Thursday, September 9, 2010

Native American Visions

So in class this week we are watching viseos on Native American culture and the many legends on how the world was created in their views.  Native American culture really interests me with all of the unique ceremonyies and the music is my favorite. So when I came home I asked my family if they knew any call facts or legends on Natives Americans and this is what I got. I read a first hand example of a vision quest from an Oklahoma Native American whose name is Joseph Epses Brown. Where in his vision he walked in the four directions and saw an eagle flying toward him and he was seeing all of these different birds like a woodpecker telling him "be attentive and have no fear". At night thunder birds filled the sky he said and he was afraid but he prayed to Wakan-Takan. he would then here voices and remember what the bird told him that he should "be attentive and have no fear" 

1 comment:

  1. Very interesting. Now you have me wanting to google vision quest to see what I can find. Thanks for posting this.

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