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PEARLS AND PEQUOTS: Of How Native American Indians Ended Up in Bermuda At About the Same Time Shakespeare was Producing The Tempest At Britain’s Globe Theatre.

By Marc Frucht

University Of Connecticut,

Anthropology 3027

“Safely in harbor / Is the King’s ship; in the deep nook where once / Thou call’dst me up at midnight to fetch dew / From the still-vexed Bermoothes, there she’s hid / The mariners all under hatches stowed / Who, with a charm joined to their suff’red labor.”

(The Tempest i.2.)

On Feb 14, 2002 St. David’s Islanders announced plans for their first ever Reconnection - Native American Indian festival on their island off the coast of Bermuda.

This event would not only celebrate “the Island’s rich and unique ancestry,” but it just might’ve redirected a part of world history. These islanders are descendents of enslaved, indentured and impressed people from 17^th Century southern New England and they formed a committee that organized what quickly took on a life of its own in a sense, with annual gatherings in both Ledyard, Connecticut, St. David’s Island; and now it’s even set off cross cultural communications between the two of them which is only now filling a historical void many centuries old.

In 1976 anthropologist Ethel Boissevain visited the Mashantucket Pequots on their reservation before a research trip she was taking to Bermuda hoping to find out with more certainty what did happen to Mohegan, Pequot and Wampanoag people sold into slavery in 1637. The Pequots she met with were very enthusiastic about her research and gave her a message to pass on to their relatives on the island if she met them: “Invite them to come back and join us here.” (Hauptman 79)

Boissevain’s interviews and published work had been instrumental in setting in motion what has now become not just annual festivals but family gatherings complete with new religious traditions.

“I think what they were looking for was never completely lost,” said Paula Peters shortly after that first ceremony, “it was just wearing different regalia.”

Bermuda’s famous Gombey Dancers, as it turns out, bear a striking resemblance to Fancy Dancers at modern day Pow Wows and adult Kachinas in contemporary Hopi ceremonies. Some will carry tomahawks, bows and arrows and wear peacock feathers in their hats. The rhythms and beats were easily recognizable by the Mystic River drumgroup who was visting in Bermuda and helping host in Ledyard months later.

Five generations from the slavery that oppressed Native Americans in Bermuda for nearly 200 years before emancipation, many St. David’s Islanders live well and free and could have let the legends of Wampanoag royal families fade into obscurity. They could have allowed the assimilation process to do its work and meld them into the world population like so many millions of others. But they knew they were different, and different for a reason. (Peters)

They were related to British Colonial America; and not just because they live and work almost exactly half way between Virginia and Spain either. They are directly descended from people forcefully relocated from places like Mystic, Connecticut and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Think back almost 400 years to a time prior to King Philip’s war. Bermuda “was uninhabited,” according to Jean Foggo Simon, “when it was discovered in 1609 due to a shipwreck of the “Sea Venture” commanded by British Admiral Sir George Somers.”

The Admiral,

was on his way to the colony of Virginia with settlers and supplies. Sir George Somers was caught in a hurricane and separated from the other 8 ships, wrecking on Bermuda’s reefs. There were birds, an abundance of turtles and wild pigs found on the island.

The shipwreck led to British colonization in 1612. When the British

captured Native Americans during their period of attempted colonization up and down the coast of America, some were shipped to Bermuda as slaves. These captives were taunted with insults and name-calling because of their differences in language, customs, food and skin color. (Foggo)

Many New England Indians were disappeared in the early 1600s and there weren’t many specifics as to where they would end up to live out their days. Some accounts simply say “Caribbean Islands” but many people living at St. David’s Island have known for many generations that they’re related somehow to Indians in New England. Some believed it was upstate New York because the slave masters often referred to their ancestors as ‘Mohawk.’

For more than half the next century slaves were being shipped from what is now Southern New England to places as far away as Bermuda, England, and Australia on a fairly regular basis. These captures, impressments and enslavements continued right on past the timeframe known today as King Philip’s war. Here’s one battle raging at about the same time Natick Nipmuc people were being rounded up and forcefully moved to Deer Island. (Oral histories show that they too feared any number of them might also be moved onto other ships headed for Bermuda.) (Eliot 22)

Many of the Pequots not in the fort during the conflagration were captured, killed in skirmishes, or executed in the months that followed. Others were enslaved, assigned to the “protection” of colonists or to Indian leaders – Uncas, the Mohegan; Miantonomo, the Narragansett; or Ninigret, the Eastern Niantic – or sold into slavery and sent to Bermuda and the West Indies. (Hauptman 76)

Native American slaves arriving in Bermuda as cargo were listed simply as “Indian man” or “Indian woman,” along with the dollar amount they would be sold for, and they were originally called Mohawks as a generic term. But there is no current evidence that any Mohawks were enslaved on the islands. Did “Mohawk” just mean Indian? How did that happen?

