White Buffalo Woman: A Lakota Story Connecting Heaven & Earth
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- Mythos & Logos are two ancient words that can be roughly translated as “Story & Meaning.”
Study of Native American religion & spirituality through mythology, in the Sioux story of the White Buffalo Woman.
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The purpose of this channel is to share the important stories at the foundation of human cultures throughout history. These include mythology, legends, folktales, religious stories, and parables from the dawn of history to the modern day.
This channel provides interpretations and insight into these stories, to find and apply their meaning to contemporary life.
All stories covered are treated academically. This channel makes no claims regarding the historical, scientific, or religious truth of these tales. Rather, its goal is to find the meanings understood by their authors and apply them to the modern world.
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00:00 Introduction
00:11 The Harvest Song by E Irving Couse
00:28 The Historian by E Irving Couse
01:14 White Buffalo Calf Woman by Jay Bell Redbird & Helina Stopyra, photographed by Dennis Jarvis (Creative Commons License)
02:19 A Divine Encounter
02:21 The Scout: Friends or Foes by Frederic Remington
03:08 Ridden Down by Frederic Remington
03:38 The Circle of the Lustful by William Blake
03:54 The Outlier by Frederic Remington
04:16 The White Buffalo Woman, by John Fire Lame Deer, from Native American Myths and Legends by Erodes and Ortiz
04:37 Placing the Clan Poles by Richard Throssel
05:04 Cornus Sericea (Red Willow) from Depictions of the Most Beautiful Exotic Trees and Shrubs by Johan Carl Krauss
05:18 Cheyenne Sun Dance by Henry Chaufty
05:43 The Bridge Between Worlds
05:47 A Sioux Village by George Catlin
06:17 The Chimayo Blanket by E Irving Couse
06:50 Three Distinguished Warriors of the Sioux Tribe by George Catlin
07:01 The White Buffalo Woman, by John Fire Lame Deer, from Native American Myths and Legends by Erodes and Ortiz
07:54 The Sioux Chief with Several Indians by George Catlin
08:33 Buffalo Lancing in the Snow Drifts by George Catlin
09:16 A New Mindset
09:19 The Buffalo Trail by Albert Bierstadt
09:47 View of Chimney Rock, Ogalillalh Sioux Village in Foreground by Albert Bierstadt
10:13 Steven Rinella, America Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
10:29 A Herd of Bison by Wilhelm Kuhnert
10:56 Indian Hunter by E Irving Couse
11:06 Overlooking the Valley by E Irving Couse
11:19 Medicine Circles by Alfred Jacob Miller
11:57 Conclusion
11:59 A Pile of Bison Skulls, Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
12:59 Breakfast at Sunrise by Alfred Jacob Miller
14:20 Outro
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Hau Mitakoyasin . We are still here my people I live 50 miles from the sacred Buffalo calf pipe . Our teachings are for all humans our connection is to all things . Thanks for sharing our story
And thank you for sharing the beautiful prayer; Mitakoyasin.
@@mythosandlogos your very welcome 🙏🏼🌪️☀️⭐️🌎❤️🤍🖤🧡
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How can u live by the calf pipe ?
White Buffalo calf lady came as a white calf and turned to woman that brought and left a pipe to pray with when she left ...
@@Crayz919 one of my leksis carries the pipe bundle in green grass South Dakota . I don’t need to explain myself you should do some research before you say some really dumb Is . I live on the rez down the highway from green grass .
My family bloodline is Piscataway native and returning to my indigenous ancestral practices has been extremely hard. I feel like I’m putting together a puzzle with no reference photo. I’m extremely grateful for all the little pieces, such as this, that help me paint a general picture.
What an amazing journey you’re on! I’m honored to be a part of your rediscovery. Have you been to the cultural center in Waldorf, Maryland? I recently visited the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Oklahoma and it was a beautiful experience.
Yeah cause are wanderful great white father tried to rob every native son and daughter of there language there spirituality and there culter land and religion and still crap regular on the native acting like the building of a few casinos makes up for like 200 years of murder rape theft and trechurey
Keep on seeking your true nature and follow Nature's Way ❤ living. I honor you and all your people. 🌎
Can i give you my number to explain to this story more than this if you want lady 🙏🏻 I'll be glad for you
This is such a beautiful meditation. Thank you. I live in Maine and I did not realize White Buffalo Woman was from the north east of the USA. I always imagined her out west. Now I feel her presence here with me and I know she is one of my sacred ancestors and guides. Thank you.
