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    <title>The waves of change within my life...</title>
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      <name>Tonya</name>
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    <updated>2008-08-21T02:11:47Z</updated>
    <published>2008-07-13T16:38:09Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Hello to my dear family, 
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&lt;br/&gt;I've been away for far too long, but during my journey I've managed to finally find myself. My health is still holding onto miracle status and the said to be incurable is still vanished from my body. In fact, I look and feel better than I have in years... SMILES. 
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&lt;br/&gt;I've met a man, whom I am sure is my soul mate...he is educated, kind and loving,... this Cherokee man has changed my whole life. He brings me balance with just a few words and has sparked my dreams and hopes for the future. We are currently working on beginning a Ministry of Universal Faith. This will be a place where all are welcome and the knowledge that we are all family and although we walk different paths… we are ONE, will be shared. We hope to find the funding to purchase an old motel and transform one of the additional buildings into our chapel. We plan to live in the caretaker's quarters and use a couple of the rooms as Gift Shops where we will sell his wood working and my craft items. Eventually we will also begin a food pantry to assist the people in the town where I live. One room we will transform into a honeymoon suite, the other rooms will be used to support us and our ministry. When needed, we will also allow those who have found themselves hard on luck or homeless to stay while they rebuild their lives. To have a ministry has been my dream for a very long time... and now Spirit has crossed my path with a wonderful man who has also held this dream for quite some time. 
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&lt;br/&gt;During my illness, I began to focus on a small path along the lake that was filled with butterflies. In fact, it was home to Every butterfly species in our area. This was my sanctuary and where I spent most of my time talking to Spirit, instead of thinking about the awful virus and even worse chemo treatment that I was enduring. This little path was Spirit’s reminder to me that transformation can be hard, but I was to learn from the butterflies… care for them… and learn to spread my wings and FLY. My butterfly garden is doing well this year... I was very concerned about the butterflies because last year the numbers were SOOOO low, but this year the garden is alive with my little winged friends. As I walk the path of the garden I notice how all the seeds that I planted that seamed to not take last year, are now in abundance. The small rare and protected Karner Blue butterflies now flutter all around me as I walk the path as do the little cabbage white and crescent butterflies. I've begun to see more and more of the beautiful black swallowtails over the past few days and now await the arrival of the yellow swallowtails and monarchs. I hope to also be blessed with the large purple spotted butterflies (the largest breed in our area 6" across), they should all be back by the end of the month... at least I pray they will. It seams that every time I enter into another period of Spiritual blessings, this path becomes alive to remind me that Spirit walks with me… and that it is a time for transformation. This time is no different. I sing out to Spirit and give thanks… for the love and lessons offered through this little sanctuary that most only see as a weed filled path beside the lake… SMILES.  
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&lt;br/&gt;All in all, I feel truly blessed and now know that all the hard times that I've endured... were simply to make room for the new that was needed in my life. 
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&lt;br/&gt;I'll keep you all informed of what the future brings. 
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&lt;br/&gt;xoxo... Tonjha (aka Dove) 
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    <title>Black Butterfly moon or nut moon Cherokee</title>
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      <name>TATT2</name>
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    <updated>2008-06-12T13:06:05Z</updated>
    <published>2008-06-12T13:06:05Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Black Butterfly moon or nut moon Cherokee what are some of the rituals based on this moon. &lt;/div&gt;
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  <entry>
    <title>Decendants of  Sitting Bull And CrazyHorse.</title>
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      <name>PsiRyn_bite_me</name>
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    <updated>2008-05-24T09:25:51Z</updated>
    <published>2007-12-20T18:53:47Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVC1KMTOgwiSoMQyT2LwZc9HyAgA
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    <dc:date>2007-12-20T18:53:47Z</dc:date>
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    <title>book launch and workshop tour</title>
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      <name>Morning Star</name>
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    <updated>2008-04-20T00:35:11Z</updated>
    <published>2008-04-20T00:35:11Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Well it is really happening, I have my ticket and preparing to leave, selling everything I own to make this happn, travelling on wings of faith and trust as I jump off the precipice of security into the world. I am embarking on a tour to promote my new limited edition, full colour, self published book - 'Making Medicine Tools &amp;amp; Ceremonial Art' and teach workshops from it, from May 7th, beginning in Maui and then to San Jose on May 14th, then to Sedona and 4 corners, Austin TX, Philadelphia NY and then to London - I have sent an email to the Goddess Conference July 28th - Aug 3rd to Volunteer teaching workshops and hopefully hold some workshops in England before heading to Scotland, Denmark and who knows where else!
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&lt;br/&gt;Interested in teaching simple skills in leathercraft and medicine tool making in return for food, accomodation, some sight seeing and ceremony if anyone knows anyone interested (plus the cost of raw materials). I also do some great channelled meditation journeys of healing and exploring the underground chambers of the Great Sphynx in Egypt! 
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&lt;br/&gt;I am also offering some great workshops in Animal Medicine, making medicine bags, rawhide rattles, drums, runes, setting wings and feathers, I have been creating from the bounty of nature for over 30 years and hold a view of the sacredness of all life - even in death! Please pass this onto anyone who may be interested and hopefully I will see as many of you as possible as I fly around the world.
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&lt;br/&gt;Most importantly, I have found my mission here on earth - I am here to find joy and be love, actually that is the mission for all of us!
&lt;br/&gt; - in this way we turn away from the chaos of the lower vibrating dark energies, which manifest through our thoughts of lack and fear to joy-fully integrate heaven on earth, it is through us, as the Divine within makes manifest the glory of being, so if you can help out with this mission, I would love to come visit to drum, sing, dance an share skills of co-creation from the abun-dance that nature provides.
&lt;br/&gt;I am also travelling the energetic and ley lines of the earth with several snake head medicine items, beginning in Uluru this Tuesday 22nd April, with a walk around the great rocks in Australias centre before taking them to Haleakala and on around the earth, I am just there legs as they tell me where they are to go and be laid upon the earth. You can view one of them on my workshop page of my website which also has my workshop and travel itinerary - www.morningstarworkshops.com Blissings on your journey and fulfilling your mission of being! - Love Morning Star&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>The Rainbow Dream Vision of Freedom</title>
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      <name>michael_irving</name>
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    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;If you like this vision, please copy it and send to friends.  Thanks. 
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&lt;br/&gt;~~~~~~~~~
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&lt;br/&gt;The Rainbow Dream Vision of Freedom ~ 1993-2012
&lt;br/&gt;http://worldgathering.net/vision.html
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&lt;br/&gt;The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope
&lt;br/&gt;Intertribal Medicine Societies of Turtle Island
&lt;br/&gt;The Twenty Count: 1993-2012
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&lt;br/&gt;Make copies of the Rainbow prophecy, and give or send them to people anywhere on the planet. Then let them be guided by their hearts to do the same until all planetary citizens are brought to life in the Rainbow dream, so that we may dream and work together for true peace.  Love, Thunder Woman
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&lt;br/&gt;Introduction by Aleran
&lt;br/&gt;   Throughout the ages humanity has sought out the prophecies of the spiritually gifted to instil a clear hope and vision into life. During this time many prophecies come to us trying to lead us in many different directions. 
&lt;br/&gt;   Some prophecy points to disaster, hopelessness and the annihilation of mankind. But other prophecies create a vision of joyful transformation through quantum leaps into love and light. 
&lt;br/&gt;   As things stand now, the human race is dreaming a hell. 
&lt;br/&gt;   But as individuals and as a collective humanity it is our potential to dream of paradise and to create the kingdom of heaven on our Mother Earth. 
&lt;br/&gt;   Could it be that the pain in our hearts caused by the hell we have created will spur us on into visions and creations of a world formed in love? 
&lt;br/&gt;   It is my prayer and dream, along with a multitude of others who have taught me to dream the Rainbow dream, that each and every one of you learn to dream both while awake and sleeping, the dream of unity and love through divine transformation. 
&lt;br/&gt;   This prophecy on the following pages is a dream and vision that is a potential reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours to behold and to create if we only dare to dream it together.
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&lt;br/&gt;The Rainbow Dream Vision of Turtle Island
&lt;br/&gt;Prophecies of The Native Americans
&lt;br/&gt;1993-2012
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&lt;br/&gt;PART ONE ~ 
&lt;br/&gt;The distribution and giving back to humanity of the Twenty Count. 
&lt;br/&gt;In the Turtle Island lore we say it is the time of finding one’s path with heart. 
&lt;br/&gt;The time of seeking perfection, growth and development. 
&lt;br/&gt;Most importantly the time of trust and innocence, when mythologies of the world are revealing secrets. 
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&lt;br/&gt;PART TWO ~ 
&lt;br/&gt;The critical time. The time of the animal. The time of Tuwalananie, the dark force. 
&lt;br/&gt;The reason for this is that seeds of light have been planted and we are starting to grow and the teachings are starting to come out and all those ones who have taught partial truths, who have taught deliberate lies in history, are going to be threatened by the awakening of the Rainbow people because the Rainbow people exist in every country, in every nation, in every land. 
&lt;br/&gt;The Dark Forces will be threatened and they will use their power and their power exists in technology. We are going to see new technology appearing which will be a tremendous threat to the survival of humanity. 
&lt;br/&gt;We must exert our influence by gathering together and sharing our ideas and plans for alternative power and for world peace. If we put a double amount of energy with what we are for, we can change it. We can change it. 
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&lt;br/&gt;PART THREE ~ 
&lt;br/&gt;The time of human to human communication. 
&lt;br/&gt;The time the human family finally starts to become human. 
&lt;br/&gt;There will be more information brought out into open format than has ever been seen on this planet. 
&lt;br/&gt;We will re-establish contact in a very knowledgeable way with our ancestors from the stars. 
&lt;br/&gt;So mark that down because it will happen. The first contact will be with the Pleiades and will be totally acknowledged and will be known to all the world powers. The second contact will be with Sirius. 
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&lt;br/&gt;PART FOUR ~ 
&lt;br/&gt;When truth seekers begin to open the veil of the crack between the worlds, we will see our memory circles. 
&lt;br/&gt;Many of the leaders who are trying to keep us locked in the past, will not function today, will fall. 
&lt;br/&gt;Many teachers and wise people will be seen for who they are and they will be the farmers, the labourers and the gas station attendants because the tagashala will be fully awakened. 
&lt;br/&gt;People will begin to link up with other people in gathering together circles. 
&lt;br/&gt;Many of these will be the so-called 'common people' and not the teachers you see up there now. 
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&lt;br/&gt;PART FIVE ~ 
&lt;br/&gt;The various winged serpent wheels will begin to turn, to dance once again and when they do the rainbow lights will be seen in dreams all over the world and these rainbow light dreams will help awaken the rest of humanity. 
&lt;br/&gt;We will sit in a new circle of law. 
&lt;br/&gt;All civil and social laws will have to be in conformity with natural laws or the people will not accept them and they will have the enlightenment necessary to reject those laws. 
&lt;br/&gt;Science will once again become metaphysics. They will discover four laws that will help them jump to universal law and transcend the time-space continuum which is the limitation of the age and once again we will begin to take our power and to work with rules and laws that are cosmic laws. 
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&lt;br/&gt;PART SIX ~ 
&lt;br/&gt;We will once again see the way to continue a new dream. 
