Charles Frazier’s Thirteen Moons is the story of one man’s remarkable life, spanning a century of relentless change. At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey through the wilderness to the edge of the Cherokee Nation, the uncharted white space on the map. Will is a bound boy, obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. As he fulfills his lonesome duty, Will finds a father in Bear, a Cherokee chief, and is adopted by him and his people, developing relationships that ultimately forge Will’s character. All the while, his love of Claire, the enigmatic and captivating charge of volatile and powerful Featherstone, will forever rule Will’s heart.
In a distinct voice filled with both humor and yearning, Will tells of a lifelong search for home, the hunger for fortune and adventure, the rebuilding of a trampled culture, and above all an enduring pursuit of passion. As he comes to realize, "When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. One of the few welcome lessons age teaches is that only desire trumps time."
Will Cooper, in the hands of Charles Frazier, becomes a classic American soul: a man devoted to a place and its people, a woman, and a way of life, all of which are forever just beyond his reach. Thirteen Moons takes us from the uncharted wilderness of an unspoiled continent, across the South, up and down the Mississippi, and to the urban clamor of a raw Washington City. Throughout, Will is swept along as the wild beauty of the nineteenth century gives way to the telephones, automobiles, and encroaching railways of the twentieth. Steeped in history, rich in insight, and filled with moments of sudden beauty, Thirteen Moons is an unforgettable work of fiction by an American master.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Quotes
"We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as "wild". To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery." -
Luther Standing Bear - Rosebud Sioux
Luther Standing Bear - Rosebud Sioux
United South and Eastern Tribes appoints new executive director
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - For years before Mike Cook became executive director of United South and Eastern Tribes, he dreamed about landing this job.
Cook, a member of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe at Akwesasne, N.Y., is in the process of moving his wife and their two youngest children to Nashville, where he recently started his appointment as executive director of USET, one of the largest nonprofit, intertribal organizations in the country, representing 24 federally acknowledged tribes in both regional and national arenas.
''It's very humbling. This is a dream position of mine that I'd been looking at for a long time. I see this as doing something I've really wanted to do for Indian country,'' Cook told Indian Country Today.
Cook has been involved with USET since the 1980s while working for the St. Regis Mohawk. At that time, a member of Cook's tribe was elected president of the organization and participated directly in USET meetings and other activities.
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Cook, a member of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe at Akwesasne, N.Y., is in the process of moving his wife and their two youngest children to Nashville, where he recently started his appointment as executive director of USET, one of the largest nonprofit, intertribal organizations in the country, representing 24 federally acknowledged tribes in both regional and national arenas.
''It's very humbling. This is a dream position of mine that I'd been looking at for a long time. I see this as doing something I've really wanted to do for Indian country,'' Cook told Indian Country Today.
Cook has been involved with USET since the 1980s while working for the St. Regis Mohawk. At that time, a member of Cook's tribe was elected president of the organization and participated directly in USET meetings and other activities.
Want to know more? Click here: http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096415053
Tribe considers vote on amendment
Published May 24, 2007 11:58 pm - Muskogee Phoenix
The Cherokee Nation has scheduled a special council meeting for 5 p.m. June 6 superseding and replacing the previously called meeting of June 5.
The council will consider and act upon a proposed resolution “authorizing the submission to a vote of the people an affirmation of the removal of federal approval for the Cherokee Nation Constitution or Amendments to the Constitution.”
The amendment passed in the last election, but the freedmen could not vote in that election, said council attorney Todd Hembree.
The tribal attorney general and the administration have indicated to Hembree they believe Carl J. Artman, assistant secretary of Indian Affairs, will sign off on the amendment if the freedmen have an opportunity to vote on it in the June 23 tribal election.
The Cherokee Nation has scheduled a special council meeting for 5 p.m. June 6 superseding and replacing the previously called meeting of June 5.
The council will consider and act upon a proposed resolution “authorizing the submission to a vote of the people an affirmation of the removal of federal approval for the Cherokee Nation Constitution or Amendments to the Constitution.”
The amendment passed in the last election, but the freedmen could not vote in that election, said council attorney Todd Hembree.
The tribal attorney general and the administration have indicated to Hembree they believe Carl J. Artman, assistant secretary of Indian Affairs, will sign off on the amendment if the freedmen have an opportunity to vote on it in the June 23 tribal election.
Chippewa Cree ink Medicaid pact
Gov. Brian Schweitzer signed an agreement with the Chippewa Cree Tribe on Thursday that will allow a local official on the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation to determine if tribal members are eligible to get Medicaid.
It's the first such agreement signed in Montana and one of the first in the nation involving Medicaid, the federal program that provides medical assistance for low-income people.
Both state and tribal officials say the change will make it more comfortable for low-income tribal members to seek benefits to which they're entitled.
"Tribal people often don't know how to jump through the bureaucratic hoops, yet being denied access to Medicaid can be disastrous to them and their families," said Jonathan Windy Boy, a state legislator and member of the Chippewa Cree Tribal Business Council, before the ceremony. "We want to simplify the process and make it more user friendly by having our tribal members deal with somebody they know, not strangers."
Click here to read more: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070525/NEWS01/705250304
It's the first such agreement signed in Montana and one of the first in the nation involving Medicaid, the federal program that provides medical assistance for low-income people.
Both state and tribal officials say the change will make it more comfortable for low-income tribal members to seek benefits to which they're entitled.
"Tribal people often don't know how to jump through the bureaucratic hoops, yet being denied access to Medicaid can be disastrous to them and their families," said Jonathan Windy Boy, a state legislator and member of the Chippewa Cree Tribal Business Council, before the ceremony. "We want to simplify the process and make it more user friendly by having our tribal members deal with somebody they know, not strangers."
Click here to read more: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070525/NEWS01/705250304
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