Definition 3 of the Oxford English dictionary says, “Used by mistake for Amuck I. Obs.1772-84 Cook’s Voy. (1790) I. 288 Most of our readers have heard of the Mohawks, and these [the Indians of Batavia] are the people who are so denominated, from a corruption of the word amock.” (OED Mohawk)

Unfortunately earlier origins of this word would be anybody’s guess. Madge Hunt who has lived on St David’s Island all of her life, says, “I can remember as a child they would say, ‘There goes that little Mohawk from St. David’s.’” (Peters)

Author William S. Zuill interviewed a Bermudian who has worked with the St. David’s Islanders “in their area,” and it was suggested “the idea of Mohawk origin may be the result of a joking relationship which came about in the 1940’s. (Boissevain 6)

The first Indian traveling to Bermuda may have been indentured or employed although his or her living conditions were not described in much detail.

Ever since the first Indian landed in Bermuda in 1616 to dive for pearls a number of Pequots and Mohicans were brought into the colony. They were introduced in sufficient quantities to significantly alter the appearances of many Negroes [sic.] through interbreeding, many of today’s Bermudians possessing facial features which provide strong evidence of the Indian influence three hundred years ago. (Smith 23)

Not only does this show the greed and avarice involved during the Colonial era of British Imperialism, but also illuminates the deliberation employed in constructing concepts of nationality and race rather than ethnicity while further performing “husbandry” on other human beings as if they were so much livestock.

The following list shows generally (and somewhat specifically when possible) just who these Colonial Native Americans were who got shipped to St. David’s Island as slaves.

1640 “A number” of Pequots and “Mohicans” arrived.

1645 Captain Wm. Jackson, “the victorious general” brought “many Indians and Negroes captured from the Spanish.

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1642 Captain B. Preston brought 30-40 Indians “who were born free and taken by deceipt” There is no indication of their place of origin. Judging by the date these may have been Pequot refugees rounded up after the massacre in Mystic, Connecticut in 1637.

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1650 About 80 “Pequot Massachusetts Bay Indians” were sent to Bermuda and purchased by Captain Whit of St. David’s Island.

1676 After King Philip’s death “most of the rest were shipped off for slaves to Bermuda and other parts” This shipment probably included the widow and young son of King Philip.

Undated – A family in their canoe off the New England coast were picked up by a slave ship and taken to Bermuda and sold as slaves. Their tribal origin is unknown. (Boissevain 106)

Here Ethel Boissevain says she assumes Mahican was “the tribe reported as ‘Mohicans’ arriving in 1640. She also assumes “Mohegan was not the tribe since the Mohegans supported the English in colonial wars.” I would point out however that it is possible for some of them (if not many) to have been impressed by the Britain’s Navy just like they’d done to poor and middle class whites all over Long Island sound those years. If their work as seamen did not please their British captors at any time their punishments could include being dropped off on prison ships or slave ships if not thrown right overboard to their deaths. So some Mohegan people may even have been sold into slavery right alongside Pequot and Wampanoag people; or at least it should’t be completely ruled out just because of their political affiliations. England was not exactly consistent with whom they remained allies or enemies.

If someone owned a St. David’s Island Pequot person he or she might keep enough social distance to simply dismiss their ethnic background as “Mohawk;” and that might happen even more often with a Mohegan family, since the two names sound so similar.

Mohican, Mohegan, a. and sb. Also Mohigon, Mohickon, Mohiccon, Mohigan, Moheecan; also in renderings of the native form, Muhhekaneew, Mahicanni, Mo-hee-con-neugh. [From the native name.]… B. 1. One of a warlike tribe of North American Indians of the Algonquin stock, formerly occupying the western part of Connecticut and Massachusetts. (OED Mohican)

Not every Indian who arrived in 17^th Century Bermuda lived under slavery, including two Virginia women who came sometime between 1619 and 1622 to marry locally. But relations on the Islands were often quite tense among the various different ethnic groups.

