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Grandfather Runs About Like A Horse Story

The bonfire snaps and crackles with orange-yellow, yellow-orange flames jumping up, reaching as to touch the heavens but only to vanish in mid air, as if darkness swallowed them. The fire’s light was so big that it brightened the darkened shadows where one could see the small adobe house, and the large cottonwood tree looming in the curtain of night-ness’. Low in the same light one could also see six children varied in age lying side by side on an old l… Continue

Spirit of Intent - Indian’s have Humor


In my travels across our country over the past some years, living within different cultures and people of all races, religions and life styles, I have found that one of the best ways to understand that group is to understand what makes them laugh. And trust me there are differences, even among Native people, depending on the region one comes from.

And trust me on this, for as a Native American Indian we are totally opposite of the popular Television prog… Continue

A good friend of mine from Texas said he got this from his friend in New Mexico and thought it was worth passing on to you from me. Remember from where I got it, it may have become a tall Texas tale, but it evolved around truth but now in the story form, and felt it was worth passing it along, especailly to the gents in the group.

"New Mexico Chili Cook off"

If you can read this whole story without laughing, then there's no hope for you. I was crying by the end. This is an actual account as re… Continue

Spirit of Intent
Can anyone tell where the Native Americans came from with their vocabulary.

To examine any language one has to use at least three languages to make a valid comparison. I was informed that the Algonquian language has Arabic words in it from a member of True West, that intrigued me so I thought that this would be a good time to explore some of the language in general, and include Native American language as well. Now I have to say, I didn’t know that the Arabic words were also fo… Continue

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Why is the word “squaw” so offensive today?

First of all, it is believed by many that it is not any Indigenous word from any of the people that occupied the American soil, in other words it is not an Indian word. It was more than likely a word created by European colonists, before it became the United States of America, who could not pronounce the native Algonquian word for 'woman.' In the Algonquian native languages, the word for woman includes a “SKW” sound to it. It would o… Continue