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| "Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind, Whose breath gives life to all the world. Hear me; I need your strength and wisdom. Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset. Make my hands respect the things you have made and my ears sharp to hear your voice Make me wise so that I may understand the things you have taught my people. Help me to remain calm and strong in the face of all that comes towards me. Let me learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf & rock. Help me seek pure thoughts & act with the intention of helping others. Help me find compassion without empathy overwhelming me. I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy - Myself. Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes. So when life fades, as the fading sunset, my spirit may come to you without shame. |
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| White Bison is to bring 100 Indian Communities into sobriety and wellness by the year 2010. |
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| Bane of the Blackfeet - Alcoholism Among the Blackfoot Nation in Montana |
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| NATIVE AMERICAN HEALING by Gary Null Native Americans Speak Out on Sacred Healing and Transformational Rituals |
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| The Healing Forest Model |
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| When I started working on this page I had high hopes of offering more information. After many hours of searching this was all i could come up with. I am very disappointed there is not more information. So if anyone has anything at all to contribute to the Native American Recovery Pages please email me sunshine@snowcrest.net . I will be happy to add any and all contributions and i will continue the search. |
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| Sobriety Through The Sacred Pipe 1. Admitted we are powerless over alcohol, and that our Indian way of life had become unmanageable. 2. Come to believe that the power of the Sacred Pipe is greater than ourselves, and can restore us to our culture and heritage. 3. Make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of our Sacred Pipe. 4. Make searching and fearless moral inventory of who we are, and understand the symbolic meaning of each of the four directions. 5. Acknowledge to the Great Mystery, to our selves, and our spiritual advisor, the exact nature of our struggles, wrongs, against the tide and its manifest destiny. 6. Be entirely ready to have the Great Mystery remove all these defects of an alien culture. 7. Humbly ask the Great Mystery to remove our shortcomings through our tribal ceremonial teaching and spiritual growth. 8. Make a list of all the harms that I created to myself, to our people from alcohol, and became willing to make amends to them all. 9. Make direct amends to our people about our struggle against the alcoholic disease wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. 10. Continue to take a personal, searching and fearless moral inventory of who we are, and when we are wrong promptly accepted, and admitted it. 11. Seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with the equality, brotherhood/{sisterhood} of all the Mother Earth's creatures attaining that spiritual balance of the great harmony of the total universe. 12. Having the universal understanding, wisdom of the hearts, minds, spirits, of all people, we carry this message to Indian alcoholics, and we practice these principles in all Indian Affairs. *Adapted by Jerry, Lakota American Indian |
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