There were also “abortive” slave revolts on the Island throughout the 17^th and 18^th centuries; with some of the years of these listed as follows: 1629, 1656, 1673, 1730 and 1761. (Zuill 92-93)

Children of slaves could be born free under certain circumstances as early as the mid 17^th Century and there were occasional emancipations of adults over the next century. The remaining people still enslaved on St. David’s Island were soon emancipated in 1834 under the authority of a law entitled “An Act for Extirpating all Free Negroes, Indians, Mallatoes such as have been Slaves.” In one account their Chief Justice said the following:

Your name is George Hammett, you came in the brig Enterprise, as a slave, and it is my duty, (understanding that you were kept on board that vessel against your will) to inform you that in this country you are free, — free as any white person. (Smith 288)

One could assume that there would be many more differences than similarities between St. David’s Islanders and New England Indians. You would think contemporary American Mohegans, Pequots and Wampanoags have more knowledge of their tribal identity, through both oral and written histories. But keep in mind many contemporary New England Indians were also held back from their own history by what is commonly referred to as “The last Indian” or “vanishing Indian” syndrome. While Bermudas’ “imported slaves were cut off abruptly and completely from their cultures,” (Boissevain 112) New England Indians who weren’t killed, impressed or shipped out to sea were being moved from reservation to ever smaller reservation; leaving any survivors to lose some of their own roots right there where they come from because of everything from generational forgetting to fighting off the misinformation of historically inaccurate epic feature films such as “Last Of The Mohicans” based on harmfully fictitious books by authors James Fenimore Cooper.

Native American screen actors would work so hard at strategic storytelling techniques for instance, wearing Plains regalia and expression of Pan-Indianist philosophies such as using phrases like “Hau Kola” (Lakota for Hello Friend) and “treat the Earth as your Mother” hoping more positive energy will thrive and take root; while at the same time each and every one of these actors were portrayed in the wider context of the movies’ plots as a “unique symbol of all that is best and finest in the fast disappearing race.” (Deloria 213) Those who don’t die off or fully assimilate seem to vanish into some kind of obscurity through antiquity; similar to what Madge Hunt described with her quote “’There goes that little Mohawk” we’re forever stuck with Hollywood telling us, “Look at that cute little Indian brave raising one hand with all his stoicism to say ‘How!’ to any who pass him by.”

Luther Standing Bear sums up these struggles fairly well too. “I determined that, if I could only get the right sort of people interested, I might be able to do more for my own race off the reservation than to remain there under the iron rule of the white agent.” He worked for the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch which was a traveling show much like the Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Shows. They were similar in that some accurate portrayals were carefully treated, yet always in the context of each of these people who will soon be the “last of his kind.” (Deloria 75)

Seven years have passed since the first annual festival, and almost 400 years since the first southern New England Indian boy discovered pearls under the sea near there. It has also been 28 years since Boissevain asked the following:

Now that schooling and literacy is universal in Bermuda and since United States television is dominant there, it is interesting to speculate to what extent some Bermudian Indian descendants will take interest in their areas of origin and make efforts to communicate with fellow tribal descendants in New England. (Boissevain 113)

Hopefully Ethel Boissevain got to enjoy an awareness that just such speculation was answered many different ways by so many different people during the summer and fall seasons of 2002 in Bermuda and Ledyard. A December 22, 2002 New York Times Obituary says that she died at 89 November 29^th of that year while still teaching anthropology at CUNY in Ithaca.

Post Script:

In Slavery in Bermuda Smith had written a little bit about a few occasions when unfree people were shipped between Bermuda and Ireland also. None of it seemed directly related really; but I bring this up because some of them may very well have come from New England before ending up in Bermuda for all we know.

Here’s just one of the entries: 1650, “an unknown number of Irish war prisoners, defeated by Cromwell, were imported for a 7 year penal indentured service term. (Smith 23)

Works Cited

Boissevain, Ethel. “Whatever Became of the New England Indians Shipped to Bermuda to be Sold as Slaves?” Man In The Northeast 21 (1981): 103-114.

Deloria, Philip. Indians in Unexpected Places (Cultureamerica). Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.

The Eliot Tracts: With Letters from John Eliot to Thomas Thorowgood and Richard Baxter (Contributions in American History). Praeger Publishers, 2003.

Foggo Simon, Jean . “St. David’s Indian Committee.” Rootsweb Ancestry. 2003. 14 Dec. 2008. ..

Hauptman, Laurence. The Pequots in Southern New England: The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation (Civilization of the American Indian Series). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

Leiker, James n. The First and the Forced: Essays on the Native American and African American Experience. Ed. Kim Warren. Lawrence: University Of Kansas, 2007. 14 Dec. 2008 ...

“Mohawk.” Def.3. The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989.

“Mohican.” Def.1. The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989.

