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\u201cTell the Truth. Just Tell the Truth, and keep Telling it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n

                                                                –Chief Mel Lone Hill<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Truth be Told<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The ManKind Project, formerly the New Warrior Network, is a nonprofit training corporation with autonomous international regions. The focus of the trainings is emotional literacy for men. You can read more about their programs on their website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Jungian Mythopoetic Background of the New Warrior Network<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first training was in 1985 and approximately 80,000 men have taken the Training since then. In putting together the Training the Founders looked at elements from several cultures and mythological and psychological systems such as Celtic and Native American mythologies as well as archetypal psychology with an eye to creating an initiatory experience\u2014an initiation into a new way of being a man. An initiatory experience is important for the masculine psyche in order to reorganize the system of sentiments of a child into a system of sentiments appropriate to being an adult, i.e., a system of sentiments more focused on service to others than focused on oneself. One of the major goals of the weekend is to inculcate a Mission of Service in the Trainees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Founders encountered a Native American sweat lodge Ceremony offered by Lakota people to the public outside of Madison, Wisconsin, they realized that the fundamental elements\u2014fire and rocks, water and sweat and darkness, elements globally common to the masculine experience\u2014were crucial to completing this reorganization near the end of the training by grounding and purifying the trainees, preparing them to return safely to their families and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Founders, in good faith, changed elements of what they had observed. For example, they changed the structure to plywood sheets held together with hinges and steel cable with turnbuckles, covered in black plastic. They wished to make it clear they were not doing what Indigenous Americans do. They called it a Sweat Cave, and the words spoken by the conductor of the Ceremony were never really formalized. At the time there was no cultural context in which they could have understood that by this behavior they may have been engaging in what is called today \u201ccultural appropriation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Training spread to different cities via Men\u2019s Groups, and the Men\u2019s Movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Spring of 1992 this man, I, Curtis Mitchell, the writer of these words, was approached by a New Warrior from the Washington DC area after a sweat lodge Ceremony in the style commonly known as the All Nations Way.* He offered tobacco wrapped in red cloth and asked me to go through the New Warrior Training and help straighten out how they were conducting the Ceremony, as it was chaotic and people were getting hurt. He said that the way I conducted the Ceremony was closer to the Ceremonies he had experienced while attending Sun Dance on Pine Ridge as a guest and supporter when the Sun Dance was re-emerging from hiding in the early-mid 1960\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 1992 I had been a designated pipe carrier in the lineage of the Lakota Chief Frank Fools Crow, a pipe having been placed in my hands in the summer of 1989 by Fools Crow\u2019s successor as Chief and grandson Chief Mel Lone Hill. I had met Chief Lone Hill in 1985 when he, his family, and Fools Crow himself travelled to the East Coast of the US in order to establish a Sun Dance there in fulfillment of a prophecy that the Sun Dance would be carried to the Four Directions. Chief Lone Hill had, at that time, recognized my authorization to conduct All Nations Lodge Ceremonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I consulted with Chief Lone Hill on the request to go through the New Warrior Training and he confirmed that it was OK for me to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I offer the following quote to establish the position of Chief Fools Crow and Chief Lone Hill on these matters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Power and the Ways are given to us to be passed on to others. To think anything else is pure selfishness. We get more by giving them away, and if we do not give them away, we lose them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                                                               – Chief Frank Fools Crow (Mails 2001:11)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

as quoted by Suzanne Owens in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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