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December 30, 2022

Happy New Year

medicine-wheel

May you find happiness, balance, and harmony in 2021

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December 29, 2022

Here’s to 2023

Let’s shoot it up!

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December 28, 2022

Calamity Jane (1852-1903)

Calamity Jane (1852-1903)

  • Calamity Jane was born Martha Jane Canary / Cannary in Missouri, 1852.
  • This infamous dare-devil pioneer woman often cross-dressed as a man.
  • She was the oldest of six children born to a gambler and a prostitute.
  • When orphaned (between the ages of 12 – 14) she looked after her younger siblings.  At various times she was employed as a cook, dishwasher, waitress, dance-hall girl, nurse, scout, ox-team driver, and prostitute.
  • Calamity Jane was illiterate and an alcoholic.
  • She married twice and had two daughters.  Claims that she also wed Wild Bill Hickok were fabricated.
  • Her fame came from being both a coarse-mouthed sharp-shooter, but also as a kindly nurse.
  • She attended the sick in Deadwood during a smallpox epidemic, and is said to have rescued a stage-coach from a Cheyenne attack.
  • Claims that she fought in the Indian Wars have not been substantiated.
  • Calamity Jane was acquainted with Wild Bill Hickok and friends with Buffalo Bill Cody.
  • She performed in Cody’s Wild West Show and also appeared in the 1901 Pan-American Exposition.
  • She died in South Dakota in 1903.
  • In accordance with her own wishes, she was buried next to Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood.
  • There are several theories how the nickname “Calamity Jane” came about.  She warned that to offended her was to “court calamity.” But as “the calamity” was also a pseudonym for venereal disease (usually syphilis), she may have acquired this title from working in brothels.

Sources:

Bio.com. “Calamity Jane,” at http://www.biography.com/people/calamity-jane-9234950

Jane, Calamity.  The Autobiography of Calamity Jane. http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/w00014.html

Wikipedia, “Calamity Jane,” at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamity_Jane

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December 27, 2022

SHE’LL BE COMING ‘ROUND THE MOUNTAINS

She’ll Be Coming ‘Round The Mountains

(Traditional)

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes,

(when she comes)

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes,

(when she comes)

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain,

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain,

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes,

(when she comes).

She’ll be driving six white horses when she comes,

(when she comes)

She’ll be driving six white horses when she comes,

(when she comes)

She’ll be driving six white horses,

She’ll be driving six white horses,

She’ll be driving six white horses when she comes,

(when she comes).

We’ll all go out to meet her when she comes,

We’ll all go out to meet her when she comes,

We’ll all go out to meet her,

We’ll all go out to meet her,

We’ll all go out to meet her when she comes.

We’ll kill the old red rooster when she comes,

(when she comes)

We will kill the big red rooster when she comes,

(when she comes)

We’ll kill the big red rooster,

We will kill the big red rooster,

We’ll kill the big red rooster when she comes,

(when she comes).

She will bring us to the portals when she comes,

(when she comes)

She will bring us to the portals when she comes,

(when she comes)

She will bring us to the portals,

She will bring us to the portals,

She will bring us to the portals when she comes,

(when she comes).

We’ll all sing hallelujah when she comes,

(when she comes)

We’ll all sing hallelujah when she comes,

(when she comes)

We’ll all sing hallelujah,

We’ll all sing hallelujah,

We’ll all sing hallelujah when she comes,

(when she comes).

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes,

(when she comes)

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes,

(when she comes)

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain,

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain,

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes,

(when she comes).

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes,

(when she comes)

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes,

(when she comes)

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain,

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain,

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes,

(when she comes).

There are many variants on this popular song.  Check out this fun one below!

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December 26, 2022

Kit Wishes

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December 23, 2022

Native American Night Before Christmas

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December 22, 2022

Stuck In The Smokehole Of Our Tipi

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December 21, 2022

Buffy Sainte-Marie’s SOLDIER BLUE

SOLDIER BLUE

(Buffy Sainte-Marie)

Custer Portrait

I look out and I see a land,
Young and lovely, hard and strong.
For fifty thousand years we’ve danced her praises,
Prayed our thanks, and we’ve just begun.

This is, this is my country –
Young and growing, free and flowing, sea to sea.
Yes, this is my country –
Ripe and bearing miracles in every pond and tree.

Her spirit walks the high country,
She is giving free, wild samples, and setting an example
How to give.  Yes, this is my country –
Retching and turning, she’s like a baby learning how to live.

I can stand upon a hill at dawn,
Look all around me, feel her surround me,
Soldier blue, can’t you see her life has just begun?
It’s beating inside us, telling us she’s here to guide us.

Ooh, soldier blue, soldier blue –
Can’t you see that there’s another way to love her?

This is my country –
And I sprang from her and I’m learning how to count upon her
Tall trees, and the corn is high country.
Yes, I love her and I’m learning how to take care of her.

Whenever the news stories get me down,
I take a drink of freedom to think of
North America from toe to crown.
It’s never long before I know just why I belong here.

Ooh, soldier blue, soldier blue –
Can’t you see that there’s another way to love her?
Ooh, soldier blue, soldier blue –
Can’t you see that there’s another way to love her?
Soldier blue, soldier blue –
Can’t you see that there’s another way to love her?

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(Video: YouTube)

Check out this beautiful version:

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December 20, 2022

Warrior Women: Woman Chief

Woman Chief (1806-1854)

  • Woman Chief was a revered female warrior of the Crow.
  • She may also have been called Pine Leaf and Biawacheeitche.
  • This Warrior Woman was born into the Gros Ventres people of Montana.
  • After being taken prisoner at the age of 10, Woman Chief was raised by the Crows.
  • Since her adopted father had lost all his sons, he encouraged her tom-boy pursuits.
  • Yet even when engaging in masculine activities she always wore female attire.
  • Woman Chief excelled at horse riding, shooting, and dressing buffalo.
  • When her father died she took control of his lodge, and went on several raids against the Blackfoot.
  • She raised her own band of warriors that took many horses and scalps.
  • Woman Chief had four wives.
  • Following the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851), she became involved in inter-tribal negotiations.
  • After several years of peace this remarkable warrior was ambushed and killed by her original birth tribe.

Sources:

Brodell, Ria. “Butch Heroes,” at https://www.riabrodell.com/biawacheeitche-or-woman-chief-aka-barcheeampe-or-pine-leaf/

Wikipedia, “Woman Chief,” at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_Chief

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December 19, 2022

Sioux Religion

flat-iron (Photo: Joseph Henry Sharp)

“From Wakan-Tanka, the Great Mystery, comes all power.

It is from Wakan-Tanka that the holy man has wisdom and the power to heal and to make holy charms.”

Chief Flat-Iron, Oglala Sioux

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