Welcome to Songs for the Lodge!

By Lady Drummer on Saturday, November 7, 2009
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Our website focuses  on Lakota spiritual practices with respect to the sweat Lodge. We also provide some information on Yoruba tradition because of its relationship to Lakota practices. Our information is based upon years of personal experience in these traditions.  We have also done a great deal of  scholarly research.  We do not presume to be experts in either tradition although we have been initiated into Ifa and Sun danced with traditional Lakota people.  Rather, we want to share what we have learned on our journeys to help others maneuver with some through these traditions.

It is also our desire to address the issues of cultural appropriation; what it is and what it is not. We believe it is critically important that if one says we are practicing Ifa or Lakota or Cheyenne, Hmong, Celtic, Bambara or Buddhist traditions, that one have some measure of cultural markers for the tradition being addressed. To not know the cultural markers is a negation of that tradition and is a form of cultural appropriation.

One does not have to be a native American to practice native teachings or participate in a lodge. One does need to know what they are doing. It is easy to get caught up in right and wrong, and pointing the finger at others practicing  multiple traditions    We avoid these types of conversations as they are pointless.  People are going to do what they are going to do.   We desire that, in this process of discovery, that that individual is respectful and sensitive to other cultures and traditions.We also want people to know when they are being fed a crock of ….. Teachers and facilitators need to be held accountable to know what they are doing. Here is sufficient information around the sweat lodge to properly prepare yourself for this experience. Question those in authority and take responsibility to be informed and no more sweat lodge deaths need occur!

That being said, we want you to enjoy the articles and that you find them stimulating and worthy of conversation. Enjoy a lodge. They are beautiful experiences. Feel free to leave comments and short stories about your own experiences.

In peace of spirit,
Spider who Sings

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