Kagney Laporte
There is a warrior ceremony I've written about, and planted into the lives of young men that is important today in the dim light of Trayvon Martin's murder. It was given to me by a white man I befriended in the mountains of Virginia about a mile from the West Virginia border. He claims no Indian blood, but he was adopted by the late Ojibwa medicine man Bear Heart as his grandson, and Bear Heart, who'd been invited to teach there at Wolf Run, had passed a simple ritual for my friend to initiate white men of his ilk into manhood. It is simple, but challenging.
Four (4) men sit in each of the four directions. With a talking feather each are asked to ponder from their direction, and respond in turn to four questions.
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| November 26, 2012 |
There is a warrior ceremony I've written about, and planted into the lives of young men that is important today in the dim light of Trayvon Martin's murder. It was given to me by a white man I befriended in the mountains of Virginia about a mile from the West Virginia border. He claims no Indian blood, but he was adopted by the late Ojibwa medicine man Bear Heart as his grandson, and Bear Heart, who'd been invited to teach there at Wolf Run, had passed a simple ritual for my friend to initiate white men of his ilk into manhood. It is simple, but challenging.
Four (4) men sit in each of the four directions. With a talking feather each are asked to ponder from their direction, and respond in turn to four questions.
- East - What is honor?
- South - How do you protect the innocent?
- West - Who is your enemy?
- North - When is enough enough?
"The value we put on things determines our actions to acquire and resolve the issue." - anon
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