Member Since: 11/30/2006
Band Website: "Mouth Horse music" at iicoc.com
Band Members:
PHillip Meshekey aka "Mishekae" means turtle. I am not a band, but a human being who likes to think & write, and also record these expressions in native hip hop or poetry forms. I guess you could say im a writer/poet/speaker/spoken word artist..... a crazy person in this so called "normal" society Lol. I am a self entity when it comes to music and "activism", part of no movements, but part of all movements! My band members consist of my personalities, and ancestors. I do spoken word with different featured artists, solo poetry readings, and public speaking on many issues, including workshops. Coming soon! is......"They bloodied our islandz, and wounded our kneez" I am the executive producer for an all native artist filled line up, a benefit album for the Pomo nation's very own Lucy Moore Foundation(LMF) based out of Robinson rancheria(rez) in clear lake California, by Clayton Duncan and family. Bloody island was a massacre site of over 400 hundred native people in 1850 by the calvary and local vigilantes, one of the many atrocities suffered by california natives, they survived the worst genocide ever(over 50 million killed), far out numbering any holocaust on Earth. The procedes will establish a base income for a cultural center on the island, but the island must be bought back from the current land theif, please help support the truth, and the healing time of a tribe human beings! The album featuring John Trudell & Quiltman, Annie Humphrey, Floyd Redcrow Westerman, Good Sheild, El Vuh, Tchiya Amet, Okimaskwesis, Buggin Malone, Red, Blackfire, and many more! You can book me to come to your community, or event for speaking engagements, Poetry readings, or for liason/advisory work at: [email protected]
Black panther Douglas Emory with 7th generation!
Trudell the Movie!!
John has been one of the most influentual human beings in my life; he has "Icktomi"(spider) medicine , a trickster has a sacred role, and shows us what not to do. Since he knows bad really well, and since we live in trickster times, it might be favorible for us to listen to the message!
Below is a new interview, push the play button under the raven!
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Influences:
Gitchee Monitou-"The great spirit" and equally, our Ogashnan Aki-our MOTHER EARTH! Nokoomis Giizis aka La Luna aka Grandmother moon. All the monitous(spirits), Niiwiin Nikiiyaanan or known as the 4 directions, and the power and spirit of father sky, Grandfather Sun "Mishkoomis giizis" Miigwetch to Bedasiigaa, or the "light that shines through" or light beams, that medicine and my relatives. The sun that sets here at the western gate, in which i hold space for my family here, and back home in Michigan, our Tribe, Community, galaxy, unverse, My thoughts, OUR Thoughts! All of our relations, Anishnaabek(be) Kwe) ways, the children and elders globally. I come from the mishekae (turtle) clan of the Odawa people, which influences me greatly. The turtle emerged from the water with Earth on its back, providing a living place for all creatures between sky and water. We are a medium of communication, the emissary of beings of this world and time, beings of another world, and dimension of time. Turtle symbolizes thought given and thought received, and also represents clarity of communication between beings. I am Waganakising(crooked tree) Odawak (to trade people) of the great lakes, or little traverse bay. I am a human being to the western hemishere, i am Native, but not so american, to this place our ancestors actually called Turtle island. My father was from "Petoskey" or (Bedasiga)"light shines through" in northern Michigan, known as little traverse bay. My influences definetely consist of my many grandparents and parents, My human mother from up-state new york, my Alaskan "angel of sin" who i choose to walk beside, at times we stray from eachother, my daughters for who i do everything "Gaazaagin" my Brothers, and sisters, my neices and nephews, the 7th generation everywhere! One thing that really influences me, when a wombyn knows who she is, her beauty, her power, but doesnt hate the man in the process. The sacred plants, Sage(mashkodaeweshk), Cedar(Keeshiick),Sweetgrass(Wingush),Tobbacco(Semaa).The grandfather medicine (Peyote) and Grandmother medicine for balance (Jauna Mota). The wind, the WATER, mountains, trees, animals, and the little people who inspire our visions. The Maple syrup medicine, The rice medicine, everyone, thier thoughts and actions, good or bad, or should i say "responsable" or not. The Eagle and Condor now uniting, the 7 fires prophecy of the Midewiiwiin, and the 8th prophecy, or fire yet to be revealed. The person, spirit, or people i meet today, the dream we all weave, and all my enemies who give me strength, we are all brothers and sisters of earth, and we all share our father Sky, and our mother earth, and the spirits, because they control everything, and you conrol nothing....WE never close our eyes!