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Editor's Note:
This is another way of explaining how two Shriner leaders pushed hard for continued contracts with one fund-raising company that pocketed $43 million out of the nearly $47 million raised on behalf of the burned and crippled children. The original article "Internal Shriner Report Confirms Corruption?" can be read here.
Thank you,
Sandy Frost
Starbucks, WA
The point is to get the Grandfathers, as I would call them, to focus on their primary purpose and that is to be role models for the young men so they, can in turn, do what is best for the clan.
The other purpose is to be role models for the young men so they can learn how to treat their women.
As long as the Grandmothers and Grandfathers honor the sacred ways that have survived through time, the people will survive.
Sacred ways are as individual as each of us, but they are still sacred and if we honor them, we can discover our purposes and live it with passion.
This is why we are here.
Today, we have some of these Grandfathers, these senior men in their 60's and 70's and beyond, abusing their own by taking advantage of them.
This happened to my Alaska Native corporation. One leader got so greedy with spontaneous misappropriation, it nearly ruined us.
So corruption hits home.
How wrong to take from your own.
One day, a Grandmother picked up a child who fell in a fire and got burned so badly that the neighboring tribes were called for a pot latch. Or a "give away."
Here, things would be gathered to trade for the services of the healers to help the burned child.
For days, everyone danced around the blankets and put their offerings on them. Everyone gave without expecting anything in returrn, for the only purpose was in the giving.
The piles on the blankets got higher and higher until they had 47 full blankets.
This was enough to pay for the healers to help many hurt children.
The Grandfathers of the boy's tribe gathered and kept the offerings off of 43 blankets.
They give the burned child's family the offerings off of three blankets.
The Grandfathers then shared the offerings with other Grandfathers who allowed this.
When the people found out, the Grandfathers were punished for stealing from the burned child.
Those in charge of the blankets were then forever watched by others who wanted what was best for the next seven generations.
And the people continued to survive.
Aho.
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