Showing posts with label Native American. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Native American. Show all posts

Friday, October 28, 2022

Russell Means • Language Lost

Project Quechua: NUNA Project 

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When we lose our language, we lose our essence. Who we are is our language.

Indigenous languages of the world really are living languages, they come from an oral tradition. We develop the brain so that we can remember everything about natural law, the natural universe, and everything within, and also, how to live. And it’s all in our languages.”


Russell Means, 2011 (Language Lost)



Monday, October 24, 2022

NUNA Project | EXTRADO 1

Project Quechua: NUNA Project 


EXTRADO 1
Extrado in Latin 
means Give Away.

Some years ago I had a powerful desire to want to learn the Hopi | Hopílavayi language. Something deep inside me, somewhere in the labyrinth of my subconscious, there was a thirst to absorb all the Hopi language I could retain in my spirit.

My need to want to immerse myself in learning how to say basic, useful Hopi words most likely stems from my love and admiration of the Kachinas. Absolutely everything about the Kachinas illuminate my mind, heart and spirit. My Kachina dolls, along with Hopi Lightning Stick, never cease to inspire me, wether in my art or life in general.

So now, after all these years, I’m finally getting around to learning useful, basic Hopi words that I can hopefully utilize in my daily life. I’m taking careful steps now: easy, basic words and then, eventually, super-useful phrases. I’m aware of the different dialects and will decide which one to focus on when the time arrives.

Let’s go, I have some words I’d 
like share and give away to you…

Quechua • Hopi • English • Español
STAR • SUN • RAIN • EAGLE

Feel free to download + share pictures.
They make excellent wallpaper, too.

Star: Quechua | Hopi

Sun: Quechua | Hopi

Rain: Quechua | Hopi 

Eagle: Quechua | Hopi 

Thursday, September 8, 2022

FOCUSED: Chicha y Pisco

FOCUSED: Plumas (feathers) + RAMONES

“I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and am at that place within me, we shall be one.”

Tasunke Witko (Crazy Horse), Oglala Lakota Sioux

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Hopi • Lightning • Stick


Hopi Lightning Stick


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I'm super-focused working 
on BOOK and NEW ART.

Project Quechua

Jaku Ripuna

Monday, December 3, 2018

Hoop Dancer Kachina

Hoop Dancer Kachina 12" (Virgil Tom)


Watching Native American hoop dancing is a very comforting, satisfying, and extraordinary experience. Immersing myself in absorbing various hoop dances fills me with delight. I must say, watching Tony Duncan and Kevin Locke perform hoop dance always leaves me in a trance. With my admiration and appreciation for hoop dancing, it was inevitable I would get a Hoop Dancer Kachina doll. 

The hoop represents the never-ending circle of life. The Hoop Dance is a storytelling dance, which incorporates from three up to as many as forty hoops. The hoop represents harmony, continuity, unity, well-being, wholeness, balance and peace.


“Today it brings to mind our round planet and all that we humans share on Earth.” “These many hoops represented groups or nations of people, living together in harmony.” (Lakota Hoop Dancer, 1999) 


For in-depth information
 on Hoop Dance, please 







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I'm super-focused working 
on BOOK and NEW ART.
I'm working on a Huge Art Project.

Project Quechua

Sumaq P'unchay

Friday, November 30, 2018

KACHINA dolls • Art NEWS • Project QUECHUA

Left to right: Morning Singer  •  Sunface  •  Chasing Star 


Rainbow Kachina 

The word “Kachina” combines the Hopi terms kachii (spirit) 
& na (father), translating roughly as “life bringer” or “life father”.


I have many more Kachina dolls, but for now, 
I will share these wonderful Kachinas with you.





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I'm currently working 
on BOOK & NEW ART.
That is all I can share for now.

Project Quechua

Hina Kachun • Allin Samiyuq Kay