Lakota Culture 115: The Result of a Broken Sacred Hoop

When feelings of inferiority and shame come to us, our tendency is to blame others. Lakota Elder Larry Salway says healing only begins after we recognize that we alone are responsible for our own Broken Sacred Hoop. Larry also points to hope for healing.

View this video with additional information at http://www.lifeinitiativesinc.org/trainingculture115.html

Larry Salway grew up on the Rosebud Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. He rose out of the poverty of his childhood and became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and later, a professor at the Oglala Lakota College campuses in Kyle and Rapid City, SD. He served for five years as Tribal Judge in Pine Ridge, SD. Mr. Salway has also served as pastor of churches in Arizona and South Dakota. Larry is Co-President of Life Initiatives.

This video is part of a series Life Initiatives produced for mentor development.

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• Sioux
• Lakota
• American
• Indian
• Native
• Life
• Initiatives
• Larry
• Salway
• Medicine
• Wheel
• Broken
• Hoop
• Inferiority
• Responsibility

[walkingbear56]

I cannt believe I have not found this treasure n You Tube before, thank you Elder Larry Salway for these videos.

Mitakuye Oyasin

[lakotalife]

pilamaya

[sunkawakanska]

hau larry alex here, time to comment now i have watched all the topics. all i can say is fantastic, it is about time that people started going back to basics

back to the start

mitakuye ouasin

alex