Photo: Joe W. Azure in front of the new Ceremonial Sweat Lodge, in Big Warm, Mt., on May 29, 2017
Speech given by Joe W. Azure at the Western History Conference in St. Paul, MN
Photo: Joe W. Azure in front of the new Ceremonial Sweat Lodge, in Big Warm, Mt., on May 29, 2017
Speech given by Joe W. Azure at the Western History Conference in St. Paul, MN
About 15 years ago the anthropologist Shepard Krech sparked a controversy with his book, The Ecological Indian, which basically argued that the North American Indians were not the proto-environmental saints that some had previously made them out to be.
I’m older now—it’s funny how one’s mind starts to reminisce about the past. I once heard that while you’re in your mother’s womb, your destiny is written upon your forehead.
We called on the ancestral spirits and those that once shared these Little Rocky Mountains.
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