You'll see what I mean.
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Sometimes I get an urge to radically alter a painting.
Usually it's a good idea... that takes a little time to coalesce.
Sometimes, though... It seems like a monstrous error, accompanied by a moment of delicious panic.
I had one of those moments, a couple weeks ago, when I decided to put a "halo" around the Nanabush figure in the Miss Loontrout... painting.
The results were not what I had anticipated. Maybe I shouldn't have used spray paint.
Anyways; the moment passed and I resolved to work through the new transition.
Process, process, process.
(Pics click to enlarge.)
Immediately "before":
Immediately "after":
Reclaim the "door" and some black line:
More black line and the "metallic amethyst" of Miss Loontrout, herself:
Current incarnation,"ring" of new green added:
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Art revives native culture
Download Miro. Free, open source media player, formerly known as "Democracy Player".
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Manitoba First Nation launches lawsuit to reopen century-old land treaty
"... signed more than a century ago, provided the band with one quarter section of land, or 64 hectares, for every family of five. It's the same deal other Treaty Five bands received.
But many Manitoba First Nations received a better deal — as much as four times more..."
Five Nations Energy (Hudson Bay coast, Ontario) has a Cree version (syllabics) of their website.
Metis Media Fest
"No Submission Fees - Deadline AUG15, 2007
This is a call for all forms of media work - including digital photographs, videos, radio plays, web sites in a variety of styles from documentary to experimental in common digital formats such as JPEGs, MP3s, AVIs, MOVs, DVDs and Audio CDs. "
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How the CIA got busted, for kidnapping in Italy.
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Native youth team up on HIV film project
Eagle poachers get sentenced.
Tim Giago article; Two Volumes of Indian Heroes and Legends.
"I followed a career in journalism because of the example set for me by two of my own heroes. The first was a Fort McDowell Apache man named Carlos Montezuma. His Indian name was Wassaja. He began publishing a small newspaper in Arizona in the early 1900s that took on the bureaucratic establishment that had been the bane of Indian rights. His forthright and fearless criticism of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and of the Department of the Interior made him an instant enemy of the federal government."
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