Worst of all were the golden rainbows that we could see in the clear water under the hemlocks. 3. I put it, folded, under my ejection seat when I flew a mission. All occurrences are influenced by this one Creator. Despite our high volunteer ratio in combat units during times of war, we are not depicted. If you are on the battlefront of worldly change and you are worried about what people will say about you, compose lamenting poems! I also find a lack of deviousness, almost a total absence of dishonesty among Rainbows. Turn to the west and be thankful for the life-giving rains that come predominantly with the winds from the west. I know I have done this in many lives before, and with my old friend’s guidance, I have remembered the way. An explosion of positive world change has continued. So we who honor Mother Earth, as did the natural people, must look past this spot to the plains of old. The day before we began our journey from Minneapolis, my uncle asked me if he could bring along a friend. The priest then rushed to the microphone to stir up his followers, but he was sent packing and we went on with our ceremony without having to dilute it or cater to his beliefs. I was really rooting for the sun to come and win the battle of night and day, but he seemed like a reluctant warrior. Ed had told me about a medicine that Fools Crow had shown him some years before after a Sun Dance. We are much more dependent upon that world than we realize. You can feel the magnificent power of the eagle if you are ever fortunate enough to observe it. Their attitude, knowledge-seeking, and—probably—the location caused a startling event to happen within a sweat lodge. He made some and we all had a cup. At that time, the leader gives you instructions on how to prepare for the Hanblecheya, on the making of tobacco ties and prayer flags, on how to prepare 99 100 / Rainbow Tribe your personal songs, and on what to take with you. We had a blue tarp with which we were going to cover the sweat lodge. 2. That’s as near as I can interpret for now. The process of the Sweat Lodge Ceremony was giving each of us the opportunity to connect with a vital part inside of us and bring it out to offer up for union with something greater than ourselves. Others were teachers, artists, counselors, chiropractors, salespeople, housewives, entrepreneurs, and regular working people. I acquired a red stone pipe made by Big Eagle, and also a red stone arrowhead made by Betty at the Little Feather Indian Center in Pipestone, Minnesota, on Saturday morning. When I got home and read it, so much was double-checked for me. Northern cedar was there, its scent jogging my olfactory memory back to fishing cottages my parents rented during our summer vacations. A rainbow haze filled my mind with thoughts of Tankashilah, the Grandfathers. So for me, Native American spirituality was an area full of questions. Although Eagle Man told us what to do, he did not supervise every aspect. Startling world changes are occurring and, like Rainbow spirituality, they are fostered by communication and knowledge. Ed McGaa / 241 Fools Crow stared through me, but it was not unlike the stare I had seen in his powerful Yuwipi and during the piercing of the Sun Dance. These ceremonies were: 1. The buckskin rattles that had accompanied Amos Lone Hill’s song fell to the floor, silent. We circled to land and were met formally by a marching contingent of Sioux warriors who were members of the American Legion and the VFW. I saw many faces in the stone cliffs and formations, and felt that the spirits were alive. My daughter Margaret and I * This particular view is not shared by the author relative to these modern times. The pitfalls are many, but the rewards are great. How close a people can come to the Creator’s harmony will decide the reach of the power within a ceremony. Lights flashed on the ceiling. Many two-leggeds (human beings) share the belief that there is one beginning in this universe. FOOLS CROW’S YUWIPI A gray Marine fighter bomber hung motionless in the clear Vietnamese sky. Ross, Allen Charles. I know little about astrology and astronomy but cannot downplay it since the constellations are also designed by the Ultimate. I settled into my spot with the pipe in my hands and once again addressed the directions. As the dipper in the lodge held earth water, the star dipper holds spiritual water in its limitless space. And a renewed appreciation for the works of Flaming Rainbow was in the wind as the birds gathered. It must have looked pretty silly to him to see us struggling. I call on tribal peoples to understand the need for the rest of the world, the non-Indian world, to improve its philosophy and spirituality by observing the wisdom of the Natural Way. He did not have the knowledge that he later acquired. Ed told me that he had quite a vivid experience soon after we bedded down. Finally, he stood ready to be bound. Ed McGaa / 45 Some historians have sought to link Maya, Inca, and Aztec temple architecture to the man-made mounds of the Mississippi and Ohio valleys. After several minutes (which seemed like decades) I came back down to earth, or to this dimension, whichever is more accurate. I also have much more respect for an atheist who realizes that we all need to protect Mother Earth than I do for an ardent religious fanatic who believes that Man has dominion over Nature and that this dominion gives him license to pollute and not be concerned with world population growth. They too have discovered the visible six powers of the universe and are now relating these daily entities in balance, acknowledgment, and kinship. It means “all my relatives,” and it contains within it the key to the Lakota view of the world. Turn to the south and think of growth, shelter, and healing. When Fools Crow went to the closet for his medicine bundle, it was a signal for the women to push back the furniture and draw the curtains. Dunham saw dance as a tool of liberation, as a way for people of African descent to reclaim their history and forge a new future. I was there because of the people of times past, the people with whom I was related and now am once again related; my journey was for the Lakota. Maybe humans crossed