Tunkas'ila is helping me.

As I walk this C'unka Luta, I have noticed some great things happening in my life. There is an old saying that Native Americans use alot. "Be careful of what you ask for."

I pray quite often these days with C'anupa, and in Inipi Ceremony. I speak to my ancestors and Tunkas'ila, Wakan Tanka. I ask for guidence through this plane called life, and Tunkas'ila has been directing me to things that are good. More importantly, there have been things directed to me that are good for this C'unka Luta. This is one of them.

Meet "To Maga". I was offered a job that will take care of the bills that the societal machine wants me to buy and pay for, and still be walking the Red Road in a good way.

The owner of this company has smoked C'anupa with me, and is willing to allow me to go to the , at times, lengthily ceremonies that I practice on the C'unka Luta. His name is Jim, and he is Red Hearted. He just does not know it yet.

I haul decorative boulders from his quarries in that Pete 379, and love every minute of it. I plan on keeping this one till Wakan Tanka feels the need to purify Unc'i Maka. (Earth Mother)

Now the name "To Maga" you ask? It is Lakota for Blue Goose. Blue, for a friends film that he created at "The Duke City Shootout", and the obvious, she's blue. And Goose in reference to my Spirit Guide. The Goose People, or Maga Oyate.

"To Maga" is pronounced.... "To" like toe. And "Maga" like lava. "To Maga"

Mitakuye Oyasin

Human Thought & Action

I have a mind the uses both right and left hemishperes at the same time. This is a terrible thing to be able to use, as it means that I have a totally open mind to everything that goes on around me. I not only have the ability to decern actions, but the ability to analize the intent of actions. I am artistic and logical all in the same word.
With that said, I have embarked on a spiritual journey that I am finding very hurtful. Not because of how I take things. Rather because of how things are.
I do not make "FRIENDS" easily. And those that I consider as such keep on being human, and it is my observation that human beings are, at no fault of any individual of this time in the universe, selfish, and destructable.
How? Take into consideration these facts about myself. I will give you the shirt off my back, but there are those out in the world that will just as well TAKE it off my back. If time is needed to help with a task, I will give it freely. However I find that it is a demanded part of a relationship in some cases.
Communication is a very intricate part of relationships. But most of the human beings I know treat communication as if it is a controled tool to aquire personal benifit.
There are a few people out in this universe at this moment in time that I will call a friend. I will list them now, and just see how short the list is.
Karen, Vaughn, Roberto, Doug A., Westley& family, Alan T., Coppola, Monkey, & AWNB.
That being said, I know thousands of human beings I wish were in that catagory, but there is always some string attached.
On The C'unka Luta, ceremonies are a gift from our Creator. No body owns them. When money is a requirement to the participation of ceremonies, it is corrupted. Our Creator does not require money or gifts for the ceremonies to be performed, but there are some human beings that do.
Withholding a ceremony that we are instructed to use as a way of getting closer to our Creator is an abomination. Our Creator has made us, and we are to seek him in all things we do. But in the course of history humans have made attempts to block individuals from having a pure relationship with The Creator. Something that has the requirement of money or gifts. This is wrong to do! If you find you are not included in the list of those I consider my friends, all it takes is humility and communication. Put your egos aside and open up. Life is too short not to have friends. And more importantly, say you are, and proving otherwise by your actions.
If you are my friend, then put the control issues aside and just be my friend. If you have said you are but your actions prove otherwise, stay away from me. I can see right through it all, and I am having a pure relationship with my Creator. There is no single thing more important to me than to be able to be instructed by the one who had created me. Tunkas'ila.
Mitakuye Oyasin

Chester The Mule

Hey everyone. Tis is Chester The Mule. Today I spent all day riding Chester. He's a great friend, and very sure footed. Give a howdy to 'ol Chester would ya?

Spirit Guide Revealed

Hi all my friends.
Since the blessing ceremony for C'anupa, alot of great things have happened to me. I have found the person who will be conducting my Hambleac'a ceremony. It will be in Minnesota, in June, and this person who will be performing this important ceremony also is an interpreter of dreams and visions. I met him at an Inipi ceremony that he did for our small C'unka Luta Family here, and told me the meaning of my dream as it was told to him by the spirit that has decided to guide me on this C'unka Luta Was'te.
What the dream was about is not important to all of you. Only me. But the spirit that has taken me under his wing is quite unique.
Now most people would like to have something like an Eagle, or a powerful spirit like the Buffalo, or Bear. But I have the honor of having a very humble creature as my spirit guide.
He is a Goose.
Noble, humble, monogamous, and beautiful.
Thank you Brother Goose for guiding me through this crazy life. Thank you for choosing me!
Mitakuye Oyasin!

