Sheila's
pride in her tribe prompted starting Windsong Productions & make different sewn
articles with clan designs. Each design represents specific clans within the
tribe. Her gift to me was a wonderful jacket with her clan's emblems sewn on
it, in intricate curves and bends.
============= Treece Jeanice ===============
Roland James =========================
Around little known Indian City, USA has one very proud Indian
guide.
Dressed in traditional garb, he strode the camp in a long powerful stride.
Mud built houses, two story structures, others thirty to forty feet wide.
Teepees of the traditional style with painted decorations on each side.
Leonard
and Sheila Harjo are wonderful friends.
OKLAHOMA
(Sooner State)
Sheila
and Wanda took me to the Seminole National Indian Museum. We saw a traditional
Seminole setting with mannequins in authentic tribal dress. They also took me
to a graveyard. The Seminole tradition is to cover the graves with small houses.
Sheila and Wanda did not know the significance of these little shingled roofs
with a 6" to 10" walls.
Sheila's
mother Wanda is sick with bone cancer. I really love her. She spent an extra
half-day to retrieve a four-pointed crystal for me. She went all the way to
the top of a mountain.
You
had a wonderful time while I had to work at the Seminole Accounting Office all
day working with staff. I did get a chance to see some of the pictures and written
history hung in the halls.
Wonderful
person, wonderful lady. Her kindness flows like a fountain.
