Sacrificial fire

One can only guess (hope) the writer is a non Native American?

As a Traditional Elder Spiritual leader it is our duty to speak about this.

As a Native American Elder one must be careful not to get too picky with peoples gatherings, so my whole day was completely wasted trying not to think about an article this morning in my mailer!

Someone should correct the author or at least call it what it is. 

This thing was held at a school where we should be teaching our culture and ceremonies correctly?

If you wish to call a Flag song sacred, I can live with that, sort of.

A Veterans Song (dance) is just that, a Veterans song, a Fallen soldiers song (dance) is not the same thing as the Veterans song.

If a group of people in the Eastern Woodland area wish to have a gathering, this is a free country.

If a group of people in this area wish to have a gathering and call it a Native American Gathering, this gets my attention.

I do not care if you name it gathering or some kind of powwow, this is a free country.

However, if you stick a fire into a circle and call in Scared, it should be a Sacred Gathering!

If you have a Gathering or a Native American powwow stick a Sacrificial fire

into it.

It then becomes an Occult Gathering!
It is by no means a Native American Gathering!

Please call it what it is.