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My First Blog

Hey everyone! So I've been trying to change my life around a little bit. Go to different places, spend more time outside my secluded realm. A friend of mine and myself have been planning weekend trips to castles around the area of where we live until we can afford leaving the country. For now, you'll have to make do with the life I live now, which is rather boring. Until I can finish school and finally get out there, then this is it. My first blog I'd like to talk about an event I am fundraising for. It's called Extra Life and it helps all participating children's hospitals raise money for their practices in helping more children. My personal hospital is Boton children's hospital. I have known several friends and family members who have gone to this hospital and have been helped. I have felt tied very closely to this hospital and couldn't imagine what they had done to help during the Boston bombing. Below is a link to my page in order to donate to th

The Dream Catcher

The story of the dream catcher, although different depending on which tribe you come from, all have similarities. Basically the dream catchers are meant to protect the sleeper's dreams. Bad dreams are trapped in the web and good dreams pass through the hole in the center of the web, flowing down the feather to them while they are asleep. In the light of the day the bad dreams are purged from the web. They were used by mothers for development and protection of children. While wrapped, the child's eyes followed the dream catcher as it swayed, strengthening them and it warded off evil while strapped out of sight on its mother's back as she worked. Later, when the hands were unwrapped, the hand-eye coordination developed. Finally the only place the child was out of sight was when the child slept. It was then hung over the sleeper's bed

Legend of the Doll-With-No-Face

A Northeast Woodlands Story as retold by Anne Jennison The Iroquois and Abenaki peoples of the Northeast Woodlands have many stories about what they call "The Three Sisters", the "sustainers of life". These Three Sisters called Corn, Beans, and Squash are central to the cultures and food ways of the Northwestern tribes. It is said that - a long, long time ago, Corn Spirit was so honored by being allowed to be one of the sustainers of life that she asked Creator what more she could do for her people. Creator told Corn Spirit that she could make a doll from the husks of corn, to make the children happy and keep them safe so the adults could do their daily work. Corn Spirit set to work, making the doll. When finished, she gave the doll a beautiful face and sent her to play with the children, and make them happy. The beautiful Cornhusk Doll went from village to village , playing with the children and doing whatever she could for them. Cornhusk Doll knew the best gam

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