Native American Prophecies - Bayer - Teofanov

'Hopi' means 'peaceful people,' and the truest and greatest power, the strength of

peace, is the will of the Great Spirit.

Compiled and Edited (2011) by Emil Teofanov and Robert Bayer

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CONTENTS:

WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW..............................................................................5

BLACK ELK'S VISION.............................................................................................9

FROM CHAPTER 2: EARLY BOYHOOD.............................................................................9

CHAPTER 3: THE GREAT VISION.................................................................................10

FROM CHAPTER 4: THE BISON HUNT..........................................................................30

FROM CHAPTER 13: THE COMPELLING FEAR................................................................31

CHAPTER 14: THE HORSE DANCE...............................................................................34

FROM CHAPTER 18: THE POWERS OF THE BISON AND THE ELK........................................45

HOPI PROPHECY................................................................................................ 48

THOMAS BANACYCA TALKS ABOUT THE HOPI PROPHECY..................................59

THE HOPI MESSAGE.................................................................................................63

EPILOGUE...............................................................................................................68

NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN (HOPI) PROPHECIES.................................................66

THE HOPI PROPHECY PROPHECIES FOR OUR FUTURE.........................................88

DESCRIPTION OF HOPI PROPHECY IMAGE.....................................................................88

NOTES FROM BIG MOUNTAIN MEETING (JUNE 26TH, 1981, LOS ANGELES ).......90

SCIENCE AFFIRMS HOPI PROPHECY FOR SACRED LANDS. WHAT'S HAPPENING?

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TO WHOM IS IT HAPPENING?.............................................................................94

HOPI MESSAGE FROM RUDI SCHULTHESISS........................................................96

HOPI PROPHECY CLARIFICATION BY ROBERT COODY........................................100

MEDITATIONS WITH THE HOPI BY ROBERT BOISSIERE......................................102

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MESSAGES FROM ELDERS FROM THE BEGINNING OF LIFE TO THE DAY OF

PURIFICATION TEACHINGS, HISTORY & PROPHECIES OF THE HOPI PEOPLE..........107

INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................107

THE BEGINNING OF LIFE....................................................................................108

EMERGENCE INTO THE PRESENT WORLD.........................................................110

THE FIRST MEETING WITH THE GREAT SPIRIT IN THIS WORLD.........................113

AN ACT OF PROPHETIC CONSEQUENCE............................................................114

THE MISSION OF THE TWO BROTHERS.............................................................115

THE MEETING WITH MAASAU'U NEAR ORAIBI.................................................118

THE FOUNDING OF ORAIBI VILLAGE.................................................................119

THE ARRIVAL OF ANOTHER RACE FORETOLD....................................................122

THE FORCES OF PURIFICATION.........................................................................123

THE FAITHFUL HOPI MEET THEIR TEST..............................................................118

THE FAITHFUL HOPI EVICTED FROM ORAIBI.....................................................125

THE FOUNDING OF HOTVELA VILLAGE..............................................................129

RENEWED ATTACKS..........................................................................................129

THE DISRUPTION CONTINUES TODAY...............................................................130

THE PUBLIC STATEMENT OF THE KEEPER OF THE HOPI FIRE CLAN TABLETS,

DURING HIS PROPHETIC MISSION TO THE NEW MEXICO STATE CAPITAL AT SANTA

FE, DECEMBER 1990.............................................................................................136

HOPI DECLARATION OF PEACE.........................................................................148

NATIVE AMERICAN PROPHECY.........................................................................150

OTHER NATIVE AMERICAN PROPHECIES...........................................................152

MOHAWK PROPHECY OF THE SEVENTH GENERATION...................................................152

AMERICAN PROPHECIES BY SCOTT PETERSON..............................................................153

IROQUOIS PROPHECY..............................................................................................1563

NATIVE AMERICAN PROPHECIES FULFILLED.................................................................157

NIGHT OF THE RED SKY THE PROPHETIC VISION OF ‘GRANDFATHER’...............173

THE FOUR SIGNS...................................................................................................183

THE FIRST SIGN.....................................................................................................184

THE SECOND SIGN.................................................................................................189

THE THIRD SIGN....................................................................................................191

THE FOURTH SIGN.................................................................................................193

AMERICAN INDIAN PROPHECIES......................................................................197

INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................197

BLACK ELK.........................................................................................................200

WOVOKA...........................................................................................................202

HOPI PROPHECIES.............................................................................................204

ROLLING THUNDER...........................................................................................206

LAME DEER........................................................................................................208

SUN BEAR..........................................................................................................209

CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................210

CALLING GREAT SPIRIT

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Warriors of the Rainbow

here was an old lady, from the “Cree” tribe, named “Eyes of Fire”, who

prophesied that one day, because of the white mans' or Yo-ne-gis'

greed, there would come a time, when the fish would die in the streams, the

birds would fall from the air, the waters would be blackened, and the trees

would no longer be, mankind as we would know it would all but cease to exist.

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There would come a time when the “keepers of the legend, stories, culture

rituals, and myths, and all the Ancient Tribal Customs” would be needed to

restore us to health. They would be mankind’s key to survival; they were the

“Warriors of the Rainbow”. There would come a day of awakening when all the

peoples of all the tribes would form a New World of Justice, Peace, Freedom

and recognition of the Great Spirit.

The “Warriors of the Rainbow” would spread these messages and teach all

peoples of the Earth or “Elohi”. They would teach them how to live the “Way of

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the Great Spirit”. They would tell them of how the world today has turned away

from the Great Spirit and that is why our Earth is “Sick”.

The “Warriors of the Rainbow” would show the peoples that this “Ancient

Being” (the Great Spirit), is full of love and understanding, and teach them how

to make the “Earth or Elohi” beautiful again. These Warriors would give the

people principles or rules to follow to make their path right with the world.

These principles would be those of the Ancient Tribes. The Warriors of the

Rainbow would teach the people of the ancient practices of Unity, Love and

Understanding. They would teach of Harmony among people in all four

comers of the Earth.

Like the Ancient Tribes, they would teach the peoples how to pray to the

Great Spirit with love that flows like the beautiful mountain stream, and flows

along the path to the ocean of life. Once again, they would be able to feel joy

in solitude and in councils. They would be free of petty jealousies and love all

mankind as their brothers, regardless of color, race or religion. They would feel

happiness enter their hearts, and become as one with the entire human race.

Their hearts would be pure and radiate warmth, understanding and respect for

all mankind, Nature, and the Great Spirit. They would once again fill their

minds, hearts, souls, and deeds with the purest of thoughts. They would seek

the beauty of the Master of Life - the Great Spirit! They would find strength and

beauty in prayer and the solitudes of life.

Their children would once again be able to run free and enjoy the treasures

of Nature and Mother Earth. Free from the fears of toxins and destruction,

wrought by the Yo-ne-gi and his practices of greed. The rivers would again run

clear, the forests be abundant and beautiful, the animals and birds would be

replenished. The powers of the plants and animals would again be respected

and conservation of all that is beautiful would become a way of life.

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The poor, sick and needy would be cared for by their brothers and sisters of

the Earth. These practices would again become a part of their daily lives.

The leaders of the people would be chosen in the old way - not by their

political party, or who could speak the loudest, boast the most, or by name

calling or mudslinging, but by those whose actions spoke the loudest. Those

who demonstrated their love, wisdom, and courage and those who showed

that they could and did work for the good of all, would be chosen as the

leaders or Chiefs. They would be chosen by their “quality” and not the amount

of money they had obtained. Like the thoughtful and devoted “Ancient Chiefs”,

they would understand the people with love, and see that their young were

educated with the love and wisdom of their surroundings. They would show

them that miracles can be accomplished to heal this world of its ills, and

restore it to health and beauty.

The tasks of these “Warriors of the Rainbow” are many and great. There will

be terrifying mountains of ignorance to conquer and they shall find prejudice

and hatred. They must be dedicated, unwavering in their strength, and strong

of heart. They will find willing hearts and minds that will follow them on this

road of returning “Mother Earth” to beauty and plenty - once more.

The day will come, it is not far away. The day that we shall see how we owe

our very existence to the people of all tribes that have maintained their culture

and heritage. Those that have kept the rituals, stories, legends, and myths

alive. It will be with this knowledge, the knowledge that they have preserved,

that we shall once again return to “harmony” with Nature, Mother Earth, and

mankind. It will be with this knowledge that we shall find our “Key to our

Survival”.

This is the story of the “Warriors of the Rainbow” and this is my reason for

protecting the culture, heritage, and knowledge of my ancestors. I know that

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the day “Eyes of Fire” spoke of - will come! I want my children and

grandchildren to be prepared to accept this task. The task of being one of

the...”Warriors of the Rainbow”.

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Black Elk's Vision

[The following is taken from the book Black Elk Speaks, by John G. Neihardt

(New York: Washington Square Press, 1972), originally published in 1932.

The book is Neihardt's recreation in English of the oral history that Black Elk, a

medicine man (or “shaman,” of the Oglala Sioux Indians, recounted for him in

the Sioux language in 1931. I have selected those chapters and sections of

chapters that deal most directly with Black Elk's visions and this ritual

enactment of them for his tribe.]

From Chapter 2: Early Boyhood

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that

I first heard the voices. It was a happy summer and nothing was afraid,

because in the Moon When the Ponies Shed (May) word came from the

Wasichus [the White Men] that there would be peace and that they would not

use the road any more and that all the soldiers would go away. The soldiers

did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling

Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country

would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow. You can see that

it is not the grass and the water that have forgotten.

Maybe it was not this summer when I first heard the voices, but I think it

was, because I know it was before I played with bows and arrows or rode a

horse, and I was out playing alone when I heard them. It was like somebody

calling me, and I thought it was my mother, but there was nobody there. This

happened more than once, and always made me afraid, so that I ran home.

It was when I was five years old that my Grandfather made me a bow and

some arrows. The grass was young and I was horseback. A thunder storm

was coming from where the sun goes down, and just as I was riding into the

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woods along a creek, there was a kingbird sitting on a limb. This was not a

dream, it happened. And I was going to shoot at the kingbird with the bow my

Grandfather made, when the bird spoke and said: “The clouds all over are

one-sided.” Perhaps it meant that all the clouds were looking at me. And then

it said: “Listen! A voice is calling you!” Then I looked up at the clouds, and two

men were coming there, headfirst like arrows slanting down; and as they

came, they sang a sacred song and the thunder was like drumming. I will sing

it for you. The song and the drumming were like this:

BEHOLD, A SACRED VOICE IS CALLING YOU;

ALL OVER THE SKY A SACRED VOICE IS CALLING.

I sat there gazing at them, and they were coming from the place where the

giant lives (north). But when they were very close to me, they wheeled about

toward where the sun goes down, and suddenly they were geese. Then they

were gone, and the rain came with a big wind and a roaring. I did not tell this

vision to any one. I liked to think about it, but I was afraid to tell it.

Chapter 3: The Great Vision

What happened after that until the summer I was nine years old is not a

story. There were winters and summers, and they were good; for the

Wasichus had made their iron road along the Platte and traveled there. This

had cut the bison herd in two, but those that stayed in our country with us were

more than could be counted, and we wandered without trouble in our land.

Now and then the voices would come back when I was out alone, like

someone calling me, but what they wanted me to do I did not know. This did

not happen very often, and when it did not happen, I forgot about it; for I was

growing taller and was riding horses now and could shoot prairie chickens and

rabbits with my bow. The boys of my people began very young to learn the

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ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw,

and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

It was the summer when I was nine years old, and our people were moving

slowly towards the Rocky Mountains. We camped one evening in a valley

beside a little creek just before it ran into the Greasy Grass and there was a

man by the name of Man Hip who liked me and asked me to eat with him in

his tepee.

While I was eating, a voice came and said: “It is time; now they are calling

you.” The voice was so loud and clear that I believed it, and I thought I would

just go where it wanted me to go. So I got right up and started. As I came out

of the tepee, both my thighs began to hurt me, and suddenly it was like waking

from a dream, and there wasn't any voice. So I went back into the tepee, but I

didn't want to eat. Man Hip looked at me in a strange way and asked me what

was wrong. I told him that my legs were hurting me.

The next morning the camp moved again, and I was riding with some boys.

We stopped to get a drink from a creek, and when I got off my horse, my legs

crumpled under me and I could not walk. So the boys helped me up and put

me on my horse; and when we camped again that evening, I was sick. The

next day the camp moved on to where the different bands of our people were

coming together, and I rode in a pony drag, for I was very sick. Both my legs

and both my arms were swollen badly and my face was all puffed up.

When we had camped again, I was lying in our tepee and my mother and

father were sitting beside me. I could see out through the opening, and there

two men were coming from the clouds, headfirst like arrows slanting down,

and I knew they were the same that I had seen before. Each now carried a

long spear, and from the points of these a jagged lightning flashed. They came

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clear down to the ground this time and stood a little way off and looked at me

and said: “Hurry! Come! Your Grandfathers are calling you!”

Then they turned and left the ground like arrows slanting upward from the

bow. When I got up to follow, my legs did not hurt me any more and I was very

light. I went outside the tepee, and yonder where the men with flaming spears

were going, a little cloud was coming very fast. It came and stooped and took

me and turned back to where it came from, flying fast. And when I looked

down I could see my mother and my father yonder, and I felt sorry to be

leaving them.

Then there was nothing but the air and the swiftness of the little cloud that

bore me and those two men still leading up to where white clouds were piled

like mountains on a wide blue plain, and in them thunder beings lived and

leaped and flashed. Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and

we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills

and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.

Then the two men spoke together and they said: “Behold him, the being with

four legs!”

I looked and saw a bay horse standing there, and he began to speak:

“Behold me!” he said. “My life history you shall see.” Then he wheeled about to

where the sun goes down, and said: “Behold them! Their history you shall

know.”

I looked, and there were twelve black horses yonder all abreast with

necklaces of bison hoofs, and they were beautiful, but I was frightened,

because their manes were lightning and there was thunder in their nostrils.

Then the bay horse wheeled to where the great white giant lives (the north)

and said: “Behold!” And yonder there were twelve white horses all abreast.

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Their manes were flowing like a blizzard wind and from their noses came a

roaring, and all about them white geese soared and circled.

Then the bay wheeled round to where the sun shines continually (the east)

and bade me look; and there twelve sorrel horses, with necklaces of elk's

teeth, stood abreast with eyes that glimmered like the daybreak star and

manes of morning light.

Then the bay wheeled once again to look upon the place where you are

always facing (the south), and yonder stood twelve buckskins all abreast with

horns upon their heads and manes that lived and grew like trees and grasses.

And when I had seen all these, the bay horse said: “Your Grandfathers are

having a council. These shall take you; so have courage.”

Then all the horses went into formation, four abreast—the blacks, the

whites, the sorrels, and the buckskins—and stood behind the bay, who turned

now to the west and neighed; and yonder suddenly the sky was terrible with a

storm of plunging horses in all colors that shook the world with thunder,

neighing back.

Now turning to the north the bay horse whinnied, and yonder all the sky

roared with a mighty wind of running horses in all colors, neighing back.

And when he whinnied to the east, there too the sky was filled with glowing

clouds of manes and tails of horses, in all colors singing back. Then to the

south he called, and it was crowded with many colored, happy horses,

nickering.

Then the bay horse spoke to me again and said: “See how your horses all

come dancing!” I looked, and there were horses, horses everywhere—a whole

skyful of horses dancing round me.

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“Make haste!” the bay horse said; and we walked together side by side,

while the blacks, the whites, the sorrels, and the buckskins followed, marching

four by four.

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without

number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and

these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses

came, and vanished.

Then as we walked, there was a heaped up cloud ahead that changed into

a tepee, and a rainbow was the open door of it; and through the door I saw six

old men sitting in a row.

The two men with the spears now stood beside me, one on either hand, and

the horses took their places in their quarters, looking inward, four by four. And

the oldest of the Grandfathers spoke with a kind voice and said: “Come right in

and do not fear.” And as he spoke, all the horses of the four quarters neighed

to cheer me. So I went in and stood before the six, and they looked older than

men can ever be—old like hills, like stars.

The oldest spoke again: “Your Grandfathers all over the world are having a

council, and they have called you here to teach you.” His voice was very kind,

but I shook all over with fear now, for I knew that these were not old men, but

the Powers of the World. And the first was the Power of the West; the second,

of the North; the third, of the East; the fourth, of the South; the fifth, of the Sky;

the sixth, of the Earth. I knew this, and was afraid, until the first Grandfather

spoke again: “Behold them yonder where the sun goes down, the thunder

beings! You shall see, and have from them my power; and they shall take you

to the high and lonely center of the earth that you may see: even to the place

where the sun continually shines, they shall take you there to understand.”

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And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap

with flames of many colors over me.

Now there was a wooden cup in his hand and it was full of water and in the

water was the sky.

“Take this,” he said. “It is the power to make live, and it is yours.”

Now he had a bow in his hands. “Take this,” he said. “It is the power to

destroy, and it is yours.”

Then he pointed to himself and said: “Look close at him who is your spirit

now, for you are his body and his name is Eagle Wing Stretches.”

And saying this, he got up very tall and started running toward where the

sun goes down; and suddenly he was a black horse that stopped and turned

and looked at me, and the horse was very poor and sick; his ribs stood out.

Then the second Grandfather, he of the North, arose with a herb of power in

his hand, and said: “Take this and hurry.” I took and held it toward the black

horse yonder. He fattened and was happy and came prancing to his place

again and was the first Grandfather sitting there.

The second Grandfather, he of the North, spoke again: “Take courage,

younger brother,” he said; “on earth a nation you shall make live, for yours

shall be the power of the white giant's wing, the cleansing wing.” Then he got

up very tall and started running toward the north; and when he turned toward

me, it was a white goose wheeling. I looked about me now, and the horses in

the west were thunders and the horses of the north were geese. And the

second Grandfather sang two songs that were like this:

THEY ARE APPEARING, MAY YOU BEHOLD!

THEY ARE APPEARING, MAY YOU BEHOLD!

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THE THUNDER NATION IS APPEARING, BEHOLD!

THEY ARE APPEARING, MAY YOU BEHOLD!

THEY ARE APPEARING, MAY YOU BEHOLD!

THE WHITE GEESE NATION IS APPEARING,

BEHOLD!”

And now it was the third Grandfather who spoke, he of where the sun shines

continually. “Take courage, younger brother,” he said, “for across the earth

they shall take you!” Then he pointed to where the daybreak star was shining,

and beneath the star two men were flying. “From them you shall have power,”

he said, “from them who have awakened all the beings of the earth with roots

and legs and wings.” And as he said this, he held in his hand a peace pipe

which had a spotted eagle outstretched upon the stem; and this eagle seemed

alive, for it was poised there, fluttering, and its eyes were looking at me. “With

this pipe,” the Grandfather said, “you shall walk upon the earth, and whatever

sickens there you shall make well.” Then he pointed to a man who was bright

red all over, the color of good and of plenty, and as he pointed, the red man

lay down and rolled and changed into a bison that got up, and galloped toward

the sorrel horses of the east, and they too turned to bison, fat and many.

And now the fourth Grandfather spoke, he of the place where you are

always facing (the south), whence comes the power to grow. “Younger

brother,” he said, “with the powers of the four quarters you shall walk, a

relative. Behold, the living center of a nation I shall give you, and with it many

you shall save.” And I saw that he was holding in his hand a bright red stick

that was alive, and as I looked it sprouted at the top and sent forth branches,

and on the branches many leaves came out and murmured and in the leaves

the birds began to sing. And then for just a little while I thought I saw beneath

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it in the shade the circled villages of people and every living thing with roots or

legs or wings, and all were happy. “It shall stand in the center of the nation's

circle,” said the Grandfather, “a cane to walk with and a people's heart; and by

your powers you shall make it blossom.”

Then when he had been still a little while to hear the birds sing, he spoke

again: “Behold the earth!” So I looked down and saw it lying yonder like a hoop

of peoples, and in the center bloomed the holy stick that was a tree, and

where it stood there crossed two roads, a red one and a black. “From where

the giant lives (the north) to where you always face (the south) the red road

goes, the road of good,” the Grandfather said, “and on it shall your nation

walk. The black road goes from where the thunder beings live (the west) to

where the sun continually shines (the east), a fearful road, a road of troubles

and of war. On this also you shall walk, and from it you shall have the power to

destroy a people's foes. In four ascents you shall walk the earth with Power.”

I think he meant that I should see four generations, counting me, and now I

am seeing the third.

Then he rose very tall and started running toward the south, and was an elk;

and as he stood among the buckskins yonder, they too were elks.

Now the fifth Grandfather spoke, the oldest of them all, the Spirit of the Sky.

“My boy,” he said, “I have sent for you and you have come. My power you

shall see!” He stretched his arms and turned into a spotted eagle hovering.

“Behold,” he said, “all the wings of the air shall come to you, and they and the

winds and the stars shall be like relatives. You shall go across the earth with

my power.” Then the eagle soared above my head and fluttered there; and

suddenly the sky was full of friendly wings all coming toward me.

Now I knew the sixth Grandfather was about to speak, he who was the Spirit

of the Earth, and I saw that he was very old, but more as men are old. His hair

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was long and white, his face was all in wrinkles and his eyes were deep and

dim. I stared at him, for it seemed I knew him somehow; and as I stared, he

slowly changed, for he was growing backwards into youth, and when he had

become a boy, I knew that he was myself with all the years that would be mine

at last. When he was old again, he said: “My boy, have courage, for my power

shall be yours, and you shall need it, for your nation on the earth will have

great troubles. Come.”

He rose and tottered out through the rainbow door, and as I followed I was

riding on the bay horse who had talked to me at first and led me to that place.

Then the bay horse stopped and faced the black horses of the west, and a

voice said: “They have given you the cup of water to make live the greening

day, and also the bow and arrow to destroy.” The bay neighed, and the twelve

black horses came and stood behind me, four abreast.

The bay faced the sorrels of the east, and I saw that they had morning stars

upon their foreheads and they were very bright. And the voice said: “They

have given you the sacred pipe and the power that is peace, and the good red

day.” The bay neighed and the twelve sorrels stood behind me, four abreast

My horse now faced the buckskins of the south and a voice said: “They

have given you the sacred stick and your nation's hoop, and the yellow day

and in the center of the hoop you shall set the stick and make it grow into a

shielding tree, and bloom.” The bay neighed, and the twelve buckskins came

and stood behind me, four abreast.

Then I knew that there were riders on all the horses there behind me, and a

voice said: “Now you shall walk the black road with these; and as you walk, all

the nations that have roots or legs or wings shall fear you.”

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So I started, riding toward the east down the fearful road, and behind me

came the horsebacks four abreast—the blacks, the whites, the sorrels, and the

buckskins—and far away above the fearful road the daybreak star was rising

very dim.

I looked below me where the earth was silent in a sick green light, and saw

the hills look up afraid and the grasses on the hills and all the animals; and

everywhere about me were the cries of frightened birds and sounds of fleeing

wings. I was the chief of all the heavens riding there, and when I looked

behind me, all the twelve black horses reared and plunged and thundered and

their manes and tails were whirling hail and their nostrils snorted lightning. And

when I looked below again, I saw the slant hail falling and the long, sharp rain,

and where we passed, the trees bowed low and all the hills were dim.

Now the earth was bright again as we rode. I could see the hills and valleys

and the creeks and rivers passing under. We came above a place where three

streams made a big one—a source of mighty waters—and something terrible

was there. Flames were rising from the waters and in the flames a blue man

lived. The dust was floating all about him in the air, the grass was short and

withered, the trees were wilting, two-legged and four-legged beings lay there

thin and panting, and wings too weak to fly.

Then the black horse riders shouted “Hoka hey!” and charged down upon

the blue man, but were driven back. And the white troop shouted, charging,

and was beaten; then the red troop and the yellow.

And when each had failed. they all cried together: “Eagle Wing Stretches,

hurry!” And all the world was filled with voices of all kinds that cheered me, so I

charged. I had the cup of water in one hand and in the other was the bow that

turned into a spear as the bay and I swooped down, and the spear's head was

sharp lightning. It stabbed the blue man's heart, and as it struck I could hear

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the thunder rolling and many voices that cried “Un-hee!,” meaning I had killed.

The flames died. The trees and grasses were not withered any more and

murmured happily together, and every living being cried in gladness with

whatever voice it had. Then the four troops of horse men charged down and

struck the dead body of the blue man, counting coup; and suddenly it was only

a harmless turtle.

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as

rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six

Grandfathers gave me. So we were riding on the earth now down along the

river flowing full from the source of waters, and soon I saw ahead the circled

village of a people in the valley. And a Voice said: “Behold a nation; it is yours.

Make haste, Eagle Wing Stretches!”

I entered the village, riding, with the four horse troops behind me—the

blacks, the whites, the sorrels, and the buckskins; and the place was filled with

moaning and with mourning for the dead. The wind was blowing from the

south like fever, and when I looked around I saw that in nearly every tepee the

women and the children and the men lay dying with the dead.

So I rode around the circle of the village, looking in upon the sick and dead,

and I felt like crying as I rode. But when I looked behind me, all the women

and the children and the men were getting up and coming forth with happy

faces.

And a Voice said: “Behold, they have given you the center of the nation's

hoop to make it live.”

So I rode to the center of the village, with the horse troops in their quarters

round about me, and there the people gathered. And the Voice said: “Give

them now the flowering stick that they may flourish, and the sacred pipe that

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they may know the power that is peace, and the wing of the white giant that

they may have endurance and face all winds with courage.”

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it

in the earth. As it touched the earth it leaped mightily in my hand and was a

waga chun, the rustling tree, very tall and full of leafy branches and of all birds

singing. And beneath it all the animals were mingling with the people like

relatives and making happy cries. The women raised their tremolo of joy, and

the men shouted all together: “Here we shall raise our children and be as little

chickens under the mother sheo's wing.”

Then I heard the white wind blowing gently through the tree and singing

there, and from the east the sacred pipe came flying on its eagle wings, and

stopped before me there beneath the tree, spreading deep peace around it.

Then the daybreak star was rising, and a Voice said: “It shall be a relative to

them; and who shall see it, shall see much more, for thence comes wisdom;

and those who do not see it shall be dark.” And all the people raised their

faces to the east, and the star's light fell upon them, and all the dogs barked

loudly and the horses whinnied.

Then when the many little voices ceased, the great Voice said: “Behold the

circle of the nation's hoop, for it is holy, being endless, and thus all powers

shall be one power in the people without end. Now they shall break camp and

go forth upon the red road, and your Grandfathers shall walk with them.” So

the people broke camp and took the good road with the white wing on their

faces, and the order of their going was like this:

First, the black horse riders with the cup of water; and the white horse riders

with the white wing and the sacred herb; and the sorrel riders with the holy

pipe: and the buckskins with the flowering stick. And after these the little

children and the youths and maidens followed in a band.

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Second, came the tribe's four chieftains, and their band was all young men

and women.

Third, the nation's four advisers leading men and women neither young nor

old.

Fourth, the old men hobbling with their canes and looking to the earth.

Fifth, old women hobbling with their canes and looking to the earth.

Sixth, myself all alone upon the bay with the bow and arrows that the First

Grandfather gave me. But I was not the last; for when I looked behind me

there were ghosts of people like a trailing fog as far as I could see—

grandfathers of grandfathers and grandmothers of grandmothers without

number. And over these a great Voice—the Voice that was the South—lived,

and I could feel it silent.

And as we went the Voice behind me said: “Behold a good nation walking in

a sacred manner in a good land!”

Then I looked up and saw that there were four ascents ahead, and these

were generations I should know. Now we were on the first ascent, and all the

land was green. And as the long line climbed, all the old men and women

raised their hands, palms forward, to the far sky yonder and began to croon a

song together, and the sky ahead was filled with clouds of baby faces.

When we came to the end of the first ascent we camped in the sacred circle

as before, and in the center stood the holy tree, and still the land about us was

all green.

Then we started on the second ascent, marching as before, and still the

land was green, but it was getting steeper. And as I looked ahead, the people

changed into elks and bison and all four-footed beings and even into fowls, all

walking in a sacred manner on the good red road together. And I myself was a

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spotted eagle soaring over them. But just before we stopped to camp at the

end of that ascent, all the marching animals grew restless and afraid that they

were not what they had been, and began sending forth voices of trouble,

calling to their chiefs. And when they camped at the end of that ascent, I

looked down and saw that leaves were falling from the holy tree.

And the Voice said: “Behold your nation, and remember what your Six

Grandfathers gave you, for thenceforth your people walk in difficulties.”

