Florida Frontier/Native Earth Cultural Center at INDIAN STUFF

February 2012


	INDIAN STUFF
	Storytellers, Pow Wows and Moon Ceremonies!
	Dreams and Understandings
	Upcoming Events
	Telling Our Story
	Native Teachings
	Lesson on Centering / Borrowed Imagery
	Walking and Thinking...
	When Mother Shrugged
	Various Photos of Import

Contact us at 727/821-8186

Ancient mother
I hear you calling,
Ancient mother
I hear your sound.
Ancient mother
I hear your laughter,

Ancient mother
I taste your tears.

We have been given this sacred opportunity to learn and walk together in a good way.

Hold onto your honor by respecting the ways of your ancestors and never placing yourself above others.

You may have been taught one way to pray, but Creator may have given a different way to pray to another.

You may have been taught that there is only one way to walk this path and that only those like you have the right to learn.

Who is to say, however, that Creator is so limited by separating the two-leggeds at birth into the “worthy” and the “unworthy”?

What human here today has been granted the right to decide what Creator wants from us?

Each of us have a direct line to Creator through our hearts.

Our honor, our joy and our responsibility is to love one enough in a humble way and look for ways to protect our older brothers and sisters…

We are all related.

- Anisoquili
(Many Ponies)

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Members List:

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Members:
INDIAN STUFF
Yona
Sky Dancer
Elizabeth Neily
Hermann Trappman
Karen Welch

Links Section

	FLORIDA FRONTIER
	DRUMMING CIRCLES
	ALL OUR RELATIONS
	WELLBRIETY MOVEMENT
	ANDERSON / NARVAEZ SITE
	WORLD ATLATL ASSOCIATION
	NATIVE AMERICAN VETERANS
	INTERNATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE ASSOCIATION
	STAR SPIDER DANCING
	FREE PELTIER!
	FLORIDA NATURE PHOTOGRAPHER

Florida Frontier/Native Earth Cultural Center
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Ancient Horizons

Find your connection to Florida, this beautiful state, with artists/storytellers - Hermann Trappman & Elizabeth Neily. Discover the birth place of continents. Touch the bones of exotic prehistoric animals. Pull back the curtain of time to explore ancient civilizations. Hermann grew up in St. Pete and tells stories of finding mammoth toe-bones on construction sites and project points in road fill. He is an avocational archaeologist and illustrator and a storyteller of note. His first love is the very formation of Florida's bones and the Old People of Florida—the Tocobaga and the Calusa. Hermann and his lovely wife, Elizabeth, will tell where we came from, who we are, and where we are headed.

You can reach them at: 727/321-7845

500 million years of Florida's environmental and cultural heritage through stories, artwork and traveling exhibits. Meet saber-tooth cats, giant ground sloths, and mastodon hunters of Ice Age Florida. Who were the Mound Builders? Camps, classes, and guided tours (with exciting activities for all ages) bring Florida's rich past to life. Experience the thrill of atlatl throwing or making a bracelet out of palm fiber.

Bear Facts
There are 8 bear species. The Giant Panda IS a bear, NOT a raccoon. The 8 species are: Brown Bear (Grizzly, Alaskan, Brown, European, Kodiak), Black Bear, Polar Bear, Spectacled Bear, Sloth Bear, Asiatic Black Bear, Giant Panda, Sun Bear.

The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) is one of the largest North American land mammals. Its historic range covered much of North America -- from the mid-plains westward to California and from central Mexico north to Canada and Alaska. Males stand about 7 feet tall and weigh from 300 to 600 pounds. Females are smaller, usually weighing 200 to 400 pounds. The thick fur varies from light brown to nearly black and sometimes looks frosty, hence the name "grizzly." Except for mating and caring for the young, grizzly bears lead solitary lives, spending most of their time foraging for food. They are North America's largest omnivores, feeding on green vegetation, wild fruits and berries, insects, carrion, as well as smaller mammals. Salmon are an important food for grizzly bears along the west coast of Canada and in Alaska.