New York Times 22 Dec. 2002, sec. Obituary.

Peters, Paula . “Finding a link that was never really lost.” Cape Cod Online. 14 Jul. 2002. 28 Nov. 2008. ...

< http://archive.capecodonline.com/special/tribeslink/emissed14.htm>.

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest (Signet Classics). Signet Classics, 1998.

Smith, James E. Slavery in Bermuda. Vantage Press, 1976.

Zuill, William. The Story of Bermuda and Her People. Macmillan Caribbean, 1999.

How Well Did Ben Uncas and John Ledyard Know One Another.

By Marc Frucht. 28apr09

“Safely in harbor / Is the King’s ship; in the deep nook where once / Thou call’dst me up at midnight to fetch dew / From the still-vexed Bermoothes, there she’s hid / The mariners all under hatches stowed / Who, with a charm joined to their suff’red labor.”

(The Tempest i.2.)

Many people suppose William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest to be set in the “Americas;” still other British authors such as Andrew Marvell, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser and Sir Walter Raleigh may well have been strategically placing a more broad awareness of the New World into the mythology and literature of their day just the same.

As John Cabot and his sons Lewis, Sebastian and Sancio did set out to explore the “new lands” they did this with the full written permission of a Tudor, most notably The Right Honorable Henry VII, King of England and all of Ireland; one might wonder if any of the literature in Britain reflects these journeys? If not, how soon after this does a growing awareness of the Americas enter the fancy of British readers and writers alike? Certainly it becomes a central discussion topic within the next hundred years. This essay tries to explore but a few of these footnotes in the literature with hopes that it might become a springboard of sorts for more comprehensive research at a later date.

“As Indian Moors obey their Spanish lords,” writes Christopher Marlowe in scene 1 of his Doctor Faustus, published sometime around 1604, “So shall the spirits of every element be always serviceable to us three.” (Doctor Faustus, I, 121)

Here Marlowe refers to dark-skinned native Americans. This is just over a hundred years after Cabot’s first voyages but almost two hundred years before America will gain her freedom from Great Britain in a series of wars referred to at the time as merely the “many headed hydra.” (Rediker,1)

At almost the same point in time, about 1596, Sir Walter Raleigh discusses the golden city of Manoa (which in Spanish is called El Dorado) in his The Discovery of Guiana. (Norton, 923) Many of his informants during these years, including a Spanish soldier named Francisco de Orellana (who was credited as the first explorer of the Amazon) are already journeying throughout south and central America looking for resources to mine and people to enslave as well as passage routes between what they will soon call the West Indies and the already chartered East Indies.

For the rest, which myself have seen, I will promise these things that follow, which I know to be true. Those that are desirous to discover and to see many nations may be satisfied within this river, which bringeth forth so many arms and branches leading to several countries and provinces… (Norton, 924)

Already these “new found lands” are becoming part of the collective imagination and spirit of the times as more and more people learn about Venezuela, Bermuda, and perhaps the Amazon river basin. El Dorado quickly becomes the ever so dangerous cliche “streets paved with gold” as sailors and merchants report back to moneyed people exactly what they’ll want to hear in order to excite them toward hopefully funding someone’s next expedition.

In 1497 Cabot made land far up the east coast of the American continent in what soon came to be called Newfoundland. When news of this regional “discovery” traveled back to England the next few decades; countless other explorers followed searching places all over the coast.

Edmund Spenser pens these words about Peru, the Amazon and Virginia (and all points in between) in his 1590 Epic poem TheFaerie Queene:

But let that man with better sense advise,

That of the world least part to us is read:

And daily how through hardy enterprise

Many great regions are discovered,

Which to late age were never mentioned.

Who ever heard of th’Indian Peru?

Or who in venturous vessel measured

The Amzons’ huge river, now found true?

Or fruitfullest Virginia who did ever view? (Norton,928)

This “fruitfullest Virginia” might even be the first “Jamestown” which fails several times over many years before becoming officially termed the “original” permanent English settlement.

Now, Shakespeare’s The Tempest no doubt refers to indigenous Algonquin people as the play juxtaposes that the English will not give even a small coin “to relieve a lame beggar,” with Trinculo saying, “they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian” (ii.2.32–33).

The expression “World Turned Upside Down” shares a place in the collective conscience of people both sides of the pond from centuries of plagues, wars, depressions and other major events but its place and the time of its origin finds no authoritative agreement.

