In my comedy and moreover, in my life, I always think to myself, “What would Kookum (grandma) think?”  It’s a bit of a weird thing.  It’s not something I did when she was with us on earth – but now that she’s playing “Bingo in the Sky” I’m always checking in with that thought.

The other day I pulled out my beadwork and it’s always an emotional thing for me since she passed.  My gramma was well known for her beadwork, moccassins, and other leather works and it’s one of the things she really wanted to pass down to me – working with my hands.  She spoke of the danger of losing the skills, the stories, the iconography (she didn’t use the word iconography, think she just said, “stuff”) that she grew up with and when I …

I make no secret about my goal of breaking into Indian Country down in the US to spread the good work of my comedy.  I’m doing well in Canada (in relative terms anyway), but, I’ve not yet broken into the market down in the States.  I want to – badly.  I have a decent following in Canada and most of my web traffic comes from Canada.  Over the past few months, after joining twitter, my comedy has become more accessible and I’ve been getting increasing numbers of emails/messages from people in the US that really dig my stuff.

I think the time will come when I’ll break through in Indian Country in the US.  I’ve done some big things here in Canada and I’ve been looking for good ways to get exposure, interviews, etc. to get the ball rolling.  Last night …

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i was recently dropping in on a few message boards around indian country and i stumbled upon a lengthy internet, message board, thread fight that argued what the ‘modern day warrior’ was, and wasn’t. and interesting question to say the least.

the national day of action is coming upon us on may 29, 2008, and most of the talk/fight on the message board that i came across involved what “the day of action is for, and what it’s about.” an interesting question, seeing that one of the chiefs that led the uprising in 2007 called off his rail blockade just before the day of action (some say because ottawa announced that roseau river, his community, had just won their land claim and dude got what he wanted). alot of debate circled around warrior societies, clan systems, …