Bozho Nikan

Bozho Nikan, hello, my bone,

May all lives sprout, flower, seed and sleep, complete with the beauty of the offering of the season, in this, another springtime of our lives. May it be the most beautiful yet.

Migwech, wewene kiche migwech Creator, Mother Earth and Father Sky-Sun for ALL of the gifts.

In the Spirit of Art and Beauty Forever,

Wabaksekwe

Photos by Luvs Purple

Bending, Weaving, Dancing: The Art of Woody Crumbo

WOODY CRUMBO CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION 1912-1989
THOMAS GILCREASE MUSEUM
Tulsa, Oklahoma
exhibition dates:
February 2013 through May 19, 2013

Anhna Voung & Minisa Crumbo

Animal Dance

Carole Klein, Minisa Crumbo, Phyllis Logsdon

Minisa Crumbo @ the Gilcrease

Woody Crumbo Photo Montage

Gilcrease Staff

In The Gallery

Jim Halsey

Keith Taylor (KTUL Tulsa), Minisa Crumbo

Minisa Crumbo

Rainbow Horse

2013 Flint Hills Wisdom Keepers Gathering Photos

Grandmothers (L2R front row): Minisa Crumbo Halsey (orange), Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance (purple),
Gracie Elm (black), Della Romero (turquoise)
For more info on Elders of 2013, go to: http://fhwisdomkeepers.org/pg03Elders.html 
Photo taken by: Nathan Blindman
April 28, 2013

Elders in picture include: Mike Bastine (front row, 3rd from left), Dawn Woman (2nd row, 2nd from left),  Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance (2nd row, 3rd from left), Gracie Elm (2nd row, 3rd from right), Della Romero (2nd row, 2nd from right)
Lloyd Elm (not pictured)

Lloyd Elm (not pictured) - Ganunsasay (New House) - Onondaga: (Lakota name: He stands with children) Lloyd is a credentialed educator with leading influence in both the academic and traditional Native worlds. As a purposeful Sundancer, his personal sacrifice and prayers have benefited many including the contemporary Tibetan cause.

Della Romero - Pueblo/Ute: Della is a Sundancer and pipe carrier. Della attended past Wisdom Keepers gatherings at the request of deceased Wisdom Keepers Elder, Grandmother Bertha Grove, who has designated Della to carry on her work. Della's work as supervisor in family therapy includes experiences with youth on her reservation and other Indian centers. Her dedication to youth lends itself to providing needed care and sharing of tribal traditions for the coming Seven Generations. 

Minisa Crumbo Halsey - Wabaksekwe (Dawn Woman) - Citizen Band Potawatomi/Muscogee Creek: Minisa brings professional artistry from her Native childhood home to her present professional practice in the arts of painting, silversmithing, lapidary arts, ceramics, basketmaking, beadwork, and quilting.  She practices medicine work in presenting traditional women's ways and endeavors to work in harmony with the natural and spiritual elements of "Mother Earth and Father Sky-Sun........that we might truly be alive in a living world."

Mike Bastine - Algonquin: Mike is an Algonquin healer and former student of famous Tuscarora medicine man Wallace “Mad Bear” Anderson and Tuscarora healer Ted Williams. In 2011, he co-authored the book entitled IROQUOIS Supernatural: Talking Animals and Medicine People with Mason Winfield.

Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance - Oglala Lakota: Grandmother Rita has spent much of her life on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. She is descended from Long Visitor and is a member of the Crazy Horse Band, named for the great warrior, Crazy Horse. Grandmother Rita is described as a Lakota keeper of the traditional ways, great grandmother, Native American Church elder, and beadworker. She is a member of the Council of Language Elders, focusing on Oglala Lakota language immersion and teaching their native tongue to both children and elders. Read more about Grandmother Rita, as our very special guest this year, on the Featured Activities page.

Tipi Pics

Flint Hills Wisdom Keepers Gathering Tipi
White Memorial Camp
Outside of Council Grove, KS
April 28, 2013
 Photos by Luvs Purple

Happy Blackberry Winter To You!