Many believe this turn of phrase to be a lyric sung either to the tune of “When the King Enjoys his Own Again” or “Welcome Brother Debtors” when Lord Cornwallis surrenders to Washington in 1781 at the Siege of Yorktown but some say it’s an expression the British use earlier in reference to General Washington and his soldiers fighting in a style they don’t understand or accept. It really is a matter of competing legends lacking any attribution where this music or the lyrics come from but it is published earlier than that as a broadside in 1643 protesting against Oliver Cromwell who replaced Britain’s King Charles after he was beheaded in a treason trial.

Listen to me and you shall hear, news hath not been this thousand year:

Since Herod, Caesar, and many more, you never heard the like before.

Holy-dayes are despis’d, new fashions are devis’d.

Old Christmas is kickt out of Town.

Yet let’s be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn’d upside down.

The wise men did rejoyce to see our Savior Christs Nativity:

The Angels did good tidings bring, the Sheepheards did rejoyce and sing.

Let all honest men, take example by them.

Why should we from good Laws be bound?

Yet let’s be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn’d upside down.

(The World Turned)

Still earlier Chris Eyre’s PBS documentary We Shall Remain has Wampanoag people near coastal Massachusetts in 1618 saying that an epidemic that wiped out 9/10 of their people felt like the ‘world turned upside down.’

Whichever direction that expression travels during these years, one can be sure both sides of the Atlantic Ocean know quite a bit about each other.

Works Cited

Rediker, Marcus, and Peter Linebaugh. The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest (Signet Classics). Signet Classics, 1998.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume B: The Sixteenth Century/The Early Seventeenth Century. W.W. Norton, 2005.

“The World Turned Upside Down.” Blackletter Ballads. 29 Apr. 2009. ...

We Shall Remain. Dir. Chris Eyre;Sharon Grimberg (Executive Producer). Perf. Narrated by Benjamin Bratt. DVD. PBS (DIRECT),

ATIZINE issue 542.

I'm going to take that Travelocity gnome
and stick the pointy part of his hat into
a cork ceiling somewhere so high, so deep 
and far he can never get out.


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PUBLISHERS COLUMN 

Hey there,

I'm Prime Anarchist, the publisher of this 
here thingie. 

Just sayin':

Listen, I'm still trying to find out if Mark 
Wahlberg's lines on Antiques Roadshow is merely 
to fulfill his community service or something. 
His heart doesn't seem in it, you know? 

So it's "official" -- Morning Joe is "brewed by 
Starbucks." You called it 5 weeks ago based on 
heavier product placement, eh?

Maybe the Space Shuttle Endeavor should have 
a name change. How about Anticipation?

If I have to watch Esteban play 20 seconds 
of Malaguena on a 20 dollar guitar one more 
time I'm going to slaughter a goat.

WOW! CPTV is showing "Voices In Conflict" 
the Wilton HS play that turned controversial 
getting banned in town, then ended up off bway. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voices_in_Conflict

CNBC has just confirmed that Bernie Madoff will 
NOT appeal his 150 year prison sentence. 
[all Ponzis should be called Madoffs now]

Why is National Press Club having Toby Keith? 
What, mainstream media falls downward and suddenly 
media is media is media???

Man, it just doesn't get any more frickin surreal 
than the following: BREAKING: AIG will pay millions 
of dollars in bonuses this month to several dozen 
top corporate executives. 

This is the group that got bailed out by Bush's 
administration and then got bailed out again by
Obama's right? Triple Yikes! We really ARE screwed
aren't we??

And lastly if you want my opinion:

Best Guitarist of year? Tossup btw Orianthi Panagar 
and John Mayer. She's got the speed, he's got the 
tastefulness.







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TWITTERS OF THE WELLREAD AND INFAMOUS

URGENT: Cheney's program included Rove remotely 
reading David Kuo's wife Kim's emails. 
"Tempting Faith." David Kuo. Pg. 255

http://twitter.com/atizine/status/2619244154




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"The extent of the connection between Segovia 
and Esteban, however, is heavily disputed. 
Although Esteban did meet Segovia, Esteban 
is not mentioned in any biography of Segovia, 
and Esteban never received the public acknowledgment 
Segovia gave students such as John Williams and Eliot 
Fisk."

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Textin's the only way to reach me
But all my ex's send me text's 
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WEBPAGE HACK: 

http://socodubs.com group calling themselves 
"federal-atack" but it seems like the 
scriptkiddies in brasil & china from '04 

Remember the NT4 server exploit using mydoom 
worm as botnets or something? They found 
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Some more David Kuo quotes. Pertinent as hell! 
You ready for this?

