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Lakota Natural Villages ~ Building Season Approaches
Posted on Apr 27th, 2007
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TimeToShine
TimeToShine
The month of May is almost upon us and that means the house-building season on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is about to begin once more, 4th season building with Lakota; building sustainable 'cob' houses, from the dirt and rocks that are already there,
Lakota with friends beside, are building Homes worthy of the name, homes that can house the spirit as well as the body. Can you imagine, the impetus for this building surge-emergence.
The spirit of Lakota is alive and well, radiant and full of good humor.
This first house is a triumph. Its walls are rising on the ancestral land of Leola One Feather. I would like to tell you how she came to be the first one for whom a new dwelling rose out of the ground:
Two women, one white, one Brazilian, called to Wounded Knee by vision and purpose, had been this day advised to take themselves away from kitchen and digging duties, to honor their moon cycle and bleed by the creek in quiet solitude together. As they sat in perfect restfulness on the banks of the Wounded Knee creek (that, by the way, flows uncannily South to North), storm clouds gathered as dusk descended. They were not perturbed by the heavy weather, glad to sit in stillness as the light faded from the sky.
Then from the darkness along the creek came a figure and found them sitting and sat with them and talked with them, encouraging them and affirming that their undertaking with Lakota was both auspicious and timely. Thus they were invited into Leola One Feather's world and learned that she found them there that evening because she paid attention to a prompting to head out along the creek after dusk.
The reality of Leola One Feather's house is beyond telling. Rich stories, now spanning 3 years, lead to her doorstoop. And speaking of doorstoop, Leola One Feather directed the positioning of the first doorway of her circular home to align with the rising sun on the summer solstice, and to lead directly to the edible garden that would provide sustenance for her 4 generation family.
The building of Leola One Feather's house was declared as a New Era at Wounded Knee. It spells the dissolution of the dire prophesy, uttered before the white race ever set foot in Indian country, that one day Lakota would live in square gray boxes, lanquishing in spirit and body. That time is over even as we still see much evidence of it all around in Lakota country. That reality is dissolving before our eyes.
Johanna Parry Cougar was the white woman who got the vision, everything from early childhood pictures and dreams, to long-beloved moccasins, to the real flesh-and-blood figures standing finally before her at her own front door in Santa Cruz, California (1500 miles from the homeland).
All of this and more gave her the ability when the moment came, to lay aside everything and go, with her young son and with Lakota back to their People and their Land, Calling now for a healing of epic proportions.
May 2007 - Johanna Parry Cougar prepares now to go to Leola One Feather's at Wounded Knee, South Dakota to orchestrate together with the spirit, heart and physical presence of Lakota, the 4th building camp season. As with all previous years, the characters who build will come from far and wide to join her, every year surprising who shows up,called with the same certainty as She.
Love,
Corrina
*~*~*~*
http://www.naturalvillages.org/onefeather.htm
Lakota with friends beside, are building Homes worthy of the name, homes that can house the spirit as well as the body. Can you imagine, the impetus for this building surge-emergence.
The spirit of Lakota is alive and well, radiant and full of good humor.
This first house is a triumph. Its walls are rising on the ancestral land of Leola One Feather. I would like to tell you how she came to be the first one for whom a new dwelling rose out of the ground:
Two women, one white, one Brazilian, called to Wounded Knee by vision and purpose, had been this day advised to take themselves away from kitchen and digging duties, to honor their moon cycle and bleed by the creek in quiet solitude together. As they sat in perfect restfulness on the banks of the Wounded Knee creek (that, by the way, flows uncannily South to North), storm clouds gathered as dusk descended. They were not perturbed by the heavy weather, glad to sit in stillness as the light faded from the sky.
Then from the darkness along the creek came a figure and found them sitting and sat with them and talked with them, encouraging them and affirming that their undertaking with Lakota was both auspicious and timely. Thus they were invited into Leola One Feather's world and learned that she found them there that evening because she paid attention to a prompting to head out along the creek after dusk.
The reality of Leola One Feather's house is beyond telling. Rich stories, now spanning 3 years, lead to her doorstoop. And speaking of doorstoop, Leola One Feather directed the positioning of the first doorway of her circular home to align with the rising sun on the summer solstice, and to lead directly to the edible garden that would provide sustenance for her 4 generation family.
The building of Leola One Feather's house was declared as a New Era at Wounded Knee. It spells the dissolution of the dire prophesy, uttered before the white race ever set foot in Indian country, that one day Lakota would live in square gray boxes, lanquishing in spirit and body. That time is over even as we still see much evidence of it all around in Lakota country. That reality is dissolving before our eyes.
Johanna Parry Cougar was the white woman who got the vision, everything from early childhood pictures and dreams, to long-beloved moccasins, to the real flesh-and-blood figures standing finally before her at her own front door in Santa Cruz, California (1500 miles from the homeland).
All of this and more gave her the ability when the moment came, to lay aside everything and go, with her young son and with Lakota back to their People and their Land, Calling now for a healing of epic proportions.
May 2007 - Johanna Parry Cougar prepares now to go to Leola One Feather's at Wounded Knee, South Dakota to orchestrate together with the spirit, heart and physical presence of Lakota, the 4th building camp season. As with all previous years, the characters who build will come from far and wide to join her, every year surprising who shows up,called with the same certainty as She.
Love,
Corrina
*~*~*~*
http://www.naturalvillages.org/onefeather.htm
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