Native American pic thread (Okay, Canadian: medicine, college, moving)

[redbird4848]

Kiowa Voices online. Radio broadcast, news, songs, etc.

Entryway

[redbird4848]

[colleeng47]

Great pics, RB. I love that last one. The strength and pride in the subject's face is amazing.

[redbird4848]

I like the Ghost Dance painting. Those were powerful times.

[Goodpasture]

I thought the Ghost Dance was a response to the imprisonment of the leaders and the confinement of the reservation......it came at a time of great despair and loss of freedom to the people of the plains the People had become. The peoples from the east (Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, etc) never became involved in this faith. It was the people of the west who followed the Paiute shaman............

I always liked the times before, where a man's spirituality was determined through his own vision and quest. So much of our Christian heritage has been consumed through the adulation and deification of one person, that that one person is the sole focus of our spirituality today. Even today, with a Christian orientation in my faith, I prefer the one on one relationship between me and God.........in so many ways, that relationship is similar to the one of the old ways found in both the ancient European faith and the old native American ways......and is the faith that Jesus taught to his disciples.

[redbird4848]

Hear some PowWow music online at the link below.

I can no longer get the one on gathering of nations since I have mozilla firefox. But this one works with Firefox:

Powwow Radio

[jadybug]

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Very powerful image, Red! Sort of an "Iron Eyes Cody" feel.

[redbird4848]

White Bison is coming to Oklahoma.



A state prison in Boley, Oklahoma will be the first prison population in Oklahoma to complete this wellbriety program. Don Coyhis is coming to Oklahoma to attend the graduation ceremony.

Don Coyhis, Mohican Nation, left corporate america to form this organization which aims for 100% sobriety amongst Native American youth. I met Don Coyhis back in the early 90's.

The program in prison is also open to non-Natives.

Welcome to White Bison

[jadybug]

[quote=SeabeeBolt;4084390]Redbird,


Thanks for the sad but informative article about the plight of the Native Canadians. One thing they fail to teach in our American schools in most cases is, "the truth". And then when the truth comes to the surface, they just try to push it aside and say, "Can't we get past this?" It really sickins me that all of this was usually done in the name of "Christianity". If this is thier idea of Christianity, then I'd rather be what they would call "a Heathen". To often I sit and watch these so called Christian today and I see that they are more of a bunch of Back-Stabber/hypocrites then anyone else. Bjb123 and I have always felt that the Native Americans are owed more than they are given, especially what was thiers in the first place.


I am a Native American Christian. I say, "Let he that is without sin (or judgementalness) cast the first stone!"

[SeabeeBolt]

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[B]I am a Native American Christian. I say, "Let he that is without sin (or judgementalness) cast the first stone!" [/b]

So, what are you trying to say here jadybug?