https://matotipila.org Updates from Bunny Sings Wolf https://matotipila.org/blog/tending-our-sacred-indigenous-healing-community-room https://matotipila.org/blog/tending-our-sacred-indigenous-healing-community-room <div>Like the sacred buffalo hunt, our Community Room needs careful tending so it can nourish us all. Here&rsquo;s how we can share in ways that feed the whole circle.</div>]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 -0600 https://matotipila.org/blog/no-more-chains-walking-free-of-the-fear-that-was-never-real https://matotipila.org/blog/no-more-chains-walking-free-of-the-fear-that-was-never-real <div>This week I&rsquo;m handing my house keys to strangers and leaving nearly everything inside. Writing this post, I finally understood why. The fear of death has never stopped anyone from dying. It has only ever stopped people from living.</div>]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:30:00 -0600 https://matotipila.org/blog/what-the-sovereign-owe-the-circle https://matotipila.org/blog/what-the-sovereign-owe-the-circle <div style="margin-left:0in;" data-pasted="true">Self-governance exists so that the circle doesn&rsquo;t have to govern you. A Lakota grandmother on the Akichita riders, a red-tailed hawk, a Chris Stapleton song, and why you cannot be free alone.</div><div><br></div>]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0600 https://matotipila.org/blog/who-is-the-one-asking-sovereignty https://matotipila.org/blog/who-is-the-one-asking-sovereignty <div>A Lakota grandmother woke with a question that changed everything: What am I&mdash;not who, but what? Here&rsquo;s where it led, and what a red-tailed hawk taught her about sovereignty.</div>]]> Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0600 https://matotipila.org/blog/what-fair-trade-actually-means-reciprocity-not-money https://matotipila.org/blog/what-fair-trade-actually-means-reciprocity-not-money <div><strong>When I was five, my grandmother drew a circle in the mud and taught me that everything is medicine. It cost her dearly. Here is what that day taught me about fair trade, reciprocity, and why abundance must flow both ways.</strong></div>]]> Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0600 https://matotipila.org/blog/calling-all-healers https://matotipila.org/blog/calling-all-healers <div>The circle is calling healers to become Wayshowers. The training in Nature&#39;s 4 Steps of Healing is free, walked on your own time and with your own commitment, and the Founding Circle of the Circle Medicine Bundle Library is forming now.</div>]]> Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0500 https://matotipila.org/blog/i-changed-one-thing-wyoming-did-the-rest https://matotipila.org/blog/i-changed-one-thing-wyoming-did-the-rest <div data-pasted="true">For forty years I ate carefully, by the best information I had. Then I changed one thing. Nearly 78 and more grateful than ever to live in Wyoming, I&#39;m sharing what happened next, and the secret Wyoming has been keeping all along.</div><div><br></div>]]> Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:30:00 -0600 https://matotipila.org/blog/black-hills-4-beyond-the-press-release-what-real-unity-looks-like-and-where-it-actually-comes-from https://matotipila.org/blog/black-hills-4-beyond-the-press-release-what-real-unity-looks-like-and-where-it-actually-comes-from <div>News of &nbsp;&quot;land back&quot; makes headlines and then fades. Real unity &mdash; the kind Crazy Horse saw, the kind that survives disappointment after disappointment &mdash; doesn&#39;t come from announcements, legislation, or councils. It comes from somewhere quieter, and it has been forming long before any of those institutions existed, and will keep forming long after this week&#39;s news cycle is forgotten.</div>]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600 https://matotipila.org/blog/black-hills-series-3-the-law-is-ready-the-hearts-must-follow https://matotipila.org/blog/black-hills-series-3-the-law-is-ready-the-hearts-must-follow <div>The Law Is Ready. The Hearts Must Follow. — Black Hills Series, Part 3. A seller of land can only transfer title to the extent he possesses it. That legal truth has been documented for decades — and changed nothing. Part 3 of the Black Hills series asks why, and names something no courtroom, treaty, or legal brief has been willing to say plainly.</div>]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600 https://matotipila.org/blog/black-hilla-2-living-in-he-sapa-black-hills-grief-and-grace https://matotipila.org/blog/black-hilla-2-living-in-he-sapa-black-hills-grief-and-grace <div>What does it feel like to live every day in a place that carries this much beauty and this much grief at the same time? To wake up nine miles from a sacred stone, on land that was taken, in a body descended from people who refused to forget — and refused to let bitterness become the whole story? This is what it feels like. And it might be what healing the land actually requires.</div>]]> Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:30:00 -0600