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How the Moose Came to Be
4:35
7 лет назад
Why Do You Smudge?
5:48
7 лет назад
Fancy Shawl Dancing
3:11
7 лет назад
The Ancient Agreement
5:05
7 лет назад
Grass Dancing
4:04
7 лет назад
Jingle Dress Dancing
4:08
7 лет назад
Traditional Dancing
3:54
7 лет назад
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@krushtonpaul
@krushtonpaul 5 дней назад
Love and miss you sweetheart
@theveggienator4747
@theveggienator4747 28 дней назад
Thank you for that🙏
@krushtonpaul
@krushtonpaul Месяц назад
Love you forever hon ❤
@jimdr63
@jimdr63 Месяц назад
Here is my experience with the Lil People. I was out at LaChrouce (spelling) just before Little Current Ontario on the mainland side of Manitoulin Island. I stopped to walk up a trail with my two Old English Mastiffs and take some pictures of the landscape with my new Nikon 35 mm camera as well as pictures of my dogs. There was not a soul on the trail that lead up to a Bluff overlooking Lake Huron. There was only one enterence to the trail from the road and my car was blocking it. During the time i was on the trail, I felt as if eyes were watching me, it was intense. As if I could hear in my brain the wat hing.. if that makes any sense? Despite the feeling of unease I didn't feel threatened so I continued taking pictures and enjoying the clear blue sky. I continued to feel those eyes watching me and felt instinctively, it was the Lil People. As I walked back down along the trail to return to my car, a branch from a maple tree swung down and knocked my Armani Sunglasses clear off my head. There was no breeze or wind at at. It was a perfect summer day and I found it very odd that a branch out of the blue would swing down and knock my sunglasses from off the top of my head. I searched for those sunglasses for hours as they were $600 dollars. Reluctantly I had to return home as it was getting dark and the 80kmdrive back was going to be tiresome. I planned to return the next day but this time with a strategy to get my sunglasses back! I would first swing by a Dollar Store to buy a Child's size pair of sunglasses and a bag of candy to trade with. When I returned to the place where I had had my sunglasses knocked off my head. I said in a loud voice while feeling eyes once again starring at me. "I would like my sunglasses back please and I have something to trade you for them." I held out the children's pair of sunglasses and offered the trade. "My sunglasses which", I said, "Are too big for you to wear and you would look silly wearing them," " "And I'm sure your friends will laugh at you and tease you wearing such glasses that don't fit your face!"I will trade you for the children's sunglasses and candy for those you knocked off my head. I said, "I will leave the sunglasses on my camera bag and walk away with the dogs and return. I left for 15 minutes and returned down the trail towards my camera bag. When I got there I immediately noticed, The Children's sunglasses and candy were gone! My sunglasses were a foot away from my camera bag on top of a large Limestone rock. Keeping in mind, I had searched around that rock many times searching for my sunglasses the day before with nothing in sight! Had someone been watching me, my expensive camera bag and the lenses inside would had been stolen. Plus my dogs would had heard or sensed someone on the trail and gone to greet them! There was no one around the area! I thanked the Lil People for the trade and wished them well and left.
@Calicocat-icu
@Calicocat-icu 4 месяца назад
I love this story
@damageincorporatedmetal43v73
@damageincorporatedmetal43v73 6 месяцев назад
Sweet Grass, it adds flavor it's used as a herb... 🤔
@damageincorporatedmetal43v73
@damageincorporatedmetal43v73 6 месяцев назад
I don't want to, these people will laugh @ me. I'm so trying to be have in this way... 🤔
@michellemiller9348
@michellemiller9348 8 месяцев назад
I was told that grass dancers go out first because they are telling the bugs and small critters in the grass that people are coming to dance so they need to make way. I love that. I told my mom that and she started crying.
@orsolyaszabo9302
@orsolyaszabo9302 9 месяцев назад
If you smudge your house will all the entities leave your house?
@wegottafishdude
@wegottafishdude 11 месяцев назад
Mind over matter is amazing isn’t it?
@tamracaveness4189
@tamracaveness4189 11 месяцев назад
Thank you for sharing!
@tamracaveness4189
@tamracaveness4189 11 месяцев назад
Thank you. I have started this journey as well. It’s good to hear all concepts as to my and how we should carry our Cannupa!
@JudithKeesic
@JudithKeesic 11 месяцев назад
So glad I found this.
@user-xr4iq7kq1k
@user-xr4iq7kq1k 11 месяцев назад
It's just all superstitious and fake. Snake oil
@user-xr4iq7kq1k
@user-xr4iq7kq1k 11 месяцев назад
We smudge for over 38 years just stunk up everything no change in fact things got worse😮
@Purpleninjawv
@Purpleninjawv 11 месяцев назад
The wheel symbol has existed in everything beginning culture, the stories change the main elements doesn't
@Whistlewalk
@Whistlewalk Год назад
Thank you for reminding me.
@joanvogel1459
@joanvogel1459 Год назад
Thank you! It all makes sense!
@joanvogel1459
@joanvogel1459 Год назад
What a wonderful way to explain our lives!
@robinjackson5625
@robinjackson5625 Год назад
thank you Mr. Jeff Ward for sharing your wisdom and teachings of the medicine wheel; hugs.
@invadertifxiii
@invadertifxiii Год назад
this is beautiful for the wonderful folks showing and teaching to smudge with respect and knowledge
@Dragon-Slay3r
@Dragon-Slay3r Год назад
To cover the prominent forehead on the left with a smudge from the right 😂 Smudge is torquise and resembles a horizonal sheep wool smudge 😂
@rosepetals8181
@rosepetals8181 Год назад
🌈🙏🤍❤️🖤💛🙌💚💙💜🧡
@christinamorales6887
@christinamorales6887 Год назад
✊🤍💛❤️🖤
@Emerson-mf1gs
@Emerson-mf1gs Год назад
can white people do this?
