In one of my first and favorite undergraduate psychology courses, we read Thomas Kuhn’s
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). Kuhn helped us to see that scientific progress through the accumulation of knowledge (which we believe to be fact) is not as solid and linear as scientists might believe. Rather, there are cycles of learning across history. Every so often we will be challenged, leading to a paradigm shift where what we believed to be absolutely true might be completely discarded. After such a shift occurs, the way we look at knowledge in a field is never the same again. This important academic lesson has everything to do with Native health and “Good Medicine” today because the paradigm from which we are working determines what we think the problems are, as well as what we think is possible in terms of interventions.
Kilo Bravo for BigTakeover.com) and a musician (playing guitar for
The Silent Comedy). Most of the time, he’s working for someone else but in 2019, Lekas released his first book of poetry, Saturday Night Sage, featuring cover art by poster artist and painter
Alan Forbes who has also done work for
The Chris Robinson Brotherhood,
Mudhoney,
Faith No More.
Interested in seeing how these poems would jump off the page, Lekas recorded five poems as spoken word tracks, sharing them with musician friends from
Howlin Rain,
Mrs. Henry and The Silent Comedy and asking them to write and record accompanying music. Those five songs were released digitally and as a limited edition vinyl EP,
University of Nebraska Press (2020)
304 pages
Review by john Peacock
Editor Daniel Beveridge, a lecturer in Dakota history at First Nations University of Canada, calls this book a rope made up of four strands, representing four voices: his own editorial voice, the traditional oral voices of Canadian Wahpeton Dakota elders Samuel Mniyo and Robert goodvoice, and another kind of voice in the form of pictographs that the Wahpeton artist Jim Sapa made for his own use in the annual Dakota Medicine Dance.
The Red Road Dance ritually performs the ancestors’ Red Road journey from far-off eastern lands to the West and a promised life where the sun descends. The first stage of the journey, as performed, ends with the ancestors’ arrival as a united body of families at their Saskatchewan reserve. On the second stage, the ancestors’ prediction of a good life with many arts to learn and pleasures to be had, fails, as the twin scourges of monetary greed and alcohol addiction bring disorder
The City Sentinel
April 15, 2021
By Darla Shelden
By Darla Shelden, City Sentinel Reporter OKLAHOMA CITY– During April LifeShare of Oklahoma and the YMCA of Greater Oklahoma City are partnering for the purpose.
By Staff Report
The City Sentinel, Staff Report OKLAHOMA CITY Members of the Oklahoma House Democratic Caucus and the Oklahoma Legislative Black Caucus recognized the Norman High School girl’s basketball team on the.