Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Sunday, July 26, 2020
Saturday, July 4, 2020
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Traveling with "The Green Book" during the Jim Crow era
I have to admit I didn't know this book existed and why?
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
DL Hughley -Passes out on stage. Why? Covid
This is a perfect reason why EVERYONE should wear a MASK and WASH YOUR HANDS.
Passes out on stage. Goes To Hospital. Tests positive for Covid-19 and he was asymptomatic
Sunday, June 21, 2020
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Monday, June 15, 2020
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Saturday, June 13, 2020
Friday, June 12, 2020
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Monday, June 8, 2020
Sunday, June 7, 2020
Saturday, June 6, 2020
Friday, June 5, 2020
Sunday, May 17, 2020
Health beliefs, cultural perceptions of grandmothers - Six Nations reser...
How can you not feel the love and see, and hear the beauty in this poem?
Poem written and performed by Tahnee Wilson.
Friday, May 15, 2020
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Friday, May 8, 2020
Monday, May 4, 2020
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Pete Davidson The Rapper -Stuck in the House - SNL
I can't get this melody out of my head now. Damn you Pete Davidson!
Saturday, April 25, 2020
Friday, April 24, 2020
Journey - Don't Stop Believin' (Live in Houston)
I dedicate this song to one of my colleagues. It's his all time favourite.
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Saturday, April 18, 2020
Thursday, April 16, 2020
#MakeupBrushChallenge #AkwesasneTV #HonoringMMIW
A community member reached out to ATV to help make a "Makeup Brush Challenge" in honor of all
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women/Girls. Take a look!
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
SNGR Health Beat Radio Show: April 15, 2020 (Covid-19)
This show is all about Covid-19. It is informative, factual and addresses many questions that people might have. So glad Covid-19 was addressed in this radio show. Well done!
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Ageless 'Tale of the Giant Bear' (3 minutes)
Put this on full screen and then sit back and enjoy. Their is no age limit when it comes to simple pleasures. There is such beauty in the simplicity of the music and illustrations.
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Raven known as environmental protector.
University of Manitoba environment and geography professor Steph McLachlan received funding from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research as part of a COVID-19 Rapid Response Program. One of the first projects he commissioned is a public health video delivered in Cree by a raven puppet.
It's Phyllis Hart's job to translate the English script into Cree. The elder and educator said she's happy to be involved in the project, laughing as she explains how hard it can be to find the right words. "It's essential to get this information across in every possible way, and the language, the humour that the peoples share with one another, so they have an understanding," Hart said, adding non-Indigenous people may not "get" the humour.
Cree-speaking raven puppet gives COVID-19 health information.
University of Manitoba environment and geography professor Steph McLachlan received funding from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research as part of a COVID-19 Rapid Response Program. One of the first projects he commissioned is a public health video delivered in Cree by a raven puppet.
Saturday, April 11, 2020
Thursday, April 9, 2020
My favorite activity was reading to students, of all ages. Read with passion to your students, it makes a difference.
Iktomi and the Muskrat
A Native American Folktale (Lakota)
https://www.worldoftales.com/Native_American_folktales/Native_American_Folktale_39.html
You can relax and listen as well, if you have a Mac.
Just highlight text,
Go to edit drop down menu,
Click on speech
Then select start speaking.
You can relax and listen as well, if you have a Mac.
Just highlight text,
Go to edit drop down menu,
Click on speech
Then select start speaking.
Beside a white lake, beneath a large grown willow tree, sat Iktomi on the bare ground. The heap of smouldering ashes told of a recent open fire. With ankles crossed together around a pot of soup, Iktomi bent over some delicious boiled fish.
Fast he dipped his black horn spoon into the soup, for he was ravenous. Iktomi had no regular meal times. Often when he was hungry he went without food.
Well hid between the lake and the wild rice, he looked nowhere save into the pot of fish. Not knowing when the next meal would be, he meant to eat enough now to last some time.
"How, how, my friend!" said a voice out of the wild rice. Iktomi started. He almost choked with his soup. He peered through the long reeds from where he sat with his long horn spoon in mid-air.
"How, my friend!" said the voice again, this time close at his side. Iktomi turned and there stood a dripping muskrat who had just come out of the lake.
"Oh, it is my friend who startled me. I wondered if among the wild rice some spirit voice was talking. How, how, my friend!" said Iktomi. The muskrat stood smiling. On his lips hung a ready "Yes, my friend," when Iktomi would ask, "My friend, will you sit down beside me and share my food?"
