Put on your moccasins for Earth Day

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On this day in history, April 22, 1970, the brainchild of Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, U.S.A. was launched - Earth Day!  Millions of Americans, including students from thousands of colleges and universities, participated in rallies, marches, and educational programs to put the environment on the political agenda. 

Earth Day is celebrated annually since, now a world wide event.  So, put on your moccasins and go out and celebrate Earth Day, be part of the nationwide demonstration of concern for our environment. It’s not too late to care.

Gene Sanderson is owner, with his wife, Shirley, of Marie Shoes.com. Marie Shoes.com has been selling quality moccasins, mukluks and slippers around the world since 2006.

Moccasins Approach " Working Like A Beaver"...

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"There are many old-fashioned phrases or sayings, and many old wives tales that turn out to be true!  But, what do they look like?  On YouTube, this week, we watched a video of a family of beavers restoring their house of sticks.  Time was of the essence in this beaver family’s life.  The river ice had been merciless in pressing, and rubbing and crunching their little beaver house over the winter but spring was on the cusp and with it a reprieve from the elements was imminent in the form of Chinook winds.
Chinook winds blow up from the south and soften the intricately woven, but now frozen, sticks making up the beaver house.  When Mr. & Mrs. Beaver feel those winds a’ blowing they get to work.  Up out of their den they pop with a mouthful of sticks, sticks sharply pointed at either end.  They carry the sticks a short jaunt across the ice to their exposed house rooftop and immediately begin any repairs needed.
They know from inherent experience that time is short.  They know that the length of time Chinook winds blow, warming the rooftop and allowing repair work to take place, will be short lived.  Mr. & Mrs. Beaver stop abruptly but quickly acknowledge the cameraman and as instantly slough off his presence as a necessary evil and get to work prying and stuffing and jabbing their repair sticks into place.  They are videoed working incessantly and with engineering supremacy to get the job done.
This YouTube video gives meaning in real time to the phrase “working like a beaver” – if you know this, you know how to work!
See the whole story at http://biggeekdad.com/2011/06/the-beavers/#.UOB0qzJP9a0.gmail

Gene Sanderson is owner, with his wife, Shirley, of Marie Shoes.com. Marie Shoes.com has been selling quality moccasins, mukluks and slippers around the world since 2006.

Moccasin trail is now Broadway

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Trail ran from Manhattan, New York to Lake Erie!

During a tour of the city of New York it was commented that today’s famous Broadway was once an Indian trail that snaked through rocks and swamps along the length of Manhattan Island.  It was then called The Wickquasgeck Trail by colonists where notes record “seeing the Lenni Lenape (true people) passing every day”.  The trail continued on up through today’s Yonkers, to Tarrytown, and on to Albany where it joined the Mohawk (Iroquois) Trail.  The Mohawk Trail ran via River Valley, a natural route to the west from Albany to Lake Erie. 

The Dutch renamed the trail from Wickquasgeck (the Lenape clans that lived in the area) to Breede weg which translated to Broadway.  

Broadway is known worldwide as the heart of the American theatre industry.

Gene Sanderson is owner, with his wife, Shirley, of Marie Shoes.com. Marie Shoes.com has been selling quality moccasins, mukluks and slippers around the world since 2006.

Moccasins, made in Halifax, sit quiet on this day

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_{April 15, 1912 – On this day, in history, the RMS Titanic, billed as unsinkable, sank into the icy waters of the North Atlantic killing 1,517 people.}

_{On its first voyage, from Southampton, England to New York, the Titanic was carrying 2,206 people, including a crew of 898.  A relatively mild winter had produced a bumper crop of icebergs in the North Atlantic, but the crew, believing their ship was unsinkable, paid scant attention to warnings.}

_{The night of April 14, 11:40 p.m., the Titanic was struck by an iceberg.  At 2:20 a.m. on the 15th, the Titanic sank. 705 people made it onto the lifeboats.  Molly Brown was one of these survivors.  A commoner from the Old West, made rich during the Gold Rush, was shunned by the blue bloods.  She gained everlasting fame for her actions during this tragedy.  She took command of the little lifeboat and helped rescue a drowning sailor and other victims. To keep spirits up, she regaled the anxious survivors with stories of her life in the Old West.}

<sub>The harrowing ocean scenes for the movie “Titanic” were filmed off the shores of Halifax, Nova Scotia, the closest major seaport to the actual disaster.  100 victims of the Titanic rest in Halifax cemeteries.   Moccasins, made in Halifax, are quiet on this day.

