2013.06.25 19:00 - Powwow

The Guardian for this meeting was Eos Amaterasu. The comments are by Eos Amaterasu.

Eos Amaterasu: Hi Korel
Eos Amaterasu: "transitions and the 9-second stops"
Korel Laloix: Heya
Eos Amaterasu: Aloha!
Korel Laloix: Sorry, did not see you there.
Korel Laloix: How was your day?
Eos Amaterasu: I arrived a bit late
Eos Amaterasu: Was just out at a nice restaurant with my sister, we took the ferry over, came back to city night lights.....
Eos Amaterasu: And yourself?
Korel Laloix: That sounds like a lovely day.
Eos Amaterasu: ferry across water is one transition image
Korel Laloix: Sypical stuff.. school
Korel Laloix: work
Korel Laloix: Meet Reeba for lunch though.. smiles
Eos Amaterasu: nice to have a smile in your day

--BELL--

Korel Laloix: Just winding down for the day.
Korel Laloix: Never been on a ferry... large boat?
Eos Amaterasu: Yes, this is a ferry that just carries people, between Halifax and Dartmouth, across the Halifax harbour
Eos Amaterasu: whups
Korel Laloix: Not sure where that is.
Eos Amaterasu: warm day (by our standards), sitting on top deck, some breeze, light waving in water, sailing ship, ....
Korel Laloix: Canada? UK?
Eos Amaterasu: Canada, province of Nova Scotia, just above Maine
Korel Laloix: Oh Ok.. I know where that is then.. smiles
Korel Laloix: More than I know where Maine is.
Eos Amaterasu: opposite of Oklahoma in some ways
Korel Laloix: Probably.. but I bet you have more mosquitoes...smiles
Eos Amaterasu: hmm, at certain times of year
Eos Amaterasu: but I've been to places that have way way more (like parts of Ontario)
Korel Laloix: I almost went up there to dance a couple of years ago.
Korel Laloix: But thing fell through at the last moment.
Eos Amaterasu: Definitely let me know next time you come up (or try to) :-)
Eos Amaterasu: what event was this?
Korel Laloix: OK.. smiles
Korel Laloix: The Me Oh Ee Oh me (sp?) started a Powwow series.
Korel Laloix: Have not kept track...
Korel Laloix: And I am not realy being truthfull about things falling through... I was sort of trying to meet someone else that was going to be dancing Shawl there.
Korel Laloix grins
Korel Laloix: But then I met someone down here... smiles
Eos Amaterasu: everything in life is multipurpose
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Korel Laloix: That did not work out either.. good thing looking back.
Eos Amaterasu: transitions
Korel Laloix: This was it...
Korel Laloix: http://www.scotiapages.com/article/largest-pow-wow-in-atlantic-canadian-history.html
Korel Laloix: I think.
Eos Amaterasu: Cool.... I walked by there and looked and listened a bit...
Eos Amaterasu: I brushed by a potential ghost of korel.... -:)
Eos Amaterasu: amazing
Korel Laloix: You were there?
Korel Laloix: Much coolness.
Eos Amaterasu: I wasn't participating, but remember the event, and did spend a bit of time there
Korel Laloix: That could have been fun...

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Korel Laloix: Once you sort of get the vibe of a good powwow... they can ber very powerful and fun.
Eos Amaterasu: what does the term "powwow" mean (or mean to you)?
Korel Laloix: Really it is a vague term.
Korel Laloix: But the modern use is a tribal gathering.
Korel Laloix: But it has more function than most see....
Eos Amaterasu attends
Korel Laloix: There is teh cultural portion, but it is also usually the annual business meeting.
Korel Laloix: There are other parts as well.... language, arts, education displays, health fair topics, military recruitment, etc.
Eos Amaterasu: yeah, I think I got some of that vibe
Korel Laloix: And then there is a real sort of off to the side dating aspect as well.
Eos Amaterasu: essential part of real society :-)
Eos Amaterasu: where life is particularly active and wiggly
Korel Laloix: Exactly.... and there is sort of a growing pressure for people to at least stay native if you dont' want to stay in your tribe.
Eos Amaterasu: you mean re partnering?
Korel Laloix: yes.
Korel Laloix: But there is also a trend for particularly rez girls to marry off the rez... escaping.
Korel Laloix: So that is a dance.
Eos Amaterasu: indeed
Eos Amaterasu: Romeo and Juliet is about that, in a way
Korel Laloix: I have only watched the movie, but i think i know what you mean.
Eos Amaterasu: always a tension between keeping the integrity of a society or people, and being open
Korel Laloix: There are a lot of people that are very tired of the cycle of poverty pushed on us.
Korel Laloix: And it is so seductive, that the only way to deal with it is to leave.
Eos Amaterasu: how to work with cycles that allow dignity, and "ownership", and ongoing futureness
Korel Laloix: But that is not in the political intent.... the intent is to keep us servile..... do and think what we are told
Eos Amaterasu: that's a tough one
Korel Laloix: Just sit on your reservation and commit suicide, just vote the right way before you pull the trigger..
Korel Laloix: It is pretty sick and sad.

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu feels sorrow too
Eos Amaterasu: So what is the medicine?
Korel Laloix: Lots of things to fix on both sides for sure.
Korel Laloix: We need to get away from giving people everything is the first step.
Korel Laloix: If I wanted to, I could stop working for teh rest of my life....
Korel Laloix: But we also need to start actually holding the government accountable for results not words.
Eos Amaterasu: yeah, cycles with integrity.... continuity of good intention (hard enough to "educate" that) through action as well
Eos Amaterasu: that's maybe walking in "warriorship"
Korel Laloix: The sad part is that a lot of us tend to vote on who offers to give us the most stuff.
Korel Laloix: That is a better outlook i think.
Eos Amaterasu: so certain aspects of the societal soup are not so great, but strongly habituating
Korel Laloix: Very much so.
Korel Laloix: Tehre are good things though of course.. but in the end, the reservations are the poorest places in the US... and the most socialized.
Eos Amaterasu: same in Canada
Korel Laloix: And socialism is what the government uses to keep us servile.. and it works perfectly.
Eos Amaterasu: interesting movement in Canada called Idle no More
Eos Amaterasu: that's indentured servitude, not exactly what socialism was ideally about
Korel Laloix: There are a lot of tools that have good uses and bad uses for sure.
Korel Laloix: Socialism is one of them......
Eos Amaterasu: again, the question is what is the way, the medicine, the dance?
Korel Laloix: There is a push here as well.. but the push is really to ... well, give us more stuff.
Korel Laloix: Not give us equal oportunities.
Eos Amaterasu: drum the beat that brings out the hidden inherent dignity
Korel Laloix: I would like to.
Korel Laloix: I would love to get into a tribal leadership position...
Korel Laloix: And sort of help break the mold.
Korel Laloix: And I would like to think that I am already in that direction with my academic achievement.
Eos Amaterasu is very happy to hear that, and feels honored
Korel Laloix: But tehre are a lot of people that do not like me or my views.

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: your intention continues with them and without them
Eos Amaterasu: good to intersect here with you a bit, Korel, since I didn't back then on the commons

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Korel Laloix: (Saved Wed Jun 26 00:12:39 2013)Sorry, crashed hard... Thanks for the thoughtful chat though.