Waking Up on Turtle Island

Just minutes ago and then Spring 1980 or so, maybe 1981, but no fence, not so much myrtle, leaves all raked away, and two boys playing... I...

Here's a place I've been spending time gardening for over 25 years. Not all that time, of course, but for small periods of ti...

The story is that Gideon Mauwee, or Hungry Bear, was out hunting when he came across the place called Schaghticoke, near what's now Kent...

I suppose I should say a little more about the Turtle. Here's some more old writing from 1998 - with a couple corrections and an a...

Sometime or other I came across the concept of Paleoindian People expanding the Mast Forest by burning in more than one source and, inspired...

At the "other end," so to speak, farthest from the "village," is the Mast Forest, full of all sorts of resources. There ...

If you were sitting around a fire at a Paleo-Indian camp, there wouldn’t be a hearth around the fire. Everybody says so, including C. Keith ...

I was telling you about “Waking Up on Turtle Island” wasn’t I? Before I got distracted, I mean. Here’s a scan of my notebook, a sketchbook r...

(modified from the original cover)    Yes there is a great bias against the idea that Native Americans built stone constructions, especiall...

  “Native people’s histories and stories have been told by others – rather dispassionately at times and not always with accuracy. Something ...

I've finally taken my friend Peter's advice and started a blog of my own. We've corresponded for many years, met up a couple of ...