Lakota Way

English 100-13 21 October 2009 Family Virtues Virtues ar usually taught through the eyes of the wise, withal kat oncen as the elder. In the phonograph recording The Lakota Way, by Joseph M. marshal III, his tribe acquirees virtues though story telling. The virtues of the Lakota tribe and those of my family are more than similar then I had anticipated, although we do stimulate our differences. The Lakota Way, stories and lessons for living, is a book written in 2001 by Joseph M. Marshall III. Marshall dedicates his book to Kimberly Jo Schumidt and Joseph N.Marshall II. The stories he tells through out(p) his book are those that imbibe been passed eat from his family slightly the Lakotas and their virtues. Marshalls stories are based on moral philosophy and virtues. While reading chapter 3, Respect, of The LakotaWay I came to comment several similarities between my familys assure and the Lakotas view. Koskalaka is a young man, in this chapter, who goes out hunting in the woodland and stumbles across the deer Woman whom his grandma had told him about.His grandm early(a) had menti hotshotd that she knew a man who was neer home because the cervid Woman took him, so he should avoid her as much as possible. The Lakotas are trying to teach take none to young Koskalaka. They are covering him that you should honour your family and those around you because one daytime you can lose it all. Like the Lakotas, my family has been taught respect through are generations. My family has taught us that family tots front and we must respect each other and ourselves. They cause said that if we do not respect ourselves then neither are we respecting our family name.I asked my mom what respect was when I was junior and she said,respect is not something to just piddle away around with, you should always give pot the respect they deserve and treat plurality the way that you would like to be treated. You shouldnt offensive activity people and always keep in mind how you would feel if someone were to offense me the way that you are disrespecting them. I took her voice communication to heart and learn a blue-chip lesson that day, so much so that now when I see someone disrespecting some other I feel the need to intervene.In The Lakota Way, Koskalaka meets the cervid woman and remembers what his grannie had told him and out of respect he declines her tempting offer to go with her. Just like Koskalaka respects his elder grandmother my siblings also have learned that we must respect people and more the elder. In the Lakota tribe, the grandmother said that when the Deer Woman takes them into her lodge she has sex with them save, when they stir the deer woman is no seven-day there leaving the man vacuous of his family and in search of the Deer Woman.Unlike the Lakotas, my family has bygone out and seen their own type of deer woman wether it be with drugs, sex, or lies, but never have they forgotten about the rest of us. My famil y has learned to embrace one another when they have fallen into temptation, where the Lakotas would sum up them out. My relatives have gone through many a(prenominal) hardships and difficult situations but the morals have set into our heads like Koskalakas grandmother set into his head. The many men whom the Deer Woman lured into her lodge lost land up contact with their families and thus themselves.They left their familys worried about where they could be and what could be happening to them. The men became selfish and inconsiderate, andno longer showing the respect and help that they should have been showing to their family because of the Deer Woman. non-homogeneous to the men and woman of The Lakota Way, our morals have been embroiled into our minds that family should always come first, disregardless of the over all out come in any situation.The Lakotas virtues confront virtues through story telling oppose to my family who teaches morals through real manner example. They tell us stories of hardships one of our relatives have gone through and what we have to do to avoid situations like that. The stories of respect in The Lakota Way are similar to those of my familys. The Lakotas are very virtues people who set their family and respect themselves just like the family of my own.