Takahi my relatives.

The issue has been raised to us in the CANEY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL CIRCLE that why do we honor turkeys as sacred beings in our spiritual tradition, even considering this bird as the totem animal of one of the four directions, since turkeys are not native to the Caribbean islands. It is a valid question because we…

Takahi relatives

On Monday, October 10, 2022 I had the honor of participating as an invited guest speaker at the sixth annual celebration of INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY on the grounds of PennTreaty Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.…

This weekend September 24 and 25 2022, we here at the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center are celebrating our 43rd annual pow wow at our Singing Winds site in the Dorseyville community north of Pittsburgh…

On September 22 2022 Pittsburgh's BREATHE PROJECT hosted two events of the week-long CLEAN ENERGY JUSTICE CONVERGENCE. The events on that Thursday featured two important encounters with efforts by a Washington…

Today Wednesday, September 21, 2022, I attended a mini pow wow celebrated at Schenley Plaza in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA. The event was sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh in collaboration with our own COUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER.…

Marie Helene Laraque

In the decade of the 1970's when Native American activism was reaching its high point in the United States two…

Sense and sense-making in Nature relies on the influences (seen & unseen) of your spatial semantics (making meaning with your senses) and Physical Literacy (knowing the social-landscape/dynamics of your community, tribe's social typography) and how sacred, symbolic meaning in cultures  -- can help us understand the "other" as…

A 1919 book titled “A Shadow Passes” contained a collection of vignettes depicting scenes in nature. 

English author and playwright named Eden Phillpotts noted how a magnifying lens could heighten visual acuity (such that the perceived beauty of some plants would be enhanced). The passage included a saying about the plant species Menyanthes…

Traducida en Español y en Inglés.

AMR es siempre increíble. La forma en que crea la canción. Suena a fiesta pero deja saber al oyente la indignación. Él está diciendo: "Nunca debemos construir monumentos para personas malvadas, los monumentos son para los héroes. En el video, AMR menciona muchas de las tragedias que él ayudó a cometer. Como:(Traficante de Esclavos)…

Council Of Three Rivers American Indian Center

In 1998 The CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania opened a new section of its public exhibit dedicated exclusively to the Indigenous people of the United States. This new exhibit is called the…

The amazingly talented and socially conscious U.S. alternative rock band PORTUGAL. THE MAN performed at the Petersen Events Center here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last evening. I was honored to present the Indigenous land acknowledgement…

We met on November 21 2021 at the main site of the COUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER. Our…

On Saturday November 6 we celebrated the second Day of the Ancestors ceremony in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The ceremony was officiated by Pittsburgh Behike Dayvanna Caraballo Mitchell-Schreiner. She was assisted by Behike Miguel Sague Jr.

Members of the local community participated.…

  In the 1980's the United States anthropologist Dennis Tedlock completed an important piece of literary work whose creation illustrates some very important facts about real language. Tedlock's task was to take a text written in the fifteenth century version of the Quiche Maya language and translate it to English.…

On Sunday October 31 the lead Caney Circle behike of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dayvanna Caraballo Mitchell Schreiner guided the official 2021 Taino DAY OF THE ANCESTORS ceremony on the grounds of the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center.…

It was an honor for me to attend one of the days of Indigenous Peoples Day weekend celebration PoWow on Randals Island, New York City Oct 10 2021. I was accompanied by NYC Caney Circle behike Tilou Balan (Lil Wolf).…