&lt;br/&gt;We will be given the road map back to the stars and we will see the star people come out of the illusion of their two-legged form and into their actual great sleeper-dreamer form. 
&lt;br/&gt;A powerful time approaches humanity and its really hard for me to talk about it. 
&lt;br/&gt;I am a great dreamer but I don’t know if I dream that large. 
&lt;br/&gt;We will see a real shift in planetary consciousness. 
&lt;br/&gt;Many of the enemies of the humans will begin to drop away. 
&lt;br/&gt;We will totally gain the light of the great light wheel. 
&lt;br/&gt;There will be one humanity, one planet composed of all the different ways of dancing in complete harmony in the great gathering together circle. 
&lt;br/&gt;All the seeds will be planted. 
&lt;br/&gt;The Earth will have its true reality formed. 
&lt;br/&gt;It will join the sisterhood of planets, the daughters of Copperwoman and it will create within itself all forms of all things in harmony with the everything. 
&lt;br/&gt;We will see a whole new way of perfection. 
&lt;br/&gt;There will be plants on this grandmother earth that will give life and sustenance as never before seen. 
&lt;br/&gt;Starvation on the earth, all those things will be gone. There will be total balance and harmony. 
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&lt;br/&gt;PART SEVEN ~ 
&lt;br/&gt;The new race of humans will begin to design their new reality of life on this planet as they intended it to be when they first came here from the stars. 
&lt;br/&gt;We will begin to establish this planet and use the collective consciousness to hold the power of this space in harmony with the Great Circle of Twelve and all the planets. There is a whole lot I don’t even know. There is more that I am not supposed to talk about yet. 
&lt;br/&gt;The dream will be actualised and this planet will hold its space in the great council of planets and become a part of the universal enlightened sisterhood and brotherhood of humanity and keepers of the light circles. It's happened on many planets and it's expected to happen on a lot of other planets. 
&lt;br/&gt;There will be a moment when the population will be 'the' Population, and something great will happen. 
&lt;br/&gt;This planet will have its design of energy movement guided by all of humanity living here. 
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&lt;br/&gt;The Great Spirit will leave its seed and the egg of everything here on this planet and it will create itself 20 times over at the speed of light and this prophecy ends as I have been given it by the Grandmothers that I share with you now. 
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&lt;br/&gt;~~~~~~~~~
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&lt;br/&gt;Put a double amount of energy with what we are for. We can change it.
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&lt;br/&gt;Make copies of the Rainbow prophecy, and give or send them to people anywhere on the planet. Then let them be guided by their hearts to do the same until all planetary citizens are brought to life in the Rainbow dream, so that we may dream and work together for true peace.  Love, Thunder Woman
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&lt;br/&gt;http://worldgathering.net/vision.html
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&lt;br/&gt;Background information ~ The Greatest Vision Ever Seen
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&lt;br/&gt;~ The Greatest Vision Ever Seen ~ 
&lt;br/&gt;~ The Rainbow Dream of Freedom ~ 
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&lt;br/&gt;http://worldgathering.net/greatest.html
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&lt;br/&gt;The Rainbow Dream Vision of Freedom ~ 1993-2012
&lt;br/&gt;Intertribal Medicine Societies of Turtle Island
&lt;br/&gt;http://worldgathering.net/vision.html
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&lt;br/&gt;RDV extract: ~ A powerful time approaches humanity and its really hard for me to talk about it. ~ We will see a real shift in planetary consciousness. ~ The Earth will have its true reality formed. ~ We will see a whole new way of perfection. ~ Starvation on the earth, all those things will be gone. ~
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&lt;br/&gt;~ VISION of FREEDOM ~
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&lt;br/&gt;I hope many people will send the Vision of Freedom to friends, groups, etc.
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&lt;br/&gt;I have been involved with the Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope and Freedom since 1984. In that year, three musicians and healers came into by one-man printing and publishing office, and said, "You really must look at this." They seemed a little (funny how life is at times) like the three wise men bringing gifts. Two days later I was distributing copies at a conference, and like me, people were amazed and astonished.
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&lt;br/&gt;That's when my life started to be 'larger than life'.
&lt;br/&gt;And, in 1987, I went to visit the Hopi in Arizona, North America.
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&lt;br/&gt;As I drove in from the west, an older man sitting by the roadside waved down my car... later, it felt to me that I was expected. He took me to meet Qwa David Monongye, and in the evening I was taken to a ceremony in the kiva. A dozen or more men descended from a ladder in the roof, and formed up in an arc of a circle.
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&lt;br/&gt;They faced one direction, and started a slow foot-shuffling dance. Then fairly suddenly, domino-effect, turned one-by-one 180 degrees to face the other direction. At that point I very nearly fell off my chair ... something had hit me. A year or more later, thinking about it, the realisation seemed to be: 'We can change the direction the world is going in. It is possible.'
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&lt;br/&gt;I drove off, eastwards, along the Hopi mesas to find somewhere to park up, and sleep the night. In the morning I got out of the car, and was surprised to see the face of the large rock only feet from the car had a carving on it. This was the Hopi's 'Prophecy Stone', and it shows people moving in a direction, and the path splitting into two. One path goes nowhere, it fades out. But the other path goes on, and corn symbols by the path indicate that this route leads to life and prosperity.
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&lt;br/&gt;Many other unusual and significant things occurred out there in this ancient place where it feels like time had stopped. Indeed, after visiting the oldest township on the Hopi mesas ~ a tall, sharp-ended mesa, rather like a ship of the desert ~ my watch stopped, and never worked again. There is much more that happened.
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&lt;br/&gt;In 1986 ~ the year before my first visit to the Hopi ~ I was within sixty feet of three disc craft, for around 25 minutes. This too, was like events were coming together to inform me of something significant, something much bigger than myself. In 1993, with friends, we were very close to craft in the area of the crop patterns of mid southern England on several occasions.
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&lt;br/&gt;Since 1993, on most days when I first step out of doors I frequently see one or more flashes in the sky, seemingly from a source fairly close, and at a lowish elevation. I have always taken the flashes to indicate the locations of disc craft which are 'parked up' and are stationary. In 2007, possibly because I was loaned a camera with an unusual infra-red setting, many craft and aerial objects started to appear in my general scenic photographs. Most images are archived here: http://worldgathering.net/scotland
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&lt;br/&gt;(A) The Rainbow Dream Vision says: "We can change it (the direction the world is going). If we put a DOUBLE AMOUNT of effort into what we are for."
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&lt;br/&gt;(B) The Hopi Nation has a prophecy stone which predicts the world will come to a time of choice. And if we choose the good direction, we can go on into a good life.
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&lt;br/&gt;(C) The craft appearing all over the world, seem to be waiting and watching. To see if we can figure things out. To see if we can: 'Seize The Day'.
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&lt;br/&gt;The writing is on the wall, and it says:  'We CAN change direction.'
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&lt;br/&gt;Please send the Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope and Freedom to your friends. And let's make a stand for what we really believe in. Put a DOUBLE amount of effort and energy into what you believe is important.
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&lt;br/&gt;Don't feel disheartened. It looks like there are some unexpected, good moves to happen yet: "There is a whole lot I don’t even know. There is more that I am not supposed to talk about yet."
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&lt;br/&gt;Text of The Rainbow Dream Vision of Freedom:
&lt;br/&gt;http://worldgathering.net/vision.html
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&lt;br/&gt;Michael Irving
&lt;br/&gt;World-Action and The Big World Gathering
&lt;br/&gt;Scotland, United Kingdom ~ http://www.worldgathering.net
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&lt;br/&gt;http://worldgathering.net/greatest.html
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&lt;br/&gt;~~~~~~~~~
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&lt;br/&gt;If you like this vision, please copy it and send to friends.  Thanks. 
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    <title>SHOSHONE NATION UNDER SIEGE</title>
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      <name>WabanakiWmn</name>
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    <updated>2008-03-20T07:19:57Z</updated>
    <published>2007-11-29T20:07:16Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;I am posting this for my friend Carlos...hoping to drum up some signatures for the petition!!  Please join us in gettingthis petition networked.  having had  personal experience with this sort of thing on the Original Six Nations Halimand Tract Land issue.  We networked so well nationally and internationally, we were sucessful inbringing the government and Canadian Press to their kness.  Plese cirulate far and wide.
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&lt;br/&gt;SHOSHONE NATION UNDER SIEGE, AGAIN    Thu, November 29, 2007 - 11:12 AM 
&lt;br/&gt;As if Native people did not have more to worry about it would appear the Shoshone Nations has their hands full. The Cortez Mining Company is in the process of coercing the Feds into breaking another treaty and it’s about gold. What is it about the name Cortez that seems to ring a bell eh? Oh, that’s right since it was some dude named Cortez who murdered the Aztec’s over the very same issue, GOLD. But I don’t think they will kill the tribal chief and toss him to the ground, hope not anyway. But the blatant disregard for treaties and been pandemic for centuries as gold hungry people lied and murdered their way into the hearts of Native people though out the America’s. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Mount Tenabo is a very sacred site filled with artifacts of the Shoshone Nation. There is no price tag that can be placed on this significant sacred place fore money is not of importance. This site is a part of their culture and a part of them as a people and they are asking for your help in signing a petition to try and influence the government into honoring their treaty. It does not matter where you live on this planet since public opinion seems to be a great motivator in influencing the political powers that be. I would also suggest that you spread the world and let the world know what is happening to these honorable people. 
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&lt;br/&gt;If only we had the internet back in the days of the Conquistadors. Maybe then the European community would have put a stop to the death and destruction of Native People’s through out the America’s. I have provided their humble request as well as a link to sign the petition provided. 
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&lt;br/&gt;“Dear Friend, 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The US Bureau of Land Management is currently reviewing a 
&lt;br/&gt;proposal to expand the Cortez Hills Project. If approved, it 
&lt;br/&gt;would be one of the country's largest gold mines. The project 
&lt;br/&gt;would disturb over 6,500 acres of public land-all of which are 
&lt;br/&gt;considered traditional lands by the Western Shoshone. We 
&lt;br/&gt;urgently need your help to convince the US government to deny 
&lt;br/&gt;this proposal. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The entire area lies within Western Shoshone boundaries of the 
&lt;br/&gt;1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley, which recognized Shoshone rights to 
&lt;br/&gt;this land. The area includes Mount Tenabo, an extremely 
&lt;br/&gt;significant spiritual and cultural area to the Western Shoshone. 
&lt;br/&gt;Many Shoshone have long expressed deep concerns and outright 
&lt;br/&gt;opposition to any further exploration on their lands, without 
&lt;br/&gt;their free, prior, and informed consent. The US Bureau of Land 
&lt;br/&gt;Management is currently taking comments on this proposal until 
&lt;br/&gt;Dec. 4. We are calling on our supporters to join with us in 
&lt;br/&gt;signing the petition urging the bureau to reject this proposal. 
&lt;br/&gt;Please sign the petition today! 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Thank you for standing with Oxfam and the Western Shoshone.” 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;act.oxfamamerica.org/campaig...hone_blm
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&lt;br/&gt;We can make a difference is we all join in. And time is running out since December 4th is just around the corner. I thank my brother Si Thomas of the Shoshone/Paiute Nation for the heads up on this issue. You remember Si from the Duck Valley Indian Rez eh. Thanks Bro. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Your Devil’s Advocate 
&lt;br/&gt;Buffalohair &lt;/div&gt;
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  <entry>
    <title>The Big World Gathering - Take Your Power Back</title>
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    <author>
      <name>michael_irving</name>
    </author>
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    <updated>2008-03-13T04:42:54Z</updated>
    <published>2008-03-09T00:57:35Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;THE BIG WORLD GATHERING 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.worldgathering.net
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;What is The Big World Gathering?
