Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2017 11:15:38 GMT -5
The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman
The common people of the Lakotas call that which is the wrapping of a wasicun, wopiye. Most of the interpreters interpret this wopiye as medicine bag. That is wrong, for the word neither means a bag nor medicine. It means a thing to do good with. A good interpretation would be that it is the thing of power.
-- George Sword
Long Knife (George Sword), who had been a renowned holy man [...] argued to the holy men that soon they would go from the world and their sacred lore would pass with them unless they revealed it so that it could be preserved in writing; that future generations of the Oglalas should be informed as to all that their ancestors believed and practiced; that the Gods of the Oglalas would be more pleased if the holy men told of them so that they might be kept in remembrance and that all the world might know of them.
-- James Riley Walker
arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/bitstream/10150/311217/1/azu_etd_13116_sip1_m.pdf
-- Charles Alexander Eastman
The common people of the Lakotas call that which is the wrapping of a wasicun, wopiye. Most of the interpreters interpret this wopiye as medicine bag. That is wrong, for the word neither means a bag nor medicine. It means a thing to do good with. A good interpretation would be that it is the thing of power.
-- George Sword
Long Knife (George Sword), who had been a renowned holy man [...] argued to the holy men that soon they would go from the world and their sacred lore would pass with them unless they revealed it so that it could be preserved in writing; that future generations of the Oglalas should be informed as to all that their ancestors believed and practiced; that the Gods of the Oglalas would be more pleased if the holy men told of them so that they might be kept in remembrance and that all the world might know of them.
-- James Riley Walker
arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/bitstream/10150/311217/1/azu_etd_13116_sip1_m.pdf