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This December we have four NS-NV Holiday specials to share, including one brand new for 2005.
NS-NV Holiday Special #1- featuring holiday music from Red Nativity and Thon-gya, a couple ofgifts from Bill Miller, Ray Villebrun's "Drummer Boy" - Indian styleplus many more holiday classics with a Native twist!
NS-NV Holiday Special #2 - featuring Christmas Round Dance, Cherokee Elvis and much more music to keep your toes-a-tapping this holiday season.
NS-NV Holiday Special #3- featuring some Christmas classics and originals all done in a Nativestyle. Some are sung in English while others are sung in Nativelanguages from across Turtle island, including Opera singer Bonnie JoHunt singing “Ave Maria” in Lakota, the Cherokee National Youth Choirsinging “What Child Is This” in Cherokee and an AIROS exclusive withDelphine Tsinajinnie performing “Up on the Rooftop” in Navajo.
NS-NV Holiday Special #4(Brand New for 2005) - Christmas hymns in Native languages (Hawaiian,Cherokee, Ojibwe, Navajo, Hopi and more) from the new CD from NMAI“Beautiful Beyond: Christian Songs in Native Languages” plus moreholiday surprises.
Visit http://www.airos.org/audio.html#special for feed dates and time.
Other Holiday Specials
Several other programs are featuring holiday themes and music this week. Visit http://www.airos.org/audio.html to find out which programs will put you in the spirit of season. Look for the image as an indication of holiday related programming.
Coming Soon: Reach the Rez Radio
Hosted by well-known actor and rapper Litefoot (Cherokee) Reach the Rez Radiois a high energy, hip hop "mix show"/"talk show" program. The broadcastwill update listeners on Litefoot’s Reach the Rez Tour progress andevents, as well as feature on-air interviews produced at differentlocations throughout the tour. Reach the Rez Radio will debut Friday December 23rd, 2005 at 9pm ET. The program will feed from then on every Friday at 9pm ET with repeats at 9pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
More information can be found at www.airos.org/specials and www.reachtherez.org.
JAMIE WILLIAMS , , Louisiana, USA - 01/15/2003 4:42:10 PM
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Even though the Geminid meteor shower peaks Tuesday night, Dec. 13, into early Wednesday morning, Dec. 14, the best time to view them may be before dawn Tuesday. Moonlight will wash out some of the meteors for most of the night. Get viewing details.
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by Looks for Buffalo and SandieLee
European Christmas for Native Americans actually started when the Europeans came over to America. They taught the Indian about Christianity, gift-giving , and St. Nicholas. There are actually two religious types of Indian people in existence. One of these is the Traditionalist, usually full-blooded Indians that grew up on the reservations. The second type is the Contemporary Indian that grew up in an urban area, usually of mixed blood, and brought up with Christian philosophy.
Traditionalists are raised to respect the Christian Star and the birth of the first Indian Spiritual Leader. He was a Star Person and Avatar. His name was Jesus. He was a Hebrew, a Red Man. He received his education from the wilderness. John the Baptist, Moses, and other excellent teachers that came before Jesus provided an educational foundation with the Holistic Method.
Everyday is our Christmas. Every meal is our Christmas. At every meal we take a little portion of the food we are eating, and we offer it to the spirit world on behalf of the four legged, and the winged, and the two legged. We pray--not the way most Christians pray-- but we thank the Grandfathers, the Spirit, and the Guardian Angel.
The Indian Culture is actually grounded in the traditions of a Roving Angel. The life-ways of Roving Angels are actually the way Indian People live. They hold out their hands and help the sick and the needy. They feed and clothe the poor. We have high respect for the avatar because we believe that it is in giving that we receive.
We are taught as Traditional children that we have abundance. The Creator has given us everything: the water, the air we breathe, the earth as our flesh, and our energy force: our heart. We are thankful every day. We pray early in the morning, before sunrise, the morning star, and the evening star. We pray for our relatives who are in the universe that someday they will come. We also pray that the Great Spirit's son will live again.
To the Indian People Christmas is everyday and the don't believe in taking without asking. Herbs are prayed over before being gathered by asking the plant for permission to take some cuttings. An offer of tobacco is made to the plant in gratitude. We do not pull the herb out by its roots, but cut the plant even with the surface of the earth, so that another generation will be born its place.
It is really important that these ways never be lost. And to this day we feed the elders, we feed the family on Christmas day, we honor Saint Nicholas. We explain to the little children that to receive a gift is to enjoy it, and when the enjoyment is gone, they are pass it on to the another child, so that they, too, can enjoy it. If a child gets a doll, that doll will change hands about eight times in a year, from one child to another.
Everyday is Christmas in Indian Country. Daily living is centered around the spirit of giving and walking the Red Road. Walking the Red Road means making everything you do a spiritual act. If your neighbor, John Running Deer, needs a potato masher; and you have one that you are not using, you offer him yours in the spirit of giving. It doesn't matter if it is Christmas or not.
If neighbors or strangers stop over to visit at your house, we offer them dinner We bring out the T-Bone steak, not the cabbage. If we don't have enough, we send someone in the family out to get some more and mention nothing of the inconvenience to our guests. The more one gives, the more spiritual we become. The Christ Consciousness, the same spirit of giving that is present at Christmas, is present everyday in Indian Country.
Looks for Buffalo is an Oglala Sioux Spiritual Leader, the full-blood Oglala grandson of Chief Red Cloud and White Cow Killer, and a Cheyenne Oglala Leader. He saw in a vision that a White Buffalo was coming to the people and that it would mean world peace. His vision foretold of the White Buffalo that was born in Janesville, Wisconsin two years ago. He resides on the Pine Ridge Reservation in SD; but can be contacted for consulting or healings at (605)867-5762; P.O. Box 150, Pine Ridge, SD 57770.
Sandie Lee Bohlig, spiritual healer, counsels and teaches around the globe.
Native American Christmas
This is a very good description by Looks for Buffalo, an Oglala Sioux Spiritual Leader and SandieLee Bohlig, spiritual healer and teacher.
Throughout the world, in every nation, from every heart, one prayer....
That all people live in freedom and peace reign everywhere.
A Christmas wish for you and all the world... PEACE
--- artist Brummett EchoHawk