Then the people broke camp again, and saw the black road before them

towards where the sun goes down, and black clouds coming yonder; and they

did not want to go but could not stay. And as they walked the third ascent, all

the animals and fowls that were the people ran here and there, for each one

seemed to have his own little vision that he followed and his own rules; and all

over the universe I could hear the winds at war like wild beasts fighting.

And when we reached the summit of the third ascent and camped, the

nation's hoop was broken like a ring of smoke that spreads and scatters and

the holy tree seemed dying and all its birds were gone. And when I looked

ahead I saw that the fourth ascent would be terrible.

Then when the people were getting ready to begin the fourth ascent, the

Voice spoke like some one weeping, and it said: “Look there upon your

nation.” And when I looked down, the people were all changed back to human,

and they were thin, their faces sharp, for they were starving. Their ponies were

only hide and bones, and the holy tree was gone.

And as I looked and wept, I saw that there stood on the north side of the

starving camp a sacred man who was painted red all over his body, and he

held a spear as he walked into the center of the people, and there he lay down

and rolled. And when he got up, it was a fat bison standing there, and where

the bison stood a sacred herb sprang up right where the tree had been in the

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center of the nation's hoop. The herb grew and bore four blossoms on a single

stem while I was looking—a blue, a white, a scarlet, and a yellow—and the

bright rays of these flashed to the heavens.

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and

were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we

must find another strength. For the people all seemed better when the herb

had grown and bloomed, and the horses raised their tails and neighed and

pranced around, and I could see a light breeze going from the north among

the people like a ghost; and suddenly the flowering tree was there again at the

center of the nation's hoop where the four-rayed herb had blossomed.

I was still the spotted eagle floating and I could see that I was already in the

fourth ascent and the people were camping yonder at the top of the third long

rise. It was dark and terrible about me, for all the winds of the world were

fighting. It was like rapid gunfire and like whirling smoke, and like women and

children wailing and like horses screaming all over the world.

I could see my people yonder running about, setting the smokeflap poles

and fastening down their tepees against the wind, for the storm cloud was

coming on them very fast and black, and there were frightened swallows

without number fleeing before the cloud.

Then a song of power came to me and I sang it there in the midst of that

terrible place where I was. It went like this:

A GOOD NATION I WILL MAKE LIVE.

THIS THE NATION ABOVE HAS SAID.

THEY HAVE GIVEN ME THE POWER

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TO MAKE OVER.

And when I had sung this, a Voice said: “To the four quarters you shall run

for help, and nothing shall be strong before you. Behold him!”

Now I was on my bay horse again, because the horse is of the earth, and it

was there my power would be used. And as I obeyed the Voice and looked,

there was a horse all skin and bones yonder in the west, a faded brownish

black. And a Voice there said: “Take this and make him over; and it was the

four-rayed herb that I was holding in my hand. So I rode above the poor horse

in a circle, and as I did this I could hear the people yonder calling for spirit

power, “A-hey! a-hey! a-hey! a-hey!” Then the poor horse neighed and rolled

and got up, and he was a big, shiny, black stallion with dapples all over him

and his mane about him like a cloud. He was the chief of all the horses; and

when he snorted, it was a flash of lightning and his eyes were like the sunset

star. He dashed to the west and neighed, and the west was filled with a dust of

hoofs, and horses without number, shiny black, came plunging from the dust.

Then he dashed toward the north and neighed, and to the east and to the

south. and the dust clouds answered, giving forth their plunging horses without

number—whites and sorrels and buckskins, fat, shiny, rejoicing in their

fleetness and their strength. It was beautiful, but it was also terrible.

Then they all stopped short, rearing, and were standing in a great hoop

about their black chief at the center, and were still. And as they stood, four

virgins, more beautiful than women of the earth can be, came through the

circle, dressed in scarlet, one from each of the four quarters, and stood about

the great black stallion in their places; and one held the wooden cup of water,

and one the white wing, and one the pipe, and one the nation's hoop. All the

universe was silent, listening; and then the great black stallion raised his voice

and sang. The song he sang was this:

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MY HORSES, PRANCING THEY ARE COMING.

MY HORSES, NEIGHING THEY ARE COMING;

PRANCING THEY ARE COMING.

ALL OVER THE UNIVERSE THEY COME.

THEY WILL DANCE; MAY YOU BEHOLD THEM.

(4 TIMES)

A HORSE NATION, THEY WILL DANCE.

MAY YOU BEHOLD THEM. (4 TIMES)

His voice was not loud, but it went all over the universe and filled it. There

was nothing that did not hear, and it was more beautiful than anything can be.

It was so beautiful that nothing anywhere could keep from dancing. The virgins

danced, and all the circled horses. The leaves on the trees, the grasses on the

hills and in the valleys, the water in the creeks and in the rivers and the lakes,

the four-legged and the two-legged and the wings of the air—all danced

together to the music of the stallion's song.

And when I looked down upon my people yonder, the cloud passed over,

blessing them with friendly rain, and stood in the east with a flaming rainbow

over it.

Then all the horses went singing back to their places beyond the summit of

the fourth ascent, and all thing sang along with them as they walked.

And a Voice said: “All over the universe they have finished a day of

happiness.” And looking down, I saw that the whole wide circle of the day was

beautiful and green, with all fruits growing and all things kind and happy.

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Then a Voice said: “Behold this day, for it is yours to make. Now you shall

stand upon the center of the earth to see, for there they are taking you.” I was

still on my bay horse, and once more I felt the riders of the west, the north, the

east, the south, behind me in formation, as before, and we were going east. I

looked ahead and saw the mountains there with rocks and forests on them,

and from the mountains flashed all colors upward to the heavens. Then I was

standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me

was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I

can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner

the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must

live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was

one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and

in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one

mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.

Then as I stood there, two men were coming from the east, head first like

arrows flying, and between them rose the daybreak star. They came and gave

a herb to me and said: “With this on earth you shall undertake anything and do

it.” It was the daybreak-star herb, the herb of understanding, and they told me

to drop it on the earth. I saw it falling far, and when it struck the earth it rooted

and grew and flowered, four blossoms on one stem, a blue, a white, a scarlet,

and a yellow; and the rays from these streamed upward to the heavens so that

all creatures saw it and in no place was there darkness.

Then the Voice said: “Your Six Grandfathers—now you shall go back to

them.”

I had not noticed how I was dressed until now, and I saw that I was painted

red all over, and my joints were painted black, with white stripes between the

joints. My bay had lightning stripes all over him, and his mane was cloud. And

when I breathed, my breath was lightning.27

Now two men were leading me, head first like arrows slanting upward—the

two that brought me from the earth. And as I followed on the bay, they turned

into four flocks of geese that flew in circles, one above each quarter, sending

forth a sacred voice as they flew: Br-r-r-p, br-r-r-p, br-r-r-p, br-r-r-p!

Then I saw ahead the rainbow flaming above the tepee of the Six

Grandfathers, built and roofed with cloud and sewed with thongs of lightning;

and underneath it were all the wings of the air and under them the animals and

men. All these were rejoicing and thunder was like happy laughter.

As I rode in through the rainbow door, there were cheering voices from all

over the universe, and I saw the Six Grandfathers sitting in a row, with their

arms held toward me and their hands, palms out; and behind them in the cloud

were faces thronging, without number, of the people yet to be.

“He has triumphed!” cried the six together, making thunder. And as I passed

before them there, each gave again the gift that he had given me before—the

cup of water and the bow and arrows, the power to make live and to destroy;

the white wing of cleansing and the healing herb; the sacred pipe; the

flowering stick. And each one spoke in turn from west to south, explaining

what he gave as he had done before, and as each one spoke he melted down

into the earth and rose again; and as each did this, I felt nearer to the earth.

Then the oldest of them all said: “Grandson, all over the universe you have

seen. Now you shall go back with power to the place from whence you came,

and it shall happen yonder that hundreds shall be sacred, hundreds shall be

flames! Behold!”

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy

except one, and he was lying like the dead—and that one was myself. Then

the oldest Grandfather sang, and his song was like this:

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THERE IS SOMEONE LYING ON EARTH

IN A SACRED MANNER.

THERE IS SOMEONE—ON EARTH HE LIES.

IN A SACRED MANNER I HAVE MADE HIM TO WALK.

Now the tepee, built and roofed with cloud, began to sway back and forth as

in a wind, and the flaming rainbow door was growing dimmer. I could hear

voices of all kinds crying from outside: “Eagle Wine Stretches is coming forth!

Behold him!”

When I went through the door, the face of the day of earth was appearing

with the daybreak star upon its forehead; and the sun leaped up and looked

upon me, and I was going forth alone.

And as I walked alone, I heard the sun singing as it arose, and it sang like

this:

WITH VISIBLE FACE I AM APPEARING.

IN A SACRED MANNER I APPEAR.

FOR THE GREENING EARTH A PLEASANTNESS

I MAKE.

THE CENTER OF THE NATION'S HOOP

I HAVE MADE PLEASANT.

WITH VISIBLE FACE, BEHOLD ME!

THE FOUR-LEGGEDS AND TWO-LEGGEDS,

I HAVE MADE THEM TO WALK;

THE WINGS OF THE AIR, I HAVE MADE

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THEM TO FLY.

WITH VISIBLE FACE I APPEAR.

MY DAY, I HAVE MADE IT HOLY.

When the singing stopped, I was feeling lost and very lonely. Then a Voice

above me said: “Look back!” It was a spotted eagle that was hovering over me

and spoke. I looked, and where the flaming rainbow tepee, built and roofed

with cloud, had been, I saw only the tall rock mountain at the center of the

world.

I was all alone on a broad plain now with my feet upon the earth, alone but

for the spotted eagle guarding me. I could see my people's village far ahead,

and I walked very fast, for I was homesick now. Then I saw my own tepee, and

inside I saw my mother and my father, bending over a sick boy that was

myself. And as I entered the tepee, some one was saying: “The boy is coming

to; you had better give him some water.”

Then I was sitting up; and I was sad because my mother and my father

didn't seem to know I had been so far away.

From Chapter 4: The Bison Hunt

hen I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our

tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly

swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around. My

parents would not let me. They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like

dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle

and a medicine man, had brought me back to life. I knew it was the

Grandfathers in the Flaming Rainbow Tepee who had cured me; but I felt

afraid to say so. My father gave Whirlwind Chaser the best horse he had for

making me well, and many people came to look at me, and there was much

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talk about the great power of Whirlwind Chaser who had made me well all at

once when I was almost the same as dead. Everybody was glad that I was

living; but as I lay there thinking about the wonderful place where I had been

and all that I had seen, I was very sad; for it seemed to me that everybody

ought to know about it, but I was afraid to tell, because I knew that nobody

would believe me, little as I was, for I was only nine years old. Also, as I lay

there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a

part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me

that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get

away from me.

[From this point much of Black Elk's narrative is taken up with the

description of the suffering that his people endured at the hands of the

“Wasichus” or White Men. By the time Black Elk was sixteen years old his tribe

had been decimated, and what remained of his people would soon be

subjected to living on the terms of the White Man, on what were to become

Indian reservations. All during this time Black Elk avoids speaking of his vision

to anyone, although he often draws strength from it privately. Eventually,

however, his uncertainty about its significance and the continued secrecy

begin to be too much for him.]

From Chapter 13: The Compelling Fear

I was sixteen years old and more, and I had not yet done anything the

Grandfathers wanted me to do, but they had been helping me. I did not know

how to do what they wanted me to do.

A terrible time began for me then, and I could not tell anybody, not even my

father and mother. I was afraid to see a cloud coming up; and whenever one

did, I could hear the thunder beings calling to me: “Behold your Grandfathers!

Make haste!” I could understand the birds when they sang, and they were

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always saying: “It is time! It is time!” The crows in the day and the coyotes at

night all called and called to me: “It is time! It is time! It is time!”

Time to do what? I did not know. Whenever I awoke before daybreak and

went out of the tepee because I was afraid of the stillness when everyone was

sleeping, there were many low voices talking together in the east, and the

daybreak star would sing this song in the silence:

IN A SACRED MANNER YOU SHALL WALK!

YOUR NATION SHALL BEHOLD YOU!

I could not get along with people now, and I would take my horse and go far

out from camp alone and compare everything on the earth and in the sky with

my vision. Crows would see me and shout to each other as though they were

making fun of me: “Behold him! Behold him!”

When the frosts began I was glad, because there would not be any more

thunder storms for a long while, and I was more and more afraid of them all

the time, for always there would be the voices crying!: “Oo oohey! It is time! It

is time!”

The fear was not so great all the while in the winter, but sometimes it was

bad. Sometimes the crying of coyotes out in the cold made me so afraid that I

would run out of one tepee into another, and I would do this until I was worn

out and fell asleep. I wondered if maybe I was only crazy; and my father and

mother worried a great deal about me. They said: “It is the strange sickness he

had that time when we gave the horse to Whirlwind Chaser for curing him; and

he is not cured.” I could not tell them what was the matter, for then they would

only think I was queerer than ever.

I was seventeen years old that winter.

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When the grasses were beginning to show their tender faces again, my

father and mother asked an old medicine man by the name of Black Road to

come over and see what he could do for me. Black Road was in a tepee all

alone with me, and he asked me to tell him if I had seen something that

troubled me. By now I was so afraid of being afraid of everything that I told him

about my vision, and when I was through he looked long at me and said: “Ah-

h-h-h!,” meaning that he was much surprised. Then he said to me: “Nephew, I

know now what the trouble is! You must do what the bay horse in your vision

wanted you to do. You must do your duty and perform this vision for your

people upon earth. You must have the horse dance first for the people to see.

Then the fear will leave you; but if you do not do this, something very bad will

happen to you.”

So we began to get ready for the horse dance.

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Chapter 14: The Horse Dance

There was a man by the name of Bear Sings, and he was very old and

wise. So Black Road asked him to help, and he did. First they sent a crier around in the morning who told the people to camp in

a circle at a certain place a little way up the Tongue from where the soldiers

were. They did this, and in the middle of the circle Bear Sings and Black Road

set up a sacred tepee of bison hide, and on it they painted pictures from my

vision. On the west side they painted a bow and a cup of water; on the north.

white geese and the herb; on the east. the daybreak star and the pipe; on the

south, the flowering stick and the nation's hoop. Also, they painted horses, elk.

and bison. Then over the door of the sacred tepee, they painted the flaming

rainbow. It took them all day to do this, and it was beautiful.

They told me I must not eat anything until the horse dance was over, and I

had to purify myself in a sweat lodge with sage spread on the floor of it, and

afterwards I had to wipe myself dry with sage.

That evening Black Road and Bear Sings told me to come to the painted

tepee. We were in there alone, and nobody dared come near us to listen. They

asked me if I had heard any songs in my vision, and if I had I must teach the

songs to them. So I sang to them all the songs that I had heard in my vision,

and it took most of the night to teach these songs to them. While we were in

there singing, we could hear low thunder rumbling all over the village outside,

and we knew the thunder beings were glad and had come to help us.

My father and mother had been helping too by hunting up all that we should

need in the dance. The next morning they had everything ready. There were

four black horses to represent the west; four white horses for the north; four

sorrels for the east; four buckskins for the south. For all of these, young riders

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had been chosen. Also there was a bay horse for me to ride, as in my vision.

Four of the most beautiful maidens in the village were ready to take their part,

and there were six very old men for the Grandfathers.

Now it was time to paint and dress for the dance. The four maidens and the

sixteen horses all faced the sacred tepee. Black Road and Bear Sings then

sang a song, and all the others sang along with them, like this:

FATHER, PAINT THE EARTH ON ME.

FATHER, PAINT THE EARTH ON ME.

FATHER, PAINT THE EARTH ON ME.

A NATION I WILL MAKE OVER.

A TWO-LEGGED NATION I WILL MAKE HOLY.

FATHER. PAINT THE EARTH ON ME.

AFTER THAT THE PAINTING WAS DONE.

The four black-horse riders were painted all black with blue lightning stripes

down their legs and arms and white hail spots on their hips, and there were

blue streaks of lightning on the horses' legs.

The white-horse riders were painted all white with red streaks of lightning on

their arms and legs, and on the legs of the horses there were streaks of red

lightning, and all the white riders wore plumes of white horse hair on their

heads to look like geese.

The riders of the sorrels of the east were painted all red with straight black

lines of lightning on their limbs and across their breasts, and there was straight

black lightning on the limbs and breasts of the horses too.

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The riders of the buckskins of the south were painted all yellow and

streaked with black lightning. The horses were black from the knees down,

and black lightning streaks were on their upper legs and breasts.

My bay horse had bright red streaks of lightning on his limbs, and on his

back a spotted eagle, outstretching was painted where I sat. I was painted red

all over with black lightning on my limbs. I wore a black mask, and across my

forehead a single eagle feather hung.

When the horses and the men were painted they looked beautiful; but they

looked fearful too.

The men were naked, except for a breech-clout; but the four maidens wore

buckskin dresses dyed scarlet, and their faces were scarlet too. Their hair was

braided, and they had wreaths of the sweet and cleansing sage, the sacred

sage, around their heads, and from the wreath of each in front a single eagle

feather hung. They were very beautiful to see.

All this time I was in the sacred tepee with the Six Grandfathers, and the

four sacred virgins were in there too. No one outside was to see me until the

dance began.

Right in the middle of the tepee the Grandfathers made a circle in the

ground with a little trench, and across this they painted two roads—the red one

running north and south, the black one, east and west. On the west side of this

they placed a cup of water with a little bow and arrow laid across it; and on the

east they painted the daybreak star. Then to the maiden who would represent

the north they gave the healing herb to carry and a white goose wing, the

cleansing wind. To her of the east they gave the holy pipe. To her of the south

they gave the flowering stick; and to her who would represent the west they

gave the nation's hoop. Thus the four maidens, good and beautiful, held in

their hands the life of the nation.

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All I carried was a red stick to represent the sacred arrow, the power of the

thunder beings of the west.

We were now ready to begin the dance. The Six Grandfathers began to

sing, announcing the riders of the different quarters. First they sang of the

black horse riders, like this:

THEY WILL APPEAR—MAY YOU BEHOLD THEM!

THEY WILL APPEAR—MAY YOU BEHOLD THEM!

A HORSE NATION WILL APPEAR.

A THUNDER-BEING NATION WILL APPEAR.

THEY WILL APPEAR, BEHOLD!

THEY WILL APPEAR, BEHOLD!

Then the black riders mounted their horses and stood four abreast facing

the place where the sun goes down.

Next the Six Grandfathers sang:

THEY WILL APPEAR, MAY YOU BEHOLD THEM!

A HORSE NATION WILL APPEAR, BEHOLD!

A GEESE NATION WILL APPEAR, MAY YOU

BEHOLD!”

Then the four white horsemen mounted and stood four abreast, facing the

place where the White Giant lives.

Next the Six Grandfathers sang:

WHERE THE SUN SHINES CONTINUALLY,

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THEY WILL APPEAR!

A BUFFALO NATION, THEY WILL APPEAR, BEHOLD!

A HORSE NATION, THEY WILL APPEAR,

MAY YOU BEHOLD!

Then the red horsemen mounted and stood four abreast facing the east.

Next the Grandfathers sang:

WHERE YOU ARE ALWAYS FACING,

AN ELK NATION WILL APPEAR!

MAY YOU BEHOLD!

A HORSE NATION WILL APPEAR,

BEHOLD!

The four yellow riders mounted their buckskins and stood four abreast

facing the south.

Now it was time for me to go forth from the sacred tepee, but before I went

forth I sang this song to the drums of the Grandfathers:

HE WILL APPEAR, MAY YOU BEHOLD HIM!

AN EAGLE FOR THE EAGLE NATION WILL APPEAR.

MAY YOU BEHOLD!

While I was singing thus in the sacred tepee I could hear my horse snorting

and prancing outside. The virgins went forth four abreast and I followed them,

mounting my horse and standing behind them facing the west.

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Next the Six Grandfathers came forth and stood abreast behind my bay, and

they began to sing a rapid, lively song to the drums, like this:

THEY ARE DANCING.

THEY ARE COMING TO BEHOLD YOU.

THE HORSE NATION OF THE WEST IS DANCING.

THEY ARE COMING TO BEHOLD!

Then they sang the same of the horses of the north and of the east and of

the south. And as they sang of each troop in turn, it wheeled and came and

took its place behind the Grandfathers—the blacks, the whites, the sorrels and

the buckskins, standing four abreast and facing the west. They came prancing

to the lively air of the Grandfathers' song, and they pranced as they stood in

line. And all the while my bay was rearing too and prancing to the music of the

sacred song.

Now when we were all in line, facing the west, I looked up into a dark cloud

that was coming there and the people all became quiet and the horses quit

prancing. And when there was silence but for low thunder yonder, I sent a

voice to the spirits of the cloud, holding forth my right hand, thus, palm

outward, as I cried four times:

HEY-A-A-HEY! HEY-A-A-HEY! HEY-A-A-HEY! HEY-A-A-HEY!

Then the Grandfathers behind me sang another sacred song from my

vision, the one that goes like this:

AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH,

BEHOLD A FOUR-LEGGED.

THEY HAVE SAID THIS TO ME!

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And as they sang a strange thing happened. My bay pricked up his ears and

raised his tail and pawed the earth, neighing long and loud to where the sun

goes down. And the four black horses raised their voices, neighing long and

loud, and the whites and the sorrels and the buckskins did the same; and all

the other horses in the village neighed, and even those out grazing in the

valley and on the hill slopes raised their heads and neighed together. Then

suddenly, as I sat there looking at the cloud, I saw my vision yonder once

again—the tepee built of cloud and sewed with lightning the flaming rainbow

door and, underneath, the Six Grandfathers sitting, and all the horses

thronging in their quarters; and also there was I myself upon my bay before

the tepee. I looked about me and could see that what we then were doing was

like a shadow cast upon the earth from yonder vision in the heavens, so bright

it was and clear. I knew the real was yonder and the darkened dream of it was

here.

And as I looked, the Six Grandfathers yonder in the cloud and all the riders

of the horses, and even I myself upon the bay up there, all held their hands

palms outward toward me, and when they did this, I had to pray, and so I

cried:

GRANDFATHERS, YOU BEHOLD ME!

SPIRITS OF THE WORLD, YOU BEHOLD!

WHAT YOU HAVE SAID TO ME,

I AM NOW PERFORMING!

HEAR ME AND HELP ME!

Then the vision went out, and the thunder cloud was coming on with

lightning on its front and many voices in it, and the split-tail swallows swooped

above us in a swarm.

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The people of the village ran to fasten down their tepees, while the black

horse riders sang to the drums that rolled like thunder, and this is what they

sang:

I MYSELF MADE THEM FEAR.

MYSELF, I WORE AN EAGLE RELIC.

I MYSELF MADE THEM FEAR.

MYSELF, A LIGHTNING POWER I WORE.

I MYSELF MADE THEM FEAR,

MADE THEM FEAR.

THE POWER OF THE HAIL I WORE,

I MYSELF MADE THEM FEAR,

MADE THEM FEAR!

BEHOLD ME!

And as they sang, the hail and rain were falling yonder just a little way from

us, and we could see it, but the cloud stood there and flashed and thundered,

and only a little sprinkle fell on us. The thunder beings were glad and had

come in a great crowd to see the dance.

Now the four virgins held high the sacred relics that they carried, the herb

and the white wing, the sacred pipe, the flowering stick, the nation's hoop,

offering these to the spirits of the west. Then people who were sick or sad

came to the virgins, making scarlet offerings to them, and after they had done

this, they all felt better and some were cured of sickness and began to dance

for joy.

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Now the Grandfathers beat their drums again and the dance began. The

four black horsemen, who had stood behind the Grandfathers, went ahead of

the virgins, riding toward the west side of the circled village, and all the others

followed in their order while the horses pranced and reared.

When the black horse troop had reached the western side, it wheeled

around and fell to the rear behind the buckskins, and the white horse band

came up and led until it reached the north side of the village. Then these fell

back and took the rear behind the blacks, and the sorrels led until they

reached the east. Then these fell back behind the whites, and the buckskins

led until they reached the south. Then they fell back and took the rear, so that

the blacks were leading as before toward the western quarter that was theirs.

Each time the leading horse troop reached its quarter, the Six Grandfathers

sang of the powers of that quarter, and there my bay faced, pricking up his

ears and neighing loud, till all the other horses raised their voices neighing.

When I thus faced the north, I sent a voice again and said: “Grandfather,

behold me! What you gave me I have given to the people—the power of the

healing herb and the cleansing wind. Thus my nation is made over. Hear and

help me!”

And when we reached the east, and after the Grandfathers had sung, I sent

a voice: “Grandfather, behold me! My people, with difficulty they walk. Give

them wisdom and guide them. Hear and help me!”

Between each quarter, as we marched and danced, we all sang together:

A HORSE NATION ALL OVER THE UNIVERSE,

NEIGHING, THEY COME!

PRANCING, THEY COME!

MAY YOU BEHOLD THEM.

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When we had reached the south and the Grandfathers had sung of the

power of growing, my horse faced yonder and neighed again, and all the

horses raised their voices as before. And then I prayed with hand upraised:

“Grandfather, the flowering stick you gave me and the nation's sacred hoop I

have given to the people. Hear me, you who have the power to make grow!

Guide the people that they may be as blossoms on your holy tree, and make it

flourish deep in Mother Earth and make it full of leaves and singing birds.”

Then once more the blacks were leading, and as we marched and sang and

danced toward the quarter of the west, the black hail cloud, still standing

yonder watching, filled with voices crying: “Hey-hey! hey-hey!” They were

cheering and rejoicing that my work was being done. And all the people now

were happy and rejoicing, sending voices back, “hey-hey, hey-hey”; and all the

horses neighed, rejoicing with the spirits and the people. Four times we

marched and danced around the circle of the village, singing as we went, the

leaders changing at the quarters, the Six Grandfathers singing to the power of

each quarter, and to each I sent a voice. And at each quarter, as we stood,

somebody who was sick or sad would come with offerings to the virgins—little

scarlet bags of the chacun sha sha, the red willow bark. And when the offering

was made, the giver would feel better and begin to dance with joy.

And on the second time around, many of the people who had horses joined

the dance with them, milling round and round the Six Grandfathers and the

virgins as we danced ahead. And more and more got on their horses, milling

round us as we went, until there was a whirl of prancing horses all about us at

the end, and all the others danced afoot behind us, and everybody sang what

we were singing.

When we reached the quarter of the west the fourth time, we stopped in new

formation, facing inward toward the sacred tepee in the center of the village.

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Grandfathers with eight riders on either side of them—the sorrels and the

buckskins on their right hand; the blacks and whites upon their left. And when

we stood so, the oldest of the Grandfathers, he who was the Spirit of the Sky,

cried out: “Let all the people be ready. He shall send a voice four times, and at

the last voice you shall go forth and coup [hit] the sacred tepee, and who shall

coup it first shall have new power!”

All the riders were eager for the charge, and even the horses seemed to

understand and were rearing and trying to get away. Then I raised my hand

and cried hey-hey four times, and at the fourth the riders all yelled “hoka hey,”

and charged upon the tepee. My horse plunged inward along with all the

others, but many were ahead of me and many couped the tepee before I did.

Then the horses were all rubbed down with sacred sage and led away, and

we began going into the tepee to see what might have happened there while

we were dancing. The Grandfathers had sprinkled fresh soil on the nation's

hoop that they had made in there with the red and black roads across it, and

all around this little circle of the nation's hoop we saw the prints of tiny pony

hoofs as though the spirit horses had been dancing while we danced.

Now Black Road, who had helped me to perform the dance, took the sacred

pipe from the virgin of the east. After filling it with chacun sha sha, the bark of

the red willow, he lit and offered it to the Powers of the World, sending a voice

thus:

“Grandfathers, you where the sun goes down, you of the sacred wind where

the white giant lives, you where the day comes forth and the morning star, you

where lives the power to grow, you of the sky and you of the earth, wings of

the air and four-leggeds of the world, behold! I, myself, with my horse nation

have done what I was to do on earth. To all of you I offer this pipe that my

people may live!”

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Then he smoked and passed the pipe. It went all over the village until every

one had smoked at least a puff.

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and

did not touch it when I walked. I felt very happy, for I could see that my people

were all happier. Many crowded around me and said that they or their relatives

who had been feeling sick were well again, and these gave me many gifts.

Even the horses seemed to be healthier and happier after the dance.

The fear that was on me so long was gone, and when thunder clouds

appeared I was always glad to see them, for they came as relatives now to

visit me. Everything seemed good and beautiful now, and kind.

Before this, the medicine men would not talk to me, but now they would

come to me to talk about my vision.

From that time on, I always got up very early to see the rising of the

daybreak star. People knew that I did this, and many would get up to see it

with me, and when it came we said: “Behold the star of understanding!”

