Deep in Our Centerplace
Jim Great Elk Waters ©2012
An excerpt from the upcoming “The Mystic Medicine Lodge.”
Filled with answers to some of the most asked questions
about the First People’s Mystic Ways!
We must never forget that the weakest of our People are more important than the greatest of those beyond our circle. It is our job to protect and if necessary, carry them to the next place we as a People journey to. We are not Shawnee because we have a place, we are Shawandasse because we are the total sum of all the Ancestors that have come before us. Let us honor and respect each other as we do the Grandparents. Let us love each other as they love us, and let us be understanding and use the strength of each person’s fiber to reweave our blanket for the living Shawnee of now… just as our Ancestors have done for the millennium that have past before.
We are Blessed by Creator to know who we are. Let us never forget, or distort that Blessing into our individual vision. We do not have that right.
The vision that has kept the People of the Southwind alive throughout the hundreds of generations before us is that of Creator, not of man.
