Post by blackcrowheart on Oct 13, 2006 11:06:55 GMT -5
Message from Chief Arvol Looking Horse.
Mitakuye (my relative),
I, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota
Nation, ask you to understand an Indigenous perspective on what has
happened in America, what we call "Turtle Island." My words seek to
unite the global community through a message from our sacred
ceremonies to unite spiritually, each in our own ways of beliefs in
the Creator.
We have been warned from Ancient Prophecies of these times we live
in today, but have also been given a very important message about a
solution to turn these terrible times around.
To understand the depth of this message you must recognize the
importance of Sacred Sites and realize the interconnectedness of
what is happening today, in reflection of the continued massacres
that are occurring on other lands and our own Americas.
I have been learning about these important issues since the age of
12, upon receiving the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle and its
teachings. Our people have striven to protect Sacred Sites from the
beginning of time. These places have been violated for centuries and
have brought us to the predicament that we are in at the global
level.
Look around you. Our Mother Earth is very ill from these violations,
and we are on the brink of destroying the possibility of a healthy
and nurturing survival for generations to come, our children's
children.
Our ancestors have been trying to protect our Sacred Site called the
Sacred Black Hills in South Dakota, "Heart of Everything That Is,"
from continued violations. Our ancestors never saw a satellite view
of this site, but now that those pictures are available, we see that
it is in the shape of a heart and, when fast-forwarded, it looks
like a heart pumping.
The Dine have been protecting Big Mountain, calling it the liver,
and we are suffering and going to suffer more from the extraction of
the coal from there and the poison processes used in doing so.
The Aborigines have warned of the contaminating effects of global
warming on the Coral Reefs, which they see as Mother Earth's blood
purifier.
The Indigenous people of the rainforest relay that the rainforest
are the lungs of the planet and need protection.
The Gwich'in Nation has had to face oil drilling in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, also known to the Gwich'in
as "Where life begins!"
The coastal plain is the birthplace of many life forms of the Animal
Nations. The death of these Animal Nations will destroy Indigenous
Nations in this territory.
As these destructive developments continue all over the world, we
will witness many more extinct Animal, Plant, and Human Nations,
because of mankind's misuse of power and their lack of understanding
of the "balance of life."
The Indigenous people warn that these destructive developments will
cause havoc globally. There are many, many more Indigenous
awarenesses and knowledge about Mother Earth's Sacred Sites, her
Chakras, connections to our spirit that will surely affect our
future generations.
There needs to be a fast move toward other forms of energy that are
safe for all Nations upon Mother Earth. We need to understand the
types of minds that are continuing to destroy the spirit of our
whole global community. Unless we do this, the powers of destruction
will overwhelm us. Our Ancestors foretold that water would someday
be for sale. Back then, this was hard to believe, since the water
was so plentiful, so pure, and so full of energy, nutrition, and
spirit.
Today we have to buy pure water, and even then the nutritional
minerals have been taken out; it's just empty liquid. Someday water
will be like gold, too expensive to afford.
Not everyone will have the right to drink safe water. We fail to
appreciate and honor our Sacred Sites, ripping out the minerals and
gifts that lay underneath them as if Mother Earth were simply a
resource, instead of the Source of Life itself.
Attacking Nations and having to utilize more resources to carry out
destruction in the name of peace is not the answer! We need to
understand how all these decisions affect the Global Nation; we will
not be immune to its repercussions. Allowing continual contamination
of our food and land is affecting the way we think.
A "disease of the mind" has set in world leaders and many members of
our global community, with their belief that a solution of
retaliation and destruction of peoples will bring Peace.
In our Prophecies it is told that we are now at the crossroads:
Either unite spiritually as a Global Nation, or be faced with chaos,
disasters, diseases, and tears from our relatives' eyes.
We are the only species that is destroying the Source of Life,
meaning Mother Earth, in the name of power, mineral resources, and
ownership of land, using chemicals and methods of warfare that are
doing irreversible damage, as Mother Earth is becoming tired and
cannot sustain any more impacts of war.
I ask you to join me on this endeavor. Our vision is for the Peoples
of all continents, regardless of their beliefs in the Creator, to
come together as one at their Sacred Sites to pray and meditate and
commune with one another, thus promoting an energy shift to heal our
Mother Earth and achieve a universal consciousness toward attaining
Peace.
As each day passes, I ask all Nations to begin a global effort, and
remember to give thanks for the Sacred Food that has been gifted to
us by our Mother Earth, so the nutritional energy of medicine can be
guided to heal our minds and spirits.
This new millennium will usher in an age of harmony or it will bring
the end of life as we know it. Starvation, war, and toxic waste have
been the hallmark of the Great Myth of Progress and Development that
ruled the last millennium.
To us, as caretakers of the heart of Mother Earth, falls the
responsibility of turning back the powers of destruction.You
yourself are the one who must decide.
You alone - and only you - can make this crucial choice, to walk in
honor or to dishonor your relatives. On your decision depends the
fate of the entire World.
Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally
decide the future of humankind.
Did you think the Creator would create unnecessary people in a time
of such terrible danger?
Know that you yourself are essential to this World. Believe that!
Understand both the blessing and the burden of that. You yourself
are desperately needed to save the soul of this World. Did you think
you were put here for something less? In a Sacred Hoop of Life,
there is no beginning and no ending!
