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Dear Red Fox,I'm sorry I couldn't get here sooner. I had classes today and some other places I had to be.
I am so sorry about what has happened, and I am praying that this matter will be resolved quickly!
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In light of the present circumstances, I found this and wanted to share it with my friends here.
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American Indian Thanksgiving Protest: A Day of Mourning
Cassandra Brabon
When we were young, we learned that Thanksgiving Day was a time to celebrate family and friends coming together. It was a time to learn about and celebrate when the Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock and how the American Indians helped them. It was a time when everyone feasted on turkey, corn-on-the-cob, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. Has everything we have known about Thanksgiving been a lie? If you do some digging, you will find that the food we feast on today with our families wasn’t even on the menu for the Pilgrims’ and American Indians’ first feast. The most surprising thing that I found, however, was that some American Indians are objecting to Thanksgiving Day – the very day many Americans celebrate in their honor. American Indian protests against Thanksgiving began in Massachusetts in the 1970s. Every Thanksgiving Day, protestors gather at the top of Cole’s Hill, which overlooks Plymouth Rock. This is in honor of Wamsutta James, who, in 1970, was the first person to demonstrate Cole’s Hill and protest of the injustices that the American Indians had endured. Such injustices include the capturing and selling of American Indians as slaves; the robbing of their ancestor’s graves; the theft of their winter food provisions; the taking of their lands and culture; and depriving them of their freedom. Since the day James’ speech was given, Thanksgiving Day for American Indians has become the “National Day of Mourning.” . . . .
To read the rest of this article, please go to the following site: Michigan Tech Lode.
Cassandra Brabon
When we were young, we learned that Thanksgiving Day was a time to celebrate family and friends coming together. It was a time to learn about and celebrate when the Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock and how the American Indians helped them. It was a time when everyone feasted on turkey, corn-on-the-cob, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. Has everything we have known about Thanksgiving been a lie? If you do some digging, you will find that the food we feast on today with our families wasn’t even on the menu for the Pilgrims’ and American Indians’ first feast. The most surprising thing that I found, however, was that some American Indians are objecting to Thanksgiving Day – the very day many Americans celebrate in their honor. American Indian protests against Thanksgiving began in Massachusetts in the 1970s. Every Thanksgiving Day, protestors gather at the top of Cole’s Hill, which overlooks Plymouth Rock. This is in honor of Wamsutta James, who, in 1970, was the first person to demonstrate Cole’s Hill and protest of the injustices that the American Indians had endured. Such injustices include the capturing and selling of American Indians as slaves; the robbing of their ancestor’s graves; the theft of their winter food provisions; the taking of their lands and culture; and depriving them of their freedom. Since the day James’ speech was given, Thanksgiving Day for American Indians has become the “National Day of Mourning.” . . . .
To read the rest of this article, please go to the following site: Michigan Tech Lode.
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This is a re-post of my first post here.
Welcome to Red Foxes Talking Circle. This club is open to all. Its purpose is to bring believers from all walks of life, despite their race, color, gender, or age, together for encouragement and support. It is open to help bring forth forgiveness, reconciliation and healing from the wounds of the past. All people are welcome to join with the understanding that there will be no criticism of Indigenous spirituality allowed. There will be no debating allowed. Please be respectful of others.
It is time to heal the wounds of racism. Many indigenous peoples the world over have creation stories about a Sacred Hoop that originally encircled the world and all the creatures, rocks, and plants within it as Relations. Through human actions including enslavement and exploitation, forced relocation of whole populations, pollution of water, air and earth, pillage of natural resources and indiscriminate destruction of animal and human habitats, the Sacred Hoop has been broken.
Today our world faces a crisis as never before in human history. Everywhere people are hurting and killing each other because they are different colors, speak different languages, follow different religions. In addition, because of our technological "advances," we are literally capable of making the planet uninhabitable for ourselves.
Many people are working to address pieces of the problem, but few (other than indigenous elders) are asking the question: How may the Sacred Hoop be mended? We suggest that the spiritual perspective of the Old Ways is an important resource for people working to affect change, to help us see how our pieces of the work are connected in a larger framework, and to support healing on both personal and societal levels.
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Welcome to Red Foxes Talking Circle. This club is open to all. Its purpose is to bring believers from all walks of life, despite their race, color, gender, or age, together for encouragement and support. It is open to help bring forth forgiveness, reconciliation and healing from the wounds of the past. All people are welcome to join with the understanding that there will be no criticism of Indigenous spirituality allowed. There will be no debating allowed. Please be respectful of others.
