I am Bear, from my clan (Ioway Bear Clan).

Once during an AIM powwow at Fort Snelling, Minnesota in the early 1990s, while dancing my mind shifted and my right hand took on the appearance of a bearpaw, with claws and hair even. I thought I was delusional, in an altered state brought on by constant dancing, drums, and cultural expectations. But the ( Read more... )

More on Nusa offerings of Japan:

"The Japanese Gohei and the Ainu Inao." W.G. Aston, C.M.G. The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 31 (Jan.-Jun., 1901), pp. 131-135 ( Read more... )

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This week, we drove up to Ronan, to help my brother enlarge his vegetable garden.


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Average snowpack near 100 percent or above
By EVE BYRON - Independent Record 04/17/09 ( Read more... )

A documentary about bears...here in Montana we have both black bear and grizzly. I lived in Alaska too, where they have all three species of North American bears (black, grizzly/brown, and polar)...