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Medicine Wheel with Aileen Little Ghost

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Interview · North Dakota · Aileen Little Ghost · NDNAEU 2 · NDNAEU 7

Themes: Land & stewardship, Kinship & family, Education & learning, Spirituality & ceremony, Arts & expression

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Learn About questions

What does each part of the Medicine Wheel represent? What do the colors mean? How does the Medicine Wheel help us understand life?

Learn From questions

Are there symbols that are important to me in my life?  What are they and why are they important to me? How do symbols, colors, etc. impact my life?  Do they help me? Are there things in my life that I use to help me organize my thoughts and help me remember to pray for others?  What are they?

Transcripts

09 Aileen Little Ghost: The Medicine Wheel

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The medicine wheel is uh it’s a vicious circle there’s no ending to it and there’s a cross in the middle the spirituality physical emotional and health that’s all that matters in the wheel I know of and there’s many there’s many ways medicine wheels and the big Sundance circle is a medicine wheel because we use the West this blue where the Thunder beings come because it’s blue water and then the north is the Buffalo because the bottle can faced storm and survives and winter time and that’s where Santa Claus comes talk to the red and yellow is sunrise east when a baby is born grandma teepees always faces east Bama would take the baby soon as the baby’s born either boy or girl she comes out a teepee she says recognize this little baby boy he comes into the world to join us someday he’ll be our president and help his family help his family to be strong that he’ll they’ll take care until his time going to be that President and then the South it makes me cry because when I saw it is white because that’s where all ours when we passed on we good that Malka we I’m going to knock you wait so those are the colors we live by and of course to crash-land mother earth we shouldn’t forget mother yeah she’s green the green flag is for like green mother and takashi ladies wait like blue the lavenders with my three granddaughters till sundown she sings there’s purple and lavender purple is for uh for life and laugh at lavender the little lighter color the purple is the course nation and the brown is buffalo nation well my Krishna and I always paid that way when that pray I pray for the wicked ones and the ones who it’s alright and no I won’t be a minute MA no I won’t be means the ones who are in the water living water well Mangeshkar the four-legged ones no way out they actually get once I’ve always prayed that way pray for everybody and just lately someone who wasn’t happy means was the sick and stamina peop have tears in their eyes and the school will talk up pay for the school why our way our pas okay why our beginner the more students

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