Native American Medicine Wheel & Manoomin Project teens

#2 Native Indian elder and Ojibwa Storyteller Glen Bressette explains Medicine Wheel - colors, directions, meanings to Manoomin Project teens in Marquette, Michigan.
Ojibwa Medicine Wheel

The Manoomin Project is about much more than restoring wild rice to northern Michigan.

The project teaches at-risk youth about Native American heritage, culture and social issues.

During 2007, American Indian elder Glen Bressette told the youth the meaning behind the Medicine Wheel and the four sacred colors and directions.

A well-known Ojibwa public speaker, Bressette told the teens in Marquette that he gets questions from Michigan students that are inquisitive and honest - while other questions are blatantly stereotypical like: Do Indians still live in Tee-Pees?

An elder with the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Bressette explained the difference between cultural beliefs and stereotypes.

Time: 6:37

The Manoomin Project was founded by the Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, MI with help from the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and other tribes. Volunteer American Indian guides have taken over 100 at-risk teens to plant more than one ton of wild rice during the the past four summers (2004-2007) at seven secret and remote sites across the central Upper Peninsula.

CedarTree Institute:
http://www.CedarTreeInstitute.org

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Here are explanations from the internet on the different - though similar - definitions of the Medicine Wheel in Native American culture:
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The Medicine Wheel is representative of American Indian Spirituality.
The Medicine Wheel symbolizes the individual journey we each must take to find our own path.
Within the Medicine Wheel are The Four Cardinal Directions and the Four Sacred Colors.
The Circle represents the Circle of Life and the Center of the Circle, the Eternal Fire.
East is Red: success; triumph
North is Blue: defeat; trouble
West is Black: death
South is White: peace; happiness

There are three additional sacred directions:
Up Above is Yellow
Down Below is Brown
Here in the Center is Green.
Winter: go-la
The color for North is Blue which represents sadness, defeat.
It is a season of survival and waiting.

Ojibwa Medicine Wheel:
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/1835/wheel.html
Native American Spirituality - Medicine Wheel:
http://users.ap.net/~chenae/spirit.html
Medicine Wheel Gardens:
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096411113
Sun Bear Medicine Wheel:
http://www.ewebtribe.com/StarSpiderDancing/wheel.html

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[travisbressette]

glens my gpa and he will tell you whats up and will tell you the truth to it all

[YOOPERNEWSMAN]

Dear Mr. Travis Bressette,

Thank you for commenting Travis.

Your are fortunate to have such a wise grandpa.

He has great ability as a storyteller - and tells it like it is.

I hope you and everyone watch Mr. Glenn Bressette's other videos - especially the first one.

Thanks again Travis,

Greg Peterson aka yoopernewsman

[LookingGlassThecure]

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[rockinae19]

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[projektred]

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[Underestimatedlady]

very educational.