Sweat Lodge Building 2008

hey great!  now all i need to do is mix it with some new age "law of attraction' nonsense and promise white ppl that they will get rich and then i can charge $9000 per person. if someone dies cause i got it wrong.. .who cares! I 'll be able to afford lawyers....
thanks for the help exploiting and appropriating your most sacred cultural beliefs...

The sacredness comes when you share in a humble and genuine way. You cannot buy what belongs to the four colors of races on this earth. If we do not share our people will lose what is important to the two legged people. Only the Great Spirit can judge what is right and what is wrong, these ancient ceremonies have survived and will survive even when you are no longer here. The sacredness comes when people see, feel, hear, and live the sacred way of life, and to share with generosity.

Sharing, understanding and respecting all cultures is a wonderful thing. But I believe it is incumbent on the one who positions themselves as an authority on a culture to spend much time (many years) working with an honored elder(s) to receive ceremonial rights to utilize spiritual practices of that culture. .

shouldn't show how a sweat lodge is made by pics...the spirit is trapped on picture now before it came to life

Looks like them natives are going to get good and greasy innt.... Yah!!!

there is no "right" way. as long as you have an open heart and allow yourself to recieve that which Tunkasila is trying to tell you. theese things must be done in a good way. Everyone is taught a lil bit different. Wopila Wakan Tanka

I hope you know what your doing, because I know that's not how you do it. All my relations, may the creator guide you, Muci, Cho`...

its not that i want to keep my culture a secret its just my grandfather zitkada duta who has now left to the spirit world told me that its disrespectful when u do this and your not supposed to exployed these kind of things because these are very powerful and sacred things that there showing nation wide

We are all realted and help each other in this great circle of life. Our times need open hearts and helping hands. The Earth and human kind need healing of the soul. Reconnecting to the Spirit.

I wish my ancestors beliefs and way of life were not taken out by the Christian crusaders.....as I am born in the USA my only connection to my Scandinavian roots is through the Native people, Yeah,,,,I have a sauna and a sweat lodge. I have studied with many tribes....we are all related.