http://natbs.info never asking to be seen Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:35:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://natbs.info/2010/06/blah/ That's all http://natbs.info/2010/03/life-is-good/ What to do when the whole world is crazy? When "sanity" is anything but sane? When you realize you're hopelessly trapped? When your mother is dying and your soul has been stolen? What to do? http://natbs.info/2010/01/i-dont-know/ The Indian was a natural conservationist. He destroyed nothing, great or small. Destruction was not a part of Indian thought and action; if it had been, and had the man been the ruthless savage he has been acredited with being, he would have long ago preceded the European in the ... http://natbs.info/2010/01/land-of-the-spotted-eagle-vii/ The Lakota was a man of humility, never forgetting his insignificance in the sight  of Wakan Tanka. He was humble without cringing, and meek without loss of spirit. He always faced the Powers in prayer; he never groveled on the earth, but with face lifted to the sky spoke straight ... http://natbs.info/2010/01/land-of-the-spotted-eagle-vi/ Let me tell you a story of early days: Meat was once low in the village and a number of hunters went out to bring in some buffalo which were, at that particular time, scarce. Only three animals were found to be divided among every person in the camp. Even ... http://natbs.info/2010/01/land-of-the-spotted-eagle-v-2/ A woman and her poodle-with-a-coat walk past a freezing homeless person. An intellectual blogs about it from his iPhone. http://natbs.info/2009/12/new-york-city/ Two lovely legends of the Lakotas would be fine subjects for sculpturing — the Black Hills as the earth mother, and the story of the genesis of the tribe. Instead, the face of a white man is being outlined on the face of a stone cliff in the Black Hills. This beautiful ... http://natbs.info/2009/12/land-of-the-spotted-eagle-v/ The reputation of the Lakotas as fighting men spread among the white people, though not even with them was warfare sought until realization came to the people of the plains that they must fight or disappear as had the buffalo. Then their cause became a righteous one for the preservation ... http://natbs.info/2009/12/land-of-the-spotted-eagle-iv/ All this was in accordance with the Lakota belief that man did not occupy a special place in the eyes of Wakan Tanka, the Grandfather of us all. I was only a part of everything that was called the world. I can now see that humaneness is not a thing ... http://natbs.info/2009/12/land-of-the-spotted-eagle-iii/