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As Floyd
Hand tells it, a beautiful lady in a rainbow colored dress
appeared to him in a vivid dream May 1997 and said she soon
would bring a message of peace and unity to mankind.
Statement by Floyd Hand
Nothing is more real than the woman's
superiority.
It is they who really maintain the tribe, the nobility of
blood, the geological
tree, the order of generations and conservation of families.
In them resides all the real authority: the lands, the fields
and all their harvest
belong to them; they are the soul of the councils, the
arbiters of peace and war,
they hold all the taxes and public treasure; it is to them
that the slaves are entrusted;
they arrange the marriages; the children are under their
authority; and the order of succession is founded on THEIR
blood....
The Council of Elders which transacts all the business does
not work for itself.
It seems that they serve only to represent and aid the women
in the matters in which decorum does not permit the latter to
appear or act....
The women choose their chiefs among their maternal brothers or
their own children.
Quote
Father Joseph-Francois Lafitau
Customs of the American Indians
compared with the Customs of Primitive Times (1712)
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Suzanne Dupree
also known as
Looking Back Woman
whose father
Calvin Dupree
was bestowed the
C'anupa Wakan
( Sacred Ceremonial Calf Pipe )
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