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R&S->Prayers: OTRR Pray for the Buffalo
Posted on Friday, October 26 @ 17:47:18 PDT (1414 reads)

AUTHOR and PHOTOGRAPHER: Shelley Bluejay Pierce

In September 2007, there were six devoted people who did not forget the buffalo. Though the day was cold and the sky filled with snow, the journey began into the heart of Yellowstone in search of our beloved buffalo. Three men and three women began the day amidst the traffic, stopping at gas stations, passing through forest ranger stations and dealing with the congestion of Yellowstone Park visitors to arrive at the place where one of the buffalo herds was gathered.

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R&S->Prayers: OTRR A Day With the Buffalo and the Elders
Posted on Friday, October 26 @ 17:41:14 PDT (1120 reads)

AUTHOR and PHOTOGRAPHER: Shelley Bluejay Pierce

On November 29, 2006, eight little buffalo calves forced their way out of a government enclosure where they, and many other wild buffalo, were being detained in holding pens and experimented on by scientists attempting to produce a "brucellosis-free buffalo herd" in the Yellowstone area.

Only a couple weeks after the escape of these determined young buffalo, the winter hunting season began and the buffalo of Yellowstone were beset with hunters chasing them from place to place trying to fill the state issued hunting tags.

During a very stressful time for the buffalo herd in the harsh winter and deep snows where forage is hard to come by, the buffalo run to escape the hunters and the wildlife “management” officials who haze them with helicopters and snowmobiles. The buffalo would not have chosen an insane place to dwell during the long winter season like the heart of Yellowstone Park. They would have followed their instincts and gone to lower prairie grounds where the food supplies were plentiful. Yet, to this very day, they are forced to abide within imaginary fences and made to comply with an illogical and man made system that each year leads many buffalo to their deaths.

This is the way of life for our sacred buffalo. In beginning this story though, let us all back up and take time to learn about them and why they are sacred to the Native people. As is our tradition, listening to the oral history from a trusted Elder is how we learn our history and deepen our respect for our culture and the legacy of those who have come before. I am honored to share this story as told by Scott Frazier, Santee/Crow, as told to him by his Grandfather.

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R&S->Prayers: Native americans offer prayers for Yellowstone bison
Posted on Tuesday, October 23 @ 18:22:00 PDT (1360 reads)

AUTHOR: Shelley Bluejay Pierce

Native Americans consider the buffalo sacred for the life giving relationship between the People and the herd. Elders lifted prayers on behalf of the buffalo herd in Yellowstone prior to the winter months when buffalo are hazed or killed for crossing imaginary park boundary lines.

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R&S->Prayers: Let my spirit pass without shame
Posted on Thursday, June 15 @ 11:02:54 PDT (5683 reads)

O' Great Spirit,
Whose voice I hear in the winds,
And whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me!
I am small and weak, I need your strength and wisdom.

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R&S->Prayers: Apache Wedding Prayer
Posted on Friday, May 19 @ 02:21:05 PDT (6005 reads)

Here is an Apache Wedding Prayer.

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R&S->Prayers: Earth Healing Prayer
Posted on Friday, August 19 @ 21:56:26 PDT (6340 reads)

Earth Healing Ceremony prayer.

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R&S->Prayers: The Sacred Seven Prayer
Posted on Friday, August 19 @ 21:48:39 PDT (6399 reads)

Earth Prayers for The Great Spirit--The Sacred Seven Prayer as told by Elder Noel Knockwood

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R&S->Prayers: Lakota prayer for the dead
Posted on Saturday, July 09 @ 21:51:45 PDT (10537 reads)

A Lakota Sioux prayer dedicated to the dead from the Vietnam War.

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R&S->Prayers: Haudenosaunee thanks giving prayer
Posted on Thursday, February 10 @ 00:49:36 PST (9555 reads)

Haudenosaunee thanks giving prayer....KEYWORDS: native american prayer thanksgiving prayer haudenosaunee prayer seneca prayer turtle clan prayer cornplanter tribe indian prayers prayer of thanks giving give thanks

AUTHOR: Family members state that the following prayer, as translated into English, was confirmed as being accurate by a woman who, at the time, was the hereditary Grandmother of the Turtle Clan of the Cornplanter Tribe of the Seneca Nation of the Haudenosaunee. (She has since passed.)

Over the centuries, at the time of the "nut festival," the Grandmother of the Turtle Clan would say the following prayer prior to everyone partaking in the feast that was part of the festival. The nut festival was held in late autumn, following the gathering of nuts and other food to store for winter.

Note: The words in bold in parenthesis are not meant to be spoken aloud. They are just page headings to help readers scan and interpret the article.