We are a voice of peace and reconciliation.
We are vessels to usher in forgiveness and healing.
We are vessels to usher in forgiveness and healing.
It is time to heal the wounds of racism. Many indigenous peoples the world over have creation stories about a Sacred Hoop that originally encircled the world and all the creatures, rocks, and plants within it as Relations. Through human actions including enslavement and exploitation, forced relocation of whole populations, pollution of water, air and earth, pillage of natural resources and indiscriminate destruction of animal and human habitats, the Sacred Hoop has been broken.
Today our world faces a crisis as never before in human history. Everywhere people are hurting and killing each other because they are different colors, speak different languages, follow different religions. In addition, because of our technological "advances," we are literally capable of making the planet uninhabitable for ourselves.
Many people are working to address pieces of the problem, but few (other than indigenous elders) are asking the question: How may the Sacred Hoop be mended? We suggest that the spiritual perspective of the Old Ways is an important resource for people working to affect change, to help us see how our pieces of the work are connected in a larger framework, and to support healing on both personal and societal levels.
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I am accused of spreading hate. I do not believe I am though. I am guessing it is because what I write is unsettling and it causes people to face the realities of the racism, oppression and near annihiliation of the Indigenous people of North America. What I write causes people to confront the past sins done in G-ds' name to the American Indians and the First Nations people of Canada. The atrocities were committed by people claiming to be doing G-ds' will through Manifest Destiny and their religion. A wise friend told me recently that sometimes the truth hurts. But I do not apologize for speaking the truth of what happened to my Ancestors and what is still happening to the Indigenous people of North America today. It has been ignored for far too long by the majority of society and unfortunately, by the majority of the Christian Church. And although it is not my intent to purposely offend, I will continue to bring a heightened awareness to the atrocities done under the guise of Christianity. I will continue to bring a heightened awareness to the racism and oppression that still exists against these people today. And I will continue to walk the path of peace and reconciliation. Now I fully understand that what was done cannot be changed but the racism and oppression still exists today. The lands of the American Indians were taken and they were forced onto reservations. Even the reservations and "Indian Territory" was taken over and settled although the land was given to Native Americans to live. Indian Removal Acts, forced removals (Trail of Tears) the theft of land through treaties which were violated again and again (over 400 treaties), massacres (Sand Creek, Wounded Knee), starvation, biochemical warfare (blankets infected with smallpox), lynches (Lynching and Violence in American Culture) - President Lincoln hanging 303 Sioux Indians without due process, without trials (read about it here, Genocide of Natives). These few examples are only the tip of the ice berg. My voice cannot be silenced by adversity or by idle threats. An elder once told me that we live what we believe and the rest is just religious talk. It is my belief that "Evil prospers when good men do nothing."
"If people are genuinely interested in honoring Indians, try getting your government to live up to the more than 400 treaties it signed with our nations. Try respecting our religious freedom which has been repeatedly denied in federal courts. Try stopping the ongoing theft of Indian water and other natural resources. Try reversing your colonial process that relegates us to the most impoverished, polluted, and desperate conditions in this country...Try understanding that the mascot issue is only the tip of a very huge problem of continuing racisim against American Indians. Then maybe your ["honors"] will mean something. Until then, it's just so much superficial, hypocritical puffery. People should remember that an honor isn't born when it parts the honorer's lips, it is born when it is accepted in the honoree's ear." -- Glenn T. Morris, AIM Colorado
"If people are genuinely interested in honoring Indians, try getting your government to live up to the more than 400 treaties it signed with our nations. Try respecting our religious freedom which has been repeatedly denied in federal courts. Try stopping the ongoing theft of Indian water and other natural resources. Try reversing your colonial process that relegates us to the most impoverished, polluted, and desperate conditions in this country...Try understanding that the mascot issue is only the tip of a very huge problem of continuing racisim against American Indians. Then maybe your ["honors"] will mean something. Until then, it's just so much superficial, hypocritical puffery. People should remember that an honor isn't born when it parts the honorer's lips, it is born when it is accepted in the honoree's ear." -- Glenn T. Morris, AIM Colorado
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It is not my intent to be malicious or to be offensive to anyone. I am making modifications in an attempt to not offend, and I will continue to make reasonable efforts not to. I pray for peace to be restored here.