&lt;br/&gt;The Big World Gathering is happening now wherever you are by you sharing with others what you really feel and think about life today, and by distributing information you believe is important. At a later stage, perhaps soon to happen, all our individual actions may help lead to something quite surprising; a major world change.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"Awake, awake, the world is young, 
&lt;br/&gt;For all its weary years of thought. 
&lt;br/&gt;The starkest fights must still be fought, 
&lt;br/&gt;The most surprising songs be sung."
&lt;br/&gt;~ James E Flecker
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Surprising Songs for The Big World Gathering ...
&lt;br/&gt;The Big World Gathering Theme Tune 1 ~ (5+ mins): 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wg1.mp3
&lt;br/&gt;The Big World Gathering Theme Tune 1 ~ (1+ mins): 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wg2.mp3
&lt;br/&gt;Big World Gathering Love Song ~ Time ~ (2+ mins): 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/time.mp3
&lt;br/&gt;World-Action Big Gathering Theme Tune ~ (1+ mins): 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wa18.mp3
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&lt;br/&gt;Special Images for The Big World Gathering: 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.worldgathering.net/logos.html
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Subscribe to the BWG NEWS List at Google: 
&lt;br/&gt;http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering
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&lt;br/&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;'THE GATHERING' by Sitting Bull
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&lt;br/&gt;It is very important that as many people as possible, in different places, should take part in the Gathering. Decide where and when and how to gather. Your participation is needed.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;This is the beginning of the break we are all waiting for; for you all on Earth and ourselves out here. This is the beginning of the turn around. We have waited so long for the change. It is time. This is the beginning of the end of the old ways; the turning of the tide.
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&lt;br/&gt;State what you believe is true. Courage is the ability to go beyond the familiar. Exchange the information and hopes you have. Always in the world, a change starts with a few people. These few speak the feelings and thoughts of a multitude. They speak the heart of humanity's soul.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The people and ETs who will come together shall ring in a return, a turn around. There will come a flow on Earth which will burst the dark energies surrounding you and your planet. That which you believe is true must be stated. The truth is the key.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;May strength and vision be yours as you establish the new. Follow your hearts. Let your inner light be your guide. Realise the beauty and greatness you have within yourself and step ahead. This is the time so many have waited so long for. Never doubt it has started.
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&lt;br/&gt;The young of all nations are looking for a new direction. It is time to light a beacon to show the way for all humanity. Let your feelings, thoughts and beliefs be your guiding light. The power of the moment. The wishes of the people. The good times ahead.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;It is time for the gathering.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Tatanka Yotanka - The Sitting Bull
&lt;br/&gt;(This message is through a clairvoyant in Holland, Europe, in recent years)
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
&lt;br/&gt;Special Words for The Big World Gathering:
&lt;br/&gt; ~ The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope: "This prophecy is a dream and vision that is a potential reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours to behold and to create if we only dare to create it together." ~ 
&lt;br/&gt; ~ A Central American Mayan Elder: "Human beings must come together in support of life. At present, each person and group is going his or her own way. There is hope if people can come together and unite." ~ 
&lt;br/&gt; ~ E F Schumacher: "We must do what we conceive to be the right thing and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we will be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we will be doing the wrong thing and we will just be a part of the disease and not a part of the cure." ~ 
&lt;br/&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;'The Gathering' by Matthew
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Last night I had a gathering for all my departed friends
&lt;br/&gt;I asked Jim Morrison where he'd been
&lt;br/&gt;He just laughed and smiled, 
&lt;br/&gt;Spoke of what he'd seen
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;He said "I've been to the end of the rainbow"
&lt;br/&gt;He said "I've seen supernovae burst"
&lt;br/&gt;But before I could ask a question, 
&lt;br/&gt;He said "Let me finish first"
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;He said "I have something to tell you", 
&lt;br/&gt;This really is the MASTER KEY
&lt;br/&gt;ONLY! ONLY LOVE! 
&lt;br/&gt;Will set this planet free
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;He then spoke ok Atlantis, 
&lt;br/&gt;And what has come to pass
&lt;br/&gt;In an alien war of genocide, 
&lt;br/&gt;He and his friends escaped the blast
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;* * *
&lt;br/&gt;Now these ones are returning, 
&lt;br/&gt;They see our hearts are burning
&lt;br/&gt;The Universe is yearning, 
&lt;br/&gt;For us to break on through
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Well now you see here is my request, 
&lt;br/&gt;The letter to your heart
&lt;br/&gt;Will you join us now, 
&lt;br/&gt;Let the healing start
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;First there came THE question, 
&lt;br/&gt;Then I found THE door
&lt;br/&gt;Now I have come through it, 
&lt;br/&gt;A stronger man for sure
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I will ask you the same question, 
&lt;br/&gt;I can lead you to this door
&lt;br/&gt;If you will walk through it, 
&lt;br/&gt;You will be Wiser than before
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Yes now I have this question to put to you
&lt;br/&gt;Are you going to resist, 
&lt;br/&gt;Will you break on through?
&lt;br/&gt;Will you break on through? 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I am waiting for you...
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The Gathering
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
&lt;br/&gt;Special Images for The Big World Gathering: 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.worldgathering.net/logos.html
&lt;br/&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
&lt;br/&gt;Subscribe to the BWG NEWS List at Google: 
&lt;br/&gt;http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering
&lt;br/&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
&lt;br/&gt;The Big World Gathering is happening now wherever you are by you sharing with others what you really feel and think about life today, and by distributing information you believe is important. At a later stage, perhaps soon to happen, all our individual actions may help lead to something quite surprising; a major world change.
&lt;br/&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
&lt;br/&gt;The Big World Gathering ~ http://www.worldgathering.net
&lt;br/&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~&lt;/div&gt;
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  <entry>
    <title>The Iroqouis Nation...</title>
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    <author>
      <name>David</name>
    </author>
    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/indiansofallcolors/thread/a0cfc301-fb4e-4d2d-b402-88f67288fe3e</id>
    <updated>2008-02-27T22:38:39Z</updated>
    <published>2007-10-27T20:04:29Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;was a Nation of fourteen clans that had many different colored people. Some had blonde, red, black, brown hair... Some had green or blue eyes. They wore braids as well.
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&lt;br/&gt;They were "Indians" of all colors.&lt;/div&gt;
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  <entry>
    <title>Rebirth: The Womb of Mother Earth</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Gea</name>
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    <updated>2008-02-26T14:22:57Z</updated>
    <published>2008-02-26T14:22:57Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Tyberonn
&lt;br/&gt;AAMetatron Channel thru James Tyberonn ( Scroll Down- after article)
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;The Grand Canyon is listed as one of the seven natural wonders of the world, and is at the top of the list of America's most beautiful National Parks. Yet surprisingly, it is rarely mentioned as a sacred site or powernode. I say surprisingly, because it is absolutely one of the most potent energy sources on the planet. The Grand Canyon is not only one of the wonders of the world but also a sacred site of epic proportion, a mega powernode of the Ascension. It is the womb of Gaia. The Canyon is chock full of massive energy fields, vortexes, and portal-stargate complexes It is also a dimensional doorway, an entry point to the hollow inner world of the earth.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;I have had the opportunity to raft the first 200-mile stretch of the 277-mile canyon on two occasions, and both excursions profoundly effected me on every level. Truly, you cannot experience the full magic of the Canyon, unless you raft its length. Every stretch and turn takes one deeper into the earth, and in a very real sense, deeper into ones self.
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&lt;br/&gt;The Canyon is a testament to the National Park Service, whose rangers and employees assigned to the Grand Canyon, are among its most fervent guardians. A limited number of people are able to raft the stretch each year, as volumes are controlled for environmental purposes. It is in fact maintained so tidily, that the Guides tell each rafter on the outset, "The only thing we leave in the Canyon is our footprints !" Wait lists for the eclectic expereince are often 2-3 years. Even after a century of tourism, the spectacular pristine beauty of this uncorrupted desert canyon oasis yet remains unspoiled and uninhabited to entice the world-weary traveler to seek deep peace &amp;amp; contemplation away from the maddening crowd, as indeed it did for this writer.
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&lt;br/&gt;Tyb's Journal:
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;I rafted 200 miles down the Grand Canyon, the first time in 1996. The beauty left me in awe. At the entry point at Lee's Ferry, the Canyon walls are about 20 meters high, and the river is a translucent shimmering aquamarine. The Canyon walls change day by day from sandstone orange to deep red back dropped by majestic temples and castles. The waters go from green ripples to café crème torrents, roaring into class five rapids.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Each day our river guides lead us on hikes to incredibly beautiful cascades hidden at the back of chasms smoothly carved in artistic curves by the eons of erosion. Crystal clear waterfalls await us in fairy dens amidst hanging gardens of green fern and yellow bracken growing in rock wall inclusions. Soon the walls are over 5,000 feet high, and we enter mysterious lunarscapes and enormous temples that remind me of Yosemite's towering, renown ‘El Capitan'. We enter a red stone cave with golden sand floors, large enough to house a full symphony orchestra, which indeed it did several years ago. We hike to places of stunning beauty like Elves Chasm, Deer Creek Canyon and Havasu Falls. Places so surreal, so mystical, so pristine, you expect to see a T-Rex round the corner, ala Jurassic Park, any moment. We spend precious time in areas so remarkably special that each person seems to take time to cognitively record every detail. I literally began to look at my watch each quarter hour and dread the time set to leave and hike back to the waiting rafts. We visited the crystalline blue Little Colorado, its turquoise hue surreal and alive, and its floor tiled in massive clamshells of white calcium carbonate.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;At night we watch amazing sunsets of blazing red morph into burnt orange and magenta. As the sun falls beyond the horizon, the sky becomes a dark velveteen canopy, lit by millions of twinkling stars. The humidity free air offering an amplified starscape that swims and floats seemingly in deep spirals. The rush of the river teams with the bass rhythmic croaking of frogs to create a sonic cocktail that mesmerizes us even further, as we sit around campfires, jubilant &amp;amp; pensive. We deeply savor the moment.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;It ended ever too quickly, and I vowed to return as the helicopter lifted me above the rim. I did in 1998, and expereinced an even deeper metamorphis. I grew to love the Canyon even more. I expanded my beliefs to understand that the Canyon is a Living Cathedral that indelibly is equipped to transform and vitalize each person who visits its spectacular space.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Sacred Space:
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Long before geologists arrived in the Grand Canyon to examine its rocks and deduce its origins, the Indians who lived around the Canyon had created their own explanations for the formation of the spectacular chasm. These ideas, passed down from generation to generation by tribal medicine men, shaman and storytellers, were expressed as spiritual metaphors and poetic myths. To the Ute and the Southern Paiute, the Hualapai and Havasupai, the Hopi and the Navajo, the Universe is alive, consisting of natural and spiritual forces that are inextricably joined. Each aspect has a spirit. Rocks were not simply rocks; they were living, conscious beings. The great river that formed the Canyon gorge led to the Indians' promised land', and the life giving crystalline springs had spirits, to be placated &amp;amp; honored by offerings of sage, corn and tobacco. The animals that the Indian hunted, the avians that flew above his dwelling, the snakes that slithered across his trail, were mans brothers, serving as providers, guardians, messengers and spiritual teachers.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Native legend states that the Canyon was the result of the Great Flood that had drowned the previous, 3rd world that had forgotten the gods. It is said to be the Eden point of the beginning of the 4th, our present world. Of all of the local cosmologies the most famous and oft quoted is that of the Anasazi, and their probable modern-day descendants, the Havasupai, Hopi and Navajo.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;The Hopi cosmology is particularly clear on this point, that the ancient world was destroyed not once, but three times, most recently by a flood. The Hopi also believe that the Grand Canyon was the Sipapu, the "place of emergence" from whence the Hopi had emerged after the Great Flood had destroyed the third "world" of mankind that had preceded the current, or "fourth" world. In fact several inner world ‘Sipapu' entry points are said to be located on Hopi land in the Canyon, one of which is honored in ceremony as the dwelling of the ancients. Appearing as an opening in a rounded rock mound, it is a sacred place of pilgrimage for the Hopi, located at the bottom of the Canyon of the Little Colorado River just above its joining point with the Colorado River. It is very hallowed, and off-limits to all but the Hopi people. The lore further claimed that the Hopi were assisted by ‘insect people' in the inner world caverns, humanoids who had stick like arms and legs, slightly arched backs, and blue-toned skin.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Mysterious Egyptian Cave in Grand Canyon
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;The April 5, 1909 edition of the Phoenix Arizona Gazette newspaper featured a front page article entitled: "Explorations in Grand Canyon: Remarkable Finds Indicate Ancient Egyptian People Migrated from Orient."