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R&S->Prayers: Anishinabe prayer carrier
Posted on Wednesday, October 27 @ 23:57:22 PDT (6488 reads)

Anishinabe prayer carrier.. KEYWORDS: anishinabe prayer carrier ojibwe ojibwa ojibway chippewa anishinabeg anishinaabe eagle power totem animals spiritural power of birds animals culture tradition religious beliefs

The graceful bird of the skies, the eagle, is the prayer carrier and messenger of the Anishinabe people. As the eagle soars arose the skies, one knows he is carrying the prayers to the Creator.

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R&S->Prayers: A Thanksgiving prayer from the Iroquois (Seneca) people
Posted on Wednesday, November 13 @ 23:21:50 PST (17043 reads)

KEYWORDS: Thanksgiving Prayer thanksgiving prayer Iroquois seneca Indian prayer for Thanksgiving Lord of the Sky in the beginning of all things be thankful sister corn clinging sisters beans sister squash three sacred sisters sacred fire Iroquois language Seneca language Gwa Gayant' gogwus Ona'o the sacred food Nyo'sowane, our sister squash Oa'geta, our sister beans FWDP Center For World Indigenous Studies Fourth World Documentation Project

Translated by: Chuck Larsen, Seneca

Gwa! Gwa! Gwa!
Now the time has come!
Hear us, Lord of the Sky!
We are here to speak the truth,
For you do not hear lies,
We are your children, Lord of the Sky.

Now begins the Gayant' gogwus
This sacred fire and sacred tobacco
And through this smoke
We offer our prayers.
We are your children, Lord of the Sky.

Now in the beginning of all things
You provided that we inherit your creation.
You said, "I shall make the earth
On which people shall live
And they shall look to the earth as their mother."
And they shall say, "It is she who supports us."
You said that we should always be thankful
For our earth and for each other.
So it is that we are gathered here,
We are your children, Lord of the Sky.

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R&S->Prayers: Natives celebrate return of sacred bundle; Spirits back home
Posted on Tuesday, July 09 @ 00:51:02 PDT (20540 reads)

KEYWORDS: pipe ceremony Last Star pipe bundle sacred artifacts Provincial Museum of Alberta Blackfoot Indians Blackfeet Theodore Last Star thunder medicine pipe holy bundles Blackfoot spirituality dance with the pipe sacred object Blackfoot tribe traditional Blackfoot healing dance bundle keeper Bob Burns native ceremonial artifact repatriation legislation Alberta's Blood tribe Blackfoot reservation Blackfoot religious leader Bob Scriver Blackfoot traditionalists Alberta Piegan Blackfoot elders First Nations Sacred Ceremonial Objects Repatriation Act Blood reserve pipe songs and feasting artifacts George Kicking Woman Blackfoot culture

AUTHOR: LARRY JOHNSRUDE, Journal Staff Writer

Spirits are being awakened for the first time in 60 years.

I can see it in the faces of those around me, Blackfoot Indians from both sides of the border, gathering on Canada Day at a ranch in northern Montana to celebrate the return of a vital link to their past.

The men sit nearest the fire, the women forming a circle behind them. Sweetgrass burns and turns to ash, filling the teepee with an ancient aroma.

Expressions filled with reverence and awe, their attention is fixed on a metre-long stone and reed pipe, decorated with the mummified head of a harlequin duck on one end, and a fan of eagle feathers on the other.

Named after the last holy man to possess it, the Theodore Last Star thunder medicine pipe was an essential part of Blackfoot spiritual beliefs dating to times of the buffalo hunt.

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R&S->Prayers: Teach Us To Walk The Soft Earth
Posted on Sunday, November 11 @ 12:40:16 PST (3163 reads)

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Grandfather Great Spirit
All Over The World,

The Faces Of Living Ones
Are Alike.

With Tenderness,
They Have Come

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R&S->Prayers: Cherokee Prayer
Posted on Sunday, November 11 @ 05:08:37 PST (4940 reads)

Oh Great Spirit,
Help me always to speak the truth quietly,
to listen with an open mind when others speak,
and to remember the peace that may be found
in silence.

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R&S->Prayers: Sioux Wedding Prayer
Posted on Saturday, September 29 @ 04:39:55 PDT (14930 reads)

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Sioux Wedding Prayer.. KEYWORDS: sioux wedding prayer indian wedding prayer

Grandfather, Tunkasina, you are giving us life again. For many days we were lonesome for you. Earth was cold and the winds were strong. But now we hear songs. Your children are singing, and we are happy. They are singing, and we are lighthearted.

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