49 days: Blanket # 72: games

FAIR GAME

Director: Doug Liman

Screenplay: Jez Butterworth

With: Naomi Watts and Sean Penn

Blanket # 72:

• Sean Penn
• Naomi Watts
• Doug Liman
• Jez Butterworth

60 days: Blanket # 61: medicine words

Bear Grass (Xerophyllum tenax)

Native to Western US | grows from just above sea level to alpine | resembles a bunchgrass | flowering creamy white | up to 5 feet tall | Native basket and hat making material | both decorative and watertight | used in Native American medicine | the pounded roots poulticed on wounds to stop bleeding and thus heal | perennial | fire-resistant | hardy to -20° F | prefers rocky fast-draining soil | part shade to full sun | open coniferous forest habitat

Blanket # 61:

• words are magical, powerful, invisible
• words are a way of knowing self
  
• words are a way of knowing the wider world
  
• words are medicine

61 days: Blanket # 60: sacred

"Like many people, Native Americans believe that cemeteries are sacred ground... Native Americans abhor the destruction of burial sites and the exhumation of human remains, for any reason."

Native Universe: Voices of Indian America

Editors: Gerald McMaster and Clifford E. Trafzer

(NGS/NMAI: Washington D.C., 2004)

Blanket # 60:

• sacred burial ground
• the body
• the bones