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;The lengthy and detailed article stated that the expedition was financed by the Smithsonian Institute and discovered artifacts that could potentially change our understanding of history. Inside a massive cavern with intricate passages and rooms, that Kincaid described as "hewn in solid rock by human hands" were found tablets bearing hieroglyphics, copper weapons, bronze tools, huge statues that he described as appearing to be Egyptian &amp;amp; Tibetan deities, as well as over 500 mummies. Although highly intriguing, the story has been officially disavowed. The Smithsonian denies any knowledge of the discovery. Researcher, author &amp;amp; explorer David Hatcher Childress writes, "While it cannot be entirely discounted that the entire story is an elaborate newspaper hoax, the fact that it was on the front page of a prominent newspaper, named the prestigious Smithsonian Institution, and gave a highly descriptive &amp;amp; detailed story that went on for several pages, lends a great deal to its credibility. It is hard to believe such a story could have come out of thin air." The article is in the newspapers archives, both in original print and microfilm, and can be easily found on the internet.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;To add more to the conversation, renown author Drunvalo Mechelzidek refers to the ‘Egyptian' aspect of the Grand Canyon in volume II of "The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life'. On page 302 of his book, he describes the adventure of two backpackers who hiked into the backcountry of the Grand Canyon toward the pyramidal mountain called the Temple of Isis. After an arduous trek, they claimed to have come upon what appeared to be a large impressive man made pyramid, constructed of natural stones. It showed signs of erosion, but still held the distinctive pyramidal shape, and definitely did not appear to be a natural formation. After a thorough inspection, photos were taken, and they continued trekking to the amazing formation of the Temple of Isis
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Upon arrival to the Isis Temple formation, they climbed to an elevation of about 800 feet, and from that vantage point several interesting cave entrances came in view. They observed that the grotto entrances were cemented and blasted shut. Both climbed upward to the most prominent cave opening, which had an arched entry. They reported that the entrance showed signs of chiseling and the arc appeared man-made. Just above the entry, they observed a six- foot diameter circular pattern with inner designs clearly chiseled into the ceiling. Just beyond the cave had been completely filled in with rock and stone rubble, appearing to have been blasted shut, making further entry quite impossible. This very interesting expereince was recounted directly to the author, Drunvalo Mechelzidek, a man of impeccable integrity.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Comedian Steve Martin used to include a song he wrote called ‘King Tut' in his Saturday Night Live routine, the opening line of which goes: " King Tut, King Tut, he came from Arizona and he moved to Babylonia".... Maybe he knows something we don't!!
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;From a personal perspective, I have become quite aware of the extensive tunnels that exist in the inner earth in numerous locations that I have visited across the planet, particularly in Peru, Bolivia, the Himalayas and Egypt. I have no doubt these exist in the Grand Canyon as well as in the San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff Arizona.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Whether the Canyon Cave story is factual or not, the Canyon has a mysterious aura in some sections where other world dimensional aspects seem to emanate, and these can be sensed by empaths.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Interestingly, during my two rafting trips through the length of the Canyon, I expereinced very clear sensations of an ‘Egyptian' resonance and connection within certain areas of the canyon, and had a powerful visionary expereince of Lord Buddha in another. This was prior to my having any knowledge of the 1909 article of the infamous Egyptian cave. It is quite intriguing that many locations in the Canyon have Egyptian names and Buddhist names. The areas around Ninety-four Mile Creek and Trinity Creek are embellished with stunning formations named the Tower of Ra, Horus Temple, Osiris Temple, Isis Temple, Cheops Pyramid and the Tower of Set! Further downriver in near the Havasupai Tribal lands in the Canyon are names such as the Buddha Cloister, Buddha Temple, Manu Temple and Shiva Temple.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Closing Thoughts
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;At the beginning of the rafting journey, our river guides told us that the only thing we would leave in the Canyon was our footprints. They were wrong, we all left a part of ourselves within its majestic depths, especially our hearts.
&lt;br/&gt; 
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&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Archangel Metatron Channel
&lt;br/&gt; Greetings, I am Metatron, Lord of Light. And so we come to you at this time in a moment of wisdom, your wisdom, and the collective faith of all wisdom. Dear Ones, it is wisdom you seek and wisdom we share. It is the role of Spirit to offer you perspective and possibility. It is your role to discern that which resonates, and apply it to yoiur lives as you seek your own inner truth, your own path to SELF Divinity.
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&lt;br/&gt;And so we speak this gathering on the Grand Canyon, truly one of the most powerful energetics of the planet. A spectacular lotus energy, one that is of great intensity, yet expressed within a magnificent harmonic that allows for a gentle receival by those fortunate enough to explore its depths. Within the rims and depths of the vast isolation of the great chasm, are some of the most pristine and benevolent energy fields of the living earth.
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&lt;br/&gt;Now, the Earth is a living ,conscious being, and Gaia her sentience. There are certain places within and without your Earth that are living libraries, information repositories we would say. These are not simply registers of the past, indeed they also contain information regarding the present, future and all of their probabilities and parallels. These living libraries only occur in special environments, environs that perfectly synergize all of the elements, earth, air, fire , water and ether. Within these frequencies, indeed, one has the ability to learn immensely about themselves. Such locales are indeed rare. The Grand Canyon is one of these, the largest&amp;amp; most complex of these.
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&lt;br/&gt;Ether, the fifth element, generates a panacea, an essence we term akash or adamantine from the inner realms of the planet. Akash occurs in great abundance in the Canyon and provides a bounty of benefits, beyond its tell-tale energy of well being. Etheric akash is indeed the rejuvenative elixir of life, and is merged synergistically within the ionic plasma of the dynamic river. Thus it is, in your vernacular, the fountain of youth, a dynamic regenerative force!
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&lt;br/&gt;As such, visiting the Grand Canyon in any location above or below is a beneficial experience in terms of its effect on the human energy field. A vast energy is emitted and amplified within its substratum, condensing and rising to the rim where it spills over and feeds an enormous vortex that circulates for hundreds of miles.
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&lt;br/&gt;Yet it is only within its depths that an incredibly more powerful energy pools, quite unique in their effect, retain their' individual' consciousness footprint.. You see above the rim, all of the individual aspects are somewhat integrate into a massive energetic vortex.. The floor of the canyon, the portions along the bottom between the towering walls are ten fold more powerful than the upper rim of the canyon, containing concentrated energies that are in a continual state of regeneration. You see electromagnetic energy, the basic source of ley energy, flows symmetrically within the pancaked layer of each stratum. When that stratum is sliced open at the cliffs and walls, that energy flows into and amasses within the openings of the Canyon. It is charged further with the energy of all five elemental forces, and uniquely so with the bountiful levels of the most rare element, akash...etheric life force. As such ones auric field is expanded and dimensionally redefined with a greater paradigm.
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&lt;br/&gt;In a true sense, the rafting through these fields in the canyon core is a rebirthing process, regeneration within the chakric womb of Gaia.
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&lt;br/&gt;The exceptional benefit is the healing provided by the serendipitous harmony within its stark dichotomy. The unique feature that occurs along the river path, is that the ionic field created by the brisk flow of the copper rich river amalgamates with the fifth element, akash &amp;amp; becomes a gentle stabilizing force that allows for the human electromagnetic sheathe to interface extremely expansive energies without fissuring under acute pressure differential. As a result, the human EMF is so enhanced that it is quite unlikely for one to expereince negativity within this kinetic cornucopia, and quite likely to experience a deep epiphany.
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&lt;br/&gt;Accordingly myriad benefits are enhanced, including a revitalization of the body physical, a clearing of the emotional field, a realignment of the chakras, mental exuberance, and a vast expansion of the auric field. We tell you that within the walls of this creative crucible, this planetary womb is contained every telluric energy resonance on the planet. The Canyon as a perfectly contained ‘frequencial Eden' has been recognized by many advanced souls throughout the vast history of the canyon, including those of LeMuria and Atlantis.
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&lt;br/&gt;You see the mineralogical matrix of the Grand Canyon contains virtually every geological stratum, from every age classification. Within this vast and deep Canyon there is a harmonic blend of succinctly differing fields that amalgamate in chorus, in orchestrated frequential harmony. As a result the vibratory energetics are extremely healing to the natural electromagnetic fields of all biological beings within this space. Unique, intense energies such as the very potent fields emitted by the dense and ancient metamorphic Vishnu schist would normally be difficult for the human auric field to sustain, even for relatively brief periods. However, because of the very soft, feminine ionics created by the dynamic flow of the river, a more endurable expression of the powerful field results.
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&lt;br/&gt;We have spoken in other sessions about the expansion requirement of the human auric field within the Ascension energies. We tell you that the river course through the canyon floor, between the massive walls, is a natural containment of incredible energies, so blended between earth, wind, fire, water and ether that the human EMF is maximally expanded without fissuring. There are locales within this precipice repository with rock faces so exposed that the trenchant energy fields self generate and amplify within their boxed wall containment. They literally and tangibly pulse. They are keenly conscious and aware, and represent energy of every chakra from the root to the crown chakra and well beyond. And as you may have perceived, the harmonic oscillation of certain of these areas is in alignment with Egypt, the Himalayas, and Tibet.
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&lt;br/&gt;Now we have spoken about the Law of Harmonic Oscillation before, the aspect of similar frequencies naturally attracting and activating one another. There is another aspect to this that involves vibratory resonance within time-space continuum, which includes geological ages. Specific surface exposed stratum from, for example the Precambrian class will naturally align with other surface exposed Precambrian stratum. This trait is amplified further in igneous and metamorphic forms, because these formations are more crystalline in composition and thus produce a greater electromagnetic field, you see? It is the Harmonic Oscillation process that aligns the Grand Canyon to Egypt and Tibet. We will speak more of this later.
