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On the Long Road to Root Camp

oddyssey — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:16:33 GMT

15 April 2008

You and I tend to think of road trips in terms of hours or a few days. Like a 560 mile drive from Shurz, NV to Arco, Idaho would take us 8 or 10 hours to drive, and some of us might moan and groan about the long drive. Now imagine Finisia's reality of 7 WEEKS on the road and an additional 160 miles to reach the Arco Root Camp, barely in time for the June 14th Root Festival. Imagine progressing at only 20 miles a day, 100 miles a week, 49 days and nights, setting up camp each night, and breaking camp in the morning, hitching up and unhitching the horses, watering and feeding the "team", devising makeshift detours around cattle guards in the roadways, repairing mechanical breakdowns, etc. We've heard about the hardships of the pioneers traversing the American frontiers in covered wagons 150 years ago... and we are fortunate to know a real pioneer woman who chooses to live according to the "old ways" and endure the hardships of the pioneers so that she might be truly connected and grounded to the essence of nature, the land & sky, plants and animals, Mother Earth, Life and Spirit.

Finisia and Coyote Camp have completed a successful and fulfilling "Rewilding Camp" in Shurz Nevada with the Paiute tribe. On April 12th they broke camp and headed North to Root Camp and Root Festival in Arco Idaho. Finisia called me yesterday and described how she originally headed south out of Shurz , NV towards Hawthorne and encountered a herd of 60 wild mustang horses blocking the highway. From past experience, she is very wary of the reactions of the wild mustangs to her horses, and has even had them try to charge right up the wagon tongue. Another consequence of trying to manuever her horses and wagon through the wild herd is that the herd will continue to follow, right into the Main Street of the next town Hawthorne. Just imagine the spectacle of Finisia's primitive wagon train plodding into the center of town with a herd of 60 wild mustangs all around her. Imagine the commotion that would cause!! I would have loved to be sitting next to Finisia on the wagon seat for that close encounter of the 4th kind. She decided it was worth the risk to forge ahead through the herd, but then she learned from a passerby that the highway beyond Hawthorne was under road construction and closed down to one single lane. With this 2nd obstacle in her chosen path, Fin decided to take a detour and head north to Fallon and then east to Middlegate, South to Tonopah, North to Ely and eventually Arco, Idaho, 720 miles away.

I was puzzled why she was heading South on a 720 mile journey to reach her northern destination, instead of taking the 560 mile northern route, and her answer was simple... there are 3 or 4 very hard pulls up steep, mountainous regions on the northern route from Fallon. The force of gravity on the steep ascents and descents is a formidable challenge for the horses, and a mechanical brake failure (yes, even covered wagons need brakes) would spell disaster for Fin, her horses and wagon. Then there is the extreme weather factor. Several of the summits on this northerly route are over 7000 feet and in April & May, snow blizzards are a likely and common occurrence. A wagon and horses on a steep paved road come to a grinding halt in snow, with possibly nowhere to setup camp and are endanger a deadly collision with fast moving cars and trucks. Another major obstacle is that they would end up on "Super Highway" I-80, and no slow moving vehicles, especially horse drawn covered wagons are permitted on Super Highways. Fin boasted that she has traveled the shoulder of Interstate 80 in her wagon before, because there is no other option. The old two lane highway was obliterated when I-80 was constructed and there are no other side roads following that I-80 route. So the path of least resistance leads south before it heads north and adds 160 miles and 1 1/2+ weeks to the journey.

Fin's traveling companion is Jon "Jon the bicyclist, a voice crying out in the wilderness" as Finisia called him yesterday. He usually travels the countryside on his bicycle and he joined Finisia in early March. Last week after the Shurz Rewilding Camp was completed, he rode his bike the 70 miles to Reno, to take care of personal business and yesterday he returned to join Finisia in her long trek across the desert. He "planted" a very good journal entry in the Wiki-Garden that is worth reading. At times he will ride his bike and at times he will ride next to Finisia on the wagon. Fin is grateful to have his companionship on this long, lonely journey.

Let us keep Finisia and Jon in our thoughts and prayers, envisioning their good health, well being, security, good fortune, and safe passage on their long journey.

Well... that is the latest news from "Coyote Camp" on the road to Root Camp & Festival. You are invited to join them there!! Stay tuned for future updates.

http://www.pullingforwildflowers.org

Fin's messenger
Orion >>

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Lauren & Forrest's Hoop Experience

oddyssey — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:05:11 GMT

Hi Orion. We wrote up a little bit for the web site and were wondering if you would put it on for us where ever it needs to go. Pictures are on their way. Thanks for your help! - Lauren
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Every morning, we walk down the dirt road about a quarter of a mile from camp to act out our morning prayers. For some, this means meditation, journaling, or walking your dogs. For us, it means digging little holes in the sandy river-bottom and taking a healthy shit. Besides returning our beloved feces to the Earth Mother, instead of the to the porcelain gods, we are also giving the Mother little shit-covered currant seeds to nurture.

You see, berry seeds need to be eaten in order to flourish. The grinding and acid-bath they receive in digestion is as necessary a treatment for these seeds as a Day Spa is for a young starlet. Without this interaction from humans and bears, the native berries of Nevada have all but disappeared.

One morning, an angry local woman told someone in our camp that if we continued to pass by their sacred dance ground in order to access the river bottom, we could be shot down like dogs for trespassing! This created quite a stir in coyote camp. Some of us wished to respect her blatant threats. Others in camp were unwilling to shit in perfectly good water just to make the angry "groundskeeper" happy. After all, we never said she had to join us in it. Ultimately, we decided to keep planting. Hours after this decision was made in camp, some friends from the res dropped by to say hello. They told us who the river bottom property belonged to. We laughed so hard when we heard the name - they had been out diggin roots with us earlier that day!

Two years ago a few of us from coyote camp came through here to attend a Ghost Dance. We got ran out within an evening because we're white. Now we have returned and set up camp here and the people have warmed up to us in this time. We took an old married couple (John and Vernadine) and a rancher named Doug out on the auto tours one day and watched them transform from grandparent-aged into children as they learned about the breadroot, onions, sego lilies, and their habitats. They talked to us of their Grandmothers taking them out, or going out and doing that very same life-giving interaction with the Earth. Vernadine was spirit walked with the old way coming in to her life, Doug loved the taste of Sego Lilies. It was really a joy for us to see the prophecy of the "ingamoche" come to fruit, of the descendents of the white conquerors returning a lost way to the native people.

Re-introducing them to some food plants was a meaningful experience for all of us. These three people were all quite aged in years, and had missed out on some of these teachings for whatever reason. It seemed that spirit had devised for them to have that experience in life even still. Doug told us the situation reminded him of the tim he learned to use a bow and arrow from a white man. John, about to turn 87, is just now learning to tan hides. Vernadine and Forrest discovered they have the same birthday. Crossing the division between races, age and culture is not always so fun - what a blessing of a day!

Lauren and Forrest
with Fin and Coyote Camp

Check out the photo taken of Coyote Camp by a passerby and emailed
www.pullingforwildflowers.org

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Chief Seattle's Reply to the "White Chief" - 1854

oddyssey — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:38:46 GMT

"Man did not weave the web of life - he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."

In 1854, "The Great White Chief" in Washington made an offer to Chief Seattle for a large area of Indian land and promised a "reservation" for the Indian people.

Chief Seattle's reply has been described as one of the most beautiful and profound statements on the environment ever made:

"The Great Chief in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land.
He asks much of us but it will not be easy, for this land is sacred to us.

How can you buy or sell the sky, the rain and the wind? The idea is strange to us.

If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?

Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The sap which courses through the trees carries the memories of the red man.

The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony, and man --- all belong to the same family.

So, when the Great Chief in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land, he asks much of us. The Great Chief sends word he will reserve us a place so that we can live comfortably to ourselves. He will be our father and we will be his children.

So, we will consider your offer to buy our land. But it will not be easy. For this land is sacred to us. This shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water but the blood of our ancestors. If we sell you the land, you must remember that it is sacred, and you must teach your children that it is sacred and that each ghostly reflection in the clear water of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

The rivers are our brothers, they quench our thirst. The rivers carry our canoes, and feed our children. If we sell you our land, you must remember, and teach your children, that the rivers are our brothers and yours, and you must henceforth give the rivers the kindness you would give any brother.

