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Welcome to The Alchemy of Ivy Mae — a space where memory, myth, and resistance intertwine. Here, stories bloom from whispers in the wind, from lullabies passed down through generations, and from the songs that refuse to die. In this today’s post, “A Whisper from the Tree,” we follow Jas as they uncover a forgotten melody—a resistance song disguised as a childhood rhyme. Through echoes of the past and the wind in the branches, a voice long buried returns to speak truth to power.
Step into the story. Let it sing to you.
🔗 Read “A Whisper from the Tree”
Hope you all slept well. I did until around 6 when something was bugging me to get out of bed. And when I finally rolled out and went to the window, this was my view.
Lovely Luna.
It was so fast, if I had not woke a just that moment I would have missed the magic moment. If I hadn't acted just at that moment and grabbed my camera, I wouldn't have been able to share with you this great big beautiful moon that graced Kitsilano this morning.
Life is like that....isn't it. Sort of a good analogy for Climate Change- don't ya think!
Go Jackie!! What beautiful art and powerful message to share!! Jackie Traverse spreads her message of love through art and butterflies and more. Really Beautiful!!
Jackie
Traverse is a recent graduate from the school of fine arts at the
University of Manitoba. She is an Anishinabe from Lake St. Martin First
Nation. Jackie works in all mediums from sculpture, mixed media, painting and video.
Jackie
Traverse is already widely known in art communities across Canada. Her
paintings, drawings, documentaries, and sculptures speak to realities of
being an Aboriginal woman. She has created stop-motion animation on
missing and murdered women in Canada, and another on the sixties scoop
titled "Two Scoops" and her latest stop motion animation "Empty' is a
tribute to her estranged mother. Jackie is deeply moved by the
injustices faced by First Nations people. Read more at link below.
Winnipeg-based First Nations artist Jackie Traverse
knows first-hand that life is not easy for the aboriginal community.
"I'm outraged," she says, "My kids couldn't even stand at the bus stop
without men thinking they're selling themselves."
Artist Jackie Traverse
Artist Jackie Traverse
Artist Jackie Traverse
Artist Jackie Traverse
Artist Jackie Traverse
Artist Jackie Traverse
Artist Jackie Traverse
Artist Jackie Traverse
Artist Jackie Traverse
Meeting of the minds women council 7 being a sacred number ,all women are sacred-Artist Jackie Traverse
We were very blessed in July 1967- I was only 5 years old and today for the first time in my history I heard the POWERFUL, PROFOUND, ENLIGHTENING words of Chief Dan George.
Such a empowering speech he made, it makes me sad that I NEVER heard it until now.
A WARNING!! If people understood it correctly, that the "white people" had done terrible crimes against the First Nation, and there would be consequences. The consequences are we live in a very sick environment and it's getting worse because we have NO RESPECT for each other or most of all MOTHER EARTH.
A LESSON- please share this speech WIDELY and take heed.
A GIFT- CHIEF DAN GEORGE gifted everyone that heard that speech with an opportunity to change and perhaps many who did, tried. Sadly it has been a very long time since that speech and much of what he said was not passed on and shared.
An OPPORTUNITY- Let us take that opportunity and share this speech widely and wake up the people, those that sleep and let them know change is coming, whether it will be good or bad is up to them. We have to make changes if we are to survive on MOTHER EARTH.
As he says in the speech - take advantage of the education available and learn all the skills you need to rebuild this world into a beautiful healthy place where the salmon are healthy, the people are free and it is a Canada to be proud of .
Have a listen. Thanks to the PROVINCE NEWSPAPER for sharing this article. May it create great change.
