I am bottled, fizzy water
Argh, I've had that Incubus song in my head ALLLLL day...not that I mind, it's a good song, but still.
Tonight I had to attend a lecture by a visiting Professor for my Native American Women class, and I have to say I was pleasantly suprised. The prof. was Prof. Paula Gunn Allen and she talked about her latest book on Pocahontas, which aims to set the record straight on Pocahontas's story. (~SideNote: I can't say/think the name Pocahontas without thinking about the porn movie "Poke A Hot Ass"...why, I don't know, I've never even seen the damned thing, just saw it on a video shelf one time back in high school and my friends and I were rolling...so yeah, argh) We read an excerpt from the book in class and it was rather interesting...turns out I didn't know anything about the story. She didn't fall in love with John Smith and she didn't marry him, she married John Rolfe and after converting to Christiantiy became known as Lady Rebecca Rolfe and sailed to Europe with Rolfe where she died a few years later. As it turns out, John Smith wasn't even in that good of standings with the Virginia Company and was rather low in society (didn't even have the title of a 'commoner').
Anyway, during the lecture she side-tracked to the nature of Native American religion and spiritualism I guess you could call it and how magic really does exist. And even that there is evidence of "magic" over in Europe before their encounters with Native people. So she was talking about the Algonquin tribes myths and origin stories and said that for them, the mouth of the Potomic river is sacred and very powerful and that she doesn't think it to be a coincidence that the European settlers made their capital there and had so much success and fortune in just a few hundred years, whereas most societies took hundreds if not thousands of years to come close to that ammount of scuccess. On top of this there was all the talk of Pocahontas as a very powerful medicine woman and spiritual being who, her people knew of her coming before she was born. It just all fascinated me and now I'm on a quest to find out more about the Algonquin myths of origin and all that. She also suggested a book called "Blackfoot Physics" that draws parallels between the ancient world of the native americans to the relatively newer field of Quantam Physics. Not that I know ANYTHING about Quantam Physics, but it sounds like a cool idea and all the reviews I read on the book were really good.
Blah, sorry for rambling. I just had all this in my head and wanted to get it down and I'm too lazy to hand write it all out. It's all really interesting though, if you think about it. I think I'm going to get her book on Pocahontas as well...the one chapter we read in class was interesting and I'm curious to know the rest!
Off to study now...
Tonight I had to attend a lecture by a visiting Professor for my Native American Women class, and I have to say I was pleasantly suprised. The prof. was Prof. Paula Gunn Allen and she talked about her latest book on Pocahontas, which aims to set the record straight on Pocahontas's story. (~SideNote: I can't say/think the name Pocahontas without thinking about the porn movie "Poke A Hot Ass"...why, I don't know, I've never even seen the damned thing, just saw it on a video shelf one time back in high school and my friends and I were rolling...so yeah, argh) We read an excerpt from the book in class and it was rather interesting...turns out I didn't know anything about the story. She didn't fall in love with John Smith and she didn't marry him, she married John Rolfe and after converting to Christiantiy became known as Lady Rebecca Rolfe and sailed to Europe with Rolfe where she died a few years later. As it turns out, John Smith wasn't even in that good of standings with the Virginia Company and was rather low in society (didn't even have the title of a 'commoner').
Anyway, during the lecture she side-tracked to the nature of Native American religion and spiritualism I guess you could call it and how magic really does exist. And even that there is evidence of "magic" over in Europe before their encounters with Native people. So she was talking about the Algonquin tribes myths and origin stories and said that for them, the mouth of the Potomic river is sacred and very powerful and that she doesn't think it to be a coincidence that the European settlers made their capital there and had so much success and fortune in just a few hundred years, whereas most societies took hundreds if not thousands of years to come close to that ammount of scuccess. On top of this there was all the talk of Pocahontas as a very powerful medicine woman and spiritual being who, her people knew of her coming before she was born. It just all fascinated me and now I'm on a quest to find out more about the Algonquin myths of origin and all that. She also suggested a book called "Blackfoot Physics" that draws parallels between the ancient world of the native americans to the relatively newer field of Quantam Physics. Not that I know ANYTHING about Quantam Physics, but it sounds like a cool idea and all the reviews I read on the book were really good.
Blah, sorry for rambling. I just had all this in my head and wanted to get it down and I'm too lazy to hand write it all out. It's all really interesting though, if you think about it. I think I'm going to get her book on Pocahontas as well...the one chapter we read in class was interesting and I'm curious to know the rest!
Off to study now...