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For the sake of peace between myself and the person offended, I apologize for any offense I may have caused. Please accept my apology. But I ask for this person not to contact me again, so this disagreement can be laid to rest. In the wise words of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, "I will fight no more forever." I will not argue or be drawn into an argument.
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My own heart tells me that the path I walk is a personal journey to be shared. Many may agree or disagree. I believe that to walk this path my heart has to be open to fault. I must see with my soul, and my heart must be open to pain, and I must be guided by the Great Spirit. The Great Spirit speaks through my ancestry, my husband, my children, my friends, and through creation. And through these I learn what task I must complete before it is my turn to die. Through my journey I have learned that I am not perfect and it is ok to grow from one mistakes. I have learned that others will try to judge me, but only the Great Spirit can do so. I have learned that to open my heart may hurt, but it is the Great Spirit that heals. I have learned that my faults are lessons learned and taught to others. I have learned that no human being is reliable if they do not believe they are so. I have learned to trust what is good. I have learned that running from a problem will only make others suffer. I have learned to bring others before me, open my arms to them and allow them to share my abundance. I have learned I am still learning. I have learned that what I have learned from my elders I must share with those who are young. I have learned that being selfish does not make me better, it makes me weaker. In my journey, I have learned that to grieve is not selfish. I have learned many things on my journey, and I will continue to open my heart, and my soul, so that my spirit can rest in the arms of Creator. This is the path that was chosen for me, and it is a road I choose freely.
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Welcome to Red Foxes Talking Circle. This club is open to all believers in Christ, no matter the color of skin, race, or gender. Its purpose is to bring believers from all walks of life, despite their denomination, race, color, gender, or age, together for fellowship, encouragement, and support. It is open to help bring forth forgiveness, reconciliation and healing from the wounds of the past. All followers of Jesus are welcome to join with the understanding that there will be no criticism of Indigenous spirituality allowed.
We are a voice of peace and reconciliation.
We are vessels to usher in forgiveness and healing.
It is time to heal the wounds of racism.
Many indigenous peoples the world over have creation stories about a Sacred Hoop that originally encircled the world and all the creatures, rocks, and plants within it as Relations. Through human actions including enslavement and exploitation, forced relocation of whole populations, pollution of water, air and earth, pillage of natural resources and indiscriminate destruction of animal and human habitats, the Sacred Hoop has been broken.
Today our world faces a crisis as never before in human history. Everywhere people are hurting and killing each other because they are different colors, speak different languages, follow different religions. In addition, because of our technological "advances," we are literally capable of making the planet uninhabitable for ourselves.
Many people are working to address pieces of the problem, but few (other than indigenous elders) are asking the question: How may the Sacred Hoop be mended? We suggest that the spiritual perspective of the Old Ways is an important resource for people working to affect change, to help us see how our pieces of the work are connected in a larger framework, and to support healing on both personal and societal levels.
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What can I say ... some few people care that the seas are acid from industry and the motor car and transport and mechanised agriculture, but not enough to save the sea ecosystems which keep the land alive ... the food of all sea life, the corals and phytoplankton , are dying, perhaps half coral gone already , the rest of the sea will follow with no food ...
Species cannot keep up with the enormous rate of change man is imposing upon nature , measurements show things are changing FOUR times to fast for the limits of many creatures and plants , they just never encountered such rate of change ever before, they have no defence and are just dying ...
Some species are known to have critical roles in the cycle of life, the recycling of all the elements upon which human life too depends... the band is indeed broken , the cycle of life is ending, and men who alone could stop the madness of killing ourselves by destroying almost all nature which gave us food, simply mostly do nothing, but continue the ways that make it worse , not changing even now we know many hundreds of thousands of humans died because of it too... billions to follow in terrible mass starvation, wars, and plagues...
We cannot stop it ... it is God's wrath, the proof that unloving ways do not work... God requires it shown that He was right, that love is the only way... thus our choosing unloving ways must fail in this terrible manner, men must be allowed to see we were wrong, before God creates a new earth and heaven where men live loving lives as ONE with him, and God comes to live with men again...
Isaiah 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
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Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
2 Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away...
Those who are perfected in love through trial in this life will be taken to spirit, but there will only be tens of thousands of them from ten billion men and more that ever lived ... this then the re-making of the band , a new earth and heavens
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Hello, everyone. This is an interesting thread. I have to wonder if we really are all so very different, or not. I believe any differences are mainly between our ears. When in college we studied cultural anthropology, and found out the reason why people act differently, think differently, and put barriers up because of those differences. How we must shed those ideas and learn from each other.
