Hopi dancers Since time out of mind, the Hopi tribe maintained their customs, dances, beliefs, later resisted conversions by Catholic priests. Back in summer of ’61, we, the only two whites, stood quiet in the Oraibi plaza with reverent native villagers, to witness the ritual dances of men and boys of the Hopi Nation. For the warm-up dance to disparage the Spanish past, two Hopi men dressed in black robes as priests of conversion. Another played Christ with […]
Tag Archives | Indigenous leadership
Chiefs Rueben George and Phil Lane Jr. | The Fourth Way
An Indigenous strategy for building sustainable and harmonious prosperity in the Americas and beyond The Fourth Way is a movement of the Human Family to address the unfolding crisis of the 21st century, a crisis of multiple dimensions that has slowly revealed itself over the years since publishing the first draft of The Fourth Way in 2010. The dimensions and scope of this crisis are unprecedented: it is global and […]
Laura Golden | Lesson One
Costa Rica Already the straps of Alejandro’s backpack dig into his skin through his sweat-soaked shirt, but he doesn’t bother to shift the forty-pound bag of cement powder inside. What would be the point? They have at least another eight hours to trudge today, and again tomorrow, and possibly the next day, depending how well his unaccustomed crew holds up and how muddy the trail is beyond the river. Better […]
Bill Vernon | On a symbol of time
The canoes were bumping each other, 15 of them shifting with the current, crowded together behind the starting line, which was a white rope strung 20 feet up from one sycamore to another on the opposite bank. Dave in the back of our canoe had jammed his wide racing paddle among rocks on the bottom, anchoring us so we didn’t move forward but hovered, fluttering more or less in place […]
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