* Brest Side Story *

vitamines pour l'hiver :

petit hommage en passant au toujours fabuleux musical 
de Broadway, revu ce week-end au Quartz 

Standing ovation en particulier pour l'interprète de feu 

Penelope Joann Armstead Williams dans le rôle d'Anita ! 
Ici Karen Olivo, également géniale :

Lakota & Aniishinabe ride for Unci Maka (Grandmother Earth)

Des cavaliers Lakota & Aniishinabe partis de Pine Ridge, Dakota du sud, s'élèvent pour la protection d'Unci Maka (Grand-Mère Terre) en suivant le tracé du futur pipeline KXL qui menace l'immense nappe aquifère Oglala, source d'eau potable pour 8 états. 
Ils s'opposent aussi à  l'extraction d'uranium, de gaz de schistes et des sables bitumineux sur les territoires autochtones.

(La réserve de Pine Ridge a été en 1890 le théâtre du massacre de Wounded Knee, perpétré par le 7° régiment de l'armée des Etats-unis sur 350 autochtones, femmes, vieillards et enfants y compris - événement ancré dans les mémoires Lakota et amérindiennes en général.)

'On Monday October 14, [...] a group of riders were on Day 2 of their 150-mile journey from the Pine Ridge Reservation to the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, tracing the approximate route of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

Led by Percy White Plume, a descendant of the survivors of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, they rode to oppose the so-called man camps built to house the transient laborers who will be brought in to build the pipeline, as well as “to protect our water,” White Plume said.

“We can drink bottled water, but our relatives in the horse nation, the buffalo nation and the animals cannot drink bottled water, our water is sacred,” he said.

Keystone XL would cross Lakota territory and the Oglala Aquifer, which is the primary source of water for most of the region, noted the organizers. The ride was organized by the Horse Spirit Society of Wounded Knee, sponsored by Honor the Earth, and supported by the Swift Family Foundation, U.S. Climate Action Network and 350.org.'
source : white wolf pack

'Anything worth knowing can't be known...' : Lewis Mehl Madrona on how we INVENT STORIES to make ourselves feel GOOD

'Tout ce qui vaut la peine d'être connu ne peut pas être connu !' Comment nous avons besoin d'inventer des histoires pour nous rassurer sur le monde : la perspective du docteur-guérisseur-conteur Lewis Mehl Madrona

   

(Ne pas s'arrêter au sous-titre ou à la couverture bariolée : le contenu est vibrant d'expériences, solidement documenté et rempli de formidables récits mythologiques de différentes cultures autochtones.)

'Pick a story you like and stick with it [...]
and change it at will, when it suits you !'

Balance versus Imbalance : doctor & healer Lewis Mehl Madrona speaks about Lakota concept of well-being & illness

 Equilibre et déséquilibre -  le bien-être et de la maladie selon la conception autochtone du Peuple Lakota.

Remarquable travail lame de fond de Lewis Mehl Madrona, médecin, psychiatre et guérisseur traditionnel, de cultures Cherokee & Lakota, qui exerce dans différents champs de la médecine, en introduisant le savoir et les pratiques des peuples autochtones amérindiens : histoires, chants, cérémonies et thérapies énergétiques.

'We are not individual autonomous units'
 'Nous ne sommes pas des unités individuelles et autonomes.'
 

'We are formed by our relationships and relationships shape our brains...' 
'Nous sommes modelés par nos relations et nos relations modèlent nos cerveaux.'

Pépites de fin d'été : par ici le Néolithique !

Cairn de Gavrinis, couloir et détail gravures :

 

Cairn de la Table des Marchands, Locmariaquer

Pépites d'été part.1 : Pow-Wow à Ornans, 29-30 Juin 2013

photo : Club Photo Ornans

photo : blog Papimarc

  

Danses, chants, cérémonies, conférences...

Merci à l' Association Four Winds  pour l'organisation de ce mémorable événement !

photo : M. Lhommee

Comment Corbeau ramena la Lumière à son peuple

Artiste : Preston Singletary

 

Peuple Tlingit, Alaska - L'histoire de Corbeau [Raven] revue par la formidable série Northern Exposure (années 90) :

 

Artiste : Preston Singletary

Like water dripping through stone - ¡Agua vence espada!

 - L'eau plus forte que l'épée* -

Mexique : 19 ans après le 1er soulèvement des communautés indigènes du Chiapas sous la bannière de l'EZLN, le 1er janvier 1994,  (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional = Armée Zapatiste de Libération Nationale * Emiliano Zapata = figure emblématique de la révolution populaire mexicaine de 1910)
marche de commémoration silencieuse, décembre 2012 

*'The Story of the Sword' is an ancient parable that demonstrates how the indigenous peoples of Mexico can finally defeat the European invader. 
"The tree”, says Subcomandante Marcos when narrating the story, “tried to fight the sword, but was defeated. The stone likewise.”- But not the water : “it follows its own road, it wraps itself around the sword and, without doing anything, it arrives at the river that will carry it to the great water where the greatest of gods cure themselves of thirst, those gods that birthed the world, the first ones.” 

Photos & Article Source : Leonidas Oikonomakis - roarmag.org

Fin ou début d'un nouveau monde ? 

Indian Wars are not over.

LES INDIENS SONT TOUJOURS LA.

La lucha continua.

Idle No More - First Nations People stand their ground.

Il s'agit d'une lutte AU PRESENT des Peuples Autochtones du Canada, pour la sauvegarde de leurs droits contre l'invasion des multinationales sur leurs terres dans le but se s'approprier les ressources naturelles. Mouvement soutenu et relayé par d'autres peuples amérindiens aux Etats-Unis et en Amérique latine.

IDLE NO MORE ! MANIFESTO 

Written by Jessica Gordon

We contend that:
The Treaties are nation to nation agreements between The Crown and First Nations who are sovereign nations. The Treaties are agreements that cannot be altered or broken by one side of the two Nations. The spirit and intent of the Treaty agreements meant that First Nations peoples would share the land, but retain their inherent rights to lands and resources. Instead, First Nations have experienced a history of colonization which has resulted in outstanding land claims, lack of resources and unequal funding for services such as education and housing.

Idle No More, Protest March - Canada, winter 2012-2013

We contend that:
The state of Canada has become one of the wealthiest countries in the world by using the land and resources. Canadian mining, logging, oil and fishing companies are the most powerful in the world due to land and resources. Some of the poorest First Nations communities  have mines or other developments on their land but do not get a share of the profit. The taking of resources has left many lands and waters poisoned – the animals and plants are dying in many areas in Canada. We cannot live without the land and water. We have laws older than this colonial government about how to live with the land.

We contend that:  
Currently, this government is trying to pass many laws so that reserve lands can also be bought and sold by big companies to get profit from resources. They are promising to share this time…Why would these promises be different from past promises? We will be left with nothing but poisoned water, land and air. This is an attempt to take away sovereignty and the inherent right to land and resources from First Nations peoples.

We contend that:
There are many examples of other countries moving towards sustainability, and we must demand sustainable development as well. We believe in healthy, just, equitable and sustainable communities and have a vision and plan of how to build them. Please join us in creating this vision.

Idle No More - Apoyo : Peguche Ecuador