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Children
I have given a number of talks over the last month or so, and am grateful for the platform granted by this book. Last night I had the privilege of speaking to a group of children aged around eleven a… more →
Bushman Winter
Paradox Machine(Fringe fic, starring Sam Weiss)
wrote 5 days ago: Sam Weiss was a man unstuck from time. In a long line, his family had passed on the secrets of the … more →
Young Tlingit Dancer
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Saxman Native Village
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Our choice for our Ketchikan shore excursion was a visit to the Saxman Native Village. Our tour vouc … more →
First Peoples Deserve More than Victoria Day Second Billing
wrote 4 weeks ago: By Jason Menard Their hearts are in the right place, but their heads? The on-line petition requestin … more →
Ancient Gold Mining
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wrote 1 month ago: More research has revealed many anomalous artifacts that overturns the conclusions in conventional t … more →
Children
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wrote 1 month ago: I have given a number of talks over the last month or so, and am grateful for the platform granted b … more →
Medicine River, by Thomas King
wrote 1 month ago: Medicine River, by Thomas King. Penguin Books (2006). Paperback, 264 pages Another wonderful novel b … more →
Great Poets of the region
wrote 1 month ago: Nancy MorejonKamau BraithwaiteFaustin Charles Claude McKay – Jamaica Faustin Charles -Trinidad … more →
How True Blue Are You? (Or, a self-righteous rant about what is Australian)
wrote 1 month ago: Yesterday was Anzac Day, so I took my husband to the local pub to meet a friend there and to let him … more →
The Bushman Winter Has Come
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wrote 2 months ago: I was asked what I hoped people would take away from this book . . . well . . . my hope is to add to … more →
Talking with people
wrote 2 months ago: I was invited by Prof Boonzaier to give a seminar at the University of Pretoria last week, and embra … more →
First People has included me in its poetry section .....
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wrote 3 months ago: http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/poemsidx.html Mine are in the section at the bottom and hav … more →
Oh, Canada! Home of the thunderbirds & nudists!
wrote 3 months ago: Once I hitchhiked to Canada years ago before 9/11, before the border restrictions no passport necess … more →
Sam's House at Pine Island Conservation Area Revisited
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wrote 3 months ago: Sam’s House @ Pine Island A couple of years ago I wrote a post about Sam’s House at Pine … more →
Indigenous People & Bison
wrote 3 months ago: The relationship with the bison was the heart of the traditional way of life for many of the First P … more →
Pygmies: first Peoples or marginalised minorities?
wrote 3 months ago: This is a precis I wrote in 2004 of a paper by the leading expert on hunter gatherers, James Woodbur … more →
blogs worth reading: celebrating Indigenous Australians
wrote 4 months ago: Indigenous Voices – hosted by the State Library of Queensland The National Centre for Indigeno … more →
More rocks from Nunavut
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wrote 4 months ago: Snow this morning! Lovely. Unfortunately I’m not able to get out in it and play—I’m … more →
Closing the Gap
wrote 4 months ago: So today the Prime Minister gave the Annual “Closing the Gap” speech. I personally hate … more →
