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Various photos....

Before and after Eagle Dance, Atahuna Ceremonies, August, 2005, Buffalo, Texas.
(Photos By Elaine Stonehorse Nowell).

Preparing for Deer Ceremony, Green Corn Festival in Texas,
May 2005 (Photo By Elaine Stonehorse Nowell).

Ceremony at Green Corn Festival in Texas in 2004
(Photo by Johnnie Two Feathers Penny).

Doing release of trapped spirits/lost souls ceremony on burial mound in Texas,
2004 (Photo By Elaine Stonehorse Nowell).

This is an interesting photo.
I didn't know someone was taking a picture of me while creating sacred ground for ceremony
(blessing the ground with tobacco and sage) in April 2005, at the Ceremonial Grounds
in Texas.

Later, when the person downloaded his photos on his computer from his digital camera,
it came up as here, with "something" in the frame. "Hmmm. Must have water on the lens,
" he said. But he had taken photos of other people immediately before and after and there
was no "water" on the lens. He made me a CD of the photos and I downloaded it, enlarged
the "something" and rotated it (below). It appears my Bear Spirit was helping me. :-)

This was taken immediately after a Bear Dance
with the Bear Clan Medicine Society in Russellville, Ark.,
in March, 2005 (Photo By Gayle Sexauer).

Giving a talk on "Riding The Drum In Prayer" at Manataka, 2004.
Notice the very attentive dog person. :-) (Photo By Kathy Einwich)

Visiting with Lee Standing Bear Moore at Manataka,
2004 (Photo By Kathy Einwich).

Medicine Wheel Ceremony on Mississippi Gulf Coast 2004 (Photo by Kathy Einwich).
Even though we were far away,
I was most honored to be designated an ambassador for ceremony
on the Coast as part of the 600-Mile Medicine Wheel organized by
Shoshone Elder Bennie LeBeau emanating from the Grand Tetons.
Our ceremony focused on bringing the element of water
to cool the fires of the Earth in the Mountain region.
We had good attendance; folks on the Coast said nothing
like that had ever happened there.
Obtaining the necessary permits was something of a miracle in itself.
While doing the ceremony, dolphins came to the shore
-- a very rare treat -- and formed a Medicine Wheel of their own.
(See "Calling In The Divine Feminine..."
and "The Alphabet of the Star Beings, Dolphins & Whales,"
which we incorporated into the ceremony).

At The Bear Lodge (Asi/Inipi) in Lena, 2004
(Photo By Elaine Stonehorse Nowell)

Trying on a kimono
-- it was a gift from a student who came all the way from Japan to Lena, Miss.,
to take Reiki lessons.
I told him, "You know, there are plenty of Reiki Masters in Japan,"
but he said, "No, I want to learn from you.
" I was most honored. You know, Lena, population 289
(including a few dogs and cats, I presume, and perhaps a chicken or two)
is one of those places that even in Mississippi,
you don't go to Lena unless you're going to Lena.
It's not near anywhere (50 miles from the capital, Jackson)
or even on the way to anywhere.
Frankly, that's the way I like it.
But people do manage to come here from all over.
As a friend pointed out: Notice the moccasins.
(Photo By Elaine Stonehorse Nowell.)

With William Lee Rand of the International Center For Reiki Training,
Detroit, Mich., 2002.

Annette Waya Ewing --
We were married in a traditional Native American wedding ceremony October 15, 2005,
at the Manataka American Indian Council Fall Gathering; photo below, a wedding picture.

For more wedding pictures, see: Wedding

Annette doing a project. (Being an artist, she's handy with things, I'm not!)

Me after driving all night long, 16 hours straight, to go from one ceremony to another. (Photo By Annette Waya Ewing.)

At a truck stop along the Interstate somewhere in the dead of night.
We had just stopped at a Wal-Mart that was open all night to buy corn meal to do ceremony
with which to greet the dawn.
I was the only customer. Guess not many folks come in at 3:12 a.m. to buy cornmeal.
I thought it fitting that Coyote would be there. :-)
(Photo By Annette Waya Ewing.)

The Mother Mound of the Choctaw near my home (Photo By Jim PathFinder Ewing).
I do a lot of ceremony/prayer there. (See "Song of Woableza: A Prophecy.")

These are the Quanah Medicine Mounds in Texas,
where I've done some ceremony -- and would like to do a lot more, but it's in private hands.
Wherever I go, I do ceremony, for the land, for the Spirits of the land.
Even in cities. When I was in Detroit, for example,
I was staying in a skyscraper and woke each morning to "Drum up the Sun," facing east.
On the first day, a seagull came; on the second, a hawk; on the third, an eagle.
The Earthly Mother is beneath the concrete and steel and Her energy pervades everything --
one could do ceremony in a jetliner, for that matter.
Earth energy is everywhere. What do you think keeps you in your seat?
(Photo By Jim PathFinder Ewing.) See: "Grounding, Centering & Shielding."

White Sage Atop Black Mesa, 2003, on Oklahoma/New Mexico border 
(Photo By Jim PathFinder Ewing). See "Climbing The Mountain..."