tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post867237735069647614..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Seattle, Sacagawea, and medicine wheelsRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-28178862531864364992011-03-09T10:02:09.044-08:002011-03-09T10:02:09.044-08:00Tribes are certainly free to adopt what they want ...Tribes are certainly free to adopt what they want from other regions. The point is that Bennie LeBeau is a new age fraud and says things like:<br />Indian people should just get over the history of genocide. And Indian people need to set aside the concept of tribes. And that Native spiritual traditions should be available to anyone who wants to use it. In one interview on the link provided, he sees as his goal to convert Indians to new age thinking and says we resist because we're afraid of crystals. I think the sharp, pointy crystals could be useful as weapons. -Laura Grabhorn (becoming more Tlingity about this)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-19949646669351992712011-03-08T23:46:05.278-08:002011-03-08T23:46:05.278-08:00I only wanted to mention that some tribes over her...I only wanted to mention that some tribes over here in the PNW do have medicine wheels in their culture. I am Cowlitz and we are from SW WA. We have a sacred medicine wheel site, and it's symbol is important to us.Karinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-34496222080067443672011-03-08T20:39:26.106-08:002011-03-08T20:39:26.106-08:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94VT6Mylrag
Here&#...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94VT6Mylrag<br /><br />Here's a youtube interview with Blue Thunder where he says that the reason Native people reject crystals is because we are afraid of them...<br />-Laura GrabhornAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-34594585471465056182011-03-08T20:23:49.012-08:002011-03-08T20:23:49.012-08:00Hi, Rob; The event took place at the Longhouse, it...Hi, Rob; The event took place at the Longhouse, it was NOT sponsored by the Longhouse Education & Cultural Center. The Longhouse is a space available to student groups, classes and other college events in addition to our own programs. The Native Student Alliance objects to "Blue Thunder", who is also Bennie LeBeau because he is coming to the Northwest to foist upon the land his very odd "Pacific NW Medicine Wheel." The event in question was to garner support through a new age student group calling itself "ancestral wisdom." The project calls for ambassadors of Bennie LeBeau's choosing to conduct similar ceremonies he claims are based in Eastern Shoshone tradition (which is in doubt) at Quinault, Port Gamble and Shoalwater as well as at sites like Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens and so forth. He performs the typical new age fraud mish mash that perpetuates harm to real practitioners who reserve their work for their own communities and who do not sell or proselytize their unwanted message on Native communities and territory that is not their own. So the issue is larger than this one single event. -Laura Grabhorn ( Tlingit/Haida)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com