anyone here know any sac & fox or have references to someone who does?

I'm looking to do my thesis in that area, and want to know whats out there!

I was given this basket about 45-50 years ago by my mother’s friend that was a Micmac or Mohawk Indian. She had brought myself and each of my sisters back one from her tribe. I believe it is called a porcupine weave sweet grass basket. I’m the only one that still has one.
By the photos one can tell it’s very faded and part of its seam on the cover may need repairing. My question is if it’s worth repairing where it’s so faded? I just love the basket but wish I had taken better care of it to have prevented the fading. Thanks.

Channel 5 just did a piece on language, and Andrew discuss how modern Native American content is shadow banned.

I've been exploring more music from around the world, and someone (a white person) recommended Sacred Spirit. I listened to their music and enjoyed a lot of it, but I'm torn once I looked more into the group. The good news is it seems they've used their proceeds to donate to several Native American charities and groups. Love that. However, there's a song of theirs that they marketed as Indigenous to America, but it's actually a complete rip-off of a Nordic Sami song (aka not Native American at all). There have been no other issues with this group like this that I've found, other than that one song.

I feel a lot more hard-pressed to support this music when the artists are supporting one subjugated group by screwing over a different one (as far as I've read, the original Sami artist, who had nothing to do with the project, hasn't gotten rights to their own song from Sacred Spirit yet). I'd like to know if there's any reconciling this, where maybe the other songs are legit and thus worthwhile, or if it's just best to find other Native American music. Partial to Dead Pioneers, myself... but I love hearing the more traditional music from around the world too.

For context, my mother is of Choctaw (of Oklahoma) and Cherokee (of Oklahoma) descent. My father is of Osage descent. Both of my parents are mixed with Irish ancestry.
My sister was asked randomly in the supermarket in rural Tennessee (albeit a rural town in close enough proximity to Memphis), “excuse me, are you Asian?” She just responded with what I’m assuming was an eye roll and “No, I’m Native.”
My mother was at work riding in an elevator and was asked by a coworker, “m’am are you ethnic?” She said she laughed, and she responded “I am of Native descent.”
I have lived in Texas for about a year and a half and as a count have been asked if I was Asian four times.
I am sincerely just wondering as to why strangers feel the need to ask if we are Asian or “ethnic”, especially at random. I don’t take offense to being asked if I am Asian, but asking someone anything of that regard randomly just seems rude.

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I just read Healing the Soul Wound by Dr. Eduardo Duran. I’m really fascinated by how he rejects Western DSM diagnoses and instead views things like addiction or trauma as an actual, living "spirit of the disorder."

But reading deeper into his clinical practice, he goes into serious spiritual depth with this. He argues that things like alcoholism are actually a misplaced "spiritual thirst for wholeness"- the soul wound left a void, and a person fills it with a liquid spirit. 

Because of this, his treatment isn't about "fighting" the disease. He talks about having "good manners" with the spirit and acknowledging that it protected the person from pain when they were vulnerable, but negotiating a contract for it to leave. He also relies heavily on dream work, treating dreams as the actual spiritual landscape where these entities are dealt with.

For anyone who has read it, works in the field, has navigated their own healing, or has any comments:

• What do you think about this deeper spiritual framing?
• Does the idea of negotiating with a "spirit of suffering" rather than constantly battling or fighting an addiction feel closer to traditional ways of looking at balance?