I'm interested in everything...lol... but more specifically... I enjoy doing beadwork and generally making stuff with my hands. Love to read and watch movies (at home... I'm kinda anti-social but in a very friendly way)... if you haven't figured it out yet, my big passion is music. I believe in being of service... I am a participant in the Transform Columbus Day activities (there's nothing like being hand-cuffed to your best friend to make you really dig your heels in about an issue) and volunteer with the Native Inmates group at our local Fed. prison. Was at one time an ICWA (Indian Child Welfare Act) foster mom and create a lot of flyers to help promote local NDN organizations. Even tho I am mixed blood Anishinaabe, I go to Lakota sweats (cuz there just aren't too many Naabe's around these parts) and am hunka'd into a Lakota family from Pine Ridge. "If you don't like the way I pray, you can kiss my sweetgrass!"
I love to connect with NDN musicians and give them encouragement and a little leg up with some national air time! I use myspace mostly to network with musicians, artists and political renegades ... but hey... it's all the same thing really.------------------------ I would have really liked to shake Peter LaFarge's hand ...
Buffy Ste Marie - My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl08n8_b3Sw
Hand Of Grandfather is ALL about music... of the First Nations! This cutting-edge radio program airs weekly on XM Satellite Radio (Fine Tuning, channel 76) and features music from tribally affiliated artists including Arigon Starr, Lawrence Laughing, Indigenous, Annie Humphrey, Black Lodge Singers, John Trudell, Bill Miller, Robert Mirabal, Joanne Shenandoah, Carlos Reynosa, Darren Geffre, Mary Youngblood, Cochise, Kashtin, Jimmy Lee Young, Jay and Tiinesha Begaye, Jim Boyd, Bear Creek, Joy Harjo, Murray Porter, Eekwol, Randy Wood, Ulali (and of course, Pura Fe), Robbie Robertson, Songcatchers, Redbone, Bryan Akipa, Tonemah, Buffy Sainte-Marie, XIT, Buddy Red Bow, Chester Knight & The Wind, Mitch Walking Elk, Nadjiwan, Kevin Locke, Sharon Burch, Martha Redbone, Derek Miller, Joseph Fire Crow, Andrew Vasquez, Delphine Tsinajinnie, Vince Redhouse (well, ok ... the entire Redhouse family), Brule, Gil Silverbird, Eagle & Hawk, Lakota Thunder, Susan Aglukark, Anthony Wakeman, Louie Gonnie, Wayne Lavallee, Arvel Bird, Walela, Primeaux & Mike, Star Nayea, Red Bull, Howard Lyons, Wade Fernandez, Cozad, December Wind, Quiltman, Radmilla Cody, Earl Bullhead, Cornel Pewewardy. James Yellowbank, Calvin Standing Bear, Skychasers, Thunder Bird Sisters, Jack Gladstone, Jana, Tha Tribe, Carlos Nakai, Cannes Brulees, The Gary Small Band, Red Earth, Clan/destine, Native Roots, Smokeytown, Cheyenne Creek Singers, Jerry Alfred and The Medicine Beat and BUNCHES MORE! If you are an Indigenous performer and would like your music considered for Hand Of Grandfather, please drop me a message! My ears are wide open!
Powwow Highway, Fast Runner, Lakota Woman, Incident at Oglala, Smoke Signals and personal, all-time favorite: Harold and Maude!
News freak (I apparently enjoy being lied to on a regular basis...lol) and here are further television confessions: Oprah, Heroes, Ugly Betty, The Office and Sunday Morning. I would like to slap the face of the guy who cancelled Northern Exposure.
Anything written by Sherman Alexie, Vine Deloria, Thomas King, Louise Erdrich or Harlan Ellison ... but then, I'll read anything not nailed down including cereal boxes, match book covers and toilet paper notes.
*grin*