Thank you! I’m glad you found this story and this channel :) Best wishes.
Love learning about Native American religions, they're so fascinating and a nice change of pace from the wackiness of Greek mythology. I got a few on my to do list down the line
The book I used as my source, Native American Myths and Legends by Richard Erodes and Alfonso Ortiz has been a great resource for me, and I would highly recommend it to you!
It’s not a religion it’s a way of life and very similar to ALL animist type mythos globally like Scandinavian Lapland Frisian Celtic way of life
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Please continue to tell and recall your stories. This is so beautiful.
Thank you. I’m so happy to hear that. Glad you’re here :)
I seen a psychic a little while ago now and while I was in the reading she told me that a being had come through that was higher up in the spirit realm, she called her White Buffalo Woman and said that she was here to bring peace to my life. I’m happy I finally found her story. I feel so grateful she was in my presence. :)
I’m happy I could help :)
No..
I am not a Native American Indian. But I love stories like these.
If we can learn to listen to them, I think they may help us in some way.
Keep passing them down I say!
I come from a similar place as you, and am so grateful for those who have shared their stories! I try to be like an amplifier for the stories that are shared with outsiders, adding my own reflections and thoughts because we are each affected by stories in our own personal way.
Even through a like and a comment, you help TH-cam suggest these stories to more, so thanks for doing your part in keeping these stories alive, too!
Great storytelling. The images are so beautiful. Well done!
Thank you so much!
Beautiful story. I SSOOO feel this. Thanks for sharing this with us.
NAMASTE ~
And thank you for being here :) Namaste 🕉
Thank you for this sacred gift
Your words are so kind. Thank you.
Love it ❤️ like and shared ❤️
Thank you!
Indigenous people of Europe, and Slavic nations prior to the spread of Abrahamic religions they lived no different from the native Americans as far as living in perfect harmony and balance with your local environment and ecosystem, following nature based native spiritual heritage that is unique to your own tribal folk traditions. Respecting mother Earth, viewing organic nature, and life as sacred and divine. All indigenous people lived this way prior to Abrahamism. My ancestors are Slavic on my mother side and Armenian on my father’s side. I was born and raised in Russia, but for the past few decades I’ve lived in USA. If you are of a European origins, please don’t make mistake by thinking that you don’t have the same type of heritage and rich folklore as the Native Americans do. I urge people to explore their ethnic pre-Christian roots, learn about your ancestors that were before Christianity took over, and you will be surprised to find a very rich heritage and tribal ethnic folklore and native spiritual heritage that is unique to your own tribe. Today we collectively call it paganism, but that’s a blanket statement. By exploring your ethnic groups, you will learn all of the same folk stories, you will discover folk art, folk songs and dances, folk traditions, celebrations, food, and their own tribal worldview that was very similar and in some cases identical to Native Americans, and to basically all pre-Christian indigenous peoples around the world.
Beautifully well-said. I think you may enjoy my episode on Brigid, and/or the accompanying podcast conversation with Laura Daligan (a brilliant friend and Celtic neopagan.) We found quite a few parallels and influences between the traditional polytheistic and Abrahamic monotheistic stories and practices.
It would appear that at the foundation of just about every tradition is a special place for humanity in the relationship between divinity and the world. I personally see that in the Abrahamic faiths as well, though today that relationship is often very sadly forgotten or purposefully pushed aside to make way for the various political and economic “-ism”s that we often treat like divinity.
Thank you for sharing your unique perspective! Я благодарю вас )) I hope that you’ll stick around and share your thoughts on some of the other essays I’ve made! My goal is to have this be a place for us all to share and find the harmonies in these stories, and your voice is certainly a welcome one :)
Jesus healed using natural methods and the Creator's help, much like the Medicine Men and Women of traditional Native tribes. He also appeared to the Paiutes Wovoka, giving them a dance and song to rid the world of evil. Jesus promised them their shirts would stop any bullets from penetrating the fabric. They disobeyed and tried to use the dance and song to rid the world of white people. This led to the Wounded Knee massacre. Their shirts did not protect them. However, when Russell Means and members of AIM took over Wounded Knee in 1973, they were praying in a good way in a tipi. They were so focused on their prayers that they didn't know they were being fired upon by federal agents. After the prayer, Russell went outside to see casings all over and found bullets lodged in the tipi fabric! They were protected because they were praying in a good way. 🪶
Thank you, I agree. I am also part Slavic, Ukrainian (Jewish) , Iberian,Welsh, Scottish, German and some Native American. A real vegetable soup. I have been exploring the stories for much of my life, especially the Goddess ones....
