Braveheart Society

Faith Spotted Eagle

Learn ABOUT
(deep listening, information)

What’s the “Cultural Cup”?
What’s the “Western Cup”?
What’s the “Camp Circle”?
What are the Societies?
What has Ella DeLoria written?
What does it mean to be considered “no one”?
What is the Braveheart society?
Why were the “secret societies” secret?
Why do you bring something in return when you take something from nature?
How did your answer from nature come? In what form?
What does it mean to look to the 7th generation?
What is “the trauma”?
What is “food sovereignty” ?
What are the “seven rites”?
What do the girls learn during the coming of age ceremony?
Why did the coming of age ceremonies start to die out?
Is there a special reason you do this ceremony along the Missouri river?
What are the “Western” lessons the girls learn?
What is the significance of the red paint?
What do you mean when you say, “They have the right to be painted”?
Is there a special reason this happens in the summer?
In what ways are the girls “different” after the ceremony?
When you say “you can’t be stingy with healing and culture” what do you mean?
What other ceremonies are there in a child’s life?
How were your societies “killed”?
What are the differences between your traditional “schools” that came out of the societies and the “public school” that people attend now?
What is the last ceremony like?
What do you teach about going into the spirit world?

Learn FROM
(deep listening, information)

What are the “Cups” in my life?
Am I learning from different cups?
Are those cups in agreement? How do they work together?
What “societies” have I been invited into?
What “societies” have I chosen for myself?
Do I know my purpose in my community?
What gifts and talents do I bring to my community?
Are my gifts and talents recognized within my community?
Do I recognize other community members’ gifts and talents?
What benefit is there in serving in secret?
Are there things Ido “secretly”? Why do I keep these things secret
What happens when we take from nature without giving back?
Do I have an awareness of my own future generations?
What are my or my family’s traumas?
How do they impact me/us now?
When do I/we cry over them?
Are there trauma’s I/we have recovered from? How did I/we do that?
What rites or ceremonies are important in my life?
What is my relationship to what I eat? Is it a healthy one?
Did I every experience a “coming of age” ceremony or experience? What was it?
Do we help young people come of age in a positive way?
Are there any signs or physical markers I have taken on because of some rite of passage?
Have there been important experiences in my life that left me “different” or “changed”?
Do I have traditions that have been “lost” for some reason? Why were they lost? Was it by decision or did it just happen?
How can we become “stingy” with healing or culture? How can we be generous with healing or culture?
How have approaches to school or learning changed? How might it be better? How might it be worse?
What are my traditions or ceremonies around dying?
What do | believe concerning the “spirit world” or the “afterlife”?