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the ghost dance garments megan osborn (columbia university) http://www.columbia.edu/~sf2220/TT2008/web-content/Pages/Megan.html A Barracks Ballad by Private W.H. Prather, member of the 9th Cavalry at the Battle of Wounded Knee, 1890 The Red Skins left their Agency, the Soldiers left their Post, All on the strength of an Indian tale about Messiah's ghost Got up by savage chieftains to lead their tribes astray; But Uncle Sam wouldn't have it so, for he ain't built that way. They swore that this Messiah came to them in visions sleep, And promised to restore their game and Buffalos a heap, So they must start a big ghost dance, then all would join their land, And may be so we lead the way into the great Bad Land. They claimed the shirt Messiah gave, no bullet could go through, But when the Soldiers fired at them they saw this was not true. The Medicine man supplied them with their great Messiah's grace, And he, too, pulled his freight and swore the 7th hard to face. Bjornar Olsen questioned “why has the physical and ‘thingly’ component of our past and present being become forgotten or ignored to such an extent in contemporary social research?” (Olsen 2003: 87). In historical examinations of events, the material “stuff” often takes a back seat or is completely left out of the discussion of a particular event. To fully understand the significance of the Battle of Wounded Knee, one needs to look at the garments the Native Americans wore as they participated in the Ghost Dance and then fled for their lives on that December day in 1890. The great underlying principle of the Ghost Dance Doctrine is that the time will come when the whole Indian race, living and dead, will be reunited upon a regenerated earth, to live in aboriginal happiness, forever free from death, disease and misery. The white race, being alien and secondary and hardly real will be left behind . . . And cease entirely to exist. (Mooney 1896: 139) ![]() This paper is an analysis of the costumes associated with the Ghost Dance religion, prophesized by the Native American medicine man Wovoka, and practiced by the Lakota Sioux. The garments worn during the Ghost Dance religion’s ritual dances were imbued with the supernatural to protect the dancers. The Ghost Dance Doctrine preached that Native Americans needed to live peacefully with the white settlers and practice the Ghost Dance until a time of reunification with their ancestors in a natural world abundant with wildlife and without the presence of the white settlers and soldiers. The buffalo were a central part of Lakota society as they served to fill their social, religious and material needs. With the arrival of the white settlers and westward expansion, the buffalo were hunted for sport and killed off in great numbers and the Lakota lifestyle was greatly changed. Dances were assembled throughout the plains with thousands of participants dancing and singing for hours on end. The Ghost Dance became a powerful symbol for Native Americans as well as the U.S. government / settlers. While Native Americans were dancing in hopes of a peaceful coming of a new world; the whites believed they were preparing for a final standoff. This tension came to a head with the dancing of the Lakota Sioux. Settlers complained to the government that they feared the Lakota were going to attack their homesteads and requested military intervention. Their costumes were of white cotton cloth. The women's dress was cut like their ordinary dress, a loose robe with wide, flowing sleeves, painted blue in the neck, in the shape of a three-cornered handkerchief, with moon, stars, birds, etc., interspersed with real feathers, painted on the waists, letting them fall to within 3 inches of the ground, the fringe at the bottom. In the hair, near the crown, a feather was tied. I noticed an absence of any manner of head ornaments, and, as I knew their vanity and fondness for them, wondered why it was. Upon making inquiries I found they discarded everything they could which was made by white men. The ghost shirt for the men was made of the same material-shirts and leggings painted in red. Some of the leggings were painted in stripes running up and down, others running around. The shirt was painted blue around the neck, and the whole garment was fantastically sprinkled with figures of birds, bows and arrows, sun, moon, and stars, and everything they saw in nature. Down the outside of the sleeve were rows of feathers tied by the quill ends and left to fly in the breeze, and also a row around the neck and up and down the outside of the leggings. I noticed that a number had stuffed birds, squirrel heads, etc., tied in their long hair. The faces of all were painted red with a black half-moon on the forehead or on one cheek. -Mrs. Z. A. Parker, description of a Ghost Dance observed on White Clay creek at Pine Ridge reservation, Dakota Territory, June 20, 1890. ![]() The Lakota were emboldened in their dance rituals by the addition of a garment that promised invincibility to the wearer. While many tribes wore similar costumes during the Ghost Dance; the Lakota Sioux were one of the only tribes to believe the costumes could physically protect them (Jenson 1991: 10). The Ghost Dance costumes, with their designs and materials pulled from the natural world, were a rejection of white settlers’ material culture. In an effort to return to the natural state that had existed before