Posted on January 6, 2009 by Nanu
I personally dislike the label “reservation” or “reserve” because it makes me think of a zoo, a habitat for wildlife observation at a safe distance. This was the idea behind indigenous reservations originally. That is why so many different nations were stuffed into the same lands, but that’s a history lesson for another time… Although, [...]
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Posted on December 23, 2008 by Nanu
This post was originally published on La Diva Latina .com. Reposted here with the Author’s permission… With the Holidays upon us, families across the Caribbean and beyond will soon be serving up all manner of traditional meals. On the island of Boriken ( Puerto Rico ) for example, no traditional holiday feast would be compete [...]
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Posted on November 22, 2008 by Nanu
Examiner.com posted this article regarding Thanksgiving and towards the end exhorts people, not to quit the celebration, but to share the Truth of it’s history. The only concern I have with the telling of the “Truth” of Thanksgiving is the vast amounts of “Truths” out there! Even among the links at the bottom of the [...]
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Posted on October 31, 2008 by Nanu
Today is the last day of my birthmonth so I’m gonna end it with fun, laughter and crashing from a sugar high!! Happy Halloween to all!!!
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Posted on October 1, 2008 by Nanu
I found this fearful, ethnocentric post on the web. This article claims to have been written by Tim Giago, president of the Native American Journalists Foundation and the publisher of Indian Education Today Magazine. I am not a professional writer, but this piece seems to lack the polish of someone of such high distinction, so [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2008 by Nanu
In our home we celebrate birthmonths instead of birthdays…it’s more fun that way!!
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Posted on July 21, 2007 by Nanu
My purpose for blogging is so that I can safely revisit my past, my childhood and all the experiences that helped make me who I am. I want to disentangle those things in my spirit that were hard to live through, those things that at times I refused to experience and escaped from in one way or another. I want [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2007 by Nanu
Recently, my little brother, T., bought himself an interesting book titled The Dangerous Book for Boys. He had just purchased the book when I met up with him and he was still basking in the glow of excitement. He flipped quickly through the pages, showing me images of knots, paper airplanes and other instructions of [...]
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