4 Caban
Red Self-Existing
Earth
Blushing Earth
Turns coyly
From Sun’s fierce Eye
At dusk –
Through the Night
She spins –
Navigating Evolution’s
Synchronicity
Her sapphire
Sphere nurtures us –
Her Children –
Under a shy white Moon.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Minnie Spotted Wolf
Private Minnie Spotted-Wolf (1923–1988) was the first Native American woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
BIOGRAPHY
Minnie Spotted-Wolf enlisted in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve in July 1943.
Spotted-Wolf, from Heart Butte, Montana, was a member of the Blackfoot tribe. Prior to joining the Marines, she had worked on her father's ranch doing such chores as cutting fence posts, driving a two-ton truck, and breaking horses. Known for her skill for breaking horses, she described Marine boot camp as: "hard but not too hard."
She served on military bases in California and Hawaii. She was a heavy equipment operator, and as a driver for general officers.
Press coverage of her wartime service included headlines like Minnie, Pride of the Marines, Is Bronc-Busting Indian Queen. According to her daughter, "she could outride guys into her early 50's."
After her military service, she earned a degree in Elementary Education, and spent 29 years as a teacher.*
CABAN
Kin 17: Red Self-Existing Earth
I define in order to evolve
Measuring synchronicity
I seal the matrix of navigation
With the self-existing tone of form
I am guided by the power of space.
The more the machine world proliferates, the more we lose coherent contact with the deepest symbolic side of our brain.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Ajna Chakra (Gamma Plasma)
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