"Its guestbook was among the most diverse in the
world. During his brutal confirmation hearings 
Clarence Thomas sought solace there with his 
wife. Apparently Yasser Arafat had stayed there;
Mother Teresa too. Corrupt African dictators 
were commonplace. Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin,
Mikhail Gorbachev, and Nelson Mandela were all
said to have slept there. Word was the CIA once
used it as a safe house."  
  -- Tempting Faith. David Kuo. Pg. 92.

"...I arranged for Michael Jackson to stay there 
after 9/11, when he was in town for a concert 
event. He loved the house, but he awoke in the 
middle of the night, afraid. At three A.M. he
knocked on the door of the couple that serve as
house hosts. 'Is this house haunted?' he said. 
'There's something different about it. There's
some spirit.'" 
  -- ibid. 

  Kuo is talking about "The Cedars," where 
  the deathcult within the Republican Party 
  has its international headquarters. This 
  is the group who calls itself "The Family" 
  or The Fellowship. 

  (I often wonder if that's not Dick Cheney's 
  "undisclosed location.   0_o   )


"That morning however, he had been asked to deliver
a message from Karl. It was short. My facts were 
wrong and Karl knew all about Kim's email to her
Bible study group."
  "I was confused. The former wasn't true. I had 
no idea what the latter meant. Was it simply a 
power play that he could get his hands on anything?
Did he just like getting Bible study e-mails?"
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Here's TAB of John Mayer's version to Human Nature which he played
at Michael Jackson's funeral. I began from GypsyFire's work on his
intro and then added some of the soloing that Mayer does throughout.
(http://www.twitter.com/johncmayer) He repeats many licks for emphasis,
which I don't notate each time. I mostly put each new phrase "in order
of appearance."
If you can open two windows on a large enough computer monitor
(or maybe print the TAB out the old fashioned way and set it in front
of you) I recommend playing the video and watching both the video and
the TAB. If a lick is stumping you, go back a line or two and play a
bunch of phrases in a row and I bet you'll find it again quickly.


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-/4-----6------2h4--2----------------------------4-------6---------7--------7--6--4b5r4
---------------------------/4--2-------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------5-----2p0------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------3-----------5----------------------------

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----3-------5-------------------------------------3-------5---------------------------
-----4-------6-------/4--2------------------------4-------6----------4----6..4p2---4---2
------------------------------4---2----------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------2----------------------------------------------
-3-----------5---------------------------0---3------------5----------------------------

-------------------5-------------------------------------------------5-----------------
-----3------5-----5h7--5--------------------3------5-----5h7---7p5--5------------------
-----4------6---------------7--6--4b5r4----4------6----------------------7---6--7p6----
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(7)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-3---------5-----------------------------3----------5----------------------------------

"this is the beginning of mayers version today. its not exact i took some of his stuff
and added some of my own. use your thumb on the low E string i find it the easiest to
get those low notes and keep the chord. you can play along to this tab on my profile
i uploaded the mp3 so you can practice...the rhythm is pretty free"

-- GypsyFire http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1158334


:52 secs or so
(where orchestra 1st comes in full)
1:18
------10----10-----------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------3-5br3h5p3-------------------------
-----------------4/7..5----2h4-2----------2h4-----------------------------------
-------------------------------/4..2--------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


1:42 Does He Do Does He Do
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-3-5----------------------------------------------12-14b-r-----15-15-15-17-15--
-4-6--11-9---------------------7--7--7h9-7----------------14-----------------16
----------12-11-12-11-9-7-------------------9----------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Me That Way Me That Way


2:48
--------------------------------------------------------------------10..--10..-
---15-14----------------------------------15-17br15-----12h14brbr------------
-16-----14--16-14-----------4br2h4---14h16----------------------14-----------
----------------16--14-------------------------------------------------------
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(*from a fullstep bend)
[Gets a pick]3:06
-----------------------15br12-15b----10-10h12p10---12br10-12..---------12b10-
b11r-9--9------------------------------------12-----------------------------
------10----------------------------------------------------21br19-21-------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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(*The release FROM a bend is trademark Mayer and he'll use something similar
at the ending to get what I call that teardrop tone.)


By the way, that's a good observation GypsyFire makes about the thumb on the
low E. Mayer pretty much holds to traditional classical guitar style in finger
picking, where you use your thumb (P, from PIMA) for the bottom three strings.
And then your index, middle and ring fingers get one string each. But don't try
to fixate on that part too much. Play whatever comes natural and there's a very
good chance you'll fall into something very close to what he's already doing.

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& WHO REMEMBERS GRASSHOPPER?