Don't be restricted by the malls... come visit Indian Stuff and find unique, one of a kind treasures. We do custom work too!

Want to Experience...

Florida's deep roots with stories and music that tell of ancient horizons?
Learning from living history presentations with individual performers or reenactment groups?
Studying the prehistoric peoples and animals of Florida?
Listening to the Dreamtime Ensemble weaving stories and music to tell of the earth's mystical beginnings?

Deep Roots
500 Million Years of Florida History

Using geological specimens (a.k.a., "rocks"), Hermann Trappman describes the birth of Florida and takes you through the years to Florida's connection with North America 16,000,000 years ago. Using fossils, he then describes Florida's changing environments and the exotic animals that once inhabited them. Then we learn about the coming of the first people and their development into a culture with cities and wide-spread trade.

Whether you are of American Indian heritage or just want to learn, we offer our facility as a cultural center for all to come together in a good way to share knowledge and community. Check out the upcoming event page, as well as the weblinks, and plan your calendar around some of these wonderful gatherings. There is never a charge and we recognize you as our brothers and sisters always. This is the way of the Red Road.

LOVE TO DRUM? - or just want to learn more? Check out WOLF'S HEART LODGE, a drumming circle and Cherokee teaching Lodge - 10 years in Tampa Bay. Call Sky Dancer at 727/343-4638 for dates and directions to upcoming gatherings. You do not have to be 'of the blood'... you should, however, be 'of the heart'.

Visit INDIAN STUFF to see the latest offerings - changes week to week!

This is the Ceremony of your life. May you always speak your truth with clarity and compassion. May your steps be gentle on the Mother.

Take a look at the page entitled Red Heart's Fire for news on our own local, up and coming, inter-active, semi-official INDIAN STUFF house band!

Through Women's Eyes
Discover the New World with Maria Velasquez - Travel back to the time when Spanish conquistadors plied the sparkling waters of Tampa Bay in a search for gold that forever eluded them. Elizabeth Neily (as Maria) describes the rigors of sailing on a tiny, cramped caravel to La Florida in 1528 with the Panfilo de Narvaez expedition. Learn about the Tocobaga Indians who lived here. This program provides hands-on activities using reproduction Indian artifacts, including spear throwers, shell tools and fire-drills, as well as Spanish artifacts including armor and weapons.

IN SKY LAND
According to Haudenosaunee teachers the earth was called “Eteno’ha.” Storytellers told the central Sacred story of the Haudenosaunee people on winter nights. This story was the focus of how Longhouse people understood their place in Creation. In the old days, so the grandparents say, the people lived in a land high above where earth is now. This land was called “Sky Land.” It was a perfect place. The Sky Woman, Iotsitsisen, was married to “Holder of the Heavens.” On a certain day Holder of the Heavens, jealous of the unborn child in Iotsitsisen’s belly, pushed his wife through a tear in the floor of Sky Land. Iotsitsisen fell through the clouds cushioned by all the winged people who flew in the air until she landed on a huge snapping turtle’s shell. The turtle was named “Anoa’ra.”

The turtle swam in the great Ocean Sea. Little muskrat dove to the seabed and carried the spirit of Eteno’ha to the water’s surface in her mouth and her webbed hands. With his tail Beaver molded the muck from the sea floor into the shape of Eteno’ha on the giant snapping turtle’s shell. Iotsitsisen was carried to Eteno’ha on the wings of the flying people who set her down. As Iotsitsijen stood and walked on the surface of Eteno’ha the new world grew wider and wider and hills, and trees, and rivers came to be. Today we call Eteno’ha, North America. Because we all live on the shell of that giant snapping turtle, Anoa’ra, the Haudenosaunee and many other people call this place, Turtle Island.

This story is told by Native people across the face of this continent. In it the central focus is on Creation and the place of Human beings in Creation. Our relationship to the land and our dependence on all creatures is easy to understand seen in this perspective.

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FLORIDA FRONTIER/NATIVE EARTH CULTURAL CENTER AT INDIAN STUFF
1064 Fourth Street North • St. Petersburg, FL 33701
phone: 727/821-8186

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