We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on. He leaves his father's grave behind, and he does not care. He kidnaps the earth from his children, and he does not care. His father's grave, and his children's birthright are forgotten. He treats his mother, the earth, and his brother, the sky, as things to be bought, plundered, sold like sheep or bright beads. His appetite will devour the earth and leave behind only a desert.

I do not know. Our ways are different than your ways. The sight of your cities pains the eyes of the red man. There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring or the rustle of the insect's wings. The clatter only seems to insult the ears. And what is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pond at night? I am a red man and do not understand. The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of a pond and the smell of the wind itself, cleaned by a midday rain, or scented with pinon pine.

The air is precious to the red man for all things share the same breath, the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days he is numb to the stench. But if we sell you our land, you must remember that the air is precious to us, that the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also receives his last sigh. And if we sell you our land, you must keep it apart and sacred as a place where even the white man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow's flowers.

So we will consider your offer to buy our land. If we decide to accept, I will make one condition - the white man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers.

I am a savage and do not understand any other way. I have seen a thousand rotting buffaloes on the prairie, left by the white man who shot them from a passing train. I am a savage and do not understand how the smoking iron horse can be made more important than the buffalo that we kill only to stay alive.

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of the spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children that we have taught our children that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

This we know; the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected.

Even the white man, whose God walks and talks with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all. We shall see. One thing we know which the white man may one day discover; our God is the same God.

You may think now that you own Him as you wish to own our land; but you cannot. He is the God of man, and His compassion is equal for the red man and the white. The earth is precious to Him, and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator. The whites too shall pass; perhaps sooner than all other tribes. Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

But in your perishing you will shine brightly fired by the strength of the God who brought you to this land and for some special purpose gave you dominion over this land and over the red man.

That destiny is a mystery to us, for we do not understand when the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses are tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with the scent of many men and the view of the ripe hills blotted by talking wires.

Where is the thicket? Gone.

Where is the eagle? Gone.

The end of living and the beginning of survival."

Chief Seattle
1854

www.pullingforwildflowers.org

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Update - Shurz Nevada Rewilding Camp

oddyssey — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:30:16 GMT

Update from Walker River Paiute Reservation
30 Mar 2008

Finisia, Kimmie Jo, and John arrived and setup camp in Shurz, Nevada today, a couple of days early. Forrest and a friend will be arriving tomorrow afternoon from Idaho. They have already began their "auto tours" with interested local residents into the surrounding countryside and are very excited and energized by the positive reactions of the locals that joined them on the first day.

Several Native American families joined in and the children were especially enthusiastic about getting their hands dirty while learning about these wild natural plants that sustained their ancestors on this land. One young boy was so excited by the sweet, delicious roots they were finding, that he turned the barrel of his toy rifle into a root digging tool. Another young girl remarked that these plants are growing around their schoolyard.

With this early enthusiastic response of the locals, "Coyote Camp" is looking forward to a very bountiful, worthwhile, productive, meaningful and fulfilling "Rewilding Camp" in Shurz, Nevada.

If you are interested in joining them at Shurz, they are camped with their wagon and horses 1 mile south of Schurz, on the land behind the Smokeshop / Truck Stop on Highway 95.

For more news from Coyote Camp and the Western Sacred Hoops, please visit
www.pullingforwildflowers.org

Blessings,
Odyssey >>

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Geneva lodge with Badger

pookie — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:21:45 GMT

Badger just called Finisia and was very pleased about the Lomatium sprouting on his land near Bend, Oregon. He would like to invite his friends, old and new to visit his lodge in April and enjoy the beauty of this natural advent with him Saturday April 26th 2008. Please call him if you are interested, his cell number is 541-350-0235

this message was sent via Potlatch because Badger is not online

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8,000 Drums / help

Sizzle — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:53:20 GMT

from an elder...
forwarded message, written by Thunderbeat: "Aho Everyone! I was contacted by my friend Gilles Novaks who is a Montagnais Indian from Montreal. He is a Medicine Man and a Healer. He asked me to get as many Tribal people to participate in a worldwide ceremony called the "8,000 Drums". "He was contacted by two Huron Clan Grandmothers from up there in Canada and they asked him to help spread the word to all Indians everwhere. It will take place on March 21, 2008 at 12:00 noon MEXICO TIME!! Which is Central time. "All you need to do is play a drum any kind of drum either alone, or with a group or have the whole Tribe participate. The purpose is to fulfill the OTOMI PROPHECY. The Otomi's are Mayan Olmec and Toltec descendants. The drums will be played so that the Creator will hear us and grant our wishes as we pray for help in the Healing Process of our Mother Earth." READ MORE:http://www.indigenousuniversity.org/sacred_drums.htm

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Walker River Reservation Rewilding Tours

oddyssey — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:06:44 GMT

Walker River Reservation Rewilding Tours
Begins on 1 Apr 2008 in Schurz, Nevada

Finisia will be picking up camp in Fallon, Nevada and and moving 39 miles south to Schurz, Nevada on 1 April 2008. Her camp will be 1 mile south of Schurz, on the land behind the Smokeshop / Truck Stop on Highway 95. Finisia will be joined by her friend Forest, and they will be conducting "Rewilding Tours" with the Walker River Paiute Tribe on the Reservation. On these tours they will be finding areas with native permaculture plants and offering their knowledge on the human relationship with the plants and replanting techniques. You are welcome to join Finisia and Forest for this important step in the "hands on" renewal of Mother Earth. After Shurz she will be headed northwards, homeward bound towards Arco Idaho. If you would like to join in, please contact Finisia at www.pullingforwildflowers.org

Thanks,
O>>

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New Tribe... The Pearl!

FAEBLE — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:51:04 GMT

http://tribes.tribe.net/pearl

When magic, healing and ritual come together their child is creation.

This is the intenttion of the Pearl. This space will host circus arts, dance and movement, sewing.design and healing arts.

The Pearl will be a play space of safety and magic, allowing us to deepen within ourselves and within our community.

Come celebrate the birth ov a new community center in the East Bay.
We will begin with an opening circle at 8:30 and we will carry on till
2 or beyond.
The night will be filled with dancing, witchual, live & electronic
music and fabulous performances.
If you are interested in contributing in any way to this event,
contact us through The Pearl tribe
or mail tkcomfort2000@yahoo.com
Blessings
Mo Glow, Pi, and Lucy Fur

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Planetary Grid Transmissions - Full Moon Thursday

Dee — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:35:25 GMT

For those who focus their energy on the healing of the planet and humanity.....with love......enjoy a blessed day....and remember to focus on the unconditional love of Creator within us.....

We are the ones we've been waiting for!

http://sunchildren.ning.com/group/planetarygridproject

Espavo,
Dee

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Planetary Grid Transmissions Every New and Full Moon throughout 2008 Worldwide Meditations

Dee — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:25:21 GMT

To raise the vibrational level of this world for We Are All One!

http://www.childrenofthesun.tv/planetary-grid-transmissions.html

Namaste'
Dee

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Coyote Camp's Meeting with Walker River Paiute Tribe

oddyssey — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:05:20 GMT

Update on Coyote Camp's Meeting with Walker River Paiute Tribe
Walker River Reservation – Shurz, Nevada - Dec 13. 2007
www.pullingforwildflowers.org

Coyote Camp recently met with the Walker River Paiute Tribal Council at Shurz, Nevada on December 13, 2007. We extended an invitation to various people who may be interested in what we are doing in our "planting back" way of life. We had a really good reception from many quarters. Many people seemed interested in taking part in an "Auto Tour" this spring to familiarize themselves with the native plants we are focusing on. Several members of the cultural committee were on hand and asking questions. The council delegated a woman by the name of Victoria, who works for a land reclamation group, to help set up some educational opportunities in the spring. There is a boys and girls club that she thought we should meet with. We are also working on an informational video of 10 - 15 minutes length, that we might share with these sorts of groups.

Our friend Melvin Brown was there and we gave him some plants and seeds to plant at his place for a future exhibition garden. Melvin has also offered to take our "information" and help us in our outreach. We have been working with Melvin for over a year, he has been out on the land "planting back" with us, and he is excited about carrying and sharing our message to as many people as possible, about giving everything it's life, of hoop law and giving back. He is active in his community and has recently volunteered to oversee the "law and order" committee on the reservation, which puts him in contact with a wide spectrum of people, We are most grateful for Melvin's understanding and help, and for his love for the native plants.

We are very pleased and grateful for the warm reception given to us at our meeting with the Walker River Paiute Tribal council, and are excited about beginning to "plant back" with them in the spring.

