Lakota Dakota Nakota Nation Spiritual Traditional Organization - LDN

08/27/2026

You cannot mend a relationship by defeating anyone.

I've been thinking about that in relation to how change actually happens.

There is enormous energy right now going into movements built on opposition — gathering people around what is wrong, what must be resisted, what must be reclaimed. The intentions are usually good.

But a movement built on what it opposes needs an enemy the way a fire needs fuel. Anger gathers people faster than love does. It just cannot hold them.

The teaching I carry was not given to a people who needed to organize against something. It was given to a people who had forgotten how to be in right relationship — with each other, with the earth, with themselves.

Nothing outside them had broken. Something between them had.

Black Elk, the Oglala holy man, described his people's condition in a single image: the hoop of the nation was broken, there was no center any longer, and the sacred tree was dead.

I live nine miles from a rock formation in Wyoming that six Indigenous nations named after living things. Flat-topped, vertically grooved, standing alone on open ground. A stump, in other words.

And here is what a stump actually is: not a dead tree. A tree that was cut down.

A stump with living roots sends up a new shoot — not from the top, but from the part that was never taken, because it was never visible in the first place.

Read: [BLOG LINK] https://indigenoushealing.io/blog/mato-tipila-part-3-arvol-looking-horse-sacred-pipe-mato-tipila-circle-walk-peace-2028

Mitakuye Oyasin — All My Relations 🌿

08/19/2026

THIS is natures teaching about what a true WARRIOR is. This is indigenoushealing.io for our human family to finally resonate with, in living practice. 🫶🎉Come home. We need you to defend LOVE.

Join us in a free community for global healing to heal a heart (your/ours), and in this way only may nations and the "world" may walk the Circle of Peace Path for ALL our relations. Mitakuye Oyasin.

08/13/2026

Eagle Woman That All Look Up To — standing as a bridge between two worlds, refusing to let fear or hatred have the final word, feeding her own people when everyone else had turned away, honors and blesses us 7 generations later. Her walk of peace didn't close in 1888 — it's still open, and it still needs people willing to stand in that same circle.

The ancient teachings of Nature's 4 Steps of Healing, understood by wise earth-based ancestors of all nations, can now clearly be seen, understood, and put into practice by all those willing to walk the Circle, the Walk of Peace Path — rooted in the respect, diplomacy and noble peaceful sovereignty carried at www.LakotaDakotaNakotaNation.org and offered completely free to every member of our human family with access to the internet, at www.indigenoushealing.io.

No fear. No sides. Just the same circle she walked — still walking forward in the oneness foreseen for this time of gathering. Step in. www.IndigenousHealing.io

When armed Lakota warriors approached a wounded white soldier, they intended to take his scalp. Then a woman stepped between them.

The soldier was lying on the ground with three arrows in his body when Eagle Woman threw her shawl over him, gathered him into her arms and declared: "This man belongs to me now! You cannot touch him!”

The warriors backed away.

It was an extraordinary display of authority from Wambli Autepewin, Eagle-Woman-That-All-Look-At, a Lakota woman who spent much of her life attempting something that became increasingly impossible: preventing war between her people and the Americans consuming their land.

Born around 1820, the daughter of Two Lance, a Two Kettle Lakota leader, Eagle Woman learned diplomacy early. But her private life reflected the uneasy world she inhabited. She married fur trader Honoré Picotte and had two daughters with him. In 1848, Picotte retired from the frontier and returned to St. Louis and his white wife.

Eagle Woman later married trader Charles Galpin. Together they became powerful intermediaries between Lakota communities and American officials. She entered negotiations, translated, defused confrontations and reportedly earned enough respect that even Sitting Bull listened when she spoke.

But she was no obedient servant of Washington.

When the government coveted the sacred Black Hills after gold was discovered there, officials increasingly used hunger as leverage. Eagle Woman opposed the notorious **“sell or starve”** pressure that threatened Sioux rations unless land was surrendered.

Meanwhile, she was feeding people herself.

After Galpin died in 1869, Eagle Woman operated their trading post, extending credit and distributing supplies to Lakota families facing starvation. Her influence was so unusual that she has often been described as the only woman recognized as a chief among the Sioux.

She believed peace might save her people from annihilation. Yet she lived long enough to watch treaties broken, territory stripped away and the Black Hills taken anyway.

Eagle Woman died in 1888, having spent decades standing between two worlds and discovering that making peace with a government did not necessarily mean that government would keep it.

08/05/2026

A VERY IMPORTANT message from Chief Reminder- About UNITY,
ONE-ness aligned with natures ways:

I, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nation, ask you to understand an Indigenous perspective on what has happened in America, what we call "Turtle Island." My words seek to unite the global community through a message from our sacred ceremonies to unite spiritually, each in our own ways of beliefs in the Creator.

We have been warned from Ancient Prophecies of these times we live in today, but have also been given a very important message about a solution to turn these terrible times around.

To understand the depth of this message you must recognize the importance of Sacred Sites and realize the interconnectedness of what is happening today, in reflection of the continued massacres that are occurring on other lands and our own Americas.

I have been learning about these important issues since the age of 12, upon receiving the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle and its teachings. Our people have striven to protect Sacred Sites from the beginning of time. These places have been violated for centuries and have brought us to the predicament that we are in at the global level.

