traditional elders agree that our Ojibwe language

Standing Bear sought to tell the white man "just how" they "lived as Lakotans

and the rivers run”

Chicken dancers—what does it all mean

Kanaka Maoli

Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations Cree traditional elders agree that our"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger man I sought to avoid them and only ever caused myself more of the same. These days I choose to face life head onand I have become a comet. I arc across the sky of my life and the harder times are the friction that lets the worn and tired bits drop away. It's a good way to travel; eventually I will wear away all resistance until all there is left of me