Powwow Time!

I can't wait to get back on the trail. I took a couple weekends off to reenergize. Besides, gas prices are crazy! I'm heading to Flandreau for next weekend, and then off to Sioux Valley, Manitoba. Should be a good ending to the month of July.

Current Flix: Clay Pigeions; Do the Right Thing; Troy; Stryker.

July 4

The fireworks sound like the reverb of cannon fire in the valley.--Independence Day 2006.


Current Words: Symbiosis; Congeal; Miscible.

Current Sounds: " You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it." Dylan

The Ides of Summer

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been on the road hitting up some wacipi action. Our powwow here at cansayapi was a. o. waste’. It rained and was windy, but if a good thing is going to happen it’s going to happen. Kind of like what Iya said, “ If you don’t like the weather go and tell tunkasida it’s wrong.” Ha.

I got full on some frybread. Shook hands with lots of kin. It works out well. The wacipi here starts my summer, and the wacipi here just up the road at Birch Coulee in September ends my summer.

The week after I was on the road again to santeetown for another cho time. It rained again, but if a good thing is going to happen it’s going to happen. Ha. Kicked back with family. Good songs and good feelings. I’m on the Dakota circuit. Going to hit up Canada, SD, and of course Dakota dances 'round bde’sota.

Current Sounds: Lil' Otter; Talking Heads; Nirvana; Bad Nation; Neil Diamond. ohha.

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The back of my neck is sun-beaten
from the lack of hair on my head.


Current Reads: "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" Paulo Frerrie; "Magic City" Yousef Komunyakka; "Reinventing the Enemy's Language" Anthology.