Re: LAKOTA VISIONS
Lance Lane (llane@freenet.scri.fsu.edu)
Sat, 10 Sep 1994 01:20:51 18000
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> Original Sender: MARC BRUNE <ATUVM.ATU.EDU!B434>
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> 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.
>
Hello,
I'm not Lakota but, I would think that you should check this
person out and this person out with the different Lakota Bands in
South Dakota. Their are a lot of Plastic Medicinemen out their and
they will rip you off. Just a word to the wise.
--
Lance Lane