From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #922 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Monday, July 1 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 922 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Song for Sharon and the Mohawk Nation NJC [Anita Subject: Re: Song for Sharon and the Mohawk Nation NJC Happy Canada Day! I read this article with great interest, Catherine, and it reminded me of a photograph of the 1930s of men eating lunch in New York sitting on steel girders miles high. I later learned that many of these workers were from various First People bands. I seem to recall the photograph being used as posters later on. I wonder if anyone recalls the picture Anita On 1 Jul 2013, at 13:52, Catherine McKay wrote: > Happy Canada Day! > > I spotted a story in yesterday's Toronto Star about Mohawk workers in construction of high rise buildings and bridges throughout Canada and in New York that ties in with these lines from "Song for Sharon.' > > > Little Indian kids on a bridge up in Canada > They can balance and they can climb > Like their fathers before them > They'll walk the girders of the Manhattan skyline > > http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/06/30/quebec_mohawks_history_towers_over_new_york.html > > The second item in this blog, called "High Steel" quotes from the song and includes a link to the "Woman of heart and mind" video of "Song for Sharon": > http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/ ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #922 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------