Historian

Press Release Source: Earth Sanctuary

Earth Sanctuary Installs Native American Medicine Wheel
Tuesday February 15, 5:21 pm ET

SEATTLE, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- A Medicine Wheel, one of the most powerful and cherished symbols of Native American belief, now resides at Earth Sanctuary (www.earthsanctuary.org), a nature reserve and mediation parkland on South Whidbey Island, Washington.

A Medicine Wheel is an ancient place of prayer sacred to Native Americans, symbolizing the totality of existence. The Earth Sanctuary Medicine Wheel is a sacred space designed to amplify the power of prayers and connect you with all the Grandmothers, Grandfathers, Mother Earth, Moon, Sun, Sky, and the Creator, on the eternal circle of life.

The Medicine Wheel is one of the few sacred spaces indigenous to North America. There were once about 20,000 medicine wheels in North America, before the Europeans came. Today, most have been lost or destroyed. All, like the Big Horn Medicine Wheel, are revered and sacred places.

The Earth Sanctuary Medicine Wheel was a vision gifted to Michael S. Angelo by the Creator. Michael is of Cherokee descent from his Great Grandmother and is a Sundancer at Native American ceremonies. The Medicine Wheel was blessed by Klaw-osht, a Northwest coastal Native American elder, and was installed according to the strictest traditional protocols.

The design of the Medicine Wheel uses six colors: yellow, white, black, red, green, and blue. The first four colors symbolize the four directions: East (yellow nation, earth, food, heart); South (white nation, fire, mind, respect); West (black nation, water, trust, honesty); and North (red nation, wind, patience, endurance, courage).

The Earth Sanctuary Medicine Wheel is open to the public every day of the year during daylight hours. Unlike the other sacred sites at Earth Sanctuary, only Native American prayer protocol may be used. Directions, protocol, and materials for using the Earth Sanctuary Medicine Wheel are provided at the site.

Earth Sanctuary was profiled last week on the television program Evening Magazine. DVDs of the program are available.

For more information, contact Chuck Pettis of Earth Sanctuary (www.earthsanctuary.org) at 425-637-8777 or cpettis@earthsanctuary.org.

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"Be good, be kind, help each other. Respect the ground, respect the drum, respect each other."
--Abe Conklin, Ponca/Osage (1926-1995)

Jammer

[quote=Historian]Press Release Source: Earth Sanctuary

Earth Sanctuary Installs Native American Medicine Wheel
Tuesday February 15, 5:21 pm ET



The Earth Sanctuary Medicine Wheel was a vision gifted to Michael S. Angelo by the Creator. Michael is of Cherokee descent from his Great Grandmother and is a Sundancer at Native American ceremonies. The Medicine Wheel was blessed by Klaw-osht, a Northwest coastal Native American elder, and was installed according to the strictest traditional protocols.

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I don't know what to think about this. Granted it is always a good thing when land is legitematly set aside for ceremonial reasons. The one thing that strikes me is the man being of "cherokee" descent yet is sundancing and dealing with others from another nation to help build or set in place a sanctuary for a nation or ppl on the other side of the island. I'm of ebci descent myself and what really starts to get under my skin is especially when ppl of my own step away from our own traditions and customs and start mingling with other ceremonies that aren't our own. It gets right up there with the whole war bonnet thing. Now if the man married into a sundancing nation then I guess it would be a different story, but then again isn't most sundancing nations ran on a patriarchial setting? Unlike the Iroquoian nations which are followed within a matriarchial tradition.

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There should be a law against stupid people being able to breed!

Blackbear

Is this the same guy I posted about last year?

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Don't worry that it's not good enough for anyone else to hear... just sing, sing a song.

Historian

I'm not sure if it is or not. Although there may be some good intentions involved, it still sounded kinda "hokey" to me.

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"Be good, be kind, help each other. Respect the ground, respect the drum, respect each other."
--Abe Conklin, Ponca/Osage (1926-1995)

Blackbear

yeah sounds very hokey.... even if he is'nt getting money, it sounds like he's trying to build a name for himself

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Don't worry that it's not good enough for anyone else to hear... just sing, sing a song.

LoneEagle