If you would like to join with "Coyote Camp" in March and April, to work together with the Walker River Paiute Tribe, please email Finisia - finisia@pullingforwildflowers.org

Finisia & Kimmie Jo

Here is a good example of another group's outreach program :

Native American Children's Camas Bulb Restoration - http://www.pcei.org/Camas.pdf
The Nez Pierce Reservation kids can see the beginnings of a habitat restoration that will return this patch of land to something resembling the tribal grounds where their ancestors once lived and dug roots.

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WINTERKAMP at Wolf Creek!

lopeyja — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:56:03 GMT

bless you all,
wolf creek will be the site of winter camp 2008 for the hoop.
we will be learning & practising many kinds of sustainable wintertime hoop-based skills, such as hide tanning, firebuilding, pemmican-making, storytelling & lots more.
the gathering will be from January 22nd thru February 4th, coinciding with the celebration of imbolc.
everyone's favourite grandmother will be camping with us...
love to you all,
hope to see you there!

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Blessed New Year wish

Sizzle — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 03:22:52 GMT

hope you all have a fun, peaceful, and prosperous 2008.
bigg kuggs and hisses

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PDX urban guerilla gardening

heather-d — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:38:11 GMT

I would like to explore acquiring and propagating perennial nut and seed-bearing trees here, where A LOT of people live, where the climate and soil is tremendous, and where I happen to be, right now. Anybody have tips for local favorites, or who wants to work on this together?

I would like to learn a lot more about seed saving, sharing, and seriously want to learn which seed-bearing and nut-bearing trees I should focus on planting for long-term sustainability. Guerilla style or otherwise. Anybody want to collaborate in any way on this? The only thing the local nursery seems to have for sale is Filbert trees. When I was a kid we used to take baby pine trees from the edge of the meadow at grandma's house, and plant them around the various places we moved to (we moved a lot - and some of them edward scissor-hands-style sprawling developments). I often think of poaching local food-bearing plants and planting them to help them propagate near where we live...
again,... any tips much appreciated.

Please write back soon, folks.
Just think, winter in Oregon is like spring in New York.

love
heather and justice

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13 Grandmothers

OTTO — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:54:28 GMT

Checkout

grandmotherscouncil.com

Hear their message, share you message! Syncronicity is the key!

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The Human Condition & ISIS ON 12-12 AND THE ENERGIES

Dee — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:51:11 GMT

More information on the energy shifts that are presently occurring on our planet.....spiritually...

http://www.lightsoflove.us/LLAW/vol67.php

http://lightsoflove.us/LLAW/vol68.php

Blessings,
Dee

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Update from Finisia in the Sacred Hoop

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:41:26 GMT

I just got a suprise phone call from Finisia who was strectched out on her bed next to Jesus (her wood burning stove) in her Gypsy Wagon home, encamped near Fallon Nevada, where it was only 15 degrees outside. We hadn't talked since May when she was getting her Wagoin Train together to head out to her work on the Sacred Hoop. She seemed in good spirits and was happy to tell me about the upcoming meeting she has arranged with the Paiute Native American Tribe on Dec. 13th, on the Walker River Reservation to demonstrate to them the benefits of replanting the land with the native permaculture plants. She shared with me some very interesting stories of her adventures on the Sacred Hoop, and the good times she shared with Faerie Friends, who joined her this year on her adventure. Spirit has led her to be taken in and cared for by one of the "Arch Enemies" of the native plant life in Nevada, a rancher who has plowed under thousands of acres of the native plants. She is camped on his land and he is providing feed for her horses, and she in-urn is sharing with him, her vast knowledge and vision of the Native replanting of the land.

Here's a link to a recent newpaper article written about Finisia
http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/article/20071127/NEWS/111270032

I would like to fulfill my offer to Finisia (in April at SMS) to create a Website dedicated to her Vision of The Sacred Hoop. A place where friends and newcomers can virtually share in her experience, follow an interative map of the Sacred Hoop, view photos and read stories of the quest, share in the knowledge, contact Finisia and learn how they might contribute to / join in Finisia's Vision of the Sacred Hoop.

Would you like to help me promote Finisia's Vision. Do you have any digital photos, knowledge, stories that you would like to share of your personal experiences with Finisia on the Sacred Hoop? I'm a newbie to The Sacred Hoop and need written information about the native plants and replanting them, photos of the activities (work and play), a Map of the Sacred Hoop, etc., before I can create a Sacred Hoop Website for Finisia

Finisia asked me to post her phone number where her friends, old and new, can call and commune with here via the Air Waves
(208) 406 7818 - give her a call!

Peace,
Orion >>
www.merryfaerie.com

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11:11 New Earth Portal Activation through Michelle Eloff©2007

Dee — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:58:12 GMT

A channeling of Ascended Master Kuthumi by Michelle Eloff:

http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v397/__show_article/_a000397-000205.htm

We Are All One!
Namaste'
Dee

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questions?

Spiraluna — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:14:24 GMT

Anyone have questions about this returning to the hoop?
Spiralhart

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Earth Changes validation...where do you live?

Dee — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:34:37 GMT

I've had this website of the world map of the prophecies of the earth changes: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~boyne/sites.html#MPEC

I put that together with the world earthquake map of the last 8-30 days: http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/qed/

and the most recent volcanic activity in the world: http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/find_regions.cfm

In comparison the projected land mass that is gone in the map of the earth changes corresponds to where earthquake/volcanic activity is in the world.

Thought some might be interested in this validation of the prophecies of the earth changes.

Dee

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You made me gay grrrl. Federal Land Laws inhibiting us from being truely humon.... how?

FAEBLE — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:08:46 GMT

Heeeeeeeeeey y'all!
I am at the end of my performance I have been creating for a year (EiTHER whORe STRIKES AGAIN) which is a solo clown/baffoon/absurdist performance that has a style simular to a European Antree Dish (not the food, but a clown comedy based out of circus performance with three different social class charicators).
This piece is about what it is to be HumOn, truely humon, in relation to gender byanary and the enviroment.
I am wondering if any of you know about any federal land law regulations and if so, how they might thwart humons from being 'wild' again, or hunter gathers again? For instince, camping on public land living on public land. Indian Reservation land laws. Sqauwting so on and so on.
Blessings to you and your hearts, and blessed be the sissy queens, kings and everthing out side and in between.
Thanks!

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The Hopi Message

Renee — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:58:15 GMT

I Traveled with Hopi Elders and Dancers to Malibu to deliver a message that we need to clean the waters and mother Earth! Check out the video of the trio and message on my profile!

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Coyote’s Camp Address to the Longhouses of the Paiute, Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wasco, and Shoshone

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:12:00 GMT

It was in a longhouse. A great longhouse. There were eagle fans there. There were condor fans there. There were medicine fans of the macaw there. There were sages from all over Turtle Island, North and South. They were standing there, the medicine people of many nations, in a great longhouse. When from the heavens there came a giant Lingam, on iron links, stretching into the heavens. The pendulum was like a great iron tower. And as it swung into the longhouse all the longhouse went to shards, and as the pendulum swung into the longhouse there stood at the head of the longhouse, a group of medicine people from all over turtle island with their fans and their sages, particular to their own homeland, their own hoop. And this pendulum swung into the face of the medicine man leading that ceremony there, standing there.

The lingam pulled up into the face of the man, and then stopped, just as he leaned forward to kiss it. Then the songs rose up. And the smokes rose up. And all the various fans pumped the smoke up and up and up that lingam. Then it turned, it groaned as it turned, and it began to fall back upon it’s own track. And all those things that had come up in the wake of it’s movement, now began to be ground down in it’s returning. As the pendulum took it’s sweep back across that expanse, all of civilization melted away. A great renewal sprang up in the people. The smoke, the smoke of the sages, clung to the lingam, and as it swung back upon itself, the smoke strung there like a spider web across it’s own track. I know this thing. I was there. I am that smoke.

