the native american medicine wheel

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The Native American The Native American Medicine Wheel Medicine Wheel The medicine wheel also represents the The medicine wheel also represents the four races of man of all of the nation’s four races of man of all of the nation’s people. Yellow for those people in Asia, people. Yellow for those people in Asia, white for those from Europe, black for white for those from Europe, black for those from Africa, and Red for those those from Africa, and Red for those from the Americas. The medicine wheel from the Americas. The medicine wheel depicts many important values in Lakota depicts many important values in Lakota society while maintaining the importance society while maintaining the importance of interconnectedness between the people of interconnectedness between the people and nature. Let the Lakota society live and nature. Let the Lakota society live in the natural world instead of the in the natural world instead of the European man’s world that they are European man’s world that they are something they are not. something they are not.

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The Native American The Native American Medicine WheelMedicine Wheel

The medicine wheel also represents the four The medicine wheel also represents the four races of man of all of the nation’s people. Yellow races of man of all of the nation’s people. Yellow

for those people in Asia, white for those from for those people in Asia, white for those from Europe, black for those from Africa, and Red for Europe, black for those from Africa, and Red for those from the Americas. The medicine wheel those from the Americas. The medicine wheel

depicts many important values in Lakota society depicts many important values in Lakota society while maintaining the importance of while maintaining the importance of

interconnectedness between the people and interconnectedness between the people and nature. Let the Lakota society live in the natural nature. Let the Lakota society live in the natural world instead of the European man’s world that world instead of the European man’s world that

they are something they are not.they are something they are not.