Ann-áá bas-éé, thank you, from gwi’chinn athabaskan in alaska. Can you do a video on eagle bone flute if its not a disrespect? I really apologize if i said something that i shouldn’t say, i only made a mistake if so
Thank you for sharing this sacred wisdom. You are indeed a medicine man...perhaps not in title, but in heart and spirit. You are also a wonderful sacred teacher. Thank you.
Thank you/meegwetch!! I was given my first chenupa by a Lakota elder about 8 years ago(I am white). But because his walk was not a good one and because he treated my Grandmother Elder, who introduced us, so poorly, I didn't not wake it, even though I walked with it for about two years before getting my elder;s permission to gift it to another practitioner. It never felt like mine to begin with. Yesterday I was helping Grandmother get ready to host some Elders who are coming from Canada to do Ceremony on behalf of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, and she stopped what we were doing and presented me with my second chenupa. I recognized it right away as mine..it was so strange. I began to cry, I was so overcome with emotion. The last thing I want to be is a "spiritual tourist" and even when I am invited by Native people to participate in certain things, such as the Yuwipi, I don't always do it because it just feels improper, even with permission. Too Wakan for a white person. Sometimes GRandmother will insist I be present for a certain teaching, and of course then I do her bidding.
thanks for this video. i would like to offer the perspective that we dont "manipulate" energy. rather we invite Spirit to hear and respond to our prayers for purification, energy, blessings. we are in relation with the sacred plants, with energy, with earth, with spirit. beautiful relationship does not involve manipulation. wishing all well. 🌈❤️🙏❤️🌈
Leo can none natives carve the sacred pipe if they respect and understand the significance the pipe carries in indigenous culture please respond one way or the other
This ship was my design, quite customised in a few ways from Michael Reynolds designs.....and I have a 3D Google sketch-up on paper of this one..... but since I've been studying these hard for nigh on 25 years, I'm able to design them in return for significant donations via our non-profit co-op to help complete our work here. I have done hundreds of varying floorplans for myself over the years that would be safe and effective for the cold temperate climates - but they can be adapted for any longitude/latitude/bioregion. I may not be an architect, but I have one of the best engineer educations from the British army and my Sketchup printout was enough to please the authorities :-) . Now because of the slo-mo adventure of THIS 350m2 beast of a building, all built by hand (17 years) I have a whole lot of valuable experience too, including what NOT to do, in order to save some time, money, heartache and relationships along the way :-)
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. For 8 years now, we have lived in a home surrounded by forest in northeastern Illinois. As stewards of this forest, we took steps to cut out invasive, non indigenous buckthorn that was choking out other species. But I’m always looking for what steps might be necessary moving forward. I found this interesting and helpful.
I have great respect for this person. I am adopted by Lakota, Sioux at Wagner South Dakota. I was given a white eagle claw as a gift. I know about the sacred pipe. A woman came out of the fog and gave a sacred pipe to 2 Natives and then disappeared. Great story and I believe the story.
It's interesting how all groups can be similar yet so diferente we mixed tabacoo with other flowers not marijuana but they would be considered drugs today
Spirit led me here. Thank you so much for this video 💕 my ancestors have called me to remember the sacred use of tobacco and the ways that it was meant to heal. I appreciate you so much. 🦅
I attended a pipe ceremony when I was little and I was allowed to smoke from the pipe. It was an amazing experience and I've always respected tobacco since
Dear Totem, first of all: thank you. As an outsider it isn't always easy to learn about authentic lore, even for (or especially for) a people that has had so much written about it as the lakota. I ordered "Black Elk speaks" since, afaics, the book is his authentic speech and he is an authentic teacher. Second, i would like to ask a question, which you can answer if you have the time and are in the mood for it and i would be greatly thankful, but i wont harbour any negative feelings if you can't or don't want to. i'm as white as it get's and my family stayed in their ancient country, which is a part of southern germany. Sage and sweetgrass (different subspecies, ofc, but similar enough) do grow around me and i always felt drawn to them somewhat and i'd like to incorporate them in my prayers, but what about cedar? I would like to have something to "turn up the volume", but cedar isn't native here. Would you, as not a medicine man, think it ok for me to use bought cedar, or should i look for something i can find on my land? People are talking about "cultural appropriation" these days, but i don't think using plant lore counts for that, does it? More importantly, would the spirit care about it? Best regards and all my best wishes.
Thank you for your openness and willingness to educate us - really enjoyed the video. Have a question: what is your take on people who are not Lakota using sacred pipes for their own prayers? To be more clear, I don't mean non-Lakota who smoke a pipe to appear interesting and "cultural" to their friends, but rather, what about non-Lakota people who lack a way in their own culture to pray, and find the sacred pipe an elegant means to do so? With so much talk about appropriation and its very real negative effects....is there room for outsiders to use Lakota pipes in earnest without disrespecting Lakota people and culture? Or should non-Lakota just admire from afar? Thanks again!
aluminium is 100% recycable and Sweden is really efficient with it. I think it's not the best choice to just use as a building material instead of returning it to the cycle. I'm with him with other materials but aluminium cans I disagree with. besides that really pretty home