Well, I have three Cherokee ancestors. If only there were some way of learning their stories. At this time I do not even know their names, but this I will learn when I do further research, hopefully.
In the college studies we learned some of the wise sayings of Chief Joseph. His wisdom was quite impressive.
Has anyone here read the book, "Lakota Woman" by Mary Crow Dog? It seems to be very popular. It was a required reading in one of my classes, and I kept the book.
Anyway, it's nice meeting everyone here.
Well, I have three Cherokee ancestors. If only there were some way of learning their stories. At this time I do not even know their names, but this I will learn when I do further research, hopefully.
In the college studies we learned some of the wise sayings of Chief Joseph. His wisdom was quite impressive.
Has anyone here read the book, "Lakota Woman" by Mary Crow Dog? It seems to be very popular. It was a required reading in one of my classes, and I kept the book.
Anyway, it's nice meeting everyone here.
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Welcome to my talking circle, my friend. No, I have not read that book, but I will seek it out. I am honored to meet you.
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I am honored to meet you, too. I do recommend that book to read.
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I went to dictionary.com and entered "Wakan Takan," to see what I could learn, and this is what it brought up. Notice that two of your entries, Red Fox, are listed!:
"There are no dictionary entries for Wakan Takan
Web Results for: Wakan Takan
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Every dawn as it comes is a holy event, and every day is holy, for the light
comes from your Father Wakan-Takan; and also you must always remember that the ...
www.marcinequenzer.com
Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Wakan Takan
Wakan Takan is the supreme deity, personified as the Creator of the world and
all things in it, a hermaphrodite being that brought forth men and women from ...
andrejkoymasky.com
White Buffalo!
From Wakan-Tanka, the Great Mystery, comes all power. It is from Wakan-Takan that
the holy man has wisdom and the power to heal and make holy charms. ...
www.sacredwhitebuffalo.org
EAGLE BONE WHISTLE
The sound of the eagle bone whistle can be heard by the Great Spirit (Wakan Takan).
Click here to purchase a Eagle Bone Whistle replica- excellent quality ...
9waysmysteryschool.tripod.com
Wakan Takan - Indigo Children - tribe.net
Wakan Takan. topic posted Wed, October 24, 2007 - 7:01 PM by Unsubscribed ...
Re: Wakan Takan. Wed, October 24, 2007 - 7:02 PM. TAG... YOU'RE IT. ...
indigochildren.tribe.net
Prayer for reaching the indigenous people for Christ - Page 10 ...
Hear my cries to you, Father Wakan Takan, for you are the Great Spirit, ...
I pray once more to you, Father Wakan Takan, and I ask for you to guide my ...
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I have walked this sacred path for many moons, and each step brings me spiritually
closer to my Father, Wakan Takan. I am told that I should not call G-d by ...
foru.ms
NAHA // Norwegian-American Studies
The Indians do so because, Bad Wound says, “the Indian people feel the power of
Wakan Takan, the Great Spirit in the sun. Greeting the sun as it rises in ...
www.stolaf.edu
Hollow_Bones
I knew then that I was ready to serve Wakan-Takan well, and I held up my hands
to offer my thanksgiving and to tell Him how happy I was. ...
www.geocities.com
MySpace.com - Wambli Iye - 42 - Female - exeter, East - www ...
(I greet you from my heart) Wakan Takan kici un! (May the Great Spirit Bless
you)" Female 42 years old exeter, East United Kingdom Last Login: 11/12/2007 ...
profile.myspace.com"
"There are no dictionary entries for Wakan Takan
Web Results for: Wakan Takan
Results 1-10 Next »
Related Ads:
Sioux Indian Chiefs
Great Sioux Reservation
Lakota Sioux
Sioux Rosebud
Sioux Tribes
1-10 of about 96 results. Search took 0.36 seconds. Powered by
Native American Artwork by Marcine Quenzer
Every dawn as it comes is a holy event, and every day is holy, for the light
comes from your Father Wakan-Takan; and also you must always remember that the ...
www.marcinequenzer.com
Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Wakan Takan
Wakan Takan is the supreme deity, personified as the Creator of the world and
all things in it, a hermaphrodite being that brought forth men and women from ...
andrejkoymasky.com
White Buffalo!