Dogwood Winter

Greetings from the Redbud Winter,

We are now passing quickly through Dogwood Winter and approaching the last Little Winter- Blackberry Winter..and then it will be time to plant the summer gardens....a metaphor for each of us to ponder, to select seed and to set mindful intention in place for this new and potent growth season. This last weekend many seeds were offered for examination and consideration. It was a smorgasbord of ancient wisdom, gratitude, present realizations and extended thoughts and prayers for the goodness of ALL LIFE on this: our BEAUTIFUL MOTHER EARTH AND SPLENDID FATHER SKY SUN.

The Flint Hills Wisdom Keepers Gathering in Council Grove, KS will be covered as soon as I receive a photograph of the Grandmothers taken by Nathan Blindman of Pine Ridge, SD, who accompanied his mother, elder Unci Rita. They presented concerns with the imminent sale of the Wounded Knee Massacre grounds. For more info, go to: http://fhwisdomkeepers.blogspot.com/2013/04/lakota-activists-buy-wounded-knee-face.html or email Pat Embers at embers1@cox.net.

David Yarrow presented a broad program on what I would call: the sacred geometry of earth wisdom ... His website (dyarrow.org) is amazing. Gardeners and farmers take note!

There were five elders present and in all it was a wonderful gathering with much knowledge and wisdom, honoring and gifting, stories, much feasting and laughter. Old friends caught up and laughed again together while many new friends and relatives were made. Sweat Lodge opportunities were offered and The Grandfather Sacred Fire was tended 24 hours a day until the Circle was completed for another year. More talk and photographs will be made on this special gathering of Elders soon. For additional information search the website: fhwisdomkeepers.org and the blog: fhwisdomkeepers.blogspot.com

I have included a link to Drunvalo Melchidezek, How to fully activate Pineal Gland antennas, which I think everyone will find of Interest. I experience a profound connection through the painting of the 13 Moon Calendar. The Melchizedek teachings resonate with the sacred geometry of the 13-20 ratio of the complete human, in particular the 28 day tidal/women's cycle and the continuing evolutionary journeys of duality into the unified heart. Consider combining a meditation on the pineal teachings with the 13 Moon Calendar painting.

Enjoy being BREATHED by the Sacred breath of the Creator,

In the Spirit of Art and Beauty forever,

Dawn Woman

From the Heart of the Redbud Winter gathering of the Wisdom Keepers ....

Flint Hills Wisdom Keepers Gathering, Council Grove, KS, April 26-29, 2013

BELOVEDS
The 13 Moon Calendar has been revealing itself as a Gift from the Creator, Mother Earth and Father Sky Sun to support whole vision and beingness to us, the two leggeds, as we remain and grow ever more into balance and harmony within the heart, body, Spirit and mind of The Tree of Life as given to us by the Master of All Breath.

Please feel free to observe and interact with the 13 Moon image in your own creative brilliance to further the emotional, mental, physical and spiritual health and balance of all life, now and forever more. Be it known that the 13 Moon Inner and Outer Calendar of Days and Nights remains in a state of vital flux and growth, as does and will your experience of it as it seats and integrates the energetic daily messaging of the Father Sky Sun and imbues us with the necessary mannas by which to live and function, In A GOOD WAY!

May I suggest you initiate and physically create a Calendar of your own beauty? I invite you to enter images and writings to this site that we, The Contemporary Wisdom Keepers might continue to live and grow together in a Community to which we hue.

Beloved, we each mirror a unique aspect of beauty, truth and sacredness...for this I offer humble feelings of recognition and gratitude ..

In the Spirit of Art and Beauty, forever ....
Dawn Woman


I would like to thank Drunvalo Melchidezek (link below) and all sentient beings of the unified heart consciousness for the work so graciously and freely offered (YouTube) to each and every one of us that we might most fully recognize ourselves as the sacred, all ways, all days....

How to fully activate Pineal Gland antennas (by Drunvalo Melchizedek)