Originally Posted by TiredBraveHeart
Leslymill, I am confused about your post. Could you please clarify it for me. It sounds to me as if you are putting down Shamans. I am sure I misunderstood. Surely that was not the intent of your post?
TiredBraveHeart
No it wasn't. I didn't make myself too clear. .. lol Call me a mystic Christian when it comes to Native Americans.
Basically I wanted to point out that Thunderwolf's statement was a sad thing to hear, because when the world first learned of Native American medicine, it was more advanced in it's ability to save lives here in this country than the medicine brought from the old world (archaic and deadly treatments). Many creole and wilderness folk preferred to go to natives when they got sick.
2. Has much of the healing tradition been lost in NAI?
I am sure like most things that there is the risk of many things vanishing ...native medicine, native approaches, native language, native customs. This is of concern....because once lost....those ways are gone. This is why our elders (just like our children) are sacred to us
.
Maybe I just was sarcastic somewhat because Native American's
should keep the Native
approach to medicine
sacred. They should NEVER be gone.
To make it clear from how I see it Europeans would have killed all Africans and Native Americans if God had not intervened. I truly think when congress rejected the supreme court ruling on behalf of the Cherokee and sent them on the "Trail of Tears", with the $30.00 and a blanket, they had every hope that they would not survive and their Indian problem was solved. Many died, but many learned that the land was truly theirs and would with God's help always be theirs.
The land saved them. In Africa there is an immunity to illnesses that native Africans have that they need to preserve. European threaten that bond. I would just want those ways preserved till the Lord's return.
The worse tragedy to occur when Europeans arrived in the Americas was the introduction of horrible diseases and the deaths of many tribes from them. Bush men of Africa and Shaman in America traditionally turn to dreams and visions. As a Christian, by belief is that the interpretation of some of these dreams and visions are not yet fulfilled. I am not thinking we should seek them out, like Jews seek signs. They should remain with us though and they should not be forgotten.
We are a Nation in a Nation.
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