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Assistant U.S. Attorney General Kent Frizzell, right, listens to AIM leaders prior to signing of a peace settlement on April 5, 1973. One of them appears to be handing off a Talking Stick.

Talking Stick and Feather: Indigenous Tools Hold Sacred Power of Free Speech

Joan Tavares Avant

10/4/15

Works Cited

Cronbaugh, Phillis. ( 2010) The Talking Stick: Guarantee You Are Understood and Not Just Heard. Ray, Mo, USA. Dancing on the Edge LLC

David James Audlin (Distant Eagle) (2005) Circle of Life: Traditional Teachings of Native American Elders. Santa Fe, New Mexico Clear Light Publishing

http://iteslj.org/Techniques?Fujioka-TalkingStick.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_stick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_circle

http://talking-feather.com/home/the-legend-of-the-talking-feather/

Personal Interview with Chief Silent Drum-Vernon Lopez & Joan Tavares Avant-Deer Clan Mother July 27, 2015.

http://www.drstandley.com/nativeamerican_talking_circles.shtml

MehL-Medina-Lewis,MD, Mainguy, Barbara (2014). Introducing Healing Circles and Talking Circles into Primary Care. The Permanente Journal Spring 18 (2): 4-9

Ridgeway J, Sharon & Jacques J. Peter (2014) The Power of the Talking Stick: Indigenous Politicks and the World Ecological Crises. Boulder London Paradigm Publishers

John Peters, (Slow Turtle) (February 1, 1979) Friends Journal Vol. 25, N0.3