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&lt;br/&gt;The Grand Canyon indeed has many entrances into the chasms of the inner world. As we have told you, your Earth is truly not spherical. It is flattened at both poles. Your planet has five distinct shells (not four) within its structure, one inside the other. Between the layers of the outer three are great chasms, some of which have flowing rivers and have illumination from ionic fields, much like the northern light phenomena that you term auroras. One of the largest of these stretches below the Grand Canyon for an expanse of over 800 miles in length, by your measurement, and is over a mile in height. The Atlanteans in the height of their technological golden age, were well aware of the peoples inhabiting these chasms, and indeed interfaced extensively with them in the construct of the extensive tunnel system.
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&lt;br/&gt;Question to Metatron: You have spoken about the energies fields found along the 277 miles of the Grand Canyon along the river. Which areas are most potent?
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&lt;br/&gt;AA Metatron: There are dozens, and so to answer your question regarding which are most potent, we assume you mean which are most beneficial, yes? And so we answer that the degree and priority of assistance depends to some extent on the person. The seeker will receive what is most needed and that will of course vary according to the individual's level of light quotient, intent, attitude and needs. In terms of field potency, the area of the Vishnu schist formation is extremely powerful, such that it is the primary generator of the highest frequency vortex and the center of the higher dimensional portal. The area of Blacktail Canyon is one of the most powerful portal stargates on the planet, in an extremely vigorous alignment to the Pleades. Those capable of raising their frequency to higher levels can expereince what you term as astral travel within this area, far more easily than in other locations. This because by the time the Vishnu Schist of Blacktail Canyon is reached, after 3 days on the river, the auric field is cleansed, and thus in a crystalline merkabic state. The mind is clear, the body is robust, and therefore the body-mind-soul trinity is in a rare state unified bounteous clarity. Do you see?
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&lt;br/&gt;Now, the akash essence, the adamantine field exist throughout the Canyon, and as we have stated, synergistically blends with the natural subatomic field created by all moving waters. The akash is in greater abundance in the Grand Canyon than any other locale on your planet. It is in fact being generating in greater abundance now as your planet begins its transformation. It is generated through areas of tectonic stress, particularly around certain volcanoes such as Mount Shasta and Hawaii's Kilauea. But nowhere is it generated in such quantity and held so purely in place, as occurs in the canyon. This essence is extremely beneficial to the human EMF and emotional and mental components. It aids in synergizing them into perfect symmetry and balance. A very rare , very aligned state of well-being occurs, as such. 
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&lt;br/&gt;The Zoroaster Granite within the Canyon is also extremely potent and oscillates quite differently, yet harmonically with the Vishnu schiest..both being quite crystalline in matrix you see? The silicate component with the granitic field acts in unison with the Vishnu formation; the granite as the receiver and the metamorphic shiest as the balancing anchor of the tremendous portal within its area. Most of the extra- terrestrial craft that enter and work below the canyon, enter through this portal you see. Indeed it is a stargate to the Pleiades.
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&lt;br/&gt;The Havasu area, along the Little Colorado Creek is also extremely beneficial in terms of physical and emotional healing. It is teeming with those of the Fae, the Faerie Kingdom and the Devic water sprites. These of an extremely tangible and harmonic resonance, easily discerned, and add that element of lush richness to the plant life and indeed it expresses itself in an uplifting joyful vibration, a sense of gentle well being to all that enter. It is the perfect afterglow to the intensity of the Vishnu energy. The blue green waters of Havasu are rich with minerals, including copper, calcium carbonate, and magnesium sulfate, what you term Epsom salts. Waters that are very very beneficial.
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&lt;br/&gt;Likewise the area of Deercreek Canyon is extremely healing, containing a plethora of devics, of the elfin nature, joyful in expression. These positive beings, and such elementals being under the realm of what you would term the Elohim.
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&lt;br/&gt;The Redwall Cavern site is also quite noteworthy. It is tuned to a very harmonic vibratory resonance that is most conducive to deep mediation and out of body travel, that you term astral travel experience. The sand s within this erosion chamber is also extremely vibrant and mineral rich. Well for one to cover the body in this sand for a 30 to 45 minute periods. Quite enriching as well as detoxifying.
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&lt;br/&gt;These are but a few, the Canyon indeed is a cornucopia of beneficial energies, quite unique to this area.
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&lt;br/&gt;Does this answer satisfy you?
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&lt;br/&gt;Question to Metatron: Yes, thank you. I have written about a supposed discovery of an ‘Egyptian' cave in the Canyon Did the discovery of such a cave occur in 1909 in the Grand Canyon?
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&lt;br/&gt;AA Metatron: Absolutely! It did indeed occur. A cave was discovered in early 1909, and revisited several weeks later, with a larger expedition, including anthropologist and assistants. It was not however, Egyptian, rather Atlantean. It was part of the extensive labyrinth of tunnels that the Atlanteans built that circumnavigated the planet. This was done in an age of great technological expertise, and was built with technology from Sirius B.
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&lt;br/&gt;As we have told you in previous sessions, your planet, while not hollow per say, contains great open chasms, some of which are massive, and indeed inhabited by the blue-skinned humans, who ‘descended' into the inner earth from LeMuria. They are indeed human, but at a far more advanced cycle in their development. As such they operate in the 4th thru 7th dimensions.
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&lt;br/&gt;Question to Metatron: It seems surprising that in 1909, the government would have sought to hide the incident. Was this in fact covered up, and if so why?
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&lt;br/&gt;AA Metatron: The discovery of the opening was ‘covered up', in your terms, only after the third entry, the expedition that included the Smithsonian team. A catastrophe occurred that led to the death of most of the team, and as a result the event was suppressed, the entry sealed in a fourth visit for the purpose of sealing the cave in 1911.
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&lt;br/&gt;The initial discovery by the one called Kinkaid, was rather uneventful, other than the tremendous excitement of the explorer, who saw the artifacts and the Atlantean hieroglyphics and statues, and recognized them as being from an advanced civilization. This one spent two days exploring the surface chambers, and departed with drawings and descriptions, and indeed photographs. He departed after four days because of the lack of nearby water, and the arduous, treacherous climb and distance from the river.
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&lt;br/&gt;The second entry occurred within 8 weeks and included a team of eight members, including two military guards, and two academics. During their explorations and mappings, they descended further and were drawn to an amber light pulsing in a circular chamber containing a massive hyper-dimensional generating complex used for transporting within the tunnel system. Many of these still exist, and are surged into power at various times, triggered by surges in the dimensional fields. One such is under the Sargosso Sea in the area you refer to as the Bermuda Triangle...not in the waters per say, rather below the sea in the tunnel system. Some of these are maintained to date, most are not. These exist in a dimensional lock, and can only become physically visible in 3d at certain times of excessive magnetic activity.
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&lt;br/&gt;Six of the expedition members were unfortunately exposed to severe magnetics that essentially dematerialized the two nearest the unit when the generator auto-powered on due to a tectonic energy surge. The other four were critically damaged from the residual effects of the tremendous dimensional warping fields produced. Kinkaid and the academics died within hours, despite efforts to save them. Only the two military men posted at the surface entry survived. Both were deeply frightened. Subsequently, the relay complex, put into a frequency that effectively placed it in a dimensional vacuum lock.
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&lt;br/&gt;Afterward, the government sent a forth party to the entry area, and sealed it and the area is still off limits. In the 1950's the area was opened and reentered and explored by government agencies.
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&lt;br/&gt;Question to Metatron: You mention the ‘Atlantean Tunnel System', did the Atlanteans have access to the Grand Canyon? And if so for what purpose?
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&lt;br/&gt;AAMetatron: Yes indeed! There was access not just to the Grand Canyon, but virtually to every area of the planet, both surface and interior. But while some Atlanteans had access to it, it was not truly Atlantean. Many of those you term Atlanteans, were not of terrestrial origin. It should be understood that the majority of those involved in the technological development &amp;amp; use of the tunnel system were of Sirian, Arcturian and Pleadean origin, but they lived in the Atlantean areas, and interacted quite freely and openly with those of earthen biology. Many of you, including the channel experienced Atlantis originally a, extra terrestrials, including the channel, and many eventually took on human biology...becoming captivated with this ‘Earth, the Blue Planet, becoming captive to the grid in essence.
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&lt;br/&gt;Now, the Grand Canyon was recognized by the Atlanteans not only for its unique beauty and mineral deposits, but also for its immense generation of ether akshana. The Atlanteans had the technology to congeal and process akshana essence in the area, and transport it to the Temple of Healing in Poseida where it was an essential part of the complex rejuvenation process.
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&lt;br/&gt;Approximately 38,000 years ago, in your measurement, the Atlanteans as well as LeMurians had communities in the Canyon chasms. Some of which, you may be surprised to know, were rejuvenation facilities, Temples and what you would call monasteries for the scientist priests. You see they recognized the immense amount of akash that was in the area, and the locale as a potent stargate and planetary library.
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&lt;br/&gt;There were and are many hyper dimensional generating units, like the one that Kincaid's party discovered, in the area. These are and were of Sirian technology in origin. Some were for transport to other relays within the tunnel system, others were for movement to and from the future. Essentially for time travel, in your terms. We have told you before that aspects of Atlantis were truly from the future, pulled into the past.
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&lt;br/&gt;Now, in those periods , the river course in the canyon was much longer, double its current length, which was shortened considerably over time through volcanics, and tectonic shifts. More recently in your times the canyon was flooded into lakes by the placement of the reservoir at Lake Powell and Lake Meade with the construction of the two dams. The area below what is now Lake Powell, regrettably was among the most stunningly beautiful sections of the Grand Canyon, and contained energy fields that are not replicated in the same manner elsewhere. However, the green copper waters held within Lake Powell remain quite bountiful in healing quality, and all who recreate in this Lake benefit immensely.
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&lt;br/&gt;There will be a time in the future when there is a strong movement to place a third dam and reservoir due to the coming water shortages in the areas surrounding the Canyon and bordering states. This must not be permitted.
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&lt;br/&gt;Now, much of the Atlantean mining concerns were headquartered in what is now Egypt, then as a colony of Atlanteans. Many of the tunnels were dimensionally connected to Egypt, which at the time was an Atalntean governed province. There is in effect an earthen grid of the ‘Reshel' classification that connects the Temple of Isis to the Pyramid at Giza. An energetic exchange occurs here and in other areas of the greater vicinity, including Boynton Canyon near Sedona that is very ‘Egyptian' in visual feel and resonance. Within other sections the axialtonal and Reshel connections are to the Yaluzhangbu Grand Canyon located in Tibet. That is why so many of the formations in the Canyon were given Egyptian and Buddhist names. The resonance and connection to these places is quite real. The adept were able to translocate within these fields between the locations mentioned. Indeed there are several potent pyramids built by the Atlanteans within the Canyon, most now covered by the sands of time, yet one remains on the surface.
