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Sitting Bull
HOW SITTING BULL GOT HIS NAMEBy White BullWhen Sitting Bull was about six years of age his folks were living on the banks of Grand River. Like all Lakota lads he was taught to get upearly and attend to the horses, learn to ride, to shoot with bow and arrow, swim, play all kinds of…
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Cherokee
Traditionally, the people now known as Cherokee refer to themselves as Aniyunwiya (ah nee yun wee yah), a name usually translated as “the Real People,” sometimes “the Original People.” ▪The Cherokee never had princesses. This is a concept based on European folktales and has no reality in Cherokee history and culture. In fact, Cherokee women…
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Hair
Why do most Native Americans Grow Their Hair Long You Wonder ? Well its said that Inuit woman, Nowadluk, with long hair say;Hairstyles like seasons change for public, private and ceremonial occasions. Hair represents the pure thoughts and spiritual status of an Individual, showing the bonds and spiritual oneness of a Family and defines the…
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Deer People
Deer People: Native American forest folklore.Several native American people have legends of half deer ,half human being that lives in the forest and is sometimes dangerous to humans. In the southeast the Choctaw tell of a mischievous deer man called Kashehotapolo. Cherokee folklore has a shapshifting “deer woman” these two apparently have little in common…
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Crazy Horse
CRAZY HORSEThere were three Crazy Horse’s, the grandfather, the father and the son. We know more about the son, “Crazy Horse” than the previous two Crazy Horses. He was born in 1841 in the Black Hills of South Dakota, he was light-skinned, with curly hair just like his mother. When Crazy Horse was about 4…
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Sophisticated Natives before colonization
NO FRONTIER. There never was a frontier in what we call the United States of America and hundreds of indigenous nations occupied the whole hemisphere for tens of thousands of years. Their cities were as large or larger than any European city and the people were highly skilled in astronomy, geography, language and math. There…
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Sacred Clown
The Sacred ClownMost every tribe had their Clowns. The Oglala and Lakota called them Heyoka (crazy) the Arapaho called them Ha Hawkan (Holy idiot) and both peoples considered them religious specialists.The Salish people honor the memory of a Clown who (not so long ago) challenged a missionary. The missionary was enticing people to come to…
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Hopi Prophecy
“We were told that we would see America come and go. In a sense, America is dying, from within, because they forgot the instructions of how to live on earth. It’s the Hopi belief, it’s our belief, that if you are not spiritually connected to the earth, and understand the spiritual reality of how to…
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Sweat lodge
SWEATLODGE TEACHINGS:The sweat lodge is a tool for healing everything that a person wants healing for.It begins with a firepit where your intentions for the sweat are given with tobacco. The firepit represents the Creator. The fire has power of transformation. So, it holds the stones, heating them and getting them ready for the healing…
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Sweetgrass
💜***SWEETGRASS***💜 The elders tell us that it takes longer for us to heal today and the reason is because the old trails our ancestors used to use to find us have been destroyed….so now our ancestors are having a hard time finding us to help us heal. I ,Jay ….. want to share this so…
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