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Lakota
Responses to the Declaration:
War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality
February 6, 1996 to November 11th 1996
The following are responses to the statment concerning the exploitation of Lakota ceremonies. Anyone is free to submit a response to this statement provided you include explicit permission to post the statement to the internet. Each response must be individually processed by the web masters so please be patient if this process takes a little time. We ask that people be respectful in their responses and address the issues and not individual persons.
Due to the size of the responses I have divided them into smaller sections. You may read the most recent responses below in reverse chronlogy (newest to oldest). There are also archives of comments:
Originally posted by uberarcanist
I challenge the notion that the Lakota people did not have a concept for separate self. Everyone in the Lakota had a very colorful name, which seems to me to indicate a strong idea of individuality.
The link that Speaker gave also speaks to another thing I address frequently here -- the stealing and changing of culture by well-meaning people who don't actually understand it. It showed up recently in the question someone asked about the Mayan calendar and the "14 calendars"... changes adopted by some when spiritual travelers from Europe and America came in and told the locals that their symbols related to the ones that the Europeans and North Americans held dear (Christianity and numerology, for two examples.)
Originally posted by uberarcanist
I challenge the notion that the Lakota people did not have a concept for separate self. Everyone in the Lakota had a very colorful name, which seems to me to indicate a strong idea of individuality.
Originally posted by Byrd
I know we have several Native Americans on the board who grew up "on the rez" and I'm hoping that they will come add to the comments here.
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
Sometimes, at least around here of late, if you talk about spirituality, it gets hairy. It seems that ATS is beginning to become over run with athiests, agnostics and people that are wholly unaware of spirituality.
[edit on 23-8-2007 by SpeakerofTruth]