@@jandunn169 that’s wonderful! Thank you for sharing with me. I’m always glad to hear when people tell me that they are exploring their ethnic roots. Continue your spiritual journey, and good luck to you. By the way I absolutely hate the fact that Russia and Ukraine are at war. What a shame that Slavic brothers and sisters have to come against one another. I am so against this war
@@mythosandlogos thank you very much. I will definitely be very happy to check out your information on Celtic neopaganism. I have briefly looked into Celtic mythology, and I absolutely love the Tuatha De Danann
Is the sacred pipe made out of willow wood? I love the Buffalo calf woman. A holy woman bought peace to the. Lakota and showed them sovereignty. Thanks for sharing.🔥
White Buffalo Calf Woman is here. Once again I bring the Pipe and Once Again no one Sees or Hears me!!?? Elder Pipe Keeper I have a Bronco that needs Busting. It stands on the property of the building of 33 TeePees in Denver City!! We do the Ghost Dance Again ❤❤❤❤
I would love to hear more! I feel it too
It is one thing to have these things in our culture and tradition but quite another to understand the seasons, the land, the waters, the trees as a gift from Great Spirit . We in the west are constantly losing our way and the results tell us this. The Native American peoples are teachers of truths of nature and the self . These are Holy Truths that only the wise can listen to and implement
I read a book, “How To Read Nature,” by Tristan Gooley, with different exercises for connections with the natural world. He said when he does them in Japan, people say they’re very Japanese; when he does them in Germany people say they’re very German; when he does them in the US people say they’re very American. There is such a human connection to nature, and we have a lot to learn from cultures which are less removed from that.
My first time here i could listen to this all day long thank you for making it enjoyable
Thank you so much, and welcome! There’s a lot of videos in the archives, so I think you’ll have a good time :)
You do have to share the worlds gifts. Life is a gift! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for your kind words! Best wishes as you share your gifts as well :)
Thank you for joining in this study of the Lakota story of the White Buffalo Woman!
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I believe this story provides an excellent picture of the key values shared by many Native American cultures. While we may already have beautiful preconceived images of Native American cultures, studying the stories at their foundations provides a far deeper and fuller picture. The Chanunpa Sacrament is an excellent re-presentation of the traditional Lakota values and worldview.
Leave a comment to let me know what you think, if you learned something, or if there's something we missed!
So you’re trying to profit off our culture asking for money?
@@DarkhorseDescendant Thank you for your comment. My intention is to tell a story to an audience and reference to the person who originally told it; no different in my intent than writing an essay or a book. This channel covers stories from all around the world, with the goal of creating mutual respect. I also make a point to only share stories that have already been shared with outsiders (as Lame Deer shared this story with Richard Erdoes, a Hungarian-American author.)
For transparency, I do collect Patreon donations (in most months I break about even or come out about $10 in the green, since I support others) and run ads on TH-cam, which I limit to avoid midroll ads. When the channel first became eligible for monetization, I actually ran a poll to gauge audience feelings on monetization, which was decidedly in favor.
All in all, when you consider how much time I put into creating these, I probably come out a bit below US minimum wage. I’m fortunate enough to have a day job and not need to depend on this for a living.
So, in short, while this project does have some commercial impact, I hope it is clear that I earnestly try to do that as responsibly as possible.
Thank you for this video! 🙏🏼✨
Thank you for your support! Comments like this really mean a lot to me.
I loved this interpretation thank you sooooo much!!
You are very welcome, and thank you for listening! I am grateful to Lame Deer for his beautiful telling that inspired this work.
Jill O Connor here sending love
I love & appreciate nature so much it's so beautiful and amazing
I am always amazed at the wonders of the world around us, and they always help get me out of a bad mood.
Pretty good, however I would like to correct that Cannupa is not “peace pipe” but rather just pipe.
An important clarification! Next time I will do more to clarify, “often familiar to outsiders as a peace pipe,” or something along those lines. Thank you so much for sharing!
