Here We Go ! Spirit Protection Letter to MKPUS 07/2023

Thoughts around the recent letter to MKPUS from the Spirit protection group:

So, at this point you have to ask yourself a few questions:

·         Why is it that a large percentage of former weekend leaders have aligned themselves with the LKS and not the MKP USA leader body? Look around…

·         Why is it that the LKSI seems silent on these issues as MKPUS digs themselves further and further into the hole?  Things are happening in the background…

·         What other data would you need to know to make an informed decision rather than a decision based on reaction or inferred judgement?  Get involved in the discussion…

The fact is this is a global issue, and it would be very US-centric for you to believe that you have all the answers to this broad multicultural issue.  Have you met the Chief? Do you know his family? If you knew his family and you saw them being attacked, would you jump in and beat them as well?  What would an ally to the Lakota look like?

I think the last question is whether you believe MKPUS is strong enough to stand in its own lack of integrity and still survive without recognizing that they are tearing themselves apart from within, and that you and I empowered this form of leadership by doing nothing?

Email your MKPUS reps and tell them to open up discussion on this issue for the good of the community…

The LKSI gave into all of that was asked of it short of the concept of heat, fire, and coverings (IE that which is universal).  LKSI did that in full consultation with the family.  MKPUS bargained away that which is universal as well out of fear.

LKSI has internationally asked to be heard on these issues as well.

When other teachers begin to agree (without full context or risk) to some of these challenges at the cost of the Lakota Chief and family who originally expressed support and, for 20 years, took risk, it becomes an internal issue that is expressed outside of the confines of their empowerment or their wound from colonization.   This internal discussion began the week after the man, the Chief, a Vietnam Veteran, a New Warrior, passed away in 2018.  

The man who inherited the responsibility, the risk, and was made Chief prior to his father's passing, would welcome that conversation just as he offered to speak with individuals from the website.  You and yours(pl) are invited to seek clarity from the Chief as well.  The family meets every year at the Wakpamni Veterans Powwow and horse races on the 4th of July weekend.

This drama that I see as based on a group's internalized oppression only creates a catch-22 that will hurt one over the other, which is a colonist concept. These concepts of reassessing agreements, dismissing the Chief, and creating drama websites on the outside are not Lakota, they are colonist concepts as well.  It is a power-play.  No one wins. Everyone loses.

Remember that the original treaties rely on the watering down of the Native population until such time the people no longer exist and the land WILL be retaken by the Federal government.  Seven generations past to seven generations forward...  

https://www.lakotanationvsus.movie/

Where will MKPUS stand in the future after betraying one of their own (another colonist concept that is pervasive in this organization) ?  These men are already forgiven for that which they did not know prior. What will they do once they have all the information they need, information that was freely available to them if they could only hear it?

If there is an authentic alternative to the concept of Spirit on the weekend coming from the leader body that does not come from shadow or this original sin of the organization, I do not know what that looks like.



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