From the Horse's Mouth...

Returning home is always a blessing. Last weekend I went home to the Omaha Tribe's Harvest Celebration Pow-wow in Macy, NE. This years...

Many have heard me recite this poem in the past year. It is an epic about the migration of many tribes from the East but it is also my own ...

One of my favorite songs by Robbie Robertson. Found this video on youtube. Lyrics are below... Golden Feather by Robbie Robertson I think ...

This song suits my mood today. As I am understanding that love really knows no boundaries. Remembering the past as well as what is in the ...

My daughter Colleen wrote this last night because I was overcome suddenly with such a longing for my former life in the Twin Cities and all ...

The Thunder Crib By Renee Sans Souci When we were born The Sky cradled us in Blankets of Thunder While lightening danced To Creator’s heartb...

Omaha Nation Water Walk Benefit Performance An Evening with: Renee Sans Souci, Native Poet/Spoken Word Artist Diane Robinson-Kerr, Flautist/...

Omaha Nation Water Walk Benefit Concert Raising funds and awareness for Omaha Nation Water Walk Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Time: 7:00pm...

Ewithai Wongithe! All My Relatives! Good Morning to each of you! I am forwarding a message that I received today about the National Day of...

Congressional Hearing Explores High Suicide Rates Among American Indian Youth Eight policymakers, tribal members and health care experts dis...

Moving forward. I've been working on that this year. Come through a lot these past several months since leaving Minneapolis/St. Paul. ...

It's been eight years since my father made his journey home. Things have changed considerably since he's passed. Kids are older an...

On a healing journey, when do we actually heal? While talking to a friend yesterday, she related to me some of the most painful incidences i...

My brother Chris Cartmill turned me onto Matisyahu about three years ago. I just love his song "King Without A Crown." When I he...

I'm addicted to Facebook! This list came out over the last few days and many of us, bravely decided to fill it out. Then I thought I...

Friday, January 30, 2009 Jim Main, Sr., takes flight to Spirit World Found this posted on another blog entitled Censored News... By ...

SCSU prof dies of cancer A well-loved leader in the Hispanic community and St. Cloud State University associate professor died Thursday. St...

This is a brief article I wrote for a Indian Education class I taught in December, 2005 . I found it yesterday and read it last night at ou...

I received this message via email from the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge listserv and am posting to my blog today in honor of Tommy Stillday. ...

I am always reading other people's blogs. Can't help myself. Especially, since I am always reading about quantum physics and strin...

"I should not be alive!" proclaimed the woman sitting next to me on the steps of the Family Shelter the other day. I had just got...

Steve Blake, 51, artist and advocate for American Indians Blake created the American Indian Movement logo as a teenager and spent his adult ...

As I thought about my previous post, I realized that I was writing more about everything in general and very little about the Seven Fires Pr...

For all of you's who may not know, I've been doing my thing here back in my hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska. My kids and I are living...