Culture
Healing Cultural Wounds is a Community Effort
Honoring indigenous people and the wisdom they have kept for millennia needs to be a year-round practice. All humans have an indigenous ancestry and for some it is buried in a distant past. Those who practice and keep these traditions today maintain a connection to all of humanity’s roots, while Read more…
Culture
How a Hopi Elder Changed My Life
Secluded in the Painted Desert of the Southwest, the Hopi are a private but open-hearted, indigenous Nation that have preserved one of the most ancient cultures in North America. They are essentially an oral tradition people which means that they have other ways of keeping their history than written words which Read more…
Culture
Hopeful Prophecy Enacted Part 2
Ancient prophecies in modern times have already come to pass, setting the stage for a much needed global transformation in consciousness. Can humans self-fulfill our prophecies and dreams for the future? If so, do obsessions with Armegeddon and the apocalypse serve us? It is fatalism and laziness to assume that Read more…
Culture
Hopeful Prophecy Enacted
*Updated, 1/31/2014* Many prophecies that are positive and hopeful have been misrepresented or not even mentioned by mainstream media. The Maya 2012 Prophecies have been seen through a Christian, Indo-European lens as armageddon or apocalyptic whereas these cosmologies didn’t really exist to traditional Maya. Maya are not extinct at all Read more…
Art
Reggae in Indian Country With Casper From Hopi-Land
Musicians just love combining diverse cultural elements into creating fresh new sounds through instrumentation, rhythms, or lyrics. Live music has the ability to bring people together across cultures like no other art form. Some formats, like Blues, Jazz, Funk, and Reggae are especially welcoming to diverse ethnic and cultural flavors. Read more…