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A Grandfather Teaching
A Warrior.......
Listen to me carefully and remember every word.
A warrior is not a soldier.
A soldier is trained to fight and follow orders.
A warrior is trained to think for himself/ herself and fight only as a last resort.
A warrior is the first to begin and the last to quit .
He or she laughs the hardest and loves the best.
Stand your ground in all things and only give ground out of kindness.
A warrior is not a follower, nor is he/she a leader except at great need.
A warrior learns from the animals, the hills, and the rivers.
He/she respects all things of the earth as if they were his/her own heart.
All men and women and all spirits are equals.
A warrior never begs or pleads, nor does he/she give in to hopelessness and despair.
Whether the warrior is successful or tries valiantly only to have failed, he/she thanks the Great Spirit for the opportunity and the lessons.
A warrior cares for the weakest and least of his brothers,sisters humbling himself/herself in their service.
He/she seeks wisdom in all things and learns from even the dullest, for all are his/her teachers.
A warrior leaves judgment of his/her brothers and sisters to the Great Spirit, but does not tolerate disrespectful behavior in his/her presence.
Love and Peace,
Barefoot Windwalker
I have a Sound recording of Sasquatch up if any are Interested,Sasquatch is one of my guides,I have been working with one of them for three yrs now.He is my Great Elder Brother......"Che'Ha' Tanka"They are Beings........A Race of Beings........Intelligent...........They were here before us......They are Caretakers of Mother Earth........."Entwaanee"......."TreePeople"......They Do not understand that If we think we are intelligent why do we kill the planet that we live on?.........They do not understand addiction..........Why do we put chemicals in our own bodies that kill us,just to feel better?.........So Are we the intelligent ones here on this planet or NOT??...............GreyWolf
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Posted On 03/21/2008 19:29:43
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This my Sasquatch/BigBird blog..........Both I have Seen with my own eyes.......Sasquatchie I saw Out in Utah Late one night Crossing Kings peak in the High Uintahs Wilderness Area,I used to be and over the road trucker...........Well I was going real slow due to snow when this black thing walking up the road side toward my truck I first I thought it was a Bear but Bears do not walk up hill on two legs plus bears hibernate in the winter.......It crossed right in front of my truck and looked at me with its face at the hight of my windshield it almost looked like it was smiling...........A human LIKE face..........After I got the truck stopped I tried to walk in its stride up the other side but I could not stretch my legs that far........Now I am 6'5"......38 inseam Now that was a long stride......So on to big bird.........I was working on SR 522,North end of Lk Washington.........When I noticed an Eagle soaring above me.....Now this is quite normal for me.....Eagles Soaring I mean,When from across the Lake comes this huge Black bird it flew behind then above the eagle soaring on the storm cload winds.......It Soared right up into the storm cload but the weird thing was its size it was three times larger than the Mature Eagle.......About the size of a Cesna Airplane............THere you have it my incedible storys............GreyWolf
Page AICRC's Page Home Page CANNUPA - THE SACRED PIPE THE BASIS OF LAKOTA SPIRITUALITY By Ben Black Bear, Jr. Lakota Society based its religious philosophy on the revelation of the Creator acting through Nature. It sought to perceive the mysterious, the sacred or "Wakan" in those things that were in nature around him and based upon this perception Lakota Society developed a religious philosophy which would guide his life on this earth. If you look around in Nature and see all that is "Wakan", mysterious, sacred, what is the most sacred thing or event, happening which you will see? There is Thunder which is loud and seems to bring the rain. There is lightning which is powerful and dangerous. There is the wind which is very "Wakan", mysterious, sacred because even though you cannot see the wind, it seems to go right through you, it nevertheless has the power to destroy many and big things. There is movement in all living things which is very "Wakan", mysterious, sacred. Not only is there movement, but there is also sound emanating from that movement, especially from man himself. This is one of the most "Wakan", mysterious, sacred, things because man can make himself understood through those sounds. But still what is the most "Wakan" thing that happens on this earth in nature? What is the most mysterious, therefore, sacred thing which takes place in nature itself?. Is it the birth of an animal, or even more mysterious is the conception of that animal which culminates in birth? In fact the most sacred thing that happens naturally in the universe is not the birth of an animal, nor