It is one of the characteristics of art – the greater the art, the greater the characteristic – that it points to (“captures” would precisely misstate the idea) the complexity of nature, of situation, of emotion, of expression, of judgment: the entire human calculus. It is so much so that rarely may the creator be […]
People of San Carlos I
Dale Miles was the first person we got to know on the San Carlos Apache Reservation. We had read one of his editorials, about anti-Apache prejudice, in the off-reservation, Apache Moccasin newspaper, and sought him out. It is not entirely clear how many non-Natives read the Apache Moccasin, even though it is non-Native published, and […]
Christmas Elders’ Lunch – Apache Gold Casino
The second annual Christmas “Elders Lunch” of the San Carlos Apache Tribe was held on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 at the Apache Gold Casino on the San Carlos Reservation. The luncheon is a gesture of appreciation for tribal elders initiated last year by then new Tribal Chairman Wendsler Nosie, Sr. Nosie, who is a spiritual […]
The Personal and the Historical
One of my continuing interests is the intersection of the “ordinary” individual life and the historical moment. My own father, Meyer, or Mac, had many. Born in a small shtetl in Ukraine before the Russian Revolution, he emigrated to the United States, arriving, still a teen, in 1927. In the early Thirties, at the height […]
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, or Let Them Eat Five Year Plans
The Guardian, UK, reports that locals and communists who opposed the renaming of a Moscow road Solzhenitsyn Street in memory of the Nobel Laureate and chronicler of the Soviet gulag are tearing down signs and demanding the old communist name back. AJA