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RIP Joseph Medicine Crow
I love the fact that Native American storytelling is focused on helping people understand their place in the natural world. Native American tales were - and still are - part metaphorical, part real, part spiritual, part mythological, part instructional and part transformational. Most of all, however, they were entertaining and memorable to the audiences who heard them.
This guaranteed these stories would be remembered and passed down to the coming generations, who needed to understand who they were, where they had come from, and why the world is the way it is, if they were to survive and prosper in the challenging times that were – and still are - always just ahead.
Meeting Ojibwe First National leaders, great storytelling, seeing their art (pictographs) at sacred sites north shore lake superior, was without doubt one of my most treasures memories of Canada in 1994.
http://albinger.me/2014/08/02/the-anishinaabe-rock-paintings-of-agawa-rock-a-quick-guide/
It was with regret that we didn't get to walk under the stars and listen to stories from the Paiute in the Moab desert last summer.