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Like many Native Americans, Mossett is reviving traditional culture in her daily life. Three years ago she began cultivating a garden with a tribal elder to replicate the ancient crops that Lewis and Clark once enjoyed. "You can't buy Mandan blue flour corn in the grocery store," she says. She is taking a course in porcupine-quill embroidery. And her teenage daughters are studying the Hidatsa language in school. "Our tribes have survived catastrophic events in the past 200 years," she says. "But if we grieve forever, we will never move forward...
...split log as my cutting board. I don't know exactly how this stew will taste, but I am pretty sure it will include toothpicks. While I am chopping, I take my first bite of hardtack, the unspoilable bread substance the corps took with them. It's whole wheat flour, salt, water and a drop of butter, baked very crisp. And it's delicious, like a health-food-store wheat cracker. It would go great with goat cheese or pate. This last comment doesn't endear me to my new friends...
...stage doing an imitation of his old self. At his sold-out show in Manhattan last week, Wilson sang the songs from that record with a well-oiled back-up band, dropped the name of the upstate New York town he recorded them in, and rolled around in flour as a tribute to his old, legendary habit of rolling around in flour. He played himself: Gary Wilson, '70s outsider artist...
...instance, the website of House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) was among those blocked. Edelman said the system also blocked a flour store with a website called sexybloomers.com...
...wrongly blocked a flour store as if it was pornography, a serious problem for the First Amendment,” Edelman said...