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Wounded Knee (short film) ft Russell Means-Lakota by ANYRIN A short film with American Indian Activist and Actor, Russell Means. Standing in the snowy Black Hills of South Dakota, Russell recounts his efforts as he le...

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Wounded Knee

Wounded Knee (short film) ft Russell Means-Lakota by ANYRIN A short film with American Indian Activist and Actor, Russell Means. Standing in the snowy Black Hills of South Dakota, Russell recounts his efforts as he le...

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Break-Break-Break!!

Warrior-Up

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Woman Warrior-Up

Sometimes God brings you through a storm
to dance in a Rainbow
& there will be those
who are still going through their storm
that will hate your rainbow.

Dance Anyway.

Every Butterfly started out as a Caterpillar.
Every Diamond was once a lump of coal.
Ever Oak tree was once a tiny acorn.
Every heart breaks before its whole.

If you've been brought out of darkness...
Do not Hide!
Never dim your light...
just because it's shining in someone's eyes.

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“The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. ... Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
Chief Seattle
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Native Rising-

Walking beside me!!

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Walk with the Spirit

Cultural Dancing

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Portrait of Plenty Wounds, a Dakota Native American, circa 1900.

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Chant and pray

Long ago in the year 1971, John Fire Lame Deer, a prominent and influential Sicangu Lakota made a damming prophecy of the future to come. He spoke of our current generation and the complete lack of respect for our Lakota ceremonies that will come and how that will cause great division amongst our people.

“I see a day coming when there will be separation. Our wicasa wakan will fight each other just like you see in the Church, they say my bible is real and my way is the only way. They will stand on top of each other saying I am the only one I am the real one. There will be many diseases when this happens because not one man has the medicine to cure it all.

I see the younger ones who will try to become medicine men for the wrong reasons, to get women or make money, and some who want the power to hurt others. I will tell you this if you want to hurt someone you can do it without power; there are many ways to hurt someone on a physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual level so the ones who want it to hurt others don't need to become a wicasa wakan to do this.

A wicasa wakan loves his people, he will die for his people and will defend them with his own life. When I was a boy the Spirit chose me I didn't want this way of life, I wanted to drink and womanize and so for many years, that's what I did. The dreams they never left me and if I prayed for someone who was sick they were cured, so it was something inside of me that made me who I am.

I encourage every young man to look for their life path, I tell them go up on the hill to find your vision. I also tell them if your not chosen to be a medicine man don't look for it because if you're not meant to be one, Wakan Tanka has chosen you for something else, for something greater.

I ran from my calling in life for a long time and was unhappy, I can tell you I was lost. "When the people need you the most don't walk away from them," these were the words spoken to me by John Strike and they changed me because I walked towards it and not away from it.

In my ceremony last night, the spirits told me hard times are coming for our Lakota People; they say human beings will forget their purpose, they will come to a point where they no longer know why they exist. They won't use their brains and will forget the secret knowledge of their bodies, their senses, and dreams. They won't use the knowledge the spirit has put into every one of them and will stumble along blindly on the road to nowhere. They will walk a road full of hurt and I have seen this road in my vision, to think of it makes me cry.

So it is, I am a medicine man because I was commanded to help my people in these times. The old holy men Chest, Strike, Thunderhawk, Chips, and Good Lance reminded me what I was and helped me to become what I was chosen to be.

When somebody dies even if I don't know them, I feel it deeply and offer my prayers for them. I will load my Pipe or go into Sweat to talk to the Great Spirit for them.

We have to walk the road Wakan Tanka has set before us, we have to stay close to one another and help each other out. This is the only way we will make it!”

John Fire Lame Deer
c1971

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Nivdeh

Fearless

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