even the conception of an animal. It is the conception of a human being which is even more mysterious, therefore, sacred or "Wakan" in the universe. This is the most sacred thing that takes place in nature. The Sacred Pipe is usually made from a red Pipestone and a wooden Stem. The Red Pipestone is usually carved into the shape of an inverted "T" with the bowl of the pipe going up, and the stem of the pipe is connected on one side of the inverted "T" of the pipe bowl. Stanley Looking Horse, the father of the keeper of the Sacred Calf Pipe one time gave a talk in Rosebud, South Dakota on the pipe and he made the statement that the pipe bowl was a "Winyan", a woman, and the stem of the pipe was a "Wicasa", a man. This leads me to believe that the "pipe ceremony" is a reenactment of the most sacred, mysterious, "Wakan" thing that happens in nature itself, but in a reverse process, therefore it is an offering from us to the Great Mystery, the "Taku Wakan". As you know life, which is a gift of the great Mystery, Wakantanka or Taku Wakan begins with the union of a man and a woman. This is very mysterious because it begins extremely small, almost invisible to the naked eye, and yet when it begins it doesn't end until a human being is born and begins to grow further to maturity. The place where that life begins is where Wakantanka, the Great Mystery, infuses into the union of what comes from the man and what comes from the woman life. It is the life which comes from the Great Mystery. Therefore, conception is the closest thing we have on earth in Nature itself where the Great Mystery intervenes in our lives, by creating life. We can further say, therefore, that "God", "Wakantanka" communicates to us through the creation of life in a most profound and sacred manner and this happens at conception in the union of a man and a woman. So if we ordinary humans on earth want to communicate back to "God", "Wakantanka" we try to find the best way that we can find to do that, and the closest that we can come to it when we only have nature to rely on is to imitate God's, "Wakantanka's", action in nature, except that in this case we do the action ourselves. This is the sacred Pipe Ceremony. First of all there are two kinds of pipes in general. There is the sacred pipe and there is the ordinary pipe. The ordinary pipe is the one which everyone carries around who likes to smoke. In the old days Lakota really liked to smoke, especially the older men, therefore, they always carried a pipe around with them. In fact for convenience' sake they used to make a pipe which was a hatchet on one side and a pipe on the other side. This was called the Nazunspe cannupa or "Axe pipe". Since cigarettes of paper was not available in pre European contact period, the best way to smoke tobacco was by the use of a pipe. This was the ordinary pipe. Everyone who smoked and enjoyed tobacco had a pipe or maybe even more than one. These could also be decorated or ornamented according to ones desires. This ordinary pipe was different from the Sacred pipe mostly in use only. The sacred pipe was usually made of Red Pipestone and a wooden stem. These were also decorated but usually in a sacred manner with sacred, symbolic designs. The Sacred Pipe is never joined together except in a ceremony. The Pipe bowl and the Pipe stem are always kept together, not joined, but separately in a pipe bag which is called the "Cantojuha" or "Container of the Heart". The ceremony of the Sacred Pipe begins with ritually removing the pipe bowl and the pipe stem from the container and incensing each separately with sweetgrass to be purified and made holy. All other items to be used are also ritually incensed and prepared in that manner. Once preparations are completed the "loading" of the pipe begins with the ritual joining of the pipe bowl to the pipe stem and the tobacco is prayed with, each pinch that is taken as it is placed in the pipe bowl. Each pinch of tobacco is offered to each of the four winds, to the sky and to grandmother earth. The directions begin with the west. After the sacred pipe is "loaded" then it is prayed with at that time. After the completion of the prayer, it is lit and everyone present smokes the pipe to create Spiritual Unity among all the people who are present. As each one prays with the pipe, makes offerings and smokes it and finishes, he or she prays the "Amen" which is "Mitakuye Oyas'in" or "All my Relatives". The smoke rises into the sky to the Great Mystery as an offering from all of us on earth who are praying. The Sacred Pipe and the Sacred Pipe Ceremony was the most basic of all the ceremonies of the Lakota People and it was the basis for all other ceremonies which came after that. It is a communication with the Great Mystery using the same method that the Great Mystery Himself uses to communicate through His action with nature and humanity, which is the creation of new life in conception. The Pipe Ceremony is the same act of conception but in this case one orchestrated by man and offered to God, the Great Mystery or "Wakantanka", in this way "communicating" with Him.
