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The Listing in brief:

Birch Clump Churches

Birch Clump Gazette

Cloud Burst.
REF: The above and next three below all belong to the same general topic: Cloud Burst
+ Randy at the Rails
+ The Mentor
+ Justice and Peace.

Paul DuPrey,    FAQs

Sgt. T Douglas


Inculturation,     Jerome Mott

JPII Poster,     Good Samaritan

How to Order,     Audio Clips

Native Spirit

Fr. Nicollet, SJ

comming ashore

Friars of St. James

Scrapbook

CCC Totem Pole

Beaded Trinity

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1969 Year Book

Click      Some of the major characters of Bro. Joshua's novels graduated from Birch Clump High School. It was among the few remaining old styled school houses. Additions in the 1930's and 50's were built onto the original 1918 structure.
     The 1969 Year Book, was put together on eight pages, including the cover. Class members drew portraits and took photos, wrote the copy and, under the guidance of a local printer, did the layout, set type and printed copies that were later stapled and passed out to students and special freinds and patrons of the class of 1969. It was Birch Clump's last year book. It closed in 1973.
     click the underline above. Thus far, not a single original copy was found. We were, however, able to contact some of the former students for pictures and information and put up some momentos of the class of '69.

Valdictorian of the 1969 Birch Clump Village High School.
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Welcome / Benegay

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Pages that are not listed
in the general menue
But, that can be viewd from this page

There are 57 pages to this web site, yet only 20 site pages are listed at the bottom of most pages. Another 37 or so pages are linked off of one or two of the major page titles. The major page title is listed in the menue found at the bottom of most pages of this web site. However, several of my pages have "Side-links." that can take you to minor pages of interest to that subject.

For those of you who are courious, perhaps developing a site of your own and want to get ideas from other web site owners, or perhaps just plain bored and want to click around my site to see what else I might have that's not listed --- this is the page for you.

Some of you, for example, might have already visited the page called "The Village of Birch Clump." You might have seen, or not if you passed it by, a link that comes only from that page. That semi-hidden page is called "The Birch Clump Gazette." It links you to a whimsicall little news paper that I keep changing once a week or at least each month. Birch Clump is fiction and so is the Gazette, but it is fun to read. The only link to the Gazette is from the major page marked "Village of Birch Clump."

This is true of a few other incidental, but meaningful pages on this site. The paper on inculturation that I wrote while in exile from this country to Rome is accesible only from the major page called "Ministry Links."

     Here then is a list of 24 of these semi-hidden pages along with a brief description in case you missed these when you first visited this web site, or for what ever interest migh float your boat. Thank you for visiting and for your continued interest in this site and my novels.

A Listing of the Hidden Pages:

Birch Clump Churches  This page is accessed from the page featuring art and photo by me, the author. The Churches are located in Cedar River, Michigna and in Red Cliff and Bad River Reservations in Wisconsin. My Grand and Great Grandfather ministered from one of these churches, and the others I have visited over the years.

Birch Clump Gazette   The description is already in the above introduction to this page. This is a fun little unofficial news paper. I actually do offer to mail it out on a monthly basis if anyone is so inclined to recieve it via postal mail. I also will consider real advertizing on that page. The mailing and offer to advertize is a means to generate some modest donations for the Society of St. Paul. Its a fun venture and I hope you will consider contributing. You migh even obtain some business by advertizing in the Birch Clump Gazette, (or on the "How To Order" page link found at the bottom of most pages.)

Fist Fight in Fayette   This is another link found on my art and photo page. I included it here because the picture includes a short reading selection from the novel, Hawk Dancer. It's a depiction of recently graduated High School students brawling in a State Park in the summer of 1969. That page will take you to even another semi-hidden page with more pictures and a few paragraphs from the novel describing the blow by blow excitement of Mott and Dean's fight.

My next Novel: Cloud Burst.    Web site hosting, via Doteasy.com, cost me $50.00 for a two year hosting service. I'm already paying for two sites. I make less than a half-days minimum pay wage per month. So to save money and utilize the two web sites (Hawk Dancer and one for the congregation of St. James), I am doubling up on the Hawk Dancer site to promote my up coming novel, cloud Burst. This is the home link.
     Randy at the Rails and The Mentor are two pages of that sub-website, along with Justice and Peace.

