LAKOTA VISIONS
MARC BRUNE (b434@atuvm.atu.edu)
Thu, 8 Sep 1994 21:32:47 CDT
Hello,
My name is Sees Far and my parents have been adopted into the
Lakota people by a medicine man that lives in Little Rock, AR. His
name is Grey Buffalo. My question is to anybody that is in the Lakota
nation that happens to be on this talknet. I am a college student and
I'm preparing to take my vision quest sometime around Thanksgiving,
kinda appropriate, don't you think! After my quest I would dearly love
to learn how to tan hides, hunt with a bow and arrows, I don't mean
going out to the store and buying a compound bow, but I want to learn
how to make my own bow and arrows. I want to learn how to make
buckskins and moccasins, that won't fall apart anytime in the near
future. I would also like to know anything about the MASSACRES at
Wounded Knee, and at Sand Creek. If at all possible I would like to get
all the information that I can or get titles of books that deal with
the crushing defeats dealt to the wasichus all throughout the Plains
Wars with the Lakotas, and all the other Plains people. I thank you
all for your time.
I once heard a story that went something like this--- At thetime
of creation Wankan Tankan gave each of the different colors of people
a different part of nature to master and use in a skillfull way. The
yellows wre given the water, the blacks wre given air, the reds were
given the earth, and the whites were given fire. All of these working
together were supposed to form a peacefull cooperation in order to help
all of mankind, but somewhere down the line the fire got to greedy and
powerful and everything was thrown out of balance. Thus you have the
problems that we are all facing today.