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I accept this into my life now in the manner in which it should unfold for my highest good and for the highest good of all concerned... i want people to find peace,hope,rebirth,unity,love,light,life and love,i want that myself as well,i ask for great healing of the body mind and soul,i want to study medicine of the old ways-i am a very natural person,i love children,and i want to see others achieve the good things in life want me and others to find true happiness and peace inside and out,i belong with others not placed out some where by myself,i like to give ,make things for others,in doing so i know that it will come back to me as the great spirit wishes,and that is karma I Will to Will thy Will.

Read about our new home project: Rainbow Powers Center Calendars Locations Red Lodge Vision Lineage Study Groups Reading Room Deer Tracks Bookstore WITS Rites of Passage Just out! Intend your life. See our Bookstore for details. In 2005 the Deer Tribe Metis Medicine Society began a drive to manifest a Spirit House of Beauty for our Path and for DTMMS. The growing numbers of our expanding community of apprentices world-wide make it necessary for us to invest in a larger facility. Over the past four years, we have been steadily increasing the overall number of apprentices. In addition, as we prepare to reach out to the greater collective of seekers, we seek a space that reflects beauty and the heart of the teachings. We have powerful tools for balance and healing that the world needs right now. The rites of passage is an example. We have the materials; we are training the teachers. It is time for a stable home that can handle the expansion. In March of 2006, on the 20th anniversary of DTMMS' incorporation, we purchased our new home! We are now in the process of converting this property into a community gathering place. Current plans will give us three large classrooms, spacious administrative offices, and storage, along with a dojo and large meeting space. Rainbow Powers Center?!? What happened to the Spirit House of Beauty? Janneke sheds light on the transition: Our inspiration early in our fund-raising process was to find a "spirit house of beauty" - a home that truly fit the vision of our Deer Tribe, that could hold the power of our lineage and the creativity of living it today. Of course, the name caught on! We began to refer to the new home as the Spirit House of Beauty. Soon after we found our new property, the Elders reminded us that the lineage name for the Deer Tribe's home was coined many, many years ago: the Rainbow Powers Center. Our move to purchase a permanent home has been a move toward the fulfillment of this vision. We have a dream and it is dreaming us - even as we are dreaming it! The "spirit house of beauty" grows up as the Rainbow Powers Center. Also see this special teaching on Abundance from Thunder Strikes. How you can help We are still raising funds and seeking contributions of all kinds to complete this project. All donations - of time, talents, energy and money - are appreciated. Click here for a flyer and donation form. DTMMS is a 501c(3) not-for-profit organization, so monetary donations are tax deductible as permitted by law. If you have any questions, regarding this project or DTMMS, please contact us at any time. Karen is the contact person for all communications. You can reach her as noted below. Sincerely, Karen Krauss and Janneke Koole Email: swmedicine@cox.net Intend abundance into your life and support the RPC with RPC coin and candle mesas! Gold Horse active wear! T-shirts, tank tops, caps, book bags and more – now available on the Sweet Medicine Shoppe web site. All proceeds go to the RPC fund. Fundraising Currently: $373,000 Target: $750,000 Calendars | Locations | Red Lodge Vision | Lineage | Study Groups | Main Doorways Reading Room | DeerTracks Newsletter | Bookstore WITS | Rites of Passage | Donations Information about DTMMS: info@dtmms.org . Technical issues: webmaster@dtmms.org . © 1997-2008 (including graphics) The Deer Tribe Metis Medicine Society, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Bikers for Bear Butte! This is for bikers that support our cause and stand behind us in the protection of Bear Butte, just outside Sturgis, SD We KNOW YOU respect Bear Butte and will stand by our side, in this struggle! We ask our biker brothers and sisters to help us PROTECT our SACRED MOUNTAIN. We are asking that all "BIKERS FOR BEAR BUTTE" come together with Indian people to help us enact a buffer zone around Bear Butte and to help us