A wise old Lakota-Sioux Woman

My photo
The old photo to your left is an important one:Chief's Red Cloud and Sitting Bull. (Update: a fellow blogger notified me and corrected the Warrior next to Red Cloud is American Horse. Also see picture of American Horse in full headress at bottom of this blog) I'm a Lakota-Sioux ,born and raised in Central Wyoming on the Arapho/ Shoshone Rez. My wisdom comes from the school of hard knocks,and the paths I choose to take. Along with the advice and stories from my elders, my road has lead me here.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Native American's 911


Share/Save/Bookmark In the beginning, when the ships came and dropped off the travelers from distant countries. We watched and listened. They came as friendly's. We welcomed them and as the years passed, things changed. They changed..They became full of greed, they wanted all that we had loved and cherished. Our lands. And these invaders came and they killed. They killed and killed and where ever we went they followed and killed some more. They killed our food, our great Chieftan's, our young braves. Then the women and children, our future. They burned our villages, stole our ponies and spat on our bodies. as we lay dead and dying on the prairie's across Mother earth. We somehow failed to protect her, that's what the Great One put us here to do. To tend the earth, and the wildlife and keep all abundant and in harmony. They put us in lands fit for on man, then gathered us up again and herded us like cattle, starving us and making us walk many miles till we dropped and then they shot us again. Many years have passed, now they sit and look out on what was once a beautiful earth, at what they have done. And in the modern world, we still are confined to the reservations they forced us upon back then.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Is Obama a narcissist?


Share/Save/Bookmark Someone sent me this in an email during the elections. Thought it was worth looking at again. It will be interesting to sit back and watch Obama and see if he is the luming evil being that's going to destroy the planet.

Comment by livefree
October 30th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Yes, he sealed it alright! After reading the following post yesterday and watching the Obamamercial last night ,whoever wrote this has the man pegged :
I must confess I was impressed by Sen. Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident - a wholesome presidential package.
I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words.
Obama's speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in American history. Never a politician in this land had such quasi "religious" impact on so many people.
The fact that Obama is a total incognito with zero accomplishment, makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming.

Obama is not an ordinary man. He is not a genius. In fact he is quite ignorant on most important subjects. Barack Obama is a narcissist. Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love, also believes, "Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist." Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands narcissism and describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no other person. When he talks about narcissism everyone listens.