Master Po: Close your eyes. What do you hear?
Young Caine: I hear the water, I hear the birds.
Po: Do you hear your own heartbeat?
Caine: No.
Po: Do you hear the grasshopper that is at your feet?
Caine: Old man, how is it that you hear these things?
Po: Young man, how is it that you do not?

David Carradine died yesterday.

Born in Hollywood, December 8, 1936; John Arthur 
Carradine died in Bangkok June 3, 2009 






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Just thinking out loud.

:)

Why are we still comparing to the "great" depression???

That very word "great" is our trap.

It's like England calling herself "Great" Britain.

Anyone who could follow will be less "great" and always compared to this "great."

Yuck.

There are two far more important "american" depressions, not to mention world ones,
that we must compare this new one to if we're going to survive it.

Are you ready to look at two depressions that were far more insidious than
the "great" one?

1893

Calling 1929 "the great" is a major insult to people who lived through 1893.
Many were still alive when it happened. How did they live through 29? By
remembering and responding from 93!!!

1764

This nation was founded on global depression and war!!!

Oh, I left out genocide didn't I?

Anyhew. There were other depressions dotted among that landscape, but
those are two you should look at to put the "great" 1929 fiasco into a
better perspective.

There I said it. Now lets figure out how to survive it.

TENTH ANNUAL WINNERS ANNOUNCED

BLACKFIRE & NATIVE ROOTS TOP THE AWARDS WITH TWO

LYNYRD SKYNYRD'S RICKEY MEDLOCKE, REDBONE

AMONG THOSE HONORED


Niagara Falls, NY – On Saturday October 4, 2008 the Tenth Annual Native American Music Awards (N.A.M.A.) was held at the Seneca Niagara Hotel & Casino in Niagara Falls, New York and awarded over 35 artists in a four hour event with 12 onstage presentations and special Hall of Fame inductions and performances that had the packed crowd dancing on their feet. The growing success of the Awards show is now setting industry standards for professional Native American musicians who want to achieve greater acceptance and exposure from mainstream audiences.

Taking two honors each was; the New Mexico-based Reggae group, Native Roots and the Arizona-based punk rock/Alter Native band, Blackfire. Native Roots' recording, Celebrate won for Best World Music Recording and earned them Group of the Year. Native Roots gave a high-energy live performance with their messages of pride, unity, and respect among all nations. Blackfire, is comprised of two brothers and a sister with a style that encompasses traditional Native American music with rock that bears socio-political and human rights messages. Blackfire's (Silence) Is A Weapon won Record of the Year and their producer Ed Stasium (Ramones) took the Native Heart award.

On hand to receive their awards were: Janelle Turtle for Best Native American Church Recording with New Beginning. Janelle is the first female to receive this award, and the great great great granddaughter of Dog Woman who was the first woman to run meetings among the Cheyenne people; Jan Michael Looking Wolf, winner of Flutist of the Year with his recording, Unity, gave one of the most poignant and genuine speeches that embraced his friend JJ Kent and the recent loss of Kent's wife; the Cherokee National Youth Choir who took Best Gospel Inspirational Recording and performed traditional Cherokee songs in the Cherokee language. The Choir came into existence from the vision of Principal Chief Chad Smith.

Other Award recipients in attendance included; Nicole for Best Female Artist, Edmund Bull for Best Male Artist who also performed an acoustic song from his album, Follow Your Dreams. After facing one of his toughest personal years with the loss of both parents and best friend, Golana received a nod for Best Instrumental Recording for Mirror Lake. Taking Artist of the Year was multiple award-winner Jim Boyd, with Blues to Bluegrass. This was Boyd's eleventh release which explored many genres - from rock and bluegrass to blues and folk, and was the first recording since the tragic loss of his son, Jim Boyd, Jr.. Carroll Medicine Crow (Best New Age Recording), Jimmy Wolf (Best Blues Recording), Tracy Bone (Best Country Recording), Cheryl Bear (Debut Artist of the Year), Red Hawk (Best Historical Recording) Adrian Brown, Tim Sampson producers for Still No Good, Dago Braves (Rap Hip Hop), NightShield (Song Single of the Year), Ken Quiet Hawk (Spoken Word Recording), and Brule & AIRO (Long Form Video) were also on hand to receive their awards.

Special guests included; Buddy Big Mountain, Lifetime Achievement Recipient Johnny Curtis, the great great grandson of Geronimo, Houston Geronimo and Lance White Magpie, a direct descendant of Crazy Horse.

