Seven Grandfather Teachings

Smudging Practices and Teachings: for the Family, Home or Office and Teachers in the Classroom. Promote Positive Energy, Cleansing, Healing, Balance and Harmony.

SEVEN GRANDFATHER TEACHINGS

• Here you will learn about Indigenous Wisdom behind the Seven Grandfather Teachings along with stories of Little Feather.
• Seven Grandfather Teachings: An excellent Teaching aid for Teachers in the Classroom, the Home, Family or the Office.
• To know the Teachings of our Grandmothers and Grandfathers who give us direction and balance.
• This is most important for our young children who need to listen, learn and participate.
• We need to take care of Mother Earth and all living things.
• We remember the Teachings of the First Elder who gave us the gifts of knowledge that was received from the Seven Grandfathers.
• Each of the 7 Grandfathers gave people a great gift, which we now call the 7 Grandfather Teachings.
• Indigenous Wisdom used as a helpful guide for Emotional Growth and Development.
• Promoting Cultural awareness towards Indigenous Native American, Teachings and Values.

We all must take care of Mother Earth in order to preserve our home. We all share in this responsibility to make sure that Mother Earth will always be here for future generations. Each morning, we remember to greet our Grandmothers and Grandfathers and give thanks for all we have. We can teach each other how to take care of Mother Earth and each other.
Many people are losing the Teachings given to us, including our young people who need to pray and give thanks for what they have. We need to know the Teachings of our Grandmothers and Grandfathers who give us direction and balance. This is most important for our young children who need to listen, learn and participate.

To need to take care of Mother Earth, the community of life. We remember the Teachings of the First Elder who gave us the gifts of knowledge that was received from the Seven Grandfathers. Each of the 7 Grandfathers gave him a great gift, which we now call the 7 Grandfather Teachings.

The Grandfathers spoke to the young boy, “Each of these Teachings must be used with the rest. You can not have WISDOM without LOVE, RESPECT, BRAVERY, HONESTY, HUMILITY, and TRUTH.
You can not be honest if you use only one or two of the Teachings, and to leave out one is to embrace the opposite of what the Teaching is.”

We should all try to live by the Seven Grandfather Teachings.
Sometimes it may be hard to apply all of them daily, but we must try. If we don’t practice honesty, we cheat. If we don’t practice truth, we will lie. We must go back to the knowledge that the Seven Grandfathers taught the First Elder, who then passed the Teachings on to the next generation, and so on.

The Seven Grandfather Teachings will remind us how to treat one another and our children. Each of us is responsible for children's personal growth and taking care of Mother Earth. The children are the ones who must care for Mother Earth tomorrow, and for the generations to come.

Our Grandmothers play a very important role in the 7 Grandfather Teachings

• Our Tipi represents our Grandmothers, with her dress below her and her arms outstretched to her Grandchildren, and in many ways the Tipi was regarded as a place where our children were educated. By teaching us our values, life skills, language and culture, our Grandmother was a conduit of what kind of person we would become.