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Discovering my way, it's not easy or comfortable. Every discovery makes it worth it. Everyone is an artist.
Every-one Can create. The true struggle isn't creating something perfect. It's trusting and discovering what's inside, the true self, made visible.
Even if you start out tracing or duplicating, keep trying, keep going. You will find
Discovering my way, it's not easy or comfortable. Every discovery makes it worth it. Everyone is an artist.
Every-one Can create. The true struggle isn't creating something perfect. It's trusting and discovering what's inside, the true self, made visible.
Even if you start out tracing or duplicating, keep trying, keep going. You will find your true self. And regardless what you Think it looks like it Will touch someone. And they will, fall in love with what you've made. Make the world a better place and share you with the world.
Paint, Sketch, Write, Sing, Build, Create.
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Many Steps
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Jenise Ehrhardt
Many Steps Indigenous Chief Charcoal, 2022
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Sunset Hummingbird
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Sunset Hummingbird
Jenise Ehrhardt
Sunset Hummingbird, 2021
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NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS
Hummingbird Brings Back Tobacco
At the beginning of the world, when people and animals were all the same, there was only one tobacco plant, to which they all came for their tobacco until the Dagul'ku geese stole it and carried it far away to the south. The people were suffering without it, and there was one old woman who grew so thin and weak that everybody said she would soon die unless she could get tobacco to keep her alive.
Different animals offered to go for it, one after another, the larger ones first and then the smaller ones, but the Dugul'ku saw and killed everyone before he could get to the plant. After the others, the little Mole tried to reach it by going under the ground, but the Dagul'ku saw his track and killed him as he came out.
At last, the Hummingbird offered, but the others said he was entirely too small and might as well stay at home. He begged them to let him try, so they showed him a plant in a field and told him to let them see how he would go about it. The next moment he was gone and they saw him sitting on the plant, and then in a moment he was back again, but no one had seen him going or coming, because he was so swift. "This is the way I'll do," said the Hummingbird, so they let him try.
He flew off to the east, and when he came in sight of the tobacco the Dagul'ku were watching all about it, but they could not see him because he was so small and flew so swiftly. He darted down on the plants and snatched off the top with the leaves and seeds, and was off again before the Dagul'ku knew what happened. Before he got home with the tobacco the old woman had fainted and they thought she was dead, but he blew the smoke into her nostrils, and with a cry of Tsa'la! (Tobacco) she opened her eyes and was alive again.
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Cherokee Legend – The First Fire
Cherokee Legend – The First Fire
Best told by Cherokee Storyteller Robert Lewis
Myths and Legends of the Great Plains in the beginning, there was no fire, and the world was cold. Then the Thunders, who lived up in Galun’lati, sent their lightning and put fire into the bottom of a hollow sycamore tree which grew on an island. The animals knew it was there because they could see the smoke coming out at the top, but they could not get to it on account of the water, so they held a council to decide what to do. This was a long, long time ago.
Every animal was anxious to go after the fire. Raven offered. He was large and strong, so he was sent first. He flew high and far across the water and lighted on the sycamore tree. There he perched, wondering what to do next. Then he looked at himself. The heat had scorched his feathers black. Raven was so frightened he flew back across the water without any fire.
Then, little Wa-hu-hu, the Screech Owl, offered to go. He flew high and far across the water and perched upon a hollow tree.
As he sat there looking into the hollow tree, wondering what to do, a blast of hot air came up and hurt his eyes. Screech Owl was frightened. He flew back as best he could because he could hardly see. That is why his eyes are red even to this day.
Then Hooting Owl and the Horned Owl went, but by the time they reached the hollow tree, the fire was blazing so fiercely that the smoke nearly blinded them. The ashes carried up by the breeze made white rings around their eyes. So, they had to come home without fire. Therefore, they have white rings around their eyes.
None of the rest of the birds would go to the fire. Then Uk-su-hi, the racer snake, said he would go through the water and bring back fire. He swam to the island and crawled through the grass to the tree. Then he went into the tree by a small hole at the bottom. But the heat and smoke were dreadful. The ground at the bottom of the tree was covered with hot ashes. The racer darted back and forth trying to get off the ashes, and at last, managed to escape through the same hole by which he had entered. But his body had been burned black. Therefore, he is now the black racer. And that is why the black racer darts around and doubles on his track as if trying to escape.
Fill Your Medicine BagThen great Blacksnake, ” The Climber,” offered to go for fire. He was much larger than the black racer. Blacksnake swam over to the island and climbed up the tree on the outside, as the blacksnake always does, but when he put his head down into the hole the smoke-choked him so that he fell into the burning stump. Before he could climb out, he, too, was burned black.
So the birds, and the animals, and the snakes held another council. The world was still very cold. There was no fire. But all the birds, and the snakes, and all the four-footed animals refused to go for fire. They were all afraid of the burning sycamore.
Then Water Spider said she would go. This is not the water spider that looks like a mosquito, but the other one — the one with black downy hair and red stripes on her body. She could run on top of the water, or dive to the bottom.
The animals said, ” How can you bring back fire? ”
But Water Spider spun a thread from her body and wove it into a tusti bowl which she fastened on her back. Then she swam over to the island and through the grass to the fire. Water Spider put one little coal of fire into her bowl and then swam back with it.
That is how fire came to the world. And that is why Water Spider has a tusti bowl on her back.
Written By Katharine Berry Judson in 1913
Cherokee Legend – The First Fire
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