Here in this place with Turtle Island there was always a people. The longhouses here knew they lived in a world peopled by what the Longhouse of the Nez Perce called “heart eater people.” This term defined a difference between “human beings” and those who did not walk in balance with creation.
Heart-eater people were the farmers & pueblo people who were sedentary and not semi-nomadic. Into this scenario came the Europeans, a seemingly all powerful white brother who saw their own image in these native city builders and aided them in a generations old conflict with the Hunting & Gathering children of the Sun.
As the symbiotic peoples of the west saw their resources literally devoured by the new invasion, many saw open warfare as counter productive. These Long Houses met and knew their direction was to only watch and see how this new magic or medicine worked and then only then work to unspin it. We were not to fight. The Crow got the picture early when Plenty Coup was given that message from the dwarf nation. Joseph was right to come to a place where he said “we will fight no more, forever” and we agree.
Our response is in answer to Joseph’s dilemma; how to fight no more forever, and still go on. The response must be to simply return to a way that is symbiotic with the Mother. Our reason is our conscience. We must be that symbiotic Child of the Sun, giving life instead of death in our individual life paths. Our hearts, souls, and spirits cry out for this, and only this. Even the Bible story is the same. This is our vision.
Who then is the child of Creator? Is it the one who lives in Creation as Creator gave it, or is it those who destroy that creation by not living in it, instead separating from it and choosing to live in one of their own creation. The story of Cain and Abel is the same story throughout ten thousand years of conquest. Cain was a city builder, owning the land and farming; Abel lived by following the wild animals of creation. With mankind divided that way, even the Hopi were Heart-eater or Cain’s children in that way.
The invader came to this land and just as described in Revelations of the Bible, forced the children of creation/creator into joining them in their destructive rebellion and assimilate or be murdered. Here this is a strange thing. The Christians came fulfilling their own prophecies, even forcing the last of the Children of God into the image of a beast or die. They knew what they did and to whom it was done. They made it evident when they called their victims “In Dios” or people of God. Now these same servants of destruction wait for this thing they’ve done to others to be done to them, because in all this they think they are righteous and are, themselves, the children of God. Again, who has more right to claim this name, those who refuse to live in the creation as God made it, or those who even in the face of such oppression choose to live in that good way.
Now, all of nature cries out for a different people; all the Mother is in travail waiting for the birth of this. We see our brothers and sisters everywhere, living things tortured and crying out for relief from a beast devouring everything knowing its time is short. We then, on this leveled playing field, we only have two choices – become the destruction or become that “child of God” - that Human Being. One’s conscience requires one to become the latter.
Who are those working to make things more abundant? If one eats berries, and plants those seeds back in one’s defecations, then that planting is occurring. If one collects the seeds of the plants one eats, and plants them back, then that one is working to make things more abundant. Much of Nevada, where once currants were abundant, the berries have all but disappeared. Ask the natives of Reese River, Nevada, those rubbing stones -those sacred bundles, “who are the ones planting back those berries?” they would tell of a Coyote Camp. In Idaho, they have started a nature preserve called Silver Creek near Sun Valley, where the Camas was rooted out years ago by the Mormon’s pigs. They will not return to Silver Creek on their own. If no one plants them back deliberately, they won’t be seen again. One hundred years ago, they were the dominant plant in the Biome. If one asked the people of Silver Creek “who plants the Camas back?” they would tell about Coyote Camp.
We are not ignorant of what the Christians promise to all those who do not do as they do. We are not ignorant to the fact that we propose to walk through a ten thousand year old firing range. We are not ignorant that for ten thousand years, these Heart-eaters have targeted we who walk in beauty until we are no more while worshipping the image of a beast, the failing society that is our world. Yet still, still we are going back. We invite any with courage to join in their own walk in this way.
Gandhi had a conflict with the British Empire over salt making. The people of India were to buy their salt from the English and not make their own. Gandhi and his friends went to making salt. They were beaten, jailed, and killed, and still they didn’t fight or divert from their purpose – they went and made salt only! We will be doing the same. We go back to the sage, the breadroot, and the bitterroot. They may jail us, beat us, or kill us, but we will not fight them. We only go to the sage; like Gandhi’s salt makers, we go.
We write this to you, so you know what we do and who we are. We are that returning to balance. We are the Rainbow Warriors choosing life and not death, and we are those walking that red road, inviting all to do the same.
All this, we hear in Coyote’s song. All this we sing to you. “Come away! Come away!” Heed Coyote talking to the children of Creation about the world heart-eater created. “Come out of her, my people, come out!” Coyote sings “Come away! Come away! Come walk in beauty again!”

Coyote’s Camp
PO Box 113
Arco, Idaho 83213
(208) 860-5218
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Hopi Prophecy - Redbeard Nation

Spiraluna — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:32:24 GMT

By Hopi Chief Dan Evehema
I am very glad to have this time to send a message to you. We are celebrating a time in our history which is both filled with joy and sadness.
We Hopi believe that the human race has passed through three different worlds and life ways since the beginning. At the end of each prior world, human life has been purified or punished by the Great Spirit "Massauu" due mainly to corruption, greed and turning away from the Great Spirit's teachings. The last great destruction was the flood which destroyed all but a few faithful ones who asked and received a permission from the Great Spirit to live with Him in this new land. The Great Spirit said, "It is up to you, if you are willing to live my poor, humble and simple life way. It is hard but if you agree to live according to my teachings and instructions, if you never lose faith in the life I shall give you, you may come and live with me." The Hopi and all who were saved from the great flood made a sacred covenant with the Great Spirit at that time. We Hopi made an oath that we will never turn away from Him. For us the Creator's laws never change or break down.

To the Hopi, the Great Spirit is all powerful. He appeared to the first people as a man and talked with them in the beginning of this creation world. He taught us how to live, to worship, where to go and what food to carry, gave us seeds to plant and harvest. He gave us a set of sacred stone tablets into which He breathed all teachings in order to safeguard his land and life. In these stone tablets were made, instructions and prophecies and warnings. This was done with the help of a Spider woman and Her two grandsons. They were wise and powerful helpers of the Great Spirit.

Before the Great Spirit went into hiding, He and Spider woman put before the leaders of the different groups of people many colors and sizes of corn for them to choose their food in this world. The Hopi was the last to pick and then choose their food in this world. The Hopi then choose the smallest ear of corn. Then Massauu said, "You have shown me you are wise and humble for this reason you will be called Hopi (people of peace) and I will place in your authority all land and life to guard, protect and hold trust for Me until I return to you in later days, for I am the First and the Last."

This is why when a Hopi is ordained into the higher religious order, the earth and all living things are placed upon his hands. He becomes a parent to all life on earth. He is entitled to advise and correct his children in whatever peaceful way he can. So we can never give up knowing that our message of peace will reach our children. Then it is together with the other spiritual leaders the destiny of our future children is placed. We are instructed to hold this world in balance within the land and the many universes with special prayers and ritual which continue to this day.

It was to the Spider woman's two grandsons the sacred stone tablets were given. These two brothers were then instructed to carry them to a place the Great Spirit had instructed them. The older brother was to go immediately to the east, to the rising sun and upon reaching his destination was instructed to immediately start to look for his younger brother who shall remain in the land of the Great Spirit. The Older brothers mission when he returned was to help his younger brother (Hopi) bring about peace, brotherhood and everlasting life on his return.

Hopi, the younger brother, was instructed to cover all land and mark it well with footprints and sacred markings to claim this land for the Creator and peace on earth. We established our ceremonials and sacred shrines to hold this world in balance in accordance with our first promise to the Creator. This is how our migration story goes, until we met the Creator at Old Oribe (place that solidifies) over 1000 years ago. It was at that meeting when he gave to us these prophecies to give to you now at this closing of the Fourth World of destruction and the beginning of the Fifth World of peace. He gave us many prophecies to pass on to you and all have come to pass. This is how we know the timing is now to reveal the last warnings and instructions to mankind.

We were told to settle permanently here in Hopi land where we met the Great Spirit and wait for Older Brother who went east to return to us. When he returns to this land he will place his stone tablets side by side to show all the world that they are our true brothers. When the road in the sky has been fulfilled and when the inventing of something, in Hopi means, gourd of ashes, a gourd that when drops upon the earth will boil everything within a large space and nothing will grow for a very long time. When the leaders turned to evil ways instead of the Great Spirit we were told there would be many ways this life may be destroyed. If human kind does not heed our prophecy and return to one's original spiritual instructions. We were told of three helpers who were commissioned by the Great Spirit to help Hopi bring about the peaceful life on earth would appear to help us and we should not change our homes, our ceremonials, our hair, because the true helpers might not recognize us as the true Hopi. So we have been waiting all these years.

