From 40,000 Feet

Ron Gurley | March 23, 2017

O SI YO! (Oh See Yo) ‘Hello’ in my mother’s language of Cherokee.Over the years I have flown literally hundreds, if not thousands, of hours to and from hundreds of Native American tribal lands. I remember many times flying at 40,000 feet above sea level and visualizing the land below the airplane. Sometimes it would […]

Be Like the Red-Tailed Hawk

Ron Gurley | March 6, 2017

O Si Yo! (Oh See Yo) That is how we say Hello in my mother’s language of Cherokee. I was raised in the Cherokee way by my Cherokee mother and grandmother. Grandmother ‘Mom’ as everyone called her taught me much about our native traditions, medicines, stories, and ways of surviving. One day as Mom and […]