Chief Paskwa’s pictograph of Treaty 4 (Royal Saskatchewan Museum – Regina)

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The Royal Saskatchewan Museum in the capital of the province Regina has a rare exhibit – the Indigenous record of Treaty 4 as rendered in a pictograph by Chief Paskwa in 1883, nine years after the signing of the treaty in 1874.


And here are copies of the English rendition of the Treaty:

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USaskatchewan computers carry their (actually, your:) password on their screens

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In the same spirit of free self-expression — artistic and intellectual — USask offers password-free computers. This served delegates to the 2018 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Regina, very well indeed:) (Not that you’re precluded from enjoying … Continue reading

re-blogged: The Great Myths #41: Sacred Language & the Mead of Poetry (Norse) — word and silence

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…And Aegir went on: “How did this craft that you call poetry originate?” Bragi replied: “The origin of it was that the gods had a dispute with the people called Vanir, and they appointed a peace-conference and made a truce by this procedure, that both sides went up to a vat and spat their spittle […]

via The Great Myths #41: Sacred Language & the Mead of Poetry (Norse) — word and silence

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