From Chapter 18: The Powers of the Bison and the Elk

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a

man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has

performed the vision on earth for the people to see. You remember that my

great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen

that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse

dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer. And

if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty,

I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never

dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me. But the fear

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came and if I had not obeyed it, I am sure it would have killed me in a little

while.

It was even then only after the heyoka ceremony in which I performed my

dog vision, that I had the power to practice as a medicine man, curing sick

people; and many I cured with the power that came through me. Of course it

was not I who cured. It was the power from the outer world, and the visions

and ceremonies had only made me like a hole through which the power could

come to the two-leggeds. If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would

close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would

be foolish. There were other parts of my great vision that I still had to perform

before I could use the power that was in those parts. If you think about my

great vision again, you will remember how the red man turned into a bison and

rolled, and that the people found the good red road after that. If you will read

again what is written, you will see how it was.

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the

people to see. It was during the summer of my first cure that this was done. I

carried the pipe to Fox Belly, a wise and good old medicine man, and asked

him to help me do this duty. He was glad to help me, but first I had to tell him

how it was in that part of my vision. I did not tell him all my vision, only that

part. I had never told any one all of it, and even until now nobody ever heard it

all. Even my old friend, Standing Bear, and my son here have heard it now for

the first time when I have told it to you. Of course there was very much in the

vision that even I cannot tell when I try hard, because very much of it was not

for words. But I have told what can be told.

It has made me very sad to do this at last, and I have lain awake at night

worrying and wondering if I was doing right; for I know I have given away my

power when I have given away my vision, and maybe I cannot live very long

now. But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I 46

may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise

and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after

all.

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Hopi Prophecy

The end of all Hopi ceremonialism will come when a “Kachina” removes his

mask during a dance in the plaza before uninitiated children [the general

public]. For a while there will be no more ceremonies, no more faith. Then

Oraibi will be rejuvenated with its faith and ceremonies, marking the start of a

new cycle of Hopi life.

World War III will be started by those peoples who first revealed the light

(the divine wisdom or intelligence) in the other old countries (India, China,

Islamic Nations, Africa.)

The United States will be destroyed, land and people, by atomic bombs and

radioactivity. Only the Hopis and their homeland will be preserved as an oasis

to which refugees will flee. Bomb shelters are a fallacy. “It is only materialistic

people who seek to make shelters. Those who are at peace in their hearts

already are in the great shelter of life. There is no shelter for evil. Those who

take no part in the making of world division by ideology are ready to resume

life in another world, be they Black, White, Red, or Yellow race. They are all

one, brothers.”

The war will be “a spiritual conflict with material matters. Material matters

will be destroyed by spiritual beings who will remain to create one world and

one nation under one power, that of the Creator.”

That time is not far off. It will come when the Saquasohuh (Blue Star)

Kachina dances in the plaza and removes his mask. He represents a blue

star, far off and yet invisible, which will make its appearance soon. The time is

foretold by a song sung during the Wuwuchim ceremony. It was sung in 1914

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just before World War I, and again in 1940 before World War II, describing the

disunity, corruption, and hatred contaminating Hopi rituals, which were

followed by the same evils spreading over the world. This same song was

sung in 1961 during the Wuwuchim ceremony.

The Emergence to the future Fifth World has begun. It is being made by the

humble people of little nations, tribes, and racial minorities. “You can read this

in the earth itself. Plant forms from previous worlds are beginning to spring up

as seeds [as described in SW-II, Effects and Coming Events # 1]. This could

start a new study of botany if people were wise enough to read them. The

same kinds of seeds are being planted in the sky as stars. The same kinds of

seeds are being planted in our hearts. All these are the same, depending how

you look at them. That is what makes the Emergence to the next, Fifth World.

“These comprise the nine most important prophecies of the Hopis,

connected with the creation of the nine worlds: the three previous worlds on

which we lived, the present Fourth World, the three future worlds we have yet

to experience, and the world of Taiowa, the Creator, and his nephew,

Sotuknang.”

The Hopi and others who were saved from the Great Flood made a sacred

covenant with the Great Spirit never to turn away from him. He made a set of

sacred stone tablets, called Tiponi, into which he breathed his teachings,

prophecies, and warnings. Before the Great Spirit hid himself again, he placed

before the leaders of the four different racial groups four different colors and

sizes of corn; each was to choose which would be their food in this world. The

Hopi waited until last and picked the smallest ear of corn. At this, the Great

Spirit said:

“It is well done. You have obtained the real corn, for all the others are

imitations in which are hidden seeds of different plants. You have shown me

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your intelligence; for this reason I will place in your hands these sacred stone

tablets, Tiponi, symbol of power and authority over all land and life to guard,

protect, and hold in trust for me until I shall return to you in a later day, for I am

the First and I am the Last.”

The Great Chieftain of the Bow Clan led the faithful ones to this new land,

but he fell into evil ways. His two sons scolded him for his mistake, and after

he died they assumed the responsibilities of leadership. Each brother was

given a set of Tiponi, and both were instructed to carry them to a place to

which the Great Spirit directed them. The elder brother [of the shining light]

was told to go immediately to the east, toward the rising sun, and upon

reaching his destination to start back immediately to look for his younger

brother, who remained on Turtle Island [the Continental United States of

America]. His mission was to help his younger brother to bring about the

Purification Day, at which time all evildoers would be punished or destroyed,

after which real peace, brotherhood, and everlasting life would be established.

The elder brother would restore all land to his younger brother, from whom the

Evil one among the white men had taken it. The elder brother [of the shining

light] also would come to look for the Tiponi tablets and fulfill the mission given

him by the Great Spirit.

The younger brother was instructed to travel throughout the land and mark

his footsteps as he went about. Both brothers were told that a great white star

would appear in the sky; when that happened, all people would know that the

elder brother had reached his destination. Thereupon all people were to settle

wherever they happened to be at that time, there to remain until the elder

brother returned.

The Hopi settled in the area now known as Four Corners, where the state

lines of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado meet. They lived in humble

simplicity and the land produced abundant crops. This area is the “heart” of 50

Turtle Island [the U.S.] and of Mother Earth, and it is the microcosmic image of

the macrocosm of the entire planet. Each Hopi clan perpetuates a unique

ceremony, and the ceremonies together maintain the balance of natural forces

of sunlight, rain and winds, and reaffirm the Hopi respect for all life and trust in

the Great Spirit.

The Hopi were told that after a time White Men would come and take their

land and try to lead the Hopi into evil ways. But in spite of all the pressures

against them, the Hopi were told they must hold to their ancient religion and

their land, though always without violence. If they succeeded, they were

promised that their people and their land would be a center from which the

True Spirit would be reawakened.

It is said that after many years the elder brother might change the color of

his skin, but his hair will remain black. He will have the ability to write, and he

will be the only person able to read the Tiponi. When he returns to find his

younger brother, the Tiponi will be placed side by side to show all the world

that they are true brothers. Then great judgment will take place, for the elder

will help the younger brother to obtain real justice for all Indian brothers who

have been cruelly mistreated by the white man since he came to Turtle Island.

The transformed elder brother, the True White Brother, will wear a red cloak

or a red cap, similar to the pattern on the back of a horned toad. He will bring

no religion but his own, and will bring with him the Tiponi tablets. He will be all-

powerful; none will be able to stand against him. He will come swiftly, and in

one day gain control of this entire continent. It is said, “If he comes from the

East, the destruction will not be so bad. But if he comes from the West, do not

get up on your housetops to see because he will have no mercy.”

The True White Brother will bring with him two great, intelligent and powerful

helpers, one of whom will have a sign of a swastika (a masculine symbol of

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purity), and the sign of the sun. The second great helper will have the sign of a

Celtic cross with red lines (representing female life blood) between the arms of

the cross.

When the Great Purification is near, these helpers will shake the earth first

for a short time in preparation. After they shake the earth two times more, they

will be joined by the True White Brother, who will become one with them and

bring the Purification Day to the world. All three will help the “younger brother”

(the Hopi and other pure-hearted people) to make a better world. In the

prophecies, the two helpers are designated by the Hopi word for “population,”

as if they were large groups of people.

The Hopi were warned that if these three great beings failed, terrible evil

would befall the world and great numbers of people would be killed. However,

it was said that they would succeed if enough Hopi remained true to the

ancient spirit of their people. The True White Brother and his helpers will show

the people of earth a great new life plan that will lead to everlasting life. The

earth will become new and beautiful again, with an abundance of life and food.

Those who are saved will share everything equally. All races will intermarry

and speak one tongue and be a family.

Hopi prophecy states that World War III will be started by the people who

first received the Light — China, Palestine, India and Africa. When the war

comes, the United States will be destroyed by “gourds of ashes” which will fall

to the ground, boiling the rivers and burning the earth, where no grass will

grow for many years, and causing a disease that no medicine can cure. This

can only mean nuclear or atomic bombs; no other weapon causes such

effects. Bomb shelters will be useless, for “Those who are at peace in their

hearts already are in the Great Shelter of Life. There is no shelter for evil.

When the Saquahuh (blue Star) Kachina dances in the plaza and removes his

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mask, the time of the great trial will be here.” The Hopi believe that only they

will be saved.

The Hopi also have prophesied that “Turtle Island could turn over two or

three times and the oceans could join hands and meet the sky.” This seems to

be a prophecy of a “pole shift” — a flipping, of the planet on its axis. The Hopi

call this imminent condition — and that of society today — “Koyaanisqatsi”,

which means “world out of balance...a state of life that calls for another way. “

The following extraordinary Hopi prophecy was first published in a

mimeographed manuscript that circulated among several Methodist and

Presbyterian churches in 1959. Some of the prophecies were published in

1963 by Frank Waters in The Book of the Hopi. The account begins by

describing how, while driving along a desert highway one hot day in the

summer of 1958, a minister named David Young stopped to offer a ride to an

Indian elder, who accepted with a nod. After riding in silence for several

minutes, the Indian said:

“I am White Feather, a Hopi of the ancient Bear Clan. In my long life I have

traveled through this land, seeking out my brothers, and learning from them

many things full of wisdom. I have followed the sacred paths of my people,

who inhabit the forests and many lakes in the east, the land of ice and long

nights in the north, and the places of holy altars of stone built many years ago

by my brothers' fathers in the south. From all these I have heard the stories of

the past, and the prophecies of the future. Today, many of the prophecies

have turned to stories, and few are left — the past grows longer, and the

future grows shorter.

“And now White Feather is dying. His sons have all joined his ancestors,

and soon he too shall be with them. But there is no one left, no one to recite

and pass on the ancient wisdom. My people have tired of the old ways — the

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great ceremonies that tell of our origins, of our emergence into the Fourth

World, are almost all abandoned, forgotten, yet even this has been foretold.

The time grows short.

“My people await Pahana, the lost White Brother, [from the stars] as do all

our brothers in the land. He will not be like the white men we know now, who

are cruel and greedy. we were told of their coming long ago. But still we await

Pahana.

“He will bring with him the symbols, and the missing piece of that sacred

tablet now kept by the elders, given to him when he left, that shall identify him

as our True White Brother.

“The Fourth World shall end soon, and the Fifth World will begin. This the

elders everywhere know. The Signs over many years have been fulfilled, and

so few are left.

“This is the First Sign: We are told of the coming of the white-skinned

men, like Pahana, but not living like Pahana men who took the land that was

not theirs. And men who struck their enemies with thunder.

“This is the Second Sign: Our lands will see the coming of spinning

wheels filled with voices. In his youth, my father saw this prophecy come true

with his eyes — the white men bringing their families in wagons across the

prairies.”

“This is the Third Sign: A strange beast like a buffalo but with great long

horns, will overrun the land in large numbers. These White Feather saw with

his eyes — the coming of the white men's cattle.”

“This is the Fourth Sign: The land will be crossed by snakes of iron.”

“This is the Fifth Sign: The land shall be criss-crossed by a giant spider's

web.”

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“This is the Sixth sign: The land shall be criss-crossed with rivers of stone

that make pictures in the sun.”

“This is the Seventh Sign: You will hear of the sea turning black, and

many living things dying because of it.”

“This is the Eight Sign: You will see many youth, who wear their hair long

like my people, come and join the tribal nations, to learn their ways and

wisdom.

“And this is the Ninth and Last Sign: You will hear of a dwelling-place in

the heavens, above the earth, that shall fall with a great crash. It will appear as

a blue star. Very soon after this, the ceremonies of my people will cease.

“These are the Signs that great destruction is coming. The world shall rock

to and fro. The white man will battle against other people in other lands — with

those who possessed the first light of wisdom. There will be many columns of

smoke and fire such as White Feather has seen the white man make in the

deserts not far from here. Only those which come will cause disease and a

great dying. Many of my people, understanding the prophecies, shall be safe.

Those who stay and live in the places of my people also shall be safe. Then

there will be much to rebuild. And soon — very soon afterward — Pahana will

return. He shall bring with him the dawn of the Fifth World. He shall plant the

seeds of his wisdom in their hearts. Even now the seeds are being planted.

These shall smooth the way to the Emergence into the Fifth World.

“But White Feather shall not see it. I am old and dying. You — perhaps will

see it. In time, in time...”

The old Indian fell silent. They had arrived at his destination, and Reverend

David Young stopped to let him out of the car. They never met again.

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Reverend Young died in 1976, so he did not live to see the further fulfillment of

this remarkable prophecy.

The signs are interpreted as follows: The First Sign is of guns. The Second

Sign is of the pioneers' covered wagons. The Third Sign is of longhorn cattle.

The Fourth Sign describes the railroad tracks. The Fifth Sign is a clear image

of our electric power and telephone lines. The Sixth Sign describes concrete

highways and their mirage-producing effects. The Seventh Sign foretells of oil

spills in the ocean. The Eighth Sign clearly indicates the “Hippy Movement” of

the 1960s. The Ninth Sign was the U.S. Space Station Skylab, which fell to

Earth in 1979. According to Australian eye-witnesses, it appeared to be

burning blue.

Another Hopi prophecy warns that nothing should be brought back from the

Moon — obviously anticipating the Apollo 11 mission that returned with

samples of lunar basalt. It this was done, the Hopi warned, the balance of

natural and universal laws and forces would be disturbed, resulting in

earthquakes, severe changes in weather patterns, and social unrest. All these

things are happening today, though of course not necessarily because of

Moon rocks.

The Hopi also predicted that when the “heart” of the Hopi land trust is dug

up, great disturbances will develop in the balance of nature, for the Hopi holy

land is the microcosmic image of the entire planet; any violations of nature in

the Four Corners region will be reflected and amplified all over the Earth.

In 1959, a six-man delegation of traditional Hopi leaders led by the late

spiritual leader, Dan Katchongva, traveled to the United Nations Building in

New York to fulfill a sacred mission in accordance with ancient Hopi

instructions. Because of their prophetic knowledge, the Hopi leaders felt it was

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time to go east to the edge of their motherland, where “a house of mica” [The

United Nations building] would stand at this time, where Great Leaders from

many lands would be gathered to help any people who are in trouble.”

They were to go when the motherland of the Hopi and other Indian brothers

were about to be taken away from them and their way of life was in danger of

being completely destroyed by evil ones among the White Men and by some

other Indian brothers who were influenced by the White Race. This is a clear

and present danger: the betrayal of Indian-U.S.A. treaties, land sales, and coal

and uranium mining are destroying the Hopi land and its people — and all

other peoples and lands, in eventual effect...

According to prophecy, at least one, two or three leaders or nations would

hear and understand the Hopi warnings, as “It is told that they too should know

these ancient instructions”. Upon hearing the message of the Hopi, they would

act immediately to correct many wrongs being done to the chosen race — the

Red Man who was granted permission to hold in trust all land and life for the

Great Spirit. This prophecy would seem to have failed. Hopi prophecy also

declares that the doors of the “Glass House” would be closed to them. This

was the case at first, though they have delivered their message to the United

Nations Assembly since then:

“When the Great Leaders in the Glass House refuse to open the door to you

when you stand before it that day, [Repeated, again in 1993] do not be

discouraged or turn about on the path you walk, but take courage,

determination, and be of great rejoicing in your hearts, for on that day the

White Race who are on your land with you have cut themselves from you and

thereon lead themselves to the Greatest Punishment at the Day of Purification.

Many shall be destroyed for their sins and evil ways. The Great Spirit has

decreed it and no one can stop it, change it, or add anything to it. It shall be

fulfilled!”57

On August 7, 1970, a spectacular UFO sighting was witnessed by dozens of

people and photographed by Chuck Roberts of the Prescott (Arizona)

“Courier”. This sighting occurred after a “UFO calling” by Paul Solem and

several Hopi Indians. This sighting was interpreted by some Hopis as being a

partial fulfillment of a certain Hopi prophecy given by the Great Spirit Maasau

and inscribed on Second Mesa, warning of the coming of Purification Day,

when the true Hopi will be flown to other planets in “ships without wings.”

Hopi prophecy also tells us that there will be a mass migration of Indians

northward from Mexico and Central and South America. The migration will be

led by a 130-year old Indian named Etchata Etchana. The movement will

come after the huge fire and explosion that will herald the advent of the True

White Brother.

According to Hopi belief, the survivors of the Great Deluge thousands of

years ago split up into four groups that moved north, south, east and west.

Only one group completed their journey — to the North Pole and back —

under the guidance of a brilliant “star” in which the Great Spirit Maasau

traveled. When he landed, he drew a petroglyph on Second Mesa, showing a

maiden (with the traditional “butterfly” hair arrangement) riding in a wingless,

dome-shaped craft. The petroglyph signified the coming Day of Purification

when the true Hopi will fly to other planets in “ships without wings.”

The prophecy also warns that there will be three divisions among the Hopi -

The first division was in 1906 between the Traditionalists and the Modernists.

The Traditionalists were forced to leave Oraibi and move to Hotevilla. The

second division took place in the wake of the spectacular appearance of UFOs

in August, 1970.

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Thomas Banacyca Talks about the Hopi Prophecy

AN ADDRESS BY THOMAS BANYACYA, KYKOTSMOVI, ARIZONA

by The Alpha Institute

[email protected].

The circle with the 4 (o's) and cross within (above), symbolizes the Four

Corners Region (where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet - a

very high energy vortex). The circle represents no end - the infinite Great

Spirit. The Indians believe we are the 5th World of Man. When the 4th World

was destroyed (this destruction was foretold), those Indians who had listened

were guided to places of safety, underground. After the 5th World was

created, they assembled at Four Corners and were instructed to spread out in

the four directions (north - south - east - west). Four (4) also represents the

four elements in nature: fire, water, air and earth; and the four color races of

man.

In the Hopi Prophecy, it spoke of a white man who would come to them and

help transform the entire continent into a spiritual paradise. He would be

recognized because he would carry the fragment of stone which would

complete their Holy Stone, filled with Indian writing characters. The Holy Stone

had been preserved for thousands of years. Thus, when the white settlers

came to the American continent, remembering their prophecy, they were

openly welcomed. The Indians shared all they had. But, in return, all the White

Man did was to take. The Indians noticed that their White Brothers had

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brought a cross. However, it was not enclosed by the circle of the Great Spirit,

showing the White Man had lost his way.

The Indians believe that at the beginning of the 5 th World, when man was

told to disburse throughout the planet, from Four Corners, the White Race was

one of the original races that went East. Upon their return to our continent,

they had become confused and forgotten the ways of the Great Spirit. Further

the prophecy continued, either the White Man would bring peace and harmony

or attempt to totally destroy the Indian's way of life and take all his

possessions and the land. If the latter occurred, (which is clearly the case

today) there would come a time when the Indian people would appear to be

almost non-existent. Yet, one day, they would rise out of nowhere, as the

white race is falling due to their own ignorance and destruction, to lead a

spiritual revolution, so all people on this continent would become attuned to

the Great Spirit. To hold fast to the traditional ways even if it seemed that

everything was against them. To protect Four Corners at all cost, because

there is great power under the land that if it is allowed to escape, great

destruction would result. Today, the Indians are going through the test to hold

onto their traditional ways and protect the land. The White Man's society is

trying to swallow the Indians up. Many of their people, especially the young,

are falling prey to the White Man's ways.

Their prophecy also talks about creation of atomic bombs as catastrophes of

great heat, equal to the heat of a sun. It also warns about tampering with the

moon (violating its nature by removing rocks, soil from moon)

(Related to the Big Mountain issue:) It is their duty/responsibility to their

family, animals and all of nature, to keep this land protected and in harmony.

Everything in nature has a power in it. Water represents purification of human

beings. All spiritual people should unite on a spiritual path. To save this land is

a mission assigned by the Great Spirit.60

One of the prophecies - All Indians and Non-Indians would one day (now)

begin to understand a great problem facing all people. Someday a white

brother who went away to record things will return to this land and bring

spiritual life to the continent. When White Brother returns, Hopi must keep their

spiritual ways so they can show others how to live the right way. Very

important job. Elders know ancient knowledge, which also will be shared at the

right time with all. Based on prophecy, Indians welcomed the white man. White

man destroyed privilege. Indians gave hospitality and whites took everything.

Indians do not lie - Whites tricked Indians with lies. By prophecy - Four

Corners will be area of confrontation between White and Red. Indians will be

pushed into Four Corners. Great Spirit told Hopi - Four Corners is the

backbone of the United States. Hopi must hold land till Human Beings live in

harmony. The power under the land would be

used for destruction. (There would be a)

Terrible punishment if give up Four Corners.

(Hopi Elders also know about the prophecies of

earth changes and Space Brothers - side note).

As prophesized the rainbow light warriors will unite, bringing love, healing

and harmony to the world, but it starts within the heart, here and NOW!

It takes ALL colors to make a rainbow!

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The Hopi Message

he presentation by Mr. Thomas Banyacya, the final speaker, was

preceded by three shouts by Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Six

Nations, and first speaker of the day. The shouts were a spiritual

announcement to the Great Spirit of the people assembled and the intention to

give a message of spiritual importance.

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Thomas then sprinkled corn meal next to the podium of the General

Assembly and made a brief remark in Hopi that translates as follows:

Hopi Spiritual leaders had an ancient prophecy that some day world leaders

would gather in a Great House of Mica with rules and regulations to solve the

world problems without war. I am amazed to see the prophecy has come true

and you are here today! But only a handful of United Nations Delegates are

present to hear the Motee Sinom (Hopi for First People) from around the world

who spoke here today.

(In English:) My name is Banyacya of the Wolf, Fox and Coyote Clan and I

am a member of the Hopi sovereign nation. Hopi in our language means a

peaceful, kind, gentle, truthful people. The traditional Hopi follows the spiritual

path that was given to us by Massau'u the Great Spirit. We made a sacred

covenant to follow his life plan at all times, which includes the responsibility of

taking care of this land and life for his divine purpose. We have never made

treaties with any foreign nation, including the United States, but for many

centuries we have honored this sacred agreement. Our goals are not to gain

political control, monetary wealth nor military power, but rather to pray and to

promote the welfare of all living beings and to preserve the world in a natural

way. We still have our ancient sacred stone tablets and spiritual religious

societies which are the foundations of the Hopi way of life. Our history says

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our white brother should have retained those same sacred objects and

spiritual foundations.

In 1948, all traditional Hopi spiritual leaders met and spoke of things I felt

strongly were of great importance to all people. They selected four interpreters

to carry their message of which I am the only one still living today. At the time,

I was given a sacred prayer feather by the spiritual leaders. I made a

commitment to carry the Hopi message of peace and deliver warnings from

prophesies known since the time the previous world was destroyed by flood

and our ancestors came to this land.

My mission was to open the doors of this Great House of Mica to native

peoples. The Elders said to knock four times and this commitment was fulfilled

when I delivered a letter and the sacred prayer feather I had been given to

John Washburn in the Secretary General's office in October, 1991. I am

bringing part of the Hopi message to you here today. We have only ten

minutes to speak and time is late so I am making my statement short.

At the meeting in 1948, Hopi leaders 80, 90 and even 100 years old

explained that the creator made the first world in perfect balance where

humans spoke one language, but humans turned away from moral and

spiritual principles. They misused their spiritual powers for selfish purposes.

They did not follow nature's rules. Eventually the world was destroyed by

sinking of land and separation of land by what you would call major

earthquakes. Many died and only a small handful survived.

Then this handful of peaceful people came into the second world. They

repeated their mistakes and the world was destroyed by freezing which you

call the great Ice Age.

The few survivors entered the third world. That world lasted a long time and

as in previous worlds, the people spoke one language. The people invented

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many machines and conveniences of high technology, some of which have not

yet been seen in this age. They even had spiritual powers that they used for

good. They gradually turned away from natural laws and pursued only material

things and finally only gambled while they ridiculed spiritual principles. No one

stopped them from this course and the world was destroyed by the great flood

that many nations still recall in their ancient history or in their religions.

The Elders said again only small groups escaped and came to this fourth

world where we now live. Our world is in terrible shape again even though the

Great Spirit gave us different languages and sent us to four corners of the

world and told us to take care the the Earth and all that is in it.

This Hopi ceremonial rattle represents Mother Earth. The line running

around it is a time line and indicates that we are in the final days of the

prophecy. What have you, as individuals, as nations and as the world body

been doing to take care of this Earth? In the Earth today, humans poison their own food, water and air with pollution. Many of us, including children, are

left to starve. Many wars are still being fought. Greed and concern for material

things is a common disease.

In this western hemisphere, our homeland, many original native people are

landless, homeless, starving and have no medical help.

The Hopi knew humans would develop many powerful technologies that

would be abused. In this century, we have seen the First World War and the

Second World War in which the predicted gourd of ashes, which you call the

atomic bomb, fell from the sky with great destruction. Many thousands of

people were destroyed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

For many years there has been great fear and danger of World War Three.

The Hopi believe the Persian Gulf War was the beginning of World War Three

but it was stopped and the worst weapons of destruction were not used. This

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is now a time to weigh the choices for our future. We do have a choice. If you,

the nations of this Earth, create another great war, the Hopi believe we

humans will burn ourselves to death with ashes. That's why the spiritual Elders

stress strongly that the United Nations fully open the door for native spiritual

leaders as soon as possible.

Nature itself does not speak with a voice that we can easily understand.

Neither can the animals and birds we are threatening with extinction talk to us.

Who in this world can speak for nature and the spiritual energy that creates

and flows through all life? In every continent are human beings who are like

you but who have not separated themselves from the land and from nature. It

is through their voice that Nature can speak to us. You have heard those

voices and many messages from the four corners of the world today. I have

studied comparative religion and I think in your own nations and cultures you

have knowledge of the consequences of living out of balance with nature and

spirit. The native peoples of the world have seen and spoken to you about the

destruction of their lives and homelands, the ruination of nature and the

desecration of their sacred sites. It is time the United Nations used its rules to

investigate these occurrences and stop them now.

The Four Corners area of the Hopi is bordered by four sacred mountains.

The spiritual center within is a sacred site our prophecies say will have special

purpose in the future for mankind to survive and now should be left in its

natural state. All nations must protect this spiritual center.

The Hopi and all original native people hold the land in balance by prayer,

fasting and performing ceremonies. Our spiritual Elders still hold the land in

the Western Hemisphere in balance for all living beings, including humans. No

one should be relocated from their sacred homelands in this Western

Hemisphere or anywhere in the world. Acts of forced relocation, such as

Public Law 93-531 in the United States, must be repealed.66

The United Nations stands on our native homeland. The United Nations

talks about human rights, equality and justice and yet the native people have

never had a real opportunity to speak to this assembly since its establishment

until today. It should be the mission of your nations and this assembly to use

your power and rules to examine and work to cure the damage people have

done to this Earth and to each other. Hopi Elders know that was your mission

and they wait to see whether you will act on it now.

Nature, the First People and the spirit of our ancestors are giving you loud

warnings. Today, December 10, 1992, you see increasing floods, more

damaging hurricanes, hail storms, climate changes and earthquakes as our

prophesies said would come. Even animals and birds are warning us with

strange change in their behavior such as the beaching of whales. Why do

animals act like they know about the earth's problems and most humans act

like they know nothing? If we humans do not wake up to the warnings, the

great purification will come to destroy this world just as the previous worlds

were destroyed.

(Thomas and Oren Lyons held up a picture of a large rock drawing in

Hopiland)

This rock drawing shows part of the Hopi prophecy. There are two paths.

The first with technology but separate from natural and spiritual law leads to

these jagged lines representing chaos. The lower path is one that remains in

harmony with natural law. Here we see a line that represents a choice like a

bridge joining the paths. If we return to spiritual harmony and live from our

hearts, we can experience a paradise in this world. If we continue only on this

upper path, we will come to destruction.

It’s up to all of us, as children of Mother Earth, to clean up this mess before

it's too late.

