"Native Americans believe..."

[Epiphany]

Some quotes out of the bio of Andrea Grant, author of the "half-Native American" Minx http://www.copiousamounts.com/minx/ comics.

...Native Americans believe that when you sleep, you actually visit a world just as rich as the one you inhabit while awake.

Born in Vancouver into a family of Jehovah's Witnesses, Grant found herself growing increasingly wary of the church's teachings, a skepticism that grew deeper as her father began to explore his own lineage. "My father began rediscovering his Native roots later in life," she explains, "he left the religion and had a kind of shamanistic breakdown, and he remembered things that his father had taught him as a kid, which filtered down to me.

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http://www.andreagrant.com/biography.html

"Mythology is portrayed in a lot of comics," Grant explains. "But I hope when people read Minx they also get a sense of the modern Native. Outside of Sherman Alexie, there aren't a whole lot of writers who are sharing the contemporary struggles of Native people. I wanted to use Minx to show how racial identity, and the day-to-day culture of Native people, is more complicated than the stereotypes we've all grown up with."

Minx looks to me like a continuation of the NDN women = pinups with mystical wolves and new age visions theme. Wish Grant wouldn't perpetuate the whole -Native Americans are all alike- bit either.

[snorks]

Her blog seems to focus on New Age ideas and the mixing and matching of traditions.
From her blog

http://minx-in-dreamtime.blogspot.com/2012/01/and-clock-strikes-2012.html
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I've been buried in my work, but also thinking about time, and all of the 2012 myths.  Did we just hit the entry point into the universal underworld of conscious evolution and revolution?

These are the 2012 prophecies from around the world:

Hopi - 25 years of purification, then the end of the 4th world, and beginning of the 5th.
Mayan - call it the 'end days' or the end of time as we know it.
Maori - as veils dissolve, a merging of the physical & spiritual worlds occur.
Zulu - believe that the whole world will be turned upside down.
Hindu - the coming of Kalki & critical mass of Enlighted Ones.
Inca - call it the 'age of meeting ourselves again'.
Aztec - the time of the Sixth Sun, of transformation, of the creation of a new race.
Pueblo - acknowledge it will be the emergence into the 5th world.
Cherokee - ancient calendar ends exactly at 2012 (as does the Mayan).
Tibetan - coming of the Golden Age.
Egypt - great pyramid (stone calendar) time cycle ends in 2012.

Interesting.
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I highly doubt that this list is accurate to say the least.