Television Appearance ~ James B. Beard aka Noodin

 

VIEW BEYOND ~ TV Show

Scheduled to AIR ~ View Beyond ~ Cultural Story Telling in our Modern Worlld - Host Deb Miller with James B Beard aka Noodin, Cheshire TV Channel 8, Keene NH -http://cheshiretv.org/index.htm 

March 31, 2013 Airs - Easter Sunday 6 pm - 7 pm

 

You are invited to join with Jim as he speaks on topics such as traditional living and natural spirit teachings. Jim Beard aka Noodin, Author/Native American Storyteller Jim will be sharing a story with us and then some conversations. He’s a speaker on Native Teachings, Story Teller, Environmental Topics, Craft Maker, Native Fabric Programs. Adopted Ojibwe & CelticFrom Mt Monadnock, Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Here’s a link to his books

http://www.northeastcultural.com/James%20B%20Beard%20aka%20Noodin.html

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Book ~ White Mocs on the Red Road ~ Walking Spirit in a Native Way

White Mocs on the Red Road  

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  Walking Spirit in a Native Way
                                                                                                
 
By James B. Beard

Available in Hardcover, Ebook (EPUB) and Paperback on www.Lulu.com as well as Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and other book stores in the USA and Canada.

Jim's first book - White Mocs on the Red Road / Walking Spirit in a Native Way - has been acclaimed by many to be uniquely presented to aid people in gaining insite to the mysteries of the Elder teachings of the traditional Native American.

Purchase Now direct from Author! Click here to purchase direct from the author. Each book will be personally signed and dedicated to the person you wish to have the book!

 

To begin to know spirit through the teachings of the ancients. In a time of transition, one begins to look for answers about living that seem to be missing in life. It seems as if the fulfillment of the promise of the American dream is somehow incomplete. One begins to look for something to fill in the missing pieces. Noodin searched for that missing part and almost literally stumbled on the first people of this land. As he began to learn of their continued existence, they led him on an extraordinary path of understanding. These people who he did not even know still existed, continue to have the gifts of a beautiful culture that respects all things. The goal for Noodin then became to find those gifts.

 

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Who will be the next generation of leaders in your business? Do they have the skills they will need?

Business Mentoring

Working to enhance management skills

Team Members: James Beard aka Noodin, Donna Packard

In this time employers are recognizing the importance of employee attitude and transition. This program is designed to establish strong mentoring programs for employees and clients utilizing traditional teaching methods.Presentations are offered to reinforce ethical business practices.Guest speakers addressing varied topics relating to American values, social economical issues, native spirit, what prophesy tells us and other topics of interest are introduced.

Educational story telling featuring legends of the people. Presentations to demonstrate the value of Native American Culture.Programs to build community and individual balance.



Info about mentoring programs : =  http://www.northeastcultural.com



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Copyright © 2011 James B. Beard
All rights reserved.

A town in the south

A Town

  

A town in the south

And the west of the state

Makes special for livin

At this modern date

When cities and travel

And politics high

Make people be crazy

And just want to fly

Its been there for years

And never was great

Though cowboys and injuns

New it to rate

So quiet and peaceful

That town seems to be

Down by a river

That flows on so free

A train and a crossroad

Draw people by

They stop and they visit

This town by and by

They talk of its beauty

And all of its ways

Then back to the cites

To spend all their days

The buildings stand old

Though well built and true

The Strater the General

To name just a few

The bars are still lively

And scenting of beer

Since Cisco and Doc

And the cattlemen year

To my way of bein

Their passins okay

These people of cities
That come here today

My hats off to towns

That are quiet and slow

Like a town in the south

Called Old Durango

by: James B. Beard aka Noodin

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My Internship with Noodin

 

 

My Internship with Noodin ~

By Andrea Cadwell, MA. MSc

 

I am a graduate student in the Advocacy for Social Justice and Sustainability program at Antioch University New England in Keene, NH. My work at Antioch has centered on farming and the traditions that native/indigenous people maintain with land and ecosystems.

 

Last year I worked for Dr Vanadana Shiva and Dr Vinod Bhatt of Navdanya in India. I lived and worked alongside farmers from a variety of spiritual and agrarian systems. It became obvious to me that in order to preserve traditional knowledge and economies that rely on relationships with land and ecosystems, I must open a dialog regarding globalization and the exportation of educational and economic models that are creating assimilation of people and the destruction of ecosystems both in India and at home. “We put out this idea, which I think is a blatant lie, that if people buy into the dictates of our economic paradigm that somehow they will magically achieve the wealth that we have enjoyed in the west…ain’t going to happen…just on energy resources alone it would take four planet earths to bring the global population into our level of consumption…We project this world view overseas, this world view, that if people buy into it they will achieve what we have.” (Wade Davis Schooling the World; The White Man’s Last Burden, Carol Black 2010)

 

 

This kind of destruction has already taken place against the indigenous people of the United States, less than a hundred years ago, through the IRA, the Indian Reorganization act of 1934. This was after hundreds of years of fighting and taking of Indian owned land.

