Excerpts from 'Spirit Talk':

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.

Excerpts from 'Spirit Talk':

Excerpts from 'Spirit Talk':

The autumn harvests of the just completed growing season are the final preparations for this winter, and are often prized and stored against drought, famine, or lack, for many years to come. Prayers, intention, labor, and growth-supporting warmth and moisture have produced the fruit, nut, and vegetable … green that feeds all beings, beings such as ourselves, the four-legged, those that swim, fly, slither, and crawl that eat more than water, minerals, air, and light, as do the seed beings. Most of these plant beings also produce valuable medicine seeds, roots, leaves, sap, milk, and stems. The abundantly produced, gathered, and stored skebyak, the green beings, and their seeds will feed, clothe, and house many … The genetic imprint of each seed nourishes our bodies and contributes intelligence from the natural world, the elemental directions and colors, the physical cycles of other living things – composted materials of all kinds, electric solar emanations, the life carrying vibrations of the water beings, fire charges from the fire beings, manifold Spirit breaths carried by the ethers, winds, and air beings, and minerals released by the rock beings. 

Minisa and Jim, October 5, 2019, Tulsa, OK

Minisa And Jim Halsey At the River Spirit Show Room Celebrating Jim's 89 birthday and 70 years in business at the Oak Ridge Boy's concert.

Happy Birthday!️

CPN Drum Group feeding the waters and preparing to sing the Water Song

CPN Drum Group feeding the waters and preparing to sing the Water Song

Drum Group at Wausaksing First Nation (August 2019)

Drum Group at Wausaksing First Nation, 

Annual Potawatomi Gathering of Bands (August 2019)

Wausaksing Memories!

Flowering Moon

News from the Blackjack Hills of Oklahoma

From beneath the sun dappled oaks we, of the happy faces and glad hearts, would like to acknowledge and thank again, Pam and Jim for the great pics and Britteny Cuevas for the Cherokee double-wall basket teachings ... good memories️. Each of us from our CPN Potawatomi Women’s Drum Group East, Mskweminen Negdosha, and The RedBud Singers were able to take home a finished basket from the Sunday, May 19, 2019 workshop.

Britteny is the 2019 awardee from the Muscogee Women’s Group for Muscogee Woman Artist of the Year and a student at Bacone College in Muscogee, OK.

Migwech,
Wabaksekwe - Dawn Woman