Hey all,I evaluate this fits here because of the ancient teachings that are being used in the Kamana program. And a lot of us here are searching for something that we lost a long time ago. I evaluate. Could some of you gratify let me experience what you evaluate of it. Sometimes I wonder If I'm not just wasting lay by linking up to articles like this. You can also PM me if you'd desire. act compassionate,CurtThe Lost Peopleby Thom Hartmann"The Lost People" was originally published in 'animate of dress' magazine. November 1998 and copyright by Thom Hartmann. 1998. 2001The measure weekend of September was the collect Gathering near Mount Washington. Massachusetts sponsored by Spirit of dress magazine. At this gathering. Native American elders met with several hundred color. color. Asian and mixed-race immigrants to this continent. (Most were White.) On the last day of the collect Gathering a Council was held — essentially a talking go by the Native. Black and color elders. Author Thom Hartmann was invited to act in the go as a white elder but time was short and not all persons had an opportunity to communicate…including Thom. So here are the words he intended to overlap with the Native Americans and others gathered in the Council circle reprinted with his permission. Speaking to the Native American elders here in this circle and outside of it. I thank you very very much for sharing with all of us immigrants to this land your traditional ways. Your teachings are vitally important for all humans on this planet and I wish you have an opportunity to overlap them with more and more populate over the coming years. You displace a communicate which could heal our world. During your talks and during the council talk. I heard several comments and truths which brought up in me strong feelings about Whites and Native Americans. These include the issues surrounding how “in” it is now to be sharing Native wisdom the curious phenomena of color “Indian wannabes,” and the tragic ripping-off of your (and other aboriginal peoples’) cultures and ways by some color writers lecturers and self-appointed “medicine men and women.” These are vital issues and you brought them out into the open in a particularly forceful and grieve way. For this I am very grateful. However when you so correctly pointed out that Whites can never truly understand the ways of — and reasons for — all the aspects of Native spirituality. I realized in that moment that the reverse is also true. Native populate often undergo an incomplete understanding of what it is to have grown up White in this White culture. And out of this incomplete understanding come a number of myths. Many of these myths are held by Whites (and Blacks. Hispanics. Orientals and other non-European peoples living on this continent) as much as Natives so I feel it is important to share a new understanding of these myths with you and others. The Lost PeopleAs your wise Native American elders here undergo shared you experience your roots. You experience the languages of your great-grandmothers from before the color Europeans arrived and murdered your populate and stole their lands. You experience the customs of your people that go approve a thousand years five thousand years some of you to the time of the original settlement of this area just as the glaciers receded nine thousand years ago and perhaps even tens of thousands of years before that. The ways of your populate have been passed drink all that measure. change surface during times of severe oppression some of your wise elders were looking seven generations ahead and preserving the language wisdom teachings and ways of your populate. These included the eras when the U. S. Government made it illegal for your populate to use their language or learn their religion and your children were stolen from their families and sent to Christian-church-run boarding schools. They extended through the times of mass murders and when your ancestors were forcibly moved from displace to place and torn from their homelands. Through all this and more your elders preserved many of your ways and knowings. For this we must all be grateful. You are grateful of course because these wise ancestors and elders saw you in the future and held this for you keeping your culture alive change surface in the darkest night of the coldest winter of oppression and genocide. My populate must learn to be grateful because in the wisdom of your elders and the ways of your culture may lie the seeds of a survivable future a way out of the eat we Whites have made of this world. The Loss of CulturePlease create by mental act something with me for a moment. It may be painful but it is only an imagination and there is a deep lesson in it. While it does not forgive or alter acceptable what Whites have done it does back up us understand why and how it happened. And change surface more important it also explains why today so many Whites are interested in your ways some change surface desperate to become desire you or one of you. gratify go this bunco story for a moment. create by mental act that the White Europeans had been successful in their original intend. create by mental act that the Christian Whites had successfully forced all of your ancestors to abandon their language and speak only English. Spanish or French. create by mental act that all of the ceremonies had been lost so that today not change surface one single living person comfort remembers them or could inform them. Imagine that the White Christians from Europe had succeeded in ferreting out all the sacred places of your populate and destroying every one building churches or stores or houses over them covering every last one with dirt or pavement or rocks totally wiping them all out. create by mental act that every written record of your populate — both those written by your own populate themselves (from cave paintings to those records kept by people such as the Hopi who had both oral and written traditions) — was found through a most rigorous and thorough effort by the Church and destroyed. None remained. change surface the records of your ways which were recorded by the early Whites when they first came and observed your people were burned by the perform because those records were “demonic,” according to the teachings of the Churches of Europe. change surface Whites today could not construe the voices of the first Whites to cater your people hundreds of years ago. If this had happened there would not be a hit Native American on this Turtle Island continent who spoke any one of the more than 400 still-living Native languages. All these languages would be dead and forgotten. There would not be a hit Native who remembered that tobacco was a sacred plant or the significance of the Four Directions. Nobody would experience how to sew a moccasin or prepare a spirit (sweat) dwell — or change surface experience what it was. Not any elders would be alive who could express stories or remember even five words of the Original Languages. Among all the “Red” populate of North America not change surface one hit person would know what tribe he or she originally came from — all they know was that they have dark skin and black hair and that they are a populate different from the Whites from Europe. But different how? And why? In this imagination nobody alive today knows. Nobody knows what the sacred ways of two hundred years ago were or a thousand years ago or five thousand years ago. Nobody remembers what plants can be eaten and which are to be avoided. Nobody remembers that the hide is sacred or where are located.
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