Vaknin says that Obama's language, posture and demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, dearest and nearest suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves.
Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of People's Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was also a narcissist.
David Koresh, Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao, Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our time.
All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers. They created a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirers' souls, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom. When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don't know it until it is too late.
One determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse. "Obama's early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations," says Vaknin. "Mixed-race marriages were even less common then. His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant (two years old). Obama saw his father only once again, before he died in a car accident. Then, his mother re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia : a foreign land with a radically foreign culture, to be raised by a step-father. At the age of ten, he was whisked off to live with his maternal (white) grandparents. He saw his mother only intermittently in the following few years and then she vanished from his life in 1979. She died of cancer in 1995."
One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of pathological narcissists. They project such an imposing personality that it overwhelms those around them. Charmed by the charisma of the narcissist, people become like clay in his hands. They cheerfully do his bidding and delight to be at his service. The narcissist shapes the world around himself and reduces others in his own inverted image. He creates a cult of personality. His admirers become his co-dependents. Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach their personal objective. They are focused on one thing alone and that is power. All other issues are meaningless to them and they do not want to waste their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help them is beneath them and do not deserve their attention. If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way or another, he has no interest in it.
The "present" vote is a safe vote. No one can criticize him if things go wrong. Why should he implicate himself in issues that may become controversial when they don't help him personally? Those issues are unworthy by their very nature because they are not about him.
Obama's election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract and advance to write a book about race relations. The University of Chicago Law School provided him with a fellowship and an office to work on his book. The book took him a lot longer than expected and at the end it devolved into, guess what? His own autobiography!
Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race relations, for which, he had been paid, Obama could not resist writing about his most sublime self. He entitled the book Dreams from My Father .
Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when he was still nobody. So did Stalin.
For a narcissist no subject is as important as his own self. Why would he waste his precious time and genius writing about insignificant things when he can write about such an august being as himself? Narcissists are often callous and even ruthless. As the norm, they lack conscience. This is evident from Obama's lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only one dollar per month. A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to vacation in Hawaii, and who has raised nearly half a billion dollars for his campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the plight of his own brother. Why?
Because his brother cannot be used for his ascent to power. A narcissist cares for no one but himself. This election is like no other in the history of America . The issues are insignificant compared to what is at stake. What can be more dangerous than having a man bereft of conscience, a serial liar, and one who cannot distinguish his fantasies from reality as the leader of the free world?
I hate to sound alarmist, but one must be a fool if one is not alarmed
Many politicians are narcissists. They pose no threat to others.. They are simply self serving and selfish. Obama evinces symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or a Bill Clinton, for example. To him reality and fantasy are intertwined.
This is a mental health issue, not just a character flaw. Pathological narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent. It is this disguise that makes them treacherous.
There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.
He has already shown us he is a control freak, As the media following him around has him sulking in a dark cloud as he tries to figure out how to get rid of them. And he will if he has to change a law.
I can invision him standing stareing out on the ocean in Hawaii, Calmly eating a handful of nuts, totally unconcerned on the war with Isreal and the Hamas. Already planning on ways to blame someone or something else for not at least making mention of the situation. Can't blame it on the storm that knocked out all the power to the island.....He had 3 generators with someone offering him a 4th that he refused. Then to beat all, the local government came up with a really big generator that lit up the whole block! Well, that excuse is shot down. Probably thinking, Damn it, I'm on vacation! LOLhttp://theblacksphere.blogspot.com/

Saturday, December 27, 2008

More good news from elsewhere


Share/Save/Bookmark I was surfing last night and came across some articles.
One from Hawaii about Obama paying a visit to the troops there during Christmas. I read that the room fell quiet, not as usual when President Bush would show; with Bush there would have been cheering and picture taking etc. They sat quietly eating and only showed respect when directly confronted by Obama............
Is it because of his race.......the friends he runs with.....his better than thou attitude.......I am curious; Really!
I must say the President-elect does come with baggage! There is a dark side of this man, he kind of makes me think of old whats his name leader in Iran; only more hidden. I think we are gonna be going on a evil ride for the next two years!

Then I hear that the new leaders on Iraq Have proclaimed December 25Th as a national holiday........Christmas! There were picture's of little boys and girls dressed up like Santa and ms Santa lighting candles! Christian worship! My heart soared with delight! Praise the Lord! Christian Church's to be built also.

At last....a national apology ????????


Share/Save/Bookmark In the spirit of Thanksgiving, this timely and insightful forum moderated by Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Director Kevin Gover (Pawnee/Comanche) focuses on topical issues of reconciliation and highlights national apologies made to Native peoples.
The symposium covers the eloquent apology issued in June 2008 by the Canadian government for the abuse and cultural loss suffered by Aboriginal peoples in Canada’s residential schools. It includes a presentation on the Native American Apology Resolution recently passed in the United States Senate as well as an examination of reconciliation efforts in Guatemala. A wrap-up speaker considers the issues involved in apologies and reconciliation processes in a broad scope. Concluding with panel discussion and questions from the audience, Harvest of Hope seeks a deeper, more inclusive understanding of our national narratives and the experiences of the Native peoples of the Americas.
Speakers include
Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Northern Cheyenne), former United States Senator from Colorado; currently senior policy advisor, Holland & Knight LLP
Caroline Davis, Assistant Deputy Minister, Resolution and Individual Affairs, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Government of Canada
Phil Fontaine (Sagkeeng First Nation), National Chief, Assembly of First Nations, Canada
Victor Montejo (Jakaltek Maya), University of California, Davis; formerly Minister of Peace in the Guatemalan Republic and member of the Guatemalan National Congress
Gabrielle Tayac (Piscataway), historian, National Museum of the American Indian
This program is free and open to the public.Metro: L’Enfant Plaza, Maryland Avenue/Smithsonian Museum

All the Native's will know when this happens. All the White's will be too busy in their own lives to pay much attention, and a large percentage don't like us and will say " The apology don't pretain to my opinion!" Sad to say, but this apology will be laid to rest in the Smithsonian Museum. I say "GIVE US BACK OUR DIGNITY! And give our Mother (earth) back her's also!

