THE WHITE DEER DANCE

THE KAROK MEN WEAR SHELL NECKLACES AND HAD HEADDRESSES THAT SYMBOLIZE DEER ANTLERS.  THEY WEAR WHITE DEERSKINS THAT GAVE IT ITS NAME. PRIESTS AND SHAMANS WERE OTHER RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF THE MEMBERS COUNCIL THEY HAD MUSIC AND DANCING IN A SPECIAL BUILDING, SWEAT HOUSES OR A COMMUNITY DANCE HOUSE.  HERE THEY TRANSMITTED STORIES, SONGS AND DANCES.  THE KAROK MEN USUALLY HAD THESE ACTIVITIES. 

THEY HAD A WORLD RENEWAL CEREMONY THAT TOOK 1000'S OF PEOPLE FROM MANY TRIBES INTO CAME FROM 50 MILES AWAY FROM MANY MILES AWAY.  THEY GAMBLED, SWEATED, AND COMPETED IN ATHLETIC EVENTS, TOLD STORIES, AND ENTERTAINED EACH OTHER.  THESE FOLKS BELIEVED THAT REGULAR REGULAR CEREMONIES NEEDED TO KEEP THESE FORCES IN CHECK - SUCH AS LIGHTENING AND EARTHQUAKES, FIRES, OR ACCIDENTS.  THE CEREMONIES KEPT AND PROTECTED HEALTH OF FOLKS.  THEY REPLENISHED GAME AND ACORNS.  THE CEREMONY COULD LAST TWO WEEKS.  SHAMANS RECITED WORDS OF SPIRITS WHO CREATED THE UNIVERSE.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CEREMONY WAS TO SHOW OFF ELABORATE COSTUMES AND WEALTH AND PROCESSIONS.THEY HAD A JUMPING DANCE WITH COLORFUL HEADBANDS OF WOODPECKER SCALPS.  THE POMO KUKSU WAS A COLLECTION OF HIGHLY SECRET SOCIETIES PRIVATE CLUBS.  THESE FOLKS ORGANIZED THE CEREMONIES AND INSTRUCTION OF CHILDREN.  THIS RELIGION WAS A BELIEF THAT A SPIRIT HAD BEEN SENT BY THE CREATOR TO TEACH PEOPLE.  THE MAIDU HQD A CREATOR STORY .  THEY HAD THEIR BOY GROW UP IN THE MOUNTAINS.  THE MEN INITIATE THE BOYS AND WOMEN INITIATE THE GIRLS. HE OBSERVES SACRED DANCES.  IF YOU WORSHIP ME IN NIGHT AND DAYLIGHT , YOUR TREES WILL BE FULL OF NUTS. AND THE RIVERS WILL BE FULL OF SALMON.
  
IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THEIR THIRD RELIGIOUS SYSTEM EVOLVED AROUND THE USE OF DATURA, JIMSONWEED.  THE USED IT AS A PAINKILLER AND ONLY A SMALL ROOT WAS STEEPED IN WATER.  THE BREW WAS DRUNK. GIRLS AND WOMEN SMOKED ALSO.  IT WAS USED ONLY FOR 1 TO 2 TIMES A YEAR.  IT WAS FATAL IF THEY USED TOO MUCH!  THEIR INITIATION RIGHT WAS A SOCIAL CONDITION TO REINFORCE THE STATUS OF SHAMANS AND INVISIBLE POWERS.

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MY WORK AS AN UNDERGRADUATE

AS AN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT IN DAYTON. OHIO I WORKED SEVERAL P/T JOBS.  ONE WAS AS A PART TIME MUSEUM ARCHAEOLOGIST AND THEN AS A RECREATION LEADER I HELPED CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS KEEP BUSY AFTER SCHOOL.  THEY DID SOME OF MY ARTISTIC CREATION.  THE YOUNG ADULTS SIS A GOOD JOB KEEPING ACTIVE AT A POOL TABLE AND PLAYING BASKETBALL.  SOME NIGHTS THEY DANCED.

MY PART TIME WAS A NIGHT TIME LIBRARIAN AT WSU.  THIS WAS A KIND OF A FUN JOB AS WE GOT TO GO BEHIND THE SCENES AND LEARNED ABOUT MICRO FISH WHERE THE RECORDS WERE STORED AND WHERE THE RECORDS WERE STORED AND WHERE VARIOUS TYPES OF BOOKS WERE FILED. 

I ALSO WORKED AS A NIGHT TIME COUNSELOR IN A FACILITY FOR TEENS.  IT WAS A VERY INTERESTING PLACE.  I HELPED TEENS MAKE CHOICES ABOUT HOW TO LIVE A HAPPY AND PROGRESSIVE LIFE.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIANS

THEY THRIVED IN BARREN WASTELAND.  THEY HUNTED DEER AND ELK AND DID A LOT OF TRADING. TRADING MISSIONS WERE USUALLY UNDERTAKEN BY HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS OR THEY MADE REGULARLY SCHEDULED TRIPS.  THEY MIGHT TRADE ACORNS FOR DRIED FISH  OR A SCARCE COMMODITY.  THE KAMI INDIANS LIVED WEST OF THE COLORADO RIVER.  THEY TRADED MESQUITE FOR ACORNS FOR DRIED FISH OR A SCARCE COMMODITY.  THE KAMI INDIANS LIVED WEST OF THE COLORADO RIVER.  THEY TRADED MESQUITE FOR ACORNS.

