My son hadn’t been to Bad Saarow in two and a half years, but remembers good times there and a matchless freedom that only true simplicity can create. It is a place of peace for us and of mutual respect. A place where there is time to listen and speak and discuss as the moment […]
Public Statement: The Karl May Festival, Museum & Repatriation Situation
Update 4 February 2016: The Karl May Museum reneges on its agreement to return native human remains. Unfortunately, I and other natives and allies experienced in German and Native American interaction were disregarded by the native negotiator who first attempted this because they didn’t accept the German mindset and employed strategies that didn’t and wouldn’t […]
Seeing the Indigenous Clearly
Originally posted on Awakening the Horse People:
Healthy seeing of the Indigenous begins by learning and untangling our own stories of displacement, domestication, colonization, settlement, and forgetting. This historical and ongoing trauma suppresses our imagination and disconnects our hearts from truly seeing and knowing ourselves. Coming to terms with our own loss of culture and…
Interview at Deutsche Welle TV: Karl May Museum Adamantly Refuses to Return Scalps
Update 2017: The Karl May continue refusing return of all of the remains. They only agreed to return ONE human remains to a tribe. The others they consider themselves caretakers of, and refuse to respect multiple requests to return our relatives for respectful burial. Viewable online HERE, my interview by Deutsch Welle TV, the largest […]
At Indian Country Today Media Network: “Karl May Museum Refuses Return of Native Scalps”
Update 2017: The Karl May continue refusing return of all of the remains. They only agreed to return ONE human remains to a tribe. The others they consider themselves caretakers of, and refuse to respect multiple requests to return our relatives for respectful burial. My latest article at Indian Country Today Media Network covering the […]
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