Showing posts with label Indigenous People. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indigenous People. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Chiracahua National Monument, AZ


 Chiracahua  is a most interesting landscape, the hoodoo central of Arizona. It lies in the southeastern part of the state,  not so arid as the remainder, but a grassy vast expanses of flatland, and distant rocky outcrops, hills, and mountains used by the Apache for refuge from the elements, from enemies, and  an elevated place to pray.

The Native American Apache People were forced to live in this torturous maze to survive the loss of the more productive lands by the aggression of waring neighbors, early white settlers,  and  the U.S. Government, who eventually took their land and destroyed their culture.

Golden eagles are common place here where they sometimes perch a top the electric poles. Sunsets are Golden across a Big country. The hustle of a crowded society does not exist here, only peace, the sound of a gentle wind, and silence.

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/apache/chiricahua.htm

Friday, May 28, 2010

The Inside Passage


We do not want schools....
they will teach us to have churches.
We do not want churches....
they will teach us to quarrel about God.
We do not want to learn that.
We may quarrel with men sometimes
about things on this earth,
but we never quarrel about God.
We do not want to learn that.

Heinmot Tooyalaket ( Chief Joseph), Nez Perce Leader

Monday, March 22, 2010

Ship Rock, New Mexico


I was told by one of the local Navajo, that a great bird from the north carried the early Navajo people to this place where it landed and turned into stone. Ship rock is the most unadvertised and unlabeled landmarks I've ever seen. Don't look for any signs. If it looks like ship Rock it probably is. I arrived late evening and drove around the huge chunk of desert pasture surrounding it, looking for some kind of ticket booth, maybe a park headquarters. Nope, maybe this isn't it I thought. I then drove down a long dirt road to its base. I said if this ain't it somebody made a hell of an imitation. Driving back to an old gas station to fix a flat I'd been airing up, I asked the attendant why no signs? He said "it doesn't need any". Asking if it was OK I went to take a look at it He said ,"you just came from there, I watched you from here" I said yea that's true but I'd like to go back. He replied "that would be OK I guess, just have respect for us on our land".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiprock 

Tuesday, March 16, 2010