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| From the "Positively Minnesota" website of the Department of Employment and Economic Development |
"Sometime in the mid-seventies at a conference of Native American leaders and activists in Bozeman, Montana, I heard a Crow elder say ... 'You know, I think if people stay somewhere long enough -- even white people -- the spirits will begin to speak to them. It's the power of the spirits coming up from the land. The spirits and the old powers aren't lost, they just need people to be around long enough and the spirits will begin to influence them.' "
From: http://www.powersofplace.com/
"What becomes possible when we are intentional relationship with the powers of place?"
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| La Ciudad Encantada |
Another favorite place from the early seventies: Nelson's Resort (this link is from another lover of this place whom I don't know, but she captures it beautifully, as does her blog entry on the place). This is where I saw my first bald eagle, where I saw the only whooping crane I've ever seen, where I had a hallucinatory experience in a large lake of lily pads, and where I saw a moose and her baby swimming down the Loon River early one morning. THIS VERSION of the Ojibway or Wyandot story of the
Star Maiden links stars with lily pads in that part of the world, and spoke to my experience among the vast landscape of lily pads in the North Woods.
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| Earthship! |