Mitakuye (my relative),
I, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota
Nation, ask you to understand an Indigenous perspective on what has
happened in America, what we call "Turtle Island." My words seek to
unite the global community through a message from our sacred
ceremonies to unite spiritually, each in our own ways of beliefs in
the Creator.
We have been warned from Ancient Prophecies of these times we live
in today, but have also been given a very important message about a
solution to turn these terrible times around.
To understand the depth of this message you must recognize the
importance of Sacred Sites and realize the interconnectedness of
what is happening today, in reflection of the continued massacres
that are occurring on other lands and our own Americas.
I have been learning about these important issues since the age of
12, upon receiving the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle and its
teachings. Our people have striven to protect Sacred Sites from the
beginning of time. These places have been violated for centuries and
have brought us to the predicament that we are in at the global
level.
Look around you. Our Mother Earth is very ill from these violations,
and we are on the brink of destroying the possibility of a healthy
and nurturing survival for generations to come, our children's
children.
Our ancestors have been trying to protect our Sacred Site called the
Sacred Black Hills in South Dakota, "Heart of Everything That Is,"
from continued violations. Our ancestors never saw a satellite view
of this site, but now that those pictures are available, we see that
it is in the shape of a heart and, when fast-forwarded, it looks
like a heart pumping.
The Dine have been protecting Big Mountain, calling it the liver,
and we are suffering and going to suffer more from the extraction of
the coal from there and the poison processes used in doing so.
The Aborigines have warned of the contaminating effects of global
warming on the Coral Reefs, which they see as Mother Earth's blood
purifier.
The Indigenous people of the rainforest relay that the rainforest
are the lungs of the planet and need protection.
The Gwich'in Nation has had to face oil drilling in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, also known to the Gwich'in
as "Where life begins!"
The coastal plain is the birthplace of many life forms of the Animal
Nations. The death of these Animal Nations will destroy Indigenous
Nations in this territory.
As these destructive developments continue all over the world, we
will witness many more extinct Animal, Plant, and Human Nations,
because of mankind's misuse of power and their lack of understanding
of the "balance of life."
The Indigenous people warn that these destructive developments will
cause havoc globally. There are many, many more Indigenous
awarenesses and knowledge about Mother Earth's Sacred Sites, her
Chakras, connections to our spirit that will surely affect our
future generations.
There needs to be a fast move toward other forms of energy that are
safe for all Nations upon Mother Earth. We need to understand the
types of minds that are continuing to destroy the spirit of our
whole global community. Unless we do this, the powers of destruction
will overwhelm us. Our Ancestors foretold that water would someday
be for sale. Back then, this was hard to believe, since the water
was so plentiful, so pure, and so full of energy, nutrition, and
spirit.
Today we have to buy pure water, and even then the nutritional
minerals have been taken out; it's just empty liquid. Someday water
will be like gold, too expensive to afford.
Not everyone will have the right to drink safe water. We fail to
appreciate and honor our Sacred Sites, ripping out the minerals and
gifts that lay underneath them as if Mother Earth were simply a
resource, instead of the Source of Life itself.
Attacking Nations and having to utilize more resources to carry out
destruction in the name of peace is not the answer! We need to
understand how all these decisions affect the Global Nation; we will
not be immune to its repercussions. Allowing continual contamination
of our food and land is affecting the way we think.
A "disease of the mind" has set in world leaders and many members of
our global community, with their belief that a solution of
retaliation and destruction of peoples will bring Peace.
In our Prophecies it is told that we are now at the crossroads:
Either unite spiritually as a Global Nation, or be faced with chaos,
disasters, diseases, and tears from our relatives' eyes.
We are the only species that is destroying the Source of Life,
meaning Mother Earth, in the name of power, mineral resources, and
ownership of land, using chemicals and methods of warfare that are
doing irreversible damage, as Mother Earth is becoming tired and
cannot sustain any more impacts of war.
I ask you to join me on this endeavor. Our vision is for the Peoples
of all continents, regardless of their beliefs in the Creator, to
come together as one at their Sacred Sites to pray and meditate and
commune with one another, thus promoting an energy shift to heal our
Mother Earth and achieve a universal consciousness toward attaining
Peace.
As each day passes, I ask all Nations to begin a global effort, and
remember to give thanks for the Sacred Food that has been gifted to
us by our Mother Earth, so the nutritional energy of medicine can be
guided to heal our minds and spirits.
This new millennium will usher in an age of harmony or it will bring
the end of life as we know it. Starvation, war, and toxic waste have
been the hallmark of the Great Myth of Progress and Development that
ruled the last millennium.
To us, as caretakers of the heart of Mother Earth, falls the
responsibility of turning back the powers of destruction.You
yourself are the one who must decide.
You alone - and only you - can make this crucial choice, to walk in
honor or to dishonor your relatives. On your decision depends the
fate of the entire World.
Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally
decide the future of humankind.
Did you think the Creator would create unnecessary people in a time
of such terrible danger?
Know that you yourself are essential to this World. Believe that!
Understand both the blessing and the burden of that. You yourself
are desperately needed to save the soul of this World. Did you think
you were put here for something less? In a Sacred Hoop of Life,
there is no beginning and no ending!