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PHOTOGRAPHS OF NATIVE AMERICANS BY EDWARD CURTIS

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My 6 times Great Grandmother was the sister of the Chief of the Mohawk Indians in New York circa 1750. This is part of my biological and spiritual heritage. Tragically, the greatest genocide in the history of Earth was the murder of native people in North and South continents of the Western Hemisphere of Earth, misnamed “America” by European “immigrants”.  It is estimated that as many as 100 million people were killed by disease and warfare waged on them by Caucasian invaders from European countries. By 1900 only about 200,000 Native people remained in North America. A photographer from Seattle, named Edward Curtis, undertook one of the greatest photographic odysseys ever when he set out to document North American Indians in the early 20th century. Today his work fetches record prices but Curtis died in obscurity, along with 100 million people from the Indigenous tribes of people who his photographs preserve as a memorial of their lives.

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VOICE OF THE GODS

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VOICE OF GOD

About the painting:  “Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses” is an oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse that was created in 1891.  The painting depicts a scene from Greek mythology, the sorceress Circe offering Odysseus a cup containing a potion with which she seeks to bring him under her spell as she has his crew.

In Greek mythology, Circe (pronounced “Keer-keeh” “falcon”) is a minor goddess of magic (or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress).  By most accounts, Circe was the daughter of Helios, the god of the sun, and Perse, an Oceanid. Her brothers were Aeetes, the keeper of the Golden Fleece and Perses, and her sister was Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur. Other accounts make her the daughter of Hecate.  Circe was renowned for her vast knowledge of drugs and herbs. Through the use of magical potions and a wand she transformed her enemies, or those who offended her, into animals.