December 31, 2022
Wintering
Winter is a time for slowing. Not something we do easily in our culture, but something I have been working on. It has not come easily to me either.
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December 18, 2022
2022 Draws to an End…
We are coming to the end of another year. Time. It does fly! 2022 in many regards has been an extraordinary year for me.
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December 11, 2022
Flying is Easy
This is a very brief highlight of one woman in They Roared. Let me introduce you to Selma Kantor Cronan.
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December 11, 2022
The Extraordinary Ilga Vise
Since the day I met Ilga Vise, many years ago, I knew she was a very special woman, even though I did not know her story then.
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November 20, 2022
“Her Life was Full of Promise”
Another remarkable Native American Woman, Eva Mirabal. Eva's work is remarkable and her sons carry on her tradition with their art.
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November 13, 2022
The Only Native American WASP
We celebrated Native American Heritage Month in November. The brave and patriotic woman has a chapter They Roared, which will be out next month.
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November 6, 2022
She Was a Rancher and a Patriot!
Minnie met with a recruiter, who was very patronizing and discouraging. He said that the military was just “not for women.”
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November 6, 2022
HAGITUDE
About six weeks ago, I began a yearlong course with Sharon Blackie called Hagitude. The focus is on the second half of life.
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November 1, 2022
Music, the Heartbeat of Every Culture
Frances became more immersed in the music of Native People and began to transcribe it, teaching herself how to record it as she went along. She wanted to use this music to help document and preserve their culture.
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October 30, 2022
Seasons of the Heart
As someone who is in her later years, the autumn of my life, I think a lot about seasons of the heart, about how much I have lived, loved and changed during various seasons in this precious lifetime that I have lived so far.
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