As usual the overwhelming majority of viewers are from the United States. Nearly 14,000 page views to date.
French viewers have long been with us, but very recently they are second to the US.
Next highest number of viewers come from Russia.
Fourth among high level of viewers is Ireland.
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Notes on Education: Where is US?
Mosaic of Notes on Native Trade centered on the Mississippi
Jablon, Luteberg, litzberg
600,000,000,000 Years Ago
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Posts that seem to attract them include:
Notes on Education: Where is US?
Mosaic of Notes on Native Trade centered on the Mississippi
Jablon, Luteberg, litzberg
600,000,000,000 Years Ago
Friday, May 13, 2011
Mati Are
The Metis have been for a long time. That is, they have long been a people. They have developed a new culture from very different cultures. They continue to develop their culture.
They have been at least since the 1600s. They may have spoken mostly a combination of Cree and Ojibwa and French then. Please help me through my ignorance with what you have heard.
In those days they began to learn of Catholicism and to teach the French their way of doing business. I believe they are a beautiful blend of European and Native cultures. They may have begun that beautiful blending before the arrival of the Spanish in the new world. There are hints of a very old Hibernian speech in their language.
As an aside, I suspect that Irish may have arrived in the New World World as much as a hundred years before Norse. Say that the Norse arrived about 900 AD that then suggests that some blending was being done about 800 AD.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure that the blending I speak of well after the 'birth' of Christianity. Nearly all Matis speaking person has been touched by Catholicism. Mati were well recognized, acknowledged, and commented on by English speakers in the 1800s.
I imagine that if many Mati had a DNA check a strong touch of French, Cree, Ojibwa, and Saulteaux would be found, but also a bit of Irish, Inuit, Scot, Algonquin, and others.
Today, in the US and Canada, there are many hundreds o thousands of mixed blood people, but only about 300,000 who form a well identified Meti culture.
What kind of people are they? Got me.
I can say that they have been travelers. I seems incorrect to call them a stay-at-home people.
They have been voyageurs. They know British Columbia and have traveled to California in caravan. They know the Hudson Bay and the Great Lakes. They have used the Mississippi as their road; the Missouri and Ohio Rivers too. They probably invented the canoe as we know it.
They have traveled this land and its waters, including the sea.
They watch many of the same TV programs that you do.
They know the Chippewa and empathise with the Cherokee.
Some say that their language is built largely of Ojibwa and French, but it contains much more, including a touch of Gaelic.
I think that you can find great stories relate to this very American people. However, if you are a person who wants the facts, It might me good to start with Louis Riel and work your way back. Once you are sure of your admiration for these people go back to Louis Riel and explore and discover your way to today.
Please help me to overcome my ignorance of these things. Tell me where I have been true and where I have been mistaken. I have tried to write honestly.
They have been at least since the 1600s. They may have spoken mostly a combination of Cree and Ojibwa and French then. Please help me through my ignorance with what you have heard.
In those days they began to learn of Catholicism and to teach the French their way of doing business. I believe they are a beautiful blend of European and Native cultures. They may have begun that beautiful blending before the arrival of the Spanish in the new world. There are hints of a very old Hibernian speech in their language.
As an aside, I suspect that Irish may have arrived in the New World World as much as a hundred years before Norse. Say that the Norse arrived about 900 AD that then suggests that some blending was being done about 800 AD.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure that the blending I speak of well after the 'birth' of Christianity. Nearly all Matis speaking person has been touched by Catholicism. Mati were well recognized, acknowledged, and commented on by English speakers in the 1800s.
I imagine that if many Mati had a DNA check a strong touch of French, Cree, Ojibwa, and Saulteaux would be found, but also a bit of Irish, Inuit, Scot, Algonquin, and others.
Today, in the US and Canada, there are many hundreds o thousands of mixed blood people, but only about 300,000 who form a well identified Meti culture.
What kind of people are they? Got me.
