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Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on August 14, 2012 at 12:17pm

"It's time Indians tell the world what we know... about nature and about God. So I'm going to tell you what I know and who I am. You guys better listen. You have a lot to learn.

-- Mathew King, LAKOTA

A long time ago the Creator came to Turtle Island and said to the Red People - "You will be the keepers of the Mother Earth. Among you I will give the wisdom about nature, about the interconnectedness of all things, about balance and about living in harmony. You Red People will see the secrets of nature. You will live in hardship and the blessing of this is you will stay close to the Creator. The day will come when you will need to share the secrets with the other people of the earth because they will stray from their spiritual ways. The time to start sharing is today."

Oh Great Spirit, today I am ready for You to use me as a channel of Your peace. Let my walk today be visible so the people will say "There goes a Man of God." I want to know what He knows. If they ask, I will tell them to go out into the wilderness and pray for You to guide them

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on August 13, 2012 at 9:44am

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You place a lot of emphasis on domestic life today. Home furnishings can be desirable; you look for bargains. Your feelings run deep and you feel the need to connect with your partner on an emotional level.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You're easily influenced by people's opinions today. You feel you have to agree in order to get along. You should try to disagree politely, perhaps by offering another point of view, instead of creating an argument.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You're attracted to a situation that promises money and position but there is a lot that not being told to you. You need to inquire more deeply, get specific answers to pointed questions. Get the real scoop.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are oriented toward pleasing people today. When extroverted, you're trying to be charming and agreeable. When introverted, you may be using shyness as a way of attracting attention.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You're easily swayed by moods and moved by pathos. Your pity is easily aroused but you have to be sure any action or money is properly directed so that you are effective and not taken advantage of.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Some can take advantage of your lack of experience or knowledge today. You're challenged to learn all you can through direct sources instead of relying on assurances, hearsay or rumor.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You're sensitive to public will and opinion but you tend to disagree with it. You're challenged to see past the obvious into deeper motives and desires. A solution meets what people really need, and looks good too.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You can get involved in politics as a way of meeting people, as well as a way of putting excitement in your life. You like the turmoil, as long as it doesn't get ugly. You like the emotional engagement.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are feeling optimistic and visionary today, perhaps unrealistically so. You're challenged to follow through with substantial action to make your dreams and imagination come true. Beware of another's agenda, however.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It becomes important to develop a particular relationship. Beware of becoming obsessed. Get to know people and then move on until the next time develops. Leave a calling card. Don't try to force a friendship.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): This is a good day to focus on your job and perform well quietly. Too much excitement distracts from performance. You can get a lot done, making many people happy, if you stick to your business.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have trouble dealing with real issues directly. Those with artistic talent may want to use drama, art or poetry to make social comments to make your point. You feel more comfortable urging others to make changes.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on August 13, 2012 at 9:44am

"A bit of sunshine, a drop of rain, a puff of life from the Great Spirit as He gently breathed upon that spot, created the Native Americans. They were well formed and agile, copper colored and proud.

-- Harriet Starleaf Gumbs, SHINNECOCK

We are made in the image of the Great Spirit. A long time ago He breathed life into our ancestors. He made the Indian strong. He created a Warrior. Our ancestors created more warriors. We have been tested throughout the seasons and we are still here, stronger than ever. It is good to be Indian. We are proud of ourselves and our ancestors. Mostly we are proud the Great Spirit has never forsaken us, and continues to guide us.

My Creator, let me live my life today in a way that would make my ancestors proud. Let me remember each month that I am here to serve You. Today let me conduct my life in a way that also would make You proud

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on August 13, 2012 at 9:42am

Aug 13, 1521:
Aztec capital falls to Cortés

After a three-month siege, Spanish forces under Hernán Cortés capture Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec empire. Cortés' men leveled the city and captured Cuauhtemoc, the Aztec emperor.

Tenochtitlán was founded in 1325 A.D. by a wandering tribe of hunters and gatherers on islands in Lake Texcoco, near the present site of Mexico City. In only one century, this civilization grew into the Aztec empire, largely because of its advanced system of agriculture. The empire came to dominate central Mexico and by the ascendance of Montezuma II in 1502 had reached its greatest extent, extending as far south as perhaps modern-day Nicaragua. At the time, the empire was held together primarily by Aztec military strength, and Montezuma II set about establishing a bureaucracy, creating provinces that would pay tribute to the imperial capital of Tenochtitlán. The conquered peoples resented the Aztec demands for tribute and victims for the religious sacrifices, but the Aztec military kept rebellion at bay.

