The Longest Walk 2008: May 2008

WELCOME TO THE LONGEST WALK 2008 WEBSITE

This site is several week in the making so I would like to welcome you & thank you for visiting. This is the personal chronicling of the Longest Walk 2008 Northern Route by Chris Wintercount Teves. It has been hard to find the time to get this blog up and going but I hope that you will enjoy it. Many photographes and stories will be added in the coming weeks going as far back as Pueblo, Colorado. Please also visit the Offical Longest Walk Website and Brenda Norrell's Blogspot site for more information on the walk.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Dave Chappelle Meets Walkers - Day 68

Photo courtesy of: Navajo Craig
Yellow Springs, Ohio
(L-R) Marissa, Dave, Craig, Merehuka, & Big Mike

Peaceful Meditation - Day 68

Photos by: Chris Teves
Glen Helen National Preserve, Yellow Springs, Ohio
Left: A Waterfall
Right: Clara in Meditation

Friday, May 30, 2008

Jammin' in Yellow Springs - Day 67

Photo by: Chris Teves
Yellow Springs, Ohio
Govinda & Clara playing the drums

The 7th Generation - Day 67

Photo by: Chris Teves
John Bryan State Park, Yellow Springs, Ohio
The 7th Generation

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Staying in Terre Haute - Day 57

Photos by: Chris Teves
Hawthorn Park, Terre Haute, Indiana
Left: The Wetlands at Hawthorn Park
Right: The Longest Walk Indiana Banner

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Sunset on Lake Vandalia - Day 51

Photo by: Chris Teves
Lake Vandalia, Vandalia, Illinois

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Cahokia Mounds Powwow - Day 47

Photos by: Chris Teves & Clara Curtiss

Cahokia Mounds - Cahokia, Illinois

Top Left: Powwow at Cahokia Mounds

Top Right: Billy, Jimbo, Terry, Lenny Foster, Chris

Bottom Left: Sage, Lisa & Luv The Messenger

Bottom Right: Chris & Tomas

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Gaea Retreat Center - Day 38

Photos by: Chris Teves
Gaea Retreat Center - McLouth, Kansas

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History is very important to us all. History serves many purposes, from informing individual history, community history, national history, to global history. As progress is made, history lays a lesson plan people of the world can learn from.

History has been recorded in stone, paper scrolls, weaving and on animal hides. From ancient times to present day, man has recorded history as a way of immortalizing their way of life.

Lakota, Dakota & Nakota Nations, historians had a very important role. The historian was a very important person, with good character, and in good standing with the people. Because of the tremendous value our people set upon memories and preserving our history. That individual dared not stray from the truth.

The historian/teacher was honored next to the leader. The factual knowledge was recorded, painted on animal hides and because our Ancestors counted the years by the winters, our calendars were called, "Wintercounts."