Remembering Kavika
A fine and admirable man
I've been unable to seed for a few days, so someone may have already done a tribute to Kavika. If so, please pardon the redundancy.
"Respect" is hard to earn. Kavika had everyone's respect.
Kavika was a Metis, born to a people spread across the northern USA and southern Canada.
He knew the history of his people intimately, and wrote many articles about them, here on NT. He was viscerally aware of the mistreatment that almost all Native Americans, including his own ancestors, have endured at the hands of White settlers. He wrote about the crimes against his people... but somehow avoided bitterness in his own life. He had a moral rectitude that forced our admiration.
He was a story-teller. I think that that's an important thing among most Native American peoples. I know I enjoyed his tales of strange creatures and heroic exploits.
He was a man of today, knowledgeable on just about every topic that came across NewsTalkers' Front Page. His Comments were thoughtful - I wish everyone could say the same.
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I would have very much like to meet him in person... It would have been an honor.
Agreed, I would have liked that as well.
Although he and I became collaborators on NT and good friends for many years, I never had the privilege of meeting David in person. We also corresponded by regular email. Australia is not that far from where I am, and had I known the end was so imminent (his recent postings did not indicate that), I would have considered flying there to meet him notwithstanding travelling is difficult for me now.
Morning Buzz...it's an 11 hour flight from Chongqing to Sydney so long enough...I think you would have struggled somewhat...
I had thought the same when Kavika said he was in Broken Hill..
It's a 11 hour drive north from where I live but unfortunately at the time I was 33,000 feet up heading to Queensland...
As they say like ships passing in the night...
Kavika was the type of person even though you never met personally, you feel you have known them forever...
I am just so pleased he made it to Australia one last time to see his rellies...
So be at peace with that Buzz, as I am sure Kavika was....🥀
Never realized it was an 11 hour flight. I don't think I can handle that these days. It's about 15 hours to Toronto, so I'm not going back home either. Actually, I don't travel out of Chongqing at all any more.
Rellies were just here for a week now travelling with different family member, her brother who himself is bigger than life.
They will be back for another week soon, then the 18 hour flight back to Melbourne .
Not for the feint hearted or poor.
Morning split...yes the tyranny of distance...
Sometimes it's a blessing and other times it's a curse...
But for me traveling either way, it will always be home...🦘
I met him in November, a very lucky event. It was an honor.
More so than meeting several Presidents and a multitude of entertainers.
My eyes are still injured.
I have just begun to be able to scroll through Perrie's announcement page (and I have gotten this far into this comment) without having tears roll down my face. His knowledge of the world, his Wisdom of both outer and inner truths, a were broad, wide and deep.
A good man, with principles that he stood up for!
A fine person. I will miss him very much.