Meanwhile, Hernán Cortés, a young Spanish-born noble, came to Hispaniola in the West Indies in 1504. In 1511, he sailed with Diego Velázquez to conquer Cuba and twice was elected mayor of Santiago, the capital of Hispaniola. In 1518, he was appointed captain general of a new Spanish expedition to the American mainland. Velázquez, the governor of Cuba, later rescinded the order, and Cortés sailed without permission. He visited the coast of Yucatán and in March 1519 landed at Tabasco in Mexico's Bay of Campeche with 500 soldiers, 100 sailors, and 16 horses. There, he won over the local Indians and was given a female slave, Malinche–baptized Marina–who became his mistress and later bore him a son. She knew both Maya and Aztec and served as an interpreter. The expedition then proceeded up the Mexican coast, where Cortés founded Veracruz, mainly for the purpose of having himself elected captain general by the colony, thus shaking off the authority of Velázquez and making him responsible only to King Charles V of Spain.

At Veracruz, Cortés trained his army and then burned his ships to ensure loyalty to his plans for conquest. Having learned of political strife in the Aztec empire, Cortés led his force into the Mexican interior. On the way to Tenochtitlán, he clashed with local Indians, but many of these people, including the nation of Tlaxcala, became his allies after learning of his plan to conquer their hated Aztec rulers. Hearing of the approach of Cortés, with his frightful horses and sophisticated weapons, Montezuma II tried to buy him off, but Cortés would not be dissuaded. On November 8, 1519, the Spaniards and their 1,000 Tlaxcaltec warriors were allowed to enter Tenochtitlán unopposed.

Montezuma suspected them to be divine envoys of the god Quetzalcatl, who was prophesied to return from the east in a "One Reed" year, which was 1519 on the Aztec calendar. The Spaniards were greeted with great honor, and Cortés seized the opportunity, taking Montezuma hostage so that he might govern the empire through him. His mistress, Marina, was a great help in this endeavor and succeeded in convincing Montezuma to cooperate fully.

In the spring of 1520, Cortés learned of the arrival of a Spanish force from Cuba, led by Pánfilo Narvez and sent by Velázquez to deprive Cortés of his command. Cortés led his army out of Tenochtitlán to meet them, leaving behind a garrison of 80 Spaniards and a few hundred Tlaxcaltecs to govern the city. Cortés defeated Narvez and enlisted Narvez' army into his own. When he returned to Tenochtitlán in June, he found the garrison under siege from the Aztecs, who had rebelled after the subordinate whom Cortés left in command of the city massacred several Aztec chiefs, and the population on the brink of revolt.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on August 12, 2012 at 7:25am

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on August 12, 2012 at 7:17am

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You must deal with changes in your strength and stamina today. A lot of effort is being expected of you so you must pay careful attention to being efficient in the use of time and personal energy.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Take care of your finances today. A loss can be traumatic. You job causes anxiety, and you have to work well under pressure and criticism. Pressing problems get your attention now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Today turns more serious than yesterday. You become more introspective, more focused on actual performance than the prospects. You turn attention to genuine problems in need of hard effort.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are feeling oppressed today, as though you cannot express yourself the way you have a right to. Live within the restrictions you're forced to but also realize that you are as free in mind and spirit as you want to be.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You have trouble communicating effectively in public or to large groups of people. Your message is unwelcome, your performance does not impress. You're challenged to be energetic without offending.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your job feels insecure today. Something is amiss and you may need to be concerned about maintaining your respect and status. When someone pays attention to you it's generally negative, so be careful and pleasant.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You are interested in broad but practical knowledge now. There is a need for solutions or for technicians with generalist backgrounds. You may have to deal with depressed or angry people.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are motivated to address both external problems and your internal issues. There is a strong psycho-spiritual component to your approach now, and you see that as the best avenue to a solution.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Important relationships turn especially troublesome today. You must be careful in what you say and sensitive in what you do. There is a contradiction in the needs for safety and the needs for freedom.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are kept from achieving everything you feel you could. You are placed into a junior capacity or may be shut out completely. You are challenged to show a maturity that would be unusual under the circumstances.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You have trouble learning everything you want to know probably because someone else thinks you don't really need to know it. You generally have the sense that information is being withheld or banned. Learning becomes a chore.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are seeking an unusual amount of safety today. You're sensitive to threats and you take precautions at the slightest hint of one. Some have a deep but real psychological hang-up for thinking this way.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on August 12, 2012 at 7:17am

"With one mind we address our acknowledgement, respect, and gratefulness to the sacred Cycle of Life. We, as humans, must remember to be humble and acknowledge the gifts we use so freely in our daily lives."

