Today Marchiene and I went on the next step of our journey to awaken dormant areas that were no longer attended. Rainbow Bridge was our next stop. We went to a circle that is about a quarter of a mile down the trail toward the red sandstone bridge. We had originally come here two years […]
Copyright Eileen Nauman 2011 All Rights Reserved Here is Blog #2 on our work with the Vultee Arch in our Walking the Land series Our adventure started on Sterling Trail up in Oak Creek Canyon. You can see the ice on the trail and it would only get worse. Marchiene spotted a Kokopelli flute figure […]
WHO ARE WE? Eileen Nauman (Ai Gvhdi Waya is here Eastern Cherokee name) is 1/8 Eastern Cherokee via her father’s side of the family. Her great-great grandmother was on the Trail of Tears and as a sixteen-year-old, escaped and ran into Kentucky, where she later married into the Gent family. We know only two things […]
Copyright Marchiene Reinstra 2010 All Rights Reserved This is Eileen’s drum she made. She painted Bololokan, the Yavapai myth “rainbow snake” that lives in the Verde Valley, according to their legends and knowledge. She is a water snake and brings water to places around Mother Earth. It is her job to move the rain so […]
WHO ARE WE? Eileen Nauman (Ai Gvhdi Waya is here Eastern Cherokee name) is 1/8 Eastern Cherokee via her father’s side of the family. Her great-great grandmother was on the Trail of Tears and as a sixteen-year-old, escaped and ran into Kentucky, where she later married into the Gent family. We know only two things […]
Copyright Marchiene Reinstra 2010 All Rights Reserved This is Eileen’s drum she made. She painted Bololokan, the Yavapai myth “rainbow snake” that lives in the Verde Valley, according to their legends and knowledge. She is a water snake and brings water to places around Mother Earth. It is her job to move the rain so […]
WHO ARE WE? Eileen Nauman (Ai Gvhdi Waya is here Eastern Cherokee name) is 1/8 Eastern Cherokee via her father’s side of the family. Her great-great grandmother was on the Trail of Tears and as a sixteen-year-old, escaped and ran into Kentucky, where she later married into the Gent family. We know only two things […]
Copyright Marchiene Reinstra 2010 All Rights Reserved This is Eileen’s drum she made. She painted Bololokan, the Yavapai myth “rainbow snake” that lives in the Verde Valley, according to their legends and knowledge. She is a water snake and brings water to places around Mother Earth. It is her job to move the rain so […]
WHO ARE WE? Eileen Nauman (Ai Gvhdi Waya is her Eastern Cherokee name) is 1/8 Eastern Cherokee via her father’s side of the family. Her great-great grandmother was on the Trail of Tears and as a sixteen-year-old, escaped and ran into Kentucky, where she later married into the Gent family. We know only two things […]
Copyright 2010 Eileen Nauman All Rights Reserved CATALOGING THE GEMS I evaluate a gemstone in a number of ways. First, it falls into one of these categories: Heart Stone, Grounding Stone, Guard Dog Stone, High Energy Stone, Trauma Stone, Mental Stone, Stress Tone, Luck Stone, Psychic Stone, Money Stone, Arthritis Stone and Master Healer Stone. […]