 

Discussion regarding the problems of globalization is important in our country, given that we are primary exporters of the educational and economic models that are not inherent in traditional societies in India. “…these peoples, these visions aren’t failed attempts at being us, they hold unique answers to the fundamental questions, what does it mean to be alive? And for many of those peoples when they answer those questions, they answer them in ways that have allowed them to live sustainably on the planet by definition for generations.” (Wade Davis, Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden, Carol Black 2010)

 

This spring I will return to India in order to publish a photo-essay on the impacts of globalization on traditional knowledge systems and economies in India.

 

I chose to work for Noodin these last several months because I wanted to help Native people in my own country as well as make use of the skills I gained while working for a world-renowned organization like Navdanya. I knew the challenges would be different and I wanted to test myself. In addition I was excited to help a local organization like Northeast American Cultural Resource, there is something very rewarding about making a difference in your own back yard.
 

I have spent the last several months working on the website, copy editing, developing programs, outreach to universities and colleges in this area as well as establishing new goals for the future.

Noodin and I have worked very hard to bring his storytelling and intimate knowledge of the ways of Native Americans in this country, in particular the Ojibwa people to those who want to learn more about the importance and beauty of Native tradition.

 

It is my hope as an environmental activist, that people will see the importance of living in harmony with our ecosystems. Currently we are living disconnected from our local ecosystems and economies that in turn leads to a disconnect from mother earth. I hope as Noodin begins to offer more programming and we continue to work together to enlighten our community about the real possibility of transitioning back to living more simply, in addition to and honoring those who inhabited this land before us, that we will find peace. The future is in all of our hands.

 

article by: Andrea L. Cadwell, MA, MSc

 

 

http://www.northeastcultural.com/northeastnews.htm.

Golden Eagle ~ Do you hear ?

Golden Eagle ~ What You Say!

 by James B. Beard aka Noodin

People ask me how I know when an animal is one of my helpers. Golden Eagle is one of my helpers! My answer is simple. When one becomes aware of these things then an animal will show itself in a way that you will know. Believe me, you will know!

My Native brother, Nish, and I were traveling through Wisconsin one time a few years back. We had just come from Hannahville Reservation where we visited my teacher and Nish’s dad. Nish got a call from his sister, Neveena. Never a dull moment on the Rez!

A social worker and a sheriff were at her house and she knew Nish was nearby. “I need your help” Neveena pleaded. “They are going to take my son Jeremy! They say he beat up another kid at school. It isn’t true! He wasn’t in school today but the welfare worker won’t listen.”
Nish and I were about twenty miles from the Rez when he got the call. I asked him what we should do. Nish said, “Turn left here and go up to a farm house I know of on this road.” I thought to myself, okay, we are going to do something and I will just follow his instruction.

We came to the farm house and Nish got out of the car. He turned to me and said, “I’ll wait here. You drive on down this road and you will come out on the Rez. Go over and help my sister. You’ll know what to do.”

My jaw dropped about a thousand feet. “What!” I said, “You want me to go in there?” He answered, “I can’t go on the Rez! They will arrest me. You have to do this.”

I started down the road. I was beginning to sweat and felt so anxious that my skin tingled. I thought, “I am fifty five years old and a white guy not known to these people and I am driving on an Indian Reservation to stand up for an Indian woman that I barely know. This is not just crazy. It is stupid.” Each moment the tension was building.

Just then a bird flew up out of a ditch in front of the car. It was a beautiful Golden Eagle. Golden Eagle represents the veterans that stand for the people. I watched him as he continued to fly in front of the car for about a quarter of a mile. I thought of the values that Golden Eagle represents to the people in Native teachings I had been given. Values like stand for the people and protect them above self. I remembered! I am a veteran and I stand for the people! Somehow that seemed to help me relax.

I pulled up in front of the house where Neveena lived. I got out of the car and stood there. The sheriff came up and asked who I was and why I was on the Rez. I told him that I am this woman’s brother and her father is my teacher. I will just wait here and watch. The sheriff did not seem to know how to respond to that so he went back to the social worker. They talked and then got into their vehicles and left.

Neveena came up to me. “I am glad you came! This would have ended differently if you had not come. The authorities don’t like witnesses when they do these things” She said.

They said they had some research to do but would be back on Monday. They didn’t come back!

See review of Ebook:  http://www.northeastcultural.com/golden_eagle_what_you_say.html

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To be one with self is the goal !

There are no new beginnings! 

When we know, then we understand that we know little. When we move we are only traveling in the next of a series of circles that some call the natural order. To be where  we are is only because we have come to that place from another place. The present is the reality that we seek though we often look in every place but the present. To be one with self is the goal and the reward is to be at one with all that is.

Noodin

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