the westward expansion of white settlers, the costumes were designed with images of stars and animals. Each garment was an individual expression. The person wearing the garment would have chosen and painted the symbols onto the cloth or hide themselves. Often, the images painted on the garments were ones seen in visions by the individual. Symmetrical designs on either side of the body were often components of the overall style. The symbols painted on the garments represented specific things. Dots represented harmful hail and by painting these onto the garment one was protected from harmful projectiles. Eagles and other birds of prey were seen as strong and brave figures; the crow was seen as the messenger of the spirit world and could help the wearer escape death. Other important themes include dragon flies which rendered the person wearing the motif invisible and butterflies which made one light and agile in battle. Painting the symbols, seen during “visions”, was a visual pact with the supernatural. By drawing these, it was believed the supernatural would protect and assist in whatever goal the individual sought to meet. For Ghost Dancers, this was physical protection and a return to ancestral times. The pact with the supernatural placed magical properties on these shirts and bullets or any sort of weapons could not go through them. The dancers, by wearing these shirts, believing that if a white settler or soldier tried to stop them, they would be safe. A closer examination of the reliance and relationship with the supernatural and the protection of the garments lead us to consider the garment as religious fetish (Ellen 1988: 219). While the garments were not objects made in the likeness of humans, the garment can be regarded as an active agent. Indeed, there seems to be an uncertainty with these objects as to whether the garments themselves effect changes or if it is the supernatural that does so (Ellen 1988: 215). Since the individual wearing the garment designed it as a visual pact with the supernatural, the shirts were the physically impenetrable object and the supernatural was beholden to the garment’s images to protect the individual wearing them. Thus, the Ghost Dance shirts and dresses had their own agency and controlled the actions of those wearing them. The shirts became active agents in the Ghost Dance religion as the Lakota Sioux were dependent on them for their magical protection should the need arise. As military altercations with the U.S. troops had failed, the Lakota Sioux were reliant on the assumed power of the shirts. Indeed, the Ghost Dance garments provided a protective skin for the dance participants (Gell 1993: 3). By wrapping the body in images of nature, the garment provided another layer of skin for those wearing them. The images of nature as seen in visions referenced the return to ancestral times when animals were abundant. The garments thus offered protection from the dangers and uncertainty of the current time. The clothing itself influenced the intentions and actions of the dancers. Wearing the Ghost Dance shirts and dresses visually altered the body and the way the individual perceived themselves and their social interactions and allowed for the empowerment of the community as a whole. The garments gave the individual and the community a sense of purpose and protection to effect change. In ways, the Ghost Dance costumes were examples of layering and an extension of the human wearing them (Knappett 2006). The costumes were often paired with face and body painting as additional layers of protection. As a Lakota Sioux leader, Short Bull, told concerned Ghost Dance participants: If soldiers surround you four deep, three of you, on whom I have put holy shirts, will sing a song, which I have taught you, around them, when some of them will drop dead. Then the rest will start to run, but their horses will sink into the earth. (Mooney 1896: 151) The garments created a boundary between the body and the world beyond and also functioned as support for the expression of social relations (Gell 1993: 24). The images on the Ghost Dance garments indexed the causal factors that produced them, namely the turn towards nature after the altercations and change of lifestyle due to the U.S. government. Thus the garments became a symbolic indicator of the events, relationships and obligations on the individual (Gell 1993: 36-7). The shirts created social order by providing a framework in which the Lakota Sioux could work towards the coming of the ancestors and nature. Furthermore, the garments provided a new “things-centered form of sociality” (Preda 1999: 349). In a time of turmoil within the community, the garments, through their own social power, provided stability and new avenues for furthering a social order focused on the natural world. The westward expansion of the white settlers had led to the dwindling of buffalo herds in the region. The forced settlement on reservations also changed a once nomadic form of life. For the Lakota, these were central to the tribe’s social relations. Hunting, arts and materials associated with this lifestyle were socially significant and lost when the buffalo disappeared and they were forced onto the reservations. The garments gave direction and were a way to try to restore a past order and return to traditions lost. ![]() ![]() In December of 1890, after being pursued by the United States military throughout the region, close to three thousand