by johnnoltner
The gallery below is meant to supplement the story you will find in Portraits of Peace: Searching for Hope in a Divided America. The book is available now, anywhere you love to buy books. Enjoy.
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: book, broadleaf, culture, faith, healing, justice, memoir, peace, Portraits of Peace, race, self-help, social justice, society, travel
by johnnoltner
Bazile Panek is majoring in Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University. He is an enrolled tribal member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in Red Cliff, Wisconsin. “There’s all sorts of barriers to existing as a native person. Ever since colonization in 1492, things have been hard for native people. It’s hard just to even exist sometimes. So the power and the resiliency is especially tangible in native people today and you can see that within […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: culture, decolonize, heritage, identity, indigenous, lake superior, ojibwe, storytelling, tradition, wisconsin
by johnnoltner
This one’s going to be raw and unpolished. What’s new, you might ask. As we pack up to leave southern Louisiana, my mind is full. It’s a complex region full of complex challenges. But like most things, these are not Louisiana’s problems. They belong to all of us. What follows is less journalism than it is reflection. It’s a Cliff Notes version of the science, history and sociology of the area, and for an outsider, I feel reasonably confident I […]
Categories: Blog • Tags: bayou, cultural, culture, delta, environment, History, indigenous, louisiana, Mississippi River, storytelling, stprytelling
by johnnoltner
Sheila Goldtooth teaches Navajo culture and philosophy at Dine College in Chinle, Arizona. She also works as a traditional healer for the Navajo Nation. Her interest in healing began at a very young age when she saw her uncle do the work. She apprenticed with him and now performs ceremonies and blessings for people to help bring them back into balance and harmony, particularly for young people who struggle to balance the pressures and competing demands of western and Navajo societies. […]
Categories: Podcast • Tags: arizona, balance, children, chinle, culture, harmony, healing, Hogan, listening, native american, nature, Navajo, philosophy, traditional healing