From Wakan-Tanka, the Great Mystery, comes all power. It is from Wakan-Takan that
the holy man has wisdom and the power to heal and make holy charms. ...
www.sacredwhitebuffalo.org
EAGLE BONE WHISTLE
The sound of the eagle bone whistle can be heard by the Great Spirit (Wakan Takan).
Click here to purchase a Eagle Bone Whistle replica- excellent quality ...
9waysmysteryschool.tripod.com
Wakan Takan - Indigo Children - tribe.net
Wakan Takan. topic posted Wed, October 24, 2007 - 7:01 PM by Unsubscribed ...
Re: Wakan Takan. Wed, October 24, 2007 - 7:02 PM. TAG... YOU'RE IT. ...
indigochildren.tribe.net
Prayer for reaching the indigenous people for Christ - Page 10 ...
Hear my cries to you, Father Wakan Takan, for you are the Great Spirit, ...
I pray once more to you, Father Wakan Takan, and I ask for you to guide my ...
foru.ms
Living Without Rezervation - Page 6 - Foru.ms Forums
I have walked this sacred path for many moons, and each step brings me spiritually
closer to my Father, Wakan Takan. I am told that I should not call G-d by ...
foru.ms
NAHA // Norwegian-American Studies
The Indians do so because, Bad Wound says, “the Indian people feel the power of
Wakan Takan, the Great Spirit in the sun. Greeting the sun as it rises in ...
www.stolaf.edu
Hollow_Bones
I knew then that I was ready to serve Wakan-Takan well, and I held up my hands
to offer my thanksgiving and to tell Him how happy I was. ...
www.geocities.com
MySpace.com - Wambli Iye - 42 - Female - exeter, East - www ...
(I greet you from my heart) Wakan Takan kici un! (May the Great Spirit Bless
you)" Female 42 years old exeter, East United Kingdom Last Login: 11/12/2007 ...
profile.myspace.com"
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"When the Pilgrims settled (1620) at Plymouth, the Wampanoag, although reduced by the pestilence of 1617, were powerful, living in some 30 villages. Their chief, Massasoit, was very friendly to the settlers. His son, Metacom (Philip), however, was the central figure of the deadliest war with the colonists, King Philip's War (1675). The victory of the English brought ruin to the tribe. The Wampanoag were harried almost out of existence, the remnant consolidating with the Saconnet."
(from: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/tgturkey1.html )
(from: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/tgturkey1.html )
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"King Philip's War, 1675–76, the most devastating war between the colonists and the Native Americans in New England. The war is named for King Philip, the son of Massasoit and chief of the Wampanoag. His Wampanoag name was Metacom, Metacomet, or Pometacom. Upon the death (1662) of his brother, Alexander (Wamsutta), whom the Native Americans suspected the English of murdering, Philip became sachem and maintained peace with the colonists for a number of years. Hostility eventually developed over the steady succession of land sales forced on the Native Americans by their growing dependence on English goods. Suspicious of Philip, the English colonists in 1671 questioned and fined him and demanded that the Wampanoag surrender their arms, which they did. In 1675 a Christian Native American who had been acting as an informer to the English was murdered, probably at Philip's instigation. Three Wampanoags were tried for the murder and executed. Incensed by this act, the Native Americans in June, 1675, made a sudden raid on the border settlement of Swansea. Other raids followed; towns were burned and many whites — men, women, and children — were slain. Unable to draw the Native Americans into a major battle, the colonists resorted to similar methods of warfare in retaliation and antagonized other tribes. The Wampanoag were joined by the Nipmuck and by the Narragansett (after the latter were attacked by the colonists), and soon all the New England colonies were involved in the war. Philip's cause began to decline after he made a long journey west in an unsuccessful attempt to secure aid from the Mohawk. In 1676 the Narragansett were completely defeated and their chief, Canonchet, was killed in April of that year; the Wampanoag and Nipmuck were gradually subdued. Philip's wife and son were captured, and he was killed (Aug., 1676) by a Native American in the service of Capt. Benjamin Church after his hiding place at Mt. Hope (Bristol, R.I.) was betrayed. His body was drawn and quartered and his head exposed on a pole in Plymouth. The war, which was extremely costly to the colonists in people and money, resulted in the virtual extermination of tribal Native American life in S New England and the disappearance of the fur trade. The New England Confederation then had the way completely clear for white settlement."
(from: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0827703.html)
(from: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0827703.html)
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