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'new agers' & native wisdom (fwd)
Robert Johnson (johnsorl@COLORADO.EDU)
Sun, 26 Feb 1995 16:37:37 -0700
On Tue, 21 Feb 1995 natchat@gnosys.svle.ma.us wrote:
> Original Sender: ftneb@vms.aurora.alaska.edu
> Mailing List: NATCHAT (natchat@gnosys.svle.ma.us)
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> I would like to offer my views on this issue of Native American beliefs
> and New Age beliefs. I am a Cherokee woman, my Mother was Nora Emory, the
> daughter of Sarah Willis, who's mother was a member of the Wolf clan of
> the Eastern Cherokee. What my grandmother taught me about the beliefs of
> the people are as opposite from the New age beliefs as any one can get.
> Because the differences between the two systems, there is no way that
> there can be any merging of the two without one group giving up their
> basic fundamental beliefs and adopting the others beliefs. I am not
> willing to give up what my Grandmother taught me. NO! THE NEW AGERS DO
> NOT DO A GOOD JOB OF REPRESENTING THE BELIEFS OF MY PEOPLE. They steal
> the cerimonies and parts of the beliefs that they choose
> without permission, without knowlege. They bastardize
> them and re-package them for sell to the public either for money or
> credibility.And I am so very sick and tired of it.What the new agers do
> to our beliefs is another form of genocide that my people have had to
> endure.
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