Women have no place in male spirituality

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I HAVE SPOKEN

My father advised me to always be honest with people and when asked about something, speak from the heart. This is what I try to do when I am writing what I believe to be true. About 10 days ago, when I was in the mountains, I had the experience of something that alarmed me. I had stopped off to visit one of our sacred grounds. What I found there really made me think. Being raised in the bush taught me ways to read signs. Some people had been there and did a lot of damage. There were things that had been offered to our Grandfathers that I could not see any more. Someone or a party of people went there for the purpose of destroying these sacred offerings. The signs were that Native people did not do this. It made me wonder about the white supremacists - people that want to be rid of Native people. When I thought about that a kind of chill went up my back. What is there to stop these demons from going to our sacred places and destroying our offerings? We hear about people that are in some kind of satanic cult. I don't know what kind of people were these, but I do know they were not normal people. Is this going to be one of the ways of trying to destroy us? I am afraid that it could be.

I have heard for years that we had to stay in contact with our Creator because this was all we really had. I believe this to be true. It is not easy, trying to live in harmony with our Mother Earth with all the negative things that go on around us. I see something else that bothers me. When I look at what is going on with the correctional centres. I cannot believe that things are being done the proper way. We now have women in positions that should be maintained by men. I often wonder what our warriors of the old days would have said if a woman tried to tell him how to should go into battle. I see women doing things that only men should be doing. When it comes to Native spirituality, there are definite differences between men and women. Yet I see women being involved with spiritual ceremonies and other things that do not concern them. It is no wonder that the elders said we would be in for some hard times. I believe that the administration of these correctional centres wants to have women in these places because they can manipulate women much easier than they could a man.

The powers that be certainly would not want to see any power being developed

in these centres. For women to interfere in spiritual ways for men only is only stopping us from what little progress we have made in our spiritual ways. It seems that every time we get ahead on something, these immigrants find a way to stop us. I sometimes feel like what a wounded bear must feel like. The bear is feeling pain from the wound but what about the spiritual wound? The bear is not allowed to live the way our Creator intended him to live. That is about the way I sometimes feel. I cannot go hunting when I want to or I am not supposed to camp - only in certain camping areas. The warriors blood that I have sometimes makes it difficult for me. I try to have patience and tell myself that things will get better.

I have spoken.