Category: Western Movies

  • Then I Dreamed: Indigenous Past Lives

    Wind Prayer

    “Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.”
    ― Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks:
    Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux


    It’s not that I didn’t believe in Past Lives,

    I just saw no reason to place my attention upon such.

    Then … I started to Dream.

    Awakening

    In one dream, I saw I was Native in the Southwestern US.
    Before the time of the Whiteman.
    I dressed in white buckskin and I loved my beautiful wife.

    This may contain: an old native american man and woman smiling
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    It was an idyllic lifetime.

    Later …
    In 1988 I went at exposition of Native History and Culture
    at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary.
    It was called:

    The Spirit Sings

    As I wandered through the exhibits of Arts and images
    I found myself overwhelmed and I became very tired.
    I decided to lay down on a nearby bench.
    Suddenly I was lying on the ground in a Teepee.
    And as I looked up through the canopy
    where intertwined the support polls
    I could see the stars.

    I had been a plains Native.

    Spirit Renewed

    In a third dream:
    I was a Mayan woman standing in my small hut.
    I was pregnant …
    And when I gazed into the fire,
    I saw the face of a Master.
    Looking back at me.

    What can the mind know?
    Where only Spirit can go.

  • The Beauty of a Chinook Arch

    The Wayward Wind / Gogi Grant 1956

    In Alberta and elsewhere – like Montana and Colorado – we get this weather phenomenon we call Chinooks and Chinook Arches.

    Chinook Arch Definition:

    A Chinook arch is a striking weather phenomenon often seen along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains—especially around Calgary. It appears as a long, curved band of cloud stretching parallel to the mountains, usually with a sharp, clear boundary. This arch forms when warm, dry Chinook winds descend the mountains and create a high crest of air that shapes the cloud layer into that distinctive arc.

    At sunset these Arches often spectacular:

    WOW!
    We don’t mind them at all.


    Origins of the “Chinook”

    The word Chinook originally comes from the name of a Native American people of the Pacific Northwest—specifically a community in the Columbia River region of what is now Washington and Oregon. The term traces back to the Salishan language, where it referred to a particular village site.

    Wishham young woman, circa 1910. Chinookan Indians: Tlakluit; Washington. Head-and-shoulders portrait of young Wishham Indian woman, facing right,...

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