New Deal in KS: Rich in Relics of Indian Life (MKBMA)

New Deal in KS: Rich Relics of Indian Life (MKBMA)

'Anishnabe Star Knowledge' by Minisa Crumbo Halsey:

Bozho Nikon, Hello. My bone, 

Let us, Anishnabé, begin by ‘making a prayer’ of gratitude and thanks for all of the gifts: 

Nengosek: the Star Beings

Sekmekwe: our Mother Earth

Gizes: our Father-Sky Sun 

Debek-Gizes: the Grandmother Moon 

Mamogosnan: Creator … we pray that we might see clearly and be seen clearly … and walk the straight path laid down for us in the Seven Grandfather’s Teachings, which give us the Good Ways by which we might live ...

To read entire article:  Anishnabé star knowledge - Potawatomi.org

Hownikan-March-2024-Digital.pdf (potawatomi.org)

Flowering Moon

 

Excerpt from 'Spirit Talk':

 

Excerpt from 'Spirit Talk':

Let us now assemble the honoring gifts once again, the high and personal inner gifts of qualities which only we can know, and the gifts of the known and understood common tradition such as tobacco, water or candles; chocolate … fruits … flowers; special drinks or nectars; ritual paintings, foods, cornmeal … and gifts of inspiration and the moment … 

Open the soles of your feet and invite them to ‘pick up on’ the Mother Earth as she vibrates and breathes through our bodies and connects with the upward solar rays of her lover. They are our elemental parents. 

Go outside and lie first facedown, then turn onto your back … Draw an arm’s-length circle with a stick around you, think a little introductory offering … and sit there as unmoving as possible, except for the eyes, for at least twenty minutes … Notice and follow the breath until something else engages your attention. The natural world soon comes to accept our presence … It is best if no food/water/phone enters the circle or is in sight/smell/earshot … and the sitting is best done in complete solitude … Then, when you are ready, stand up, or crawl out, noticing which direction you entered, faced, and departed. Try to make them the same. Then, make grateful farewells, and go.

Let us celebrate being 'breathed alive'!

Come! Let us celebrate being ‘breathed alive in the natural world’. Let us make gratitude talks, sing, drum, dance, feast, and make offerings to our beautiful Mother Earth, Father Sky/Sun ... first, most beautiful, and enduring of gifts from the Creator ... we say, Mamogosnan, in the Bodewadmin tongue. Come and speak praises, ‘raise a voice’ ... to the Creator in the tongue of your tradition or choice, be it spoken or silent and unnamed.

Let the wisdom of the people and the land come together ‘in a good way’ that life may go on in a ‘good way’ as well.

We pray, Mamogosnan, that our minds, hearts, bodies and spirits might truly come into conscious Spirit Talks with the Plant Beings, and those of all of Creation come together, for without these talks, we are lost. Let us come together to share our wisdom and make prayers as a people … from our vast hearts … that strong ties to the Creator, ourselves and our relatives … might be renewed and celebrated.

Getegemen - Garden

Potawatomi ‘Garden’ Vocabulary:

Basket = gokbenaben
Bees = amoyuk

Beans = koje'suk

Bloom = jijen

Butterfly = memiki

Cabbage = e'shobuk

Cherries = siwswe'mnen

Circle = waye'yak

Cloud = ngwankot

Corn = ndamen

Cucumber = kokobe'

Dance = nimedi

Drum = de'we'gIn

Earth = sugmuk

Feast = wewesnakewin

Fire = shkote'

Flint Hill Grounds = shokinkik

Flower = washkone'to

Food = wisnawen

Fruit = washkbak
Full Moon = nibakises

Garden = Getegemen

Good Rain = mnogmowIn

Gourd = shishigwIn

Grapes = siwnwen

Grass = mIshkos

Honey = amo

Hot Peppers = wasgagIn

Indian Tobacco = nInse’ma

July/Month of Young Corn = We'shkitdaminkesis

Lightning = sawasmo

Milkweed = nInwezhe’k

Moon = tpukises

Mother Earth = Kumde’kwe’

Muddy = winkiwIn

Onion = shakwesh

Outside = sagec

Peace = e’tokmite’k

Plenty Potatoes = topeka

Plum = pokma

Potatoes = pInyak

Prairie = mskoda

Pumpkin = wapkon

Purple = we'je'pwate'k

Rain = kmowen

Sage = wabshkukbyag

Spider = aspeke' e'e'buk

Stars = nagosuk

Strawberries = demen

Summer = E'mnokmuk

Sun = kises

Sunset = e'pkishmok
Sweat Lodge = mdodmogumuk

Sweet Corn = wishpumnuk

Sweetgrass = wiingaashk

Sweet Potato = wishpupnyak

Thunderbirds = cigwe’k

Toad = mamkeci

Tobacco = se’ma

Trees = mtugwe'nIn

Turtle = mshike’

Very Dark (Outside) = gispuknya

Very Light (Bright Sunshine) = waseya

Warm Wind = shawnash

Water = mbish

Watermelon = ashktamo

Well-Being = matsowIn

Whole Kernel Cooked Corn = pakswayuk

Wild = pkoc

Wild Rice = pkocnomin

Wind = notin

World = otake’

Worm = mose

Honoring Plant People -- Excerpts from 'Spirit Talk':

The plant people go a long way toward offering and providing us, the two-leggeds and others, with the physical materials we need to live life ‘in a good way’. Plant fiber provides assorted fibers for the weaving of clothing, nets, mats, basketry, footwear, hammocks, housing … plant people share their bodies that our own might live, and their medicines by which we may maintain, heal, and restore health and balance. 

