Fish on Friday. Stop. God to you tube and watch
Rich Hall - Inventing the Indian (2012 BBC documentary)
Why my brothers and sisters do I say to watch this. Well partly as it had my eyes leaking a few times at what atrocities we done to the native americans. Heck I know it wasnt just British white man that went there, but the Spanish and others, earlier the Vikings. Not sure about that last bit and I dont want to go off on a tangent..
The Ghost Dance was associated with Wilson's (Wovoka's) prophesy of a peaceful end to white expansion while preaching goals of clean living, an honest life, and cross-cultural cooperation by Native Americans. Practice of the Ghost Dance movement was believed to have contributed to Lakota resistance to assimilation under the Dawes Act. In the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, U.S. Army forces killed at least 153 Miniconjou and Hunkpapa from the Lakota people.[3] The Sioux variation on the Ghost Dance tended towards millenarianism, an innovation that distinguished the Sioux interpretation from Jack Wilson's original teachings. The Caddo Nation still practices the Ghost Dance today.
So I am sorry if I offend anyone who sees themselves as Christian and thinks I am being anti Christian when I tell you I would like to learn to Ghost dance. So you may be offended to know that I have done yoga exercises and meditation and Tai Chi. This may not be obvious to you, but I can be still and know I AM.
I hope not to offend anyone or everyone, but having brain damage means at times I do.. How about if I take a break from writing and post some of my art which you - after God and me - will be the first to see.
the love. Really feel the love. Come on Almighty, NOW.
Let me feel the love, be the love and share the love.
The Prophet[edit]
Jack Wilson, the prophet formerly known as Wovoka, was believed to have had a vision during a solar eclipse on January 1, 1889. It was reportedly not his first time experiencing a vision directly from God; but as a young adult, he claimed that he was then better equipped, spiritually, to handle this message. Jack had received training from an experienced holy man under his parents' guidance after they realized that he was having difficulty interpreting his previous visions. Jack was also training to be a "weather doctor", following in his father's footsteps. He was known throughout Mason Valley as a gifted and blessed young leader. Preaching a message of universal love, he often presided over circle dances, which symbolized the sun's heavenly path across the sky.
Anthropologist James Mooney conducted an interview with Wilson prior to 1892. Mooney confirmed that his message matched that given to his fellow aboriginal Americans.[2] This study compared letters between tribes. Wilson said he stood before God in heaven and had seen many of his ancestors engaged in their favorite pastimes. God showed Wilson a beautiful land filled with wild game and instructed him to return home to tell his people that they must love each other, not fight, and live in peace with the whites. God also stated that the people must work, not steal or lie, and that they must not engage in the old practices of war or the traditional self-mutilation practices connected with mourning the dead. God said that if his people abided by these rules, they would be united with their friends and family in the other world.
In God's presence, there would be no sickness, disease, or old age. Wilson was given the Ghost Dance and commanded to take it back to his people. He preached that if the five-day dance was performed in the proper intervals, the performers would secure their happiness and hasten the reunion of the living and deceased. Wilson said that God gave him powers over the weather and that he would be the deputy in charge of affairs in the western United States, leaving current President Harrison as God's deputy in the East. Jack claims that he was then told to return home and preach God's message.[2]
Jack Wilson claimed to have left the presence of God convinced that if every Indian in the West danced the new dance to "hasten the event", all evil in the world would be swept away, leaving a renewed Earth filled with food, love, and faith. Quickly accepted by his Paiute brethren, the new religion was termed "Dance In A Circle". Because the first European contact with the practice came by way of the Lakota, their expression Spirit Dance was adopted as a descriptive title for all such practices. This was subsequently translated as "Ghost Dance".[2]
Wounded Knee Massacre
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Art and religion are two words that have no equivalents in languages spoken by Native Americans. Yet these intensely spiritual people created objects for everyday use that are unsurpassed for sheer beauty, originality, and craftsmanship.
Quote by George Harrison, guitarist of The Beatles: "The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us" How about you my brothers and sisters, are you
with George and me on this one?
Mystics say the Native American practice of smudging, or purifying a room with the smoke of sacred herbs, can help clear negative energy from a space. And the apparent benefits are steeped in science—when burned, sage and other herbs release negative ions, which research has linked to a more positive mood. How amazing and I am going to take a break here. Now I am back having purified the small abode with incense sticks.
You have to look deeper, way below the anger, the hurt, the hate, the jealousy, the self-pity, way down deeper where the dreams lie, son. Find your dream. It's the pursuit of the dream that heals you.
- Billy Mills (father), Oglala Lakota (1938-)
ills , Oglala Lakota (1938-)
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 I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love. - Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota Sioux (1822-1909) |
In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.
- Iroquois Maxim (circa 1700-1800)
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
- Chief Seattle, Duwamish (1780-1866)
Quantum physicists are only recently catching up with what mystics have known for eons..
So my brothers and sisters, lets think good thoughts, speak good words and do good actions. We will reap what we sow.
When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.
Cree Prophecy
I pray my brothers and sisters that the great eternal spirit of true love will be with you now and always. Watch over us all and come into the hearts and minds of those of us who say, `Come Lord Jesus come. Holy Spirit of Love dwell in us and change us for all good.
Blessings, love and peace to you all and please pass this on. Ps. someone left a comment and when I try to reply to comments it just doesnt happen... Anyway this comment was asking if someone could post something on my blog! Well folks, if anyone wants to send pictures or word to petgkimb@gmail.com I will look at them and decide..
Blessings, love and peace to you all and please pass this on. Ps. someone left a comment and when I try to reply to comments it just doesnt happen... Anyway this comment was asking if someone could post something on my blog! Well folks, if anyone wants to send pictures or word to petgkimb@gmail.com I will look at them and decide..
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