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&lt;br/&gt;We will add that the inner world chasms that exist below the canyon are among those closest to the surface. These extend for literally hundreds of miles and are occupied not only by the blue humanoid race of highly evolved LeMurians, but also contain bases for those from the Pleiades, Sirius, Andromeda and Arcturius. One of these connects to a massive chamber below what you term Groom Lake in Nevada. This area will become more important in the millennia to come, as it will serve as an evacuations point for seeding new planets. There are interactions between many extra terrestrials with scientist of certain governments today in this area. The work with the Sirians is for the benefit of mankind. As we mentioned earlier, in millennia to come this area will be key in the technology seeding of humankind into other worlds.
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&lt;br/&gt;We close by telling you, that the Canyon should be viewed as a great benevolent energy, one that enhances all who visit. There are many such places on the earth, but none quite so varied, quite so concentrated in auspicious advantage. Dear Ones, your planet is on course, it is well, it is where it should be. So often you speak of healing the Earth, yet we tell you it does not require healing, rather the Living Planet is healing you. The changes that are coming are must occur, and they need not occur in global cataclysm. We tell you the path is current that catastrophic change will not occur on a global level, as it did in the floods of Atlantis. The polar caps will melt, the water will rise, but this must take place in the new paradigm. It is the rebooting. Trust this truth. Be well, be happy, and find joy in these rapidly ascending times.
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&lt;br/&gt;Many areas on your planet are already in the fifth dimension and beyond. Many of these infinity points offer you profound insight, renewal through love and joy. The Grand Canyon is among the most potent of these. Indeed it is the generator, the wind beneath the wings of so many powernodes in this region, which include Zion National Park and Sedona. The Grand Canyon is truly the planetary creative chakra...the Womb of Mother Earth.
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&lt;br/&gt;I am Metatron, and you are Beloved ! 
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&lt;br/&gt;...and so it is. 
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    <title>World Gathering For Truth</title>
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    <title>Indigo Reality (lightworkerswebsite)</title>
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    <published>2008-02-01T03:04:56Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Subject: Al Quaeda recruiting young people from the Nations to the UK 
&lt;br/&gt;Hi Lil Sis...I had a very disturbing email from a lady who is of the Poarch/Creek Nation in the US. It appears her daughter who is 26 years old has been talking to a guy on the internet for the last six months and intends to fly to the UK at the end of next month to be with him. The mother is concerned as she spoke to her local FBI branch there in Florida and they have said he is a known Al Quaeda activist in the UK. My concern is that these extremists are preying on our vulnerable youngsters who may be looking for a way out of the rez or their homelife. Would you be able to put out a warning to the schools/band councils to warn of the dangers of what these people might offer to entice the Nations vulnerable young people away from home and safety? And of course to spread the word to whoever they know in other Nations..it is a very real danger. 
&lt;br/&gt;Welalin Lil Sis.. 
&lt;br/&gt;Big Sis..&lt;/div&gt;
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  <entry>
    <title>Changing!</title>
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      <name>bard</name>
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    <updated>2008-01-27T03:27:08Z</updated>
    <published>2008-01-16T07:10:10Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;I feel that this tribe is a Changing. I am not an American Indian. I am not even American, I am One of the Indians of all colors. I feel that it is changing. Some with a Strong voice are drowning out the Ones that want it to be the way this tribe was intended. 
&lt;br/&gt;I do not find that I even visit it much anymore.....if I have offended anyone by saying this, I apologise. I will say it anyway!
&lt;br/&gt;All is well, bard&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>Aboriginal population passes one million mark</title>
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    <updated>2008-01-18T19:42:28Z</updated>
    <published>2008-01-16T03:15:11Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Jean Levac/Canwest News ServiceCensus figures reveals that the aboriginal population is getting younger and has grown by 45% over the past decade 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;OTTAWA -- More than one million Canadians now identify themselves as aboriginal and about half of them are under the age of 24, says a report released on Tuesday by Statistics Canada. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The new analysis of the 2006 Census figures reveals that the aboriginal population is getting younger and has grown by 45% over the past decade, about six times faster than the 8% growth rate for the rest of Canada's population. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"They... have higher birth rates compared to the non-aboriginal population, but there's other factors too [that are] non-demographic," said Jane Badets, director of the social and aboriginal statistics division at Statistics Canada, in an interview. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;In total, the report said that 1,172,790 people identified themselves either as a North American Indian (First Nations), Metis or Inuit, up from 976,305 people in 2001. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The report notes that 54% of aboriginal people now live urban areas, up from 50% in 1996. In the three aboriginal groups combined, 48% of the people are under the age of 24, while in the rest of the Canadian population, only 31% are under 24. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;While the percentage of aboriginal people living in crowded homes with more than one person per room dropped from 17% to 11% over the past decade, one in four still live in a home that is in need of major repairs, the report says. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"It's a diverse population," said Ms. Badets. "That's important to remember. There's First Nations, Metis and Inuit, and where they live varies across the country and their conditions vary depending on the population." 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Many native languages also appear to be suffering a decline, according to the analysis. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"It is stronger among the older generation, and in general that's what we saw," said Ms. Badets. "In terms of the First Nations going off [a] reserve, they had reported a lower proportion who could speak an aboriginal language compared to those living on reserves. So that's the trend. We've seen it for about 10 years." 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The aboriginal group with the fastest growth is the Metis, which saw their population nearly double in size over the past decade up to 389,785 in 2006. The dramatic rise is mainly due to an increase in people who are now identifying themselves as a part of this group for the first time. But more than 97% of Metis who are under 45 said they do not speak an aboriginal language. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The Inuit population increased by 26 per cent to 50,485, and although 69% said they could speak Inuktitut, only 50% of these said they spoke it at home in 2006, versus 58% in 1996. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The North American Indians group saw a 29% increase in its population over the last decade, reaching 698,025 people. Only 29% of them could speak one of the 60 recorded aboriginal languages over the last decade. Cree was the most common one. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The Statistics Canada analysis says some of the recorded population growth is due to a higher birth rate, as well as an increase in the number of people who identify themselves as an aboriginal. The analysis notes as well that some reserves and settlements did not participate in the census in the past, although the number of incompletely enumerated reserves has dropped from 77 to 22 over the past decade. It mainly represents about 37,000 people in Mohawk communities according to preliminary estimates, said Badets. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Nearly eight out of 10 aboriginal people in Canada live in provinces west of Quebec, according to the report. Winnipeg is the city with the largest aboriginal population with 68,380 people, followed by Edmonton with 52,100 and Vancouver with 40,310. Toronto and Calgary each have 26,575 aboriginal people, the report says. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Aboriginal people comprise 3.8% of the total Canadian population, ranking second behind New Zealand, whose aboriginal population makes up 15% of its total. Australia and the U.S. are slightly behind Canada at 2%.&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>News from the Northeast~Yes we are still here ; )</title>
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    <updated>2008-01-06T03:21:43Z</updated>
    <published>2007-12-31T05:18:24Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Nora Bernard Aboriginal activist is found dead in her home and 
&lt;br/&gt;police are now suspecting foul play. 
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;December 16, 2006
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;By David Rodenhiser
&lt;br/&gt; The Daily News
&lt;br/&gt; "Bitter fight comes to end"
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt; Millbrook's Nora Bernard played key role in multibillion- dollar 
&lt;br/&gt; native-school settlement 
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;They picked the wrong kid to mess with when they dragged nine-year-
&lt;br/&gt;old Nora Bernard off to the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in 1945.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Sixty-one years later, the determined Millbrook woman has won 
&lt;br/&gt;what's  being called the largest class-action settlement in Canadian 
&lt;br/&gt;history - worth somewhere between $4 billion and $5 billion - for 
&lt;br/&gt;an estimated 79,000 survivors of the residential school system.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;"I just want to tell the survivors that I am so happy for them that 
&lt;br/&gt;this is over," Bernard, 71, said yesterday. "I love every one of 
&lt;br/&gt;them."
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;The first lawsuits over abuse suffered at residential schools were 
&lt;br/&gt;filed in 1990. But there was no consolidated effort until five 
&lt;br/&gt;years later when Bernard convinced Halifax lawyer John McKiggan to 
&lt;br/&gt;represent her and other Shubenacadie survivors in a class-action 
&lt;br/&gt;suit.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;"I firmly believe that if it wasn't for Nora's efforts, and other 
&lt;br/&gt;survivors like her across Canada, this national settlement never 
&lt;br/&gt;would have happened," McKiggan said.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;"After we filed our lawsuit, a number of other students from other 
&lt;br/&gt;schools filed similar class actions. Those class actions eventually 
&lt;br/&gt;merged into the one national class action that has now been 
&lt;br/&gt;approved  by the courts."
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Only two left
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Judges in 10 provinces and the Yukon endorsed the settlement 
&lt;br/&gt;yesterday, leaving Nunavut and the Northwest Territories as the 
&lt;br/&gt;only jurisdictions left to OK the deal.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;In his written decision, Ontario Superior Court Justice Warren 
&lt;br/&gt;Winkler described the residential school system as a "seriously 
&lt;br/&gt;flawed failure." His verdict included the Shubenacadie survivors.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;"The effects of the residential school legacy were lasting and 
&lt;br/&gt;profound," Winkler wrote.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Bernard, her three sisters and two brothers all went to the 
&lt;br/&gt;Shubenacadie school. She spent five years there; her youngest 
&lt;br/&gt;sister, nine.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;"It was no place for a child," she recalled. "Once you entered 
&lt;br/&gt;those big doors in the front and they slammed behind you, it was just 
&lt;br/&gt;like going into a prison."
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;A federal Indian agent threatened Bernard's mother into turning the 
&lt;br/&gt;kids over to the school, warning that if she didn't sign the 
&lt;br/&gt;papers, the welfare system would apprehend the children.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;It was a common experience. Noel Knockwood, now 74, went to the 
&lt;br/&gt;Shubenacadie school in 1939 after an Indian agent threatened to 
&lt;br/&gt;jail his father. McKiggan said he has clients who were taken away by 
&lt;br/&gt;Indian agents while Mounties held their parents at bay at gunpoint.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;The Roman Catholic Church operated the Shubenacadie school for most 
&lt;br/&gt;of its existence. It opened in 1930 and finally closed in 1967. It 
&lt;br/&gt;took in aboriginal children from the Maritime provinces, 
&lt;br/&gt;Newfoundland and parts of Quebec.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;As Knockwood describes it, the goal of the residential school 
&lt;br/&gt;system, which dated back to the late 1800s, was "cultural genocide."
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;"They were trying to get rid of what Parliament referred to as 'the 
&lt;br/&gt;Indian problem' by assimilating aboriginal people into Canadian 
&lt;br/&gt;culture, so that they would no longer have to spend money on the 
&lt;br/&gt;Department of Indian Affairs and on reserves," McKiggan 
&lt;br/&gt;explained. "It is an incredibly sad part of Canadian history."
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;At Shubenacadie, the kids weren't allowed to speak the Mi'kmaq 
&lt;br/&gt;language. Disobedience often resulted in a slap across the mouth by 
&lt;br/&gt;one of the Sisters of Charity.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;"The goal was to take our culture and our language away from us," 
&lt;br/&gt;Bernard said. "Also, what they were doing was training us as 
&lt;br/&gt;domestic help. The boys were trained for farm work."
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Effects still felt
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;She and Knockwood, a Mi'kmaq spiritual leader, were able to retain 
&lt;br/&gt;their language. Others were not, and met with ostracism when they 
&lt;br/&gt;returned to the reserve. 