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The Elders request that during this International Year for the Worlds

Indigenous Peoples, the United Nations keep that door open for spiritual

leaders from the four corners of the world to come to speak to you for more

than a few minutes as soon as possible. The Elders also request that eight

investigative teams visit the native areas of the world to observe and tell the

truth about what is being done and stop these nations from moving in this self-

destructive direction.

If any of you leaders want to learn more about the spiritual vision and power

of the Elders, I invite you to come out to Hopiland and sit down with our real

spiritual leaders in their sacred Kivas where they will reveal the ancient secrets

of survival and balance.

I hope that all members of this assembly that know the spiritual way will not

just talk about it, but in order to have real peace and harmony, will follow what

it says across the United Nations wall: “They will beat their swords into

plowshares and study war no more.” Lets, together, do that now!

Epilogue

he night before the presentations of the native people from around the

world to the General Assembly, there was a total eclipse of the moon

over New York City and the sky was clear. The evening after the presentation

by Mr. Banyacya and the other native spokespersons, heavy rain and strong

wind began. The weathermen had been calling for a snowstorm but what

came the following day were the worst floods in New York's memory. Major

highways were washed away by the sea and the United Nations itself

experienced flooding of its lower subfloors, forcing a shutdown of its heating

and air conditioning and all personnel were dismissed at three o'clock.

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In the ground floor meeting room, where on December 11, native peoples

were meeting representatives of various UN agencies, Thomas Banyacya

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spontaneously called on all the participants, including UN officials, to form a

great circle. All the Elders were in the center and Thomas called in some non-

native people as well. Each silently said a prayer. The forming of the circle of

unity of all people from the four corners of the Earth was more than just a

symbolic act. One participant said she had never felt herself to be in such a

safe place. Later, several people present noted that no further storm damage

occurred in Manhattan and that the storm itself abated that afternoon.

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NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN (HOPI) PROPHECIES

Talk Given by Lee Brown,

1986 Continental Indigenous Council,

Tanana Valley Fairgrounds,

Fairbanks, Alaska

here 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.

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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.”

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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.

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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

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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 earth. 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

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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

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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

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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

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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 77

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 voted to 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

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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

great-grandchildren 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 cotton fields 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 great-grandchildren. 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

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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

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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

that 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.

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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

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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

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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

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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 the

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

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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

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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 treaties, 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

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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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THE HOPI PROPHECIES

Prophecies for our Future

Re-drawing of Image on the Prophecy Stone on Hopi Land

ne of the most powerful Prophecies held by a native people is that by

the Hopis, or known as the Hopi Prophecy. In the graphic above, is a

recreation of the drawing I made when I attended a special meeting in Los

Angeles, in June of 1981, related to the forced removal of Native Americans

from the Big Mountain area of Arizona (also shared in our Journeys book in

Chapter 8).

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Included in this section is information which discusses this prophecy from

this meeting and also various other messages that have been posted on

online services. I also heard that the Tibetan Buddhists also have a similar

prophecy, which was discussed when the Dali Lama met with the Hopi Elders

a few years ago.

Description of Hopi Prophecy Image

he figure of a large person on the left represents the Great Spirit who

appears to be pointing at this prophecy. The two horizontal lines

represent:

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The Top Line represents the path of Technology without any spirituality to

balance it;

The Bottom Line represents a spiritual path.

There are three vertical lines, the first line is the beginning time of the

prophecy; the second vertical line shows a time when mankind decides which

path to follow, materialism or spiritualism. I think I heard that the two circles on

the bottom line represented the first and second World Wars. The heavy dark

vertical line, at the end, is the decision time, which path to follow, which is

today. If the material path is followed, as represented by the top horizontal

line, the result is a very jagged line that will result in destruction. If the lower

spiritual path is followed, the result will be peace and harmony.

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Notes from Big Mountain Meeting

(June 26th, 1981, Los Angeles )

he purpose of this meeting was to educate people about the situation in

Big Mountain. In a nut shell, there were large companies interested in

land in the Big Mountain area, the northeast part of Arizona, where the Hopi

and Navajo (Dine) people live. In the course of discussing this situation, the

presenters, including Thomas Banacyca, a Hopi Elder who has traveled all

over the world sharing the Hopi Prophecy inscribed on a large rock in Oraibi,

AZ - one of the oldest Indian villages known. The Indians said at this meeting

that the Hopi Prophecy warns about disrupting the Mother Earth in this region,

to strip-mine for minerals. Next is information shared during this meeting about

the prophecy.

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THE MEETING WAS DEDICATED TO ALL PEOPLE,

ALL RACES (RED, WHITE, BLACK, YELLOW)

On the chalk board in the room appeared:

PEACE AMONG ALL PEOPLES AND HARMONY WITH NATURE

TOGETHER WITH ALL PEOPLE WE PROTECT

ALL LANDS AND LIVES AND HOLD91

THE WORLD IN BALANCE

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SCIENCE AFFIRMS HOPI PROPHECY FOR SACRED LANDS.

WHAT'S HAPPENING?

The “Four Corners”

ccording to a Hopi prophecy, dating back to that nation's origin as the

first inhabitants of the North American continent, almost all life will stop

on this, our planet, unless men come to know that everyone must learn to live

in peace and harmony with Nature, the Mother of us all. Today, as many of the

Hopi prophecies of destruction and desecration have already come to pass,

these prophecies take on a profound meaning: the very survival of humanity

and Planet Earth. For the Hopis live in a sacred place in the Southwest known

to them as the spiritual center of our continent-and now known to scientists as

a key center of electromagnetic force-fields that are essential to the health and

well-being of all life.

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According to Hopi legend, passed on from generation to generation, it is that

nation's central responsibility to protect Mother Earth by preserving the Four

Corners (centered in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico) and to remain

custodians of that mineral-rich reserve while war still stalks the world.

Yet as of this minute, even as science is recognizing the Four Corners to be

one of the few key focal centers in the world where the energy currents must

be kept in balance to maintain a life-giving biosphere, over 6,000 Hopis and

Navajos are being forcibly removed to a barren, uninhabitable area through

the wanton passage of Public Law 93-531. While science is discovering that

radioactive minerals and rushing underground streams, along with solar

radiation (all present at the Four Corners), are the main sources of positive

and negative ions in the atmosphere, which are essential to humanity for

physical and mental health, a newly erected barbed wire fence is cruelly

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Unthinkably, these sacred lands are being mined to remove the valuable

radioactive minerals, the water table is drastically being reduced through

wasteful strip-mining (at 1,110 gallons per minute), and the area is being

contaminated by radioactive wastes.

Because of the Hopis' deep spiritual qualities and sensitivity to nature, they

know that the essential electromagnetic balance of life forces is maintained not

only through nature's gifts of minerals, water, and sunlight and by the

atmospheric currents and charged ion fields, but also by their sacred rituals

and ceremonial dances. Their very presence in Hopi land, their demeanor and

their reverence for life, is a protection for the people of the earth, for all are

bound together in a global grid pattern of energy. Despite their warnings, a

resource-hungry civilization is unwittingly and unknowingly moving in upon

itself, to destroy the very life's breath of the planet that embraces it and alter

the earth's delicate bio-electric balance. And fear for all of humanity, as well as

for their own people and the Navajos, grips the Hopis.

The Traditional Hopi Elders tell us: “Everything depends upon the proper

balance being maintained. They realize that if the mining and strip-mining

continue unabated, that if technology becomes a mind-less god to this great

country and remembers not the heart of the Earth Mother, that not only the

Hopi will die, “...but all will disintegrate to nothing ... time is very short.” Time is

very short indeed. Perhaps ironically, perhaps cosmically, the planetary

conjunction forecast for the year 1982 coincides with the deadline set for the

final Hopi and Navajo eviction. Is it possible that the sacrifice of the Hopi

“place of power,” this vital electromagnetic source point, could affect the

earth's ability to withstand the pull of the planetary alignment, resulting in an

instability that could spin it out of control?

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TO WHOM IS IT HAPPENING?

A polar shift has been predicted by many respected individuals, yet,

according to John White, author of Pole Shift, a shift of the earth's axis is not

inevitable. He claims, “The predictions and prophecies say that human

consciousness itself will be the critical factor.” It is human consciousness,

then, that must awaken to the danger and demand the safety and protection of

the Four Corners area and its people, currently the most vulnerable to

annihilation in the entire world. Perhaps the imminent loss and destruction of

the “heart of the Earth Mother” is our early warning system that it is a united

“we” who must preserve the earth's stability to sustain the delicate balance of

power in the planetary grid structure. For it is a united “we” who form human

consciousness.

Thus, if human consciousness is to be alerted, we of the human race must

become instantly . aware not only of what is happening but also to whom. For:

It is happening to the Hopis and the Navajos who, stripped of their pride as

independent nations, will no longer have a home that will sustain life, and

many of whom are already dying from radioactive poisoning,

It is happening to all sensitive and compassionate individuals who feel their

pain, and a responsibility for the ill-treatment of all Indian nations since North

America first knew a United States.

It is happening to the integrity and honor of a great nation which broke 371

treaties with Indian nations, and to respect once held for those corporations

that have allowed human greed to violate their ethics.

It is happening to a planet, which, already polluted and suffering from

irreverent use of its rich natural resources, cannot withstand the final injury to

delicate atmospheric and energy balances.

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But, above all, it is happening to us, to all countries and all people, to our

children, and our children's children, and to all life. For, if the earth shall

perish, personal self-interest and acquisition, and even our injustices to one

another, will be as nothing. If we are to have a planet on which to live, and live

abundantly, this is a time to fully forgive one another for all past grievances

and errors of ignorance and together take full responsibility for restoring our

earth to its Divinely ordainned state. How are we to do this? Through personal

action NOW.

Quail Littlefield

People Concerned for Mother Earth

415 Spring Street, Apt. 3

Nevada City, CA 95959

(916) 265-9522

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Hopi Message

from Rudi Schulthesiss

This message was copied from Compuserve about the Hopi Prophecy and

their attempt to share the message they received from the Great Spirit with the

United Nations.

(The following HOPI-message for all mankind is written for CompuServe by

Rudi Schultheiss, Switzerland.)

Date: Sunday, August 07, 1994 1:08:05 PM

IT IS NOW THE TIME FOR ALL OF US TO COME FORWARD WITH OUR

SUPPORT.

e are entering the last days. The Hopi Spiritual Leaders have spoken

their urgent warning and message to the United Nations and around

the world, yet there has been no response.

WThe sacred lands of the Hopi are being desecrated by water and power

lines. The bulldozers are on the land. Soon the Hopi will be unable to conduct

their ceremonies. Listen to their words. Then respond. The leaders say it is our

turn to act.

The Government of the United States only recognizes the illegally elected

tribunal council - These are not our leaders, this is not our way. We must be

left alone and allowed to follow our original instructions without the

interference of western ways. We must protect these sacred lands, these

sacred ways. If these instructions are not followed, the Purification will begin.

Already the signs of the days of Purification are beginning: For the sake of

Mother earth and her children, for the sake of all your children and your

children’s children action is needed now.

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Hopis' Ancient Knowledge and Prophecies are warning through many signs,

that we have entered a dangerous period in our lives. Mankind must return to

Peaceful ways, and halt the Destruction of Mother Earth, or are we going to

destroy ourselves. All the Stages of Hopi prophecy have come to pass, except

for the last, the purification. The intensity of this purification will depend of how

humanity collaborates with Creation.

We must Correct and Changes our ways, go back to the Spiritual ways, and

take care of Mother Earth. If we do not, we are going to face terrible

destruction by Nature, wars will come like powerful winds, bringing Purification

or Destruction. The more we turn away from the Instructions of the Great

Spirit, the more signs we see in the form of earthquakes, floods, drought, fires,

tornados; along with wars and corruption.

If we do not Correct and Change these things, we are all going to suffer,

there is no way we will be able to help each other after this. The World

problems, and the Destruction of Mother Earth will be so terrible, there may be

nothing left on this Earth. We do not want to see this happen.

We hope that by bringing these Warnings to the attention of the people of

this land, and around the World, that we will understand the Seriousness of

this moment, that we may be able to help one another, and to help bring about

a better way of Life.

Hopi Traditional Leaders included: Dan Evehama, Martin Gashwesooma,

Manuel Hoyangowa; assisted by spokesman Thomas Banyacya.

JOIN US IN ACTION TO SUPPORT THE SPIRITUAL LEADERS OF THE

HOPI NATION.

As Brothers and Sisters from the Four Directions, we share the Concern for

the Healing of Mother Earth, and of all her people. Visions, Prophecies,

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Wanings, Teachings of the Traditional Leaders from the Four Directions point

to the same Message, spoken in beautiful variations.

They all speak of the Knowledge of these times; of the urgent need for each

of us, as individuals, to search our hearts, to recognize and upon our serious

responsibility to protect Mother Earth. We need to heal, to awaken to the

danger of these times.

We need to take action and sacrifice to protect our Grandchildren and all

living beings. The Elders have had final signs from Mother Nature and from

the Great Spirit, declaring this time to be our last and final chance to help one

another, heal and work together.

—-> It is urgent and essential that we respond in every way we can.

—-> Please search your hearts, your talents and your resources to find what

you can do.

Find ways you can contribute to this urgent call. Organizational actions,

liaison work, media awareness and communication strategies are critically

needed. Network this communication to your networks.

Write to your leaders, your legislators, congressman, and Senators now.

Write to your president, the Department of the Interior, Secretary Bruce

Babbitt, Att. General Janet Reno, the Department of Justice. Tell them that

you demand an immediate cessation of the disruption of Hopi sacred land and

ancient spiritual practices.

Write to your Ambassadors and Human Rights Representatives to the

United Nations. Tell them that you support the preservation of Hopi traditional

sacred practices, lands, and ceremonies, and that you hold them accountable

for following up on this action.

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It is the time to also contact your press and media contacts and tell them

that this is the last opportunity to get this message out.

If the sacred lands are allowed to be disrupted, there will be no more chance

to put things right. The bulldozers are on the land now, the workmen are ready

to act.

In the Name of the Creator, in the name of freedom of religion, in the name

of our love for the Earth and for all our children, we must act now.

TOMORROW IT IS TOO LATE.

The United States government must know that the world is watching, that

we care about the spiritual practices of the Hopi Traditional Leaders.

WE HOPE YOU WILL JOIN US - WITH COMMITMENT, SUPPORT AND

ACTION - IN THIS VISION. IN THE RESPONSE TO THE MESSAGE FROM

OUR HOPI BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THE CRY OF THE MOTHER

EARTH, THE CRIES OF OUR GRANDCHILDREN, FOR ALL OUR

RELATIONS.

(This message is written for CompuServe by Rudi Schultheiss, Switzerland,

100343,552. In our Swiss-groups we are training the expansion and opening

of our consciousness and of our mental and spiritual potency. If you want to

have more information of your possibility to develop your spiritual and mental

potencies, send a message to 100343,552)

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Hopi Prophecy Clarification

by Robert Coody

From: [email protected]

Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 08:36:31 -0700 (MST)

Subject: HOPI Prophecies

To: [email protected]

Sir

In reading through the paraphrased information stated by Thomas

Banacyca presented by Rudi in Switzerland there are some errors in

interpretation of the Hopi symbolism. The circular shield device which is

divided into four elements represents the four worlds of the Hopi and not the

“four corners region,” which is a phenomena of the United States surveys of

the west in the 19th century. The circular device will have various

interpretations depending on which village you talk to and which Kikmonqwi

you communicate with.

One interpretation of the device from a Hopi perspective is that it represents

the four worlds of the Hopi and that it was the shield symbol of Masau, the

earth god from whom they obtained permission to settle in their present

region. The device was often painted on Hopi shields and carried by various

societies whose responsibility it was to protect the Hopi lands. Currently the

Hopi are in the fourth world and not the fifth as is stated in the narrative. I

would suggest contacting the Hopi Cultural Center for verification of traditional

information, otherwise we will see further closure of villages to outsiders and a

further division of the Hopi people themselves.

Thank you for your time in reading this item,

Robert Coody

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More Hopi Information

( From the Sumerica Web Site )

We were doing web surfing on another subject matter and via a posting to

Searchnet's UFO mailing list found our way to the Sumeria Web Site. Within

this site we found a section called the “Hopi Sinom”. Below are two sections

we recommend you visit if you are interested in the Hopi Prophecy or the

Plight of the Hopi:

HOPI PEACE INITIATIVE

A detailed description of the Hopi Peace Initiative, the importance to the

planet and things that people can do to help the Hopi create Global Peace.

HOPI PROPHECY

The translation of the oral traditions of the Hopi Prophecy given by Dan

Katchongva, the late Sun Clan leader of Hotevilla (1972). This page is entitled

From the Beginning of Life to the Day of Purification, appears to be a complete

telling of the Prophecy, the Hopi People and the Purification of our world

coming in the near future.

Prophecy Rock Glyph

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Meditations With the Hopi

by Robert Boissiere.

LONG BEFORE PAHANA, THE WHITE MAN,EVER SET FOOT IN THE AMERICAS,LONG BEFORE THE HEGEMONY OF THE RED

RACE

HAD BEEN CHALLENGED BY LIGHT-SKINNED PEOPLE

AS THE PROPHECIES TOLD US IT WOULD,A SPOT IN THE IMMENSITY OF THE DESERT,A CENTER OF SPIRITUAL POWER,WAS HOPI.

THE LAND OF THE PEACEFUL ONES.

THE CONTINENT WAS DIFFERENT THEN -MUCH SPACE, FEW TO OCCUPY IT.

BUT THE ENERGY COMING FROM HOPI

IS IN REALMS WHERE COMMUNICATIONS

ARE NOT OF THIS WORLD;IN DIMENSIONS SET BY TAIOWA

AND EXPRESSED BY MASSOUA.

HOPI IS THE THREAD,THE BRIDGE,THE PLACE OF PEACE

AND BALANCE.

IF PERHAPS THERE IS A NAME,A WORD,THAT CAN SHOW THE WORLD

WHAT HOPI PEACE IS -IT IS BALANCE.

THE WORLD MUST GROW,EXPAND,BUT IT MUST DO ITIN BALANCE.

OTHERWISE, NATURE,THE GREAT REGULATOR,WILL TAKE OVER,AS IT IS NOW,WITH FLOODS,ERUPTIONS,FAMINE,EARTHQUAKES.

THIS IS NATURE AT WAR,NATURE THAT WILL CONVINCE HUMANKIND

OF THE NEED FOR BALANCE,TO SET IN MOTION

POSITIVE ENERGIES

TO REESTABLISH A WORLD

IN BALANCE.

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IN THE BEGINNING, WE ARE TOLD,TAIOWA, THE CREATOR,GAVE US HIS LIFE PLAN,AS IT IS WRITTEN ON THE ROCK OF ORAIBI

WHICH WE CALL THE PROPHECY.

IF WE HOLD FAST

TO THE SACRED WAY

AS HE DEVISED IT FOR US,WHAT WE HAVE GAINED,WE WILL NEVER LOSE.

BUT STILL,WE HAVE TO CHOOSE

BETWEEN THE TWO WAYS.

THIS IS THE BALANCE

OF TAIOWA'S WAY.

FOR HE WILL ALWAYS MEET US HALFWAY.

THAT IS WHY ON THE SACRED PETROGLYPH

HE IS PORTRAYED HOLDING IN HIS HAND

THE THREAD

OF THE SACRED WAY.

IN THE OTHER HAND IS THE BOW,FOR IT WAS THE BOW CLAN

WHICH LED US

OUT OF THE UNDERWORLD

AT THE BEGINNING

OF THE HOPI WAY.

THAT IS WHAT THE ARROW

SHOT FROM THE BOW

MEANS ON THE ROCK.

THE DIAGRAM SHOWS TWO LINES:THE LOWER LINE IS THE PATH

OF THE GREAT SPIRIT,FOR IN ITS LAST END,A MAN IS BENDING

ON THE CANE THE OLD ONES USE,POINTING TO THE CORN,WHICH IS THE SACRED FOOD

THAT NOURISHED US FROM THE START.

THE OLD ONE SHOWS

HE WAS THE FIRST

AND HE WILL BE THE LAST.AND SO WILL WE

IF WE HOLD FAST

TO HIS PATHWAY.

BUT NEXT TO HIM,BEWARE OF THE OTHER WAY,THE WAY OF LIFE

OF THOSE WHO DO NOT PRAY.

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IT IS EASY ENOUGH TO SEE

THAT THEIR HEADS

ARE NOT FASTENED ON THEIR BODY,AS IT HAPPENS WITH PEOPLE

WHO USE THEIR MIND,INSTEAD OF THEIR FAITH

IN THE SPIRIT WAY.

AS TAIOWA'S LIFE PLAN SHOWS,THEIR LINE ENDS

IN A ZIG-ZAG WAY,IN THE VOID OF THE MIND

OF THE FAITHLESS LIFE

AND THE FRUITLESS.

BUT THERE IS ANOTHER LINE

ON THE SACRED MAP DRAWN ON THE ROCK -A VERTICAL LINE

THAT CONNECTS THE TWO WAYS.

IT IS LIKE A LADDER

THAT SOME MIGHT USE

TO CHANGE WAYS,TO GO FROM THE WAY

OF PEACE AND BALANCE -TAIOWA'S WAY -TO A PATH THAT SEEMS

TO MANY A MUCH EASIER ONE.

FINALLY SEEING

THAT THE HOPI WAY OF BALANCE

IS THE ONLY CHANCE,MANY WILL CHOOSE TO CLIMB DOWN THE

LADDER,TO GO THROUGH THE GREAT SPIRIT

GATEWAY.

THIS TIME OF CONFUSION,IN WHICH MANY WILL CHOOSE EITHER PATH,IS CALLED A TIME OF PURIFICATION.

THE PROPHECY SAYS THE EARTH

WILL SHAKE THREE TIMES:

FIRST THE GREAT WAR,

THEN THE SECOND ONE,WHEN THE SWASTIKA ROSE

ABOVE THE BATTLEFIELD OF EUROPE

TO END IN THE RISING SUN

SINKING IN A SEA OF BLOOD.

THE END OF AN EMPIRE ....OR PERHAPS THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER?

NOW WHAT WOULD THE THIRD ONE BE?

THIS, THE PROPHECY DOES NOT SAY.

FOR IT DEPENDS

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ON WHICH PATH HUMANKIND WILL WALK:THE GREED,THE COMFORT,AND THE PROFIT,OR THE PATH OF LOVE,STRENGTH,AND BALANCE.

WHEN STRONG-HEARTED PEOPLE

KEEP ON SINGING THE SONG OF CREATION,THEY WILL FIND THE TRUE PATH,FORGOTTEN BY MANY,SO GRANDPA DAVID SAYS.

WHEN PRAYER AND MEDITATION

ARE USED RATHER THAN RELYING ON NEW INVENTIONS

TO CREATE MORE IMBALANCE,THEY WILL ALSO FIND THE TRUE PATH.

MOTHER NATURE TELLS US WHICH IS THE RIGHT WAY.

WHEN EARTHQUAKES,FLOODS,HAILSTORMS,DROUGHT,AND FAMINE

WILL BE THE LIFE OF EVERY DAY,THE TIME WILL HAVE THEN COME

FOR THE RETURN TO THE TRUE PATH,OR GOING THE ZIG-ZAG WAY.

LONG AGO, MASSOUA TOLD US,“REMEMBER THE PAHANA, THE WHITE

BROTHER.

HE HAS THE OTHER STONE TABLET,BUT HE HAS NOT RETURNED IT,YET.

HE WILL BE SENT

SO THE PEOPLE WHO HELD FAST

TO THE HOPI WAY

CAN BE SPARED FROM DESTRUCTION.

HE IS THE PURIFIER,FOR PEOPLE TO GO ON

WITH THE GREAT SPIRIT LIFE PLAN.

IT WILL THEN OPEN

OUR HEARTS AND MINDS

WHEN A NEW AGE IS ABOUT TO BE,WITH PEOPLE RENEWED

AND PURIFIED THROUGH FIRE.

IT WILL BE LIKE

THE PURE GOLD

OF A NEW DAY.

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BUT FIRE IS RED,AND WHEN IT TAKES COMMAND,IT WILL SET THE FORCES OF NATURE

IN MOTION.

WE WILL KNOW WHEN PURIFICATION DAY HAS COME.

WE ALL ARE THE CARETAKERS OF LIFE.

THE BALANCE OF NATURE DEPENDS ON US.

THE WORLD WILL BE WHAT WE WANT IT TO BE.

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Messages from Elders

From the Beginning of Life to the Day of Purification

Teachings, History & Prophecies of the Hopi People

As told by

Dan Katchongva,

Sun Clan (ca. 1865-1972)

Translated by Danaqyumptewa

Edited by Thomas Francis

Originally published in 1972 by the

Committee for Traditional Indian Land and Life

Los Angeles, California.

INTRODUCTION

Dan Katchongva, the late Sun Clan leader of Hotevilla, spent more than a

century in this life, in the course of which he was privileged to witness the

battle between the ancient world and the modern world, in which he saw

many old prophecies fulfilled. He experienced the whole spectrum, from

peaceful village life to the most forceful interference the Hopi have known

since the end of the previous world.

In a talk recorded on January 29, 1970, Dan told the story of the People

of Peace, from the dawn of time to the attacks which led to the founding of

Hotvela in 1906, the school, money and police systems which threaten to

end the Hopi Way within this generation, and the consequences for

America and the world.

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The thought of publishing his talk grew from the recognition that those

causing this tragedy, and the millions who support them, could not persist,

had they but a glimpse of the purpose behind Hopi resistance to foreign

control.

Dan agreed to the publication of this booklet on condition that it never be

sold, insisting that to sell Hopi teachings would be like selling his own

mother.

He selected the portions to be published, and the accuracy of the

translation was carefully established through his interpreter,

Danaqyumptewa, with emphasis given to the original wording.

In addition to the prophecies fulfilled during his lifetime, Dan was told by

his father that he would live to see the beginning of the final event of this

era, the Great Day of Purification. Dan Katchongva died in 1972.

Thomas Francis:

“All I have is my planting stick and my corn. If you are willing to live as I

do, you may live here with me.”

THE BEGINNING OF LIFE

Somewhere down in the underworld we were created by the Great Spirit,

the Creator. We were created first one, then two, then three. We were

created equal, of oneness, living in a spiritual way, where the life is

everlasting. We were happy and at peace with our fellow men. All things

were plentiful, provided by our Mother Earth upon which we were placed.

We did not need to plant or work to get food. Illness and troubles were

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unknown. For many years we lived happily and increased to great

numbers.

When the Great Spirit created us, he also gave us instructions or laws to

live by. We promised to live by his laws so that we would remain peaceful,

using them as a guideline for living happily upon that land where he created

and placed us. But from the beginning he warned us that we must not be

tempted by certain things by which we might lose this perfect way of life.

Of course we had advantage of many good things in this life, so by and

by we broke the Creator's command by doing what he told us not to do. So

he punished us by making us as we are now, with both soul and body. He

said, “From now on you will have to go on your own. You will get sick, and

the length of your life will be limited.”

He made our bodies of two principles, good and evil. The left side is

good for it contains the heart. The right side is evil for it has no heart. The

left side is awkward but wise. The right side is clever and strong, but it

lacks wisdom. There would be a constant struggle between the two sides,

and by our actions we would have to decide which was stronger, the evil or

the good.

We lived in good ways for many years, but eventually evil proved to be

stronger. Some of the people forgot or ignored the Great spirit's laws and

once again began to do things that went against his instructions. They

became materialistic, inventing many things for their own gain, and not

sharing things as they had in the past. This resulted in a great division, for

some still wanted to follow the original instructions and live simply.

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The inventive ones, clever but lacking wisdom, made many destructive

things by which their lives were disrupted, and which threatened to destroy

all the people. Many of the things we see today are known to have existed

at that time. Finally, immorality flourished. The life of the people became

corrupted with social and sexual license which swiftly involved the

Kikmongwi's (chief's) wife and daughters, who rarely came home to take

care of their household duties. Not only the Kikmongwi but also the high

religious leaders were having the same problem. Soon the leaders and

others with good hearts were worried that the life of the people was getting

out of control.

The Kikmongwi gathered the high priests. They smoked and prayed for

guidance toward a way to solve the corruption. Many times they gathered,

until finally someone suggested that they move, find a new place, and start

a new life.

EMERGENCE INTO THE PRESENT WORLD

ow they had often heard certain thumping sounds coming from

above, so they knew that someone might be living there. It was

decided that this must be investigated. I will describe this briefly, for the

whole story would take much space.

