Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Growing up Ute: Roland McCook
Growing up Ute: Roland McCook speaks at series
Great-great-grandson of Chief Ouray welcomes Lyceum audience
By Juley Harvey Trail-Gazette
Posted: 03/02/2010
Photo by Brenda Norrell. Roland McCook, on front right, leads Longest Walk 2 in at the Ute Indian Museum in Colorado, 2008.
Read article:
http://www.eptrail.com/ci_14498983?source=most_emailed
Excerpts:
Saturday night, he greeted each audience member personally at the door, shaking hands and bidding them welcome, saying, "Greetings to you and I`m glad to see you" in Ute. With warm humor, he regaled the audience with information he said they would not find in history books, meant to be "instructive, not disrespectful or mean." Much as in the spirit of the Olympic games, where the world is welcomed, Roland McCook, great-great-grandson of Chief Ouray, graciously ushered a fascinated audience into his Ute ("Nuche") world Saturday night.
McCook said, "Our word for (Ute tribe) ourselves is Nuche, a person of substance, meaning, soul. In our way of thinking, you`re a person who has a heart; it doesn`t matter the shell of the body. It`s the inner part of the soul that emanates things consistent with the environment -- wind is love; sunshine, hope. That is how we connected ourselves to the environment."
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Censored News Special Edition
-
▼
2010
(247)
-
▼
March
(21)
- Arctic Summit told to leave it in the ground
- Lenny Foster: Indian Religious Freedom in US Prisons
- Lenny Foster to UN and Obama: Release Peltier
- Barack Obama refuses to protect the bald eagle
- UN rights panel condemns `Islamophobic' behaviour
- Obama Puts Pesticide Pusher in Charge of Agricultu...
- Rodriguez: Dreaming Bigger Dreams: End of Column o...
- Bush's Last Minute Nuclear Disaster: Nuclear Reactors
- Australian Aboriginals: 'NO' to radioactive dump a...
- Israel Junkets Compromise Congress
- Success? Black Freedom Movement Remains Behind Bars
- Earthquake in Chile: A Mapuche Indigenous Perspective
- TORONTO: Mapuche Prisoners Film Festival Benefit
- Obama Advisor: Infiltrate Internet Groups
- AIM West, March 2010
- Rodriguez: Census: Masking Identities or Counting ...
- Questions over Cobell settlement, NCAI resolution
- Abuses by US Border Patrol in Arizona
- Mercenaries Circling Haiti
- Growing up Ute: Roland McCook
- Native Indian Genocide: Parallels in Palestine
-
▼
March
(21)
Censored News Blog Radio
Donate to Censored News
.
Censored News is free of advertising and has no sponsors.
Censored News Homepage
About Censored News
Censored News is published by censored journalist Brenda Norrell. A journalist for 27 years, Brenda lived on the Navajo Nation for 18 years, writing for Navajo Times, AP, USA Today, Lakota Times and other American Indian publications. After being censored and then terminated by Indian Country Today in 2006, she began the Censored Blog to document the most censored issues. She currently serves as human rights editor for the U.N. OBSERVER & International Report at the Hague and contributor to Sri Lanka Guardian, Narco News and CounterPunch. She was cohost of the 5-month Longest Walk Talk Radio across America, with Earthcycles Producer Govinda Dalton in 2008: www.earthcycles.net/
COPYRIGHTS All material is copyrighted by the author or photographer. Please contact each contributor for reprint permission. brendanorrell@gmail.com
Audios may not be sold or used for commercial purposes.
"O FRIEND! In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the rose of love, and from the nightingale of affection and desire loosen not thy hold." --Baha'u'llah, Baha'i Faith
No comments:
Post a Comment