Smoke Signals
After reading about Native American smoke signals, Lucien thought he’d try and quickly learned two things: wind direction is important, and the collected works of Shakespeare may be overkill . . .
Bear Moon
It’s well known that the Native Americans refer to different moons, such as the harvest moon, the blood moon and the hunters’ moon. What is less well known is that the financial markets also refer to moon phases such as the bear moon when the bottom falls out of the market . . .
Name Change
When Johnnelle heard that the Washington Redskins had had their Redskins name and logo trademarks cancelled–supposedly five Native Americans were offended–she emailed the club explaining that she had gone on Facebook and Twitter to poll her fellow butterflies. Turns out none objected to having a major football club (pointy ball, not round) named after them. The name “The Butterflies” was theirs for the taking . . .