Long road winding began in the stars, spilled onto the mountain tops,
was carried in the snow to the streams, to the rivers, to the ocean.
It covers Canada, Alaska, America, Mexico to Guatamala, and keeps
winding around the indigenous. The Red Road is a circle of people
standing hand in hand, people in this world,
people between people in the Spirit world. Star people, animal people, stone
people, river people, tree people...The Sacred Hoop.

To walk the Red Road is to know you stand on equal ground with all living things.
It is to know that because you were born human - it gives you superiority over
nothing.
It is to know that every creation carries a Spirit - and the river knows more
than you do, the mountains know more than you do, the stone people know more
than you do, the trees know more than you do, the wind is wiser than you are,
and animal people carry wisdom.

You can learn from every one of them, because they have something you do not -
They are void of evil thoughts. They wish vengence on no one - they seek Justice.

To Walk the Red Road you have Sacred given rights -
you have the right to pray,
you have the right to dance,
you have the right to think,
you have the right to protect,
you have the right to know the Earth Mother,
you have the right to dream,
you have the right to vision,
you have the right to teach,
you have the right to learn,
you have a right to grieve,
you have a right to happiness,
you have the right to fix the wrongs,
you have the right to truth,
you have a right to the Spirit World.

To Walk the Red Road is to know your Ancestors -to call to them for assistance.
It is to know that there is good medicine -and there is bad medicine.
It is to know that Evil exists -but is cowardly as it is often in disquise.
It is to know there are bad spirits who are in constant watch for a way to gain
strength for themselves - at the expense of you.
To Walk the Red Road you have less fear of being wrong -because you know that
life is a journey, a continuous circle, a sacred hoop.
Mistakes will be made -and mistakes can be corrected - if you will be humble -

for if you cannot be humble, you will never know when you have made a mistake.
If you walk the Red Road you know that every sorrow leads to a better

understanding -every horror cannot be explained, but can offer growth.

To Walk the Red Road is to look for beauty in all things.

To Walk the Red Road is to know that you will one day cross to the Spirit World -
and you will not be afraid...

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