NBeing gifted with wisdom, they created birds for this purpose. I will name

three. Two which are known for their strength and swiftness are the kisa

(hawk) and the pavowkaya (swallow) The third was a moochnee (related to

the mockingbird). His flight is awkward, but he is known to be wise. They

were each created at separate times by magic songs, tobacco smoke and

prayers, from dirt and saliva, which was covered by a white cap (ova). Each

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was welcomed respectfully and given instructions for his mission, should he

succeed. The first two failed to reach the top side of the sky, but the third

one, moochnee, came through the opening into this world.

The new world was beautiful. The earth was green and in bloom. The

bird observed all his instructions. His sense of wisdom guided him to the

being he was instructed to seek. When he found him it was high noon, for

the being, Maasau'u, the Great Spirit, was preparing his noon day meal.

Ears of corn lay beside the fire. He flew down and landed on top of his kisi

(shady house) and sounded his arrival.

Maasau'u was not surprised by the visitor, for by his wisdom and sense

of smell he already knew someone was coming. Respectfully he welcomed

him and invited him to sit down. The interview was brief and to the point.

“Why are you here? Could it be important?” “Yes,” said Moochnee, “I was

sent here by the underworld people. They wish to come to your land and

live with you, for their ways have become corrupted. With your permission

they wish to move here with you and start a new life. This is why I have

come.” Maasau'u replied bluntly, but with respect, “They may come.”

With this message the bird returned to the underworld. While he was

gone the Kikmongwi and the leaders had continued to pray and wait for his

successful return. Upon his return with the good news of the new world and

Maasau'u's permission for them to come, they were overjoyed.

Now the question was how they were to get to the top, so again they

smoked and prayed for guidance. At last they agreed to plant a tree that

would grow to the top and serve as a pathway. They planted the seed of a

shalavee (spruce tree), then they prayed and sang magic songs. The tree

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grew and grew until it reached the sky, but its branches were so soft and so

many that it bent under the heavy earth pressure from the top, so it did not

pierce the sky. They planted another seed, this one to be a lougu (pine). It

grew as they sang their magic songs. This tree was stout and strong.

“Surely this one will get through,” they thought. But it was unsuccessful, for

its branches also bent upon contact with the solid object. Again they

planted a seed. This time it was a pakave (reed). Since it had a pointed end

it pierced the sky up into the new world.

Meanwhile all of this had been kept secret. Only proper, righteous, and

one-hearted people were informed of the plans to leave the corrupt world.

They were prepared to move out, so as soon as they knew it was

successful they started to come up on the inside of the plant, resting

between the joints as they worked their way up to the opening.

When they got to this world, everything was beautiful and peaceful. The

land was virgin, unmolested. They were very happy. They sang and

danced with joy, but their joy was short-lived, for that night the chief's

daughter died suddenly. Everyone was sad and worried. People looked at

one another suspiciously. An evil spell had been enacted. This caused

great concern that a witch or two-hearted person might be among them.

Now the Kikmongwi had great power which he must use to settle the

concern of his people. He made a small ball out of cornmeal which he

tossed up above the group of people. The one upon whose head it landed

would be the guilty one. It landed upon the head of a girl. A quick decision

was made to throw her back through the opening into the underworld. The

wickedness must be gotten rid of, for they wished to live peacefully in this

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long journey they would face many obstacles and dangers of every

description, and that her services would become useful, for she had power

to fight evil. She invited the Kikmongwi to look back down into the

underworld. He looked and saw his child playing happily with the other

children in the underworld, where upon death we will all return. She was

spared, but they left her there alone, perhaps hoping that she would perish

by some unknown cause.

THE FIRST MEETING WITH THE GREAT SPIRIT IN THIS WORLD

t was here that the Great Spirit first appeared to them on this earth, to

give them the instructions by which they were to live and travel. They

divided into groups, each with its selected leader. Before them he laid ears

of corn of various lengths. They were each instructed to pick one ear of

corn to take with them on their journey, for their subsistence and their

livelihood. One by one they greedily picked out the longest and most

perfect-looking ears until only the shortest was left. They did not realize that

this was a test of wisdom. The shortest ear was picked by the humblest

leader. Then the Great Spirit gave them their names and the languages by

which they would be recognized. The last picker of short corn was named

HOPI.

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HOPI means not only to be peaceful, but to obey and have faith in the

instructions of the Great Spirit, and not to distort any of his teachings for

influence or power, or in any way to corrupt the Hopi way of life. Otherwise,

the name will be taken away.

He than gave them instructions according to which they were to migrate

for a certain purpose to the four corners of the new land, leaving many

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footprints, rock writings and ruins, for in time many would forget that they

were all one, united by a single purpose in coming up through the reed.

Now that we were on top, we were each to follow our own leaders, but so

long as we did not forget the instructions of the Great Spirit we would be

able to survive. We were now bound by a vow to live by these instructions

and to complete our pattern of migration. Maasau'u told us that whoever

would be the first to find him would be the leader of those who were to

follow, then he disappeared.

AN ACT OF PROPHETIC CONSEQUENCE

e migrated for many years to every corner of this continent,

marking our claim as we travelled, as these markings clearly testify

up to the present day. On our way we stopped for rest near the great river

now known as the Colorado. We had travelled far and gained a great deal

of knowledge, not forgetting our instructions. The group leader was of the

Bow Clan, a great chief with wisdom. But it was here that this great chief

disappeared into the dark night. After putting his family to sleep he left in

search of the Earth Center, where clever, ingenious people from all nations

meet to plan the future. By some means he found the place, and was

welcomed with respect. It was a beautiful place with all manner of good

things. Good food was laid before him by most beautiful girls. It was all very

tempting.

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Until today we did not know the significance of this action. It had to do

with the future. By this action he caused a change to occur in the pattern of

life as we near the end of the life cycle of this world, such that many of us

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would seek the materialistic world, trying to enjoy all the good things it has

to offer before destroying ourselves.

Those gifted with the knowledge of the sacred instructions will then live

cautiously, for they will remember and have faith in these instructions, and

it will be on their shoulders that the fate of the world will rest. The people

will corrupt the good ways of life, bringing about the same life as that from

which we fled in the underworld. The sacred body of the female will no

longer be hidden, for the shield of protection will be uplifted, an act of

temptation toward sexual license, which will also be enjoyed. Most of us will

be lost in all the confusion. An awareness that something extraordinary is

happening will develop in most of the people, for even their leaders will be

confused into polluting themselves. It will be difficult to decide whom to

follow.

The Hopi knew all this would come about. All these aspects of today's life

pattern were planned. So today we must stand firmly on our belief in order

to survive. The only course is to follow the instructions of the Great Spirit

himself.

THE MISSION OF THE TWO BROTHERS

his Bow Clan chief had two grown sons. When they learned of their

father's misdeed they were very sad. Their knowledge of the

teachings which they had received from him was all in order. Now they

were left alone to lead their people, for the very next day their father died.

TThey asked their mother to permit them to carry out the order of their

instructions for an event of this nature. She replied that it was up to them,

for their knowledge was complete. Upon agreement, the younger brother

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was to continue in search of Maasau'u, and to settle where he found him.

There he would await the return of this older brother, who was to travel

eastward toward the rising sun, where he would rest briefly. While resting,

he must listen for the voice of his younger brother, who would expect him to

come to his aid, for the change in the life pattern will have disrupted the

way of life of his people. Under the pressure of a new ruler they will surely

be wiped off the face of the earth unless he comes.

So today we are still standing firmly on the Great Spirit's instructions. We

will continue to look and pray toward the East for his prompt return.

The younger brother warned the elder that the land and the people would

change. “But do not let your heart be troubled,” he said, “for you will find us.

Many will turn away from the life plan of Maasau'u, but a few of us who are

true to his teachings will remain in our dwellings. The ancient character of

our heads, the shape of our houses, the layout of our villages, and the type

of land upon which our village stands, and our way of life. All will be in

order, by which you will find us.”

Before the first people had begun their migrations the people named

Hopi were given a set of stone tablets. Into these tablets the Great Spirit

inscribed the laws by which the Hopi were to travel and live the good way

of life, the peaceful way. They also contain a warning that the Hopi must

beware, for in time they would be influenced by wicked people to forsake

the life plan of Maasau'u. It would not be easy to stand up against this, for it

would involve many good things that would tempt many good people to

forsake these laws. The Hopi would be led into a most difficult position. The

stones contain instructions to be followed in such a case.

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The older brother was to take one of the stone tablets with him to the

rising sun, and bring it back with him when he hears the desperate call for

aid. His brother will be in a state of hopelessness and despair. His people

may have forsaken the teachings, no longer respecting their elders, and

even turning upon their elders to destroy their way of life. The stone tablets

will be the final acknowledgment of their true identity and brotherhood.

Their mother is Sun Clan. They are the children of the sun.

So it must be a Hopi who travelled from here to the rising sun and is

waiting someplace. Therefore it is only the Hopi that still have this world

rotating properly, and it is the Hopi who must be purified if this world is to

be saved. No other person anyplace will accomplish this.

The older brother had to travel fast on his journey for there was not much

time, so the horse was created for him. The younger brother and his people

continued on in search of Maasau'u.

On their way they came to a land that looked fertile and warm. Here they

marked their clan symbols on the rock to claim the land. This was done by

the Fire Clan, the Spider Clan, and the Snake Clank. This place is know

called Moencopi. They did not settle there at that time.

While the people were migrating, Maasau'u was waiting for the first ones

to arrive. In those days he used to take walks near the place where he

lived, carrying a bunch of violet flowers (du-kyam-see) in his belt. One day

he lost them along the way. When he went to look for them he found that

they had been picked up by the Hornytoad Woman. When he asked her for

the flowers she refused to give them back, but instead gave him her

promise that she would help him in time of need. “I too have a metal

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helmet,” she told him, (possibly meaning that certain people with metal

helmets would help the Hopi when they get into difficulty).

Often Maasau'u would walk about a half mile north of his du-pa-cha ( a

type of temporary house) to a place where there lay a long rock which

formed a natural shelter, which he must have picked as the place where he

and the first people would find each other. While waiting there he would

amuse himself by playing a game to test his skill, the name of which (Nadu-

won-pi-kya), was to play an important part later on in the life of the Hopi, for

it was here that the knowledge and wisdom of the first people was to be

tested. Until recent times children used to play a similar game there,

something like “hide-and-seek.” One person would hide, then signal by

tapping on the rock, which would transmit the sound in a peculiar way so

that the others could not tell exactly where the tapping was coming from.

(Some years ago this rock was destroyed by government road builders.) It

was here that they found Maasau'u waiting.

THE MEETING WITH MAASAU'U NEAR ORAIBI

efore the migrations began Maasau'u had let it be known, though

perhaps not by direct instructions, that whoever would find him first

would be the leader there. Later it became clear that this was a procedure

by which their true character would be specified.

BWhen they found him, the people gathered and sat down with him to talk.

The first thing they wanted to know was where he lived. He replied that he

lived just north of there at a place called Oraibi. For a certain reason he did

not name it fully. The full name is Sip-Oraibi, meaning something that has

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been solidified, referring to the fact that this is the place where the earth

was made solid.

They asked permission to live there with him. He did not answer directly,

for within them he saw evil. “It is up to you,” he said. “I have nothing here.

My life is simple. All I have is my planting stick and my corn. If you are

willing to live as I do, and follow my instructions, the life plan which I shall

give you, you may live here with me, and take care of the land. Then you

may have a long, happy, fruitful life.”

Then they asked him whether he would be their leader, thinking that thus

they would be assured a peaceful life. “No,” he replied, “the one who led

you here will be the leader until you fulfill your pattern of life,” (for he saw

into their hearts and knew that they still had many selfish desires). “After

that I will be the leader, but not before, for I am the first and I shall be the

last.” Having left all the instructions with them, he disappeared.

THE FOUNDING OF ORAIBI VILLAGE

he village of Oraibi was settled and built in accordance with the

instructions of the Great Spirit. The Bow Clan chief was the father of

the ceremonial order. They remained under the leadership of the Bow Clan

for some time, perhaps until corruptions set in. As you recall, the Bow Clan

chief of the past had contaminated his standing by taking part in the

changing of the life pattern.

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Later the Bear Clan took over. This might have been because the bear is

strong and mighty. There may have been other reasons too, such as a

prophecy which told that a bear, sleeping somewhere in the northern part

of what is now called Europe, would awaken at a certain time where he

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would wait. This group is called Bear Clan because they came across a

dead bear at the place of the shield symbol. Most of the important people

claimed to be of the Bear Clan, including the Bluebird and Spider Clan

people.

The vow which we made with the Great Spirit obligated us to follow His

way of life. He gave the land to us to use and care for through our

ceremonial duties. He instructed us and showed us the road plan by which

we must govern our lives. We wrote this pattern on a rock so that we would

always be reminded to follow the straight road. The Hopi must not drift

away from this road or He will take this land away from us. This is the

warning given to us by Maasau'u.

Oraibi village was settled firmly. Migrating people were now gathering

there and asking to be admitted into the village. The Kikmongwi and the

high priests would always consider their request and base their judgment

upon their character and wisdom. Those who showed signs of boastfulness

were turned away and told to go to the south mesas where their kind of

people lived. Only good people, humble and sincere in their prayers, were

admitted.

One of these groups was the Coyote Clan, They were coming from Sh-

got-kee (Si-aht-ki), close to Walpi. There were several reasons they were

pointed out as bad people, but they were clever in a way. At first they were

not allowed to join the village. But when they made their fourth request they

were accepted according to the custom, and they were admitted with the

agreement that they act as a protection, and that in time of troubles they

had to support and help the spokesman. But they were warned to be

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we had it with all the clans, because on the way most of us want to cheat or

deceive the leaders to get glory or fame; which leads us to the point of

polluting our way and to shake our beliefs.

The last group that was admitted to Oraibi was the Grey Eagle Clan. As

they finished their migration, they first settled in what today is called New

Mexico. Because they were people who like to make wars, and trouble

makers they were, they were chased away by the Pueblo Indians there. As

they came to this area, they settled at Mishongovi on Second Mesa, with

the condition that they would not start a quarrel or conflict. If they break this

promise, they should leave without resistance. So, they started another

conflict and they left as promised. After that they came to Oraibi and asked

to be admitted there. After several attempts they were allowed to come in

under the same promise that they had to give to the other village, that they

would move voluntarily if they started restlessness or broke their promise.

In accordance with this agreement, the leader of the Village Mishongovi

would consider re-accepting them on Second Mesa, or to send them back

to New Mexico where the Pueblo Indians could do with them what they

think is right.

Later, as we were forced to leave the Village Oraibi, and we started to

settle in Hotvela, they came with us, with the same agreement. That is still

in effect today. Again they started restlessness and they are now obligated

to leave. They are the seed of all the destruction in our village. They

betrayed the Hopi Nation because they bow before the ones that come with

nice words, and through that they get benefits and advantages. For them,

there are just two ways: the way of the Great Spirit or the way of Bahanna.

They are obligated to go to Mishongovi as agreed. The people over there

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wait for them, but they don't have the courage to do what they promised.

And they hide themselves cowardly behind the man-made law of Bahanna.

Among the ceremonies of each group the prayer for rain was important in

order for the crops to grow and produce an abundance of food. The people

depended on this for their livelihood. Boastful people were not admitted so

that the prayers would not be polluted.

Oraibi was now firmly established. The pattern of the religious order was

established. Cycle by cycle we paid respect to our Mother Earth, our Father

Sun, the Great Spirit, and all things through our ceremonies. We were

happy for we were united as one.

THE ARRIVAL OF ANOTHER RACE FORETOLD

ime passed on, people passed on, and the prophecies of things to

come were passed from mouth to mouth. The stone tablets and the

rock writing of the life plan were often reviewed by the elders. Fearfully they

waited as they retold the prophecy that one day another race of people

would appear in their midst and claim our land as his own. He would try to

change our pattern of life.

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He would have a “sweet tongue” or a “fork tongue,” and many good

things by which we would be tempted. He would use force in an attempt to

trap us into using weapons, but we must not fall for this trick, for then we

ourselves would be brought to our knees, from which we might not be able

to rise. Nor must we ever raise our hand against any nation. We now call

these people Bahanna.

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THE FORCES OF PURIFICATION

e have teachings and prophecies informing us that we must be

alert for the signs and omens which will come about to give us

courage and strength to stand on our beliefs. Blood will flow. Our hair and

our clothing will be scattered upon the earth.

WNature will speak to us with its mighty breath of wind. There will be

earthquakes, floods, and strange fires in different places causing great

disasters, changes in the seasons, and in the weather, disappearance of

wildlife, and famine in different forms. There will be gradual corruption and

confusion among the leaders and the people all over the world, and wars

will come about like powerful winds. All of this has been planned from the

beginning of creation.

We will have three people standing behind us, ready to fulfill our

prophecies when we get into hopeless difficulties: the Meha Symbol (which

refers to a plant that has a long root, milky sap, grows back when cut off,

and has a flower shaped like a swastika, symbolizing the four great forces

of nature in motion), the Sun Symbol, and the Red Symbol. Bahanna's

intrusion into the Hopi way of life will set the Meha Symbol in motion, so

that certain people will work for the four great forces of nature (the four

directions, the controlling forces, the original force) which will rock the world

into war. When this happens we will know that our prophecies are coming

true. We will gather strength and stand firm.

This great movement will fall, but because its subsistence is milk, and

because it is controlled by the four forces of nature, it will rise again to put

the world in motion, creating another war, in which both the Meha and the

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Sun Symbol will be at work. Then it will rest in order to rise a third time. Our

prophecy foretells that the third event will be the decisive one. Our road

plan foretells the outcome.

This sacred writing speaks the word of the Great Spirit. It could mean the

mysterious life seed with two principles of tomorrow, indicating one, inside

of which is two. The third and last, which will it bring forth, purification or

destruction?

This third event will depend upon the Red Symbol, which will take

command, setting the four forces of nature (Meha) in motion for the benefit

of the Sun. When he sets these forces in motion the whole world will shake

and turn red and turn against the people who are hindering the Hopi

cultural life. To all these people Purification Day will come. Humble people

will run to him in search of a new world, and the equality that has been

denied them. He will come unmercifully. His people will cover the Earth like

red ants. We must not go outside to watch. We must stay in our houses. He

will come and gather the wicked people who are hindering the red people

who were here first. He will be looking for someone whom he will recognize

by his way of life, or by his head (the special Hopi haircut), or by the shape

of his village and his dwellings. He is the only one who will purify us.

The Purifier, commanded by the Red Symbol, with the help of the Sun

and the Meha, will weed out the wicked who have disturbed the way of life

of the Hopi, the true way of life on Earth. The wicked will be beheaded and

will speak no more. This will be the Purification for all righteous people, the

Earth, and all living things on the Earth. The ills of the Earth will be cured.

Mother Earth will bloom again and all people will unite into peace and

harmony for a long time to come.126

But if this does not materialize, the Hopi traditional identity will vanish

due to pressure from Bahanna. Through the white man's influence, his

religions, and the disappearance of our sacred land, the Hopi will be

doomed. This is the Universal Plan, speaking through the Great Spirit since

the dawn of time.

With this in mind, I as a Hopi do not make wars against any country,

because if I do, the Purifier will find out and punish me for fighting. And

since I am Hopi, I am not sending my children across the ocean to fight. If

they want to that's up to them, but they will no longer be Hopi if they do.

Since I am Sun Clan, and the Sun is the father of all living things, I love

my children. If they realize what I am talking about they must help me save

this world.

The Hopi have been placed on this side of the Earth to take care of the

land through their ceremonial duties, just as other races of people have

been placed elsewhere around the Earth to take care of Her in their own

ways. Together we hold the world in balance, revolving properly. If the Hopi

nation vanishes the motion of the Earth will become eccentric, the water

will swallow the land, the people will perish, and the ants will inherit the

earth. Only a brother and a sister may be left to start a new life.

THE FAITHFUL HOPI MEET THEIR TEST

ahanna came with great ambition and generosity, eagerly offering his

hand to help “improve” our way of life, establishing schools to teach

us the “better ways” of his life. He offered us his medicine and health

practices, saying that this would help us live longer. He offered to help us

mark our boundary, claiming that in that way we would have more land. In

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all the villages we rejected his offer. He tried many ways to induce us, but

failed to make us submit to his wishes, for we were all one unity at that

time, believers in the instructions of Maasau'u.

His next attempt was fear. He formed a police force consisting partly of

certain people who had been tempted by his offers and given weapons. He

threatened to arrest us and put us in prison, but we still stood firm. The

threats of arrest and imprisonment were put into action. Villages panicked

and weaker people began to submit. In Oraibi, our village leadership fell

when Loloma (Bear Clan) made an agreement with the United States

government.

We who still had faith in Maasau'u, including the main priests of the

religious orders, gathered together, rejecting the Kikmongwi's request to

submit. We sat down together and smoked and prayed that we would be

brave enough to take our stand. We took out our stone tablet and studied it

in every detail. We carefully reviewed the road plan written on the rock near

our village. This is the plan we must always follow, for it is in order and

complete. We recognized that the Fire Clan (meaning my father, Yukiuma)

must lead, for his symbol, Maasau'u, stands to the right of the reed as he

faces out.

We also interpreted that since our way of life had been corrupted we

must move to a new place where we would be able to follow the road

without interference and continue our ceremonial duties for all beings.

We smoked and prayed again and reconsidered that this village, Oraibi,

is our mother village. All our sacred shrines are rooted here and must not

be left unattended. We knew that the road would be hard with many

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obstacles. We knew that we would still be troubled by the newcomer, and

that we must still face all the tests of weakness, so we agreed to stay.

The trouble commenced its course. The government wanted all of the

Hopi children to be put into schools. They said it would do us good, but we

knew that this “good” would only be on the surface, and that what was

under it would destroy the Hopi cultural life. Maybe they thought that with

an education the children might be able to help the old people, but we knew

this would not be so, because they would learn to think as white men, so

they would never help the old people. Instead they would be indoctrinated

and encouraged to turn against us, as they are actually doing today. So in

order to be good according to the Great Spirit's instructions we refused to

put our children into the schools.

So almost every week they would send policemen, many of them. They

would surround the village and hunt for the children of school age. We

could not be happy because we were expecting trouble every day. Fathers

who refused to cooperate were arrested and imprisoned. Inhuman acts

were imposed upon us, starvation, insults and humiliation, to force us into

submission. Still, over half of the clan leaders and religious society leaders

refused to accept anything from the government. Because of this we were

mocked and treated as outcasts by those who had already submitted.

Finally they decided to do something about us because we were keeping

them from getting certain favors from the government.

This was when Loloma's successor, Tewaquaptewa, became chief of

Oraibi. It was under his leadership that the sad event, the eviction of the

faithful Hopi from Oraibi, was touched off. Since we “Hostiles,” as we were

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wishes and accept the white man's way of life, he decided to evict us

bodily. He figured that without our interference he would be able to take

advantage of the good things offered by Bahanna.

THE FAITHFUL HOPI EVICTED FROM ORAIBI

n September 7th, 1906, his followers, commanded by chief

Tewaquaptewa himself, entered the house where we were

discussing prophesies and threw us out. We did not resist until rifles and

other weapons were shown and they began beating us. Then we resisted

only to the extent of defending ourselves from injury. I was “killed,” and

bleeding, my blood flowed into Mother Earth, a prophetic sign that the

Purifier was coming in seven days and that we should move out of Oraibi.

When I came back to life, all my people were gathered to go. My father,

Yukiuma, was selected to be the leader. The women and children, with a

few belongings on their backs, a little food, and no shoes, were prepared to

leave. Some tried to go back to their houses to get their valuables and

some extra food, but they were turned back. (In Book of the Hopi, it is said

we were allowed to go back and get some belongings, but this is not true.

That book is not accurate.) After we had left, we learned that our houses

had been looted and that horses had been turned loose in our fields and

had eaten our crops, which were just ready for harvest.

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Thus we had to migrate once again to find a new home, leaving behind a

corrupt world of confusion. We sought to start a new life, carry on our

ceremonial cycles, and preserve our way of life without interference, but

now we know that this was a dead dream, for the interference has

continued right up to the present day.

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THE FOUNDING OF HOTVELA VILLAGE

he village of Hotvela was settled for one purpose, to stand firmly on

the Great Spirit's instructions and fulfill the prophecies to the end. It

was established by good people, one-hearted people who were actually

living these instructions. Water was plentiful, and so was wood, from which

we built temporary shelters in which we were to survive the cold winter with

very few blankets. Food was scarce, but we managed to live from the land

by hunting game and picking greens. We were united into oneness, but it

would again be split into two due to extreme pressure from the outside.

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RENEWED ATTACKS

ardly had our footprints faded away in Oraibi, when early one

morning we found ourselves surrounded by government troops. All

the people, including the children, were ordered to march six miles to a

place below Oraibi. From there all the men were marched over forty miles

to the U.S. government agency at Keams Canyon, where they were

imprisoned for about a year and a half for not accepting the generous offer

of education for our children, among other things.

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The first thing they ordered us to do was to sign papers. We refused.

Then they locked us inside a building without food and with very little water

for several days until we were very hungry. Again they tried to induce us to

sign papers, promising to feed us and let us go, but again we refused. They

tried other tricks to make us sign, but each time we refused. Finally they

took us to a blacksmith shop, where they riveted chains to our legs with

loops and hooks, and fastened us together in pairs. In this way we were

forced to work on a road gang for long hours everyday, working

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dangerously with dynamite on the steep rocky cliffs near the agency. That

road is now the foundation of a highway still in use today.

At night we were fastened together in groups of six by means of long

chains. To add to our torture, soap was added to our food, which made us

very sick. When one man had to go the outhouse, all six had to go. All this

time the possibility of signing certain papers was left open to those who

might weaken. During this period my father, Yukiuma, was being held

somewhere else so I was acting as leader.

While we were in prison, only the women and children, and maybe a few

old men, were left out here. They had very little food, but as if by a miracle,

there happened to be a lot of rabbits and other wild game that winter, so on

that meat diet they were able to survive the hard weather. It was very hard

while the men were away. The old people used to talk about it. The women

had to gather the wood themselves. My mother used to tell me how they

would form hunting parties and get the dogs to help. We had a small flock

of sheep which they tended while we were away. During the growing

season they planted the crops, took care of the fields, and did all the work

that the men would normally do, in order to survive.

THE DISRUPTION CONTINUES TODAY

During this period a group under the leadership of Kawonumptewa (Sand

Clan), fearing even worse pressure from the government, returned to Oraibi

to follow Tewaquaptewa and accept the white man's way, but they were

rejected and driven out. They settled about two miles from Hotvela, where

they founded the village of Bacobi. Unable to make out independently, they

asked the government agency for help. The agency happily obliged with

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such things as housing materials. Now they almost entirely accept the

white man's way, along with his religion. According to the Great Spirit's law

they are now landless. Their only assets are their dwellings. But it is

through them that the agency obtained token permission to build a school

on Hotvela land, and with the agency's backing they have committed land

grabs against the Hotvela people. It is also through them that the

government has built a water tower on Hotvela land, which supplies

running water to the school and to Bacobi village, while depleting the

natural water supply of the Hotvela people. Most of the people in Hotvela

refuse to use the water from this tower. Much of the trouble caused by the

Bacobi people still exists today. I can recall much more that I hope will

come to light.

At the present time we face the danger that we might lose our land

entirely. Through the influence of the United States government, some

people of Hopi ancestry have organized what they call the Hopi Tribal

Council, patterned according to a plan devised by the government, for the

purpose of negotiating directly with the government and with private

businesses. They claim to act in the interests of the Hopi people, despite

the fact that they ignore the existing traditional leaders, and represent only

a small minority of the people of Hopi blood. Large areas of our land have

been leased, and this group is now accepting compensation from the

Indian Claims Commission for the use of 44,000,000 acres of Hopi land.

We have protested all these moves, but to no avail.

Now this Tribal Council was formed illegally, even according to white

man's laws. We traditional leaders have disapproved and protested form

the start. In spite of this they have been organized and recognized by the

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United States government for the purpose of disguising its wrongdoings to

the outside world. We do not have representatives in this organization, nor

are we legally subject to their regulations and programs. We Hopi are an

independent sovereign nation, by the law of the Great Spirit, but the United

States government does not want to recognize the aboriginal leaders of this

land. Instead, he recognizes only what he himself has created out of

today's children in order to carry out his scheme to claim all of our land.

Because of this, we now face the greatest threat of all, the actual loss of

our cornfields and gardens, our animals and wild game, and our natural

water supply, which would put an end to the Hopi way of life. At the urging

of the Department of the Interior of the United States, the Tribal Council

has signed several leases with an outside private enterprise, the Peabody

Coal Company, allowing them to explore our land for coal deposits, and to

strip-mine the sacred mesas, selling the coal to several large power plants.

