About the Buffalo's Fire blog name
Dear Reader:
I'm glad you are here to join me at Buffalo's Fire, my new blog site named in memory of my mother, G. Janet Gunderson, who liked wild tiger lilies on the North Dakota prairie. She is the daughter of Larry Spotted Bear and Ollie Benson of Twin Buttes, N.D. I am a Mandan and Hidatsa from the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. The Mandan word for tiger lilies is pti ta waraari, or "the buffalo's fire." I can imagine buffalo on the prairie on a cool spring evening, standing above blossoming tiger lilies.
Welcome to the buffalo's fire.
Jodi Rave
You can see one of my archived posts here. https://buffalopost.net/?tag=inauguration-day
Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
(Mandan, Hidatsa/ Mniconjou Lakota)Founder & Editor in Chief
Spoken Languages: English
Topic Expertise: Federal trust relationship with American Indians; Indigenous issues ranging from spirituality and environment to education and land rights
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