From: thejumpyone@gmail.com   
      
   hi, i don't know you but i noticed some things in your friends statements that   
   kinda bothered me.    
   i never understood this idea of workshops. i wasn't taught in workshops. i was   
   taught by late night conversations, cups of coffee, a shared cigarette with   
   someone who wanted to share something with me. it was personal. it was lovely.   
   it was feeling that    
   from generation to generation, i was being handed parts of a story to carry   
   with me.    
      
   i am not Anishinabe, so i dont know their ways. but i did read some of this   
   man's writings. i have seen some of the books. i kept one for a while because   
   a friend told me i had to see it. i kept in on a shelf besides a lot of books   
   that treat the subject    
   of spirit in a better way. i was always concerned when anyone would be   
   attracted to that book. any book that has chapters and quizzes in the back is   
   something that does not represent what i learned.   
      
   just my opinion but i think that your friend needs to not use this to   
   influence another generation of our children. better that they learn by the   
   fire, or in a sweat, or with their mothers, aunts, dads and uncles, and   
   family.    
      
   oh, and its once to see names on this tread i have not seen in a while. i had   
   my own thing to do for a time.hope no one minds me being back.   
      
   jumpybird (now on decaf and ultra-lights)   
      
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