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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Significant Dreaming
I launched the Great Plains Trail Project at the beginning of 2011 as a vision, and it is a vision that has occupied my thinking everyday since. I have written of my original inspiration from twenty years ago. I have … Continue reading
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Tagged north american continent, sharon butala, the perfection of the morning
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Where the Wind Blew Free
The final group of Native Americans along the Great Plains Trail are the Apache. Apache is a name that denotes a larger group of peoples, but who really belong to several different bands. The Great Plains Trail passes through Jicarilla … Continue reading
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Tagged chiricahua apache, chiricahua band, geronimo, goyahkla, goyathlay, jicarilla apache, mescalero apache, northern new mexico
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Run to the Hills
The next tribe along the Great Plains Trail is the Arapaho. One hundred forty-seven years ago (1864) in what is now Eastern Colorado a group of Arapaho as well as Cheyenne Indians were camped along Sand Creek. One of their … Continue reading
Getting My Bearings
The next tribe along the Great Plains Trail is the Cheyenne. I would like to relate a personal story about a place the Cheyenne believe is sacred. This past summer I had the opportunity to hike Bear Butte in South … Continue reading
The Sun Rose and Set on Their Land
The next tribe we encounter along our southward journey on the Great Plains Trail is the Lakota. The Lakota is a member of the larger Great Sioux Nation. The Great Sioux Nation consists of 7 tribes known in the Lakota … Continue reading
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Tagged black elk, crazy horse, great sioux nation, lakota, Red Cloud, seven council fires, sitting bull, wounded knee
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