Sgt. T Douglas.    The picture of a former Air Force Sergeant along with a brief reading from Hawk Dancer on how he got involved with the story. Era:  1978, Fiat Strada, and an aspiring author in tight jeans and long hair.

Study paper on Inculturation.    This is the paper I worked on during my days in Rome, August 2004-January2005. A few details are in the introduction at the top of this page. The Inculturation paper covers a total of three web pages.
    A single web page equals a few regular typed pages.

Jerome Mott.    This is a larger picture of a character who plays a short roll near the end of the first novel, Hawk Dancer. The tattered sleave and torn shoulder seam are the results of fight mentioned earlier in this column.
    I used the same picture as a promotional cover for one of the short stories I pass out at book signing oportunities. The young man pictured in that case is an unamed war veteran. It is unclear if the left arm is lost in a shadow, or amputated. I took advantage of my limited abilities at drawing to take that mistake (the unclarity of shadow or amputation) and the look of poverty to speak out on our neglect of the more seriously injured war veterans.

Good Samaritan   This leads to page with a few pictures and a short reading from the novel, Hawk Dancer, about 15-year-old Randy's mugging in the summer of 1966. It parallels aspects of the Gospel's story of the Good Samaritan. The self-righteous of "proper" society either do not hear the muffled cry for help, or they actually gratify their curiousity over Randy's plight of being hog tied and gagged. The Good Samaritan, one people avoided and who lived in a foul smelling dump of a dwelling, attended to the victim. Even Randy was afraid of the modern day Good Samaritan who stopped to untied him and procured his medical needs.

Friars of St. James    Pope John Paul II said Native vocations to Church ministries should not be uprooted from their culture. Seminaries and religious formation houses, up untill the Religious Freedom law of 1978, deamanded Native Americans abandon their cultural up bringing.The improvement over the next 30 years is very slight. The Franciscan Third Order (Regular) Rule and the Epistle of St. James has been molded together to demonstrate how an order of Priests, Sisters, Brothers and Deacons and a secular oblite community could be formed.
     The material provided on this link and its corresponding link to www.orderofstjames.com shows the possibilities of such an Order. I made it very clear that I am not setting up the Order, but I am willing to cooperate in what ever manner is permissible and possible should the right persons feel called to establish a Native American Catholic Order of Friars and Sisters.

CCC Totem Pole    The Civilian Conservation Corps of the Great Depression days prepared H. J. Wells State Park near Cedar River, Michigan along the south shore of the Upper Peninsula between Escanaba and Menominee. They set up three imitations of totem poles that lasted well into the 1980's. On my last trip through there in the early 1990's, there was only one rotting pole left. This link has a picture of me in the early or mid-1980's by one such pole. I've included a brief section from hawk Dancer regarding the poles. The story I wrote on the poles is fictional, but based on the fact that these three were carved by and errected by the CCC's.

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Kathy Johnson's page of art work is full of links to enlargements to the thumbnails on her main page. Click: Illustrations by Kathy Johnson, and you be taken to that page, and from there you can click picture-links. You can do the same with the page of my photos and art.
 :    Up until I made this particular page, only visitors to my photo/art page mentioned in the above paragraph would know that I provide an Author's Scrapbook." It has bits and pieces of my back ground, growing up pictures, and commentary on how I draw or find subjects to draw to tell about my novels.





Hawk Dancer © 2004 Bro. Joshua Seidl,SSP

Art by KATHY JOHNSON
Illustrations © 2004 by Kathy Johnson


On location Photos for Bro. Joshua's two novels.

1. HOME PAGE
2. To order Hawk Dancer
3. SITE MAP
4. Reviews
5. About us
6. Read a selection
7. Illustrations by Kathy Johnson
8. Photos & art by Br. Joshua
9. Essays / Native issues
10. NATIVE NEWS (and video)
11. Ministry Links
12. Facts & FAQs
13. Village of Birch Clump
14. This Month's Short Story
15. free mini poster
16. Research & Resources
17. Quips from readers
18. Scheduale of Events
19. Why I Wrote Hawk Dancer
20. Audio Clip Messages
21. NEW: VIDEO by Joshua
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Cloud Burst HOME PAGE
The newest novel by Brother Joshua in the publicaiton process. Due out in print late May or June 2008.