inform all your brother and sister Bikers of the issue. Saturday, April 26, 2008 Message to "Bikers for Bear Butte" This letter is to all those well-meaning bikers who participate in the Sturgis Bike Rally in South Dakota, in August. We believe that the majority of you are not aware of the destruction the rally is causing to one of Indian peoples' most sacred sites, Bear Butte. Very few non-Indians know that for many centuries all the Tribes of the Great Plains worshipped and conducted sacred ceremonies at Bear Butte. It is a place for quiet prayers of thanksgiving and for seeking spiritual guidance with ancient ceremonies. The spring and summer months through August, is when the Tribes travel to Bear Butte to conduct their annual ceremonies. These prayers and ceremonies do not stop simply because the rally has started. For the past few years there has been a continual encroachment of bars and venues heading towards the sacred mountain. Since the arrival of Sturgis County Line and other venues next to Bear Butte, traditional people are forced to pray with loud music from bars, mufflers and flashing strobe lights over the mountain, instead of praying in peace. In April 2008, Sturgis County Line announced they will be opening year-round and hosting many events throughout the summer. This will make it virtually impossible to pray in peace all summer long. Most of you are probably unaware that returning Indian veterans of wars since before World War 1, have made their way to the sacred mountain to pray, fast and give thanks for their safe return. Most veterans wouldn't know that the Cheyenne Nation conducted ceremonies on Bear Butte during WW1, WW2, Korea and Viet Nam to insure the victory for American forces. Bear Butte is where our young men and women go to fast, to learn and to test themselves for adulthood. Bear Butte is where our holy men and women have gone to seek spiritual knowledge for as long as our tribal memories can see into the past. Even today in this new millennium, Bear Butte continues to be central to the spiritual and ceremonial lives of over thirty Indian Nations. Indian people are becoming desperate to preserve even small portions of our once peaceful and remote, sacred places across America. We ARE NOT trying to close or stop the Sturgis Bike Rally, or even interfere with all the various things that go on there. We are asking that the Federal, State and Local governments enact and enforce a buffer zone around Bear Butte, to restrict the sale of booze within the zone, make sure concerts and other extraneous noise, are kept away from the Mountain. To us that seems very minimal and reasonable, but our words have fallen on deaf ears once again and the county and state are allowing more and more destruction to happen--always closer to Bear Butte. It must be stopped. It is now our hope that we can turn to the customers of the bike rally, the bikers themselves, to ask that they help us in our efforts. We ask all bikers to help us make attendees of the Sturgis Bike Rally, aware of our request and to help us encourage all the booze and concert venues too close to Bear Butte, to close down and move away. We are asking that all bikers boycott the "Broken Spoke Saloons" until they withdraw their bar away from Bear Butte! We are asking that all "BIKERS FOR BEAR BUTTE" come together with Indian people to help us enact a buffer zone around Bear Butte and to help us inform all your brother and sister Bikers of the issue. We pray there, we receive healing and learn our ancient ways of life there. We KNOW YOU respect Bear Butte and will stand by our side, in this struggle! We ask our biker brothers and sisters to help us PROTECT our SACRED MOUNTAIN. HOW YOU CAN HELP AS A “BIKER FOR BEAR BUTTE” • We would like to ask all Bikers for Bear Butte, to NOT patronize the “Sturgis County Line” Broken Spoke Campground, adjacent to Bear Butte! • Help us spread the word throughout the biker community! Help us support a “buffer zone” around Bear Butte! • Don’t ride 79! If you must, please be respectful and keep noise to a minimum, drive slowly while passing the area of Bear Butte. For more information about our struggle, please visit us at http://bikersforbearbutte.blogspot.com or www.ProtectBearButte.com Posted by Tamra at 3:26 PM 2 comments Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) As a Biker, Do you support our cause in protecting Bear Butte? Supportive Biker Links * Bikers Mag Protect Bear Butte Website * Protect Bear Butte Contact Us! * Contact Us Blog Archive * ▼ 2008 (1) o ▼ April (1) + Message to "Bikers for Bear Butte"