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The Medicine Wheel: Sacredness of the Sacred Hoop
Mr. Larry Salway
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Outline of Lakota Culture 110
The Medicine Wheel:
Sacredness of the Sacred Hoop
Laws and Principles of Behavior – Our choices and actions produce results (either good or bad); walking the Red Road (the Good Way ) produces good results.
Bad choices and behaviors “break” the Hoop and have negative spiritual, cognitive, emotional or physical consequences.
Wellness is restoring the broken hoop so we can walk in harmony, balance, beauty, and peace
Restoring the broken hoop requires healing in all parts of our lives: Spiritual, Cognitive, Emotional, and Physical
By keeping the Sacred Hoop whole, we walk in Wisdom (or peace), Beauty, Harmony, Balance, and Love.
Lakota Culture 110
The Sacred Hoop (Medicine Wheel) symbolizes a life in balance. Lakota Elder Larry Salway explains that a life out of balance comes from a Sacred Hoop that has in some way been broken.
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.
the lakota culture series:
Setting Aside our Preconceptions (101)
Cultural Comparisons (Part 1) (102)
Cultural Comparisons (Part 2) (103)
The 4 Levels of Native Acculturation (104)
The Interpersonal Styles of Native People (105)
Stereotypes (Part 1): How Native People May View Non-Native People (106)
Stereotypes (Part2): How Native People May View Non-Native People (107)
The Medicine Wheel: Introduction (108)
Values, Virtues, and Ceremonies (109)
Sacredness of the Sacred Hoop (110)
Restoring the Hoop: Harmony (111)
Restoring the Hoop: Balance (112)
Restoring the Hoop: Beauty and Peace (113)
How our Sacred Hoop is Broken (114)
The Result of a Broken Sacred Hoop (115)
Restoring the Hoop: Spiritual Renewal (116)
Spiritual Renewal: The Greatest Sun Dancer (117)
Walking the Red Road (118)
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