Welcome Fox Island
Washington
While looking for
information about
What is the Sacred
Circle for the Natives?
To one of our many
postings on this subject.
Native American
Sacred Circle
2/26/12
Please remember that
you are on the west coast of 'Indian Country,' and our people are on the east
coast.
You did come to one
of our sites so, I am answering you about our people.
While looking for
your answer you may have run across this answer
"The Medicine
Wheel is representative of American Indian Spirituality".
A much more correct
answer should have been
"The Medicine
Wheel is representative of American Indian
of the Plains for
Spirituality."
Because, in the East
Coast,
at least in my
experience, from the earlier 1940's
until the middle
1990's (I am 75 today 05/07/2016) nothing was known about the '
Lakota Medicine
Wheel'.
We have the Paw-Paus
Sacred Circle.
Since the middle
1980's my elders, now ancestors, added a form of Pow-wow that is a spin-off of
our "Sacred
Circle," with changes to allow people not of our tribe to enjoy dance.
It is true that my
Grandfather (Sachem) Shechaim OhjieshanTallfox
did visit many
Plains Indian tribes and was invited to a few Sacred Ceremonies, as have I.
However, he and our
ancestors taught the Paw-Paus and so do I!
There is nothing
wrong with their Medicine Wheel;
I just never saw it
in my travels up and down the East Coast
within any Sacred
Circle in that time period?
With the now easy
travel, Internet, and Indian Casinos, this also brought other forms of culture
over to the east.
We are pleased to be
able to teach as much as possible about our traditional ancestors.
As you may or may
not see while traveling around the internet,
some teaching about
our people
will not compute (is
no where need the same ), as what the elders taught as the true culture and
ceremonies.
Many times it is
being taught by non-native people
or
someone not from our
tribe!
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Taw-but-ni
(Thank-you) for your questions
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