Wind is whispering Where are you? A song Of longing Is whispering in the wind Wind is whispering Another drink of tea Your memory is clear As if you were here Today Polishing your jewelry With such passion And commitment As you listen to KGVA The White Clay and Nakota radio Peeling teepee poles As you share Stories of the River Crow Making teepee pins While you explain each ring […]
The Tracker: an Aboriginal character study
The Tracker (2002) is a powerful Australian drama written and directed by Rolf De Heer (Ten Canoes, Dingo). Set in the Australian outback in 1922, the film tells the story of a racist white policeman (Gary Sweet) and his half-willing posse, who have pressed an Aboriginal man (David Gulpilil) into service to hunt down the accused killer of a white woman. Viewers readily empathize with the predicament of the Tracker, […]
Jared Diamond: Why study traditional societies?
Why do we find “traditional” societies so fascinating?[1] Partly, it’s because of their human interest: the fascination of getting to know people who are so similar to us and understandable in some ways, and so unlike us and hard to understand in other ways. When I arrived in New Guinea for the first time, in 1964 at the age of 26, I was struck by the exoticness of New Guineans: […]
Arundhati Roy: They call it progress
I’ll start in the early 1990s, not long after capitalism won its war against Soviet Communism in the bleak mountains of Afghanistan. The Indian government, which was for many years one of the leaders of the nonaligned movement, suddenly became a completely aligned country and began to call itself the natural ally of the U.S. and Israel. It opened up its protected markets to global capital. Most people [at this […]
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