Message From Chief Dan George on Canada Day 1967- Centennial
Lament for Confederation How
long have I known you, Oh Canada? A hundred years? Yes, a hundred
years. And many, many seelanum more. And today, when you celebrate your
hundred years, Oh Canada, I am sad for all the Indian people throughout
the land. For I have known you when your forests were mine; when
they gave me my meat and my clothing. I have known you in your streams
and rivers where your fish flashed and danced in the sun, where the
waters said ‘come, come and eat of my abundance.’ I have known you in
the freedom of the winds. And my spirit, like the winds, once roamed
your good lands. But in the long hundred years since the white man
came, I have seen my freedom disappear like the salmon going
mysteriously out to sea. The white man’s strange customs, which I could
not understand, pressed down upon me until I could no longer breathe. When
I fought to protect my land and my home, I was called a savage. When I
neither understood nor welcomed his way of life, I was called lazy. When
I tried to rule my people, I was stripped of my authority. My
nation was ignored in your history textbooks - they were little more
important in the history of Canada than the buffalo that ranged the
plains. I was ridiculed in your plays and motion pictures, and when I
drank your fire-water, I got drunk - very, very drunk. And I forgot. Oh
Canada, how can I celebrate with you this Centenary, this hundred
years? Shall I thank you for the reserves that are left to me of my
beautiful forests? For the canned fish of my rivers? For the loss of my
pride and authority, even among my own people? For the lack of my will
to fight back? No! I must forget what’s past and gone. Oh God in
heaven! Give me back the courage of the olden chiefs. Let me wrestle
with my surroundings. Let me again, as in the days of old, dominate my
environment. Let me humbly accept this new culture and through it rise
up and go on. Oh God! Like the thunderbird of old I shall rise
again out of the sea; I shall grab the instruments of the white man’s
success-his education, his skills- and with these new tools I shall
build my race into the proudest segment of your society. Before I
follow the great chiefs who have gone before us, Oh Canada, I shall see
these things come to pass. I shall see our young braves and our chiefs
sitting in the houses of law and government, ruling and being ruled by
the knowledge and freedoms of our great land. So shall we shatter
the barriers of our isolation. So shall the next hundred years be the
greatest in the proud history of our tribes and nations.
On Canada’s 100th birthday, Chief Dan George silenced a crowd of 32,000 with his 'Lament for Confederation' at Empire Stadium.
Photograph by: Glenn Baglo, Vancouver Sun file photo
In his December 15, 1970 review, Vincent Canby of The New York Times
called the movie, "Arthur Penn's most extravagant and ambitious movie,
an attempt to capture the essence of the American heritage in the funny,
bitter, uproarious adventures of Jack Crabb."[11]Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun-Times, agreed, giving the film four stars out of four stars, and describing Little Big Man as "an endlessly entertaining attempt to spin an epic in the form of yarn.
Personally I found the ending extremely offensive but that in itself portrays the ignorance of the times. But maybe I missed something, I have to watch the whole movie.
"I learned my lesson well," ...I never heard this song and I really didn't know who Ricky Nelson was. I asked my friend to make me a Cd and he put this song on there. I was very intrigued and so I looked it up and I then I found the whole story. So sweet and sad. :(
Powerful Message to Remember: You Can't Please Everyone, So You Got To Please Yourself!
I have all these old tapes and I have Tom Cochrane's" Mad Mad World". I was listening to it the other day and I forgot how powerful his music is. Timeless too. Here are a few of my favorites. I wish I could find "Bigger Man" because that is a very enlightening message that everyone should definitely listen too...
For Our Earth Hour we took a candle and went to the beach to see if the people of Vancouver would turn there lights out.
It was hard to see but I believe some people did, many building did not. Angel was disappointed. We did our part though and Sent our Message, that we "Want Action Against Climate Change".
Come On Vancouver, Let's do Better Next Year.
Please Sign Up for Four Years. Gohttp://www.fouryearsgo.org/ and let's work together collectively to create a new future: an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on this planet
The Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium is an interactive transformational workshop that inspires participants to play a role in creating a new future: an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on this planet.
If you've never dug for potatoes, you don't know what you're missing. Finding spuds hiding in dirt is sort of like uncovering buried treasure. That is until your garden fork impales one of the darlings.
WWF is calling on Canadians to think about how we use and produce energy. To create the best possible future for Canadians and for the planet, let's stop wasting energy, and generate what we need from clean, renewable sources like wind and solar.
Canada can be a world leader in clean energy. But the longer we wait, the more it will cost - both in dollars and environmental impact.
Show your support. Switch off your lights on March 26.
What you can do for Earth Day
Climate change is the biggest environmental threat to our planet and the number one concern for Canadians. We are already seeing its impacts. Participating in Earth Hour is a simple way to show that you want to be a part of the solution and sends a powerful message to others that together we can make a difference.
Everyone is encouraged to participate - individuals, businesses, schools, and organizations. All you have to do is:
Turn off your lights for Earth Hour on Saturday March 26 from 8:30 - 9:30 pm
