tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4208484529310744874.post2847188104926401623..comments2022-10-14T05:37:27.178-04:00Comments on Eugenie Torgerson: A Visual Life with Words: I Have Quit Picking HuckleberriesEugenie Torgersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00725769833779170036noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4208484529310744874.post-6229503805701253872010-09-05T10:19:37.718-04:002010-09-05T10:19:37.718-04:00There is a pow wow in South Bend as well this week...There is a pow wow in South Bend as well this weekend. Because it takes place in a public park and not on protected, tribal lands, it has a different feel to it, so I am told. <br /><br />I feel connected visually and politically to the pow wow near Dowagiac because the land our school sits on was, of course, lived on by the Pokagons and taken from them. In my work I use scans of plat maps from the late 1800's because of the beauty of the lines and rivers and the significance of the names of those who claimed the land.<br /><br />This flat farm land around us once had burial mounds as tall as 70 feet --- containing sacred material that became bounty for plunderers and fertile soil for the farmers. <br /><br />Up the road a half-mile from us is one of the few remaining mounds. It is a modest two feet tall. For a while, after the state designated it an historic spot, it was maintained and given some care. Now it is just a bump of shaggy grass.Eugenie Torgersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00725769833779170036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4208484529310744874.post-63194887790254826802010-09-04T23:34:09.380-04:002010-09-04T23:34:09.380-04:00Thanks Eugenie. I went once when they had the pow...Thanks Eugenie. I went once when they had the pow wow in a park in South Bend. I'm pretty sure it was the Pokagon band. Please put a tab on this to send me a note for next year's pow wow. I'd like to try and come. xo, david stoneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com