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DIGOWELI:
I would highly recommend "American Indian Contributions to the World: 15,000 Years of Inventions and innovations" by Emory Dean Keoke & Kay Marie Porterfield. Checkmark Books.
Ray Evans Harrell
JosephSWM:
Well Ray,
I don't care what anybody says, driving down the road to get work or to the grocery store or wherever I still like to listen to Keith Secola. His music just makes me feel good. Nothing wrong with that the way I see it.
Joseph
DIGOWELI:
Joseph,
Nothing wrong with old art or new traditional crafts. Entertainment is rewarding, moving and relaxing. Art very often is disturbing because it is difficult to understand at first. I think of the Huichol sculptures that effected Jimmy Durham. Or the Bacon paintings that stirred Fritz Scholder. I have heard Indian people claim that Louis Ballard was not composing Indian music because the only "Indian" music was traditional powwow. Powwows are wonderful social festivals but there is little complex art there because it doesn't sell or trade. On the other hand Scholder's Wounded Knee painting and Ballard's Wounded Knee suite are wrenching contemporary Indian expressions of our feelings. Joe Geschick's "Going Back Song" haunts the people who see it because it is so real. Like the magnificent stage performances of Jane Lind, an international Aleut Artist recognized by Peter Brook and Andre Serban but too often ignored by our own people. She performed the Greek Trilogy as Clytemnestra at the Greek theater at Epidoris. She knows more of our traditions than most Medicine people that I have met and when they meet her they acknowledge it as well. But, instead of her working constantly, we see the entertainers and local people who know little. The last I heard, Tahlequah blew it when they could have had a great traditional Artist do their "Trail of Tears" show. I had hoped they would have made a good choice but..........! Art is brutal and demands both truth and exceptional maturity.
Entertainment is great and is commercial. Real art is very rarely commercial, whether Indian or European. Real Art makes you grow and see your world through a more true vision than you would normally achieve by yourself.
It was John Fire Lame Deer who said that "Artists are the Indians of the White World."
I agree with that. John Fire was one of my father's two Sundance teachers. My father knew great art as well. Great art is always complex and has problems to solve. Entertainment is relaxing.
donada gohv'i
Ray Evans Harrell
educatedindian:
For anyone getting discouraged: I did a search last night, "plastic shamans." Found so many good sources and so much evidence the word is getting out to many people.
Good links I found with like minded people-
Plastic Shaman Tribe
http://www.tribe.net/tribe/d06cceac-a52e-4d73-8df1-c7a808a77d69
A lot of good people at Occult Forums who appreciated what we do.
http://www.occultforums.com/archive/index.php/t-9079.html
"Captain Granny" and a pretty good set of links.
http://groups.msn.com/RNOCNEBIGathering/cowboysplayingindian.msnw
The second half of the article Plastic Shamans and Astroturf Sundances, on the left.
http://www.thefting.info/identity-theft/20257.html
Rise of the Whiteshaman 25 Years Later
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/faculty/ASAIL/SAIL2/142.html
What others can do instead of being Nuage.
http://wanderingnative.bravehost.com/pages/Shortresponse.html
A Nuage Recovery Page which lists looking for warnings on frauds as one of their steps.
http://www.sparklinglotusink.com/newagerecoverypage2.html
And a pagan glossary. I include this only because they're using the word plastic as an insult too, plastic witch, etc.
http://www.denelder.com/glossary/p.html
educatedindian:
http://www.4world.org
The Fourth World are a great bunch who've helped quite a bit, are very involved in repatriation issues with the Swedish museums and support for the Sammi people.
There´s a site with a similar address who are not part of the Fourth World, thefourthworld.com, which sells Native art and seems to be run by someone whose part of a "Feather Clan gathering". Vaguely Nuagey from what I can see.
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