Yay a new video! Love this channel
Your words of encouragement and support truly mean so much to me. Thank you
Beautiful story 😊🐱
Excellent, It has been wonderful knowing so detailed info about the topic
Thank you! John Fire Lame Deer, the main storyteller I sourced from, has a lot of fantastic tales (including my most recent Thunderbird video.) I strongly recommend “Native American Myths And Legends” by Erdoes and Ortiz as an excellent collection of stories! Thanks for coming by :)
There are 2 Pipes
. the Sacred Pipe, the Canupa brought by White Buffalo Calf Woman,
. and the Peace Pipe during war times
Thank you for clarifying; I always am happy to learn more.
There’s only one sacred calf pipe . Your right about the other pipe the other pipe is in the hands of all pipe carriers. And usually the there’s a pipe for council or when all the head men got together to discuss what was our next options war or peace or movement to a new area. And we never called it a peace pipe that’s a wasicu telling
Thank you. I finally understand it.
thankyou for sharing.. i had a visin i was climbing out under the tree roots and set on earth floor relising i came from a upside world seeing a giant tree in front of me.. the hopi people have a message that humans need to here.. we stand together in prayer to bring this into being,,
A beautiful image. A statement by Carl Jung comes to mind, "No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell."
A beautiful vision and my belief is the sacred tree in Wyoming is the same tree mentioned in the book of Daniel. The evil one cut it in half. The sacred tree in WY is also cut in half...just my thoughts.
Keep making these videos. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you.
I appreciate hearing that, thank you!
Belated Happy Valentine's Day Stacy from New Jersey, USA!!💖❤️🥰
Much love to the Garden State!
Thank you Brother! 🦬
Love and blessings from Toronto 👌🏾🍁❤️
You are so welcome, same to you!
All my respect from Morocco thank you 🙏
Respect and best wishes from across the world 🌍 🌎
Please, I ask for more videos about the cultures of the different native american tribes!
Thanks! I have quite a few on my list :)
@@mythosandlogos Thanks, your narration is smooth and the content awe inspiring :3
One love 💜
One mother earth 🌍❤️
We are one ...
Nice Videos 👌😎 Neel was here first
Good to see you here dude!
New subscriber... I agree we want to respect each other, and especially the space we occupy.
Welcome! Exactly, respect is so important.
THANK YOU 🍇🍇🍇
Thank you!
The art ❤
There are so many beautiful artworks, I’m happy to share some!
This story touched me in ways I could only describe by telling some of my own stories. I honestly hope I get to do that, albeit carefully and respectfully 🙏
Thank you so much. When you do tell them, send me a comment or an email, I would honestly love to listen.
Thank u
very moving
I have some very similar struggles in dealing with our modern world. I’ve found that time in nature helps; the most recent video on Forest Bathing was really nice for me. It helps me to remember that there is something greater out there than us. Best wishes ♥️
lovely
Thank you :)
IN MY SOUL. I FEEL THE WAYS OF NATIVE AMERICANS .. SHOULD HAVE BEEN OUR CULTURE. HUMANS SHOULD REALIZE HOW LIFE AND LAND ON OUR PLANET IS VERY SACRED.. LIFE NEVER ENDS...
The beauty is that we all have very much to learn from each other :)
"should have been out culture" what do you mean? Their are pre abrahamic religions in Europe... Russia ECT I suggest you start researching. No need to wish someone elses traditions are yours...I suggest you start with paganism 😬
So beautiful🥹💗🙌
I’m glad you enjoyed!
thank you, where did you get the pictures from?
Thank you, Sylvia! Image credits are in the description; my main tools for finding them are Wikimedia Commons and Google Arts and Culture, through I do use the occasional Flickr image that is licensed under Creative Commons. Unless otherwise noted, all images are in the public domain.
Ekosi Divine One 🤲💖🤗
Incredible story very moving…..beautiful spirit blessing her people….. but you don’t need the music at all
Thank you! I’m still experimenting with style, and I will keep this in mind.
how i love her
A white buffalo 🐃🦬 was born today ✨✨✨
Truly appreciated this day: 7-7 Sirian Gateway 2021
I’m happy that you enjoyed, wishing you all the best, today and all days :)
Today i saw the beautiful news that a White Buffalo calf was born in Kansas.. prophecy fulfilment 🙌🙏💜🕎🕊🍀🌻
Beautiful news! 🦬
@mythosandlogos .. May true peace, joy, and love bless us all 🫂🙏🪬🕊💜🕎🌄🍀🌻♾️
VERY BEAUTIFUL INDEED🌈☯️🙏💝✝️
Thank you very much!
