Group 1

Horses

• Psychic dualism

  • a part/separate

  • Diaspora of Indigenous Americans

  • Kosmagram → the above and below; not fully present, but not dead (spiritually)

• White, red, yellow, and grey

  • IMPORTANT FOR THE KOSMAGRAM

  • Phases/season of life (community, internal, etc.)

  • Horses are a metaphor for experiencing time

Border

• Immigration to Canada

• Alienation/other/foreign

• Straying away from the boxes/Not part of the pack/Limited freedom

• Each horse had a different ailment/different Americans experience

Fear

• Identity

• Ancestry

• “Backwards” (in between or liminal)

Anchorage

• Hardship

• Roots

• Communal

• Inter

Overall notes

• Sovereignty

• Survival

• Multiple dimensions

Group 2

Introduction

• Not separation between poetry/storytelling/etc. just as there is none between humans/nature/animals

Skeleton of Winter

• Resilience→ rabbits are torn apart, but get to the other side

• Ancestors living in her

• Memory alive not just a name

Remember

• representation of family/life

• Earth is an alive poem

• we are all connected

New Orleans

• Past, future exist at same time

• Place as memory

• History in places

She Had Some Horses

• Personality

• Women’s qualities or hers?

• Maxine Hong Kingston → ghosts

  • Memory of the past that may or may not have occurred

  • Connection

• These horses are trained/domesticated UNLIKE the previous horses → WHITE PEOPLE

Other notes

• How do you reclaim?

  • Having a connection to your ancestors

  • Represent your family well in your waking life/someone on the planet

• Embodying ancestral knowledge/wisdom

• Intergenerational Transfer→ epigenetics; trauma often enhances this knowledge