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;The hurt caused by this attack on their culture has rippled down 
&lt;br/&gt;through the generations.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Knockwood credits Bernard with making "a tremendous contribution to 
&lt;br/&gt;Canada as a whole in standing up for liberty and justice and 
&lt;br/&gt;freedom." He says she deserves the Aboriginal Achievement Award. 
&lt;br/&gt;Bernard, though, remains humble.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;"I guess, probably, I have a real big heart," she laughs.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;But, when asked what inspired her battle, she's suddenly serious.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;"Justice," Bernard replies without hesitation. "I wanted justice 
&lt;br/&gt;for 
&lt;br/&gt;my First Nations people that attended the residential schools - not 
&lt;br/&gt;only down here - throughout Canada."&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>Lakota Freedom</title>
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    <updated>2007-12-31T22:12:20Z</updated>
    <published>2007-12-29T19:09:24Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;We would like to make a special acknowledgement of all the Indigenous Nations and Independence Movements who have contacted us with their support.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Aho! We've had more than half a million hits on our website in one week! Thanks for your interest and support!
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Pilameya! Many thanks to all people who are sharing their support and solidarity with us. People from more than 100 different nations have visited our website. The whole world is watching!
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.lakotafreedom.com/&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>Wounded Knees Massacre</title>
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    <updated>2007-12-31T05:17:36Z</updated>
    <published>2007-12-29T17:17:47Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Today is the anniversary of Wonded Knee Massacre, in which 500 Infantry soldiers massacred our brothers and sisters. How are you honoring this day?  How will you honor this day?  Are you doing anything in honor of our Brothers and Sisters?&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>ABROGATION OF TREATISE</title>
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    <updated>2007-12-29T17:21:08Z</updated>
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    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;With all this discussion about the "new" Lakota nation ... I am wondering if anyone actually knows/understands what will happen if these treatise are abrogated? &lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>Wolves in Danger</title>
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    <updated>2007-12-29T07:39:58Z</updated>
    <published>2007-12-28T19:23:20Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;28,000 concerned signatures needed!!!!!
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;While most Americans have been celebrating the holidays, officials in the Bush/Cheney Administration have been working behind the scenes to pave the way for the killing of hundreds of wolves in the Greater Yellowstone area. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;We can't let them get away with it! 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Please go to Defenders of Wildlife's website to send a message to U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and urge him to abandon efforts to let states start killing wolves and to delay de-listing of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies: 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;action.defenders.org/sneakattack
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Over the last several weeks, officials within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have been quietly moving forward with rule changes that would allow officials in Idaho and Wyoming to begin killing wolves -- even before gray wolves are removed from the list of federally protected threatened and endangered species. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;This latest proposal would jump start plans to use fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and other means to kill hundreds of wolves, leaving few more than 200 of the wolves in Idaho. In fact, three-quarters of the wolves in the Lolo District of the Clearwater National Forest could be removed... even before they are de-listed. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;And, unfortunately, it's not just Idaho's wolves that are threatened by the proposal. Hundreds of wolves in Wyoming could be shot and trapped under the new rules -- whether wolves are removed from the endangered and threatened species list or not. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;A decision on the proposal is expected in the next few weeks. Please email Secretary Kempthorne right now and let him know that you oppose any proposal that would threaten the long-term future of wolves in the Northern Rockies and Greater Yellowstone Region. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Take action online now at: 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;action.defenders.org/sneakattack
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Thanks so much for helping me save wolves! 
&lt;br/&gt;To take action on this issue, click on the link below: 
&lt;br/&gt;secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy
&lt;br/&gt;If the text above does not appear as a link or it wraps across multiple lines, then copy and paste it into the address area of your browser&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>Some news articles on the Lakota from Wahela Bluejay</title>
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    <updated>2007-12-28T03:13:29Z</updated>
    <published>2007-12-27T16:44:44Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Tribe official says council will consider treaty pullout
&lt;br/&gt;Mike Nowatzki, The Forum
&lt;br/&gt;Published Thursday, December 27, 2007
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Avis Little Eagle says she understands the frustration that led Lakota activists to announce a plan to withdraw from the tribe’s treaties with the U.S. government.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;However, the vice chairwoman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council advocates holding the federal government to the provisions in those treaties, rather than withdrawing from them.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;“I see where they’re coming from,” she said of American Indian Movement leader Russell Means and other members of the Lakota Freedom Delegation who declared the Lakota people’s independence to the State Department last week in Washington, D.C.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;“But we, as elected officials, on a daily basis we refer to those treaties because to us they are living documents,” Little Eagle said Wednesday from the tribe’s headquarters in Fort Yates, N.D.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Little Eagle said council members will probably discuss the delegation’s letter, “and I can’t say what action they will take.”
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
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&lt;br/&gt;Duane Martin Sr., a delegation member and leader of the Strongheart Civil Rights Movement, said Wednesday that the State Department had yet to respond to the notice of withdrawal from the treaties.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;“We are anxious that they will (respond). We’ve got other nations looking at us in a positive venue,” he said, noting that the delegation has sought recognition of sovereignty from Bolivia, Chile and South Africa, among others.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;In its notice, the delegation claims that the United States’ continuing violation of treaties, including the Treaty of 1851 and the Treaty of 1868 at Fort Laramie, “have resulted in the near annihilation of our people physically, spiritually and culturally.”
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;If the federal government doesn’t recognize the tribe’s independence, Lakota people will file liens on land in the five-state treaty area, which includes parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Nebraska and Wyoming, the letter of withdrawal says.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Means said members of the new Lakota nation wouldn’t pay taxes, and the new government would issue its own driver’s licenses and passports, the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Argus Leader reported. Non-Indians could still live in the new territory.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Little Eagle, a Hunkpapa Lakota, said many tribal governments are frustrated with a lack of federal support for health care, law enforcement and other provisions in treaties the U.S. government has failed to honor.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;“If they bring attention to it, maybe it’ll be to the good,” she said.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;She said she didn’t know about the delegation’s plans before the announcement.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Delegation members have made it clear that they don’t represent tribal governments, which are described on the group’s Web site as “beholden to the colonial apartheid system” and “ ‘stay by the fort’ Indians who are unwilling to claim their freedom.”
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Martin said members spent 3½ years gathering input and support from tribal elders and others on the reservations before announcing the plan.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;“They’re tired of this colonial oppression,” he said.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Readers can reach Forum reporter Mike Nowatzki at (701) 241-5528&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>Lakota Freedom: Treaty Withdrawal For Elders and Children</title>
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    <updated>2007-12-28T01:56:49Z</updated>
    <published>2007-12-25T21:05:00Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;MEDIA ADVISORY
&lt;br/&gt;Immediate Release: 24 December 2007
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Media Contacts:
&lt;br/&gt;Naomi Archer, Communications Liaison (828) 230-1404 lakotafree [at] gmail.com
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Lakota Freedom: Treaty Withdrawal For Elders and Children
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Sovereignty Action Sparks World Discussion, Disagreement, Inspiration
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Lakota - What began as sparsely attended press conference announcing Lakota sovereignty has grown into an international roar of freedom inspiring people on every continent and sparking excitement and discussion in homes, tribal councils, schools, and on internet blogs and message boards. Across Indian Country in particular, the impact of the sovereign action is creating both inspiration and concern as the reality of freedom sinks in.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;But mixed with the excitement and joy are concerns the Lakota people's needs will not be fully met, especially needs and concerns of the youth.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Lakota Freedom delegate and Oglala Lakota Cante Tenza - Strongheart Warrior Society leader Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.) issued the following statement after discussion with the Strongheart Grandmothers:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"The whole Lakota declaration of withdrawal from the treaty is vested on the power of the Lakota people and our children.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;When we undertook the process of announcing the withdrawal, the capacity was far greater than most people anticipated about an individual. But throughout our history, the people have never excluded anyone within their own lifeway and when it becomes a listener's view that its about one individual, one individual does not represent the nation itself, the nation represents the individual, and that is Lakota.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The withdrawal is for the people, the Elders, mothers, fathers, and the children.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Throughout our history and through the enforcement of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, Congress said they would oversee the provisions of 1868 (Fort Laramie Treaty), but they failed to do so. Some minor provisions were kept, but overall the treaty was not honored. Because if the treaty was honored, we would not have this colonial catastrophe of alcoholism, drug abuse and poverty and we wouldn't have the overall high incarceration rate of the male and female in the prison populations. This leads to our children being taking away by Social Services which puts our children out of balance from learning the traditional lifeway.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;When the children can reconnect with who they are, they come back to the process of knowing what is Lakota in the true point of view. In this true point of view Lakota is about being free and left alone, so we can govern and save our own with the teachings of the Animal Nations.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;If we can conclude with this statement in the positive venue, its not about Russell Means, and certainly not about Canupa Gluha Mani or any individual, this about the Lakota Nation and the Animal People who are no longer alone."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;We are the freedom loving Lakota from the Sioux Indian reservations of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana who have withdrawn from the constitutionally mandated treaties to become a free and independent country. We are alerting the Family of Nations we have now reassumed our freedom and independence with the backing of Natural, International, and United States law. For more information, please visit our new website at www.lakotafreedom.com.&lt;/div&gt;
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  <entry>
    <title>The Reality of Pine Ridge</title>
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    <updated>2007-12-27T14:02:19Z</updated>
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    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Below is a letter that I got from a friend of mine from Pine Ridge. All of the names that were enclosed have been edited to keep my friends anonymity. Life is hell for them....she writes me almost everyday to keep me up to speed. We try to help but we are alone in this movement and money is low for us to help them. ************ 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Hey there~, 
&lt;br/&gt;It's a cold day in hell here!!I'm hoping I don't run out of propane soon,the tank is on empty and we are on fumes!!I never made it to Rapid City!or Wal Mart for Christmas....no gas!!.......besides my daughter Worm is being stubborn and unforgiving!!I kicked her out cause she didn't listen to me, she's in a very unhealthy friendship with a this cousin of hers! and she's on her way to self destruction!she's drunk all the time,going to bars and getting pushed around by my niece!!I'm going to let her have it when I see her!!stupid little shit thinks I don't know about him taking advantage of my daughter !! I don't give a goddamn if she's needy,!!I confronted my daughter about her cousin and she told me to stay out of her life!! 
&lt;br/&gt;Ohhhh! I'm so pissed off that I just want to kick her ass when I see her! 
&lt;br/&gt;I was so pissed when he tried to hang himself in front of my daughter, he says nobody likes him or cares about her anyway!! I almost fell for that bullshit but now I know different!! Well enough of that!! I'm tired of thinking about this........it makes me sick that my daughter may someday take her own life because nobody likes or cares about her!!! 
&lt;br/&gt;So how was your Christmas?? did you cook?? I volunteered my time to cook, but before I got there the 'special' volunteers took all the good presents, you know who I mean, and all her people I didn't go for the gifts, just the dinner Monday night...because the vice-president decided not to pass out the presents that same evening..What an ass hole!! nothing ever goes right here! besides half the presents were stolen!! 