    
 St.Patricks Day 26 yrs ago.......My last drunk...........I spent the entire day in the bar drinking 50 cent mugs of GREEN beer......they were giving away free GREEN shooters whatever they were I had at least six........now I closed the bar but the weirdest thing I noticed was that I was Pissing GREEN by the end of the Night.......Now I still lived with my parents back then Well when I came home that is.......Well they had my car towed from the Bar because they had had enough and were going to confront my Alcohol and Drug use........Well I came out of the Bar and went nuts that my car was gone and Scared the Hell out of the bar Fly I was going to........You know what with..........I walked home drank a Six pack on the way.......and preceded to notice my car was at the house well I broke down the door and beat up my parents and ended up in Jail.......Two days later I went to a Doc and got a blood alcohol test done it was a .25 alcohol level and the doc said I was the youngest late stage alcoholic he ever seen......20yrs old.....He said I was probably funtioning on a .50 level most of the time that I had the beginings of jondice my skin was yellow and puffy........Well being the good bar patron I was I went back to the bar two weeks later to tell them I was getting Sober and Clean And I could not drink there anymore So the bar tender that I new well told me When I came I could have free Cokes instead.....So I paid my tab which was 70 dollars.......Now do the Math.......50 cent beer at 70 dollars is a 140 beers.......no wonder I was pissing GREEN!!!!........3/18/1982 is my clean date.......I don't think I did it right other than not using anything.and Working the Steps with my sponsor but I keep doing them again and again.......My life has been good and I am gratful for the wonderful friends I have.....My parents fogave me eventualy.........My Mom is still alive but she now asks me over and over again if I am still sober it is a delight to tell her Yes 10 times a day.......Her memory is gone......but I still love her..........I was a X-factor kid.......Parents never smoked or drank.........Dad was a minister mom was a teacher I thank the Creator daily that they confronted me.....That cared enough to save my life and others from my insanity..........Now I have many generations of sponsor ,sponsees under me........I sponsor four regular and two when they need me..............lots and lots of sponsees and grand and great grand sponsees.........and so on....They keep me accountable So I have to keep changing or they will walk past me......................So That is about it mini 4th step in a blog..........Greywolf
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Friends
Posted On 03/17/2008 07:00:57
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 I put up a video on the 2012 issue,Many may not believe it but it is Coming.......Four more yrs.....And we will learn the truth behind the legends..........What will happen who's to say........Prophets.........Ancient cultures.......Legends..........Calenders Ending....ooooooowwwwwww????? I just know what my spirit guides tell me But even that may not be all true........because I know full well that the Future is not set in stone.......Now the Mayan calender is set in stone but thats besides the point........want more ask and I might have an answer for you........GreyWolf
Pre-Columbian and Early American Legends of Bigfoot-like Beings 
Gulf
Algonkian
Keres
Penutian
Yukian
Chimakuan
Hokan-Coahiltecan
Tonkawa
Karankawa Kuteni
Iroquoian
Wakashan
Timucua
Tanoan
Aztec-Ianoan
Caddoan
Siouan-Yuchi
Salish Home Page Introduction (From : Traditional Attitudes Toward Bigfoot in Many North American Cultures, By Gayle Highpine) Originally printed in the Western Bigfoot Society Newsletter "The Track Record". Excerpted from "Legends Beyond Psychology", by Henry James Franzoni III. Reprinted with permission from all parties. "Here in the Northwest, and west of the Rockies generally, Indian people regard Bigfoot with great respect. He is seen as a special kind of being, because of his obvious close relationship with humans. Some elders regard him as standing on the "border" between animal-style consciousness and human-style consciousness, which gives him a special kind of power. (It is not that Bigfoot's relationship to make him "superior" to other animals; in Indian culture, unlike western culture, animals are not regarded as "inferior" to humans but rather as "elder brothers" and "teachers" of humans. But tribal cultures everywhere are based on relationship and kinship; the closer the kinship, the stronger the bond. Man Indian elders in the Northwest refuse to eat bear meat because of the bear's similarity to humans, and Bigfoot is obviously much more similar to humans than