Lakota Sioux gathered at Wounded Knee. The soldiers proceeded to enter all the tents at the camp and collect what weapons the group had. Many Lakota were distressed by this invasion and one began to rally the group against this interference. He began “telling them that the soldiers would become weak and powerless and that the bullets would be unavailing against the sacred ghost shirts” (Mooney 1896: 231). Some began singing Ghost Dance songs and one stooped to pick up some dirt to throw in the air as a signal of the start of the dance. The military interpreted this as a signal to begin fighting and seconds later a gun was fired and the massacre had begun (Jenson 1991: 18). Many died within the first few minutes of the fighting. Realizing that their shirts were not protecting them and that the Ghost Dance songs were not effective against the U.S. military; some Lakota fought with what weapons they could find while others ran for their lives; many died. It is important also to explore the relationship between the garments and the U.S. troops. Despite the removal of the weapons, the soldiers were still fearful that the dance and the invisibility provided by the costumes promised impending war. As Webb Keane argues, “the fetish remains a temptation even to those whose knowledge would deny the existence of that which they desire . . . it may have to do with the way in which other people’s illusions threaten the very autonomy of the subject” (Keane 1998: 14). While it may be argued that the Lakota view the garments as fetishes with great power, this identification also influences the U.S. troops interactions with the supernatural power of the costumes. The patterned garments drew the troops’ gaze where a plain garment may not have done so (Gell 1993: 36). In this way, the garments mediated the relationship between the two opposing groups. The U.S. troops came with background assumptions on what the clothing and its images meant and how they functioned within the Native American context (Keane 2005: 191). The elaborately designed garments, rumored to protect the dancers from any harm and the dancers’ sudden movements were interpreted by the U.S. troops as a sign that the Lakota Sioux were going to fight. The garments, unique to the Lakota, presented the possibility for the unknown for the American troops. The clothing determined the expectations and consequent actions of the U.S. troops because it determined how the Lakota Sioux were going to act (Miller 2005: 5). Therefore, the Ghost Dance garments influenced the actions of both the Lakota Sioux and the U.S. troops. Despite being stripped of their weapons, the Lakota began to perform the dance designed to rid the land of the white settlers and troops. At the time, it was the only recourse they had to the invasion of their land. The shirts emboldened them to dance and, thus, influenced their behavior. The troops felt the significance of hundreds; even thousands of participants dancing wearing these garments presenting a massive, unified performance. The dancers, influenced by the garments and their protection, fully engaged in the dance. Thus began the fighting that would involve the deaths of many Lakota. An examination of the Battle of Wounded Knee would not be complete without an examination of the garments and the relationships they created between the opposing parties. Each group’s understandings and preoccupations with the garments influenced their behaviors and contributed to the sequence of events. It is notable that the violent encounter of Wounded Knee was not replicated throughout all the tribes that practiced the Ghost Dance. Something impacted this encounter and it was the garments the dancers wore. works cited Ellen, R, 1988. “Fetishism” Man 23: 2, 213-235. Gell, Alfred, 1993. Wrapping in Images. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Jenson, Richard, R. Eli Paul, and John E. Carter, 1991. Eyewitness at Wounded Knee. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Keane, Webb, 1998. “Calvin in the Tropics: Objects and Subjects at the Religious Frontier" Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces. New York and London: Routledge. Keane, Webb, 2005. “Signs are Not the Garb of Meaning: on the Social Analysis of Material Things.” Materiality. Durham: Duke University Press. Knappett, Carl, 2006. “Beyond Skin: Layering and Networking in Art and Archaeology.”Cambridge Archaeological Journal 16:2, 239-51. Miller, Daniel, 2005. “Introduction.” Materiality. Durham: Duke University Press. Mooney, James, 1896. The Ghost Dance Religion and Wounded Knee. New York: Dover Publications Inc. Olsen, Bjornar, 2003. “Material Culture after Text: Re-Membering Things.” Norwegian Archaeological Review, 36: 2, 87-104. Preda, Alex, 1999. “The Turn to Things: Arguments for a Sociological Theory of Things.” The Sociological Quarterly, 40: 2, 347-366. PBS 2007, “Archives of the West, 1887-1914.” http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/ |
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On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 8:11 PM, White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother <whitebuffa...@gmail.com> wrote:
Re: [Hoop 4 Blue:3127] Moon Data for the Moon Dance or Ghost Dance 2
Relatives of the HOOPS and the Rainbow Clan,Holy Ghost Walking Daze, let us prepare for the NEW MOON,where the darkness within creates inner light. Let your soul go, dance and singwith everything.