That was the custom of the plains people. Yet Iktomi sat silent. He hummed an old dance-song and beat gently on the edge of the pot with his buffalo-horn spoon. The muskrat began to feel awkward before such lack of hospitality and wished himself under water.
After many heart throbs Iktomi stopped drumming with his horn ladle, and looking upward into the muskrat's face, he said:
"My friend, let us run a race to see who shall win this pot of fish. If I win, I shall not need to share it with you. If you win, you shall have half of it." Springing to his feet, Iktomi began at once to tighten the belt about his waist.
"My friend Ikto, I cannot run a race with you! I am not a swift runner, and you are nimble as a deer. We shall not run any race together," answered the hungry muskrat.
For a moment Iktomi stood with a hand on his long protruding chin. His eyes were fixed upon something in the air. The muskrat looked out of the corners of his eyes without moving his head. He watched the wily Iktomi concocting a plot.
"Yes, yes," said Iktomi, suddenly turning his gaze upon the unwelcome visitor; "I shall carry a large stone on my back. That will slacken my usual speed; and the race will be a fair one."
Saying this he laid a firm hand upon the muskrat's shoulder and started off along the edge of the lake. When they reached the opposite side Iktomi pried about in search of a heavy stone.
He found one half-buried in the shallow water. Pulling it out upon dry land, he wrapped it in his blanket.
"Now, my friend, you shall run on the left side of the lake, I on the other. The race is for the boiled fish in yonder kettle!" said Iktomi.
The muskrat helped to lift the heavy stone upon Iktomi's back. Then they parted. Each took a narrow path through the tall reeds fringing the shore. Iktomi found his load a heavy one. Perspiration hung like beads on his brow. His chest heaved hard and fast.
He looked across the lake to see how far the muskrat had gone, but nowhere did he see any sign of him. "Well, he is running low under the wild rice!" said he. Yet as he scanned the tall grasses on the lake shore, he saw not one stir as if to make way for the runner. "Ah, has he gone so fast ahead that the disturbed grasses in his trail have quieted again?" exclaimed Iktomi. With that thought he quickly dropped the heavy stone. "No more of this!" said he, patting his chest with both hands.
Off with a springing bound, he ran swiftly toward the goal. Tufts of reeds and grass fell flat under his feet. Hardly had they raised their heads when Iktomi was many paces gone.
Soon he reached the heap of cold ashes. Iktomi halted stiff as if he had struck an invisible cliff. His black eyes showed a ring of white about them as he stared at the empty ground. There was no pot of boiled fish! There was no water-man in sight! "Oh, if only I had shared my food like a real Dakota, I would not have lost it all! Why did I not know the muskrat would run through the water? He swims faster than I could ever run! That is what he has done. He has laughed at me for carrying a weight on my back while he shot hither like an arrow!"
Crying thus to himself, Iktomi stepped to the water's brink. He stooped forward with a hand on each bent knee and peeped far into the deep water.
"There!" he exclaimed, "I see you, my friend, sitting with your ankles wound around my little pot of fish! My friend, I am hungry. Give me a bone!"
"Ha! ha! ha!" laughed the water-man, the muskrat. The sound did not rise up out of the lake, for it came down from overhead. With his hands still on his knees, Iktomi turned his face upward into the great willow tree. Opening wide his mouth he begged, "My friend, my friend, give me a bone to gnaw!"
"Ha! ha!" laughed the muskrat, and leaning over the limb he sat upon, he let fall a small sharp bone which dropped right into Iktomi's throat. Iktomi almost choked to death before he could get it out. In the tree the muskrat sat laughing loud. "Next time, say to a visiting friend, 'Be seated beside me, my friend. Let me share with you my food.'"
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
WildEarth - LIVE safari
This is fantastic. Sometimes when they drive around and talk about what they are seeing, I feel like I am in the backseat. It takes me out of my own head and the craziness all around us. It is real time, glitches and all. Perfect timing. Thank you #WildEarthLive.
This is an interactive site where children or adults can ask questions in real time and often get answered. Great learning experience that one could never get in the classroom.
You can also watch on Twitter @WildEarth
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Monday, April 6, 2020
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Six Nations COVID-19 Information and Assessment Centre at 1-855-977-7737 or 226-446-9909.
Six Nations members who are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 should call the Six Nations COVID-19 Information and Assessment Centre at 1-855-977-7737 or 226-446-9909.
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Funny French Bulldog Puppies Compilation FYI ( First one is loud)
A little comic relief in stressful times.
Monday, March 30, 2020
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Bill Withers "Lean On Me" Live Restored Video Edit
This song, on this day, seems so appropriate to me.
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Friday, March 13, 2020
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
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