Remembering Lakota Ways, Bal Thackeray Dies At 86, Faith Shorts

November 17, 2012 Subscribe · Forward Remembering Lakota Ways My last name, Her Many Horses, is the Lakota name of my paternal great grandmother. A more accurate English translation of her name is Many Horses Woman, meaning that she owned many horses. Among Lakota people, horses were a means of measuring wealth, but a far more important demonstration of wealth was the gesture of gifting away horses in honor of a family member. Generosity is more important than possession. "The Fourth of July used to be a good time," Grace Pourier, my maternal grandmother, recalled. I liked to listen to her stories about what Lakota life was like in the early 1900s. She knew her Lakota ways as they had been passed on to her by her relatives. Born in 1907 on Pine Ridge Reservation and raised on Horse Head Ranch in Manderson, South Dakota, she remembered how community members and extended family gathered to celebrate with giveaways, traditional dances, parades and feasts. Later in life, she said she wished her grandmother had made her pay more attention to the events surrounding her, but at the time, she was just a kid having fun. Continue reading... Hindu Leader Linked To Anti Muslim Violence Dies In India What Is Faith? Faith Shorts 2012 Finalist Abraham Lincoln's Atheist Period Lennon Cihak, Minnesota Teen, Denied Confirmation For Supporting Gay Marriage On Facebook Faith McGregor Sues Omar Mahrouk, Muslim Barber, For Refusing To Cut Her Hair Saint Dorothy Day? Controversial, Yes, But Bishops Push For Canonization Lennon Cihak, Minnesota Teen, Denied Confirmation For Supporting Gay Marriage On Facebook Most And Least Buddhist Cities In America (PHOTOS) Barbara Brown Taylor: Smashing Idols Through Pain (VIDEO) The New Evangelical Agenda Goodbye, Christian America; Hello, True Christianity REV. DR. SUSAN BROOKS THISTLETHWAITE 'Forgive Us Our Debts': Occupy Operationalizes the Lord's Prayer on Debt It has never been more important to raise the issue of debt forgiveness and do something about it in concrete ways than it is in 21st century America. But how could the biblical Jubilee possibly be an economic plan in today's economy? Enter Occupy Wall Street's "Rolling Jubilee." Continue reading... JIM WALLIS The New Evangelical Agenda The ironic and tragic thing about the religious right is how little of their own agenda they have achieved. By voting for a conservative ideological agenda, they have actually hurt the poor, resisted immigration reform and promoted endless wars. There is a new evangelical agenda for a new evangelical demographic. Continue reading... KATE BLANCHARD The Bible Hates Homosexuality. So What? A student recently asked me for some advice about how to defend same-sex marriage biblically to people who insist that the Bible is against it. My basic response to such questions is, "Don't." Continue reading... DEEPAK SARMA White Hindu Converts: Mimicry or Mockery? Of course there are always a plethora of pleasant anecdotes that Diaspora Hindus welcomed White Hindu Converts in their temples and homes. But is this welcome sincere? Continue reading... TENZIN NORBU The Bodhisattva's View of Tax Policy The nation requires more tax revenue to address the nation's fiscal problems and, by doing this, we can advance toward the goal of guaranteeing that everyone has the property necessary to lead a meaningful human life. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here Unsubscribe here.