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HOW OUR SACRED HOOP IS BROKEN
Mr. Larry Salway
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Outline of Lakota Culture 114
How Our Sacred Hoop is Broken
Whenever we violate a law, principle or value of our culture, we weaken the Sacred Hoop. If we continue violating these things, our Hoop will eventually be broken
When our Hoop becomes broken, Harmony, Balance, Beauty, and Peace leave us.
These good things are replaced with feelings of inferiority and shame.
We then begin filling this void with things that harm us and our bodies.
We begin to isolate ourselves; we lose respect for ourselves and others.
We lose sight of the unseen, spiritual world.
We experience loss of relationships.
Lakota Culture 114
Creator has given us laws, values and principles to live by. When these are violated, our Sacred Hoop will become broken. Lakota Elder Larry Salway explains that Harmony, Balance, Beauty and Peace are replaced with feelings of inferiority and shame.
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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