A Dead Culture

All cultures continue to change and grow. Many Deaf have drawn comparisons between the death of Native American culture and Deaf culture of today. I do not deny the parallels.
Jim’s article reminded me of the great whale hunt Native Americans had in Washington state back in 1999. http://jimspoliticalthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/04/accepting-changing-of-deaf-culture-like.html
From the beginning it’s been written into the [...]

Are We That Different?

Lately, I’ve been thinking about cultures and communities. I like being American. I like that we’re a country of blended cultures.
We have many, many cultural festivals.
In Seattle, one fun celebration is the Scottish Highland Games.

There’s also the Chinese New Year.

Some celebrate Norwegian Independence Day.

Others celebrate their Muckleshoot roots.

But what’s great about America is you don’t [...]

Uzi Buzgalo

Recently I read a blog where two people argued whether deaf culture really existed. One person made the statement that the deaf don’t have their own form of art. The other person listed off some deaf artists and mentioned deaf view/image art called De‘VIA, which can be found at Deaf Art.

I’ve been looking at this [...]