This is part of a project intended to bring heavy industry into our area

against our wishes. We know that this will pollute the fields and grazing

lands and drive out the wildlife. Great quantities of water will be pumped

from beneath our desert land and used to push coal through a pipe to a

power plant in another state (Nevada). The loss of this water will affect our

farms as well as the grazing areas of the animals. It also threatens our

sacred springs, our only natural source of water, which we have depended

upon for centuries.

We Hopi knew all this would come about, because this is the Universal

Plan. It was planned by the Great Spirit and the Creator that when the

white man came he would offer us many things. If we were to accept those

offers from his government, that would be the doom of the Hopi nation.

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Hopi is the bloodline of this continent, as others are the bloodline of other

continents. So if Hopi is doomed, the whole world will be destroyed. This

we know, because this same thing happened in the other world. So if we

want to survive, we should go back to the way we lived in the beginning,

the peaceful way, and accept everything the Creator has provided for us to

follow.

White man's laws are many, but mine is one. White man's laws are all

stacked up. So many people have made the rules, and many of them are

made every day. But my law is only the Creator's, just one. And no man-

made law must I follow, because it is ever-changing, and will doom my

people.

We know that when the time comes, the Hopi will be reduced to maybe

one person, two person, three persons. If he can withstand the pressure

from the people who are against the tradition, the world might survive from

destruction We are at the stage where I must stand alone, free from impure

elements. I must continue to lead my people on the road the Great Spirit

made for us to travel. I do not disregard anyone. All who are faithful and

confident in the Great Spirit's way are at liberty to follow the same road. We

will meet many obstacles along the way. The peaceful way of life can be

accomplished only by people with strong courage, and by the purification of

all living things.

Mother Earth's ills must be cured.

As we say, the Hopi are the first people created. They must cure the ills

of their own bloodline so everything will become peaceful naturally, by the

will of the Creator. He will cure the world. But right now Hopi is being hurt.

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To us this is a sign that the world is in trouble. All over the world the

confused people have been fighting, and it will get worse. It is only

purification of the Hopi that will settle the problems here on this Earth. We

didn't suffer all this hardship and punishment for nothing. We live by these

prophecies and teachings, and no matter what happens, we will not buckle

down under any pressure from anybody.

We know certain people are commissioned to bring about the

Purification. It is the Universal Plan from the beginning of creation, and we

are looking up to them to bring purification to us. It is in the rock writings

throughout the world, on different continents. We will come together if

people all over the world know about it. So we urge you to spread this word

around so people will know about it, and the appointed ones will hurry up

with their task, to purify the Hopi and get rid of those who are hindering our

way of life.

I have spoken. I wish this message to travel to all corners of this land and

across the great waters, where people of understanding may consider

these words of wisdom and knowledge. This I want. For people may have

different opinions about some things, but because of the nature of the

beliefs upon which the Hopi life is based, I expect that at least one will

agree, maybe even two. If three agree it will be worth many fold.

I am forever looking and praying eastward to the rising sun for my true

white brother to come and purify the Hopi. My father, Yukiuma, used to tell

me that I would be the one to take over as leader at this time, because I

belong to the Sun Clan, the father of all the people on the Earth. I was told

that I must not give in, because I am the first. The Sun is the father of all

living things from the first creation. And if I am done, the Sun Clan, then 136

there will be no living thing left on the Earth. So I have stood fast. I hope

you will understand what I am trying to tell you.

I am the Sun, the father. With my warmth all things are created. You are

my children, and I am very concerned about you. I hold you to protect you

from harm, but my heart is sad to see you leaving my protecting arms and

destroying yourselves. From the breast of your mother, the Earth, you

receive your nourishment, but She is to dangerously ill to give you pure

food. What will it be? Will you lift your father's heart? Will you cure your

mother's ills? Or will you forsake us and leave us with sadness, to be

weathered away? I don't want this world to be destroyed. If this world is

saved, you all will be saved, and whoever has stood fast will complete this

plan with us, so that we will all be happy in the Peaceful Way.

People everywhere must give Hopi their most serious consideration, our

prophecies, our teachings, and our ceremonial duties, for if Hopi fails, it will

trigger the destruction of the world and all mankind. I have spoken through

the mouth of the Creator. May the Great Spirit guide you on the right path.

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The Public Statement of the Keeper of the Hopi Fire Clan

Tablets during this Prophetic Mission to the New Mexico State

Capital at Santa Fe, December 1990

I am the keeper of the sacred Fire Clan tablets of the Hopi at the village

of Hotevilla. These tablets represent our ancient title to this land, which

existed long before the arrival of Columbus, and has never been

relinquished. They have been entrusted to me under the highest authority,

to be held until the last stage of our prophecies has been completed. The

signs that we have entered that final stage are now clear.

In fulfillment of my spiritual instructions I have come to Santa Fe, the

oldest European capital on our land, to offer the people of the United States

of America, and all humanity, a final opportunity to collaborate with the

forces of creation to purify our lives, and restore peace to the world.

The root cause of the problems that threaten life on earth is the concept

of land title acquired and maintained by force. Since modern civilization is

based on this concept, it does not hold the key to peace.

Our original Hopi land title is based on permission. We recieved that

permission from Maasaw, the guardian of all land and life, who holds it in

trust for the creator. Thus it is implemented by the forces that create this

universe.

Regardless of differences in culture and tradition, true aboriginal title

throughout the world is based on a similar relationship. To usurp aboriginal

title by deception and force, then build an empire upon that basis, is to

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oppose the forces of life, and ensure the eventual destruction of that

empire. The United States of America has become such an empire.

Before the White Man arrived from Europe, everything was in order. Our

life was beautiful and clean. The land was green and there were plenty of

flowers, animals, birds and trees, rain and clouds. We lived in great

happiness because we followed the simple life taught to us by Maasaw.

Maasaw is both a real person and a manifestation of the Creator. We

met him in person near the place where we built our mother village of

Oraibi, after a long migration to claim the land in his name. At that point he

gave us permission to live here as caretakers, as well as the spiritual

knowledge by which to keep the forces of life in balance. This knowledge is

implanted in our sacred stone tablets.

But when the Europeans came they forced their religion, culture and

language upon our children, which brought great division among our

people. As a result, today our young people are turning away from this

basic law. They no longer understand it. They only understand the White

Man's law.

Because they were forced into this situation, there is now hardly anyone

fulfilling the sacred instructions and correctly performing the ceremonies

essential to the Hopi way of life. There are still leaders from various clans

who know of these instructions, which reveal their true purpose in life, but

more and more they are turning away. This intrusion by outside forces, and

the harmful effect on our function as caretakers of life, is the reason life on

Earth is now so disturbed.

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Like the Hopi, original native peoples were placed across this continent,

and given special instructions by a higher being. Each had special

functions by which to hold life in balance, which they were still carrying out

when the Europeans arrived. We know these foreigners once had similar

spiritual means for promoting life, with which they were supposed to bless

the native peoples. But they had apparently misused their power. Most of

the native peoples were forcibly stripped of their culture, language and

religious ceremonies, depriving them of their function as caretakers. Those

that remain face imminent cultural extinction. Clearly these foreigners are

not here to help, but to destroy everything the original people have left, and

in doing so, destroy this world. The only hope for humanity lies in restoring

true land title, which is inseparable from our function as caretakers of life.

For this reason we bring our sacred stone tablets to the New Mexico

State Capital in Santa Fe. Because it is the first foreign capital on this land,

there must be documents here that confirm the rights of the original native

peoples, and possibly information reguarding stone tablets such as those

we brought with us. We want to see whether someone will search for such

documents, proving whether the original title of the native peoples,

including the Hopi, is still binding according to existing modern laws.

The Spanish people must have documented something concerning the

Hopi title. When the Mexican government took over, it must have left similar

documents, and the same holds true for the United States. There must be a

whole stack of such documents. If the entire stack were turned over the

search should not take long. The first few should prove that the native

peoples hold the true title to this land, and the knowledge by which it should

be protected.

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The role the foreigners were to play in protecting this land should also be

revealed. Documents must exist that show where the United States turned

against this original law. What document does the United States have that

says it is supposed to protect this area?

The Spanish, the Mexican, and the United States governments have all

fought over someone else's land without consulting the original native

peoples living on it, then created some kind of document. But what of the

rights of the original native peoples? Who has the ability to look into this,

and see that the basic rights of the Hopi and other native peoples are

restored?

This is the key to the problem that threatens all life on earth. If someone

can uncover this information and bring it before the world, it might be

possible to reverse the destruction of the native cultures that lies at the root

of the devastation that now threatens our entire world.

The great powers of the modern world need to realize that if they are to

escape the punishment that lies ahead, what they are doing to native

peoples around the world must be corrected. Those who accumulate power

at the expense of the native peoples think they have a God-given right, but

in doing so they are increasing the threat to all life. And although they now

recognize that threat, they are powerless to reverse it by any means unless

they stop preying upon the native peoples.

We came here to plant the seed of this realization, which could turn the

course of all humanity away from disaster. An investigation within the the

area of the present Hopi villages would benefit all indigenous peoples.

Moreover, those who now live at the expense of the native land title would

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thus be given the chance to correct their mistake, and avert the terrible

consequences foreseen long ago by the Hopi, which are already in

evidence today. Either way, this would benefit all humanity.

Because our true original land title is essential to our role in holding this

land and life in balance, we have never compromised that title by signing a

treaty with the United States Government. We have never given it authority

to destroy our culture and take our land, nor have the other original native

peoples. Yet this is being done here and throughout the world.

Today the Hopi are forced to live under laws that come from Washington

DC, such as those that created the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the so-

called 'Hopi Tribal Council' without consent from the real traditional people.

In violation of our spiritual teachings, these agencies have been promoting

paved roads, water lines, sewers and government-financed housing. They

have even forced such things into Hotevilla, the village we founded in 1906

in order to protect the Hopi Way from such intrusions.

They are cutting our land into small allotments, confiscating our livestock,

and allowing the land to be stripped of its mineral resources. Underground

water is being depleted and the land is drying up. Open pit uranium mines

are polluting the area with radioactivity, causing the birth of many deformed

babies. This shows what is happening to indigenous people around the

world.

Those who perpetrate such abuse, and the countless modern people

who thrive from it, truly have no land title. They build their power through

resources taken by force, then use those resources to gain power to take

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even more. Since they consider the true aboriginal title of indigenous

peoples to be worthless, they treat us like animals to be kicked around.

But as the Purification foretold in our tradition materializes, they too will

get kicked around. They will find themselves disrespected everywhere, just

as they have disrespected others, and their power will collapse. Soon they

will see how little power and authority they really have.

We hope they will heed our warning for their own sake, and for the sake

of the native peoples who want nothing more than to rule themselves

peacefully without being dictated to by anyone else. Part of the commission

we recieved from the Creator through Maasaw is to sound this warning to

the world.

We Hopi know our true white brother is to come and help us. He has a

stone tablet representing his own title and power within the Creator's plan.

By placing it together with our Fire Clan tablet, he may call upon the natural

forces to purify the world. If the task of purification is left to these natural

forces, we may all be wiped out. So it is up to all people to purify

themselves voluntarily.

We have also known that if the wrong white brother should arrive, one

who has lost his spiritual path and thus has no title, he would bring misery

and destruction. But when the world problem becomes great enough this

false white brother will find his survival threatened. Where will he turn?

He proposes to save the world by converting everyone to what he calls

'democracy,' but can he even use it to save himself? We hear that

democracy means rule by the people. Yet he has reached the point where

only three people, the President, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary

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of Defense, can start a war against any nation that doesn't submit to their

wishes, regardless of the will of the people, Congress, or existing laws.

We Hopi don't know what the word 'democracy' means. The 'Hopi Tribal

Council' established by the United States is supposed to be a democracy,

but in fact it is only an instrument through which our people are forced to

submit to programs conceived in Washington. Offers of money, jobs, a

better life, and so forth, really mean signing away control over their land

and their life.

Such false democracy is being extended throughout the world. In the

name of democracy the US Government is taking control of native lands,

exploiting the mineral resources to produce great wealth, then using that

wealth to bribe native peoples elsewhere into accepting contracts to

deforest their land.

The deployment of armies to protect the freedom of native peoples

abroad is causing the loss of that very freedom. It is the task of the Hopi to

warn everyone concerned that even in the name of freedom, this will

unquestionably lead to a third world war much worse than the first two,

which may leave hardly any life on earth. This is why our religion forbids us

to join the army, even if we are drafted.

Today the American people are being taught how it feels to be held

hostage. That is how we have felt, having been held hostage up to the

present day. In truth, everyone in that army is held hostage by the

Government. Young people who want to live a long life are forced to suffer

in the Arabian desert. We know that they are about to be burnt up in a war

if they don't stop. It's up to the President to recall the troops he has sent to

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the Middle East. They must all be allowed to refuse this fate and return

home. It is especially urgent that all native people who have become

involved come home right away.

Current education of the Hopi into modern ways is a continuation of the

policy of forced acculturation that began when our children were first

kidnapped and forced into schools. The attempt to convert the schools so

as to promote Hopi culture damages Hopi culture even further. Instead of

dancing at the right time of year in the plaza, the Hopi children are taught to

do their dances in school, outside the natural cycle, ignorant of their

significance, and without the traditional preparation by the whole family.

This disturbs the very harmony these dances meant to maintain. Prior to

such interference, our community life was held together by the relationship

between the religious societies, each composed of a careful balance of the

special qualities of each clan, dancing together with the cycles of nature.

The disruption of this pattern accounts for the epidemic of delinquency and

crime we witness today.

We know the Government would like to wash its hands of the schools,

but instead of closing them it tries to put them into the hands of

'progressive' Hopis who have already lost their tradition. They should

simply close the schools and let us return to our original methods of

educating the young, which were already very advanced - the real

education from which we were torn away. We have no need to learn from

books. We have better methods by which children can learn how to live in

peace, identify plants and animal tracks, and ultimately learn to keep the

world in balance.

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If the schools are closed, then those families who want their children to

learn the English language would have to move out, earn money, and pay

for that education themselves. This is what Yukiuma was standing for when

he brought the sacred stone tablets of the Fire Clan with him in 1906, and

led the founding of our village at Hotevilla.

There is a document by the Mennonite missionary, H.R. Voth, which

testifies to the superior quality of education he witnessed among the

Hotevilla children after the new village became established. They learn not

only how to read the animal tracks, but many songs, dances, ceremonies

and painting, all of which contribute to a very good memory, as well a solid

understanding of the Way of Peace.

The proof that this education really works is in the fact that we never

needed jails, courts, police, hospitals, or complicated systems of

administration to keep things in check. There was hardly any sickness

because we lived only from the food we grew organically, without

chemicals. Any sickness that did occur could be healed with ceremonies

and herbs. Even today there are old people so strong that when you try to

follow them up a hill you can't catch up with them.

Now, as our land is being gradually cut up by the government, this

beautiful life is disappearing. The recent division of our land with the

Navajos, which the United States enforces through its courts and police, is

clearly a means to seize total control, even of that land supposedly granted

to the Hopi. Those Hopis who are relocated onto new areas are only

allowed to lease that land from the 'Hopi Tribal Council.'

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Only a few centuries ago there were no Navajos here. We were

protected by the Paiute people to the north, who learned many words from

our language. Later the Navajos arrived. Since they often survived by

raiding, they became a problem to the Spanish and later to the American

settlers. The Americans responded by rounding up all the Navajos under

Kit Carson and putting them in prisons. Later they gave them a portion of

the Hopi homeland through the 1868 treaty. After it was learned that the

land given to the Navajos contained valuable resources, instead of

enforcing the treaty restriction that they remain there, the United States just

let them wander off, then created another reservation for them on land

belonging to the Paiutes, and moved the Paiutes out. When the Navajos

expanded onto the Hopi area, rather than force them back onto the Paiute

land the Government made still another reservation for them on the Hopi

land.

With the discovery of mineral resources in that area came the passage of

Public Law 93-531, which was not requested by the true Hopi leaders, but

promoted by lawyers through the 'Hopi Tribal Council,' creating the illusion

before the world that the Hopi have traded certain areas of their land over

to the Government, or approved mineral leases.

Public law 93-351 divides our land still further, by requiring both Hopi and

Navajo families to be forcibly relocated, and the artificial Hopi-Navajo

border fenced with barbed wire. Our elders have long warned of the time

when a line might be drawn around our feet, granting us no more land than

that, which really means we would have no land at all. This time is not far

off.

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We want everyone to know that the Navajos are not the ones taking our

land, but the United States. The Hopi and the Navajo made peace long

ago, and sealed their agreement spiritually with a medicine bundle. It is

through the puppet governments, the 'Tribal Councils' forced upon both

nations by the United States, that the illusion of a conflict has been created

on the basis of the false modern concept of land title.

This short history shows how our land has been taken away. Why is this

happening? It is done through younger Hopis, robbed of their tradition

through compulsory foreign education, and arbitrarily empowered to speak

for their whole nation through the 'Hopi Tribal Council,' yet never consult

with their original leaders. Would you allow your children to sign away your

family possessions without even letting you know? That's exactly what the

'Hopi Tribal Council' is doing.

Land title based on such deceit and coercion is theft from the very forces

that gave us life. Since most of modern civilization is based on such false

entitlement, it can only destroy itself. The severe problems that face not

only humanity, but every form of life on Earth, serve to warn that the time of

destruction is at hand.

We can no longer escape. We must trace this situation to its root cause.

This is why I act now to call world attention to the true nature of aboriginal

land title, which alone holds the key to world peace. Hopi land title is based

on our agreement with the Creator, the true owner of the land, through our

meeting with Maasaw, to serve as its caretakers. This requires genuine

knowledge of the pattern through which people can live together in peace

without relying on the use of force. This way of life can continue forever.

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So for the sake of the indigenous nations that remain with us today, and

all people who are moved to correct their ways and restore that harmony

which can enable life in this world to continue, I have come to Santa Fe, the

first European capital established on our land, to urge that those

documents that might reveal the true nature of our title to this land be

investigated and revealed, and to place our knowledge of the Way of

Peace at your service.

We hope that what we are asking will be brought about soon, and that

those who sincerely wish to resolve this great crisis will make use of our

knowledge.

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HOPI DECLARATION OF PEACE

by Thomas Banyacya

t is in the power of the true Hopi to unify the minds and spirits of all true

peace seeking peoples of the earth.I'Hopi' means 'peaceful people,' and the truest and greatest power, the

strength of peace, is the will of the Great Spirit.

Do not think that just because the true Hopi have been told by the Great

Spirit never to take up arms, that the true Hopi will not fight, even die for

what we know to be the right way of life.

The true Hopi know how to fight without killing or hurting.

The true Hopi know how to fight with Truth and Positive Force in the light

of the Great Spirit.

The true Hopi know how to show to all the world's children the true way

of life by example, by working and communicating in ways that reach the

minds and hearts of all people who are truly seeking the way of a simple

and spiritual life, which is the only life that will survive.

The true Hopi preserves the sacred knowledge about the way of the

earth, because the true Hopi knows that the earth is a living and growing

person, and all things on it are her children.

The true Hopi know how to show the right way of life to all the world's

people who have ears to listen, who have eyes to see, and who have

hearts to understand these things.

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The true Hopi know how to generate enough power to link up the forces

of the minds and spirits of all the true Children of the earth, and to unify

them with the Positive Force and the Great Spirit, so that they may put an

end to affliction and persecution in all afflicted places of this world.

The true Hopi declare that Hopi power be a force which will bring about

world change.

We believe that all things are alive, and that they hear and understand

us.

The Hopi live on a barren land, but we believe that we were led there by

the spirit “Maasauu”. Our role is to preserve certain knowledge for all

mankind - the knowledge necessary for the understanding and preservation

of all Nations.

Thomas Banyacya,

Interpreter for the Traditional Hopi People

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NATIVE AMERICAN PROPHECY

American Indians are a diverse ethnic group. Their languages, customs,

social systems varied greatly. One common characteristic found in many

Indian nations was an affinity to the spiritual side of life. Out of this came

man prophecies.

One of the most fascinating set of prophecies comes out of the Hopi

nation located in the Southwestern United States. Many prophecies foretold

by the Hopi appear to have come true. Some of these are:

“The Fourth World shall end soon, and the Fifth World will begin. This the

elders everywhere know. The Signs over many years have been fulfilled,

and so few are left.”

“This is the First Sign: We are told of the coming of the white-skinned

men, like Pahana, but not living like Pahana men who took the land that

was not theirs. And men who struck their enemies with thunder.”

“This is the Second Sign: Our lands will see the coming of spinning

wheels filled with voices. In his youth, my father saw this prophecy come

true with his eyes — the white men bringing their families in wagons across

the prairies.”

“This is the Third Sign: A strange beast like a buffalo but with great long

horns, will overrun the land in large numbers. These White Feather saw

with his eyes — the coming of the white men's cattle.”

“This is the Fourth Sign: The land will be crossed by snakes of iron.”

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“This is the Fifth Sign: The land shall be criss-crossed by a giant spider's

web.”

“This is the Sixth sign: The land shall be criss-crossed with rivers of

stone that make pictures in the sun.”

“This is the Seventh Sign: You will hear of the sea turning black, and

many living things dying because of it.”

“This is the Eight Sign: You will see many youth, who wear their hair long

like my people, come and join the tribal nations, to learn their ways and

wisdom.”

“And this is the Ninth and Last Sign: You will hear of a dwelling-place in

the heavens, above the earth, that shall fall with a great crash. It will appear

as a blue star. Very soon after this, the ceremonies of my people will

cease.”

“These are the Signs that great destruction is coming. The world shall

rock to and fro. The white man will battle against other people in other

lands — with those who possessed the first light of wisdom. There will be

many columns of smoke and fire such as White Feather has seen the white

man make in the deserts not far from here. Only those which come will

cause disease and a great dying.”

Overall, the theme of Hopi prophecy is that the Earth is going to soon go

through a great purification and that humanity can make the decision as to

how extreme this purification will be. Their belief is that the world goes

through a period of destruction and renewal and that we are about to enter

into a new age, the 5th world (or 6th depending upon the source).

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Other Native American Prophecies

Mohawk Prophecy of the Seventh Generation

ccording to the prophecy of the Seventh Generation, seven

generations after contact with the Europeans the Onkwehonwe

would see the day when the elm trees would die. The prophecy said that

strange animals would be born deformed and without the proper limbs.

Huge stone monsters would tear open the face of the earth. The rivers

would burn. The air would burn the eyes of man. According to the prophecy

of the Seventh Generation the Onkwehonwe would see the time when the

birds would fall from the sky. The fish would die in the water. And man

would grow ashamed of the way that he had treated his Mother and

Provider, the Earth.

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Finally, according to this prophecy, after seven generations of living in

close contact with the Europeans, the Onkwehonwe would rise up and

demand that their rights and stewardship over the Earth be respected and

restored.

According to the wisdom of this prophecy, men and women would one

day turn to the Onkwehonwe for both guidance and direction. It is up to the

present generation of youth of the Kanienkehaka to provide leadership and

example to all who have failed. The children of the Kanienkehaka are the

seventh generation.

Deganawidah: The Two Serpents

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American Prophecies by Scott Peterson

hen Deganawidah was leaving the Indians in the Bay of Quinte in

Ontario, he told the Indian people that they would face a time of

great suffering. They would distrust their leaders and the principles of

peace of the League, and a great white serpent was to come upon the

Iroquois, and that for a time it would intermingle with the Indian serpent as

a friend.

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This serpent would in time become so powerful that it would attempt to

destroy the Indian, and the serpent is described as choking the life's blood

out of the Indian people. Deganawidah told the Indians that they would be

in such a terrible state at this point that all hope would seem to be lost, and

he told them that when things looked their darkest a red serpent would

come from the north and approach the white serpent, which would be

terrified, and upon seeing the red serpent he would release the Indian, who

would fall to the ground almost like a helpless child, and the white serpent

would turn all its attention to the red serpent. The bewilderment would

cause the white serpent to accept the red one momentarily.

The white serpent would be stunned and take part of the red serpent and

accept him. Then there is a heated argument and a fight. And then the

Indian revives and crawls toward the land of the hilly country, and then he

would assemble his people together, and they would renew their faith and

the principles of peace that Deganawidah had established.

There would at the same time exist among the Indians a great love and

forgiveness for his brother, and in this gathering would come streams from 155

all over — not only the Iroquois but from all over — and they would gather

in this hilly country, and they would renew their friendship. And

Deganawidah said they would remain neutral in this fight between the white

and red serpents.

At the time they were watching the two serpents licked in this battle, a

great message would come to them, which would make them ever so

humble, and when they become that humble, they will be waiting for a

young leader, an Indian boy, possibly in his teens, who would be a choice

seer. Nobody knows who he is or where he comes from, but he will be

given great power, and would be heard by thousands, and he would give

them the guidance and the hope to refrain from going back to their land and

he would be the accepted leader.

And Deganawidah said that they will gather in the land of the hilly

country, beneath the branches of an elm tree, and they should burn

tobacco and call upon Deganawidah by name when facing the darkest

hours, and he will return. Deganawidah said that as the choice seer speaks

to the Indians that number as the blades of grass, and he would be heard

by all at the same time, and as the Indians are gathered watching the fight,

they notice from the south a black serpent coming from the sea, and he is

described as dripping with salt water, and as he stands there, he rests for a

spell to get his breath, all the time watching to the north to the land where

the white and red serpents are fighting.

Deganawidah said that the battle between the white and the red serpents

opened very slowly but would then become so violent that the mountains

would crack and the rivers would boil and the fish would turn up on their

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There would be no grass, and that strange bugs and beetles would crawl

from the ground and attack both serpents, and he said that a great heat

would cause the stench of death to sicken both serpents. And then, as the

boy seer is watching this fight, the red serpent reaches around the back of

the white serpent and pulls from him a hair which is carried toward the

south by a great wind into the waiting hands of the black serpent, and as

the black serpent studies this hair, it suddenly turns into a woman, a white

woman who tells him things that he knows to be true but he wants to hear

them again.

When this white woman finishes telling these things, he takes her and

gently places her on a rock with great love and respect, and then he

becomes infuriated at what he has heard, so he makes a beeline for the

north, and he enters the battle between the red and white serpents with

such speed and anger that he defeats the two serpents, who have already

been battle weary.

When he finishes, he stand on the chest of the white serpent, and he

boasts and puts his chest out like he¹s the conqueror, and he looks for

another serpent to conquer. He looks to the land of the hilly country and

then sees the Indian standing with his arms folded and looking ever so

noble that he knows that this Indian is not the one to fight. The next

direction that he will face will be eastward and at that time he will be

momentarily blinded by a light that is many times brighter than the sun.

The light will be coming from the east to the west over the water, and

when the black serpent regains his sight, he becomes terrified and makes a

beeline for the sea.

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He dips into the sea and swims away in a southerly direction, and shall

never again be seen by the Indians.

The white serpent revives, and he too sees the light, and he makes a

feeble attempt to gather himself and go toward that light.

A portion of the white serpent refuses to remain but instead makes its

way toward the land of the hilly country, and there he will join the Indian

People with a great love like that of a lost brother.

The rest of the white serpent would go to the sea and dip into the sea

and would be lost out of sight for a spell. Then suddenly the white serpent

would appear again on the top of the water and he would be slowly

swimming toward the light. Deganawidah said that the white serpent would

never again be troublesome to the Indian People.

The red serpent would revive and he would shiver with great fear when

he sees that light. He would crawl to the north and leave a bloody, shaky

trail northward, and he would never be seen again by the Indians.

Deganawidah said as this light approaches that he would be that light, and

he would return to his Indian People, and when he returns, the Indian

People would be a greater nation than they had ever been before.

Iroquois Prophecy

It's prophesied in our Instructions that the end of the world will be near

when the trees start dying from the tops down. That's what the maples are

doing today. Our Instructions say the time will come when there will be no

corn, when nothing will grow in the garden, when water will be filthy and

unfit to drink.

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Then a great monster will rise up from the water and destroy mankind.

One of the names of that monster is “the sickness that eats you up inside”

like diabetes or cancer or AIDS. Maybe AIDS is the monster. It's coming.

It's already here.

Our prophet Handsome Lake told of it in the 1700s. He saw Four Beings,

like four angels, coming from the Four Directions. They told him what would

happen, how there would be diseases we'd never heard of before. You will

see many tears in this country. Then a great wind will come, a wind that will

make a hurricane seem like a whisper. It will cleanse the earth and return it

to its original state. That will be the punishment for what we've done to the

Creation.

Native American Prophecies Fulfilled

“North American Indian Prophecies”— excerpts from a talk given by Lee

Brown (Baha'i Cherokee) at the 1986 Baha'i Continental Indigenous

Council, Fairbanks, Alaska.

here was the cycle of the mineral, the rock. There was the cycle of

the plant. And now we are 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.