It is known that our True White Brother, when he comes, will be all powerful and will wear a red cap or red cloak. He will be large in population, belong to no religion but his very own. He will bring with him the sacred stone tablets. With him there will be two great ones both very wise and powerful. One will have a symbol or sign of swastika which represents purity and is Female, a producer of life. The third one or the second one of the two helpers to our True White Brother will have a sign of a symbol of the sun. He, too, will be many people and very wise and powerful. We have in our sacred Kachina ceremonies a gourd rattle which is still in use today with these symbols of these powerful helpers of our True Brother.

It is also prophesied that if these three fail to fulfill their mission then the one from the west will come like a big storm. He will be many, in numbers and unmerciful. When he comes he will cover the land like the red ants and over take this land in one day. If the three helpers chosen by the Creator fulfill their sacred mission and even if there are only one, two or three of the true Hopi remaining holding fast to the last ancient teaching and instructions the Great Spirit, Massauu will appear before all and our would will be saved. The three will lay our a new life plan which leads to everlasting life and peace. The earth will become new as it was from the beginning. Flowers will bloom again, wild games will return to barren lands and there will be abundance of food for all. Those who are saved will share everything equally and they all will recognize Great Spirit and speak one language.

We are now faced with great problems, not only here but throughout the land. Ancient cultures are being annihilated. Our people's lands are being taken from them, leaving them no place to call their own. Why is this happening? It is happening because many have given up or manipulated their original spiritual teachings. The way of life which the Great Spirit has given to all its people of the world, whatever your original instructions are not being honored. It is because of this great sickness-called greed, which infects every land and country that simple people are losing what they have kept for thousands of years.

Now we are at the very end of our trail. Many people no longer recognize the true path of the Great Spirit. They have, in fact, no respect for the Great Spirit or for our precious Mother Earth, who gives us all life.

We are instructed in our ancient prophecy that this would occur. We were told that someone would try to go up to the moon: that they would bring something back from the moon; and that after that, nature would show signs of losing its balance. Now we see that coming about. All over the world there are now many signs that nature is no longer in balance. Floods, drought, earthquakes, and great storms are occurring and causing much suffering. We do not want this to occur in our country and we pray to the Great Spirit to save us from such things. But there are now signs that this very same thing might happen very soon on our own land.

Now we must look upon each other as brothers and sisters. There is no more time for divisions between people. Today I call upon all of us, from right here at home, Hotevilla, where we too are guilty of gossiping and causing divisions even among our own families; out to the entire world where thievery, war and lying goes on every day. These divisions will not be our salvation. Wars only bring more wars, never peace. Only by joining together in a Spiritual Peace with love in our hearts for one another, love in our hearts for the Great Spirit and Mother Earth, shall we be saved from the terrible Purification Day which is just ahead.

There are many of you in this world who are honest people. We know you spiritually for we are the "Men's Society Grandfathers" who have been charged to pray for you and all life on earth never forgetting anything or any one in our ceremonials. Our prayer is to have a good happy life, plenty of soft gentle rain for abundant crops. We pray for balance on earth to live in peace and leave a beautiful world to the children yet to come. We know you have good hearts but good hearts are not enough to help us out with these great problems. In the past some of you have tried to help us Hopis, and we will always be thankful for you efforts. But now we need your help in the worst way. We want the people of the world to know the truth of our situation.

This land which people call the Land of the Freedom celebrates many days reminding people of the world of these things. Yet in well over 200 years the original Americans have not seen a free day. We are suffering the final insult. Our people are now losing the one thing which give life and meaning of life--our ceremonial land, which is being taken away from us. Hotevilla is the last holy consecrated, undisturbed traditional Native American sacred shrine to the Creator. As the prophecy says, this sacred shrine must keep its spiritual pathways open. This village is the spiritual vortex for the Hopi to guide the many awakening Native Americans and other true hearts home to their own unique culture. Hotevilla was established by the last remaining spiritual elders to maintain peace and balance on this continent from the tip of South America up to Alaska. Many of our friends say Hotevilla is a sacred shrine, a national and world treasure and must be preserved. We need your help.

Where is the freedom which you all fight for and sacrifice your children for? Is it only the Indian people who have lost or are all Americans losing the very thing which you original came here to find? We don't share the freedom of the press because what gets into the papers is what the government wants people to believe, not what is really happening. We have no freedom of speech, because we are persecuted by our own people for speaking our beliefs.

We are at the final stages now and there is a last force that is about to take away our remaining homeland. We are still being denied many things including the rite to be Hopis and to make our living in accordance with our religious teachings. The Hopi leaders have warned leaders in the White House and the leaders in the Glass House but they do not listen. So as our prophecy says then it must be up to the people with good pure hearts that will not be afraid to help us to fulfill our destiny in peace for this world. We now stand at a cross road whether to lead ourselves in everlasting life or total destruction. We believe that human beings spiritual power through prayer is so strong it decides life on earth.

So many people have come to Hopiland to meet with us. Some of you we have met on your lands. Many times people have asked how they can help us. Now I hope and pray that your help will come. If you have a way to spread the truth, through the newspapers, radio, books, thought meeting with powerful people, tell the truth! Tell them what you know to be true. Tell them what you have seen here; what you have heard us say; what you have seen with your own eyes. In this way, if we do fall, let it be said that we tried, right up to the end, to hold fast to the path of peace as we were originally instructed to do by the Great Spirit. Should you really succeed, we will all realize our mistakes of the past and return to the true path-living in harmony as brothers and sisters, sharing our mother, the earth with all other living creatures. In this way we could bring about a new world. A world which would be led by the great Spirit and our mother will provide plenty and happiness for all.

God bless you, each one of you and know our prayers for peace meet yours as the sun rises and sets. May the Great Spirit guide you safely into the path of love, peace freedom and God on this Earth Mother. May the holy ancestors of love and light keep you safe in your land and homes. Pray for God to give you something important to do in this great work which lies ahead of us all to bring peace on earth. We the Hopi still hold the sacred stone tablets and now await the coming of our True White Brother and others seriously ready to work for the Creator's peace on earth.

Be well, my children, and think good thoughts of peace and togetherness. Peace for all life on earth and peace with one another in our homes, families and countries. We are not so different in the Creator's eyes. The same great Father Sun shines his love on each of us daily just as Mother Earth prepares the sustenance for our table, do they not? We are one after all.

Chief Dan Evehema, (105) Spiritual leader, Eldest Elder Greeswood / Roadrunner Clan Society Father / Snake Priest / Kachina Father.

From Hotevilla, Arizona, Hopi Sovereign Nation.

Chief Dan Evehema with Dee See Mana in a Corn Field in Hotevilla Arizona

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Hopi Prophecy - stone tablets

Spiraluna — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:31:30 GMT

NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN (HOPI) PROPHECIES

Talk Given by Lee Brown,
1986 Continental Indigenous Council,
Tanana Valley Fairgrounds,
Fairbanks, Alaska

There was the cycle of the mineral, the rock. There was the cycle of the plant. And now we re in the cycle of the animal coming to the end of that and beginning the cycle of the human being. When we get into the cycle of the human being, the highest and greatest powers that we have will be released to us. They will be released from that light or soul that we carry to the mind. But right now we're coming to the end of the animal cycle and we have investigated ourselves and learned what it is to be like an animal on this earth.

At the beginning of this cycle of time, long ago, the Great Spirit came down and He made an appearance and He gathered the peoples of this earth together they say on an island which is now beneath the water and He said to the human beings, "I'm going to send you to four directions and over time I'm going to change you to four colors, but I'm going to give you some teachings and you will call these the Original Teachings and when you come back together with each other you will share these so that you can live and have peace on earth, and a great civilization will come about." And he said "During the cycle of time I'm going to give each of you two stone tablets. When I give you those stone tablets, don't cast those upon the ground. If any of the brothers and sisters of the four directions and the four colors cast their tablets on the ground, not only, will human beings have a hard time, but almost the earth itself will die."

And so he gave each of us a responsibility and we call that the Guardianship. To the Indian people, the red people, he gave the Guardianship of the earth. We were to learn during this cycle of time the teachings of the earth, the plants that grow from the earth, the foods that you can eat, and the herbs that are healing so that when we came back together with the other brothers and sisters we could share this knowledge with them. Something good was to happen on the earth.

To the South, he gave the yellow race of people the Guardianship of the wind. They were to learn about the sky and breathing and how to take that within ourselves for spiritual advancement. They were to share that with is at this time.

To the West He gave the black race of people the Guardianship of the water. They were to learn the teachings of the water which is the chief of the elements, being the most humble and the most powerful. When I went to the University of Washington and I learned that it was a black man that discovered blood plasma, it didn't surprise me because blood is water and the elders already told me the black people would bring the teachings of the water.

