Letter of Invitation to Indigenous
“Healing Hearts at Wounded Knee” Landmark Speech Presented at the Parliament of the World’s Religions
16-17 OCTOBER 2015
“Healing Hearts at Wounded Knee” Landmark Speech
Presented at the Parliament of the World’s Religions
On October 16-17, 2015, Chief Arvol Lookinghorse together with Saniel Bonder, founder of the international movement of Waking Down in Mutuality, Stephen Dinan, founder of The Shift Network, Audri Scott Williams, leader of the Trail of Dreams World Peace Walk, and Jean Fleury, Co-Founder of Healing Hearts at Wounded Knee, offered one of the most powerful presentation at the 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions : Healing Hearts at Wounded Knee.
The first session included a five-person panel delineating how the problems of massacre, racism and war are identified as leading to deep multi-generational wounding that ultimately touches each person and affects every nation on earth. Human evolutionary experiences of deep healing, spiritual transformation, and consciousness expansion indicate how far reaching, resonant and crucial it is for us to end denial of these pervasive wounds and truly heal.
An invitation for people around the world was made to join with us on December 29th, 2015 in the Ceremony for Healing Our Hearts at Wounded Knee. This is a call for Deep Indigenous and Global Healing initiated by ceremony, healing practices, and a written declaration/invocation to end massacre, racism, and war.
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22-29 DECEMBER 2015, Wounded Knee, South Dakota Healing Hearts at Wounded Knee, Local and Global Ceremonies
22–29 DECEMBER 2015, Wounded Knee, South Dakota
Healing Hearts at Wounded Knee, Local and Global Ceremonies
125th Year Memorial of the Massacre at Wounded Knee
Indigenous peoples all over the world are starting to heal from the deepest essential and millennial wounds of humanity created by colonization and lack of reconciliation. Arising from inspiration from Indigenous peoples, we propose to unite all peoples, all communities, and all nations in a series of World Wide Global Ceremonies: Ceremonies to heal Continue reading
Humming Prayer from Grandmother Flordemayo
New and beautiful support is coming from Grandmother Flordemayo. Please enjoy her Prayer and song, which she is donating to the world for universal healing. This prayer can be used as part of the Healing Hearts at Wounded Knee Global Wide Ceremony to End and Heal from Multi-generational Trauma on December 29th, 12 noon this year. You are welcome to use this prayer immediately. You do not have to wait until December!
Lost Bird of Wounded Knee
Lost Bird Story Summary
In the spring or summer of 1890, Lost Bird was born somewhere on the prairies of South Dakota. Fate took her to Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation on Dec. 29, 1890.
On that tragic day, hundreds of Lakota men, women and children died in a confrontation with U.S. troops and the woman who likely was the child’s mother was among them. But as she was dying, she and her baby found some scanty shelter from the bitter cold and wind in the bank of a creek.
Four days after the massacre, a rescue party found the infant, miraculously alive, protected by the woman’s frozen body.
The infant was passed from one person to another and her sensational story attracted the attention of powerful white men. 
Eventually, this living souvenir of Wounded Knee ended up in the hands of a National Guard general.
Lost Bird was adopted by Gen. Leonard Colby and, without her knowledge or consent, his suffragist wife, Clara Bewick Colby. The baby’s original name died on the killing field, along with her chance to grow up in her own culture. She became. literally and figuratively, Zintkala Nuni, the Lost Bird.
So Lost Bird – Zintka, as her adopted mother called her – Continue reading
