tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125600823640906022.post3616179428490146400..comments2023-11-02T01:55:53.560-07:00Comments on Leaping Beauty: i think they were on to something...Gazellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01826495805108168206noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125600823640906022.post-53778164339552115562008-01-26T21:20:00.000-08:002008-01-26T21:20:00.000-08:00Thanks Kim for the Cree info - I've read about a n...Thanks Kim for the Cree info - I've read about a number Native American tribes but didn't know much about the Cree. One thing's for sure, that quote is spot on.Gazellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01826495805108168206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125600823640906022.post-78658459506014053832008-01-25T13:44:00.000-08:002008-01-25T13:44:00.000-08:00Awesome, awesome, awesome. What a great juxtaposit...Awesome, awesome, awesome. What a great juxtaposition!<BR/><BR/>The quote is part of the "Warriors of the Rainbow" prophecy, and was originally spoken by an elder Cree woman, named Eyes of Fire. I'm not sure exactly when she said this, but some interesting things happened to the Cree peoples during the fur trade in American/Indian history. As the region was getting trapped out and different European and Indian tribal groups were either bonding or fighting together, many of the French male fur traders took up with the Cree women. They started their own society and branched out. This improved relations and survival rates for both groups. They are now called the Metis (but there are less than a 1000 of them today). They created their own complete language, called Metchif (or Michif), which is one of a handful of languages of its type– belonging to two completely separate language families at once(which is especially rare and impressive when you consider that there are over 6500 languages spoken today and 99.99% of them formed by branching off of singular lines).<BR/><BR/>This is the kind of stuff we studied in one of my linguistics classes at Cal. I mention it because it is a good example of positive things (quotes, widsom, language, culture, nations) arising out of desperate times. The fur trapping situation of North American history in a lot of ways is not unlike our struggles for resources and preservation or propogation of culture. <BR/><BR/>They were indeed on to something.Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09697629733634727065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125600823640906022.post-59735916208983235422008-01-24T14:58:00.000-08:002008-01-24T14:58:00.000-08:00shit we're even growin corn these days so people c...shit we're even growin corn these days so people can drive their car to sevs to get a big gulp.<BR/><BR/>all the while shitloads of people are perishing from diarreah beacause they can't get clean water?<BR/><BR/>we are neither humane nor rational beingsrashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02151005500315869172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125600823640906022.post-86027056464266492352008-01-23T08:50:00.000-08:002008-01-23T08:50:00.000-08:00So true.So true.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17797566981867350734noreply@blogger.com