Leo, man i miss you. You were taken from us all way to early in life. The wisdom and teachings you had to share live on through these videos but its just not the same as sitting with you like we use to do. Met you and have known you for 30 years plus. I always get on here to listen to your voice. Miss you brother. Miss you bad.

I absolutely HATE the (stupid) term of "peace pipe"... its as annoying as getting hit in the nutts.

The issue of the use of perspetive "Bridging" When trying to explain something in English. where a speaker trys to "Bridge" relate to what they feel is a somewhat close "likeness" of what is going on with something that the people in our culture can realte to,, For example I was told Attending sweat lodge cermony is like Going to Church,, These layers set in motion False persetions of realty both for Europiens and within the minds of First nations youuth. As a person in the Autisum commuity reflecting concerens , Our peoples ways of seeing or interrelating to the world are deeply impacted by our exposure to our Religious idology instutions teachings which are also by there design "Very Dualistc in core nature" The "Us" and "Them" thing, (Why ?) Not all Cultures have the same way of "Thinking" as we do,, Sometihng just did not make sense when someone told me A swetlodge Cermeony is "like going to church" that likeness statment felt strange, and wrong , like we where trying to also "Re-label that cermony into somthing that was more in line with teachings of our Religious idology teachings, that reaaly upset me and then we will spread this "likeness" to our youth ? .. I had to sit down and ask an elder who was a recognised knowlage carrier. The Lakota do not have a "one" god Belief , Ask about "Waken Tanka and a lot of people will Try and Build the Bridge again and say well "That is our god" Since we now know There is no one god Belief , but in core truth an internaly recognised Instution of spirt beings "that again sets up people for being taught A very false persetive of reality. we have to be careful becuse you will find this bridging languge used a lot in song and in many books writen by our authors ,, The song by buddy red bull "Gong to the spirit world" and yes Buddy read bull is a deepy respected song writer but again the "bridging" look very carefuly at the photos at the begining, what is around the womens neck ? kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJethKyMpstso68 , a converstion from David Elk on This issue as well "Wakan Tanka is not "God" kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqm0pIN6npl4ic0.. We do this all the time and it injures realtionhips betwean our peoples..

Thank you to all for talking up for me. I never was ask for this to be posted. I have turn my life around. Im not that person no more.

Ann-áá bas-éé, thank you, from gwi’chinn athabaskan in alaska. Can you do a video on eagle bone flute if its not a disrespect? I really apologize if i said something that i shouldn’t say, i only made a mistake if so

There is nobody in our culture who refer to it as the Pis Pipe..that's your interpretation only

Thank you for sharing this sacred wisdom. You are indeed a medicine man...perhaps not in title, but in heart and spirit. You are also a wonderful sacred teacher. Thank you.

Bible comes from biblos, the book of books, the book of wisdom, the book of peace, all these are apt descriptors

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What is a Medicine man?

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Thank you for sharing! That color effect between the picture on the wall and that bow tie is 🔥

First Target Audience here. Pilamaya.

Thank you for your teaching and for sharing your wisdom and heart. I bow to you in respect and thanksgiving. Blessings to you on your path.

Thank you/meegwetch!! I was given my first chenupa by a Lakota elder about 8 years ago(I am white). But because his walk was not a good one and because he treated my Grandmother Elder, who introduced us, so poorly, I didn't not wake it, even though I walked with it for about two years before getting my elder;s permission to gift it to another practitioner. It never felt like mine to begin with. Yesterday I was helping Grandmother get ready to host some Elders who are coming from Canada to do Ceremony on behalf of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, and she stopped what we were doing and presented me with my second chenupa. I recognized it right away as mine..it was so strange. I began to cry, I was so overcome with emotion. The last thing I want to be is a "spiritual tourist" and even when I am invited by Native people to participate in certain things, such as the Yuwipi, I don't always do it because it just feels improper, even with permission. Too Wakan for a white person. Sometimes GRandmother will insist I be present for a certain teaching, and of course then I do her bidding.