Capping the evening's ceremonies was a collaborative performance between Joanne Shenandoah and Corn Bred who performed a unique version of "At Last" with two traditionally dressed dancers dancing a romantic slow dance. Internationally renowned and multi-million record selling band members; Rickey Medlocke of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Janice Marie of Taste of Honey, Pat Vegas of Redone & Felipe Rose of the Village People all gave compelling performances following their inductions into the N.A.M.A. Hall of Fame. Rose performed a medley featuring his award-winning, "We're Still Here" and "Trail of Tears". Pat Vegas performed "Come And Get Your Love" and was then joined by Janice-Marie Johnson for "Boogie Oogie Oogie." Show closer Rickey Medlocke performed a five song medley that included "Gimmie Back My Bullets", "Train Train" and "Highway Song." N.A.M.A. proudly honors these legendary performers and songwriters who have been leading forces in mainstream music and in the Native American community.

A post-show VIP party followed the Award ceremonies and featured some impressive and memorable collaborations and jams including; "Rumble" by the late Link Wray's grandson, Chris Webb, and Jimmy Wolf, as well as a chilling performance of "Proud Mary" by Tracy Bone, Cheryl Bear and Digging Roots' Shoshana Keech.

N.A.M.A. and its Advisory Board contingency congratulate all the winners and look forward to entering a second decade with them as the country's leading resource for Native American music initiatives. For the past decade, N.A.M.A. has been nominating and awarding prominent national music figures of Native American heritage at its annual Awards ceremony, and has steadily and repeatedly attempted to prove that the Native American music community is a viable and impressive industry that is owed reverence and respect.

The Native American Music Awards & Association, founded in 1998, is the world's leading membership-based association consisting of music industry professionals directly involved in the recording and distribution of traditional and contemporary Native American Music initiatives.

See below for a complete list of winners or visit www.nativeamericanmusicawards.com for more information.

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10th ANNUAL NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS
WINNERS LIST


ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Jim Boyd

Blues To Bluegrass



BEST BLUES RECORDING

Deep Downtown

Jimmy Wolf



BEST COMPILATION RECORDING

Old Style Round Dance Songs

Various



BEST COUNTRY RECORDING

No Lies

Tracy Bone



DEBUT ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Cheryl Bear

The Good Road



DEBUT GROUP OF THE YEAR

Injunuity

Unconquered



BEST FEMALE ARTIST

Nicole

Deep Dreams



BEST FOLK RECORDING

Where The Green Grass Grows

The Crow Girls



FLUTIST OF THE YEAR

Jan Michael Looking Wolf

Unity



BEST GOSPEL/INSPIRATIONAL RECORDING

Precious Memories

Cherokee National Youth Choir



GROUP OF THE YEAR

Native Roots

Celebrate





BEST HISTORICAL RECORDING

Chief Seattle Speaks 1854

Red Hawk



BEST INSTRUMENTAL RECORDING

Mirror Lake

Golana



BEST MALE ARTIST

Edmund Bull

Follow Your Dreams



BEST NATIVE AMERICAN CHURCH RECORDING

New Beginning

Janelle Turtle



BEST NEW AGE RECORDING

Homeland Security

Carroll Medicine Crow



BEST POP RECORDING

Phoenix

Fara Palmer



BEST POW WOW RECORDING

Hear The Beat

Blackfoot Confederacy



BEST PRODUCER

Adrian Brown, Tim Sampson, Jonathon Joss, Charles Button

Still No Good



BEST RAP HIP HOP RECORDING

Native American Hustle

Dago Braves



RECORD OF THE YEAR

(Silence) Is A Weapon

Blackfire



BEST ROCK RECORDING

The Sun & The Earth

Stevie Salas



SONG/SINGLE OF THE YEAR

Broken Dreams

Nightshield



SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR

Star Nayea

Silenced My Tongue





BEST SPOKEN WORD RECORDING

The Story Tellers

Ken Quiet Hawk



BEST TRADITIONAL RECORDING

Traditional Navajo Shoe Songs

Gilbert Begay Sr



BEST SHORT FORM MUSIC VIDEO

The Enlightened Time

Jana



BEST LONG FORM MUSIC VIDEO

Live At Mt Rushmore

Brule' & AIRO



BEST WORLD MUSIC RECORDING

Celebrate

Native Roots



NATIVE HEART

Ed Stasium

(Silence) Is A Weapon

511 AVENUE the Americas 371 New York NY 10011 Tel 212.228.8300 Fax 646.688.6883

Email Nammys@aol.com www.nativeamericanmusicawards.com