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Sacredness & Children

Jace DeCory
Transcript

Learn ABOUT
(deep listening, information)

  1. What does it mean for a human being to be “scared?”
  2. What’s the connection between kinds of touch and the sacredness of human beings?
  3. Do these ideas about touch come only from your grandmother, or are they widespread concepts among the Octi Sakowin?
  4. What is “sacred space?”
  5. How is a Lakota name different from regular names?
  6. What is a “Sundance?”
  7. Where and what is Bear Butte? Devil’s Tower? And what are the Lakota names for them?
  8. What is a sweat lodge ceremony?
  9. What does it mean to be divided?”

Learn FROM
(deep listening, information)

  1. Who have been the models in my life that have helped to guide my behavior and who I have become?
  2. How have different “touches” impacted me? “Harsh” touches? “Loving” or “healing” touches?
  3. In what ways do I see myself as sacred? How about others?
  4. What kinds of things do i do in my life that are ceremonial by nature? Why are these kinds of experiences important to who I am/we are?
  5. What places in my life are sacred and why?
  6. In what ways do I feel I become “divided” at times and need to “call back my spirit?’