I've been working on our original website Oyate Ta Olowan.We've been working on adding digital downloads to the site, but it's still a challenge. Oyate is a public radio series that we did on traditional Native American music. We did 52 half hour shows and traveled over 100,000 miles collecting music from all over the Americas. It was a while ago, but people still seem to love it, so we keep offering the shows for sale. It's all a part of our little press Many Kites Press. Life is so amazing, and so full, but we keep on trucking. I hope things are going well for all of you, and that continue to create wonderful things. Later, Milt Lee
We just couldn’t help it. The Bead People have been traveling like crazy this year, spreading their message of inclusion and peace, but they decided to come home for Christmas. They told us they wanted to be on the Christmas tree so we got out our Lakota Christmas Carols, and did some decorating. Merry Christmas!
Jamie Lee has been busy again! She designed a pack of 64 cards that expand what the Bead People do and mean. Each card has a task that you can do. Every day, you draw one card, and that’s your task for the day - something to keep you connected with your self, your family, the earth, and the plants and animals. Each one is a way to help you look at the world around you, and make it a better place. You can get these wonderful little packs at The Bead People’s website.
Jamie is really an amazing “hunter/gatherer”. Most weekends she gathers beads, and so when you gather beads, you want to get them ready to make new Bead People - what else??
Folks, you may or not know about our international peace project - The Bead People. Jamie started by making a few bead people - then she realized that there was a story there - so she wrote - The Wind of a Thousand Years. Over the last year, we’ve gone through 2000 copies and we are waiting for our next edition of 1500. Amazing, and they are soooo much fun - not to mention spreading a little peace with every bead person and every book. But now, we really need a Spanish translation. Some folks have been asking for it, and one person wants to take them to Nicaragua. This project is basically a non-profit operation, with people contributing money for printing, beads to make more bead people, and now I am asking for somebody to translate our book in to Spanish. We’ve been told that we really need a native speaking person to do the translation - basically because the book is very poetic, and we want to keep the feeling of it.
If you would like to give it a shot, please send an email to me or Jamie - at milt (at) thebeadpeople.org or jamie (at) thebeadpeople.org You can actually read the story on line right here, and see the famous short film, Beads Beads Beads at thebeadpeople.org
