Post by Okwes on Nov 13, 2006 12:29:23 GMT -5
Looking Horse receives Juliet Hollister Award
Posted: October 30, 2006
by: David Melmer / Indian Country Today
David Melmer Indian Country -- Arvol Looking Horse, 19th generation keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe, was recently honored with the Juliet Hollister Award for promoting peace and interfaith and secular understanding by the Temple of Understanding.
NEW YORK - A Lakota who has been elevated to an international peacemaker and spiritual leader has received another award for his efforts to bring world peace.
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th generation keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe, was recently honored with the Juliet Hollister Award for promoting peace and interfaith and secular understanding by the Temple of Understanding.
Past recipients of the award include the Dalai Llama, Queen Noor of Jordan, Nelson Mandela and Ravi Shankar, among others.
The Temple of Understanding is a nongovernmental organization connected to the United Nations that promotes and encourages secular and interfaith understanding throughout the world.
Also receiving the Juliet Hollister Award this year were the late journalist Daniel Pearl, who was executed in Afghanistan, and the Venerable Yifa, a Buddhist nun who is chairman of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of the West, California.
Looking Horse was born on the Cheyenne River Reservation near Green Grass. He was chosen at age 12 to be the 19th generation keeper of the sacred pipe given to the Lakota by the White Buffalo Calf Woman.
The pipe is the driving force that teaches, through Looking Horse, how the Lakota and others of the Great Sioux Nation are to live their lives. While providing spiritual leadership to all of the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota, he is also welcomed throughout different parts of the world to offer his insight on peace.
Looking Horse has led a group of riders from Green Grass to Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation since 1987. This ride is to honor and pray for those who died at the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890 and is often referred to as the Big Foot Ride or the spirit ride. Chief Big Foot led his camp to Wounded Knee at the end of the Ghost Dance era to surrender, but was massacred instead.
Looking Horse acted in accordance with his teachings when, in 1994, a white buffalo calf war born in Wisconsin. He prayed to the four directions according to the ancient traditions of the Lakota on June 21st and now leads the annual World Peace and Prayer Day on the anniversary of that day.
Looking Horse is a world traveler and speaker on the message of peace. He has spoken in Ireland, South Africa, Australia and Japan.
The Temple of Understanding stated that Looking Horse is dedicated to work for change and to ''let the world know how beautiful our way of life is.''
Posted: October 30, 2006
by: David Melmer / Indian Country Today
David Melmer Indian Country -- Arvol Looking Horse, 19th generation keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe, was recently honored with the Juliet Hollister Award for promoting peace and interfaith and secular understanding by the Temple of Understanding.
NEW YORK - A Lakota who has been elevated to an international peacemaker and spiritual leader has received another award for his efforts to bring world peace.
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th generation keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe, was recently honored with the Juliet Hollister Award for promoting peace and interfaith and secular understanding by the Temple of Understanding.
Past recipients of the award include the Dalai Llama, Queen Noor of Jordan, Nelson Mandela and Ravi Shankar, among others.
The Temple of Understanding is a nongovernmental organization connected to the United Nations that promotes and encourages secular and interfaith understanding throughout the world.
Also receiving the Juliet Hollister Award this year were the late journalist Daniel Pearl, who was executed in Afghanistan, and the Venerable Yifa, a Buddhist nun who is chairman of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of the West, California.
Looking Horse was born on the Cheyenne River Reservation near Green Grass. He was chosen at age 12 to be the 19th generation keeper of the sacred pipe given to the Lakota by the White Buffalo Calf Woman.
The pipe is the driving force that teaches, through Looking Horse, how the Lakota and others of the Great Sioux Nation are to live their lives. While providing spiritual leadership to all of the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota, he is also welcomed throughout different parts of the world to offer his insight on peace.
Looking Horse has led a group of riders from Green Grass to Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation since 1987. This ride is to honor and pray for those who died at the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890 and is often referred to as the Big Foot Ride or the spirit ride. Chief Big Foot led his camp to Wounded Knee at the end of the Ghost Dance era to surrender, but was massacred instead.
Looking Horse acted in accordance with his teachings when, in 1994, a white buffalo calf war born in Wisconsin. He prayed to the four directions according to the ancient traditions of the Lakota on June 21st and now leads the annual World Peace and Prayer Day on the anniversary of that day.
Looking Horse is a world traveler and speaker on the message of peace. He has spoken in Ireland, South Africa, Australia and Japan.
The Temple of Understanding stated that Looking Horse is dedicated to work for change and to ''let the world know how beautiful our way of life is.''