World Council of Elders & Woody Vaspra

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The "International Sun Dance" sponsored by the World Council of Elders is gearing up for its ninth iteration, this time to be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

To support this pay-to-pray event (I won't call it a ceremony) their website includes several buttons to accept donations through paypal to pay for travel, supplies, etc . . . and participation is by invitation only.

"The Ninth Annual International Sundance will be held August 11-15, 2015 in Manitoba, Canada approximately 45 minutes from Winnipeg.  The International Sundance site, on 40 pristine wooded acres of Anishinabeg traditional land, is home to abundant wildlife, and has previously hosted many ceremonies including sweat lodges, fasting, Full Moon and Sundance.   We’re expecting approximately 200-300 participants, including several indigenous Elders from Guatemala, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Canada, U.S.A., and possibly Africa, Asia and South America, at this year’s International Sundance in Manitoba. . ."

http://worldcouncilofelders.org/gatherings/international-sundance/

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shame

[Epiphany]

Some info on Woody Vaspra / Lenwood Henry Vaspra, born 1945:

He did serve in military:

Lenwood Vaspra Second Lieutenant Lenwood H, Vaspra, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Vaspra of Waialua, Hawaii, has been awarded U. S. Air Force silver pilot wings upon graduation at Reese AFB, Tex. Lieutenant Vaspra is being assigned to Griffiss AFB, N. Y., for flying duty with a unit of the Strategic Air Command. He was commissioned in 1968 upon completion of Officers Training School at Lackland AFB, Tex. A 1963 graduate of Kamchameha High School for Boys, the lieutenant earned his BA degree in 1967 from Beloit Wis. College and is a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon. His wife, Cheryl, is the daughter of Mrs. Wallace C. Reid of 2509 Summit Drive, Irving.

1969 http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/51067769/

His father Henry J Vaspra was also military https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8GT-DPD, listed as white.


Kamehameha Schools is for Native Hawaiians "and has excluded all but two non-Hawaiians from attending since 1965." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamehameha_Schools

I believe his Hawaiian ancestry is through his mother, Virginia Maile Vaspra:

Virginia Maile Vaspra, 87, of Waialua, died July 4, 2009. Born in Nawiliwili, Kaua'i. Retired medical secretary for Waialua Plantation Hospital. Survived by sons, Lenwood and Steven; daughters, Antoinette Leahy and Bernadette Vasconcellos; seven grandchildren; a great-grandchild. Visitation 8 to 9:30 a.m. Monday at St. Michael's Catholic Church; Mass 9:30 a.m.; burial 11 a.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Flowers welcome. Aloha attire. Arrangements by Mililani Mortuary.

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2009/Jul/23/ln/hawaii907230355.html