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"Some Men See Things as they are and ask "WHY" - I Dream Things that Never Existed and ask "WHY NOT"
Let me introduce you to "Tantanka's Long Walk"
Maker: Langford USA
Titled: Tatanka Noyt Darp (South Western Australian Aboriginal Noongah Language)- Meaning- “Buffalo Spirit Knife”
Blade length is 9 inches, overall length is 15 1/2 inches. Clip is not sharpened. Hidden tang with a Brass finger guard. Late 90’s early 2000 vintage. Robs name is engraved on the finger guard by his own hand..
Spirit Knife By Renwa - Tatanka Noyt Darp - “Buffalo Spirit Knife”
Way back in the Dreamtime when all the animals walk as man the world was just being created and the Spirits communed together looking as we are today.
They enjoyed each others company but over time they realized they could do anything and change anything they wanted so there was no challenge left for them.
They sat around the fire every night and yarned about what they could do. After many Yarns it was agreed that Alba from the Tross Spirit Mob would go and see what else they could do. He transformed himself into a Feathered Giant Bird and we called him AlbaTross. He left us and did not come back for 12 moons and when he did he told us of lands far, far away that were wondrous and each of us could have our own land. He told us of lands that had white cold and ones were the sun always shined, so one by one we all agreed to go to a different land and we all transformed our selfs from our Spirit form into an Animal that could live in one of the lands AbaTross told us of.
This is the Story of Tatanka. He was the hairiest of us all and the biggest Spirit man in our land, AlbaTross told him of a land that was hot and cold and had the sweetest grass and they both left. Tatanka walked for 250 years to get to the wondrous land AlbaTross had told him of, he never stopped and he learned to just nibble the tips of the grass and never stop walking he just ate all the way there. When he arrived AlbaTross was right it was a beautiful land but he had been so lonely during his walk so he created more in his likeness and they became many.
For 1,000’s of years they walked never stopping and they just ate the grasses tips, when they came back the tips had regrown so there was always food for them and they became many more. There was a time when Tatankas mob was the biggest on the world and they ruled the plains of the far away land. They were content.
By now the great Spitit had created man and he told man all the spirit animals of the world and all the plants could be used as food, there could be no waste, just take what was needed and there would always be more to take. Man agreed and all over the world man respected the plants and the animals, he gave thanks for them and only used what and when he needed and all was good in the world.
So men changed over time and became dominate, they ruled over other mobs and if they did not do what they wanted they killed them, they took what they wanted, not just what they needed, but sometimes everything and left nothing behind, there skin was white like the spirits and they were feared by many mobs around the world. One day they came to Tatanka’s land and they started to kill Tatankas mob.
They only took his Fur and left everything behind to rot. The People who respected Tatanka and lived with him tried to stop them, they did the same thing and killed the white man and only took his Fur they thought this is what had to be done. The white man came after them and Tatanka and killed many many, they killed so many of Tatanka’s mob that there was only a few left, they then took all the People away and put them on Country that was not there Spirit Home and there was great sadness to be had by all.
The woman wailed and the men hung there heads in defeat as now they had no country and no Spirit Tatanka to help keep them alive. This is how it is to this very day all over the world, no country, no spirit food, no culture and sometimes no pride and no hope.
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"Some Men See Things as they are and ask "WHY" - I Dream Things that Never Existed and ask "WHY NOT"
Let me introduce you to "Tantanka's Long Walk"
Maker: Langford USA
Titled: Tatanka Noyt Darp (South Western Australian Aboriginal Noongah Language)- Meaning- “Buffalo Spirit Knife”
Blade length is 9 inches, overall length is 15 1/2 inches. Clip is not sharpened. Hidden tang with a Brass finger guard. Late 90’s early 2000 vintage. Robs name is engraved on the finger guard by his own hand..
Spirit Knife By Renwa - Tatanka Noyt Darp - “Buffalo Spirit Knife”
Way back in the Dreamtime when all the animals walk as man the world was just being created and the Spirits communed together looking as we are today.
They enjoyed each others company but over time they realized they could do anything and change anything they wanted so there was no challenge left for them.
They sat around the fire every night and yarned about what they could do. After many Yarns it was agreed that Alba from the Tross Spirit Mob would go and see what else they could do. He transformed himself into a Feathered Giant Bird and we called him AlbaTross. He left us and did not come back for 12 moons and when he did he told us of lands far, far away that were wondrous and each of us could have our own land. He told us of lands that had white cold and ones were the sun always shined, so one by one we all agreed to go to a different land and we all transformed our selfs from our Spirit form into an Animal that could live in one of the lands AbaTross told us of.
This is the Story of Tatanka. He was the hairiest of us all and the biggest Spirit man in our land, AlbaTross told him of a land that was hot and cold and had the sweetest grass and they both left. Tatanka walked for 250 years to get to the wondrous land AlbaTross had told him of, he never stopped and he learned to just nibble the tips of the grass and never stop walking he just ate all the way there. When he arrived AlbaTross was right it was a beautiful land but he had been so lonely during his walk so he created more in his likeness and they became many.
For 1,000’s of years they walked never stopping and they just ate the grasses tips, when they came back the tips had regrown so there was always food for them and they became many more. There was a time when Tatankas mob was the biggest on the world and they ruled the plains of the far away land. They were content.
By now the great Spitit had created man and he told man all the spirit animals of the world and all the plants could be used as food, there could be no waste, just take what was needed and there would always be more to take. Man agreed and all over the world man respected the plants and the animals, he gave thanks for them and only used what and when he needed and all was good in the world.
So men changed over time and became dominate, they ruled over other mobs and if they did not do what they wanted they killed them, they took what they wanted, not just what they needed, but sometimes everything and left nothing behind, there skin was white like the spirits and they were feared by many mobs around the world. One day they came to Tatanka’s land and they started to kill Tatankas mob.
They only took his Fur and left everything behind to rot. The People who respected Tatanka and lived with him tried to stop them, they did the same thing and killed the white man and only took his Fur they thought this is what had to be done. The white man came after them and Tatanka and killed many many, they killed so many of Tatanka’s mob that there was only a few left, they then took all the People away and put them on Country that was not there Spirit Home and there was great sadness to be had by all.
The woman wailed and the men hung there heads in defeat as now they had no country and no Spirit Tatanka to help keep them alive. This is how it is to this very day all over the world, no country, no spirit food, no culture and sometimes no pride and no hope.
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