THE ATSEGEWI AND ACHOMAWI GOT SALT FROM THE YANA.  THEY WERE ALLOWED TO FISH AND GATHER ACORNS AND HAD HARVESTING RIGHTS IN NEIGHBORHOODS.

WAR WASN'T A FREQUENT OCCURRENCE AND THEY WERE DEFENSIVE OF THEIR OAK GROVES, HUNTING AND FISHING LANDS.  SOMETIMES THEY JUST HAD A FORMAL CONFRONTATION INSTEAD OF WAR.

KLAMATH INDIANS DID HAVE ATTACKS AND TOOK OTHER INDIANS FOR SLAVES.  THEY HAD A CLASS OF WARRIORS.  MARRIAGE BETWEEN THESE GROUPS WAS COMMON.

THE POMO GOT TOGETHER TO HAVE RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS SUCH AS WORLD RENEWAL CULTS INCLUDING MANY VILLAGES.  THEY BUILT MANY TRAIL SYSTEMS FOR SEASONAL EXCHANGE.
THROUGHOUT TRADE THEY COULD USE MONEY SHELLS FOR EXCHANGE.  THE SHELLS WERE BROKEN ROUNDED AND POLISHED AND DRILLED INTO BEADS AND STRUNG ON LEATHER THONGS.

SOME VILLAGES GOT TOGETHER TO FISH OR HUNT .  WOMEN TAUGHT THE GIRLS AND MEN TAUGHT THE BOYS.

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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TRIBES

THE HUPA, YUROK, SHASTA AND TOLAWA WERE FAIRLY DIVERSE YET ISOLATED.  THEY HAD PLENTY OF SALMON.  THEY HUNTED WITH WOODEN BOWS..  THE MODOC LIVED ON BARREN LEVELS OF CASCADES.  DID NOT HAVE MANY ACORNS OR SALMON  THEY CAPTURED DEER AND SMALL GAME ANIMALS BY DIGGING PITS.
3/5TH OF ALL CALIFORNIA  LIVED IN CENTRAL  CALIFORNIA.  HERE THEY GATHERED HUGE ACORNS., HUNTED, FISHED, AND GATHERED PLANTS.  MANZANITA BERRIES  WERE GATHERED FOR IMPORTANT FOODS.  THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIANS TENDED THEIR AREAS BY PLANTING SEEDS GATHERED FROM THE WILD.  THIS INCLUDED TOBACCO SPECIES THAT THEY HAD SMOKED IN SMALL QUANTITIES,  SHAMANS SMOKED IT AS A PAINKILLER.  

PLANTS WERE IMPORTANT FOR WEAVING BASKETS. THESE INCLUDED HEMP, MILKWEED, AGAVE, YUCCA, AND IRIS, REDBUD, DEER GRASS AND CATTAIL AND TULE..  NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIANS USED USED PLANT DYES AND POISON OAK FOR TATTOOS.  THEY HAD CEREMONIES.  THESE FOLKS LIVED AS WASTE NOT WANT NOT.  THEY DID NOT OVER FISH AND THEY GATHERED WHAT THEY NEEDED.  THEY WERE GOOD LAND MANAGERS.

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WEEKEND EXHIBIT

I ATTENDED THE WEEKEND ART, JAZZ AND MUSIC FESTIVAL IN HEALDSBURG.  THERE WERE MANY PEOPLE THERE AND THEY PEOPLE THERE AND THEY WERE MILLING AROUNDAND HAD SOME PEOPLE LISTENING TO MUSIC.  IT WAS A HOT DAY THERE AND THEY HAD MANY FOLKS IN ART TRAILS.  I MET SEVERAL FOLKS WHO I KNEW THERE.  ONE CHINESE LADY SAID THEY CAN ONLY HAVE ONE BABY IN ORDER TO REDUCE POPULATION.  I DIDN'T SEE TOO MANY PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN MOMS WHO I KNEW.  IT WAS AN INTERESTING DAY.

SCIENCE OF MIND

THEY HAD CHANTING  WITH A PARTICULAR PRAYER WAS "ON MAUI PADRE UM".  THIS IS THE MOST WELL KNOWN CHANT IN THE WORLD.  CHANTING CALMS THE WORLD.  CHANTING CALMS THE MIND AND EASES NEGATIVE ENERGY.  IT ADHERES TO INCREASES  AWARENESS WITH GOD.  WE ARE INFINITE HARMONY.  REMEMBER WE ARE BEING LEAD FROM PURITY TO SACREDNESS.

AT NIGHT I WENT TO A SERVICE THAT WAS ABOUT SINGING TO CALM THE MIND.  WE SANG OH WHAT A JOYFUL DY THAT BRINGS THE LIGHT HERE.   WE ALSO SANG I AM WHO I AM.  IT IS A GREAT SONG TO SING AS YOU MAY  SING TO THE BACK OF .  " I AM REMEMBERING WHO I AM."  THESE CHANTS DECIDED TO BE WHAT WE ARE PRAYING ABOUT.

WE HAD A PRAYER FOR ALL WHO HAD PAST ON OR WERE IN NEED.