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    Bear, Coyote, Raven
    Bear, Coyote, Raven
    Bear, Coyote, Raven
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    Bear, Coyote, Raven

    By Jason Grundstrom-Whitney

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    A bear can be a person, though most prefer to be bears. Did a coyote ever lead you to a story?  Have you ever lost yourself in the blue-black eye of a raven?  Imagine three such creatures transitioning from people to animals and back, walking along a desert highway dressed in their finest three-piece suits: ribbon shirts, jeans, and mo

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResolute Bear Press
    Release dateDec 12, 2019
    ISBN9780998819563
    Bear, Coyote, Raven
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    Jason Grundstrom-Whitney

    Jason Grundstrom-Whitney, is an adopted Bear Clan member of the Passamaquoddy Tribe, and a musician who plays various wind instruments for classical, jazz, rock, funk, country, blues, and rap. The band Osha Root recently produced a CD featuring Jason's music and poetry. His poetry has appeared in 3 Nations Anthology and in the Underground Writers Association's Anthology of Maine Poets. Bear, Coyote, Raven is his first full-length collection of his own poems. A graduate of the University of Southern Maine, Jason has spent a lifetime working on Native American Rights, Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence survival, Hospice and end of life, the homeless, environment, and alternative medicine. He has worked as a Substance Abuse Counselor and a Specialist at the Riverview Psychiatric Hospital in Augusta, Maine.Jason studied with a variety of native teachers and also learned from many others while he hitch-hiked for two and a half across America and has written about these experiences. He is a father, grandfather, and husband, and has been in recovery for 37 years.

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      Bear, Coyote, Raven - Jason Grundstrom-Whitney

      Resolute Bear Press, Robbinston 04671

      Author Jason Grundstrom-Whitney wears many hats: poet, writer, songwriter, musician, lifelong activist, licensed social worker, substance abuse counselor, martial arts and meditation instructor, husband, father, grandfather, and a Bear Clan member of the Passamaquoddy tribe.

      Cedar, Sage, Sweetgrass was previously published in 3 Nations Anthology: Native, Canadian & New England Writers. Ridin’ Hard to Santa Fe was published in the Lewiston Sun Journal.

      Copyright ©2019

      All rights reserved. Published 2019.

      Book design and graphics: Valerie Lawson

      Printed in the United States of America

      ISBN: 978-0-9988195-5-6

      ISBN: 978-0-9988195-6-3 (e-book)

      For Joan M. Dana

      Who taught me how to live in the world

      and that our dreams and visions create our lives.

      CONTENTS

      After Raven Stole the Light

      Ursa Major

      Coyote

      Doubt

      Dragonfly

      Remember the Owl

      Avian Bebop

      Pebbles

      After Raven Stole the Light

      Cedar, Sage, Sweetgrass, Tobacco

      Warrior of Wide Open Spaces

      Edge of a Note

      Mid-stride

      Wake Now

      Where Does He Go?

      Horse Nation

      Heyoka Dancing

      TV, Powwows, and the New Old Way

      Where Does He Go?

      Bear and Puma

      Raven’s Flight

      Thunder Being

      Dragon and Coyote

      Tobacco Mingled with Prayer

      Eagle Woman

      Death Stories

      Being Hungry

      Silent Song

      Day and Night Flight

      Sawdust

      Everyone’s Sun

      Frozen Tears

      Thin Bears

      Sculpted from Silence

      Bear Leaves Business

      Bear’s Night Watch

      Dark Clipper

      Smudge Sticks

      Singing Awake the Sun and the Moon

      Rattles and Drums

      Rock Bowl

      Flashflood

      Prickly Pears

      Cactus Flour

      Mourning Doves

      Mules on the Grand Canyon Rim

      Sacred Dogs

      Muddy Water

      Bear Dancers

      Rattles and Drums

      Apache Tears

      Osha Root

      Coyote and the Wee People

      Pickup Trucks and Coyote

      Raven’s Arrows

      Finding a Powwow

      Finding a Powwow

      Buffalo Blues

      The Continuous Buffet

      Four Directions in Steel

      Desert Tortoise

      Coyote, Bear, and Concrete

      Ridin’ Hard to Santa Fe

      Counting Coup in Pecos Wilderness

      Rt. 9, Hidalgo County, New Mexico

      Walkin’ to Reno

      Everyone’s a Critic

      Gateway

      How Do You Dress a Medicine Man?

      When We Surrender

      When Bear Tells a Story

      Author Biography

      After Raven Stole the Light

      Ursa Major

      Bear sat by the fire

      with Coyote and Raven.

      Looking up at the stars,

      Coyote slyly asked Bear,

      "How long do you reckon it would take

      to get to one of them?"

      Through the top of his head

      Bear shot out,

      leaving his furry clay body behind.

      He became Ursa Major.

      At times he played on the

      stars in that

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