Thanks for sharing,friend.

thanks for this video. i would like to offer the perspective that we dont "manipulate" energy. rather we invite Spirit to hear and respond to our prayers for purification, energy, blessings. we are in relation with the sacred plants, with energy, with earth, with spirit. beautiful relationship does not involve manipulation. wishing all well. 🌈❤️🙏❤️🌈

Thank you for sharing, your message has impacted me 🩵 I send you love + light

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I really liked this. Your culture is very interesting! Thanks for sharing!

So amazing thank you so much

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Michael Reynolds uses the model of the Viking homes and suddenly he's God.

Sad that those girls didn't have the common sense to shut up while you were filming.

Leo can none natives carve the sacred pipe if they respect and understand the significance the pipe carries in indigenous culture please respond one way or the other

Im a proud lokata sisseton 😢I pray one day I'll go back to the hills. One day I know it

I call those little pipes that people smoke weed in "the white man's peace pipe". The ceremonial pipe is the sacred pipe

This was very interesting and informative, thank you!

As a Breed Lakota I want to thank you for the Medcine

Very interesting. Thank you.

Thank you beautiful human. That was very educational. What a wonderful culture that we should all try to learn more about.

Love your earth ship, do you have floorplans available?

I will never call it a peace pipe again. Thank you.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. For 8 years now, we have lived in a home surrounded by forest in northeastern Illinois. As stewards of this forest, we took steps to cut out invasive, non indigenous buckthorn that was choking out other species. But I’m always looking for what steps might be necessary moving forward. I found this interesting and helpful.

I have great respect for this person. I am adopted by Lakota, Sioux at Wagner South Dakota. I was given a white eagle claw as a gift. I know about the sacred pipe. A woman came out of the fog and gave a sacred pipe to 2 Natives and then disappeared. Great story and I believe the story.

Very interesting and informative. Much respect.

It's interesting how all groups can be similar yet so diferente we mixed tabacoo with other flowers not marijuana but they would be considered drugs today

I'm purépecha from Michoacán México and i like to SEE in to other amerindian cultures shows our people's connections from Alaska to Patagonia

I will never yours and nobody will because it is yours.

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nice to meet you, what to say, this is very strange, for me and also for you, there is no wind i

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Spirit led me here. Thank you so much for this video 💕 my ancestors have called me to remember the sacred use of tobacco and the ways that it was meant to heal. I appreciate you so much. 🦅

Dear Totem, first of all: thank you. As an outsider it isn't always easy to learn about authentic lore, even for (or especially for) a people that has had so much written about it as the lakota. I ordered "Black Elk speaks" since, afaics, the book is his authentic speech and he is an authentic teacher. Second, i would like to ask a question, which you can answer if you have the time and are in the mood for it and i would be greatly thankful, but i wont harbour any negative feelings if you can't or don't want to. i'm as white as it get's and my family stayed in their ancient country, which is a part of southern germany. Sage and sweetgrass (different subspecies, ofc, but similar enough) do grow around me and i always felt drawn to them somewhat and i'd like to incorporate them in my prayers, but what about cedar? I would like to have something to "turn up the volume", but cedar isn't native here. Would you, as not a medicine man, think it ok for me to use bought cedar, or should i look for something i can find on my land? People are talking about "cultural appropriation" these days, but i don't think using plant lore counts for that, does it? More importantly, would the spirit care about it? Best regards and all my best wishes.

Hi Totem, i pretty much only wanted to comment for your video-stats. Much love from germany

Does tobacco have any benefits with casting negativity away or bringing good energy???

Thank you for your openness and willingness to educate us - really enjoyed the video. Have a question: what is your take on people who are not Lakota using sacred pipes for their own prayers? To be more clear, I don't mean non-Lakota who smoke a pipe to appear interesting and "cultural" to their friends, but rather, what about non-Lakota people who lack a way in their own culture to pray, and find the sacred pipe an elegant means to do so? With so much talk about appropriation and its very real negative effects....is there room for outsiders to use Lakota pipes in earnest without disrespecting Lakota people and culture? Or should non-Lakota just admire from afar? Thanks again!

I reckon so.