NAFPS Forum
General => Research Needed => Topic started by: Epiphany on April 07, 2011, 12:40:15 am
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Jan is an Indian elder of Cree, French, and Nez Perce ancestry.
“Hummingbird Stands” Lodge is housed in a twenty-four foot Crow tipi on her farm near Rainer, Washington.
Quotes from her bio: http://www.gatheringofcircles.com/2005/2005_speaker.htm (http://www.gatheringofcircles.com/2005/2005_speaker.htm)
Her Hummingbird Stands Lodge: http://hummingbirdstandslodge.com/index.php (http://hummingbirdstandslodge.com/index.php)
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She recently led talking circles at the Quinault Reservation for a gathering of three hundred Washington State employees
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Some people reading this would assume this means Jan Syr is special because she supposedly got permission and support from the Quinault Nation to lead talking circles for a large group of people who are special because they work for the state.
But most likely it just means she helped moderate a convention type group, maybe with ceremonial flourishes, at the Quinault Beach Resort and Casino. http://www.quinaultbeachresort.com/meetings_capacities.html (http://www.quinaultbeachresort.com/meetings_capacities.html). Probably as part of a larger event.