Indigenous Written Messages

May 17, 2010

A Great Urgency ~ Chief Arvol Looking Horse

A letter from Chief Arvol Looking Horse

Friday at 9:30pm

A letter from Chief Arvol Looking Horse

A Great Urgency

To All World Religious and Spiritual Leaders:

My Relatives,

Time has come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I ask you this from the bottom of my heart, to come together from the Spirit of your Nations in prayer.

We, from the heart of Turtle Island, have a great message for the World; we are guided to speak from all the White Animals showing their sacred color, which have been signs for us to pray for the sacred life of all things.

As I am sending this message to you, many Animal Nations are being threatened, those that swim, those that crawl, those that fly, and the plant Nations, eventually all will be affect from the oil disaster in the Gulf.

The dangers we are faced with at this time are not of spirit. The catastrophe that has happened with the oil spill which looks like the bleeding of Grandmother Earth, is made by human mistakes, mistakes that we cannot afford to continue to make.

I ask, as Spiritual Leaders, that we join together, united in prayer with the whole of our Global Communities. My concern is these serious issues will continue to worsen, as a domino effect that our Ancestors have warned us of in their Prophecies.

I know in my heart there are millions of people that feel our united prayers for the sake of our Grandmother Earth are long overdue. I believe we as Spiritual people must gather ourselves and focus our thoughts and prayers to allow the healing of the many wounds that have been inflicted on the Earth. As we honor the Cycle of Life, let us call for Prayer circles globally to assist in healing Grandmother Earth (our Unc’I Maka). (Read more…)

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January 11, 2010

GIFTS WE SQUANDER ~ Edna Gordon, Seneca

GIFTS WE SQUANDER

by Edna Gordon, Hawk Elder, Seneca Nation

If the eyes were created to see,
Why are we blind to Creation’s wonders?

If the ears were created to hear,
Why are we deaf to Nature’s sounds
or to the voice of a brother in distress?

If the hands were created to be useful,
Why do we tolerate idleness? (Read more…)

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November 11, 2009

Reflections & Understandings ~ Lorraine Mafi-Williams

Reflections and understandings of Alinta, Woman of the Fire also called Lorraine Mafi-Willaims, as she told them to Steven McFadden and shared in his book ANCIENT VOICES CURRENT AFFAIRS offers just a glimpse into the vast depth of Aboriginal Wisdom. Alinta was delgated a liasion officer of Aunt Millie Boyd of the Githrabaul Clan, Bundjalung Tribe, of the north eastern coastal area of New South Whales, Austraila.

“I was born beside a freshwater spring on the out skirts of Purfleet Mission at Taree. It was on the eighth of August 1940, at dawn. They tell me I was the last baby to be born in the traditional way. My mother was accompanied by her aunt and the midwife. That day, a white crane came to feed in the water nearby. The old women said this was a good omen.

My mother was a traditional medicine woman and healer and my father was a linguist. His job was to teach and pass on the many dialects associated with the north coast tribes of New South Wales. He was also an initiated man, having learned the rules and lore of his tribe, the Bundjalung of Lismore. My mother was a Thungutti woman, whose ancestors originated west of the Blue Mountains. (Read more…)

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November 9, 2009

The Red Road Today ~ Floyd Hand

The Red Road Today from Learning Journey on the Red Road

by Floyd Hand, Spiritual Interperter, Oglala Lakota

You know, I’ve been observing the schools and I’ve been observing people who are hurting – people who are spiritually bankrupt – and I think we’re headed right back to where we were twenty five years ago. Racism is starting to develop again. An altogether different generation is coming out on this Red Road – people who are trying to apply the philosophy of Christian beliefs to this Native way. But in my heart, I strongly feel that it’s not going to work. They’re confusing their everyday lives with the sincerity of this road. I see people wanting to take things. They want to learn overnight. It hurts me because it took me about forty years to attain the level I’m at today. And it hurts to see these things being desecrated.
People come to my home and demand to know things about my way of life. They come and they say they want power. I tell them “You are your own power. You have to understand yourself.” And they get very angry. It is because the Indian people have always been looked down upon. To this day, society is trained that way. People all over the world do not yet understand the Native way. Yet they want it. But when they find out that there is some grunt work involved – like learning the spiritual laws of the sweat lodge as a firekeeper – they get discouraged and angry.
This is why a lot of us spiritual interpreters get old, hurt and die – because, when we were young we were strong, so we thought we could handle everything. But we get beaten down. We get tired. When you use up these spiritual interpreters, where else are you going to get somebody to help? Where else are you going to get the teachings? Instead of doing all the listening, pack up and go learn the grunt work. Learn how crawl. Learn how to build a fire. Learn how do all of this so that you gain the valuable experience to on pass to your neighbor. Don’t take it home and keep it to yourself. This is what’s killing us.

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November 8, 2009

Nowadays Human Beings ~ Edna Gordon, Hawk Elder, Seneca

Grandmother Edna Gordon, Hawk Elder, Seneca Wisdomkeeper,
Cattaraugus Reservation, NY

NOWADAYS HUMAN BEINGS have lost touch with who we are, the children of this Mother Earth. We’ve lost touch with Creation itself. We see only our own little selfish tiny world. But we have to teach our children more than just about this little world of our own. We have to teach Creation itself to the children, show’m how they can find the whole of Creation in every leaf, in every flower, in every hawk that flies over their head with a Message form the Creator. We have to lead them into true wonder and true thankfulness for the Great Mystery of Creation, which we’re so lucky and privileged to be part of.

TAKE ADVANTAGE of this Life and the World you’ve been given. People grumble over the little things and forget all about Creation and the mysterious fact that here we are right in the middle of it! Now explain THAT to me! You can’t! It’s a Mystery, the greatest Mystery of all. The scientists, the astronomers, they’ll never find it. Never ever! That’s just the Way it is.

AND EVERYTHING about that Mystery is holy, sacred, wonderful, even if we don’t notice it and grumble on about some little thing in our own selfish little life. It’s only when you’re selfish that Life seems little. If you’re not selfish and you know how to share everything, you’ll see how big Life can be. Life IS Creation. Life IS the World, the whole World, not just out little part of it. (Read more…)

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