Cree Nation

I am Cree & Saulteaux (Anishinaabe aka Ojibway), Twospirit (ayekkewe in my language) and a Tribal Nationalist. I am from what has been called "Canada" for the past 138 years but AM NOT Canadian; I'm Cree and my nation is several thousand years older than Canada. I lean toward being trans-identified, (but not man identified), in the indigenous tradition---the so-called "third and fourth gender". I am on my way to becoming fluent in my Kokum's language so that I can speak with my Ancestors in our tongue when I see them. There is a saying about the Red Road-it calls us back, no matter where we go and who we make ourselves to be.



Johnny Grey Eyes


A Nation is not conquered until the hearts of the Women are laying on the ground
-Cheyenne Saying-

I was born in Snow Lake, Manitoba in the winter. I'm a vegetarian (mostly) & would be 100% vegan if I knew how to & could afford it (except when I go back home and gain sustenance from Animals that are given in the traditional way). I write & I paint and I love learning/exploring/trying out different/new things and meeting new people. I don't have a lot of close friends, but the friends I do have are very dear to my heart and I am fortunate enough to be next door neighbors with a couple of them; sadly the others live on the west coast.

Things I believe & am interested in and would like to do/experience more of: growing, taking risks, being frightened of it (whatever "it" might happen to be)but doing it anyway, cultural relativity, change/changing, dynamics, having more than one soulmate, re-incorporation (as opposed to reincarnation), conflict resolution, spiritual growth, my other life as a plant more than once (labrador tea & deer lichen), forgiveness & reconciliation (of self and others), cycles, womanhood, social activism, helping people more, learning more about the world, ideas, myself & exactly how i work, other people and what motivates them, moves them, inspires them, frightens them, lights up their passions, makes them happy, sad, angry, hopeful, compassionate, homoerotic sports, baby squirrels, baby rabbits, sweaty frogs, and oh yeah, biculturality. I have recently begun to explore my own. Fidelity is sexy.


A couple of TwoSpirit sites & one random website.

Where I am from

Some First Nations Info Links:
Our Heartbeat</>
Nehiyawewin
Cree Culture.ca
Northern (Bush) Cree
Kristineaux
Aboriginal Treaty Rights-CBC
Radicalization at Oka
SICC Links
Indigenous Women for Justice
Dill Site
TwoSpirit at Imdiversity.com

Where I went to school

Where I live

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.
-Steve Biko (lives!)-

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Obsessions/Passions Lists (such a fine line between the two)

Current	Ongoing
university of otago	memories
	support groups
theory of sociocultural viability	theory of sociocultural viability
	psychosocial rehabilitation
aging in general,my aging in specific	drinking gallons of h20
	watching/listening to/studying people
moleskin (naked moleratskin)	learning more about myself
	violent tendencies
compulsively editing & re-editing my info	secrets
Intentional Reinvention of the Self	redemption
being in a room full of sociologists
art crimes	procrastination
buggs	gender
vsm-links	family of origin dysfunction
	geeks
	fugues (definition #2)
	understanding
black sheep	a pinworm named henry
panic	lupe
	internal conflict of a terribly complex & dualistic nature
ebola	decolonization
	introversion
didgital polyglot	performance art
underground	spoken werd as social activism
infatuations (with ppl ideas images)	celibacy
	healing
	growth
atomfilms	[still] being brutally honest w. myself
lists	photoshop
fragile X syndrome	introversion
	subtext
gate	blurting
power politics	feeling my heart brush up against the inside of my chest
skin	wmn who arent intimidated by me
	wmn who intimidate me

Don't let the cute little sad birdy fool you...this site has explicit gore.

Once the realization is accepted
that even between the closest human beings
infinite distances continue
a wonderful living side by side can grow
if they succeed in loving the distance between them
which makes it possible for each to see the other
whole against the sky.
-Rainer Maria Rilke-

Stuff

Pets	Peeves
sunrise	cds that skip
sleep	yukky coffee
people who smile at me when i smile at them	[my]insecurities
runner's high	bad veggie cooking
brown skin against white tanktops	bloating
obscure little known facts about the "natural" world	western connotations of the word "natural"
rainy days	wet socks
anticipation	superficiality
breakfast	the word "nightsoil"
deviation from the norm	people who cut people off when they are talking/driving
kind people	having to hike to the 5th floor
thinkers outside of the box	feeling trapped in the middle of the heterosexual paradigm
bananas & orange juice	white privilege (is that too big to be a pet peeve?)
my little hairless rat's warm skin on my neck	being misunderstood or not understood

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it...hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.-

My politics are simple:
♥indigenous rights♥
colonialism

At the moment I'm MIA. I graduated in May '06 with an AB a la Smith College. I double-majored in Sociology & Anthropology and minored in International Relations. I was going to go to IGOV for my Master's in Indigenous Governance partly because it rocks so much and partly because of this man Taiaiake, until I found this lovely little program.


I never want to be "normal", really, but being stable and well-adjusted is just fine by me.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
-Khalil Gibran-

Sites I like:

FNEN First Nations Drum GON Radio NAMP

Powwow RadioOnline Comics Intervention Milk Bottle

Pablo Pablo Pablo more Pablo

Fire Lily !Kasey Chambers! Dylan Thomas one more Dylan

Poets War Look me up! Art Activism Red Wire

More Sites I like:

CKUA !Ditties! Martin Sex(y)ton Catie Curtis-ness

Dar Williams Ray LaMontange IHEG Melissa Ferrick

Le Tee-Grah Shakira Tegan & Sara Lucinda Williams

!Bif Naked! Indy Media Henry Rollins Pamela Means

Chris Pureka !Sleater Kinney! Mass MoCa SF, NM (the happier times)

A site that I really like: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

icon courtesy of: marauderthesn

More Recently Added Awesome Indigenous/First Nations Sites::
Maskwachees
Oji-Cree Language Resources
Nishnawbe Aski
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Marriage is love

Smith greenhouse June, 2000

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?

Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that others won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest
the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just some of us, it is everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

-Nelson Mandela-
1994 Inaugural Address

~nehikat~

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