I can say that they have been travelers. I seems incorrect to call them a stay-at-home people.
They have been voyageurs. They know British Columbia and have traveled to California in caravan. They know the Hudson Bay and the Great Lakes. They have used the Mississippi as their road; the Missouri and Ohio Rivers too. They probably invented the canoe as we know it.
They have traveled this land and its waters, including the sea.
They watch many of the same TV programs that you do.
They know the Chippewa and empathise with the Cherokee.
Some say that their language is built largely of Ojibwa and French, but it contains much more, including a touch of Gaelic.
I think that you can find great stories relate to this very American people. However, if you are a person who wants the facts, It might me good to start with Louis Riel and work your way back. Once you are sure of your admiration for these people go back to Louis Riel and explore and discover your way to today.
Please help me to overcome my ignorance of these things. Tell me where I have been true and where I have been mistaken. I have tried to write honestly.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Marianne
You might see her 'down by the seaside sifting sand.'
Marianne is a national emblem of France and an allegory of 'reason' and 'liberty.'
Reason, for many, including the French, is the faculty of discursive reason which defines our common humanity. It includes our speech, science, art, mathematics, philosophy, logos, and the rational.
Liberty, for many, including the French authors of the rights of man, is that condition which allows us to govern ourselves.
I take this opportunity to thank the French for lending us their Navy and know how to help us win our liberty. They went into deep debt to help us and then gave us the gift of the Statue of Liberty. Who has done more?
The Statue of Liberty could represent a very close relative of Marianne.
People of France, you have my enduring gratitude.
Understanding benefits from an occasional sifting.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Sweet Guadalupe
Please tell me about Guadalupe. I think that it is an island 'country' in the southern Caribbean. Its not a dream you're see'n.
I think that the name Guadalupe had sacred currency in Spain before it did in Mexico.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Columbus had been to the island.
Okay, I'm checking. Columbus was there on his second voyage to the New World. He probably found pineapples there. Good ones. Sweet.
The French came along and made such good money selling sugar from the island that the had to fight off the English. The French brought African slaves to work that sugar. Sweet. They probably bought most of them from the English. Sweet.
I'm finding out a few things, but I wish you would please tell me more.
People sponsored by the French Company of the Americas killed off most of the Carib (Arawak) people before the island was annexed by the Kingdom of France in 1674. The French and the English struggled over the island and its sugar for 100 years. Sweet.
Then the people of the island began to struggle among themselves and with others. Some struggled for power, some for freedom from unjust exploitation, for freedom from France, freedom from slavers, some struggled for freedom from Swedes and Englishman. Most struggled for something. Sweet.
What are their struggles today? What is truly sweet in their lives?
I understand that they are now mostly Roman Catholic African-French creole speaking people. How am I wrong? Please tell me something. What do the call themselves.
most for both.
I think that the name Guadalupe had sacred currency in Spain before it did in Mexico.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Columbus had been to the island.
Okay, I'm checking. Columbus was there on his second voyage to the New World. He probably found pineapples there. Good ones. Sweet.
The French came along and made such good money selling sugar from the island that the had to fight off the English. The French brought African slaves to work that sugar. Sweet. They probably bought most of them from the English. Sweet.
I'm finding out a few things, but I wish you would please tell me more.
People sponsored by the French Company of the Americas killed off most of the Carib (Arawak) people before the island was annexed by the Kingdom of France in 1674. The French and the English struggled over the island and its sugar for 100 years. Sweet.
Then the people of the island began to struggle among themselves and with others. Some struggled for power, some for freedom from unjust exploitation, for freedom from France, freedom from slavers, some struggled for freedom from Swedes and Englishman. Most struggled for something. Sweet.
What are their struggles today? What is truly sweet in their lives?
I understand that they are now mostly Roman Catholic African-French creole speaking people. How am I wrong? Please tell me something. What do the call themselves.
most for both.
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