Song of the day

Originally Posted by Lucky 1

Toots and Maytals (with Bonnie Raitt)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAja3oKPQKc

You have reminded me that I need to get back
to listening to more reggae.

Originally Posted by Anala

ImthatIm, Powerful video, have you gone to witness this? What a wonderful open way to reconnect!

I have witnessed this.
Puyallup is my wife's tribe.
We live on a different reservation though, the Nisqually Indian Tribe.
Which is one river down.
We know many people in the vid. and we do participate
in Canoe journey's and have since it's inception in 1989 I believe, called Paddle to Seattle.

[Anala]

Originally Posted by ImthatIm

I have witnessed this.
Puyallup is my wife's tribe.
We live on a different reservation though, the Nisqually Indian Tribe.
Which is one river down.
We know many people in the vid. and we do participate
in Canoe journey's and have since it's inception in 1989 I believe, called Paddle to Seattle.

thank you for sharing. I can only imagine the energy and the healing.

[Anala]

Song of the day... lol, literally just popped in my head.

https://youtu.be/d-diB65scQU

Not very spiritual, or is it? rofl.

Please forgive. I woke up on the silly side.

[sentient]

Originally Posted by Anala

I wonder what the elders think of it?

It is just an expression.
Never seen anybody summon/raise the wind, and with the cyclone season looming – wouldn’t play with it even for fun.

Though during the cyclone season, when everybody is clued to their gadgets for weather reports, taping the windows and stocking up goods – I’m thinking: “Why don’t you just go outside and listen to the wind - what it says”.

Seems that we have lost our ability to listen to the ‘elements’.

So my song of the day is wind itself.

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[sentient]

Originally Posted by ImthatIm

I have witnessed this.
Puyallup is my wife's tribe.
We live on a different reservation though, the Nisqually Indian Tribe.
Which is one river down.
We know many people in the vid. and we do participate
in Canoe journey's and have since it's inception in 1989 I believe, called Paddle to Seattle.

Is that a bit like a re-enactment of how different tribes seasonally used to come together for ceremonies and socializing?

Dugout with different totemic clans, going for ceremony I suppose:
https://estonianworld.com/wp-content...P%C3%B5llu.jpg

From dugouts to birch bark canoes to skin boats made from moose hide, the moose head on the prow.

The skin boat was designed to deal with the high waves of the open sea. By lengthening the boat it could hold more people, and a large boat with many people was needed to catch the ultimate of sea creatures - the whale.

http://www.paabo.ca/uirala/uini-seag...gwhaleboat.jpg

Moose clan I suppose, in a moose-skin boat:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pr...tOvgdkdnP8_fKQ


I was looking at the prows of your canoes. What do they represent – different clans?

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Viking prows:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/66/55...afa3d73dca.jpg

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[Anala]

Originally Posted by sentient

It is just an expression.
Never seen anybody summon/raise the wind, and with the cyclone season looming – wouldn’t play with it even for fun.

Though during the cyclone season, when everybody is clued to their gadgets for weather reports, taping the windows and stocking up goods – I’m thinking: “Why don’t you just go outside and listen to the wind - what it says”.

Seems that we have lost our ability to listen to the ‘elements’.

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sentient,

Ah, yes,... be careful what you wish for! I see this!

I agree! Look and listen! There are times the wind tells us to run home and get in the basement! And I respect it!

I was wondering what the elder think of the fusion music? Mixing new instruments with the traditional songs.

[sentient]

Originally Posted by Anala

sentient,

Ah, yes,... be careful what you wish for! I see this!

I agree! Look and listen! There are times the wind tells us to run home and get in the basement! And I respect it!

I was wondering what the elder think of the fusion music? Mixing new instruments with the traditional songs.

I think they were happy enough that people are reminded of the culture and all of our connection with the elements.

Then it is up to the individual to renew it.

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[sentient]

Originally Posted by Anala

I love movement and music; it makes me feel like I am flying

I loved your ice-skating music.
Any other pieces you like to fly with?

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[Anala]

Originally Posted by sentient

I think they were happy enough that people are reminded of the culture and all of our connection with the elements.

Then it is up to the individual to renew it.

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Yes! That is a beautiful!

Our talk about native music reminds me that in the beginning of the pandemic, so many dancers and singers and healers posted on Facebook to heal the world! The outpouring was amazing!

I have looked for some of the videos, but they are only on Facebook.

I feel as if barriers between peoples and culture might be thinning to where we are all beginning to see each other, our sameness, our humanity, our beauty. A glimmer of hope.

It is really beautiful!