To the North He gave the white race of people the Guardianship of the fire. If you look at the center of many of the things they do you will find the fire. They say a light bulb is the white man's fire. If you look at the center of a car you will find a spark. If you look at the center of the airplane and the train you will find the fire. The fire consumes, and also moves. This is why it was the white brothers and sisters who began to move upon the face of the earth and reunite us as a human family.

And so a long time passed, and the Great Spirit gave each of the four races two stone tablets. Ours are kept at the Hopi Reservation in Arizona at Four Corners Area on 3rd Mason.

I talked to people from the black race and their stone tablets are at the foot of Mount Kenya. They are kept by the Kukuyu Tribe. I once had the honor of presenting a sacred pipe at the Kukuyu Tribe carved from the red pipe stone of Mount Kenya. I was at an Indian spiritual gathering about 15 years ago. A medicine man from South Dakota put a beaded medicine wheel in the middle of the gathering. It had the four colors from the four directions; He asked the people, "Where is this from?" They said, "Probably Montana, or South Dakota, maybe Seskatchewan." He said, "This is from Kenya." It was beaded just like ours, with the same color

The stone tablets of the yellow race of people are kept by the Tibetans, in Tibet. If you went straight through the Hopi Reservation to the other side of the world, you would come out in Tibet. The Tibetan word for "sun" is the Hopi word for "moon" and the Hopi word for "sun" is the Tibetan word for "moon".

The guardians of the traditions of the people of Europe are the Swiss. In Switzerland, they still have a day when each family brings out its mask. They still know the colors of the families, they still know theymbols, some of them. I went to school with some people from Switzerland at the University of Washington and they shared this with me.

Each of these four peoples happen to be people that live in the mountains.

In 1976 America had its bicentennial celebrating 200 years of freedom. Some of the Native people thought this was significant and they carried a sacred pipe bundle from the West Coast to the East Coast of this land. They said that the roads of this land should either go North-South or East-West. If they went North-South we would come together as brothers and sisters, but if they went East-West there would be destruction and almost the earth itself would have a hard time. So you all know the roads went East-West. They said then things would be lost from the East to the West and from the South to the North and that they would come back again from the West to the East and from the North to the South. So nine years ago in 1976 from the West to East Coast of this land, from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. people carried a sacred pipe bundle by hand, on foot. My aunt had dreamt 15 years ago that people that didn't Like them would throw rocks and bottles at that pipe bundle as they carried it across the land. And sure enough that came about. But, as was in my aunt's dream, the rocks only came so close and then they dropped, and nothing touched it. When they reached the top of the Rocky Mountains, they hit a hard storm. An elderly man with long white hair said, "I will carry it now." They had a van that went alongside the people who were walking. He got out of the van and carried the sacred pipe bundle clear through that storm. He was so cold when he got back in the van that someone touched his hair and it fell. His hair was frozen. You have to be pretty cold for your hair to freeze but that old man carried it through that storm because they said if they carried this bundle across the earth, the powers would begin to come back. They said a spiritual fire would be lit in the North and would come down the Northwest Coast of this land. When it gets to the Puget Sound, it would go inland. I think this, nine years later, is the gathering in the North, myself. That's why I came here. This is it. We have the capacity to start the-spiritual fire now, here. The old people long ago saw it and foretold it and I'm going to come to that.

So we went through this cycle of time and each of the four races went to their directions and they learned their teachings. It was on Newsweek not too long ago that eight out of ten foods that people eat on the earth are developed here in the western hemisphere because that was our Guardianship, to learn the teachings of the earth, and the things that grow from the erth. We were given a sacred handshake to show when we came back together as brothers and sisters that we still remembered the teachings. It was indicated on the stone tablets that the Hopis had that the first brothers and sisters that would come back to them would come as turtles across the land. They would be human beings, but they would come as turtles. So when the time came close the Hopis were at a special village to welcome the turtles that would come across the land and they got up in the morning and looked out at the sunrise. They looked out across the desert and they saw the Spanish Conquistadores coming, covered in armour, like turtles across the land. So this was them. So they went out to the Spanish man and they extended their hand hoping for the handshake but into the hand the Spanish man dropped a trinket. And so word spread throughout North America that there was going to be a hard time, that maybe some of the brothers and sisters had forgotten the sacredness of all things and all the human beings were going to suffer for this on the earth. So tribes began to send people to the mounds to have missions to try to figure out how they could survive. At that time there were 100,000 cities in the Mississippi Valley alone, called the mound civilization: cities built on great mounds. Those mounds are still there. If you ever go out to Ohio or the Mississippi Valley, they're tourist attractions now. There was 100,000 cities of Native people and they were wondering how they could survive. They began to try to learn to live off the land because they knew a hard time was going to come. They began to send people to have visions to see how we could survive this time. People came on the east coast and they went across this land to the east and they were told in the prophecies that we should try to remind all the people that would come here of the sacredness of all things. If we could do that, then there would be peace on earth. But if we did not do that, when the roads went clear from east to west, and when the other races and colors of the Earth had walked clear across this land, if by that time we had not come together as a human family, the Great Spirit would grab the earth with his hand and shake it. And so if you read the treaty negotiations from Red Jacket of the Six Nations on the east coast of this land clear to Chief Joseph and Chief Seattle on the west coast of this land, they all said the same thing. Chief Joseph said, "I accord you the right, and I hope you accord me the right, to live in this land." Always we were trying to live together. But instead of living together, you all know there was separation, there was segregation. They separated the races: they separated the Indians, and they separated the blacks. In the state of Washington it was against the law for an Asian to marry a white person up until not too long ago. There was separation.

So when they got to the west coast of this land the elders that were made aware of these prophecies said they would then begin to build a black ribbon. And on this black ribbon there would move a bug. And when you begin to see this bug moving on the land, that was the sign for the First Shaking of the Earth. The First Shaking of the Earth would be so violent that this bug would be shaken off the earth into the air and it would begin to move and fly in the air. And by the end of this shaking this bug will be in the air around the world. Behind it would be a trail of dirt and eventually the whole sky of the entire earth would become dirty from these trails of dirt, and this would cause many diseases that would get more and more complicated. So the bug moving on the land, of course I it's easy to see now. In 1908 the Model-T Ford was mass produced for the first time. So the elders knew the First Shaking of the Earth was about to come about that's the First World War. In the First World War the airplane came into wide usage for the first time. That was that bug moving into the sky. And so they knew something very important would happen. There would be an attempt to make peace on earth on the west coast of this land and so the elders began to watch for this. They began to hear that there was going to be a League of Nations in San Francisco so the elders gathered in Arizona around 1920 or so and they wrote a letter to Woodrow Wilson. They asked if the Indian people could be included in the League of Nations. At that time the United States Supreme Court had held that a reservation is a separate and semi- sovereign nation, not a part of the United States but protected by it. This became a concern because people didn't want the reservations to become more and more separate. They didn't want them to be considered nations. So they did not write back and the Native people were left out of the League of Nations, so that circle was incomplete. In the League of Nations circle there was a southern door, the yellow people; there was a western door, the black people; there was a northern door, the white people; but the eastern door was not attended. The elders knew that peace would not come on the earth until the circle of humanity is complete, until all the four colors sat in the circle and shared their teachings, then peace would come on earth.

So they knew things would happen. Things would speed up a little bit. There would be a cobweb built around the earth, and people would talk across this cobweb. When this talking cobweb, the telephone, was built around the earth, a sign of life would appear in the east, but it would tilt and bring death. It would come with the sun. But the sun itself would rise one day not in the east but in the west. So the elders said when you see the sun rising in the east and you see the sign of life reversed and tilted in the east, you know that the Great Death is to come upon the earth, and now the Great Spirit will grab the earth again in His hand and shake it and this shaking will be worse than the first. So the sign of life reversed and tilted, we call that the Swastika, and the rising sun in the east was the rising sun of Japan. These two symbols are carved in stone in Arizona. When the elders saw these two flags, these were the signs that the earth was to be shaken again.

The worse misuse of the Guardianship of the fire is called the "gourd of ashes". They said the gourd of ashes will fall from the air. It will make the people like blades of grass in the prairie fire and things will not grow for many seasons. I saw on television not too long ago that they were talking about the atomic bomb, the gourd of ashes. They said it was the best-kept secret in the history of the United States., The elders wanted to speak about it in 1920. They would have spoken of it and foretold it's coming if they could have entered into the League of Nations. The elders tried to contact President Roosevelt and ask him not to use the gourd of ashes because it would have a great effect on the earth and eventually cause even greater destruction and a the Third Shaking of the Earth, the Third World War. I'll get to that in a few minutes.