A few more days to begin, June 7 is the day before. Let us snore and enter the doors, from the sole to the woes. Let it free and help relieve (dance and sing with your family), the world needs you to be driven in the sea (envisioning). It's your dreaming awakening that is knead (you stir the cosmic dust). You are needed to help all those who are lost and have not got (happiness), the heart of what is needed, the sod (green grass, a new beginning of spiritual growth).Your devoted servant, White Buffalo Calf Woman your Twin Deer Mother
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Holiness David <runningeagle...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Relatives. Sending my love for the Holy Ghost walk.New moon is June 8th. We'll be dancing and singing for you all.Love and blessings to you and yours,
Holiness David
Elder Lavender Child
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Relatives, Today is Tuesday August 6 2013 New Moon in Leo. Let's Ghost Dance!!!! Below, our Sister Aneya shares about time with Moon Astrology. Would like to remind you about the Event: Ghost Walk (New Moon Dance, monthly three day gathering with the family and friends, relatives in the winds) Official Title: Katchee Tope wha: “the Clouds that Dance Ceremony” The ghost walk or ghost dance, the holy spirit within that soars, free as a bird in song and dance. Holy is the sound, praise for the world to help heal all the world to get along. Each new moon join us around the world, to birth in light from within the darkness, with Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy "iamasundance.info" in the k/night. |
Dance when heat and cold (mist/smoke of the ghost) find each other bold, binding to bring in the new, the ghost dance comes to infuse, the soul has risen, awaken and driven, the heavenly soul does reign. Renegades put on your shelter (warriors uniform, buffalo armor, rainbow colors purified), because it's turning to helter skelter (confusion and frenzy, bubbling up the soul does reign). White Buffalo Calf Woman sings |
Your devoted servants, Elders of the Rainbow Clan, White Buffalo Calf
Woman and Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star, Gifted by alightfromwithin.org, Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy, Angel Services Around the World Aneya Awen shared Hare in the Moon Astrology's photo. Tuesday August 6 2013 New Moon in Leo. " No one in the world was ever you before,with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.It would be a shame to waste those by doing what someone else has done" Joseph Campbell. Later today there is a bright New Moon in Leo,a welcome shot of warmth in days full of change and drama.It's a day to invite yourself to your own party,to drop the doom and gloom and shed a little light on your talents,gifts and abilities. The sheer voltage will amp up your spirits as Moon/ Sun/ Pluto/ and Jupiter are plugged into the mains by the Great Awakener. In a blink of an eye, the big picture is illuminated as if by lightning.With no fewer than eight planets at maximum strength around 14 degrees of their sign,the energy is spontaneous,primal and uncensored. The trick is to take whatever is working well for you and do more of it and do it on purpose.When a contradiction arises,be curious.When a stuck place arises,be curious.Drop any notion of solving "problems" and open up to symbols,possibilities and hidden aspects of yourself.The great gift of this New Moon is visionary thinking and personal freedom,so hold out for your full value. The Sabian Symbol says it all:"A pageant with its spectacular floats moves along a street crowded with cheering people". |
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Event: Ghost Walk (New Moon Dance, monthly three day gathering with the family and friends, relatives in the winds) |
Official Title: Katchee Tope wha: “the Clouds that Dance Ceremony” The
ghost walk or ghost dance, the holy spirit within that soars, free as a
bird in song and dance. Holy is the sound, praise for the world to help
heal all the world to get along. Each new moon join us around the
world, to birth in light from within the darkness, with Rainbow Warriors
of Prophecy http://www.iamasundance.info/ in the k/night. |
Dance when heat and cold (mist/smoke of the ghost) find each other
bold, binding to bring in the new, the ghost dance comes to infuse, the
soul has risen, awaken and driven, the heavenly soul does reign.