Friday, December 26, 2008

O Come all Ye Faithful By Jana Mashonee


Share/Save/Bookmark Merry Christmas Everyone!

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Merry Christmas everyone!


Share/Save/Bookmark I hope all that read this has a wonderful time with your loved one's and the next year is meaningful and gentle!

I just can't get enough of Jana's music


Share/Save/Bookmark Jana Mashonee is the best! Enjoy!

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Look what they are doing to the Navajo!


Share/Save/Bookmark Inauguration Day Protest March in Window Rock AZ (Indigenous Mapping Network mailing city) re coal-burning power plant http://bit.ly/1FBjA
when will they give our dignity back? Our lives?

McCain is so full of greed! When will he be stopped?

MY HEART IS CRYING FOR MY PEOPLE, THE WHITE MAN HAS DONE NOTHING BUT DESTROY OUR VERY EXISTENCE!
They rounded up the survivor's and put them on wasteland after the the wars. They were to stay. There was no food or water and yet they survived. Now they are coming after the very wasteland they pushed away!
They gave the black man an apology, where is ours? I guess we didn't complain loud enough huh?!

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Sitting Bull On this day 1876


Share/Save/Bookmark December 18TH
Forces under Lt. Baldwin attack Sitting Bull on the Red Water-1876

Another date we must not forget. He along side the other warriors fought many battles, trying to stop the invasions, only to be killed by the white man. I don't see any history that gives these men any honor, only within the tribes history are they hero's. So sad and painful.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Lakota natives withdraw from treaties w/ whitey's


Share/Save/Bookmark I am so very proud of my nation! The pride and strength lives on!

WASHINGTON — The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States.
"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us,'' long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means said.
A delegation of Lakota leaders has delivered a message to the State Department, and said they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the U.S., some of them more than 150 years old.
The group also visited the Bolivian, Chilean, South African and Venezuelan embassies, and would continue on their diplomatic mission and take it overseas in the coming weeks and months.
Lakota country includes parts of the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.
The new country would issue its own passports and driving licences, and living there would be tax-free - provided residents renounce their U.S. citizenship, Mr Means said.
The treaties signed with the U.S. were merely "worthless words on worthless paper," the Lakota freedom activists said.


Withdrawing from the treaties was entirely legal, Means said.
"This is according to the laws of the United States, specifically article six of the constitution,'' which states that treaties are the supreme law of the land, he said.
"It is also within the laws on treaties passed at the Vienna Convention and put into effect by the US and the rest of the international community in 1980. We are legally within our rights to be free and independent,'' said Means.
The Lakota relaunched their journey to freedom in 1974, when they drafted a declaration of continuing independence — an overt play on the title of the United States' Declaration of Independence from England.
Thirty-three years have elapsed since then because "it takes critical mass to combat colonialism and we wanted to make sure that all our ducks were in a row,'' Means said.
One duck moved into place in September, when the United Nations adopted a non-binding declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples — despite opposition from the United States, which said it clashed with its own laws.
"We have 33 treaties with the United States that they have not lived by. They continue to take our land, our water, our children,'' Phyllis Young, who helped organize the first international conference on indigenous rights in Geneva in 1977, told the news conference.
The U.S. "annexation'' of native American land has resulted in once proud tribes such as the Lakota becoming mere "facsimiles of white people,'' said Means.
Oppression at the hands of the U.S. government has taken its toll on the Lakota, whose men have one of the shortest life expectancies - less than 44 years - in the world.
Lakota teen suicides are 150 per cent above the norm for the U.S.; infant mortality is five times higher than the U.S. average; and unemployment is rife, according to the Lakota freedom movement's website.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Let it snow!