So they knew after the Second Shaking of the Earth when they saw the gourd of ashes fall from the sky then there would be an attempt to make peace on the other side of this land. And because the peace attempt on the west coast had failed, they would build a special house on the east coast of this Turtle Island, and all the nations and peoples of the earth would come to this house and it would be called the House of Mica and it would shine like the mica on the desert shines. So the elders began to see they were building the United Nations made out of glass that reflects like the mica on the desert so they knew this was the House of mica and all the peoples of the earth should go to it. So they met and talked about this. They said that in the 1920's they had written and they had not been responded to, so they said this time we better go to the front door of the House of Mica because things might get a lot worse. So elders representing a number of tribes I believe drove to New York City. When the United Nations opened they went to the front door of the house of Mica and they said these words:

"We represent the indigenous people of North America and we wish to address the nations of the Earth. We're going to give you four days to consider whether or not we will be allowed to speak."

They retreated to one of the Six Nations Reserves in New York State. The Six Nations Reserves are keepers of the Great Law of Peace of the prophet that appeared here in North America, Dagonnorida. And this Law of Peace is still recited, it takes four days between sunrise and noon. Each year an Indian, by memory, must recite it about this time of year. Four days later they came back and I believe the nations of the earth heard that the Indians had come to the door. And they votedto let the Indians in. They wanted to hear what they had to say. But the United States is one of five nations of the United Nations with a veto power and still they were concerned because this time the Native sovereignty was even stronger. And I believe they vetoed the entrance of the Native people.

So then they knew other things would happen on the Earth, and the United Nations would not bring peace on earth but there would be continuing and deepening confusion. And that the little wars would get worse. So they retreated to the Six Nations Reserve and they talked about this and they said the time is really getting close now 1949. They said, "We're going to divide the United States into four sections and each year we're going to have a gathering. We're going to call these the 'White of Peace Gatherings'." They began to have these around 1950. And they authorized certain men to speak in English for the first time about these prophecies.

One that I used to listen to many times, over and over, was Thomas Benyaka. He is a Hopi man. I believe he is still living. He was authorized to speak in English about what was on the stone tablets and he has dedicated his lifetime to doing this. And they began to tell us at these gatherings, they said "In your lifetime you're going to see things happen" It was strange when they said it in the 1950's and 1960's but now it seems very clear. But then it was unusual. They said, "You're going to see a time in your life when men are going to become women. The Great Spirit is going to make a man on the earth. He made him a man but this man is going to say, "I know more than the Great Spirit. I'm going to change myself to be a woman:" And they will even nurse children. The Great Spirit is going to make the woman on the earth. She's going to say, "I know more than the Great Spirit. I want to be a man. And she will be physically a man." This sounded strange. And maybe in a vision they saw Boy-George.

They said "You're going to see a time in your lifetime when the human beings are going to find the blueprint that makes us." They call that now, DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid. They said, "They re going to cut this blueprint." They call that now, genetic splicing. And they said, "They're going to make new animals upon the earth, and they're going to think these are going to help us. And it's going to seem like they do help us. But maybe the grandchildren and greatgrandchildren are going to suffer." I don't know if you heard on the news last night in the United States now they have genetically spliced a new germ, never before released in the environment. They want to release this germ into the cottonfields of the south because they say it will rejuvenate and strengthen the cotton. They had scientists on the CBS Evening News the other night talking about it. One scientist said what the elders said in the 1950's, that this will not harm us. We've put it in a lot of tests. And the other scientist said what the elders also said, no, this has never before been in the environment. We have no idea what it will do. The elders spoke of it long ago. They said it would see harmless, but it may be able to hurt the greatgrandchildren. The elders said long ago, "They will release these things, they will use them." This is going to be released not too long from now. They are making new animals. The elders talked about this. They said, "You will see new animals, and even the old animals will come back, animals that people thought had disappeared. They will find them here and there. They'll begin to reappear."

They said (and I know many of you are from tribes that also have this prophecy, "You're going to see a time when the eagle will fly its highest in the night and it will land upon the moon." Some tribes say the eagle will circle the moon. Some tribes say the eagle will fly it's highest in the night. "And at that time," they say, "Many of the Native people will be sleeping," which symbolically means they have lost their teachings. There are some tribes that say it will be as if they are frozen: they've been through the long winter. But they say, "When the eagle flies it's highest in the night, that will be the first light of a new day. That will be the first thawing of spring." Of course, at the first light of a new day, if you've stayed up all night, you notice it's really dark. And the first light, you want to see it, but you can't. It sneaks up on you. You want to see it change but it's dark and then pretty soon it's getting light before you know it. We're at that time now. The Eagle has landed on the moon, 1969. When that spaceship landed they sent back the message, "The Eagle has landed." Traditionally, Native people from clear up in the Inuit region, they have shared with us this prophecy, clear down to the Quechuas in South America. They shared with us that they have this prophecy. When they heard those first words, "The Eagle has landed," they knew that was the start of a new time and a new power for Native people. There was absolutely nothing strong before us now. We may do anything we wish. In 1776 when the United States Government printed the dollar, in one claw [of the eagle], if you've ever noticed, there is an olive branch in this claw. They said that represented peace. The Indian elders shared with me in South Dakota that to them that represents the enslavement of black people. In the prophecies of the Six Nations people they say there will be two great uprisings by black people to free themselves. We've seen one about 1964. There will be a second, more violent one to come. I'll get back to what that means in a minute. In the other claw is 13 arrows. The founding fathers of the United States said that represents the 13 States. But the elders say that represents the enslavement of the Native people. When the Eagle landed on the moon, they decided to print a special silver dollar to commemorate that. I don't know how many of you noticed it. The original design showed the spaceship landing on the moon but at the last minute it was changed to an actual eagle. And in the eagle's claws is the olive branch, but the arrows are gone. The elders said, "That's our prophecy we have been released." There was one more uprising coming for the black race of people and then they will be released and this is also going to have an effect on Native people, a good effect. There's a whole new set of prophecies from the Iriquois people about that and I won't have time to go into tht this morning.

But we're in that time now. We're between the first light of a new day and the sunrise. The sunrise is about to come and when it comes up everyone is going to see it. But you know how it is in the village there's a few people that get up early, and there are some that sleep until noon. I'm probably one of those that sleeps until noon.

They said when that Eagle lands on the moon, the powers will begin to come back to us. As an alcoholic person, I feel that one of our greatest diseases is alcoholism. Within seven days of the time of the Eagle landing on the moon, the first Native alcoholism program was started on an Apache reservation in Arizona. Within seven days of the time the Eagle landed on the moon, the Freedom of Indian Religion Act was introduced into the United States Congress. Eventually it was passed in November of 1978, signed by President Carter, making the song that Kevin [Kevin Locke, a famous Indian Baha'i who spends his time travelling around the world sharing the North American Indian culture through dance and music] sang legal to sing in every state of the United States. It was punishable at one time to go to jail for 10 years and/or a $10,000 fine for singing a song or doing a suat. This was changed in 1978 the legislation was introduced in 1969, less than seven days after the Eagle landed on the moon. These are the physical manifestations of the spiritual prophecies that we have.

So he said at this time you're going to see that things will speed up, that people on the earth will move faster and faster. Grandchildren will not have time for grandparents. Parents will not have time for children. It will seem like time is going faster and faster. The elders advised us that as things speed up, you yourself should slow down. The faster things go, the slower you go. Because there's going to come a time when the earth is going to be shaken a third time. The Great Spirit has been shaking the earth two times: the First and Second World Wars to remind us that we are a human family, to remind us that we should have greeted each other as brothers and sisters. We had a chance after each shaking to come together in a circle that would have brought peace on earth, but we missed that.

Tonight they were talking on the news about the sign for the Third Shaking of the Earth. I heard it while sitting in the airport after I missed my plane. They said they're going to build what the elders called the "house in the sky". In the 1950's they talked about this: they will build a house and throw it in the sky. When you see people living in the sky on a permanent basis, you will know the Great Spirit is about to grab the earth, this time not with one hand, but with both hands. Many of you of Native background may have heard "the spirits will warn you twice, but the third time you stand alone." We've had two warnings, the first two World Wars, but now we stand alone in the third one. As it says in the Baha'i Writings, there will be no-one protected. When this house is in the sky, the Great Spirit is going to shake the Earth a third time and whoever dropped that gourd of ashes, upon them it is going to drop.

