Introduction to LAKOTA CULTURE 118
The Sacred Hoop provides an effective pattern for applying 12-step principles to walking the Red Road. In this final segment of the series, Lakota Elder Larry Salway brings together different elements of Lakota Culture to give us a model for living a fruitful life, or Walking the Red Road.
This video is part of our Mentor Training series, "Lakota Culture". We also have a series on Poverty.
Larry Salway grew up on the Rosebud Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. He rose out of the poverty of his childhood and became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and later, a professor at the Oglala Lakota College campuses in Kyle and Rapid City, SD. He served for five years as Tribal Judge in Pine Ridge, SD. Mr. Salway has also served as pastor of churches in Arizona and South Dakota. Larry is Co-President of Life Initiatives.
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LAKOTA CULTURE 118
mr. Larry Salway
Walking the Red Road
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Outline of Lakota Culture 118
Walking the Red Road
4 Elements of Renewal
1-Reconciliation with Creator (Spiritual Renewal)
2-Reconciliation with Self (Cognitive Healing)
3-Reconciliation with Family (Emotional Healing)
4-Rebuilding of Behaviors
This restores the Harmony, Balance, Beauty, and Peace we find in the Sacred Hoop
4 Quadrants (12 steps) of Renewal
Steps 1-3 (1 st quadrant)
SPIRITUAL
• Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable
• Step 2 - Came to believe that Creator could restore us to sanity
• Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Creator
Steps 4-6 (2 nd quadrant)
PERSONAL CHANGE
• Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
• Step 5 - Admitted to Creator, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
• Step 6 - Were entirely ready to have Creator remove all these defects of character
Steps 7-9 (3 rd quadrant)
RELATIONSHIPS
• Step 7 - Humbly asked Creator to remove our shortcomings
• Step 8 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all
• Step 9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
Steps 10-12 (4 th quadrant)
LIVING THE RED ROAD
• Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it
• Step 11 - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with Creator, praying only for knowledge of Creator's will for us and the power to carry that out
• Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs
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