Question to our Closed Ears

“Our Grandmother will restore herself and all her children. The winds will be there, the mountains and the plains will be there, and the thunder spirits and the cleansing rain clouds. All our relatives will be there, the green things and the wingeds and the four-leggeds, those that swim in the seas and crawl through the soil, those that live in both water and air, those which inch along on their bellies, and those which hop or leap or jump or soar. Every living being that follows the instructions laid down by the Great Mystery will be there. Human beings are the only creatures not following those mandates, so the question is, will we be part of Grandmother Earth’s restoration?”

~ Russell Means from "Where White Men Fear to Tread" 



Dawn Wolf (seated) in ceremony at Shanelle Gayden's house with men assembled
 on purpose to learn & share manhood teachings. 3.20.16

The Lakota have a saying “only the rocks will last forever.” But, there is a thought that perhaps we are not meant to stay here forever. Perhaps we have exaggerated our existence, our worth? What is indisputable is the legacy of the whites to Mother Earth, and how we were forced to absorb and wear the cloth they wore that dishonored the Earth, our Mother and diminished the powers of restoration, our ways, and Medicines, and our relationship with Powers taught us in the long ago!

 

Now, in need of restoration can we open up to the Powers, and how will Closed Ears open to the questions directed at our existence upon the Earth, our Mother?

 

How we answer and respond is our prophecy. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (4.6.16)

Big Hand, a (Sioux -Arikara) medicine man.

Big Hand, a (Sioux -Arikara) medicine man. Big Hand was known to have powers to fly into the air and to bilocate. Big Hand Lived to ripe old age well past 100 years,he had a son named Flying At Night who could also fly but would only do so at night. Big Hand could also see into the future and foretold an Iron Horse coming; he said it will run on an Iron road with many strange people upon it,today what we know as the train and railroad tracks. - Vine Deloria Jr. author  
 

SPIRITUAL & POLITICAL ACTIVISM

Russell Means & Leonard Crow Dog at Wounded Knee

“Political activism and spirituality are relatives, and for the sake of survival it made no sense to pretend and adopt the white man's ideas and practices of separation to remain sovereign. That would have been a trap, a cultural trap that would have crippled any of our gains. Even though there are many literary pieces interpreting the spiritual and practical outlook of Native peoples Western sense of order and separation keeps most Americans out of relationship with these webs that hold Life together and the dances of each part of Life moving uniquely.


A lot of scorn is heaped upon people, and a People who see activism, and Spirit, church and state, conception and Life, etc. as one. In American culture the circular view of living with everything is absurd and at best cute in a movie like Lion King. The circular view of living with everything is fundamental to the survival of the many sovereign nations. Merging is another survival tool as viable as a Western education, a peyote ceremony, the Pipe, and an economic plan for ones’ nation…” –Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Leonard Crow Dog in sweatlodge by Richard Erdoes