Searching for Answers

Everything I know about my Culture, I learned by listening and watching. Now-a-day People learn from books instead. Doctors study what other men have learned, from books.

I PRAY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT MAN HAS FORGOTTEN

Ask me questions from your Heart and I will give you answers from my Heart. You always want to know what you can not understand. I can tell you, there are NO Secrets. There's NO Mystery, there's ONLY COMMON SENSE.

White Crow February 2009

Words and Lessons I have heard and learned from the Elders, those who have passed on to me the Knowledge and Traditions of my People.

The Grandfathers' Words: "The Grandfathers are dying out and the Old Ways and Knowledge is going with them. Little Brother, my Gift to you is the Wisdom, the Knowledge, of the Old Ways. Always hold this close to you, in your Heart and Spirit as you Walk your Life Path. Some, now try to mix our Culture, that has existed for countless Generations, with Euro-American concepts. Do not let these People contaminate the Truths in your Mind and Spirit".

The Grandfather October 1943

As a Boy, my Grandmother would take me to Gatherings, now they are called Pow wows. These Gatherings of the People could be a Gathering of a Clan, a Gathering of a Tribe, a gathering of the Confereracy Nations, or Inter-Tribal Gatherings. At these Gatherings, I was always Honored to listen to the Grandfathers and Grandmothers tell their Stories, Knowledge passed down from Generation to Generation as it has been done for countless Generations by my People.

I now pass these Concepts and Perceptions on, in my Tradition of passing on Stories, to keep our Culture alive in this twenty first Century and the future. As I will always say, take from these that what is good for you, let the rest Blow in the Wind. Yet, do not judge me nor the Grandfathers, these ARE a Culture Concept. Thus neither Right nor Wrong as with all Concepts, Perceptions or Opinions. I do Pray you will find within these Words something that may help you along the Life Path that you have chosen for yourself.

Their Stories:

"Everyone got to find the Right Path. You can't see it so it's hard to find. No one can show you. Each Person's got to fine the Path by himself".

"I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forgot and we consider ourselves superior. But we are after all a MERE PART of the Creation. And we must consider, to understand, where we are. We stand somewhere between the Mountains and the Ant. Somewhere and only there as PART of the CREATION".

"You finally Learned that Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and start truly living the Life the Creator intended for you".

"If you know my Song, you know me. Everyone has a Song. Creator gives us each a Song. That's how we Know who we are. Our Songs tell us WHO WE ARE".

"With one Mind we address our Acknowledgment, Respect, and Gratefulness to all the Sacred Cycle of Life. WE, as Humans, must remember to be Humble and Acknowledge the GIFTS we use so freely in our daily Lives".

"Man sometimes think he's been elevated to be the Controller, the Ruler. BUT HE'S NOT. He's only A PART OF THE WHOLE. Man's job is not to EXPLOIT but to OVERSEE, to be a STEWART. Man has RESPONSIBILITY, not POWER".

These statements by the Grandfathers and Grandmothers, Lessons as a Boy in the Mountains with no Worldly experiences, have guided me along my Life Path. I do believe these Words are as Revelant today in the twenty first Century as they were when as a Boy in the 1930's and 1940's, as they were in the Time of my Ancestors.

White Crow Lessons Learned between 1941 and 1951