from east to west. We cannot be liars to ourselves and to those around us! It is all mystery but human beings, who like to analyze and classify, call it reincarnation. There are more and more people who are now soaring like the eagle, observing and learning from all that is put before them. I look at the people on the street and think there go I in a different face. Máme podrobné porovnanie. It is a gift from the spirit world, from the above-beings, from Little Crow. We sat down in a bar and I told 26 / Rainbow Tribe them what was happening at our Sun Dance. I had to speak to the packed gymnasium. If there were only one sun, then that supposition could hold some merit, but such is not the case. Once your Rainbow service gets started you will be surprised at the amount of new people it will attract. I do not blame the tribe, however. She was a spirit who had camped at one time near the shores of Lake Minnetonka in that area. The lesson to be learned is that you cannot have an egghead, who lacks common sense, run a war in which your soldiers are suffering needless casualties. The tying rope was wrapped in a tight ball. McNamara, who used to be called the Whiz Kid, actually had a so-called electronic fence built on the DMZ (demilitarized zone) that was to somehow smugly eavesdrop on North Vietnamese troop movements. The night was cool and I wrapped my ancient wool blanket around me. I first met Bright Earth Warrior in a Native American cultural seminar. Not just any boots, but boots identical to the ones I was wearing that very moment. The trial is difficult but a sun dancer usually gets 168 / Rainbow Tribe his wish if he succeeds. We are excellent in Western society at segmenting our lives. The sun was just going down when we built the fire for the lodge. The preservation of pristine resources, for those of us who live here now and for the generations that will follow, was an added benefit. I have a new wotai now and it stands for a different purpose. “The Atlantic coast, from North Carolina up through New England, had no mounds, but beyond the Alleghenies they were everywhere.”7 The Atlantic coast, from North Carolina up through New England, is the area where the ancestors of the Sioux and the powerful Iroquois confederacy lived. I honorably took his feathers, claws, and skull. Without another word, his mother turns away from him and walks into the living room. As an African American woman, she broke barriers of race and gender, most notably as the founder of an important dance company that toured the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia for several decades. Robert Silverberg, The Mound Builders (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1970), pp. It was late in the afternoon before Ed finished some last-minute work, and when we went out to the car, there was Rex, Ed’s aging and well-loved pheasant dog, firmly attached to the back seat, panting gleefully, eager for the wheels to start turning. They had opened to us when they could see our sincerity. He said, “Wigmunke hey, Wigmunke oyate.” He meant to say that the rainbow was showing us where the Rainbow people were going to have their sweat lodge. Wind rustling through white pines, waves lapping on a rocky shore, bathing ancient granite, mergansers disappearing beneath the lake’s sun-speckled surface, all speak together in one breath, a breath that on this island we call Gitchi-Manitou. Reliable sources estimate that over one million copies of the book have been sold, and it is being reprinted in foreign languages, even Japanese. Along the way, he stopped at the Cheyenne River and had people search for a wotai, a talisman. Pray to them because those people are your relatives. I was called Ta Oyate Duta, His Red Nation, and also Chetan Wahkamani,4 Hawk Who Hunts Walking, Little Crow. She observed a change in his manner when she said, “Not at all. Then, at the sweat by the edge of our pond, many of us used crystals or wotai stones, offering them to the four directions. You must always be aware of keeping peace. Included are Native American spiritual healers, teachers and elders. She is an older lady who had cancer of the liver. My father refused to speak to me for several months, convinced that I was the dupe of “some smooth-talking priest.” I had no way to convince my father that, in spiritual matters at least, I took no one’s teachings at face value. And despite the meddling of the priests who dominated my mother and at times controlled my sister, when it was time for the youngest in the family to go off to war, they did as the powerful holy man had recommended. The degree of unity was such that the Sioux nation was the last to come in of all the major tribes. Four colored cloths were tied on to four separate sticks, and since the ground was so hard, these sticks were each held upright by a pile of stones. When a Lakota observer is faced with data that indicates experientially that one is dealing with a reincarnated personality, one tries to keep a respectful distance from that phenomena, and then 143 144 / Rainbow Tribe tries to live as sincerely, generously, and ordinarily as possible around it. We’d both gone through the Vietnam War, he as a fighter pilot, I as a meteorologist giving weather data to pilots. No, we parted friends and relatives—each having a better understanding and respect for the other and knowing we walk similar paths on our way to Great Mystery. Mdewakanton means “they camp by the holy water.” Thunder Owl lives on a reservation close to the Twin Cities. I told her how moved I was to give gifts to these people who had gone out of their way to help us. A realization occurred of my having been “reborn” many times, Mother Earth breathing life back into me when I seemed stuck and slowly dying. A nation is little different from a person. Be the first to receive exclusive offers and the latest news on our products and services directly in your inbox. Recent events in Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Communist empire need no explanation. A Sioux, a Navaho, or an Iroquois spiritual person would never make such a claim. The peace pipe was concealable, however. 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