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Dr. Chip Thomas arrived on the Navajo Nation Reservation in 1987, and has been photographing his patients, making poster art with his photography on buildings, and gathering muralists mentees and Indigenous youth as part of his Painted Desert Project to beautify abandoned strictures and road side stands, improving the local tourist industry. 

Dr. Chip Thomas discusses Covid conditions, including lack of electricity and running water on the reservation, and also the rich resources of the land itself, all owned by corporations, many based oversees.  

Dr. Chip discusses his exhibition, "Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado", at the Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center. The exhibit focused on the little known history of indigenous Americans enslaved after the emancipation of African Americans. He tells of how a town turned a museum that glorified Lieutenant Governor Lafayette Head and Indian Agent and US Army Officer and scalper Kit Carson, a Fort and the Indian Agency responsible for perpetuating 

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Bees were kept for their medicine, honey, propolis, royal jelly, wax, even their venom. Ancient peoples understood the healing properties of various forms of bee medicine, and their reverence reached epic proportions because both bee goddess and priestesses are depicted in many countries and multiple continents. From and rituals and rites depicting dancing and music on artifacts and cave walls, to the history of music imitating the humming and buzzing of hives, to the mythology of the Oracle at Delphi, Max shares insight into matrifocal and Goddess-worshipping cultures of Europe, Anatolia, The Mediterranean, North Africa and India.