Share/Save/Bookmark It's 6 o clock in the evening, the Nevada storm front is moving over us with a lite snow starting to cover the land. In my neck of the woods, the town closes up around 8pm, the lights go dim and the smell of the wood stoves come and go. I love this land and the folks who live here, all living in harmony. This is the high desert and land of 4 seasons, the view is breath taking! We go ATVing in the spring and summer. Fishing and boating, swimming and jet skiing during fishing season. Hiking for those who can. This is the outback of NW Arizona! Land of Lake Mead, the Colorado River, and the Grand Canyon! We have gold mines, Turquoise mines, the land of thunder eggs and beautiful stones. Heck we even had the burning man festival here this year.
But this snow stuff has only happened maybe 7 or 8 times since I moved here 6 yr ago. It'll be melted off by noon tomorrow.Snow is cool to watch, to sit by our fire and see the beauty of it all. Life is good!

I'm a Native!


Share/Save/Bookmark (To some of you who may be discusted by the name, Indian put on this story, please remember this is a very old story. While we now go by Native in the modern world, we must pay our respects. I do not remember where I found or was given this story and if someone knows from which it came, let me know and I'll add the persons name to it.)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
How often have you heard or said "I'm part Indian"?
If you have, then some Native American elders have something to teach you. A very touching example was told by a physician from Oregon who discovered as an adult that he was Indian.
This is his story. Listen well:

Some twenty or more years ago while serving the Mono and Chukchanse and Chownumnee communities in the Sierra Nevada, I was asked to make a house call on a Mono elder. She was 81 years old and had developed pneumonia after falling on frozen snow while bucking up some firewood.
I was surprised that she had asked for me to come since she had always avoided anything to do with the services provided through the local agencies. However it seemed that she had decided I might be alright because I had helped her grandson through some difficult times earlier and had been studying Mono language with the 2nd graders at North Fork School.
She greeted me from inside her house with a Mana' hu, directing me into her bedroom with the sound of her voice. She was not willing to go to the hospital like her family had pleaded, but was determined to stay in her own place and wanted me to help her using herbs that she knew and trusted but was too weak to do alone. I had learned to use about a dozen native medicinal plants by that time, but was inexperienced in using herbs in a life or death situation.
She eased my fears with her kind eyes and gentle voice. I stayed with her for the next two days, treating her with herbal medicine (and some vitamin C that she agreed to accept). She made it through and we became friends.
One evening several years later, she asked me if I knew my elders. I told her that I was half Canadian and half Appalachian from Kentucky. I told her that my Appalachian grandfather was raised by his Cherokee mother but nobody had ever talked much about that and I didn't want anyone to think that I was pretending to be an Indian. I was uncomfortable saying I was part Indian and never brought it up in normal conversation.
"What! You're part Indian?" she said. "I wonder, would you point to the part of yourself that's Indian. Show me what part you mean." I felt quite foolish and troubled by what she said, so I stammered out something to the effect that I didn't understand what she meant. Thankfully the conversation stopped at that point. I finished bringing in several days worth of firewood for her, finished the yerba santa tea she had made for me and went home still thinking about her words.
Some weeks later we met in the grocery store in town and she looked down at one of my feet and said, "I wonder if that foot is an Indian foot. Or maybe it's your left ear. Have you figured it out yet?" I laughed out loud, blushing and stammering like a little kid.
When I got outside after shopping, she was standing beside my pick-up, smiling and laughing. "You know" she said, "you either are or you aren't. No such thing as part Indian. It's how your heart lives in the world, how you carry yourself. I knew before I asked you. Nobody told me. Now don't let me hear you say you are part Indian anymore."
She died last year, but I would like her to know that I've heeded her words. And I've come to think that what she did for me was a teaching that the old ones tell people like me, because others have told me that a Native American elder also said almost the same thing to them. I know her wisdom helped me to learn who I was that day and her words have echoed in my memory ever since.
And because of her, I am no longer part Indian, I'm an Indian!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~