Look around you. Our Mother Earth is very ill from these violations, and we are on the brink of destroying the possibility of a healthy and nurturing survival for generations to come, our children's children.

Our ancestors have been trying to protect our Sacred Site called the Sacred Black Hills in South Dakota, "Heart of Everything That Is," from continued violations. Our ancestors never saw a satellite view of this site, but now that those pictures are available, we see that it is in the shape of a heart and, when fast-forwarded, it looks like a heart pumping.

The Dine have been protecting Big Mountain, calling it the liver, and we are suffering and going to suffer more from the extraction of the coal from there and the poison processes used in doing so.

The Aborigines have warned of the contaminating effects of global warming on the Coral Reefs, which they see as Mother Earth's blood purifier.

The Indigenous people of the rainforest relay that the rainforest are the lungs of the planet and need protection.

The Gwich'in Nation has had to face oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, also known to the Gwich'in as "Where life begins!"

The coastal plain is the birthplace of many life forms of the Animal Nations. The death of these Animal Nations will destroy Indigenous Nations in this territory.

As these destructive developments continue all over the world, we will witness many more extinct Animal, Plant, and Human Nations, because of mankind's misuse of power and their lack of understanding of the "balance of life."

The Indigenous people warn that these destructive developments will cause havoc globally. There are many, many more Indigenous awarenesses and knowledge about Mother Earth's Sacred Sites, her Chakras, connections to our spirit that will surely affect our future generations.

There needs to be a fast move toward other forms of energy that are safe for all Nations upon Mother Earth. We need to understand the types of minds that are continuing to destroy the spirit of our whole global community. Unless we do this, the powers of destruction will overwhelm us. Our Ancestors foretold that water would someday be for sale. Back then, this was hard to believe, since the water was so plentiful, so pure, and so full of energy, nutrition, and spirit.

Today we have to buy pure water, and even then the nutritional minerals have been taken out; it's just empty liquid. Someday water will be like gold, too expensive to afford.

Not everyone will have the right to drink safe water. We fail to appreciate and honour our Sacred Sites, ripping out the minerals and gifts that lay underneath them as if Mother Earth were simply a resource, instead of the Source of Life itself.

Attacking Nations and having to utilize more resources to carry out destruction in the name of peace is not the answer! We need to understand how all these decisions affect the Global Nation; we will not be immune to its repercussions. Allowing continual contamination of our food and land is affecting the way we think.

A "disease of the mind" has set in world leaders and many members of our global community, with their belief that a solution of retaliation and destruction of peoples will bring Peace.

In our Prophecies it is told that we are now at the crossroads: Either unite spiritually as a Global Nation, or be faced with chaos, disasters, diseases, and tears from our relatives' eyes.

We are the only species that is destroying the Source of Life, meaning Mother Earth, in the name of power, mineral resources, and ownership of land, using chemicals and methods of warfare that are doing irreversible damage, as Mother Earth is becoming tired and cannot sustain any more impacts of war.

I ask you to join me on this endeavour. Our vision is for the Peoples of all continents, regardless of their beliefs in the Creator, to come together as one at their Sacred Sites to pray and meditate and commune with one another, thus promoting an energy shift to heal our Mother Earth and achieve a universal consciousness toward attaining Peace.

As each day passes, I ask all Nations to begin a global effort, and remember to give thanks for the Sacred Food that has been gifted to us by our Mother Earth, so the nutritional energy of medicine can be guided to heal our minds and spirits.

This new millennium will usher in an age of harmony or it will bring the end of life as we know it. Starvation, war, and toxic waste have been the hallmark of the Great Myth of Progress and Development that ruled the last millennium.

To us, as caretakers of the heart of Mother Earth, falls the responsibility of turning back the powers of destruction. You yourself are the one who must decide.

You alone - and only you - can make this crucial choice, to walk in honour or to dishonour your relatives. On your decision depends the fate of the entire World.

Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of humankind.

Did you think the Creator would create unnecessary people in a time of such terrible danger?

Know that you yourself are essential to this World. Believe that! Understand both the blessing and the burden of that. You yourself are desperately needed to save the soul of this World. Did you think you were put here for something less? In a Sacred Hoop of Life, there is no beginning and no ending!

07/31/2026

🌸 Where flowers bloom, there is still hope. 🌸

What happens to one family member affects the entire human family. Now is the time to recognize this truth — and to discover nature's own healing ways so that we may resonate the loving change our global human family so urgently needs.

We must look honestly at what Lakota Healing truly is.

The outside world has largely seen only the results of colonization — the sad and painful news repeated endlessly by media showing the failures of systems imposed upon a community methodically broken by a dominant culture. That same culture has now spread its wounds across the entire globe.

But what about the cure?

There are still those who remember our original ways — of community, of circle, of taking responsibility for our own healing together. The circle teachings of our ancestors can bring each heart back to Balance, Harmony, Abundance and Peace. This is the kind of healing that can find success even in the most oppressed communities — while the rest of the world pays for meditation apps, prescription drugs, and consumerism to fill the void left by separation from nature's ways.

Great inequities are times for great transformations. And it all begins in the heart.

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One circle. One human family. All indigenous to LIFE.
Mitakuye Oyasin 🌿

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