Renegades put on your shelter (warriors uniform, buffalo armor, rainbow
colors purified), because it's turning to helter skelter (confusion and
frenzy, bubbling up the soul does reign). White Buffalo Calf Woman
sings |
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Greetings
Cup of God, it's good to hear you are dancing, now how about singing
too? Today or yesterday for you is NEW MOON, where the darkness makes
the light from within glow. Mikey is a Alaskan Native American, sat by a
tree much of his life (in California). He is a green child (green is
the spiritual leader of the oneness of God), the river running wild.
Anyway, he likes trance dance too. I think it was the closest thing
(trance dance) to the "Ghost Walk", the dance to spark the light from
inside the soul. Today is our day to dance and sing for every wind (new
moon). Hope you are singing while you dance as well our magenta child.
Stomp on My Woes, Stand on My Toes, you called "sacred song "Prophecy""
and said, "perfectly fits my experience", because as you know, it's all
in the winds that blow. Listening and sharing our daze, this is the
BROTHERHOOD (equality, both from the front door of the flesh and back
door of the soul, the exchange where love is the law where we are able
to receive one another). When we separate our eyes (grandmother or gray
child cannot do this well and it's confusing), we are not woven together
or separated. Learning to entwine our visions, this is the evolutionary
processing. You are a gift my Rainbow Bridge, the magenta child, where
all the flowing flowers bloom and go zoom, such a color of the painted
pictures, reflecting the other side. Meet you in the winds of time,
blowing to heal. Let us all dance and sing today the Ghost Walk. Sending
loving blessings and hugs to the sacred nine streams and four holy
beams, the house of many tones. Sing it out and dance and let it shout.
It's time to dew the GHOST DANCE once again. Only a few more months then
the SUN and MOON align (Jan. 1, 2014),
shifting poles (nasa article sent yesterday). Let us get the "Ghost
Walk" on the map again, to help trim and brim, overflow and show the
GREAT SOUL, where the bowl is the the GREAT SOLE. I sing and dance today
for the world, to share all to be a great parade. Thanks for the
Morning Star image Cup of God. Your devoted servant, Brother, Sister,
Mother and Child. elder crystal child, alightfromwithin.org, Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy, White Buffalo Calf Woman hear |
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Cup
of GoD bows down & blesses the 4 sacred streams & the 9 sacred
directIONs - beloved elder Rainbow warrior *White Buffalo Calf Woman*
& relatives on the rolling hill - I "musT say" this sacred song
"Prophecy" perfectly fits my experience on Sat. afternoon & Night
until SUNday
midDay (CEST time Zone) where I have been at "FLOW" (a Trance Music
Festival). I danced and stamped & truly felt (& feel) connected
& it's amazing that ~Twin Deer Mother~ sings stories which the wind
blows - Thank you for this gift I LoVe YoU - your Magenta dancer "Blessed Bee" aka Cup of GoD |
“the Clouds that Dance” |
All my Relatives, it's sun dancing with the New Moon, the Holy Ghost Walk. I send my love to you in the sacred blue (seas of you and me), we are going now to show the "POW". We will dance and sing and bring in the humming brings, the sacred drum will lead us on the show. Now it's time to lead my holy stillness (spirit within) achieve the locomotion I need to find my waves. Inside I sing. I will lead you deers in to where there is no fear, to walk upon the land as solemn men. Yet inside we shall shine divine, a lot of merry will chime, inside we will light the way in peaceful glee. And we will dance and sing in control of everything, because the soul will be let out to sing. I send my love to you, where there is such a fuse, where the sparkling dim will dew a dance. And we will share a tear and make it really reel, where the hairs and streams will find the winds. Come now, give a cheer, it's White Buffalo Calf Woman near, to hold us in the hands of God's love. We beat a dance and song to bring in - out to the clouds, to dance a spark of light inside of you. And with this beating drum, Holiness David on the Run. We are dancing to find the shooting stars (Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star drums for us to day). And we shall share a dance and sing and make romance because we remembered about our liberty. The soul inside takes us for a ride and now it's time to keep all clean. I bless my Great Spirit wear (sacred buffalo robe, four directions in rainbow colors), my soul I must tear, the white buffalo (prayer cloth of many colors) around my shoulders near. We are the dreaming suns, upon the holy rungs (stepping stones to the Great Spirit of all my Relatives, relativity in the fields, we deal). We are taking hold of everything. And with this said today, let us be led this way, the holy ghost inside is leading a parade. We are a journey of love, going over the doves, where they will know the peaceful waves. And inside of us, where we lance (cut) and dust (diamonds) (brilliant shining lights), the whole cosmic world will be displayed. Shine, shine inside my Sun Dancer. Shine shine the Morning Star (eight sacred directions, four colors inside, four colors outside, where I stand I stream, all the colors of the beams. I bow and bless the sacred nine streams and four holy directions). Let me be the great pretender (I will try), and let my crazy light begin and cleanse up all this sin. I bless it clean. All the colors of the stream. All the colors of the dream, my hands to the winds. I hold you close today, to make us cheer a lovely wave. Heaven send us home, to make us live a loom. Together, I say Deer/Dear, I love your cheer. I let my hair down. I let it out like a clown. I beat with my feet. I feel like the sleet. And with all this, stones. I want to bury all my bones. Forgive the past, for I will know, the good red road will flow. Aho, aho, aho, my spirit blows. Aho, aho, aho my spirit really knows. Aho, aho, aho, make my soul glow. Ghost walking today, just another display of the Sacred clouds in the sky (Katchee Tope wha: “the Clouds that Dance Ceremony”), sharing all the colors of the waking wise. It's heavenly tunes. We are here to know the blue, true blue, true blue, relatives we knew. Come on home and shine with me. It's time to be heavenly..... White Buffalo Calf Woman sings and Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star drums for all the Sacred Suns, Elders of the Rainbow Clan, you and you and you and you and you and you and me too!
“the Clouds that Dance” |
New moon December 2, 2013 05:22:19 PM, December 1, 2, 3 celebrate gathering in circles to illuminate the world, from the holy house that is you. All the children of the dew (shards of light).
All our Relatives, Please, Please join Us
in the Holy Ghost Walk, Gathering in Homes!
New moon December 2, 2013 05:22:19 PM
New moon January 1, 2014 aligning with the sun
Ghost Walk (Sing, Dance, Gather) with us (where you are) each New Moon.
From the darkness we arise a heavenly child.
(solar and lunar calender align, January 1, 2014, a cycle of renewal)
Bowing with all our Relatives, Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy
Event: Ghost Walk, the New Moon Dance
(Monthly three day gathering with the family and friends, relatives in the winds)
Official Title: Katchee Tope wha: “the Clouds that Dance Ceremony”
Dance when heat and cold (mist/smoke of the ghost) find each other bold, binding to bring in the new, the ghost dance comes to infuse, the soul has risen, awaken and driven, the heavenly soul does reign. Renegades put on your shelter (warriors uniform, buffalo armor, rainbow colors purified), because it's turning to helter skelter (confusion and frenzy, bubbling up the soul does reign). White Buffalo Calf Woman sings
Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy
Pray With Elders around the World
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Relatives,
the Holy Ghost Walk (Ghost dance) days (Dec 1, 2, 3, 2013). I am sorry I
did not have time to send them sooner. Enjoy. And hopefully you will
join us next month (Jan 1, 2014)
as the NEW MOON and the NEW SUN, begin a new cycle together around the
Rainbow Clan (twelve red hoops of mother and children). White Buffalo
Calf Woman sings and Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star drums
for all the Sacred Suns. We love you and bow down to the ground, to kiss
this earth, we love so much. Sending blessings in the winds, to cleanse
all those sins.
