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“You must know where you came from yesterday, know where you are today, to know where you’re going tomorrow.” – Cree saying
Trace Lara Hentz (formerly DeMeyer), Winyan Ohmanisa Waste La Ke, lives at the foothills of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts on Pocumtuck Land with her soulmate HEH.
Trace grew up in "Wēskōhsaeh" (now called Wisconsin).
Napos, an Elder in Residence at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and member of the Menominee tribe explains: “To translate Wēskōhsaeh (a Menominee word) that would be basically the first part comes from the word ‘Wis-cu’ which means something good, and that ending is more what you would say, locative," he said. “You would say, ‘A good place to camp,’ or ‘to make a clearing’ or ‘to basically live.’” But once the French got a hold of the name, Napos said it began to change.
“The big confusion was when the French came in (to the territory) and kind of messed up a lot of our language,” Napos said. “A lot of those names were mistranslated because basically they couldn’t pronounce them.” [https://www.wpr.org/how-did-wisconsin-get-its-name-well-its-complicated]
At last—the SEVEN FIRES and THE PEOPLE migration found their sacred ground. It is thought it took about 500 years to complete the journey, which began around 900 AD. The Ojibwe people have been living in the area now called Minnesota and Wisconsin since 1400 AD, 400+ years before any Europeans settled in this area.
From the Mishomis Book:
To the sun, the Great
Spirit gave the power of light and heat. To the earth, he gave the power of
growth and healing. To the waters, He gave the power of purity and renewal. And
to the winds, He gave the power of music and the breath of life itself.
On earth the Great Spirit formed mountains and valleys, plains and forests, islands
and lakes, bays and rivers. Everything was in its place. Everything was
beautiful. Then the Great Spirit made the plant beings. There were four kinds,
flowers, grasses, fruits and trees. To each He gave a spirit of life, growth,
healing, and beauty. Each he placed where
it would be the most beneficial and would lend to the earth its great beauty, harmony and order. After the plant beings the Great Spirit created
the animal beings, and conferred on each special powers and natures. There were
four kinds: crawlers, winged ones, swimmers, and the four-legged beings.
Last of all, He made Man. Though last in the order of creation, least in the order
of dependence, and weakest in bodily powers, Man had the greatest gift: the power to dream.
The Great Spirit then made the Great Laws of Nature for the wellbeing and the
harmony of all things and all creatures. The Great Laws governed the world, and
movement of the sun, earth, moon and the stars. There is a natural
law. It is the law that everyone is ruled by, including all things in creation.
It is an absolute law. It is a law that has no mercy. It is a law that will
always prevail. The basis of this great law is peace. And peace is a dynamic
force. Peace takes a lot of effort. - EDWARD BENTON
-BENAI
Walk in Beauty
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HER WIKI BIO (former last name DeMeyer): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace_DeMeyer
Words For War
“...Our
strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it.
To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our
music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our
sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories
that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.
The
corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are
selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their
weapons, their notion of inevitability.
Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
― Arundhati Roy, War Talk
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About the Author
Trace Lara Hentz (formerly DeMeyer), Winyan Ohmanisa Waste La Ke, lives at the foothills of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts with her lovely soulmate Herb.
Trace grew up in “Wēskōhsaeh” (now called Wisconsin).
Napos, an Elder in Residence at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and member of the Menominee tribe explains: “To translate Wēskōhsaeh (a Menominee word) that would be basically the first part comes from the word ‘Wis-cu’ which means something good, and that ending is more what you would say, locative,” he said. “You would say, ‘A good place to camp,’ or ‘to make a clearing’ or ‘to basically live.’” But once the French got a hold of the name, Napos said it began to change.
“The big confusion was when the French came in (to the territory) and kind of messed up a lot of our language,” Napos said. “A lot of those names were mistranslated because basically they couldn’t pronounce them.” [https://www.wpr.org/how-did-wisconsin-get-its-name-well-its-complicated]
Trace’s memoir ONE SMALL SACRIFICE: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects was a ground-breaking exposé on the systematic removal of American Indian children from their mothers, families and tribes for adoption to non-Indian families and she weaves in her own personal story. (Her Grief Memoir (expanded 3rd edition) will be published in 2023/4.)
Known for her exceptional print interviews with influential Native Americans such as Leonard Peltier, Joanne Shenandoah, and Floyd Red Crow Westerman, DeMeyer-Hentz started research on adoptees in 2004. Her discoveries and research culminated in a fact-filled book she published in 2010, with a second revised edition in 2012. Her adoptee journey takes her around the country, finally meeting her birthfather in 1994 and learning about her Native/Euro ancestry. She is also French Canadian with ancestry from Ottawa and Quebec on her mother’s side.