@kukumuniu5658
@kukumuniu5658 Год назад
Hi,how can I contact with Lawrence Wells ?(Im from Europe)
@cassieheslin798
@cassieheslin798 Год назад
✨♥️🤍💛🖤✨
@janicejoy3054
@janicejoy3054 Год назад
Such a joy to hear these teachings. Even though I am English I have a great yearning in my heart to hear these words.
@kurtbogle2973
@kurtbogle2973 Год назад
The Medicine Wheel or Wheel of the four directions, is the most beautiful spiritual teaching tool ever invented. It's old, very, very, very old. If you look at the center of the Viking calinder it looks like a Medicine Wheel. I believe the stone circles were Medicine wheels. Stone Hinge I believe is a Medicine Wheel. The Medicine Wheel may well be the oldest spiritual path or teachings on Earth. The beauty of it is being shared. That's a very beautiful and responsible thing to do!
@koolsta17
@koolsta17 Год назад
I live in the Everglades in the Miccosukee tribe and when I was at a very very Yung age me and my twin sister and cousin where playing outside we where playing next to a tree and we kinda saw like these little tiny people and as little kids do we just watched them and they looked like they where busy like doing something they where building there house or something and we had went to our grandma and told her what we saw and in our language she basically didn’t believe us so because we where little kids we never where like “omg that’s so crazy we need to tell people “ but we never did becouse we had just forgotten about it UNTILL now l Waching this video about little people jogged my memory and I ask my sister if she remembers about this and she say yeah. And it’s just so crazy lol
@koolsta17
@koolsta17 Год назад
And ive heard lots of story’s from my relatives.
@nathanwashington6717
@nathanwashington6717 Год назад
I was always told that they were evil.
@kg30004
@kg30004 4 месяца назад
Dangerous but not evil
@Lucky-bs7dz
@Lucky-bs7dz Год назад
💖🙏🏼💖 sweet Aggie B!
@shellyskiles9520
@shellyskiles9520 Год назад
Thank you for this information Jeff. It was very informative to hear this
@adamchapman4329
@adamchapman4329 Год назад
Are u cursed or is there something u know u should do . And are not doing it . Go leave a treat for them
@jimgaston9863
@jimgaston9863 Год назад
Ancient knowledge is backed today by science,sage has many amazing properties including natural antidepressants and anti anxiety properties. As well as these feel good properties it is also has antifungal and anti microbial properties,add in vitamins,minerals and taste and mother earth has provided the perfect gift. 😊
@alanitonyc
@alanitonyc Год назад
Beautiful! Thank you for letting us stay in your lands. 🙂
@qwen
@qwen Год назад
Love the song!!
@peternakogee8449
@peternakogee8449 Год назад
my great grandfather was a shaman. He told his sons shamanism will come absolute because it won't be practised anymore. there will be fake shamans and they won't know how to do the practises of being a shaman. this will happen because of false teachers. God the creator and make will bless us all who believe in Him only. Jesus says Pray only to our Father.
@Inescapablefate
@Inescapablefate Год назад
Lovely 😊
@albaida8539
@albaida8539 Год назад
por favor, ¿ puede poner un ejemplo práctico? Supongamos que termina el verano y me acatarro y tengo 39 años. ¿como debo hacer para sanar según la Rueda de Salud?
@ARCADER-1999
@ARCADER-1999 Год назад
Thank you so much for the History of the Grass Dance! I am a Mixed Blood Tsalagi/ Cherokee and I am leaning all that I can.
@okjones8492
@okjones8492 Год назад
1. a grandmother 2. the beat is inconsistant yet constant, the vocals are noises but not lyrics, and the vocals "fall off", 3. the warror stomp dance. Carver McCaskill
@elizabethnahanee3285
@elizabethnahanee3285 Год назад
Exactly why I Jingle dance to pray 🙏
@Crazycoffingirl
@Crazycoffingirl Год назад
Thank you elder for that wonderful lesson i now feel more confident to smudge
@christopherjoseph4166
@christopherjoseph4166 Год назад
Hi papa❤😮
@Rose_Charboneau3619
@Rose_Charboneau3619 Год назад
Beautiful tutorial! Thank you. I have difficulty keeping my holes in a straight line. How do you keep them so perfect?
@mykelgreene911
@mykelgreene911 Год назад
I have pictures of them maybe that's why I'm cursed but I don't mind!
@ruebenhoule7160
@ruebenhoule7160 Год назад
Where is the photo
@JonDoeNeace
@JonDoeNeace 4 месяца назад
Whoa whoa whoa no no no hell no buddy you don't take pictures
@JonDoeNeace
@JonDoeNeace 4 месяца назад
The little people don't like being exposed.
@barr521
@barr521 Месяц назад
Can you share it? I remember seeing one, too, from a photo of that my classmate took. It's pure shadow. But I don't deny it. I don't deny the fact that it was actually a hatted, thin figure that looked very human. Only a figure. I'm still curious to this day.
@miramedicineway9672
@miramedicineway9672 Год назад
Migwetch Pilamayaye 🙏🏻❤️🦅
@mrj.r2908
@mrj.r2908 2 года назад
What do you do with the ashe from the smudge stick? Do you bury it? Wash it down the sink? Bin it? Hope you can help please, i don't want to do anything wrong thank you
@carolinakm3795
@carolinakm3795 2 года назад
Beautiful and a good thing to do in your spaces, I appreciate and am thankful to your wisdom! thank you!
@ThirdEyeThrifter
@ThirdEyeThrifter 2 года назад
Beautiful. Thank you…🪶