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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

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earth together 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 who

discovered blood plasma, it didn't surprise me because blood is water and 160

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 stone tablets. Ours are kept at the Hopi Reservation in Arizona at

Four Corners Area on Third Mesa. 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

Saskatchewan.” He said, “This is from Kenya.” It was beaded just like ours,

with the same colors.

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

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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 the symbols, some

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

mountains.

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 in 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 earth. 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 armor, 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.

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So tribes began to send people to the mountains to have visions 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 west 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, if 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

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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 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

was 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;

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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. (the swastika of the Nazis) It would come with the sun. But the

sun itself would rise one day not in the east but in the west. (the rising sun

of the Japanese Empire) 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 worst 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

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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 1920s 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.

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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, Dekanwidah. 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 voted to 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 Roots

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

Banyaca. He is a Hopi man. He was authorized to speak in English about

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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

1950s and 1960s but now it seems very clear. But then it was unusual...

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 great-grandchildren are going to suffer”... 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

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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

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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 Iroquois people about that and I won't have

time to go into that 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. 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 sweat.

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

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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. They said they're going to build what the elders called

the “house in the sky”. In the 1950s 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

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“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

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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 Baha-ni,

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 Bahà”. I

thought, 'O my God!' Here I was looking for it all these years and I never

even noticed it!' And I had already 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 in dreams to tell me, “Hey,

look at that again, look at that again. Look one more time.”

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Baha'i... it means “light or glory”. Baha'i means “follower of the light”, or

the people of Baha. 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 Bahà-nis, the “people of

Baha...”

—Lee Brown

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Night of the Red Sky

The Prophetic Vision of ‘Grandfather’

by Tom Brown, Jr.

This article first appeared on Stephanie Relfe's website “Health, Wealth

& Happiness.” She writes:

number of people can predict the future. But few get the timing

correct. Stalking Wolf, also called “Grandfather,” was an Apache

wise man and scout who grew up outside the influence of the white man.

His many predictions not only came true in the MANNER he predicted, but

also WHEN he predicted.

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Tom Brown learned extensively from Grandfather for 20 years, from their

first meeting when Tom was 7 years old. The following tells of

Grandfather's predictions for the whole of mankind.

The following is an excerpt from the book “The Quest” by Tom Brown Jr.,

first published 1991.

(“The Quest” can be ordered from Stephanie's website:

http://www.Relfe.com - “Health, Wealth & Happiness”)

ooking back, I can clearly see that Grandfather's prophecies, unlike

anything else, had the greatest influence on my life. At the time they

had little more effect than to frighten me and cause me to sit up and take

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notice. It wasn't until after his prophecies began to come true that their

haunting impact began to affect me in a very profound way.

More than any other person-prophet, religious leader or psychic I have

ever met, Grandfather's prophecies, on both a major and a minor scale,

came true exactly at the time he prophesied and exactly as he prophesied.

With that record, I could not help but feel the impact of these prophecies on

my life.

Grandfather could foretell the future with tremendous accuracy. Not only

could he precisely tell us what would happen in the next moment, day,

week or year, but with the same accuracy he could predict the possible

futures for ten years and more away. It was not long before I began to keep

detailed records of his predictions, along with other notes I kept on survival

skills, tracking, awareness and things of the Spirit. I received from

Grandfather hundreds of personal, minor predictions, and well over half

have since come true. Along with the minor personal prophecies was a list

of 103 major predictions, of which, to date, over 65 have become

absolutely true, not only in time and place but also in the exact order in

which they were predicted to happen.

Grandfather said that there was not future, only possible futures. The

'now' was like the palm of a hand, with each finger being the possible

future, and, as always, one of the futures was always the most powerful,

the way that the main course of events would surely take us. Thus his

predictions were of the possible future, which meant that he always left a

choice.

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“If a man could make the right choices,” he said, “then he could

significantly alter the course of the possible future. No man, then, should

feel insignificant, for it only takes one man to alter the consciousness of

mankind through the Spirit-that-moves-in-all-things. In essence, one

thought influences another, then another, until the thought is made

manifest throughout all of Creation. It is the same thought, the same force,

that causes an entire flock of birds to change course, as the flock then has

one mind.”

Out of all the personal and major prophecies that Grandfather foretold,

there are four that stand out above all the rest. It is these four that mark the

destruction of man and life on Earth, as we know it to exist now. Yet

Grandfather said that we could still change things, even after the first two

prophecies came true, but that there could be no turning back after the

third.

Now that we have gone well past the second prophecy, danger and

destruction are very apparent, and our only recourse is to work harder to

change what has possibly become the inevitable. The urgency that I feel

now,—more than ever—is a direct result of the second, impossible

prophecy coming true. It is the reason that I teach, sometimes with a

certain desperation, and constantly with the sense that we are quickly

running out of time.

I should have worked harder and with that same desperation at a much

earlier date, but, like the rest of mankind, it took a strong message to get

me motivated. I should have known that these things he prophesied would

some day come true, because his personal, minor predictions were coming

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He so accurately foretold of Rick's death on a white horse, that I would

some day teach, that I would have a son—and that taking him into the Pine

Barrens for the first time would forever change my life. He predicted the

formation of my school, my books, my family, and even the horrible

mistakes I would make as I tried to live within society.

Yet with all of this coming true on a daily basis, I simply would not believe

or accept that the major prophecy of man's destruction would come true,

and its reality hit me hard. It was then that the urgency made itself known.

I remember so vividly the “night of the four prophecies”—as I have

become accustomed to calling that night when Grandfather first made us

aware of their possibility. We had been with Grandfather for five years at

the time and were accustomed to his prophecies and their accuracy.

Our ability to understand the things of the Spirit world were as sure as

our ability to survive and track. Very little of what society calls “the

paranormal” shocked us any more, because miracles were part of our

everyday existence. Grandfather was a living miracle, and so many of the

things that he did on a daily basis, sometimes unconsciously, would be

considered miraculous by most. Yet as savvy as we were spiritually, the

night of the four prophecies shocked us like nothing we had ever

experienced before.

We had been hiking all day without much of a break, making our way to a

place where we were going to camp, atop a small hill that I now call

Prophecy Hill. It was a typical midsummer hike: hot, humid and dusty, with

no water available along our entire travel route. As usual, we still took time

to stop frequently or take side trips to explore various areas along our

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route. The adventure and exploration kept us fresh and eager, making the

fatigue, heat and thirst hardly factors.

Many times along the way, Grandfather would stop and teach us—not

physical lessons of survival, tracking or awareness, but lessons dealing

with the awareness of Spirit. Very often he would discuss the future and,

almost as frequently, the past - the distant past.

At one point we stopped along the deer trail we were traveling and

followed Grandfather through some heavy brush. The trees and shrubs

were far different than those throughout the rest of the Pine Barrens, and I

immediately knew this place as an old homestead or town of some sort.

Even though the buildings had long since rotted away, the plants and trees

still marked the spot where civilization had once stood. Passing through

several very thick areas, we finally entered a grove of very tall, old

sycamore trees. From their branches and up their trunks ran huge vines,

the kind one might imagine finding in a jungle. In fact, the whole place

looked like a jungle—so out of place from the pine, oak and blueberry that

is typical in the Pine Barrens. As we sat down, a deeper spiritual sense of

awareness came over me, and it was then that I noticed the gravestones.

This was the place of a very old and probably long-forgotten cemetery,

possibly belonging to the town that had once been here. The stones were

old; some lay flat on the ground and others stood upright, though none was

straight. Plants and bushes had overrun many of the stones, and I could

barely make out the markings on the stones. The weathering process had

worn away many of the names and dates, making them barely readable.

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At once we were in awe, humbled and reverent in this place of death; at

the same time, we were amazed that Grandfather had found it so easily. To

my knowledge, none of us had been there before, nor had Grandfather

ever spoken of this graveyard. Yet for some reason he seemed to be drawn

to it, knowing that it was there on some unseen spiritual level, at least

unseen to us. I suspect now, as I look back, that he knew that it would

become a teaching lesson for us.

He walked over to a gravestone that was partially hidden by foxgrape

vines and gently pulled them away. After a long moment, he motioned us to

come over. We could barely make out the name on the grave or the dates,

but at the bottom was carved clearly: “12 years old”.

Grandfather then spoke. “Who are these people; who is this boy? What

did they work for and what were their hopes, dreams and visions? Did they

just work physically or did they work for the things beyond the flesh, for a

grander purpose? Certainly they affected the Spirit-that-moves-in-all-things,

but did they really work to the best of their ability to make things better for

the future of their grandchildren, or did they do nothing other than to

perpetuate the myth of society? Were they happy, joyous and filled with

spiritual rapture, or did they just lead lives of labor and mediocrity? And did

this boy live close to the Earth and the Creator, or did he just give up his

youth, his sense of adventure, to toil, as did his parents and their parents

before them? This boy was exactly your age, and I suspect he had hopes

and dreams much like yours. But this is his legacy, lying in a forgotten

grave.”

“But, Grandfather,” I said, “isn't it enough just to be happy and live your

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After a long moment of silence, Grandfather answered. “It is not enough

that man be just happy in the flesh, but he must also be happy and joyous

in spirit. For without spiritual happiness and rapture, life is shallow. Without seeking the things of the Spirit, life is half lived and empty. And by

spiritual life I do not mean just setting aside one hour of one day of one

week for worship, but to seek the things of the spirit every moment of every

day. I ask you, then: What did these people do to seek spiritual

enlightenment and rapture? Did they just give in to a life that was little more

than work? They were given a choice every day of their lives—as you will

be given a choice to seek the rapture of the Spirit or to resign yourselves to

a life of meaningless work. The end result is always the same: forgotten

graves and forgotten dreams of forgotten people. It is not important that

anyone notice or remember, but that you work to touch God and affect in a

positive way the consciousness of the Spirit-that-moves-in-all-things, thus

bringing the consciousness of man closer to the Creator.”

We left the graveyard without a word and headed up to the campsite on

the hill. By the time we reached the camp, it had cooled off and the Sun

had long since set. As we built shelters and a fire and gathered food, time

seemed to fly by unnoticed, as my mind was thoroughly engrossed in

thoughts of the lessons in the graveyard. I wondered how much I might be

like that nameless dead boy in that forgotten grave. Was I just seeking the

flesh and not working hard enough in the things of the Spirit?

It was then that I realized the deeper lessons of what Grandfather was

trying to teach me. I realized then that I should live life as if I were to die

tomorrow, for that is what happened to that young boy. No one can be

assured of another day, but we must live each day fully, in flesh and most

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of all in Spirit. It isn't important that anyone remember who we were, but

that we made a positive change in the consciousness of the Spirit-that-

moves-in-all-things, the life force of the Earth, and, in doing so, find spiritual

rapture and touch the Creator.

I sat by the fire after the work was done, relaxing, still deep in thought

about the boy in the graveyard.

Grandfather sat at the far end of the fire, his eyes closed, but I suspected

that he was not sleeping. In the firelight, his features appeared more that of

a spirit than of flesh. Quietly he leaned forward and answered the many

questions I had on my mind. At times, his ability to know what was on my

mind was unnerving, sometimes making me angry to think that he could

know my thoughts.

“Did you ever watch a flock of sandpipers on the beach, how they ebb

and flow with the tides, becoming at times not a gathering of individual

animals but one organism, moving as a unit together along the surf? When

they burst into flight, their cohesiveness is even more startling and

wondrous. At once they all will be flying in a certain direction, and then in

an instant the entire flock will turn simultaneously and take a new direction.”

“Studied closely, there is no one bird that makes the decision to turn, but

it seems to be a Spirit, a collective consciousness, that runs through the

flock instantly. When viewed from afar, the flock appears to be one animal,

one organism, one consciousness, governed by the collective force and

spirit of all the individuals. It is this same consciousness that runs through

man, Nature and the Earth—that which we call the 'Spirit-that-moves-in-all-

things', or the 'life force'.”

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“I suspect,” he continued, “that it is but one bird that creates the thought

that turns the flock, and the one thought becomes immediately manifested

in all the others. The individual then transcends self and becomes one with

the whole. Thus, at once, the bird moves within the flock and the flock

moves within the bird. So, then, do not ask what you can do to affect the

life force in a positive way, for the same Spirit that moves within the birds

also moves within you. One person, one idea, one thought can turn the

flock of society away from the destructive path of modern times. It is not a

question as to whether we make a difference, for we all make a difference,

each of us in our own way. It is the difference we make that is important.”

“So if we live a life that is close to the Spirit, seek the spiritual rapture of

oneness, that will affect the outcome of life,” I said. My statement was more

a question than a declaration.

“It is not enough,” Grandfather said, “just to seek the things of the Spirit

on a personal level. To do so is selfish, and those who just seek the

spiritual realms for themselves are not working to change the Spirit that

moves through the consciousness of man. Instead they are running away,

hiding from their responsibility and using their wisdom for their own

glorification. Spiritual man must then work for a principle, a cause, a Quest

far greater than the glorification of self, in order to affect the spirit that can

change the course of man's destruction.”

I sat for a long time in the quietude of the night, trying desperately to

understand what Grandfather had told me. In essence, it was not enough to

work for spiritual enlightenment for self, but to work for the spiritual

enlightenment of all of mankind. To work only for self, to cloister oneself in

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Grandfather was saying is that a spiritual person must take the wisdom and

philosophy of the Earth and bring it back into modern society.

Grandfather spoke again. “Trying to live a spiritual life in modern society

is the most difficult path one can walk. It is a path of pain, of isolation and of

shaken faith, but that is the only way that our Vision can become reality.

Thus the true Quest in life is to live the philosophy of the Earth within the

confines of man. There is no church or temple we need to seek peace, for

ours are the temples of the wilderness. There are no spiritual leaders, for

our hearts and the Creator are our only leaders. Our numbers are

scattered; few speak our language or understand the things that we live.

Thus we walk this path alone, for each Vision, each Quest, is unique unto

the individual. But we must walk within society or our Vision dies, for a man

not living his Vision is living death.”

For a long time there was no other conversation. I retired into my own

thoughts and doubts. I did not want to live within society, for the wilderness

was my home, my love, my life and my spiritual rapture. I could not see

why a man could not live his Vision in the purity of wilderness, away from

the distractions of society. I could feel no urgency or see any reason why I

should take what I have learned back to society.

Grandfather's voice shattered my thoughts. “The Earth is dying. The

destruction of man is close, so very close, and we must all work to change

that path of destruction. We must pay for the sins of our grandfathers and

grandmothers, for we have long been a society that kills its grandchildren to

feed its children. There can be no rest, and we cannot run away; far too

many in the past have run away. It is very easy to live a spiritual life away

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from man, but the truth of Vision in spiritual life can only be tested and

become a reality when lived near society.”

“How do I know that we are so close to that destruction?” I asked.

“I had a Vision,” Grandfather said. “It was a Vision of the destruction of

man. But man was given four warnings to that destruction, two of which

gave man a chance to change his ways and two of which would give the

children of the Earth time to escape the Creator's wrath.”

“How will I know these warnings, these signs?” I asked.

Grandfather continued. “They will be obvious to you and those who have

learned to listen to the Spirit of the Earth; but to those who live within the

flesh and know only flesh, there is no knowing or understanding. When

these signs, these warnings and prophecies, are made manifest, then you

will understand the urgency of what I speak. Then you will understand why

people must not just work for their own spiritual rapture but to bring that

rapture to the consciousness of modern man.”

The Four Signs

Grandfather had been wandering for several years and was well into his

forties when the Vision of the four signs was given to him. He had just

finished his third Vision Quest at the Eternal Cave when the Vision made

itself known. He had been seated at the mouth of the cave, awaiting the

rising Sun, when the spirit of the warrior appeared to him. He felt as if he

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were in a state somewhere between dream and reality, sleep and

wakefulness, until the spirit finally spoke and he knew that it was not his

imagination.

The spirit called Grandfather's name and beckoned him to follow.

As Grandfather stood, he was suddenly transported to another world.

Again, he thought that he was dreaming, but his flesh could feel the reality

of this place; his senses knew that this was a state of abject reality, but in

another time and place.

The spirit warrior spoke to Grandfather. “These are the things yet to

come that will mark the destruction of man. These things you may never

see, but you must work to stop them and pass these warnings on to your

grandchildren. They are the possible futures of what will come if man does

not come back to the Earth and begin to obey the laws of Creation and the

Creator. There are four signs, four warnings, that only the children of the

Earth will understand. Each warning marks the beginning of a possible

future, and as each warning becomes reality, so too does the future it

marks.”

With that, the spirit warrior was gone and Grandfather was left alone in

this strange, new world.

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The First Sign

he world he was in was like nothing he had ever known. It was a dry

place with little vegetation. In the distance he saw a village, yet it was

made out of tents and cloth rather than from the materials of the Earth. As

he drew closer to the village, the stench of death overwhelmed him and he

grew sick. He could hear children crying, the moaning of elders and the

sounds of sickness and despair. Piles of bodies lay in open pits awaiting

burial, their contorted faces and frail frames telling of death from starvation.

The bodies appeared more like skeletons than flesh, and children, adults

and elders all looked the same, their once dark-brown complexions now

ash-grey. As Grandfather entered the village, the horror of living starvation

struck him deeper. Children could barely walk, elders lay dying, and

everywhere were the cries of pain and fear. The stench of death and the

sense of hopelessness overwhelmed Grandfather, threatening to drive him

from the village.

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It was then that an elder appeared to Grandfather, at first speaking in a

language that he could not understand. Grandfather realized, as the elder

spoke, that he was the spirit of a man—a man no longer of flesh, but a man

who had once walked a spiritual path, possibly a shaman of this tribe. It

was then that he understood what the old one was trying to tell him.

The elder spoke softly. “Welcome to what will be called the 'land of

starvation'. The world will one day look upon all of this with horror and will

blame the famine on the weather and the Earth. This will be the first

warning to the world that man cannot live beyond the laws of Creation, nor

can he fight Nature.

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If the world sees that it is to blame for this famine, this senseless

starvation, then a great lesson will be learned. But I am afraid that the world

will not blame itself, but that the blame will be placed on Nature. The world

will not see that it created this place of death by forcing these people to

have larger families. When the natural laws of the land were broken, the

people starved, as Nature starves the deer in winter when their numbers

are too many for the land to bear.”

The old one continued. “These people should have been left alone. They

once understood how to live with the Earth, and their wealth was measured

in happiness, love and peace. But all of that was taken from them when the

world saw theirs as a primitive society. It was then that the world showed

them how to farm and live in a less primitive way. It was the world that

forced them to live outside the laws of Creation and, as a result, is now

forcing them to die.”

The old man slowly began to walk away, back to the death and despair.

He turned one last time to Grandfather, and said: “This will be the first sign.

There will come starvation before and after this starvation, but none will

capture the attention of the world with such impact as does this one. The

children of the Earth will know the lessons that are held in all of this pain

and death, but the world will only see it as drought and famine, blaming

Nature instead of itself.”

With that, the old one disappeared, and Grandfather found himself back

at the mouth of the Eternal Cave.

(Author's note: This is the great African famine that inspired the Bob

Geldof “We are the World” Live Aid relief effort.)

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Grandfather lay back on the ground, thinking about what he had

witnessed. He knew that it had been a Vision of the possible future and that

the spirit of the warrior had brought him to it to teach him what could

happen. Grandfather knew that people all over the Earth were now starving

—but why was this starvation so critical, so much more important than all

the rest, even more important than the starvation that was taking place

now?

It was then that Grandfather recalled that the tribal elder had said that the

entire world would take notice, but that the world would not learn the

lessons of what the death and famine were trying to teach. The children

would die in vain.

Grandfather looked out across the barren land that surrounded the

Eternal Cave to try to re-establish the reality of his 'now'. He said that it was

still hard to discern between waking reality and the world of Vision, but he

felt that he was back into his time and place.

He told me that the Eternal Cave was always a place to find Visions of

the possible and probable futures, and it was not uncommon for the

searcher to have a Vision at the mouth of the cave, not just inside.

In a state of physical and emotional exhaustion, Grandfather fell into a

deep sleep, but it was in this sleep that the warrior spirit appeared to him

again and brought the remainder of the first sign to completion.

In his dream, the spirit spoke to Grandfather. “It is during the years of the

famine, the first sign, that man will be plagued by a disease, a disease that

will sweep the land and terrorize the masses. The white coats

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[doctors/scientists] will have no answers for the people, and a great cry will

arise across the land.

The disease will be born of monkeys, drugs and sex. It will destroy man

from inside, making common sickness a killing disease. Mankind will bring

this disease upon himself as a result of his life, his worship of sex and

drugs, and a life away from Nature. This, too, is a part of the first warning;

but, again, man will not heed this warning and he will continue to worship

the false gods of sex and the unconscious spirit of drugs.” (Author's note:

This is presumably a reference to AIDS.)

The spirit continued. “The drugs will produce wars in the cities of man,

and the nations will arise against those wars, arise against that killing

disease. But the nations will fight in the wrong way, lashing out at the effect

rather than the cause. It will never win these wars until the nation, until

society, changes its values and stops chasing the gods of sex and drugs. It

is then, in the years of the first sign, that man can change the course of the

probable future. It is then that he may understand the greater lessons of the

famine and the disease. It is then that there can still be hope. But once the

second sign of destruction appears, the Earth can no longer be healed on a

physical level. Only a spiritual healing can then change the course of the

probable futures of mankind.”

With that, the warrior spirit let Grandfather fall into a deep and dreamless

sleep, allowing him to rest fully before any more Vision was wrought upon

him.

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The Second Sign

randfather awoke at the entrance of the cave once again, the

memory of the warrior spirit still vivid in his mind, the spirit's words

becoming part of his soul.

GWhen Grandfather looked out across the landscape, all had changed.

The landscape appeared drier; there was no vegetation to be seen, and

animals lay dying. A great stench of death arose from the land, and the

dust was thick and choking, the intense heat oppressive. Looking skyward,

the Sun seemed to be larger and more intense; no birds or clouds could be

seen, and the air seemed thicker still. It was then that the sky seemed to

surge and huge holes began to appear. The holes tore with a resounding,

thunderous sound, and the very Earth, rocks and soil shook.

The skin of the sky seemed to be torn open like a series of gaping

wounds, and through these wounds seeped a liquid that seemed like the

oozing of an infection, a great sea of floating garbage, oil and dead fish. It

was through one of these wounds that Grandfather saw the floating bodies

of dolphins, accompanied by tremendous upheavals of the Earth and

violent storms. As he held fast to the trembling Earth, his eyes fell from the

sky, and all about him, all at once, was disaster. Piles of garbage reached

to the skies, forests lay cut and dying, coastlines were flooded and storms

grew more violent and thunderous. With each passing moment, the Earth

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shook with greater intensity, threatening to tear apart and swallow

Grandfather.

Suddenly the Earth stopped shaking and the sky cleared. Out of the

dusty air walked the warrior spirit, who stopped a short distance from

Grandfather. As Grandfather looked into the face of the spirit, he could see

that there were great tears flowing from his eyes, and each tear fell to the

Earth with a searing sound.

The spirit looked at Grandfather for a long moment, then finally spoke:

“Holes in the sky.”

Grandfather thought for a moment, then, in a questioning, disbelieving

manner, said, “Holes in the sky?”

And the spirit answered. “They will become the second sign of the

destruction of man. The holes in the sky and all that you have seen could

become man's reality. It is here, at the beginning of this second sign, that

man can no longer heal the Earth with physical action. It is here that man

must heed the warning and work harder to change the future at hand. But

man must not only work physically, he must also work spiritually, through

prayer, for only through prayer can man now hope to heal the Earth and

himself.”

There was a long pause as Grandfather thought about the impossibility

of holes in the sky. Surely Grandfather knew that there could be a spiritual

hole, but a hole that the societies of the Earth could notice would hardly

seem likely.

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The spirit drew closer and spoke again, almost in a whisper. “These

holes are a direct result of man's life, his travel, and of the sins of his

grandfathers and grandmothers. These holes, the second sign, will mark

the killing of his grandchildren and will become a legacy to man's life away

from Nature. It is the time of these holes that will mark a great transition in

mankind's thinking. They will then be faced with a choice—a choice to

continue following the path of destruction, or a choice to move back to the

philosophy of the Earth and a simpler existence. It is here

that the decision must be made, or all will be lost.”

Without another word, the spirit turned and walked

back into the dust.

(Editor’s note: Apparently, the Second Sign is also

fulfilled! The ozone holes over the Earth's Polar Regions

are fact.)

The Third Sign

randfather spent the next four days at the cave entrance, though for

those four days nothing spoke to him, not even the Earth. He said

that it was a time of great sorrow, of aloneness, and a time to digest all that

had taken place.

GHe knew that these things would not appear in his lifetime, but they had

to be passed down to the people of the future with the same urgency and

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power with which they had been delivered to him. But he did not know how

he would explain these unlikely events to anyone. Surely the elders and

shamans of the tribes would understand, but not society, and certainly not

anyone who was removed from the Earth and Spirit.

He sat for the full four days, unmoving, as if made of stone, and his heart

felt heavy with the burden he now carried.

It was at the end of the fourth day that the third Vision came to him. As

he gazed out onto the landscape towards the setting Sun, the sky suddenly

turned to a liquid and then turned blood-red. As far as his eyes could see,

the sky was solid red, with no variation in shadow, texture or light. The

whole of Creation seemed to have grown still, as if awaiting some unseen

command. Time, place and destiny seemed to be in limbo, stilled by the

bleeding sky. He gazed for a long time at the sky, in a state of awe and

terror, for the red colour of the sky was like nothing he had ever seen in any

sunset or sunrise. The colour was that of man, not of Nature, and it had a

vile stench and texture. It seemed to burn the Earth wherever it touched. As

sunset drifted to night, the stars shone bright red, the colour never leaving

the sky, and everywhere the cries of fear and pain were heard.

Again, the warrior spirit appeared to Grandfather, but this time as a voice

from the sky. Like thunder, the voice shook the landscape. “This, then, is

the third sign, the night of the bleeding stars. It will become known

throughout the world, for the sky in all lands will be red with the blood of the sky, day and night. It is then, with this sign of the third probable future,

that there is no longer hope. Life on the Earth as man has lived it will come

to an end, and there can be no turning back, physically or spiritually. It is

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know the destruction of the Earth is at hand. It is then that the children of

the Earth must run to the wild places and hide. For when the sky bleeds

fire, there will be no safety in the world of man.”

Grandfather sat in shocked horror as the voice continued.

“From this time, when the stars bleed, to the fourth and final sign, will be

four seasons of peace [that is, one year]. It is in these four seasons that the

children of the Earth must live deep in the wild places and find a new home,

close to the Earth and the Creator. It is only the children of the Earth that

will survive, and they must live the philosophy of the Earth, never returning

to the thinking of man. And survival will not be enough, for the children of

the Earth must also live close to the Spirit. So tell them not to hesitate if

and when this third sign becomes manifest in the stars, for there are but

four seasons to escape.”

Grandfather said that the voice and red sky lingered for a week, and then

were gone as quickly as they were manifest.

The Fourth Sign

e did not remember how many days he'd spent at the mouth of the

cave, nor did it make a difference, for he had received the Vision he

had come for.

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It was in his final night at the Eternal Cave that the fourth Vision came to

Grandfather, this time carried by the voice of a young child.

The child said, “The fourth and final sign will appear through the next ten

winters [that is, ten years] following the night that the stars will bleed.

During this time, the Earth will heal itself and man will die. For those ten

years, the children of the Earth must remain hidden in the wild places,

make no permanent camps, and wander to avoid contact with the last

remaining forces of man. They must remain hidden, like the ancient scouts,

and fight the urge to go back to the destruction of man. Curiosity could kill

many.”

There was a long silence, until Grandfather spoke to the child spirit,

asking, “And what will happen to the worlds of man?”

There was another period of silence until finally the child spoke again.

“There will be a great famine throughout the world, like man cannot

imagine. Waters will run vile, the poisons of man's sins running strong in

the waters of the soils, lakes and rivers. Crops will fail, the animals of man

will die, and disease will kill the masses. The grandchildren will feed upon

the remains of the dead, and all about will be the cries of pain and anguish.

Roving bands of men will hunt and kill other men for food, and water will

always be scarce, getting scarcer with each passing year. The land, the

water, the sky will all be poisoned, and man will live in the wrath of the

Creator. Man will hide at first in the cities, but there he will die. A few will

run to the wilderness, but the wilderness will destroy them, for they had

long ago been given a choice. Man will be destroyed, his cities in ruin, and

it is then that the grandchildren will pay for the sins of their grandfathers

and grandmothers.”196

“Is there then no hope?” Grandfather asked.

