Content notes for "Within the Souls of Men"
Here are the content notes for "Within the Souls of Men."
"There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is within the souls of men."
-- Black Elk
"There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site."
-- Sydney J. Harris
The recent cape incident refers to "At Certain Crucial Moments," "In Untried Emergencies," "Responding to Emergencies," and "The Native Metal of a Man."
Cloth Dress is a broad category of women's powwow dance. Often they divide it into Northern and Southern styles. However, there are other subcategories based on a specific type of dress that people sometimes use as subdivisions, especially if there are many Cloth Dress dancers. These include the Elk Tooth Dress, the Jingle Dress, and the Ribbon Dress -- all of which focus on certain types of decoration added to the underlying cloth dress. In particular, the Jingle Dress functions as a type of musical instrument and the dancer must jingle in time with the Drum.
Nebraska riparian trees include sycamore, black willow, and cottonwood. They only grow near water. In fact much of Nebraska is grassland because it tends to be too dry for trees.
The Three Sisters of Corn, Squash, and Beans make an excellent soup.
John Nobody Likes It (whom Shiv calls John They Don't Know What They're Missing) is introduced, and spring salad is described, in "The One Thing We All Have in Common." Spring salad may be made with any combination of foraged greens and mix-ins.
Enjoy recipes for Violet Syrup and Gooseberry Handpies. With this little sugar, so early in the season, these pies will be eye-crossingly sour. Some folks don't like things that are too sweet. The alcohol is omitted.
Spring foraging in Nebraska may include wild violets, gooseberries, ramps, nettles, lamb's quarters / goosefoot, chicory, and dandelion.
Rocks include amethyst, obsidian, onyx, agate, petrified wood, malachite, pipestone, jasper, and flint among others. These can be used for flint knapping, carving, jewelry, and other crafts -- or just decoration as rough stones.
Trade cloth comes in various styles. Among the more common are "saved list cloth" with a white selvage and "rainbow selvage cloth" with strips of different colors along the selvage. "Old time calico" is printed with flowers, stripes, or other designs.
Ribbon for tribal crafts is typically either satin finish or grosgrain in solid colors. However, some people like striped, floral, or other patterned ribbons. Dresses, blouse and skirt sets, and men's shirts are often decorated with ribbons, sometimes sewn down all the way and other times left with fluttering tails.
Lynxes exist in Nebraska but they are rare. Bobcats are much more common in the state, and they like to travel along waterways. Lynxes like a territory with a mosaic of mixed habitats, but they favor mature spruce-fir forests especially for raising kittens. Nebraska trees include several species of spruce and fir, but trees tend to cluster around water sources. Because lynxes prefer to eat hares or rabbits, and these prey species like young forests and brush piles, adding those elements will also support lynxes (and other predators such as bobcats and foxes). Lynxes den in rock piles, brush piles, hollow trees, or under stumps so make sure to offer such sites.
The eastern part of the Omaha Reservation, particularly the Big Elk Wildlife Park near the Missouri River, includes a considerable amount of forested area and creeks feeding into the watershed. This makes excellent territory for bobcats and acceptable territory for the rarer lynxes. Terramagne-America more than here has made efforts to protect riparian zones and to connect far-flung habitats with shelterbelts, so many waterways have a band of protected land along them filled with native trees, wildflowers, and grasses.
Nebraska wildlife in the Omaha Indian Reservation includes blacktail jackrabbits, whitetail jackrabbits (both of which are actually hares), and eastern cottontails. Snowshoe hares, the favorite food of lynxes, do not typically appear in Nebraska.
Toolstones include a wide variety of knappable options including agate as well as the more famous flint. This is Shiv's agate knife.
Here is Ben's camping hatchet.
"There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is within the souls of men."
-- Black Elk
"There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site."
-- Sydney J. Harris
The recent cape incident refers to "At Certain Crucial Moments," "In Untried Emergencies," "Responding to Emergencies," and "The Native Metal of a Man."
Cloth Dress is a broad category of women's powwow dance. Often they divide it into Northern and Southern styles. However, there are other subcategories based on a specific type of dress that people sometimes use as subdivisions, especially if there are many Cloth Dress dancers. These include the Elk Tooth Dress, the Jingle Dress, and the Ribbon Dress -- all of which focus on certain types of decoration added to the underlying cloth dress. In particular, the Jingle Dress functions as a type of musical instrument and the dancer must jingle in time with the Drum.
Nebraska riparian trees include sycamore, black willow, and cottonwood. They only grow near water. In fact much of Nebraska is grassland because it tends to be too dry for trees.
The Three Sisters of Corn, Squash, and Beans make an excellent soup.
John Nobody Likes It (whom Shiv calls John They Don't Know What They're Missing) is introduced, and spring salad is described, in "The One Thing We All Have in Common." Spring salad may be made with any combination of foraged greens and mix-ins.
Enjoy recipes for Violet Syrup and Gooseberry Handpies. With this little sugar, so early in the season, these pies will be eye-crossingly sour. Some folks don't like things that are too sweet. The alcohol is omitted.
Spring foraging in Nebraska may include wild violets, gooseberries, ramps, nettles, lamb's quarters / goosefoot, chicory, and dandelion.
Rocks include amethyst, obsidian, onyx, agate, petrified wood, malachite, pipestone, jasper, and flint among others. These can be used for flint knapping, carving, jewelry, and other crafts -- or just decoration as rough stones.
Trade cloth comes in various styles. Among the more common are "saved list cloth" with a white selvage and "rainbow selvage cloth" with strips of different colors along the selvage. "Old time calico" is printed with flowers, stripes, or other designs.
Ribbon for tribal crafts is typically either satin finish or grosgrain in solid colors. However, some people like striped, floral, or other patterned ribbons. Dresses, blouse and skirt sets, and men's shirts are often decorated with ribbons, sometimes sewn down all the way and other times left with fluttering tails.
Lynxes exist in Nebraska but they are rare. Bobcats are much more common in the state, and they like to travel along waterways. Lynxes like a territory with a mosaic of mixed habitats, but they favor mature spruce-fir forests especially for raising kittens. Nebraska trees include several species of spruce and fir, but trees tend to cluster around water sources. Because lynxes prefer to eat hares or rabbits, and these prey species like young forests and brush piles, adding those elements will also support lynxes (and other predators such as bobcats and foxes). Lynxes den in rock piles, brush piles, hollow trees, or under stumps so make sure to offer such sites.
The eastern part of the Omaha Reservation, particularly the Big Elk Wildlife Park near the Missouri River, includes a considerable amount of forested area and creeks feeding into the watershed. This makes excellent territory for bobcats and acceptable territory for the rarer lynxes. Terramagne-America more than here has made efforts to protect riparian zones and to connect far-flung habitats with shelterbelts, so many waterways have a band of protected land along them filled with native trees, wildflowers, and grasses.
Nebraska wildlife in the Omaha Indian Reservation includes blacktail jackrabbits, whitetail jackrabbits (both of which are actually hares), and eastern cottontails. Snowshoe hares, the favorite food of lynxes, do not typically appear in Nebraska.
Toolstones include a wide variety of knappable options including agate as well as the more famous flint. This is Shiv's agate knife.
Here is Ben's camping hatchet.