12012013 Holy Spirit Fly In Me: Swimming Ice Blowing In the Wind (snow, crystalline stones, suns) http://weblessyou.blogspot.com/2013/12/12012013-holy-spirit-fly-in-me-swimming.html 12022013 Ghost Dance With Me: Swimming Ice Blowing In the Wind (snow, crystalline stones, suns) http://weblessyou.blogspot.com/2013/12/12022013-ghost-dance-with-me-swimming.html 12032013 Ghost Dance With You: Swimming Ice Blowing In the Wind (snow, crystalline stones, suns) http://weblessyou.blogspot.com/2013/12/12032013-ghost-dance-with-you-swimming.html
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12142012_DanceWithTheHolyGhostWithin.mp3
http://www.divshare.com/download/21440571-2ef
Relatives, another song. Wbcw and Holiness David
elders of the Rainbow Clan, alightfromwithin.org, Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy
Matthew Trudell commented on his post in Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy.
Matthew Trudell 1:24pm Nov 21 Thank you for the kind words Sister Whitebuffalocalfwoman Twindeermother. I look forward to your e-mail and sharing more in the future.Comment History
Whitebuffalocalfwoman Twindeermother 6:38pm Nov 20 Aho, my Brother Matthew. Aho to the flow. Wbcw. ps. Haven't had a chance to respond to your last email about your music, I hear the heavenly children in there, like you can hear from Golden Kobe and Rainbow Eddy, kids of Grandmother Comfort in the Wind. We get better the more we play and share each day. Aho to the flow, slide on my Brother, slide on. It's always feels wonderful to dance.
Matthew Trudell 9:05pm Nov 18 Here's to the Great Slide Sister Whitebuffalocalfwoman Twindeermother.
Whitebuffalocalfwoman Twindeermother 8:30pm Nov 18 Aho Brother Matthew Trudell, Right on the beat. On the circle we bow, meaning we address a person or the Circle and sign all our posts. Today's song is apt, a Dance to the Beat. Yes, we are all clouds walking (wakan or holy). The other day Grandmother ComfortintheWind and a few others went on spirit flight. She took us to the mountains, one scene of paradise after the other when we were on the train. Each caboose has sparkling tubes of rainbow colors, electrifying, square/rectangle/field. And inside each one of us was represented by a cloud. We went on a train ride. It was oh so fun. We delivered relatives home. Any way, the Holy Ghost rises for all the children with surprises. Each one will learn to preside, when the Ghost Walk becomes the great slide (rock and roll, the slide of the dance that flows to and fro). With you brother, now it's time to shine, all of us in the sky. Aho, White Buffalo Calf Woman hear to snow, blessings in the sun to adore, each child a rainbow colored field to explore.Original Post
Matthew Trudell 12:12am Nov 17 This time the Ghost dance can't be stopped
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On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 11:24 PM, White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother <whitebuffa...@gmail.com> wrote:
Temp home: https://soundcloud.com/rainbowwarriorsofprophecy/03302014-ghost-wakan-on-my
Permanent home: http://www.4shared.com/mp3/gsV7mOF9ce/03302014GhostWakanOnMyFeet.html
All our Relatives, We love you. We hope and pray you are dancing and singing for the world.
Blessings to all those sacred stones, ewes (lambs of God).
We love you, White Buffalo Calf Woman sings and Holiness David
Running Eagle Shooting Star drums for the Ghost Wakan On My Feet, we can
feel you on those waves where the rainbow trail grows on our feet....
Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy hoops in sync with you, love blossoms
the fold. Angel Services Around the World, we love you through and
through. Great Spirits dancing and singing for all of the view!
alightfromwithin.org Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy wakan the hoops
image by Grandmother Sows the Pillows, thank you and we love you for your holy wakan, gifting away each day....