The green beings hold all wisdom and knowledge. Mother Earth and all beings that live upon and within her body have their own unique medicine ways and it is of these ways that we seek to learn the languages, uses, and songs. Our Mother is a sentient being with an evolutionary path of her own, and when sufficiently sensitized it is possible for us to feel her heartbeat through the soles of our feet and entire being.

New Deal in KS: Rich in Relics of Indian Life (MKBMA)

Eagle Dance, ca. 1948
Screenprint

10 1/8 x 7 1/2 in.

Private collection, promised gift to USD 259 Wichita Public Schools

Woodrow “Woody” Crumbo
Bodéwadmik (Citizen Potawatomi)
Born 1912, Lexington, Oklahoma
Died 1989, Cimarron, New Mexico

New Deal in KS: Rich Relics of Indian Life (MKBMA)

'Anishnabe Star Knowledge' by Minisa Crumbo Halsey:

Bozho Nikon, Hello. My bone, 

Let us, Anishnabé, begin by ‘making a prayer’ of gratitude and thanks for all of the gifts: 

Nengosek: the Star Beings 

Sekmekwe: our Mother Earth 

Gizes: our Father-Sky Sun 

Debek-Gizes: the Grandmother Moon 

Mamogosnan: Creator … we pray that we might see clearly and be seen clearly … and walk the straight path laid down for us in the Seven Grandfather’s Teachings, which give us the Good Ways by which we might live ...

To read entire article:  Anishnabé star knowledge - Potawatomi.org

Hownikan-March-2024-Digital.pdf (potawatomi.org)

Let us celebrate being 'breathed alive'!

Come! Let us celebrate being ‘breathed alive in the natural world’. Let us make gratitude talks, sing, drum, dance, feast, and make offerings to our beautiful Mother Earth, Father Sky/Sun ... first, most beautiful, and enduring of gifts from the Creator ... we say, Mamogosnan, in the Bodewadmin tongue. Come and speak praises, ‘raise a voice’ ... to the Creator in the tongue of your tradition or choice, be it spoken or silent and unnamed.

Let the wisdom of the people and the land come together ‘in a good way’ that life may go on in a ‘good way’ as well.

We pray, Mamogosnan, that our minds, hearts, bodies and spirits might truly come into conscious Spirit Talks with the Plant Beings, and those of all of Creation come together, for without these talks, we are lost. Let us come together to share our wisdom and make prayers as a people … from our vast hearts … that strong ties to the Creator, ourselves and our relatives … might be renewed and celebrated.

Honoring Plant People -- Excerpts from 'Spirit Talk':

The plant people go a long way toward offering and providing us, the two-leggeds and others, with the physical materials we need to live life ‘in a good way’. Plant fiber provides assorted fibers for the weaving of clothing, nets, mats, basketry, footwear, hammocks, housing … plant people share their bodies that our own might live, and their medicines by which we may maintain, heal, and restore health and balance. 

The green beings hold all wisdom and knowledge. Mother Earth and all beings that live upon and within her body have their own unique medicine ways and it is of these ways that we seek to learn the languages, uses, and songs. Our Mother is a sentient being with an evolutionary path of her own, and when sufficiently sensitized it is possible for us to feel her heartbeat through the soles of our feet and entire being.

New Deal in KS: Rich in Relics of Indian Life (MKBMA)

Eagle Dance, ca. 1948
Screenprint

10 1/8 x 7 1/2 in.

Private collection, promised gift to USD 259 Wichita Public Schools

Woodrow “Woody” Crumbo
Bodéwadmik (Citizen Potawatomi)
Born 1912, Lexington, Oklahoma
Died 1989, Cimarron, New Mexico

New Deal in KS: Rich Relics of Indian Life (MKBMA)

'Anishnabe Star Knowledge' by Minisa Crumbo Halsey:

Bozho Nikon, Hello. My bone, 

Let us, Anishnabé, begin by ‘making a prayer’ of gratitude and thanks for all of the gifts: 

Nengosek: the Star Beings 

Sekmekwe: our Mother Earth 

Gizes: our Father-Sky Sun 

Debek-Gizes: the Grandmother Moon 

Mamogosnan: Creator … we pray that we might see clearly and be seen clearly … and walk the straight path laid down for us in the Seven Grandfather’s Teachings, which give us the Good Ways by which we might live ...

To read entire article:  Anishnabé star knowledge - Potawatomi.org

Hownikan-March-2024-Digital.pdf (potawatomi.org)