Indigenous Science
How to become an indigenous, activity, place-based thinker able to understand larger problems in the cluttered world of today.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
catching up. Whew!
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
New look, New material coming soon!
Sunday, March 6, 2011
I have been working at flintknapping for the last couple weeks. It is pretty challenging, and not as hard as it seems it could be. I have a few things to figure out, and I will be able to teach this a whole lot better. Sorry for the lack of posts over the last couple years, lots of things going on to take up my time. Back to blogging here and there. The science behind all of this knapping technology would encompass geology of the area, knowing where to get the best rock available for this type of work (making arrowheads), and then the break characteristics of the stone itself. Physics, i guess, in the way silica based rock breaks in a conchoidal (looks like a shell) fracture. I will put up some pics of my notcher/pressure flaker and the billets i have made. Some copied, but all made by myself.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Another Book for the list
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Information about my tribe
Here is the link:
http://therezweliveon.com
Friday, March 20, 2009
Blending of Art and Science.
I have a quote sent to me by a good friend, who in his wisdom was able to make sense out of my ramblings and found a written western example where all spirits are sort of reconciled, and I think it's pretty gran, so I'll add it here. One note, though, I am sort of non-denominational, call myself a catholic because of cultural reasons (ask me) and I actually have quite a number of Bahai's as friends. This is a tribute to their ideals, morals and just plain good-peopleness. They know who they are!
Non-existence therefore is an expression applied to change of form, but this transformation can never be rightly considered annihilation, for the elements of composition are ever present and existent as we have seen in the journey of the atom through successive kingdoms, unimpaired; hence there is no death; life is everlasting. So to speak, when the atom entered into the composition of the tree, it died to the mineral kingdom, and when consumed by the animal, it died to the vegetable kingdom, and so on until its transference or transmutation into the kingdom of man; but throughout its traversing it was subject to transformation and not annihilation. Death therefore is applicable to a change or transference from one degree or condition to another. In the mineral realm there was a spirit of existence; in the world of plant life and organisms it reappeared as the vegetative spirit; thence it attained the animal spirit and finally aspired to the human spirit. These are degrees and changes but not obliteration; and this is a rational proof that man is everlasting, everliving. Therefore death is only a relative term implying change. For example, we will say that this light before me, having reappeared in another incandescent lamp, has died in the one and lives in the other. This is not death in reality. The perfections of the mineral are translated into the vegetable and from thence into the animal, the virtue always attaining a plus or superlative degree in the upward change. In each kingdom we find the same virtues manifesting themselves more fully, proving that the reality has been transferred from a lower to a higher form and kingdom of being. Therefore non-existence is only relative and absolute non-existence inconceivable. This rose in my hand will become disintegrated and its symmetry destroyed, but the elements of its composition remain changeless; nothing affects their elemental integrity. They cannot become non-existent; they are simply transferred from one state to another.
Through his ignorance, man fears death; but the death he shrinks from is imaginary and absolutely unreal; it is only human imagination.
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As to the existence of spirit in the mineral: it is indubitable that minerals are endowed with a spirit and life according to the requirements of that stage. This unknown secret, too, hath become known unto the materialists who now maintain that all beings are endowed with life, even as He saith in the Qur'án, "All things are living."
-- Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'í World Faith
Shey Hoyff
Monday, March 16, 2009
Movies
Shey hoy.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
St Louis Arch
It also starts to beg the question of why there are no national monuments to NATIVE AMERICAN heroes and feats. Why not a monument to Chief Joseph, Geronimo, or Black Elk? Is there a library dedicated to Vine Deloria or N. Scott Momaday? Does the philosophy department on any campus have a room or building named for V.F. Cordova? Are native artists like Terry Gardipee or DG House asked to be faculty or invited to shows just like the non-native artists? Is there a research plot named for the advances in plant genetics that gave us corn, squash, potatoes and beans? None of these things (which by the way feed many of the people on this ol' rock currently) has ever been given adequate praise and recognition.
Native peoples have had more done to them in the name of both good and bad and survived all of them, and still maintain our core beliefs. Bioterrism, genocide, warfare of all kinds we have suffered, yet the bones of our ancestors still support and guide us through our lives.
I'm not saying today, or tomorrow, but sooner or later the principles which native peoples use to better and maintain their lives will parrallel what the mainstream believes.
Enough for today, Shey Hoy
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Strawberry Corn/
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Back in Business
Until then, be indigenous to where you are.