-- Audrey Shenandoah, ONONDAGA

The sacred Cycle of life - the baby, the youth, the adult, the Elder. Let us respect all directions, the four directions of the Grandfathers; let us respect their power. Let us remember we belong to the earth, the earth does not belong to us. Help us to be respectful to all the gifts You have given us.

Oh Great Spirit, help me this day to be humble. Let me not attack anything in deed or in my thoughts. Let my thoughts focus on the beauty You have created in all things

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on August 12, 2012 at 7:17am

Aug 12, 1676:
King Philip's War ends

In colonial New England, King Philip's War effectively comes to an end when Philip, chief of the Wampanoag Indians, is assassinated by a Native American in the service of the English.

In the early 1670s, 50 years of peace between the Plymouth colony and the local Wampanoag Indians began to deteriorate when the rapidly expanding settlements forced land sales on the tribe. Reacting to increasing Native American hostility, the English met with King Philip, chief of the Wampanoag, and demanded that his forces surrender their arms. The Wampanoag did so, but in 1675 a Christian Native American who had been acting as an informer to the English was murdered, and three Wampanoag were tried and executed for the crime.

On June 24, King Philip responded by ordering a raid on the border settlement of Swansee, Massachusetts. His warriors massacred the English colonists there, and the attack set off a series of Wampanoag raids in which several settlements were destroyed and scores of colonists massacred. The colonists retaliated by destroying a number of Indian villages. The destruction of a Narragansett village by the English brought the Narragansett into the conflict on the side of King Philip, and within a few months several other tribes and all the New England colonies were involved.

In early 1676, the Narragansett were defeated and their chief killed, while the Wampanoag and their other allies were gradually subdued. King Philip's wife and son were captured, and his secret headquarters in Mount Hope, Rhode Island, were discovered. On August 12, 1676, Philip was assassinated at Mount Hope by a Native American in the service of the English. The English drew and quartered Philip's body and publicly displayed his head on a stake in Plymouth.

King Philip's War, which was extremely costly to the colonists of southern New England, ended the Native American presence in the region and inaugurated a period of unimpeded colonial expansion.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on August 10, 2012 at 9:33am

MORNING

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on August 10, 2012 at 9:22am

ARIES (March 21-April 19): It's important to realize that you can't get it all your way in a negotiation. However, be satisfied if you can get your essential points. An all-or-nothing approach must be replaced by tactical thinking.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You are prone to let feelings interfere with decision-making. You can make bad choices or vacillate and be unable to reach a decision at all. Sort through your feelings, especially regarding your family.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You have vested interests skewing your thinking. Force yourself to hear alternatives and make a sound and logical choice. You need to have the general welfare first and foremost, not simply yourself.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your success today must be done largely through your own efforts. Help is weak or non-existent now. This is a good time to sharpen your wits by developing ways to do things yourself.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your anticipation of the future is distorted by too much hope and too many fears. It's important to try seeing things from others' points of view and when you can't, to give up anticipation, make your plans and go with the flow.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This is a good day to pick a side-interest and develop it. Look for classes, however informal. Many, however, can be paralyzed with indecision. Stop the excuse-making thinking and go for it!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You have strong yet fantastic ideas that may not get too much support. Don't be swayed by this. You need to be pioneering and learn how to do what no one else has done. However, a little research on precedent wouldn't hurt.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You're apt to speak your mind when you really need to guard your thoughts. You're apt to make a bad impression on someone important if you are too free and open with your opinions. Stay reserved and focused on what's important.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Relationships can be a roller-coaster ride unless you get a grip. You imagine too much because you are too emotionally invested. Pull back your feelings and be more objective, judicious and fair.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You must deal with people who aren't entirely on your wavelength. You encounter people with mixed agendas or who don't fulfill their promises. From the outset, have plans in place about how you can do everything yourself.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You're apprehensive about a relationship today. Ask questions rather than fill in the blanks with your own fear and hope. More information, not more emotion, is what you need today.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your actions tend to be guided too much by habit when you really need to be alert to changing situations. It may be that you are too wrapped up in having a certain outcome that you fail to notice when a change must be made.

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