is the bear. As beings who blend the "natural knowledge" of animals with something of the distinctive type of consciousness called "intelligence" that humans have, Bigfoot is regarded as a special type of being." "But, special being as he is, I have never heard anyone from a Northwestern tribe suggest that Bigfoot is anything other than a physical being, living in the same physical dimensions as humans and other animals. He eats, he sleeps, he poops, he cares for his family members. However, among many Indians elsewhere in North America... as widely separated at the Hopi, the Sioux, the Iroquois, and the Northern Athabascan -- Bigfoot is seen more as a sort of supernatural or spirit being, whose appearance to humans is always meant to convey some kind of message." "The Lakota, or western Sioux, call Bigfoot Chiye-tanka (Chiha-tanka in Dakota or eastern Sioux); "chiye" means "elder brother" and "tanka" means "great" or "big". In English, though, the Sioux usually call him "the big man". In his book "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse," (Viking, 1980), a non-fiction account of the events dramatized by the excellent recent movie "Thunderheart", author Peter Mathiessen recorded some comments about Bigfoot made by traditional Sioux people and some members of other Indian nations. Joe Flying By, a Hunkpapa Lakota, told Mathiessen, "I think the Big Man is a kind of husband of Unk-ksa, the earth, who is wise in the way of anything with its own natural wisdom. Sometimes we say that this One is a kind of reptile from the ancient times who can take a big hairy form; I also think he can change into a coyote. Some of the people who saw him did not respect what they were seeing, and they are already gone." "There is your Big man standing there, ever waiting, ever present, like the coming of a new day," Oglala Lakota Medicine Man Pete Catches km told Mathiessen. "He is both spirit and real being, but he can also glide through the forest, like a moose with big antlers, as though the trees weren't there... I know him as my brother... I want him to touch me, just a touch, a blessing, something I could bring home to my sons and grandchildren, that I was there, that I approached him, and he touched me." 
Map of North American Indian Liguistic and Cultural Area
Click on a region to view that area's legends [Gulf] [Algonkian] [Keres] [Penutian] [Yukian] [Chimakuan] [Hokan-Coahiltecan] [Tonkawa] [Karankawa] [Kuteni] [Iroquoian] [Wakashan] [Timucua] [Na-Dene] [Aztec-Ianoan] [Caddoan] [Siouan-Yuchi] [Salish] Ray Owen, son of a Dakota spiritual leader from Prairie Island Reservation in Minnesota, told a reporter from (the) Red Wing (Minnesota) Republican Eagle, "They exist in another dimension from us, but can appear in this dimension whenever they have a reason to. See, it's like there are many levels, many dimensions. When our time in this one is finished, we move on to the next, but the Big Man can go between. The Big Man comes from God. He's our big brother, kind of looks out for us. Two years ago, we were going downhill, really self-destructive. We needed a sign to put us back on track, and that's why the Big Man appeared". Ralph Gray Wolf, a visiting Athapaskan Indian from Alaska, told the reporter, "In our way of beliefs, they make appearances at troubled times", to help troubled Indian communities "get more in tune with Mother Earth". Bigfoot brings "signs or messages that there is a need to change, a need to cleanse," (Minn. news article, "Giant Footprint Signals a Time to Seek Change," July 23,1988). Mathiessen reported similar views among the Turtle Mountain Ojibway in North Dakota, that Bigfoot --- whom they call Rugaru -- "appears in symptoms of danger or psychic disruption to the community." When I read this, I wondered if it contradicted my hypothesis that the Ojibways had identified Bigfoot with Windago, the sinister cannibal-giant of their legends (see Track Record #14); I had surmised that because I had never heard of any other names for, or references to Bigfoot in Ojibway culture, even though there must have been sightings in woodlands around the Great lakes, and indeed sightings in that region have been reported by non-Indians. But the Turtle Mountain band is one of the few Ojibway bands to have moved much farther west than most of their nation; and Rugaru is not a native Ojibway word. Nor does it come from the languages of neighboring Indian peoples. However, it has a striking sound similarity to the French word for werewolf, loup-garou, and there is quite a bit of French influence among the Turtle Mountain Ojibway. (French-Canadian trappers and missionaries were the first whites that they dealt with extensively, and many tribal members today bear French surnames), so it doesn't seem far-fetched