{"id":2060,"date":"2025-04-28T23:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T23:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/native-americans-and-dragons\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T23:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T23:30:45","slug":"native-americans-and-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/native-americans-and-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Americans and Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/nadrummers-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Until I began researching dragons<br>\nof different cultures<br>\ndays ago, I never knew Native<br>\nAmericans had dragons in their<br>\nculture.<\/p>\n<p>And that some of the symbolism<br>\nrelates to Protection, Power,<br>\nTransformation, and Traversing<br>\nRealms.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I have a Native<br>\nAmerican woman with a multi colored<br>\ndragon at the top of this blog now.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m kind of hoping it\u2019s my final<br>\nbanner or maybe I\u2019ll have a rotating<br>\nbanner with two or three other<br>\nrotating banners.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m kind of hooked on this<br>\nNative American banner; I like<br>\nNative American things, and I<br>\nreally like how that banner looks.<\/p>\n<p>Been to powwows, listened to<br>\na Native American storyteller<br>\nlong ago in faraway Vermont,<br>\nvisited a Native American museum,<br>\nand did a presentation on<br>\nresources for the aging at a<br>\nNative American seniors group<br>\nhere in Greensboro years ago.<\/p>\n<p>And I feel it\u2019s critical to keep<br>\nthe Native American culture alive,<br>\nto never let it die.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until I began researching dragons of different cultures days ago, I never knew Native Americans had dragons in their culture. And that some of the symbolism relates to Protection, Power, Transformation, and Traversing Realms. This is why I have a Native American woman with a multi colored dragon at the top of this blog now.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/native-americans-and-dragons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}