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This is a nice oresentation, but for sacred histories like that of White Buffalo Calf Woman, and any other native oral history for that matter- seek native sources. There are several good ones on YT, look for Albert White Hat, the Densmore Repatriation Project is another good one to explain a little more, and in native way, White Buffalo Calf Woman. BTW- the two men in the story are brothers.
Well said, and those are great resources that I wasn’t familiar with but am happy to learn of now. I always do my best to make sure that I’m retelling stories that I’ve found from around the world and citing the original sources; by no means does that mean we should disregard the treasure that is storytellers of still-living traditions!
Especially with Native American stories, my goal in presenting in this format alongside Greek, Abrahamic, and others, is to hope that more people will give them the respect that they show the stories from more familiar cultures. And even more so, recognize the blessing that we still have native teachers today, where we don’t have access to Homer or Virgil anymore.
Thanks for your comment ♥️
I recognize the White Buffalo, Thunder Dog and others.
I'm glad you could find this and a familiar name!
@@mythosandlogos Thank you for noticing my work. Us Americans get hung up on names, but this thing is so vast the only way to break it up is into concepts. They all represent The One True God and The God one.
Yellowstone has a true white buffalo born. The guardian of the peace pipe the time is now for great earth changes.🗺
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Thank you for the effort. I think you should have mentioned how the bison (buffalo is not the proper name) were shot from trains to wipe them out, trying to starve the Natives both physically and spiritually. The pile of skulls was testament to that.
Absolutely a great point. I like to focus more on stories themselves, but that is a very tragic fact that should be remembered. Thank you for sharing.
Audio book 😍✊🏿 WE GAVE THE PILGRIMS MEALS, RITUALS AND SPIRITUALITY =THANKSGIVING OR TAKING???
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These are my people 😁
Reading this comment made me very happy. Thank you.
@@mythosandlogos you are welcome 🤗
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I intuitively feel this is the arrival of the asianic tribes to turtle Island
444 upon my arrival thank you Angels 😇❤️🙏
Lovely :) I’m happy to have you here!
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As men become the likeness of the Great Spirit they see, bringing life into this world. Mama's are waking in the Great Spirit who gave her the place man wants to take. His inheritance is seed. Hers is the earth. To take what is not his he destroys himself. The woman who gives man her place loses the Great Spirit who can not be corrupted.
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Just seen this the clouds were Olive no joke
That sounds so beautiful!
Plutobean?
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☀️👁️☀️L💜VE YOU, mythosandlogos!!☀️🕊️🖤💛♥️🦅
David Little Elk, Lakota, says that Wankan Tanka is a group of beings & not God or the Great Spirit
Thank you for sharing! Translating anything can be difficult, especially such a Great Mystery. I appreciate you for sharing Little Elk’s definition.
@jaymudavern2620
Tunkasila is who we (Lakota) pray to, as I was told by my mother & other relatives.
It's the Lakota not sue
Thank you for sharing! While I use both names here, I am always learning more, too, and I have been becoming more aware of the importance of names.
@ashlieheath892
Thank you for stating, yes we’d rather be called Lakota & not Sioux…Sioux can be a derogatory term.
The holy people are virtuous people 👫...
With very many beautiful, impactful stories of them, I agree. Thanks for watching!
We are the Hopi. The Indigenous people of Turtle 🐢 Island 🏝️. Our Sovereign Nation is located in north eastern Arizona on the Navajo Reservation. We send Greetings 🖖 and a Message. The 11th Hour is Upon Us. Koyaanisqatsi a planet 🌎 Out of Balance. We experience this every 13,250 years. We have Companions who have helped Us 3 times before this. It is time to give Mother Privacy for Rebirth. See White Sands New Mexico. The Footprints 👣 recently discovered there belong to You and I and Dinosaurs 🦕 from the time of the Ice 🧊 Age and where We met Our Companions the First Time. We have been here since the Beginning of Time. We lived inside of the Earth in apartments at times when the Surface was uninhabitable. We went through the Earth 🌎 and came Out at least one time at Turkish Stonehenge. We call it Go Back To Your TeePee ⛺️. Massa group goes West Counter Clockwise to get back to the Americas and Our Moache Warriors stay there and will eventually become Genghis Khan. American Indians are not Mongols but rather Mongols are American Indians. Again We Do The Ghost 👻 Dance 🕺.🐢🏝️👣🦕🦬🧬🌙
I am brand new ^-^ I recently unsubbed from a lot of channels, for mixed reasons, and I couldn't resist tysm
Welcome, I’m happy to have you here!