I Carry C'anupa

Aho! Hello all those who read this BLOG.
Last night I took the plunge. I finished making C'anupa and I brought it to the Inipi Ceremony last night. I had the honor of being the Firekeeper for the ceremony, and it was a test to say the least. The wind was howling all day, and we were considering not having the sweat. At 4:30 P.M. the wind suddenly died down enough that I thought it safe to light the fire and get the Grandfather Stones ready for the Inipi. As soon as I got it lit, 'ol Ceyote poped his trickster head up from the clouds and the wind began it's onslaught once again.
Keep in mind that whaen an Inipi fire is lit, there is no turning back, and that had a direct relationship with the entire evening.
Our Sweat Leader was suddenly out in a town 60 miles away looking over a horse that he in considering buying, and the wood for the fire was burning fast. It was like a blowtorch from the wind. At about 8:00 P.M. the people began to show up, then came the time to put the C'anupa on the sacred mound. Before I did this, there was a Sundancer from the Porcupine Reservation, who asked me if I was going to do a Blessing Ceremony for that C'anupa. I gave it a little thought and said yes. I made a tobbacco offering to the Sweat Leader and requested the ceremony. He agreed to do it.
We loaded the C'anupa and placed it on the mound, and I hauled thsoe rocks in. 65 of them. Then I went in and was the Door Keeper as well. It was a man sweat, as there were no women in attendence at this sweat. A very rare occurance. On top of it all, there was this tremendous full Moon witnessing the entire ceremony.
After the 3rd round, The Sundancer told the Sweat Leader to tell me to get the C'anupa, and bring it in.
I will not tell you what was said in that lodge, as it is Wakan, and should not be discussed outside the lodge, but I will tell you this. I was given the opportunity to put C'anupa back on the mound and not be a carrier. But this I cannot, and will not do.
I am a C'anupa Carrier.
I will not do drugs EVER AGAIN! I will not drink alcohol EVER AGAIN! I will not lie EVER AGAIN! And when I am asked to do something in a good way I will do it. I will not be a violent person in any way. I will carry that C'anupa in a Wakan manner. I will pray with that C'anupa, and let others who have the right to pray with it do so as well.
The C'anupa does not belong to me, I belong to it, and I will walk in that manner on this C'unka Luta Was'te.
I will do this for the rest of my entire life, and I will do it with humility, and respect for the White Buffalo Calf Women who gave it to the Lakota people.
I AM LAKOTA!
Mitakuye Oyasin! Aho!

A RED MOON!

And here is what I must do at this point in my journey.
The White Moon became Red, and so shall I!
I will be having a ceremony to be adopted into the Lakota Sioux Nation very soon. In order for me to practice this Red Road, I will not be seen as a "wannabe". I shall become. I did not choose my ancestry, my ancestry chose me. The only place I have not found hypocracy in spiritual belief is this Red Road. If I am to go cry for my vision from the Creator, Tunkasila, I must become closer to the people who are trusted in keeping it sacred. The White Buffalo Calf Woman came to these humble people, and presented them with The Sacred Calf Pipe hundreds of years ago, before the Whiteman came to conquer this beautiful land and it's peoples. By my becomming Lakota I will prove by my actions that my white race does not always follow the Black Road, but understands and accepts this closeness to the Creator. I hope to be an example to my people, of how it should be done, this worship, in a good way.
Mitakuye Oyasin!

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Searching For A Vision

In all the wonderment of this world there is one special thing I keep going back to. Or should I say, keeps comming back to me. It is called Hemblecha. In the world of the "New Agers" it is called a Vision Quest.
I have walked on a Red Road for quite some time now, and regularly attend an Inipi Ceremony. It is a purification ceremony that the native peoples of this continent practice.
In June I will go to a special Inipi Ceremony and then immediatly be taken to a secluded place on a hill, where I will sit in one place and pray to the Creator for 4 days. No food or water during that time. Just me and the universe. I will pray to recieve a vision of what it is I am supposed to do in this world.
That is a very strange thing as I am 44 years of age now, and will be 45 when I go up on the hill. Native Americans go when they are young, and do it every year for the rest of their life, or until they recieve their vision from Tunkashila. (The Creator)
There are certain people I will ask to help me by keeping a fire while I am there. There must be a fire kept during this time of prayer. I have already asked the people I have selected to be there for this work. I will only ask once, and then put my trust in Tunkashile to guide them to this work. It must be in the heart of the ones asked. I think it will become apparent to those selected of the importance of this act of kindness.
I post this Blog now as a cronicle of this journey I am embarking on.
Mitakuye Oyasin! (All My Relations)