Interview Clips from the Last Ghost Dancer

First Interview: Sidney Hasnohorses Introduction

Interview Clips: Peyote, Spiritual Doubt, Family Conflict, and Indigenous Way of Life

 

Interview Clips – Medicine Man: Consciousness in the Plant and Animal Nations

Interview Clips, Lakota Medicine Man: Spirit Travel and visitations from the World Behind his One

Interview Clips: Kitchen Table Talks – Hunting, Humor, & Hallucinogens

Interview Clips – Lakota Medicine Man Reveals both his Sordid and Profoundly Spiritual Past

Interview Clip : Professor Dale Stover on Lakota Religious Identity & cultural conflicts.

Interview Clips: Peyote, Spiritual Doubt, Family Conflict, and Indigenous Way of Life

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From the Pine Ridge Reservation, to Kickstarter, & Antarctica: An Odyssey of Indie-Documentary Filmmaking.

What began as a character study of a complicated, mystical, Oglala Lakota Medicine Man became a “slow-motion collision between ancient and modern minds.” 

Six years ago the filmmakers were granted an  interview for a short educational film. We never thought it would leed to performing the Vision Quest and Sun Dance Ceremonies for four-years.

But the ancient rituals of suffering, prayer, and gratitude added several layers of depth and intensity to the overall experience,  becoming a six-year long exploration of an ancient religion surviving the modern age.

And Medicine Man, Sidney Hasnohorses, never spared the gory details about growing up in one of the poorest, most violent counties in the country. He was brutally honest about his own past, openly revealing character flaws and inter-generational trauma.

But this documentary was an unlikely occurrence, the director, Salvatore Consalvi, was hip deep in another documentary, Deep Field Antarctica, about the remote and isolated experience managing field camps in the highest, driest, loneliest place on earth. For a time, he entertained finishing both projects at once. Yet returning exhausted from a hot water drill camp on the glacier tongue of Pine Island Glacier to performing the most rigorous Lakota rituals that included fasting and traditional flesh offerings proved too much.

Now, the experience has progressed from the spiritual identity of one religious leader to a deeper understanding of mind and consciousness, one consistent with many earth-based religions, and translatable to many modern-minds. And the filmmakers are deep into a Kickstarter Campaign that will fund post-production and tell this story of Ancient Wisdom, Modern Torment, Quantum Consciousness, and a Link to the Spirit World.

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Prairie-Ice Director: Thoughts on Religious and Indigenous Identity

Many sources depict the spiritual identity of ancient indigenous people as existing on a spectrum; not fixed in time or space. Unlike a modern religious experience . . . fixated on one profit, messiah, or incarnation, they fluidly exist within a continuum of spiritual wisdom. This may be true of Sidney, who’s beliefs flow seamsly between Christian and Ancestral.

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Documentary Still In Progress: After a short break that is . . .

After returning from a great trip to Portland and Seattle I was drawn into some much needed Environmental Consulting work.

As a result, I’ve been very lax with the #SocialMedia projects begun after the Digital Professional Institute classwork, but plan to get back up and running.

I have not stopped work on the project however and though I do not consider the reading I do to be strictly “research”, I have continued  to find and read fantastic books from dedicated scholars that will no doubt influence the final edit of the film.

The latest is “American Holocaust” by David Stannard. In painting an accurate, well researched picture of the cultural landscape Europeans found when they arrived, and the practices they employed against them, I can better explore and understand the concept of #intergenerational trauma.

When finished I will return to more spiritual topics with Sacred Language by  William Powers and “The Ghost Dance Religion” by James Mooney; but for now the truth of our greatest cultural horror; honestly and professionally presented by an exceptional scholar; has begun to affect my thoughts and dreams concerning this #Documentary project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stannard

American Holocaust: Wikapedia

Stannard’s research on the indigenous peoples of North and South America (including Hawaii)^[1] has produced the conclusion that Native Americans had undergone the “worst human holocaust the world had ever witnessed, roaring across two continents non-stop for four centuries and consuming the lives of countless tens of millions of people.

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Salvatore Consalvi and Brigitte Timmerma

Salvatore Consalvi and Brigitte Timmerman are the primary Filmmakers on the Documentary in Progress Sidney Has No Horses: Oglala Lakota Medicine Man.

Over four years ago they met Sidney and a small, relatively unknown group of traditional Oglala Lakota people in South Dakota.

From the beginning, they were amazed to learn that Sidney has direct spiritual ties to some of the most famous Warriors and Holy Men of the last 2 centuries.

So they were soon immersed in Sidney’s teachings, in their own research, and in the Four-Main Ceremonies themselves.

This first interview was intense and began a journey into the indigenous world-view.

Please enjoy the trailer . . .

http://ow.ly/BbiZu http://ow.ly/i/6NGrB

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Playing with our Images

After five years from first meeting and interviewing Sidney Hasnohorse, we will begin populating the blog with images and graphics generated from the Documentary in Progress.

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First Blog Post for Sidney Has No Horses

You have found the first Blog Post from Salvatore Consalvi, Director of the ‘Documentary in Progress’ Sidney Has No Horses: Oglala Lakota Medicine Man.

The project is a continuing investigation (five years and counting) of the Wakpamni Lake Oglala Lakota Ceremony Circle led by the authentic, controversial, if not iconic, Medicine Man, Sidney Has No Horses.

These blog-posts, associated tweets, Facebook posts, newsletters, and YouTube uploads will tell the story of a Lakota lineage of medicine men and warriors leading up to our discovery of Sidney. It will describe his brutally authentic ceremonies. It will portray an unbroken cultural lineage that maintains an extremely mystical Earth-based religion and the indigenous mind that has survived the corporate age.

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