Gene Sanderson is owner, with his wife, Shirley, of Marie Shoes.com. Marie Shoes.com has been selling quality moccasins, mukluks and slippers around the world since 2006.</sub>

Moccasin protest: Booze No More

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On this day in history, January 16, but in 1919, the law prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and distribution of intoxicating beverages was enacted in the United States of America with ramifications in Canada.

The early 9^th century Temperance movement, driven by church and groups of activist women, was the igniter  of the Prohibition Law.

The Prohibition Law took effect in January of 1919.  It failed to curtail the distribution and consumption of intoxicating beverages (booze) and in fact was the vehicle for crime to capitalize on the underground distribution of liquor. Organized crime, in the business of Distribution of Alcoholic Beverages, flourished.

While the laws surrounding Prohibition of Liquors where different in Canada one province was affected - Saskatchewan!  Saskatchewan passed a prohibition law that took effect on May 1, 1917 but ended in May 1924. The end of Saskatchewan’s prohibition provided residents with an opportunity to sell liquor to the still dry United States.

Walter P. Johnson, Chief of Police

Walter Johnson was one of the west’s most infamous lawman. Under his benign reign, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, reportedly became a hideout for American gangsters such as Al Capone and the centre of a well-organized liquor-running operation.  When needed liquors were shipped via a USA train, directly to Chicago, Illinois.  

Prohibition in Saskatchewan ended in 1924 but it was not repealed in the United States until 1933.

Gene Sanderson is owner, with his wife, Shirley, of Marie Shoes.com. Marie Shoes.com has been selling quality moccasins, mukluks and slippers around the world since 2006.

SITTING BULL

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Moccasin Musings remembers the great Sioux Chief Sitting Bull

A great tragedy occurred on this day in history, 1890.  

After many years of resisting white efforts to destroy the Sioux people, the great Sioux chief and holy man Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake) is killed by Indian police at the Standing Rock reserve in South Dakota.

Deeply devoted holy man and Chief, Sitting Bull, and his tribe resisted association with the whites, rejected Christianity, wishing only to be left alone to pursue their traditional ways.  His refusal to follow an 1875 order to bring his people to the Sioux reservation directly led to the famous Battle of the Little Bighorn during which the Sioux and Cheyenne wiped out five troops of Custer's 7th Cavalry.

After the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull and his followers fled to Canada for four years.  Faced with starvation (their traditional staple of buffalo already wiped out) they returned to the United States in 1883 and surrendered to the Standing Rock reservation. 

When a spiritual revival movement known as the Ghost Dance began to gain popularity among the Sioux the Lakota Indian agents feared it might lead to an uprising.  Wrongly believing that Sitting Bull was the driving force behind the Ghost Dance, the Lakota Indian police were sent to arrest him at his small cabin on the Grand River.  When the fifty-nine-year-old chief refused to go quietly, a crowd gathered.  Someone fired a shot and the great chief was killed instantly.  Before the ensuing gunfight ended, twelve other Indians were dead and three wounded.

Tatanka Iyotake (Chief Sitting Bull), the man who had nobly resisted the encroachment of whites and their culture for nearly three decades was dead. 

Two weeks later, under the same flag of Ghost Dance movement suppression, the massacre at Wounded Knee took place.  It was the final act in the long and tragic history of the American Army's war against the Plains Indians. 

Indeed, today, December 15th, was a sad day in history in 1890...Moccasins stomp up a storm of dust in respect of the noble leader and holy man, Chief Sitting Bull.

Gene Sanderson is owner, with his wife, Shirley, of Marie Shoes.com. Marie Shoes.com has been selling quality moccasins, mukluks and slippers around the world since 2006.

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Gene Sanderson is owner, with his wife, Shirley, of Marie Shoes.com. Marie Shoes.com has been selling quality moccasins, mukluks and slippers around the world since 2006.