Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A Call to Remember, Least We Forget!!!
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SUNDANCE
Tiny little specks gather meekly in a circle, way down below the radiance of the unrelenting stare of the sundance…A bloody inglorious ritual or so has come many a rumors’ beginning of the infidels persistence, it began before time. Every year at the zenith of the sun, the free and common beings will pray in…
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Echoed Back from the Stars
He stood in the dark of night, snow dropping down upon him, tears in his eyes while singing a song of mourning, it echoed back from the stars, the moon rushed to join in with him, the wolves and coyotes backed him up, even, the trees served as percussion sounds, the wind increased to carry…
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Father, Got it For Me
Tatanka, the Dakota word for buffalo became the name i gave to my black stallion. He was a gift from my Father, who bought him with his Dakota friend on a road trip through New Mexico. It was such a nice present from my Dad, who travelled a lot, so, I came to really treasure…
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Us Birds!!!
The Crow shouts out, into the empty air, to whomever can hear! Or, within listening range. “I’m here, I want that, get away!” The Bluejay imitates the attacking Hawks’ call, so, well, as to have the feeder all alone and it works, so good, the passing Hawk, starts looking for the prey. The Cardinal tells…
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Bookends; They just hold up them Books!
Words, can say so much, can start fights, wars, love, affairs, business deals, careers and still can say nothing much at all! Can stop love, feuds. Can stop fear, ignorance, and traffic. Words, can get one elected, fired, misunderstood or admired. Words need speakers, writers, listeners, in literary forms vocal and recorded, or just spoken…
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Another One lost…
Another one lost, took their own life, leaving us behind, quick to meet so many ahead, love took flight, just ran out the door, love lost again, empty place gets bigger, tears rolling, moments turn into years, gone, way too early, but age don’t dictate results, sorrow slams my face, sadness don’t want happy to…
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Buffalo UnAlone
excerpts from episode one of the Buffalo Show@Bryant Lake Bowl, Lake St. Mpls, MN. Apr. 25, 2017 You see me here, right now, at this present moment, old graying, wrinkled, pot-belly mixed blood Dakota elder, speaking english, wearing contemporary clothes in this urban place, but, I’m not alone, never alone, says the orphan, look back…
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The Buffalo Show, April 29, 2017
Well, now, that the buffalo has stampeded down Lake Street and the first show is getting edited by Tiana LaPointe of InProgress for our initial broadcast @ our Oyate Hotanin YouTube channel and on oyatehotanin.org website approximately mid-may…Buffalo so happy and appreciative of all who work on this new adventure variety show, we hope to…
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BUFFALOS RULE
Tatanka, (buffalo) ruled the underworld according to the oral history of the Dakota. For a long time, we Dakota lived inside the earth, for it wasn’t habitable above. (Today, the Hauvasupi Nation live three miles down, inside the earth and have lived there since before Columbus, in the Grand Canyon of Arizona.) Tatanka was the…
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