Member: soboba

As you know, "basketry" was a major skill during our tribal ages. Can you recommend something for practical pine needle, local materials, weaving? Perhaps for teaching? Does your facility teach woodland skills or lore?

posted by keylawk at 9:38 pm (EST) on Oct 8, 2008

Oops, I think I just posted a response to keylawk that was not intended for me. My apologies. I was following a link from my account and didn't realize when I posted my response that keylawk's comments were directed to you, not to me, and I thought I was replying to him/her. (Turning a bit red here.)

Do feel free to check my library if you wish, however, and accept my apology for my inadvertent error.

Take care,
Chris [msodalis]

posted by msodalis at 2:39 am (EST) on Feb 1, 2008

Hi keylawk,

Thank you for your comment and compliment. I have been pretty occupied with non-LibraryThing aspects of my life and have pretty much ignored my account here for some months, and therefore have not updated my library in quite some time even though my library continues to grow. I do plan to update it soon, however, and have acquired quite a few additional American Indian (and other) titles since I last posted. In reality, I buy more than I actually read (although everything I purchase are books that I would LIKE to read, given time and excluding other pressing issues), and I continually haunt inexpensive book sources keep an eye out for books to broaden my library.

I am interested in Native American issues primarily because of gross injustice in treatment, the taking of land, destruction of culture, and forced assimilation into a White-compatible "civilized" society. I have no Native American roots or ties that I am aware of, but do empathize with the plight of indigenous cultures worldwide, not only of those in North America. I believe that diversity in cultures and world views is a strength, and that destruction of this diversity impoverishes what it means to be a human being, analogous to the destruction and extinction of any plant and animal species worldwide, and the impoverishment caused by any destruction or degradation of the Earth and its living systems.

I have several hundred more books to add to my Library Thing listings, so if you check back in a month or so I hope to have expanded my listings. I may also re-do or restructure some of my tags. I do like Library Thing, but it does require a significant amount of effort for me to keep it up to date.

Thank you, and take care,

Chris

posted by msodalis at 2:32 am (EST) on Feb 1, 2008

Most enjoyable to rifle through your extensive American Indian material. Do you do woodcraft?
Are you part of the Native American Rennaissance? Is it the Injustice? A Cause?

Just curious.

posted by keylawk at 3:43 am (EST) on Nov 23, 2007