They say at that time there will be villages in this land so great that when you stand in the villages you will not be able to see out, and in the prophecies these are called "villages of stone", or "prairies of stone". And they said the stone will grow up from the ground and you will not be able to see beyond the village. At the center of each and every one of these villages will be Native people, and they will walk as "hollow" shells upon a "prairie of stone". They said "hollow shells" which means they will have lost any of their traditional understandings; they will be empty within. They said after the Eagle lands on the moon some of these people will begin to leave these "prairies of stone" and come home and take up some of the old ways and begin to make themselves reborn, because it's a new day. But many will not. And they said there's going to come a time when in the morning the sun is going to rise and this village of stone will be there, and in the evening there would just be steam coming from the ground. They will be as steam. And in the center of many of those villages of stone when they turn to steam, the Native people will turn to steam also because they never woke up and left the village. And this used to bother me when I was a young man. I used to ask the elders, "Isn't there anything we can do?" And they said, well, it's just that way that if a person does not have the spiritual eyes to see, it's very hard to show them. Or if they don't have the ears to hear, it's very hard to speak with them. We wish that we could go get them all but we can't. It's just that some are not going to wake up. But some will wake up .

And so they say there's going to be the Third Shaking of the Earth. It's not going to be a good thing to see but we will survive it. We will survive it.

And when we survive it, then there's going to be another attempt to make a circle of the human beings on the earth. And this time the Native people will not have to petition to join but will be invited to enter the circle because they say the attitude towards us will have changed by then, and people will let us into the circle and all the four colors of the four directions will share their wisdom, and there will be a peace on earth. This is coming close. A lot of times when I share this message of the prophecies, people say, "Can't we change it? Could we stop it?" The answer is yes. The prophecies are always "either/or". We could have come together way back there in 1565, and we could have had a great civilization, but we didn't. Always along the path of these prophecies, we could have come together. We still could. If we could stop the racial and religious disharmony, we would not have to go through this third shaking. The elders say the chance of that is pretty slim. It seems to me like it's pretty slim, too. But they say what we can do is we can "cushion" it. The word we use is "cushion". We can cushion it so it won't be quite as bad. How do we do this? We do this by sharing the teaching that will reunite us. The Hopis in their prophecies say there will be a religion that comes here. Maybe it will be true and bring unity, or maybe it will not be true and not bring unity. If it does not bring unity, a second religion will come, and the people of this religion are known in the Hopi language as the Bahani, the people of Baha. Ni means "people of". So I was looking for the people of Baha. I wondered who the people of Baha were. I was a Baha'i for quite a while before somebody told me that baha'i means "people of Bah". I thought, "0 my God!" Here I was looking for it all these years and I never even noticed it! And I found it! I was stubborn and didn't want to become a "Baha'i but my grandfather who passed away, you know he must have found out about it in the next realm because he came back to me four times to tell me, "Hey, look at that again, look at that again. Look one more time." Bah, it means "light or glory". Baha'i means "follower of the light", or the "people of Bah". We've been waiting for these people for a long time. They say they will bring a Teaching that will unite the earth. So we need to share this Teaching. They say the fire will come from the North. So here we are, in a circle, in the North, talking about the Bahnis, the "people of Bah", and the teachings of Baha'u'llah.

When I heard about these [prophecies], none of them made any sense. Now most of it has come to pass. Last I heard on the news, they said the "house in the sky" will be put up in 1996. It was going to be put up sooner, but it's been postponed for four years. Maybe it will be postponed again. But in not too long it's going to go up. The earth as we know it is going to change.

Each of us carry, I believe, a sacred drop of light. In the Indian teachings, they say it takes nine ancestors to agree before conception can occur. Nine ancestors of the husband and the wife have to come together in the spiritual realm and say; "We will bring life," before a woman can become pregnant. At that time the soul is born.

I delivered my first daughter and a man from the Blood Reserve who went to South Dakota and was the first Bloodin 82 years he came to my house by coincidence four days before my wife went into labor. Each night we had a ceremony, and on the morning after the fourth ceremony my wife went into labor at sunrise. And that night, at sunset, my daughter was born. And I took her out, and I cut the cord, and I noticed at the sundance that what people do in South Dakota, they pass the pipe three times, and they don't take it until the fourth time. And even in Washington I've heard the coming of a child is like the coming of a new pipe. When I was delivering my daughter I happened to notice that the skull came out three times, and on the fourth time, her head came out like the coming of a pipe. First I put her on the mother instantly and after a few minutes I cleaned her up and I washed her up. There was a circle of people just about like this around my wife and there were people of different backgrounds and we looked up and through the ceiling came a small drop of blue light. When it got close to the child you could not see it. That was her soul, she will carry that light throughout earth. In that is her special uniqueness as a being, a spiritual power. In that are gifts.

After we go through and then we carry it back here and it radiates to she mind but for some reason in this cycle we've been in the lower natures, the animal thought. But now we're going into the human world. The mind is going to be opened up to the radiance of our own soul and the cycle of the human beings is going to come back, and something so good is going to happen on the earth that it cannot even be described. The elders say it in different ways. They say, there will be grass at that time when they make that circle and bring the peace on earth. There will be blades of grass that have not quite come through the earth. Even they will try to push themselves up to be part of that day when the sun rises. The elders explain it like this: out here, outside this building, long before there was a fair ground here there were Native people. They say many of these Native people in different tribes were aware of these things, and they told the children. Their children grew up.

You know, one time the scientist came to the Hopis and they said, "We want to take a piece of the stone tablets." They said "We want to take the stone tablets to a scientific laboratory to determine how old they are." The Hopis said, "We know how old they are". Well, the scientists said, "We want to confirm it." Well, the Hopis let them take a little piece, and they did that by the carbon dating method. They found these tablets were at least 10,000 years old, maybe 50,000. So when I say, "Thousands of years ago, there were Native people that spoke of these things," that's exactly what I mean. They told their children and thousands of years ago, their children grew up and told their children, and then their children grew up and told their children. And they spoke about the people that will live in this time.

And now it is us. We are the ones they spoke of long ago. They say to be alive, to come into creation and to live upon the earth at this time is a great honor. In the cycle of time, from the beginning to the end, this time we are in now will change the purification of all things. They say this is the hardest time to live, but it is also the greatest honor to be alive to live and see this.

In the state of Washington in 1855 they signed treaties and made 22 Indian reservations. They wanted to do it before there were problems. They thought they were advanced at the time, they had learned from what had happened elsewhere. They made 22 Indian reservations and the elders spoke in 1855 and they said, "We're going to become weaker, and you are going to become stronger, and if you wish to break these treacies, you may do so." They said, "But there's going to come a time when the earth itself will rise up and purify itself and this will be announced. It will be announced by the speaking of more than 16 Great Ones on the West Coast of this land. And when the 16 Great Ones speak, the purification will have begun. There was a new [?] five years ago when Mt. Saint Helens, one of the 16 great volcanoes on the West Coast of this land, "spoke". The Seattle Times did a special interest story. They went over to Watson Totus and Woodrow Bill. It was Woodrow Bill's son that made this hoop that I brought here today, my good brother Randolf Bill. They asked Watson Totus and Woodrow Bill as spiritual people of the Yakuma nation, "What does this mean?" What they said was so profound that they didn't put it on page 16, they put it on the front page of the Seattle Times. They said, "This means that the races and nations of the earth should slow down and come together and talk to each other." That's exactly what it meant. And we had four years and four days to do that.

Four years and four days later, Mt. Saint Helens erupted the second time. That was last spring, just about this time. That was our grace period. We could have still done something really good. But now things are going to speed up. Now things are going to really happen fast. Time is going to go so fast. The more we share the Message, the more we will cushion the Third Shaking of the Earth, and the easier it will be on ourselves and others.

A good friend of mine in Montana whose grandmother just passed away last year, the last thing she said to him was "Make a place for yourself in the mountains because the air will become so hot down here," where they were at on a reservation, that it would be hard to breath. And it won't be long, That's the last thing she told her grandson when she was passing. Go on the mountains and make a place for yourself. Put some things there that you can survive with. People are going to run to the mountains to survive and the Native people must be ready for this.

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