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Post by peacekeeper on Apr 5, 2006 18:09:12 GMT -5
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Post by hermin1 on Apr 5, 2006 18:42:57 GMT -5
jackie: that was a very fascinating article . thanks much for posting the web site.
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Post by Curtis Kitto "MIKE" on Apr 5, 2006 21:50:55 GMT -5
A GHOST DANCE?
I hope the dancers are very aware of their rights under the 2nd Amendment and put its provisions into practice! May Wankantanka bless his efforts.
MIKE
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Post by wazi on Apr 16, 2006 10:52:40 GMT -5
Isn't that interesting...
On the Pine Ridge Reservation we have alot of freedom practice. When our spiritual leaders are attempting to follow through with a dream, people who do not understand panick. The Ghost Dance is debated whether the Lakota people should be performing this dance, since the dream was given to Wovokiya(forgive the spelling). However as Dakota/Nakota/Lakota people we have several different dances that are coming back. We have a night dance, medicine dance, sundance, and so forth. As peopel we were very spiritual and practice our spirituality on a daily basis. The funny thing is some people believe that their behavior can be rectified by entering into the hocoka at sundance time and they will be purified of their societal wrongs through the year. Oops getting carried away... Thanks for the reading Peacekeeper.
wazi
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Post by tamara on Apr 16, 2006 11:54:58 GMT -5
Isn't that interesting...
On the Pine Ridge Reservation we have alot of freedom practice. When our spiritual leaders are attempting to follow through with a dream, people who do not understand panick. The Ghost Dance is debated whether the Lakota people should be performing this dance, since the dream was given to Wovokiya(forgive the spelling). However as Dakota/Nakota/Lakota people we have several different dances that are coming back. We have a night dance, medicine dance, sundance, and so forth. As peopel we were very spiritual and practice our spirituality on a daily basis. The funny thing is some people believe that their behavior can be rectified by entering into the hocoka at sundance time and they will be purified of their societal wrongs through the year. Oops getting carried away... Thanks for the reading Peacekeeper.
wazi The native teaching seem to be finding there way into my world these days and I feel like a sponge. I have so much to learn. The young men who seem to lead these things impress me and teach my children by example. The atmosphere of the sweatlodge and the teaching of keeping ones heart to avoid negetivity seems to carry over into everyday life. The teaching of respect for elders, the earth, oneself, etc, are things I see my son relys on in hard times during everyday teenage life. For me and my family our knowledge isn't much but the basics seem have impacted them so much, that I wonder what they would think or be guided by if it were not for these things. I agree that in this area there is more freedom to pratice the things and maybe that is why it seems to be so strong here. Wazi, you may not realize it, but you also show these things by example and I learn from the things you say even in a casual way. I am also excited to now have learned a bit more about a word I have been struggling with. It came from a name of my ancestor Tahocokawakan. To see it used in conversation helps me to understand it and I appreciate that very much. My young daughter wants to go to sundance and tells me that she has been told to "sing louder" and is looking for opportunity to do so.
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