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As an interesting note , my Grandmother taught linguistics at O.U. in Norman Oklahoma. She told the story that her German Foreign Exchange students picked up the Cheyenne language much easier than any of the others , including Cheyennes. I think it's due to Cheyenne being a very guttural language and some of the sounds are difficult.The German language is similar and has some similar sounds.
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I believe blood quantums are the governments way to breed us out of existance ! They say blood is thicker than water ! Now maple syrup is thicker than blood , so are pancakes more important than family ? There are "Elders" and there are "Olders". Being the second one doesn't make the first one true ! ![]() Somebody is out there somewhere, thinking of you and the impact you made in their life. It's not me....I think you're an idiot ! ![]() There's a chance you might not like me , but there's a bigger chance I won't care |
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My copy of this book is an original 1940's BIA - Division of Education edition. It was in the books my mom had from back when she taught for the BIA. The page numbers don't match. But, there are pipe bag designs in there.
I learned to design by studying beadwork. I looked at the designs around me, at family pieces, a museum pieces and photographs. I talked with other artists and learned about at how they used shape and color. Then I beaded and beaded. Look up works by the following artists: Tom Haukaas, Ronda Holy Bear Joyce Growing Thunder Fogarty Jaunita Growing Thunder Fogarty Look at some modern beadwork. Read some books about modern Indian life: Keeping Heart on Pine Ridge, Victor Glover; Native Voices: Summertown, TN, 2004. Rez Life, David Treuer; Atlantic Monthly Press:New York, 2012. The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder: And Other True Stories from the Nebraska-Pine Ridge Border Towns, Stew Magnusen; Texas Tech University Press: Lubbock, TX, 2013. Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood, Delphine Red Shirt; Bison Books: Lincoln, NE, 1999. Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter, Delphine Red Shirt; Bison Books: Lincoln, NE, 2003. Standing in the Light: A Lakota Way of Seeing, Severt Young Bear, R D. Theisz; University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln, NE, 1996. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, Vine Deloria, University of Oklahoma Press, 1969. |
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The same is with Lakhota. Got a book Lakhotiya Woglaka Po! (Level 1)and CD. Pictures with the words which reprsent was is shown. Very similar what I found online about Cheyenne. At my age it has become painstaking to learn a new language. Will only go slow ahead.
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Those who know do not write and those who write may not know. Frank W. Louis, No such Agency True peace between nations will only happen when there is true peace within people’s souls. Black Elk “Tell me, and I will listen. Show me, and I will understand. Involve me, and I will learn.” Lakota Proverb God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace. (Reinhold Niebuhr, but the origin is debated) |
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If asked, I'll try to give an rational answer but that is the same as being asked why I like to shoot my flint lock. Every year we have the same political fight if fire arms in privat posession should be totally prohibited. The question always is why do you need to shoot. For the same reason, I need to play table tennes as long as my feet worked. Bottom wardancer, I am going to like you. Thanks for your time to teach me a little bit.
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Those who know do not write and those who write may not know. Frank W. Louis, No such Agency True peace between nations will only happen when there is true peace within people’s souls. Black Elk “Tell me, and I will listen. Show me, and I will understand. Involve me, and I will learn.” Lakota Proverb God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace. (Reinhold Niebuhr, but the origin is debated) |
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I am going to like you like Wardancer for your posts and that very much. I have learned new ways of looking on you and your people. We live indeed in 2017 not in 1917 or 1817. And I will never fully understand because it can not be learned through internet and reading books. But may be, I can learn a little bit more.
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Those who know do not write and those who write may not know. Frank W. Louis, No such Agency True peace between nations will only happen when there is true peace within people’s souls. Black Elk “Tell me, and I will listen. Show me, and I will understand. Involve me, and I will learn.” Lakota Proverb God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace. (Reinhold Niebuhr, but the origin is debated) |
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I think you're trying to extend a leadership role in pre-reservation Lakota society to all plains nations. "Shirt-wearers" are leaders among the Lakota. They had a shirt of a particular design and construction as a badge of office. Don't assume other tribes used the same badges of office or had the same political structures.
Some shirts are society regalia, some are not. Some shirts are religious apparel, like Ghost Dance shirts, others are not. Some were worn for war, some just to keep warm. If you look at old pictures, ignoring the shirts which the photographers owned and used to make sure their subjects were dressed like a white audience expected Indians to dress, there are many many shirts. I've sent pictures of more Lakota men in shirt than there were shirt wearers. In modern usage, buckskin shirts are seldom part of regular dance regalia -- kind of restrictive, hot and hard to keep clean. At larger powwows you might see older gentlemen, dignitaries of various sorts, wearing a shirt, leggings and headdresses. Artists still make shirts. They are a beautiful form. Pipe bags are not sacred, at least among my people. They are a fairly common form. I've made more than a few over the years. They are nice gift pieces. They get a good price in galleries. Many Indian people object to the sale of pipes, not because the pipe in question is necessarily sacred. But such sales are part of the larger appropriation and abuse of Native spiritual ways. Last edited by OLChemist; 02-20-2017 at 07:20 AM.. |
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By the way, the prayer at the end of your signature line is the Serenity prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr. In the states, it is used by twelve step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous.
