Little Painted Eagle and The Teaching Rocks
A Journey of Self-Discovery
by Larry Busch

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"Little Painted Eagle and The Teaching Rocks: A Journey of Self-Discovery" is a free-verse poem about a young mixed-blood (European and Indigenous) male who, during a solo canoe trip, discovers hundreds of petroglyphs and pictographs. By accident, he incites the petroglyphs to dance. He commits a grave error by making a rubbing and taking it home. It won’t dance. He returns to the native community of his youth and asks his elders for help. He returns to the petroglyph site to make amends and almost dies in the process. With the aid of his grandmother’s spirit, he communicates with many powerful petroglyph and pictograph spirits. His native spirit is rekindled as each imparts their particular wisdom. The spirits lead him to previously unknown historical sites around the Great Lakes as he unravels his band's history of culture and war. This story will attract the attention of native and non-native readers. It will generate interest into native petroglyphs and pictographs at home and around the world. The story will enhance, and rekindle interest and education into native spiritual beliefs.

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Larry Busch is a retired member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, having served 35 years, coast to coast to coast across Canada and in the Yukon Territory. He served on three UN Peacekeeping missions and also served as a Security Advisor at the UN Headquarters in New York. He has a BSc in Psychology. He served as body guard or head of security for many Canadian Prime Ministers, Governors-General, American presidents, international prime ministers, The British Royal Family and various Royals and VIPs from around the world. He is the recipient of six Canadian and UN decorations plus numerous official commendations. For over five years, Larry was the RCMP’s chief consultant and liaison for the very popular CBC television series “North of 60”. Plus, two subsequent “North of 60” made-for-TV movies. The series focused on policing practices within the social and political framework of a small northern Canadian native community. He routinely assisted the writers with story ideas, plot construction, dialogue and props. Larry reviewed every script for technical accuracy as well as authentic native policing interactions. Larry has consulted for a number of national and international film companies. Larry is of mixed heritage, European and Mohawk.

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Contributors

Author

Larry Busch

Illustrator

Alexandra Lowe

Illustrator

Anastasia Naryadko