Ghost Wakan (holy walker) You are here:https://www.facebook.com/groups/whitebuffalocalfwoman/permalink/506436872794907/
All my Relatives,
sharing the Holy Ghost Walking, the Clouds that Dance Ceremony. "Ghost Walking View Dancing With You" 24.30 minutes. It is not like many or usual traveling down the red road. This particular song is quite mild compared to most ghost walks. It is has begun, the yellow rolling hill in time. WE project the Ghost Walk, because it brings inner light forth. WE are all Sun Dancers and thus shine outwardly. If we dance the sun dance, we add fuel to the already hot fire around the world. This hot fire needs water. Cry it on out. Sing and Shout and mostly inside your HOUSE. I will be, am expecting a 24 pole long house (book of life waveform) to practice the Community Ghost Walk (ghost dancers) for everyone my beloved family. In the meantime, daily gather in your houses with your family and invite the neighbors and friends with you (sing, dance, drum freely from the heart that cries/no scripts) during the New (darkness) Moon each month. Celebrate to cleanse. Without prayers there is SIN. With prayer, all can begin a new. This year everything has changed to where the green grass begins. DO NOT practice the SUN DANCE, instead practice the MOON DANCE, the HOLY GHOST WALKING (GHOST DANCER)https://soundcloud.com/runningeagleshootingstar/ghost-walking-view-dancing-with-you
Everyday, Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star (Father Red Hand) and I, Whitebuffalocalfwoman (Twin Deer Mother) dance and sing every four hours around the clock, when we are awake. So for us it varies, however the schedule is 8, 4, 12, 8, 4, 12. This makes it easy to remember. Just use your own clock. And if we all join in around the world, then someone is dancing the holy ghost walk under a roof, enclosed and embraced, the crying out on our feet through song, helps alleviate all the sinning. Let us save the world. And Sioux Brothers and Sisters, it is your duty to live up to this schedule and do much more, because as oldest souls in the whole of the Rainbow Clan, it depends on you to help others cry out the holy ghost walker. Teach them how to cry out and alleviate their pain. And this means, you must start with yourself. As holy people sent forth to heal the world, it is time to put the sun dancers away (the annual event because you already are a sundancer) and begin the ghost walkers (inner sundancing). It is not easy, but you can feel the world and the shifting demands we save all our Relatives.
Enjoy the song and dance and sing with us!
Father Red Hand and Twin Deer Mother
elders of the rainbow clan
alightfromwithin.org
Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy
All our Relatives, Please, Please join Us
in the Holy Ghost Walk, Gathering in Homes!
New moon Schedule (Yellow Rolling Hill in time has begun)
January 1, 2014 Dawning with the Suns
January 30, 2014
March 1, 2014
March 30, 2014
April 29, 2014
May 28, 2014
June 27, 2014
July 26, 2014
August 25, 2014
September 24, 2014
October 23, 2014
November 22, 2014
December 22, 2014
Ghost Walk (Sing, Dance, Gather) with us (where you are) each New Moon.
From the darkness we arise a heavenly child, a divine light from within.
Image of a beaming field by Grandmother Upon the Hill, a gray child,
streaming stones among the mountain tones and buried bones,
the Suns are born (children of the rainbow clan, all our relatives, the spacial fields).
Relatives of the Rainbow Clan,
You and you and you and you and me too. We have entered the Dawning (re/birthing). We start to flow where it's the spiritual growth, the Great Push (January 1, 2014) has begun. We need you to share and shine, to bring in wine, tears divine. We send greetings and blessings as we join together in this dance, the Holy Ghost, the Spiritual toast, we greet you to the sky and back to the why, where we say, forgiveness is treasures, let joy overcome. Tonight it's a way to let love under ONE. We cherish this world, because we are SUNS, each child, each enemy, each parent with a child. All the the little creatures, the rocks and the sticks. All the little varmints (rats, social interrogatory) which pick up the holy wicks (spat, now let's go to work), sparking the willing to have faith in a song, where are all together, moving along. We send blessings in this song. Let your hair down, sing and dance abound. For it's the spiritual soul within that leads and says, Holy to my Spirit, for I am going to bloom. I will share with this world. I will shine until NOON (inner brightest like a Star). We will become treasures when we pray along, together in a song, all together God's ONE. All the little spiders, who weave us to cradle the song. Telling us a story, that look out, watch the bones. There planted deeply a treasure under the stone, if we look closer, we might want to shown, love gifts and hooves (kicks and shoves, like parents on a rug).
Bowing with all our Relatives, Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy
Event: Ghost Walk, the New Moon Dance
(Monthly three day gathering with the family and friends, relatives in the winds)
Official Title: Katchee Tope wha: “the Clouds that Dance Ceremony”
Dance when heat and cold (mist/smoke of the ghost) find each other bold, binding to bring in the new, the ghost dance comes to infuse, the soul has risen, awaken and driven, the heavenly soul does reign. Renegades put on your shelter (warriors uniform, buffalo armor, rainbow colors purified), because it's turning to helter skelter (confusion and frenzy, bubbling up the soul does reign). White Buffalo Calf Woman sings