Open Letter to the Koshare

The Koshare Indian Kiva and Museum is located in La Junta, CO. This letter was emailed to the Koshare Kiva, Kiva_Clerk@ojc.edu on September 1st, 2014. (Update: On December 18th, 2015, an article appeared on the I Love La Junta website announcing a cancelation of the winter dances in response to a formal request from the Cultural Preservation … 

 

Please Do This

I was in Charlotte, North Carolina this week. I didn’t see the city though. I can’t tell you where is good to eat and what is a ‘must see.’ I’m not even sure what the weather is like there. The time was spent at the A CALL TO MEN 2015 National Conference – Sports Culture: … 

 

Passkontrolle

I fell in Love! Oh yes! And it was amazing, and beautiful, and painful, and confusing, and uplifting, and, and, and… And, she lived in Austria. No, not Australia; Austria. It is such a common mistake that the tourist vendors all through Austria sell tee shirts of kangaroos with a line crossed through them. There … 

 

Tewa Visa

I will always be a colonial on this land. For most of my life, this was never a conscious thought or idea inside of me. Yet somehow, I believe it affected me in an unconscious way and influenced many of my decisions and attitudes. These had a range and breadth from guilt to aggression to …