The child spoke again. “There is only hope during the time of the first and

second signs. Upon the third sign, the night of the bleeding, there is no

longer hope, for only the children of the Earth will survive. Man will be given

these warnings; if unheeded, there can be no hope, for only the children of

the Earth will purge themselves of the cancers of mankind, of mankind's

destructive thinking. It will be the children of the Earth who will bring a new

hope to the new society, living closer to the Earth and Spirit.”

Then all was silent, the landscape cleared and returned to normal, and

Grandfather stepped from the Vision. Shaken, he said that he had

wandered for the next season, trying to understand all that had been given

to him, trying to understand why he had been chosen.

Grandfather had related the story to me in great detail during that night of

the four prophecies. I don't think that any event had been left out, and his

emotions and thoughts were such that he actually relived it for us. Thus the

power of his Vision became part of our spirit, our driving force, and a big

part of our fears.

I sat for a long time up on the hill. The fire had gone out, and all had

retired to sleep for the night. Creation seemed to be at a standstill, awaiting

this darkest part of the night to pass by. I felt alone and vulnerable, as if all

of Creation were scrutinizing my every thought.

Grandfather had this Vision some time in the 1920s.

About the Author:

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Tom Brown, Jr. has called the wilderness home for most of his life. In

1978 he wrote his first book, The Tracker (an autobiography), and founded

the Tracker School where he teaches courses in survival skills such as

tracking, nature awareness and ancient Earth philosophy. He has since

written another 15 books, including Tom Brown's Field Guide to Wilderness

Survival as well as The Search, The Vision, The Quest, The Journey,

Grandfather and Awakening Spirits. For details on tracking courses and

how to obtain Tom's books, visit The Tracker, Inc. web site at

http://www.trackerschool.com

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American Indian Prophecies

by IRA KENNEDY

merican Indian Prophecies is not about the end of the world but,

rather, a change of worlds—the beginning of a new Earth cycle. The

prophecies of Black Elk, Wovoka, Rolling Thunder, Lame Deer, Sun Bear,

and the Hopi are used to examine the differences between Western and

Native American world views and their relationship to the future.

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INTRODUCTION

here is a remarkable difference between Western prophecies and

those of native peoples. When Western prophets see into the future

they envision Armageddon. The end of the world. When native prophets

look down that same path they see the completion of a great cycle. A

change of worlds.

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The reason for these vastly different views is found in the way time is

experienced. In the West time is history. There is a past, a present, and a

future; a beginning, a middle, and an end. Like a stick. Native peoples

experience time as a cycle. There are four stages, such as the seasons:

spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Like a hoop. Each stage is a

preparation for the next. At the center of the hoop is a still timelessness; the

eternal present around which the cycles revolve. The visions of native

prophets occur at that center point from where the cycles of change can be

seen. There is no end.

For the Indians of North America, the last quarter of the 1800s was the

winter of their culture. All that they had known had fallen away, like leaves

on a tree. In 1863, among the sacred hills of South Dakota, was born a

wachasha wakon, a holy man of the Oglala Sioux. His name was Black Elk.

As a young man his father told him a story that had been passed down

from the grandfathers.

In the time of the ancestors lived a Lakota holy man, Drinks Water, who

dreamed of what was to be. In a dream Drinks Water saw all the four-

leggeds go back into the earth and in their place a race of two-legged

strangers wove a web around the Lakota. Then, in his dream, Drinks Water

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saw his people living in square gray homes, on a barren land; and beside

those homes, the people starved. Soon after his vision, it is said, Drinks

Water returned to Mother Earth. He died from sorrow.

Drinks Water's vision occurred long before the coming of the whites with

their fences and houses and their slaughter of the great buffalo herds. At

the time his dream must have been incomprehensible to his people. What

Drinks Water saw was a change of worlds and it was more than he could

endure.

When interpreting dreams or prophecies it should be remembered that a

literal approach is often misleading. This is particularly the case with the

prophecies presented here. Rather than the end of the world, what is

implied is a transformation of consciousness from one view of the world to

another, and the emergence of the new world.

For over a century, the American Indian shamans have prophesied the

end of an earth cycle, the disappearance of the white man, and the return

of all living things which had vanished under the pressures of the present

world. The time, we are told, is near. As we observe governments,

industries, and ourselves, we can see a system of waste and pollution so

widespread as to cast a shadow across the generations to come. It doesn't

take a clairvoyant to predict disaster. Fortunately, we are aware of the need

for change. The question is, whether the necessary changes in our

institutions and ourselves will occur faster than the production of pollution

generated by our old patterns of behavior.

Like a dormant tree enduring winter, the Indian's respect for the earth,

their desire to live in harmony with nature, lives still, waiting to bloom again

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in the next world cycle. Only by honoring Mother Earth, Indian shamans tell

us, can we avert disaster. We have their example and their prophets to

guide the human family into the new world. We are one with all creation.

BLACK ELK

hen Black Elk was nine years old, he had yet to see his first

Wasichu, or white man. There were still vast herds of buffalo, and

the Indian way of life, Black Elk believed, would last forever. That year,

1872, he had a vision in which he traveled four ascents with his people,

which he understood to be the four generations he would know.

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At the first ascent, the people camped in a circle. At the center of the

circle stood the holy tree. But when they camped at the second ascent

Black Elk saw the leaves falling from the sacred tree.

At the camp of the third ascent he saw the Black Road of conflict before

them. He saw, too, that the nation's hoop was broken, the sacred tree was

dying and all its birds were gone. There he saw that “all of the animals and

fowls that were the people ran here and there, for each one seemed to

have his own little vision that he followed and his own rules; and all over

the universe I could hear the winds at war like wild beasts fighting... It was

dark and terrible about me, for all the winds of the world were fighting. It

was like rapid gunfire and like whirling smoke, and like women and children

wailing and like horses screaming all over the world.” The third ascent was

the time of the generation living in the 1850's.

At the fourth ascent a Voice said “Behold this day, for it is yours to make.

Now you shall stand upon the center of the earth to see...” Then Black Elk

stood on the highest mountain of them all, “and round about beneath me

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was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I

can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred

manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as

they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of

my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight

and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter

all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.”

Black Elk's vision of the fourth ascent was one of hope and brotherhood.

Because that world did not come to pass, Black Elk lived to be a

disappointed man believing that, in some way, he had failed his vision.

“You see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's

hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the

sacred tree is dead.”

Shortly before his death in 1950, Black Elk offered this comment: “I have

been told by the white men, or at least by those who are Christian, that God

sent to men His son, who would restore order and peace upon the earth;

and we have been told that Jesus the Christ was crucified, but that he shall

come again at the Last Judgment, the end of this world cycle. This I

understand and know that it is true, but the white men should know that for

the red people too, it was the will of Wakan-Tanka, the Great Spirit, that an

animal turn itself into a two-legged person in order to bring the most holy

pipe to His people, and we too were taught that this White Buffalo Cow

Woman who brought our sacred pipe will appear again at the end of this

world, a coming which we Indians know is now not very far off.”

Perhaps, the words Black Elk heard, saying, “Behold this day, for it is

yours to make. Now you shall stand upon the center of the earth to see...” 203

is a message to us all. For this day is ours to make, and the center of the

earth, Black Elk tells us, is everywhere. All we need to do is see the world

in a sacred manner, and the holy tree will live again.

WOVOKA

ear the end of the 1800s, the Indians were being forced onto

reservations. The buffalo had been slaughtered almost to extinction

by the whites. The entire life way of the Indians was passing away. Their

only hope came from their religious beliefs and their medicine men who,

throughout the Plains, were trying to dream the whites out of existence.

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Many Indians believed that the Messiah had come to the white man first,

and he was killed for his trouble. The Messiah said he would return and He

had, as a Paiute of the Fish Eaters camp in Nevada. The Messiah, the

Wanekia (“One Who Makes Live”) the Christ, as many believed, was called

Wovoka. The whites called him Jack Wilson.

In 1888, during an eclipse of the sun, Wovoka died, and an eagle carried

him to the sky. When he returned to earth he was alive again and said he

had a message from God. He said, “You must not hurt anybody or do harm

to anyone. You must not fight. Do right always.”

Hundreds of miles to the east a Sioux shaman, Kicking Bear, heard a

voice which commanded him to travel toward the setting sun. He did so,

accompanied by his friend, Short Bull.

In Nevada they were greeted by two Paiutes who told them that Christ

had returned as an Indian. Hearing this, they followed the friendly Paiutes

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to the camp of Wovoka where they met hundreds of other pilgrims of

different tribes. All had come to see this new Messiah.

“I have sent for you and am glad to see you,” Wovoka said. “I am going

to talk to you after a while about your relatives who are dead and gone. My

children, I want you to listen to all I have to say to you. I will teach you how

to dance a dance, and I want you to dance it. Get ready for your dance,

and when the dance is over, I will talk to you.” And they danced the Ghost

Dance during which many participants would faint or enter into a trance

where they would see and speak to their dead relations.

The Oglala Sioux sent three wise men to meet with this Messiah. They

were Good Thunder, Brave Bear and Yellow Breast. They returned with

prophecies and stories of miracles. Black Elk remembered it this way:

“These three men all said the same thing, and they were good men.

They said that they traveled far until they came to a great flat valley near

the last great mountains before the big water, and there they saw the

Wanekia who was the son of the Great Spirit, and they talked to him.

Wasichus called him Jack Wilson, but his name was Wovoka. He told them

that there was another world coming, just like a cloud. It would come in a

whirlwind out of the west and would crush out everything on this world

which was old and dying. In that other world, there was plenty of meat, just

like old times; and in that world all the dead Indians were alive, and all the

bison that had ever been killed were roaming around again.”

Wovoka's message of peace and brotherhood was overshadowed by his

prophecy of the disappearance of the whites and the return of Indian

traditions. The whites and some Indians ignored his message of peace

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while taking literally the idea that the Ghost Dance movement would, one

way or another, make the whites vanish.

The U.S. government's interest in, and fear of, the Ghost Dance

movement peaked in December of 1890 at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

There, nearly 300 Indians enroute to a Ghost Dance gathering were

massacred. That event, it was assumed, put an end to Wovoka's vision.

HOPI PROPHECIES

he passing of the white man's world, as prophesied by the Paiute and

the Sioux, and the emergence of a new world is a future envisioned

by the Hopi as well. This was recorded in Book of the Hopi: “World War III

will be started by those peoples who first received the light (the divine

wisdom or intelligence) in the other old countries (India, China, Egypt,

Palestine, Africa).

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“The United States will be destroyed, land and people, by atomic bombs

and radioactivity. Only the Hopi and their homeland will be preserved as an

oasis to which refugees will flee. Bomb shelters are a fallacy. It is only

materialistic people who seek to make shelters. Those who are at peace in

their hearts already are in the great shelter of life. There is no shelter for

evil. Those who take no part in the making of world division by ideology are

ready to resume life in another world, be they of the Black, White, Red, or

Yellow race. They are all one, brothers.

“The war will be a spiritual conflict with material matters. Material matters

will be destroyed by spiritual beings who will remain to create one world

and one nation under one power, that of the Creator.

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“That time is not far off.”

Another Hopi prophecy predicts a pole shift (a shift or flip in the axis of

the earth) before the end of this century. In 1948 and again in 1973, the

Hopi elders tried to address the United Nations General Assembly on this

matter. Both times they were denied. Finally, in 1976 they were allowed to

address the U.N.-sponsored Habitat Conference in Vancouver, British

Columbia.

“This message today is our third and perhaps final attempt to inform the

world of the present status of man's existence on our Earth Mother,” their

spokesman, Thomas Banyaca, said. “We are not asking the United Nations

for help in a material way. We are, according to Hopi prophecy, simply

trying to inform the world of what is going to happen if the destruction of the

earth and its original peoples continues as is known by our religious Hopi

elders. We do not come before the United Nations in order to join it. We

come to fulfill Hopi sacred mission and ancient prophecy... and whatever

results from your failure to fulfill your sacred responsibilities to stop all of

this destruction, genocide, harassment, imprisonment, oppression for

Native Brothers will be of your own doing...” The disaster can be averted if

we come into balance with our environment. Otherwise, Banyacya warned,

“this land might sink again or it may break up...”

The Hopi expect, someday, the return of Pahana, the lost white brother,

just as the Maya await the return of Kukulcan, the bearded white god, and

as the Aztec predict the return of the white hero-god Quetzalcoatl. Perhaps,

what they are all waiting for is not an individual, but the return of the white

race, along with the red, yellow, and black peoples, to their rightful place

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honors the earth as a living being which must be treated with love and

respect.

The prophecies presented here of the destruction of the world by atomic

bombs or a pole shift need not be interpreted literally. Atomic bombs can

devastate a country without ever being used. The arms race was

disastrous financially both to the Russia and the United States; and the

failure of the nuclear reactors can provide enough destructive radioactivity

to satisfy any prophecy. As for a pole shift, that can be understood as a

shift in world power from First World to Third World countries, or from

countries in the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere.

(Editor’s note: The magnetic pole shifts in the past are fact.)

ROLLING THUNDER

hile working for the Menninger Foundation in 1971, Doug Boyd

met Rolling Thunder, a spiritual leader of the Cherokee and

Shoshone tribes. About the shaman, Boyd wrote, “Each day it was

becoming clearer to me that Rolling Thunder was a teacher who could offer

me insights that I could never achieve in the laboratory or discover in the

library.”

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One day during lunch, Rolling Thunder explained the Indian's view of

chaos through ecological imbalance.

“When you have pollution in one place, it spreads all over. It spreads just

as arthritis or cancer spreads in the body. The earth is sick now because

the earth is being mistreated, and some of the problems that may occur,

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some of the natural disasters that might happen in the near future are only

the natural readjustments that have to take place to throw off sickness. A

lot of things are on this land that don't belong here. They're foreign objects

like viruses or germs. Now, we may not recognize the fact when it happens,

but a lot of the things that are going to happen in the future will really be the

earth's attempt to throw off some of these sicknesses. This is really going

to be like fever or like vomiting, what you might call a physiological

adjustment.

“It's very important for people to realize this. The Earth is a living

organism, the body of a higher individual who has a will and wants to be

well, who is at times less healthy or more healthy, physically and mentally.

People should treat their own bodies with respect. It's the same thing with

the earth. Too many people don't know that when they harm the earth they

harm themselves, nor do they realize that when they harm themselves they

harm the Earth...

“It's not very easy for you people to understand these things because

understanding is not knowing the kind of facts that your books and teachers

talk about. I can tell you that understanding begins with love and respect. It begins with respect for the Great Spirit, and the Great Spirit is

the life that is in all things — all the creatures and the plants and even the

rocks and the minerals. All things — and I mean all things — have their

own will and their own way, their own purpose; this is what is to be

respected.

“Such respect is not a feeling or an attitude only. It's a way of life. Such

respect means that we never stop realizing and never neglect to carry out

our obligation to ourselves and our environment.”209

Rolling Thunder offers a philosophical or religious basis for contemporary

ecological thought. His view is fundamental to understanding Native

American belief systems. Certainly, there are sound scientific reasons

supporting the various ecology movements, and for scientific minds that

may be enough. However, integrating both views may ultimately prove

more reliable and productive than choosing one or the other.

LAME DEER

he Ghost Dance prophecy was not buried at Wounded Knee. The

hippies, with their long hair and beads, the ecology, back-to-the-

earth, and the New Age movements among the whites, are all, according to

believers, evidence of the fulfillment of the prophecy.

TLame Deer, a 20th century shaman among the Sioux, had this vision of

America's future. “Listen,” he said, “I saw this in my mind not long ago: in

my vision the electric light will stop sometime. It is used too much for TV

and going to the moon. The day is coming when nature will stop the

electricity. Police without flashlights, beer getting hot in the refrigerators,

planes dropping from the sky, even the President can't call up somebody

on the phone. A young man will come, or men, who'll know how to shut off

all electricity. It will be painful, like giving birth. Rapings in the dark, winos

breaking into the liquor stores, a lot of destruction. People are being too

smart, too clever; the machine stops and they are helpless, because they

have forgotten how to make do without the machine. There is a Light Man

coming, bringing a new light. It will happen before this century is over. The

man who has this power will do good things too — stop all atomic power,

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stop wars, just by shutting the white electro-power off. I hope to see this,

but then I'm also afraid. What will be, will be.

“I am trying to bring the ghost dance back,” Lame Deer said, “but

interpret it in a new way. I think it has been misunderstood, but after eighty

years I believe that more and more people are sensing what we meant

when we prayed for a new earth and that now, not only the Indians, but

everybody has become an endangered species. So let the Indians help you

bring on a new earth without pollution or war. Let's roll up the world. It

needs it.”

SUN BEAR

As recently as 1979 we were offered another vision, this time from Sun

Bear of the Bear Tribe Medicine Society. In the Native American earth

awareness magazine, Many Smokes, Sun Bear wrote: “I saw people living

together in groups sharing and helping each other, Indian and non-Indian

alike. I saw the Earth Mother being healed as people began to show real

love for the land. But first I saw whole cities become desolate because

there was no way left for people to support themselves. I wondered at this

when this nation seemed to be all-powerful. Then I saw the vision of the

great drought years, a time when the Earth Mother would withhold all

increase...

“I saw camps of people around natural water, such as rivers, creeks, and

springs, working hard to produce their food, but thankful to be alive, for only

here and there were small bands of people alive, and they were thankful to

the Great Spirit that they were. When people came together they embraced

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with love, even those who were strangers before that moment, because

they knew.

“There were only a few people surviving these changes. I've seen major

destruction, and people fleeing great cities, and other people dying from

pollution, and cities abandoned, and I wondered how, until these last few

years when I see California and other places which no longer have the

water, electricity, or natural gases to care for their cities.

“Then I understood what I saw before. We were told that our people

would lay as if dead in the dust, and then we would rise up on the land

again. We were told that the sons and daughters of the possessors of our

land would come to us and accept our ways, and that we would live

together as one people sharing the land and sowing love and understanding for each other.”

CONCLUSION

ritten in the 1970s, the visions of Lame Deer and Sun Bear seem

to be a logical extension of current events. After all, even

prophecies conform to the laws of cause and effect. The difference

between the prophet and the scientist is that the scientist relies on the

process of deduction, while the prophet simply dreams. The scientist

functions out of the conscious mind, the prophet from the unconscious.

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There are two concepts common to all the prophecies presented here.

One speaks of a change of worlds, another of the importance of American

Indian traditions, particularly their reverence for Mother Earth. The old ways

of the Native Americans cannot answer all of the dilemmas we face now

and tomorrow. But, our present way of life is dysfunctional and outmoded.

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Choosing one or the other does not bring us into the new earth cycle

envisioned by the prophets. Accepting certain Indian traditions doesn't

mean rejecting all things from the white world. Each way can stand side-by-

side like monumental pillars forming a gateway between which the path of

the new way leads into the future.

Native traditions are rooted in magic, myth and metaphor; Western

traditions, in science, history and fact. For the first time in human history

both are accessible. In a very real sense these differing world views are like

the two hemispheres of the brain: the intuitive right and the reasoning left.

The synergistic potential of incorporating native and Western thought is an

exciting and difficult prospect. But in a world that is long on problems and

short on alternatives, this notion should be considered.

For example, take the concept of time. As mentioned earlier, the native

view is circular, the Western is linear. In fact, Western linear time actually

stands on end, the past is at the bottom, the new and improved present in

at the top. That's called progress. Now, when you combine the two

concepts the result is a spiral. It is a different image retaining the qualities

of both, but its implications are deeper and richer.

For many, changing lifestyles and modifying world views have a quality

about them akin to dying. For, indeed, such changes mean the end of the

familiar world; but death isn't necessary. Imagine a caterpillar. It lives its life

voraciously eating leaves until one day through some mysterious impulse it

wraps itself in a cocoon and emerges some time later as a butterfly. It no

longer creeps along on branches eating leaves, but takes wing and flies

from flower to flower sipping nectar. The caterpillar didn't die, it transformed

itself.213

Human history is a story of transformation. We change our physical world

through technology and our metaphysical world through religion. Many of

our present difficulties arise out of the fact that our physical world is shifting

faster than our ability to assimilate the changes. Concurrently, our spiritual

life has atrophied from inattention. Our bodies and our spirits are off

balance and out of sync. This results in feelings of confusion, impotence

and stress. Anything we do under these conditions will be less than

optimum. For our own wellbeing we must transform ourselves, and remake

our world.

Every place on earth, like every person, has a distinct character. Perhaps

it is time to listen to the spiritual elders of this continent when they implore

us to honor Mother Earth. Perhaps, with Western ingenuity and native

wisdom we can cross the threshold into a new earth.

For more on the outlook for the future see ECLIPSE: The Twilight of the

Gods.

For more on the Native American outlook see: THE HARMONIC

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Calling Great Spirit

(Calling God)

by Chief Noble Red Man (Mathew King)

I'm an Indian. I'm one of God's children.

It's time Indians tell the world what we know . . . about Nature and about

God. So I'm going to tell what I know and who I am. You better listen.

You've got a lot to learn.

I'm a full-blood Indian from the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. My

Indian name is Noble Red Man. That was my grandfather's name. White

Man mistranslated his name as "King," so they call me Mathew King. But

my real name, my Lakota name, is Noble Red Man.

I speak for the Lakota people. You call us "Sioux." But that's White Man's

name for us.

Our real name is "Lakota." That means "People together," or "Allies."

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That's what we call ourselves.

And that's what God calls us.

Call me a chief of the Lakota. I'm a speaker for the chiefs. I say what I have

to say. That's my duty. If I don't say it, who's going to say it for me?

I'm a prophet of the Indian people. I can see what's coming. I prophesy

what's going to happen. I walk with the Great Spirit, with God. Wakan-

Tanka, that's what we call him in Lakota. I talk to Him. The Great Spirit

guides me in my life.

Sometimes He comes to me and tells me what to say. Other times I just

speak for myself, for Mathew King.

THE GREAT MYSTERIOUS

You can call Wakan-Tanka by any name you like. In English I call Him God

or the Great Spirit.

He's the Great Mystery, the Great Mysterious. That's what Wakan-Tanka

really means ・the Great Mysterious.

You can't define Him. He's not actually a "He" or a "She," a "Him" or a

"Her." We have to use those kinds of words because you can't just say "It."

God's never an "It."

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So call Wakan-Tanka whatever you like. Just be sure to call Him.

He wants to talk to you.

TALKING TO GOD

When we want wisdom we go up on the hill and talk to God. Four days and

four nights, without food and water. Yes, you can talk to God up on a hill by

yourself. You can say anything you want. Nobody's there to listen to you.

That's between you and God and nobody else.

It's a great feeling to be talking to God. I know. I did it way up on the

mountain. The wind was blowing. It was dark. It was cold. And I stood there

and I talked to God.

LISTENING TO GOD

When I go up on the hill to pray I don't just talk to God. I try to get the

talking over quick. Mostly I'm listening.

Listening to God — that's praying, too.

You've got to listen. God's talking to you right now. He's telling you all the

words you've got to speak and all the things you've got to do in this life. If

you don't listen, you don't hear what God's saying, and then you don't know

what God wants you to say and do.

So that's how you pray to God.217

You listen.

PRAYER

I pray, pray, and pray before I go to bed. Every time I wake in the middle of

the night I pray to God. I thank Him for the life He gives me. I ask Him for

understanding. During the day there's things I have to do. People come to

me, they ask me to go out and talk. I do it when I can. Otherwise I like to

stay home and study, pray, and clean my Peace Pipe.

Maybe some think I should be doing something else. But God knows I'm

doing the right thing.

There's only one time to pray, and that's now. There's no better time to pray

than now. Now is the only time you need to pray. You can't pray any other

time than right now!

VISIONS, DREAMS, AND MIRACLES

We live by visions. We live by dreams. We live by miracles. Miracles come

to us in our everyday lives, in our ceremonies, in our prayers.Every day is a

miracle to us.

Many times I've seen the eagle come out of the empty sky and circle over

our heads when we blow the eagle-bone whistle. The eagle is the witness

of the Great Spirit, the eyes of God.218

Once I had an eagle dream. I left my bed and flew with the eagle out below

the sun and above the clouds. After we circled around up there ten times, I

flew back down to my bed. The eagle came down with me and flew around

my head four times, then flew away.

Now, whenever the eagle joins us in our ceremony, I always say a friendly

hello to him.

He remembers me, and I remember him.

We keep an eye out for each other.

The eagle's my symbol. In our Way, you always have a symbol. That's your

power. It reminds you of God. It reminds you to do good.

Some missionaries came to one of our ceremonies. They watched us while

we danced. I told them, "Everybody, look up in the sky. See, the eagle's

come to join us!"

The eagle came over and flew right down into our ceremony. He stood

there on one foot, with one leg up in the air. He carried two feathers in his

claw and he put them on his head like a crown. Then he started dancing.

We danced with him.

We all cried to see the eagle dance. Even the missionaries cried. "We can't

believe it!" they said. "It can't be happening!"

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But it happened.

God danced with us!

I've seen the spirits of our ancestors come join us when we sing the spirit-

songs. They sing with us all night. They take our hands and dance with us

until they fade away with the morning.

I've sat down with the buffalo and they don't bother me. They know I'm an

Indian. They nurse their calves beside me and let me be. Any white man try

that and the only miracle'd be if he got out of there alive.

I've gone up on the mountain praying for a vision and talked to Crazy

Horse. I've talked to Red Cloud and Noble Red Man. They teach me things

the living have forgot, things the White Man can never know or understand.

GOD'S INSTRUCTIONS

White Man came to this country and forgot his original Instructions. We

Indians have never forgotten our Instructions.

God gives His Instructions to every creature, according to His plan for the

world. He gave His Instructions to all the things of Nature. The pine tree

and the birch tree, they still follow their Instructions and do their duty in

God's world. The flowers, even the littlest flower, they bloom and they pass

away according to His Instructions. The birds, even the smallest bird, they

live and they fly and they sing according to His Instructions.220

Should human beings be any different?

RESPECT

Our Instructions are very simple ・to respect the Earth and each other, to

respect life itself. That's our first Commandment, the first line of our Gospel.

Respect is our Law ・respect for God's Creation, for all the living beings of

this Earth, for our mother the Earth herself.

We can't harm the Earth or the water because we respect their place in the

world. We could never kill all the buffalo because that shows no respect for

why the buffalo are here.

You need to respect the animal you kill. It's following God's Instructions.

You must respect other people's dreams. Respect their dreams and they'll

respect your dreams.

We need to have respect even for those not yet born, for the generations to

come. They have their rights, too. We must respect them.

That is our religion and our Law. That is our Way. Those are our

Instructions.

We Indians haven't forgotten them and we never will.

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GOODNESS

Goodness is the natural state of this world. The world is good! Even when it

seems evil, it's good. There's only goodness in God. And that same

goodness is in us all. You can feel it in yourself. You know when you feel

good inside.

Yes, you're God's child, too. You are good. You are sacred. Respect

yourself. Love the goodness in yourself.

Then, put that goodness into the world. That's everybody's Instructions.

God made you so you feel good when you do right. Watch when you feel

good and follow that good feeling. The good feeling comes from God.

When you feel good, God feels good, too. God and you feel good together.

EVERYONE IS SACRED

Everyone is sacred. You're sacred and I'm sacred. Every time you blink

your eye, or I blink my eye, God blinks His eye. God sees through your

eyes and my eyes.

We are sacred.

GOD'S MERCY

God shows His mercy every day. Whether you're wrong or whether you're

right, He still loves you. He loves what He has created.

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SHARING

We Lakota people have our giveaways. When something important

happens we celebrate by sharing what we have. There's nothing we like

more than to give gifts to others, to share with others. Even the poorest of

us share what we have.

We are a sharing people.

The more you share the more you're given to share. God gives you more of

his goodness to share with others. When you share with others you share

with God.

God loves a sharer.

GOD MADE EVERYTHING SO SIMPLE

God made everything so simple. Our lives are very simple. We do what we

please. The only law we obey is the natural Law, God's Law. We abide only

by that.

We don't need your church. We have the Black Hills for our church. And we

don't need your Bible. We have the wind and the rain and the stars for our

Bible. The world is an open Bible for us. We've studied it for millions of

years.

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We've learned that God rules the Universe and that everything God made

is living. Even the rocks are alive. When we use them in our sweat

ceremony we talk to them . . . and they talk back to us.

GOD'S TABERNACLE

The Universe is the tabernacle of God. When the wind blows, that's the

breath of God.

When you or I breathe, that's also the breath of God.

God gave us peace. Go up on a hill early tomorrow morning and look out

into the valley. See how peaceful it is. Everything's quiet. All you hear is

birds singing, praising God.

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