that the Turtle Mountain Ojibway picked up the French name for hairy human-like being, while at the same time taking on their neighbors positive, reverent, attitude toward Bigfoot. After all, the Plains Cree -- even though they retain a memory of their eastern cousins tradition of the Wetiko (as the Windigo is called in Cree) -- have seemed similarly to take on the western tribes view of Bigfoot as they moved west. The Hopi elders say that the increasing appearances of Bigfoot are not only a message or warning to the individuals or communities to whom he appears, but to humankind at large. As Mathiessen puts it, they see Bigfoot as "a messenger who appears in evil times as a warning from the Creator that man's disrespect for His sacred instructions has upset the harmony and balance of existence." To the Hopi, the "big hairy man" is just one form that the messenger can take. The Iroquois (Six Nations Confederacy) of the Northeast -- although they live in close proximity to the eastern Algonkian tribes with their Windigo legends -- view Bigfoot much in the same way the Hopi do, as a messenger from the Creator trying to warn humans to change their ways or face disaster. However, mentioned among Iroquois much more often than Bigfoot are the "little people" who are said to inhabit the Adirondacks mountains. I never heard any first-hand stories among the Iroqouis about encounters with these "little people" -- for that matter, I never heard and first-hand stories in that region about Bigfoot, either -- but the Iroquois pass down stories about hunters who occasionally saw small human-like beings in the Adirondacks (which are not all that far from the Catskills, where Rip Van Winkle was alleged to have met some little bowlers) (and slept for 100 years -HF). Some present-day Iroquois assert that the "little people" are still there, just not seen as often because the Iroquois don't spend as much time hunting up in the mountains as they used to. many Iroquois seem to regard both Bigfoot and the "little people" as spiritual or interdimensional beings who can enter or leave our physical dimension as they please, and choose to whom they present themselves, always for a reason. Stories about small, humanoids who inhabit wild places are found in many areas of the world, especially Europe. (The Kiowa tell a story about several young men who decide to go exploring south from their Texas home for many days, seeing many new things, until they came to a strange forest [obviously the jungles of southern Mexico] whose trees were home to small, furred humanoids with tails! This they found to be too weird, so they immediately headed back for home). I never thought to connect the stories about the "little people" with the Sasquatch until Ray Crowe brought up the possible connection. After all, if there may be large relatives of humans living in remote areas, would it be so impossible for there to be small ones? Details that stretch credibility, such as pots of gold, pointed and belled caps, games of ninepins, etc., could conceivably be embellishments added over generations to some genuine accounts of sightings. Throughout Native North America, Bigfoot is seen as a kind of "brother" to humans. Even among those eastern Algonkian tribes to whom Bigfoot represents the incarnation of the Windigo -- the human who is transformed into a cannibalistic monster by tasting human flesh in time of starvation -- his fearsomeness comes from his very closeness to humans. The Windigo is the embodiment of the hidden, terrifying temptation within them to turn to eating other humans when no other food is to be had. he was still their "elder brother", but a brother who represented a human potential they feared. As such, the Windigo's appearance was sort of a constant warning to them, a reminder that a community whose members turn to eating each other is doomed much more surely than a community that simply has no food. So the figure of the Windigo is not so far removed from the figure of the "messenger" coming to warn humankind of impending disaster if it doesn't cease its destruction of nature. The existence of Bigfoot is taken for granted throughout Native North America, and so are his powerful psychic abilities. I can't count the number of times that I have heard elder Indian people say that Bigfoot knows when humans are searching for him and that he chooses when and to whom to make an appearance, and that his psychic powers account for his ability to elude the white man's efforts to capture him or hunt him down. In Indian culture, the entire natural world -- the animals, the plants, the rivers, the stars -- is seen as a family. And Bigfoot is seen as one of our close relatives, the "great elder brother"
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