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PART I OF II: 2008's historic Idaho Democratic Convention, held in Boise, ID, June 12-14, invited Idaho Native American Tribal members from the Shoshone-Bannock/Fort Hall, Shoshone-Paiute/Duck Valley, Nez Perce, and Coeur D'Alene tribal communities to take an active part in the convention activities. On June 12th, the Idaho AFL-CIO hosted a Democratic picnic for convention goers. Mr. Ted Howard, Cultural Resource Director, Duck Valley, spoke to picnic participants about the Shoshone-Paiute-Bannock history in the Boise Valley area. 9:49 minutes.

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Posted on Thursday, January 10 @ 03:21:38 CST

AUTHOR: Michael Lomatuway'ma, Hopi

Among all Pueblo people, religion plays a vital role in dailylife. At the heart of religious life, particularly among western groups like the Hopi and Zuni, were the infinitely helpful kachinas-also sometimes called katsinas.

In a world infused by supernatural forces, each visible object had a spiritual counterpart, a divine essence as real as the thing itself.

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A katsina can be an ancestor spirit, or it can be the spirit of an animal or a plant or anything that is beneficial to the Hopi.

We even have a dog katsina: dogs help the Hopi hunt.

And then, a katsina can be just an abstract thing. You don't know the meaning behind it-all you know is that it will perform for you, it brings rain, it carries messages back to whoever is making rain.



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