Trace is former editor of tribal newspapers the Pequot Times in Mashantucket, Conn. (1999-2004) and Ojibwe Akiing in northern Wisconsin (1996-1999). She read from her highly-anticipated memoir at the Wisconsin Book Festival in October 2008. In late 2009, she started her blog AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES. Her memoir was chosen as Native America Calling’s Book of the Month in March 2010. It remains in the top 100 Native biographies on Amazon.
In 2014, Trace co-edited and published TWO WORLDS, the first in the Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects book series, using Blue Hand Books as its publisher. This ground-breaking collection of adoptee narratives and its contribution to American Indian and First Nations history was a major accomplishment and the editors were invited to present on a panel at Brock University in Ontario in 2014.
Trace has contributed to adoption-themed books Adoptionland, Adoption Reunion in the Age of Social Media, and the Lost Daughters anthology. She taught workshops at Greenfield Community College. Trace legally changed her name to Trace Lara Hentz in 2014. She lives at the foot of the Berkshire Mountains on Pocumtuckland.
(She has used a pen-name Laramie Harlow.)
Visit American Indian Adoptees Blog: https://blog.americanindianadoptees.com/
BLUE HAND BOOKS: www.bluehandbooks.org
At last—the SEVEN FIRES and THE PEOPLE migration found their sacred ground. It is thought it took about 500 years to complete the journey, which began around 900 AD. The Ojibwe people have been living in the area now called Minnesota and Wisconsin since 1400 AD, 400+ years before any Europeans settled in this area.
Last of all, He made Man. Though last in the order of creation, least in the order of dependence, and weakest in bodily powers, Man had the greatest gift: the power to dream. – EDWARD BENTON -BENAI
Walk in Beauty
VISIT BLUE HAND BOOKS and please tell your friends about us!
From the creator inventor of the new book series It’s A Miracle We’ve Survived This Far: the first book Mental Midgets | Musqonichte, (twin books) was published in 2018. Book 2: What Just Happened? came out in 2021. Finding the Invisibles was released in 2022. Cosmic Glue is coming soon.
Publisher and poet Trace L Hentz is the editor and author of the historical best-selling book series “Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects.” She is an award-winning journalist and past editor of Ojibwe Akiing and the Pequot Times.
HER Blogs:
MEGWETCH! Thank you!
Thanks to my friends Stuart, Pat and Mike for their comments and support, after reading an early draft.
“The future of humanity depends on us learning to live with the world of spirit in the same way that we live with the physical world here on earth.” —Rudolf Steiner
“Unresolved past is destiny; it repeats.”
— Thomas Hübl
Thanks to Alan Watt, Messiah in our Midst
2021: This video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1ydd4LWnKfk carried the very sad news that Alan died on March 4, 2021.
My deepest sympathies go to his family. The world lost a man who brought so much enlightenment to those who cared to listen. Alan Watt: a common name, not to be confused with Alan Watts. You’ve probably never heard of him, but let me introduce him. Alan is a Canadian Scotsman living near Ontario in Canada. Alan’s talks will tell you why the world is the way it is, and don’t dare call him a conspiracy theorist.
All I ask is that you look him up on You Tube. He produced a free talk once a week (for years). Give it ten minutes and your life will never be the same again. Anyway go to You Tube, search for Alan Watt and be prepared to have years of niggling doubt about the structure of society washed away in hard-hitting, factual broadcasts that will change your way of thinking forever. Go on, all you’ve got to lose is your insanity.
ABOUT HIS DEATH: Alan Watt—May Your God or Your Gods go with You” https://theirishsentinel.com/2021/03/…
Where he lived: 591 Elbow Ridge Rd. Sudbury, ON, P3E 4N1, Canada
VISIT: http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/
Mirror Website http://cuttingthrough.jenkness.com
Backup Websites http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.net
AND http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.us
Like Alan Watts told us: Powerful men keep important information away from you. But they have one deadly weakness: An active public who seeks TRUTH. The Elites think you won’t want to learn about the Federal Reserve or the Bilderberger group or them or any real history. Beat the System by learning and teaching others. The truth is right at your fingertips.
WATCH ANOTHER DOCUMENTARY – Awake in the Dream 2009 Documentary made by Independent Norseman Film (CTTM’s Cut) now available. Click here for the page with the download link.
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