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Buying from Germany despite of internet is at least not as easy as it seems. If ordering in the US as an individual, customs in Germany is sometimes quite spiteful. Thanks you; i know four more artists. That one I found by chance: Plains Indian Bows - Home.
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Those who know do not write and those who write may not know. Frank W. Louis, No such Agency True peace between nations will only happen when there is true peace within people’s souls. Black Elk “Tell me, and I will listen. Show me, and I will understand. Involve me, and I will learn.” Lakota Proverb God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace. (Reinhold Niebuhr, but the origin is debated) |
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#29 |
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A Beadwork thread without pictures seems not best thing to be.
I started beading before I asked here. Now I am reconsidering what I will do or how I shall or can do. Yet my way learning to bead is limited as your way to learn is not possible in Germany. It that would be possible to me in South Dakota I can not answer. Beading is a good way to find internal piece may be serenity and get away from much to fast normal day life.
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Those who know do not write and those who write may not know. Frank W. Louis, No such Agency True peace between nations will only happen when there is true peace within people’s souls. Black Elk “Tell me, and I will listen. Show me, and I will understand. Involve me, and I will learn.” Lakota Proverb God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace. (Reinhold Niebuhr, but the origin is debated) |
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#30 |
Me & Eyes r doin' goot !
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I wonder why you beaded the moc crooked ? At least that's the way it looks in the pic.
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I believe blood quantums are the governments way to breed us out of existance ! They say blood is thicker than water ! Now maple syrup is thicker than blood , so are pancakes more important than family ? There are "Elders" and there are "Olders". Being the second one doesn't make the first one true ! ![]() Somebody is out there somewhere, thinking of you and the impact you made in their life. It's not me....I think you're an idiot ! ![]() There's a chance you might not like me , but there's a bigger chance I won't care |
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I am going the hard way of try and error and learning what you can all do wrong.
And I have some difficulties with my eyes. I am four eyed but for beading I need to the the glasses of. I was told, that I have 80% eyesight left. The pattern was intended to be centered to the toe and that is not along the center of the upper. I simply go it wrong and was late to see that that it went wrong but did not want to undue the work. At least it reminds me, that I make errors. The triangles are equally not as I wished them to be. I wanted them to be isosceles but that is not easily achieved if at all. The beads are Nr.10 Czech seed beads from Preciosa. The rows may be stitched to narrow too.
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Those who know do not write and those who write may not know. Frank W. Louis, No such Agency True peace between nations will only happen when there is true peace within people’s souls. Black Elk “Tell me, and I will listen. Show me, and I will understand. Involve me, and I will learn.” Lakota Proverb God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace. (Reinhold Niebuhr, but the origin is debated) |
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#32 |
Me & Eyes r doin' goot !
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Here's a pair I just did for my wife. And the link goes to the finished product.
Yes, I said the 'F' word
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I believe blood quantums are the governments way to breed us out of existance ! They say blood is thicker than water ! Now maple syrup is thicker than blood , so are pancakes more important than family ? There are "Elders" and there are "Olders". Being the second one doesn't make the first one true ! ![]() Somebody is out there somewhere, thinking of you and the impact you made in their life. It's not me....I think you're an idiot ! ![]() There's a chance you might not like me , but there's a bigger chance I won't care Last edited by wardancer; 02-27-2017 at 12:52 PM.. |
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#33 |
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I wasn't "nitpicking" your work. The designs look fine , just off center. Thought maybe you had a reason. I use size 11 czech beads , but that's just personal preference. 7 on a row , Cheyenne style lazy stich. It lays flatter.
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I believe blood quantums are the governments way to breed us out of existance ! They say blood is thicker than water ! Now maple syrup is thicker than blood , so are pancakes more important than family ? There are "Elders" and there are "Olders". Being the second one doesn't make the first one true ! ![]() Somebody is out there somewhere, thinking of you and the impact you made in their life. It's not me....I think you're an idiot ! ![]() There's a chance you might not like me , but there's a bigger chance I won't care |
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Your mocs look very fine to my eyes. My spacing of the vertical rows is to narrow. But how nuch space should I give? And on the second line, you have not a one to one lane match if I see it rigth, where the curve is sharp. I took ten beads lazy stitch. Seems to be to many beads. Sewing the sole to the upper or the upper to the sole there I assume I likewise have something missing to get it good. I got a booklet from Crazy Crow name Native American Mocassins, A craft Manual. Looks easier than it is to follow the instructions. You need to work consistently and that requires do, loo´k, think, do, look, think, do look think, until it works. Old army rule says, vormachen, nachmachen, drillmäßiges üben. show how to do, imitate, drill practise. But this seems more of the art by try and error or may be learning by pain.