&lt;br/&gt;Again!! You know they would rip off their own mother just to get what they want in life ,like the evil sisters I told you about!! Somebody told our community chair that they received a donation of $600,but they were at the Lakota Nation Indian tournaments, and was spending money that was given to the kids here!! Geez!! everyone goes nuts over money even if its intended for the children...Well I hope you had a better holiday than I did!! I hope everyone gets what's coming to them!! Later...signing off from this place I know as hell........M!! &lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>Bearcloud paintings Awesome!!</title>
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      <name>Wendy</name>
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    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;http://wwwbearcloudgallery.com/paintings.html&lt;/div&gt;
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    <dc:date>2007-12-27T08:23:10Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>A Xmas wish</title>
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    <updated>2007-12-24T23:48:51Z</updated>
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    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;I do not wish for a fancy tree, 
&lt;br/&gt;All strung with glitter and lights. 
&lt;br/&gt;I do not wish for presents, 
&lt;br/&gt;Delivered in dark of night. 
&lt;br/&gt;I do not wish for a lavish meal, 
&lt;br/&gt;And bottles of sparkling wine. 
&lt;br/&gt;No presents from my dearest friends, 
&lt;br/&gt;Whos hearts are full and kind. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;My only wish, upon this day, 
&lt;br/&gt;Of Christmas joy and cheer, 
&lt;br/&gt;Is...may everyone upon the Earth, 
&lt;br/&gt;Have someone there to share. 
&lt;br/&gt;Someone to hold a weary hand, 
&lt;br/&gt;And hug a saddened heart. 
&lt;br/&gt;To unite again, the human race, 
&lt;br/&gt;that war has torn apart. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Someone to bring the presents, 
&lt;br/&gt;Of Christmas peace and love, 
&lt;br/&gt;Into the hearts of ALL mankind, 
&lt;br/&gt;THE PRESENTS OF THE DOVE. 
&lt;br/&gt;......... I wish ..................... 
&lt;br/&gt;Blessings and love xxx&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>Ambassador Leo Emil Wanta ($27.5 Trillion Man) Libertarian / Lakota Sioux ?</title>
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    <updated>2007-12-23T23:22:48Z</updated>
    <published>2007-12-23T23:22:48Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Confidential sources have confirmed that the $27.5 Trillion Man, Ambassador Leo Emil Wanta, has expressed interest in the viability of a third party system (Independent / Libertarian) and the Presidential candidacy of Ron Paul (Congressman - Texas).
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;A hero of the Cold War, the Ambassador was in charge of a covert financial warfare operation ordered by Pres Reagan which led to the collapse of the Soviet currency and banking. By the early 1990's as Trustee of Ameritrust Group, Inc, the Ambassador amassed $27.5 trillion in assets.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"Under Reagan's Executive Order 12333 of 1981, US intelligence officers were permitted to establish corporations which could thereafter contract with the CIA/DIA/DEA/NSA et al for the purpose of fulfilling allotted intelligence tasks allocated to them.The financial proceeds of operations conducted by such corporations were consequently the property of the corporations and thus of their shareholders, a legal fact of life which has never been, and cannot be, disputed. This was not a good idea because almost all US intelligence operatives are liars and do not function on the basis of the Rule of Law at all, if they can help it.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Lee Wanta is the well-known patriotic exception to this rule: he operates solely in accordance with US law, in contrast to the behaviour of other US operatives, which is why the kakocracy* needed to remove him from the scene, as duly occurred July 1993.Once Wanta had been illegally arrested (contrary to international law, as a diplomat) and then thrown into a stinking Swiss jail on 7th July 1993, the criminal cadres inside the US official structures immediately ransacked Mr Wanta's bank accounts according to plan..."
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.worldreports.org/news/107_warring_israeli_intel_threatens_rubin_with_death
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Confidential sources have also confirmed that the Ambassador has expressed interest in a proposed "tax free" Sovereign Lakota Sioux Nation covering a 5 State region where he might invest his $4.5 trillion settlement. www.lakotafreedom.com/
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Stay Tuned...&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>Lakota Sioux Indians Declare Sovereign Nation Status</title>
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    <updated>2007-12-21T04:28:51Z</updated>
    <published>2007-12-21T03:01:32Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;MEDIA ADVISORY
&lt;br/&gt;Immediate Release: 19 December 2007
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Media Contacts:
&lt;br/&gt;Naomi Archer, Communications Liaison (828) 230-1404 lakotafree [at] gmail.com
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Freedom! Lakota Sioux Indians Declare Sovereign Nation Status
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Threaten Land Liens, Contested Real Estate Over Five State Area in U.S. West
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Lakota Satisfies Treaty Council Mandate of 33 Years, Drafted by 97 Indigenous Nations
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Dakota Territory Reverts back to Lakota Control According to U.S., International Law
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Washington D.C. – Lakota Sioux Indian representatives declared sovereign nation status today in Washington D.C. following Monday’s withdrawal from all previously signed treaties with the United States Government. The withdrawal, hand delivered to Daniel Turner, Deputy Director of Public Liaison at the State Department, immediately and irrevocably ends all agreements between the Lakota Sioux Nation of Indians and the United States Government outlined in the 1851 and 1868 Treaties at Fort Laramie Wyoming.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;“This is an historic day for our Lakota people,” declared Russell Means, Itacan of Lakota. “United States colonial rule is at its end!”
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;“Today is a historic day and our forefathers speak through us. Our Forefathers made the treaties in good faith with the sacred Canupa and with the knowledge of the Great Spirit,” shared Garry Rowland from Wounded Knee. “They never honored the treaties, that’s the reason we are here today.”
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The four member Lakota delegation traveled to Washington D.C. culminating years of internal discussion among treaty representatives of the various Lakota communities. Delegation members included well known activist and actor Russell Means, Women of All Red Nations (WARN) founder Phyllis Young, Oglala Lakota Strong Heart Society leader Duane Martin Sr., and Garry Rowland, Leader Chief Big Foot Riders. Means, Rowland, Martin Sr. were all members of the 1973 Wounded Knee takeover.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;“In order to stop the continuous taking of our resources – people, land, water and children- we have no choice but to claim our own destiny,” said Phyllis Young, a former Indigenous representative to the United Nations and representative from Standing Rock.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Property ownership in the five state area of Lakota now takes center stage. Parts of North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana have been illegally homesteaded for years despite knowledge of Lakota as predecessor sovereign [historic owner]. Lakota representatives say if the United States does not enter into immediate diplomatic negotiations, liens will be filed on real estate transactions in the five state region, clouding title over literally thousands of square miles of land and property.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Young added, “The actions of Lakota are not intended to embarrass the United States but to simply save the lives of our people”.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Following Monday’s withdrawal at the State Department, the four Lakota Itacan representatives have been meeting with foreign embassy officials in order to hasten their official return to the Family of Nations.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Lakota’s efforts are gaining traction as Bolivia, home to Indigenous President Evo Morales, shared they are “very, very interested in the Lakota case” while Venezuela received the Lakota delegation with “respect and solidarity.”
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;“Our meetings have been fruitful and we hope to work with these countries for better relations,” explained Garry Rowland. “As a nation, we have equal status within the national community.”
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Education, energy and justice now take top priority in emerging Lakota. “Cultural immersion education is crucial as a next step to protect our language, culture and sovereignty,” said Means. “Energy independence using solar, wind, geothermal, and sugar beets enables Lakota to protect our freedom and provide electricity and heating to our people.”
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The Lakota reservations are among the most impoverished areas in North America, a shameful legacy of broken treaties and apartheid policies. Lakota has the highest death rate in the United States and Lakota men have the lowest life expectancy of any nation on earth, excluding AIDS, at approximately 44 years. Lakota infant mortality rate is five times the United States average and teen suicide rates 150% more than national average . 97% of Lakota people live below the poverty line and unemployment hovers near 85%.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;“After 150 years of colonial enforcement, when you back people into a corner there is only one alternative,” emphasized Duane Martin Sr. “The only alternative is to bring freedom into its existence by taking it back to the love of freedom, to our lifeway.”
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;We are the freedom loving Lakota from the Sioux Indian reservations of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana who have suffered from cultural and physical genocide in the colonial apartheid system we have been forced to live under. We are in Washington DC to withdraw from the constitutionally mandated treaties to become a free and independent country. We are alerting the Family of Nations we have now reassumed our freedom and independence with the backing of Natural, International, and United States law. For more information, please visit our new website at www.lakotafreedom.com.&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>The Death Of The Great Spirit... Labels and how they effect us</title>
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      <name>Tonya</name>
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    <updated>2007-12-18T19:02:17Z</updated>
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    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;During the summer of 2007, while on chemo to fight Hep-C, a dear friend gave me many books to help me through this time of struggle. One of the books is titled "The Death Of The Great Spirit". Last night Spirit guided me to finally pick up this book and read it. However, I found that I could not get past the first few lines of the book. At first it was a mystery as to Why I could not bring myself to read this book, after all, the preface spoke of the Lakota Sweat Lodge teachings and all the other things I longed to understand... so, why was I having so much trouble reading the book?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I put down the book after only reading for a few seconds and began to pray and asked Spirit why this was happening to me. The answer was simple... Labels, were stopping me!  Wow, I really thought that I had grown past the trap of allowing labels to stop me from learning... but Spirit was now telling me otherwise... and my actions were confiriming what Spirit had shared.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The lines that I read are as follows... 
&lt;br/&gt;"You shouldn't have taken advantage of me, Injun Charley; not then, when I was five and you were a hundred and five. You shouldn't have taken advantage of me when my child's mind was naked and you had such luxuriant swaddles to offer; heroic gore, John Locke, the sound of bugles, glory in the God of your fathers. They were naked too, Charley; you told me so yourself. You said they wore nothing but paint and feathers."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Ok, so that should not have been enough to stop me from doing what Spirit guided, and reading the book. However, ONE WORD turned me away and told my mind that this book is a farce, written by a white man who is trying to pretend he knows of such things as the sweat lodge and other sacred teachings... that word was "Injun".
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;How petty of me!!!! 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;When the truth is, even if this book is what I think it is... a farce.. a white man's attempt to gain from pretending to understand... can I not also learn by seeing truth through the lies... and is it not possible that during this attempt, the guy might actually stumble upon something that will spur me to think deeper on needed topics? Of course this is ALL true!
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Well, I will force myself to read this book and perhaps share some of what it says... in doing this, perhaps We will discuss some much needed healing topics... and find a path that allows us to see past the labels in order to grow.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Hugs,
&lt;br/&gt;T
&lt;br/&gt;
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    <title>Unity</title>
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    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/indiansofallcolors/thread/328dfaf5-108e-4e5c-85c5-5804a5f1a73d</id>
    <updated>2007-12-16T21:11:35Z</updated>
    <published>2007-12-16T15:12:08Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;We all have the same dreams
&lt;br/&gt;to live 
&lt;br/&gt;and breathe free
&lt;br/&gt;to love
&lt;br/&gt;and 
&lt;br/&gt;be loved
&lt;br/&gt;and 
&lt;br/&gt;to be respected for 
&lt;br/&gt;the spirit we carry within
&lt;br/&gt;that cries out for peace
&lt;br/&gt;Only when
&lt;br/&gt;we realize this to be true
&lt;br/&gt;will we all
&lt;br/&gt;dance together as one
&lt;br/&gt;great nation of humanity&lt;/div&gt;
				&lt;div&gt;
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		&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
    <dc:creator>WabanakiWmn</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2007-12-16T15:12:08Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The Selling of Native American Scalps</title>
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    <author>
      <name>WabanakiWmn</name>
    </author>
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