Theodore Roosevelt and the Western Experience
Produced in 1991 by KSPS Public Television, Theodore Roosevelt and the Western Experience examines the 26th president of the United States, in an hour long documentary that was resurrected from our archives.
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Ninja Gator! Alligator climbs fence.
This video was shot in the parking lot of an Everglades tour company in Miami Florida; Where I worked for a year DRIVING AIR BOATS. (496 Big block General motors Engines) This is one of the 1.3 million (estimated) Alligators roaming free in the South Florida Everglades. I captured this event on my iPhone, only minutes after I had just pulled into the parking lot for work at 8am. Gators are truly amazing creatures and you'll never know all their secrets unless you actually spend time in the everglades (and observe them up close like I did.) It's amazing to think that some scientists don't even know that Alligators can do this.
The Gator in this video was in a public parking lot, so (part) of my job was to herd them away so they don't get hurt by the lot traffic; Or so they don't accidentally bite anyone... Trust me! The tourists that went here are pretty stupid, and are usually the instigators of Alligator bites themselves. I love Alligators, and would do anything to help any of these magnificent creatures (if in peril). With YouTube videos it's easy to get the wrong idea. I was not harassing this gator, I was helping.
2012 Zaagkii Project: Ethnobotanist Scott Herron Pt. 2 Ecological, Cultural & Spiritual Restoration
Ferris State University Biology Prof. Dr. Scott Herron says:
But one thing that the Anishinaabe community must learn if we are going to do restoration of the Earth is:
At the same time you do ecological restoration -- you need to do cultural and spiritual restoration, Herron said.
Without understanding a little bit about yourself and a little bit about the spirit world, you will be missing a significant part about the physical world.
Here are portions of the talk Dr. Herron gave at the Hannahville Indian Community in April 2012 as part of a U.S. Forest Service Funded Zaagkii Wings and Seeds project event entitled Kinomaagewin-Aki: Teachings from the Earth.
Herron is an Ethnobotanist (Odawa, Anishinaabe) assisting the Zaagkii Project coordinate pollinator protection and native plants restoration projects with northern Michigan Anishinaabe communities.
Representatives from five Anishinaabe communities in northern Michigan and Wisconsin attended the workshop.
On April 12, 2012, Hannahville Indian School students planted apple and cedar saplings following the Kinomaagewin-Aki: Teachings from the Earth workshop coordinated by the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project and the U.S. Forest Service.
Without understanding a little bit about yourself and a little bit about the spirit world, you will be missing a significant part about the physical world.
What is important is -- one of those amazing things that we have here in the Great Lakes region -- is we have cultures and communities that still have some -- not all -- but some of those original teachings that come from the Earth, that come from the water, that come from the sky -- and that are still within us.
We have a context for how to live and dance -- with the Earth Mother and the Sky Father -- and all our relations.
Are most of us doing that?
No not at all.
Some people think that the excuse would be that we can screw over the planet -- we can screw over our Earth -- because we can just be like Star Trekkers, Star Wars -- and just go another place.
I don't know about you -- but my ass is staying here, Herron said causing the crowd to laugh and agree.
I am a product of the Earth and of the water and the skies, Herron said gesturing upward.
As much as I go up in the thunderstorms maybe ever once in a while but I don't want to go any farther than that because this is where I see as my home, Herron said. And I think that what's amazing is all of us hopefully find our home here in the Great Lakes region -- in the heart of that Turtle -- in that heart of that Turtle Island .
The conversation then turned a mixture of spiritual, mythical and the Creation of the Earth and its inhabitants -- what the Anishinaabe call The Creation Story.
Experts say in the teachings of all the major religions -- including Native American and Christian -- there are similar players/characters.
Scott Herron also made a modern day comparison of God/Adam/Eve to Native American teachings.
To make his point about cultural similarities, Herron named the first Native American women Winona (Eve), Nanabosho (Adam) and described the American Indian version of God or the Deity as a Thunder Beam/Spirit Beam.
Our great mythic trickster hero (Nanabosho/Nanaboozhoo) -- our teacher -- our, I don't know maybe to use a European analogy -- our Demigod (laughter).
Is that appropriate use?
I was just thinking if his mother was Winona/Anishinaabekwe (First Indian Woman) - First Woman.
If she was our Eve -- and if Nanaboozhoo's father -- was a Thunder Beam -- was a Spirit Beam -- then he (Nanabosho/Nanaboozhoo) was part human and part spirit -- that's what the Greeks call Demigods.
The topic switched to restoring true Indians words for those that had European or other outside influence -- yet are common today especially in naming geographical areas, rivers and lakes.
Herron suggested that interested tribes contact the federal government about renaming the Hiawatha National Forest to Nanaboozhoo National Forest.
We're having conversations about the Hiawatha forest and Hiawatha.
I still think that we still need to work with our U.S. Forest Service to maybe -- you know -- take that name back of the Hiawatha National Forest and change it to:
Nanaboozhoo National Forest
Nanaboozhoo National Park
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Zaagkii Project
fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5353195.pdf
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute
Marquette, MI
CedarTreeInstitute.org
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Dr. Scott Herron
231-591-2087
herrons@ferris.edu
PhD., Biology Professor at Ferris State University
Biology Education Program Coordinator including the Wild Rice Ethnobiology Lab
ferris.edu/HTMLS/colleges/artsands/Biological-Sciences/faculty-staff/Scott-Herron.htm
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Hiawatha National Forest vs. Nanaboozhoo National Forest:
fs.usda.gov/hiawatha
Walden Audiobook by Henry David Thoreau | Audiobooks Youtube Free | Part 2
Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond. Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised. Along with his critique of the civilized world, Thoreau examines other issues afflicting man in society, ranging from economy and reading to solitude and higher laws. He also takes time to talk about the experience at Walden Pond itself, commenting on the animals and the way people treated him for living there, using those experiences to bring out his philosophical positions. This extended commentary on nature has often been interpreted as a strong statement to the natural religion that transcendentalists like Thoreau and Emerson were preaching. (Description amended from Wikipedia).
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Nature, Philosophy
Walden
Henry David THOREAU
Walden Audiobook by Henry David Thoreau | Audiobook with subtitles| Part 2
Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond. Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised. Along with his critique of the civilized world, Thoreau examines other issues afflicting man in society, ranging from economy and reading to solitude and higher laws. He also takes time to talk about the experience at Walden Pond itself, commenting on the animals and the way people treated him for living there, using those experiences to bring out his philosophical positions. This extended commentary on nature has often been interpreted as a strong statement to the natural religion that transcendentalists like Thoreau and Emerson were preaching. (Description amended from Wikipedia).
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Nature, Philosophy
Walden
Henry David THOREAU
Chapters:
0:20 | Chapter 8 - The Village
14:26 | Chapter 9 - The Ponds
1:27:26 | Chapter 10 - Baker Farm
1:49:37 | Chapter 11 - Higher Laws
2:25:55 | Chapter 12 - Brute Neighbors
3:02:41 | Chapter 13 - House-Warming
3:45:41 | Chapter 14 - Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors
4:24:45 | Chapter 15 - Winter Animals
4:51:42 | Chapter 16 - The Pond in Winter
5:29:56 | Chapter 17 - Spring
6:25:45 | Chapter 18 - Conclusion
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