Native Americans

Last night my husband shared about the Native Americans, on how their boys were trained in entering manhood. He said that a tribe of Native Americans, or what we commonly call Indians, had a unique way of training young boys entering into manhood. At the age of thirteen, the boy was blindfolded and led into a dense forest. For miles, he walked not knowing where his elders were taking him. Once deep into darkness of the woods, he was left alone the whole night. All by himself. The boy surely would be very scared with so many imaginations. Every movement in the shadows was a wild beast searching for his prey.

But finally, after many hours that the boy waited in pitch darkness, the first rays of the dawn would break. And to the young boy’s astonishment, right behind him, he would see his father standing on a rock, with bow and arrow in hand. He had been there all along, watching over his son.

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