls Creek)River Runs Through It,Shane
About Native Americans-I would like to say they hold very prestigious positions now,but have the anguish of knowing it was always THEIR power to own and their ancestors. As with Africans, Polynesians,basically any of the origin occupants have been f-ed with;piece by piece robbed of self identity but not their souls. Begging for Peace never halts the others' rules of escalation and war,ceaseless until every person will live in abject poverty.
There is no disconnect for them;ancestors arise in their Ghost Dance songs,dances,and sweats.
It is called "Historical Trauma".For those unwilling to stop romanticizing Indians as something more than yourself and not natural,then at least acknowledge governments have always killed women and children."Brave" behavior is instinctual.No one wants to be a hunting trophy.Symbolically or otherwise.
I chose cultures/communities to open dialogues so we can show compassion and support on real life events.
I recommend starting out with humor,their own comediennes the 1491s.
Great reference to before Columbus and can be Earthy.So no more living with stereotypes,please let us understand each other better.
There are scammers,indecent proposals that pop up on CS they do not require hatred.Evil can lurk in any gender,color,etc.Fear will not bring humanity closer together.Enjoy what I've shared, and laugh.
If you read my profile:
They are a Snake and a Coyote.
My mind meanders like a river in solitude.
And I always renew myself,let -roll off me.(Snake)
Let go,forgive,be flexible.
Coyote is a trickster,the joke is made at her own expense.Whatever's clever enough to entice her,the folly of curiosity,better than boredom.Words do entice me right over
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