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Those who know do not write and those who write may not know. Frank W. Louis, No such Agency True peace between nations will only happen when there is true peace within people’s souls. Black Elk “Tell me, and I will listen. Show me, and I will understand. Involve me, and I will learn.” Lakota Proverb God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace. (Reinhold Niebuhr, but the origin is debated) Last edited by Broken Arrow; 02-27-2017 at 02:54 PM.. Reason: typing error |
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Yes, I said the 'F' word Yes, I said the 'F' word Yes, I said the 'F' word Yes, I said the 'F' word Yes, I said the 'F' word Yes, I said the 'F' word
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I believe blood quantums are the governments way to breed us out of existance ! They say blood is thicker than water ! Now maple syrup is thicker than blood , so are pancakes more important than family ? There are "Elders" and there are "Olders". Being the second one doesn't make the first one true ! ![]() Somebody is out there somewhere, thinking of you and the impact you made in their life. It's not me....I think you're an idiot ! ![]() There's a chance you might not like me , but there's a bigger chance I won't care Last edited by wardancer; 02-27-2017 at 11:00 PM.. |
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Part of what you have to remember when beading moccs is that the human foot isn't flat. You need to adjust the placement of the design. If you've used one the patterns in many of those craft manuals, the centerline in those doesn't necessarily correspond to the centerline on the foot. You almost never align the design down the pattern centerline.
If you look closely at Wardancer's uppers you'll see the slit for the tongue and the centerline of the beadwork is canted slightly inward. When sewn to sole and turned into a 3D object with a real foot inside the beadwork will run down the centerline of her foot. Some folks feet are less symmetrical than others. I took a class at UNM on mocc making, to learn how to make ladies boots, since my people don't make boots. I learned I had stranger feet than the human norm, but I might be average for a female duck, LOL. I have to really point the beadwork into toward my arch, or it looks like I'm headed in two directions at once. If you look at lots of moccs, particularly those that have been worn a while, you'll see how designs are adjusted to accommodate different kinds of feet. (Dang hotel lobby computer, in addition to a gooey keyboard, it has invincible autocorrect. It keeps turning "moccs" into mocks.) |
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[IMG] ![]() [IMG] ![]() Mocs from Minnetonka are modern Mocs which are very useful in normal days life but they lack the very special of bucksin mocs and the joy, to make them. I started with plain unbeaded mocs and it took some time to get the sole and upper pattern for my feet. The first pair has a sole which is about 1 inch longer then necessary. [IMG] ![]() On dry and warm summer days, I put them on for bow shooting on the archery ground. It is a grass and wood ground within what little nature we have left in crow city. I have glued heels under the latigo sole. Else they are to fast used up. Nice to wear and they are lightweights. I have another pair with the sole one inch shorter. Fits better. I need to put a second sole on. Unrolled cow sole leather (croupon) would be fine but unrolled is not easy obtained. The rolled is far to stiff. [IMG] ![]() The heal [IMG] ![]() Inevitable, I wanted to make the experience of making beaded mocs. I took the general pattern out of the book mentioned earlier in this thread. That is a black and white sketch. Number of beads to get the pattern smooth and the colors fitting is my choice. I can not recall to have seen that particular pattern within the photos I have seen on the I-Net so far but I would not put my hand into the fire. [IMG] ![]() I have started to sew the first upper to the sole. It could be better. [IMG] ![]() Making good mocs is a craft as well as an art. You need a lot of practice in designing and making good mocs. At this moment, coming up with a design pattern completely out of my own, the art part, is much more difficult than the craft which confronts with difficulties of its own. The stretch of the buckskin above is across the upper small but along from toe to back at least one inch maybe more. The sinew must be tightened else sole and upper are loos. But tightening the sinew I stretch the upper.
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Those who know do not write and those who write may not know. Frank W. Louis, No such Agency True peace between nations will only happen when there is true peace within people’s souls. Black Elk “Tell me, and I will listen. Show me, and I will understand. Involve me, and I will learn.” Lakota Proverb God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace. (Reinhold Niebuhr, but the origin is debated) |
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Those who know do not write and those who write may not know. Frank W. Louis, No such Agency True peace between nations will only happen when there is true peace within people’s souls. Black Elk “Tell me, and I will listen. Show me, and I will understand. Involve me, and I will learn.” Lakota Proverb God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace. (Reinhold Niebuhr, but the origin is debated) |
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