Cute
Glad you enjoyed!
Not tobacco...Hemp is good medicine. Tobacco is useful however you will find hemp in the apothecaries formula along with Frankincense and Myrrh. A pleasing aroma unto the Lord.
Tobacco is utilized by my tribe (Lakota) offered to the spirits in our prayers, instructed to use by my relatives, hence tobacco ties & such.
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THANK YOU, THAT IS WHAT I NEEDED TO KNOW TO COMPLETE CONNECTION, NOT FOR REGULAR EVERY FIVE MIN ANOTHER CIGARETTE TOBACCO NOT GOOD IS POISON IN SUCH CONSUMPTION. HEMP IS IN THE APOTHECARY FORMULA FOR BURNING OF INCENSE WITH FRANKINCENSE AND MYRRH. FACT NOT FICTION, ALSO EXCELLENT MEDICINAL USES, SATAN HATES IT AND THE BUFFALO, ALWAYS CHANGING THE SUBJECT AND DESTROYING MOTHER EARTH
I was expecting to hear a woman.
Hullo! it was cannabis not tobacco 😂
@TutuSainz
I beg to differ as most tribes (I am Lakota) have always used tobacco in our prayers & ceremonies. Never seen marijuana used as it’s more of a drug & as I was told Lakota don’t need anything that compromises that which is
natural/traditional.
Lakota people never used Mary Jane . Read a little we filled our canupas with cincasa the red willow
What are you doing this for. Omg😢
That’s a great, and important question. My goal is to share beautiful and meaningful stories that are at the heart of cultures around the world in order to promote mutual respect for ancient traditions and each other.
This channel only share stories that have been shared to those outside their community (as this one was shared by the Rosebud Medicine Man John Fire Lame Deer to the Hungarian-American author and ally of the American Indian Movement Richard Erdoes.)
Some people make whatever video will bring the most clicks. Some people make videos to promote themselves as some kind of Plastic Shaman. I make videos to share beauty and meaning wherever I can find them, in hopes of amplifying the voices who shared it originally. My earnest hope is that this will help us to all respect each other more.
I suffered the bad part because I couldn't be with her. Serpents of the worst types, as prophecied. The blessings from the trials also come and so does White Buffalo.
I wish you all the best.
@@mythosandlogos all prophecied... thank you...
Why would the Great Spirit call her sons brothers? That is saying he is equal to her. Freaking He-Brews To-Get-Her twisting truth in everyone's culture. Man you are not equal or above the Great One in Mama's 2 legs and 4 legs.
White man is narrating the prophesies of his own doom this is weird
I truly thank you for a comment that helped me to reflect this morning.
My aim is to respectfully share a beautiful and powerful story to bring about mutual respect. I wouldn’t tell this story if John Fire Lame Deer had not shared it with (a White Hungarian-American) Richard Erdoes.
This entire channel is dedicated to mutual respect and understanding and keeping traditional storytelling alive. Having respect for our fellow humans has helped a lot of people through material suffering, too. For one example close to me, it’s mutual respect that led to the Irish-Choctaw gift exchange, when even after suffering the Trail of Tears the Choctaw were able to recognize the suffering of my ancestors in Ireland and help us in our suffering from the Great Famine, aid which has been mutual and continuing since.
My hope is that someone will hear a story like this and come to recognize, even as an outsider, that the Lakota (and so many other peoples whose stories we share here) have a deep tradition of story, theology, and culture. And if that respect leads to people learning history, working to right the wrongs of the past, and supporting others, then that’s even better.
On the Prophesies that you mention, do you mean the Seven Fires Prophesy? My (limited) understanding is that there is a choice of roads in that prophesy that Whites will need to make; to follow a road that leads to peace and brotherhood, or a road that leads to destruction. The history of the Black Hills shows that many in the past have chosen the path of destruction, though other histories like the Irish-Choctaw gift exchange and the work of Erdoes documenting Elders’ stories which I mentioned earlier show that many have chosen the path of brotherhood as well. I may not fully know the way, but this channel as a whole is my attempt to walk the path of brotherhood as best I can.
I wish you all the best.