"The Good Way of the Warrior"
Updated October 29, 2019
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This blog entry highlights an ancient Anishinaabe song, a lovely poem by Simone McLeod, two impactful paintings by Simone McLeod and the late Carl Ray, along with a sterling silver belt buckle and bolo tie crafted by me; all united by a common theme: ogichidaa mino-bimaadiziwin, the good way of the warrior.
Let's first ask ourselves: what is a warrior and what does it take to become one? And what does our elder brother the Wolf have to do with being a warrior?
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About the authors/artists:
Simone McLeod (her traditional name is Aki’-egwaniizid, which is an Ojibwe name meaning "Earth Blanket") is a Nakawe-Anishinaabe painter and poet, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1962 and a member of Pasqua First Nation in Saskatchewan. She belongs to he Name doodem (Sturgeon clan) and feels a special kinship with her mother's people, the Azaadiwi-ziibi Nitam-Anishinaabeg (Poplar River First Nation) of Manitoba. Simone descends from a long line of Midewiwin seers and healers and artists. Her artwork has been appreciated by several art collectors and educational and health care institutions from Canada, as well as by art lovers from all over the world.
Zhaawano Giizhik, an American currently living in Amsterdam. the Netherlands, was born in 1959 in North Carolina, USA. Zhaawano has Anishinaabe blood running through his veins; the doodem of his ancestors from Baawiting (Sault Ste. Marie, Upper Michigan) is Waabizheshi, Marten. As a writer, and a non-commercial artist and designer of jewelry, Zhaawano draws on the oral and pictorial traditions of his ancestors. In doing so he sometimes works together with kindred artists. Between 2012 and 2017, he collaborated on various art projects with Simone.
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