I grew up with a leather pouch filled with yellow cornmeal that my mother bought from a grocery store starting at five years old. Many Native Americans share a similar story about the Corn Mother, who gave of herself to feed the people with her gift of corn. They consider cornmeal sacred because it is […]
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 […]