Manataka American Indian Council Volume XI Issue 02 FEBRUARY 2007

Manataka - Preserving The Past Today For Tomorrow
63 printed pages in this issue
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Feature Stories:
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Grandmother Waynonaha Speaks: Grandmother Gram Selma Speaks: Grandmother Magdala Speaks: |
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Grandfather Hawk Speaks: Grandfather Bennie LeBeau Speaks: |
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| Healing Prayer Basket: | ||
| Health Watch: | ||
| Hill & Holler: | ||
| History: | ||
| Inspirational Thoughts:: | ||
| Legends of Old: | Crow Indian Water-Medicine - Blackfoot | |
| Letters to the Editor: | Eagle Feathers, Bear Butte, Disenrollment | |
| Manataka Business: | ||
| Mother Earth Watch: | ||
| Poetry Circle: | ||
| Politics: | ||
| Religion: | Earthworks in Peru | |
| Sacred Site Watch: | ||
| Upcoming Events: | ||
| Website Updates: | ||
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"Native Americans are essentially calling for righteousness. By this they mean a shared ideology developed by all people using their purest and most unselfish minds."
-Lorraine Canoe/Tom Porter, Mohawk
The Native way is to first focus on decisions that will be good for the people and then for yourself. Righteousness means "to think right." Our way is to consider the good of all first. This helps our minds to be unselfish and pure. This is a spiritual way. This can be very hard to do because the world we live in says to take care of yourself first. A man of God cannot be taken advantage of unless it is the will of the Creator. The Creator really controls everything. To have a good future, the people must gather in a circle and pray for the highest good for the people.
Great Mystery,
today let me love instead of being loved.
Let me be giving instead of receiving.
Show me the advantages of having a giving heart.
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Planting Seeds and Relating to our Ancient Indian Traditions.
From the book Anastasia - Book 1 of The Ringing Cedars Series
by Author Vladimir Megre
Excerpts by Bill Silver Wolf Marder in discussions with White Crow and Susan Ambrose
"The force is with those who bless their genes!"
In order for the seed of a cucumber, tomato or any other plant grown in one's plot to have such information, the following steps are necessary:
Before planting, put into your mouth one or more little seeds, hold them in your mouth, under the tongue, for at least nine minutes.
Then place the seed between the palms of your hands and hold it there for about thirty seconds. During this time it is important that you be standing barefoot on the spot of earth where you will later be planting it. (Hint from DW here: Your electric grounding is an access or phase lock to fracaity -- the point of leverage from which you 'call the force' of your DNA.)
Open your hands, and carefully raise the seed which you are holding to your mouth. Then blow on it lightly, warming it with your breath, and the wee little seed will know everything that is within you.
Then you need to hold it with your hands open another thirty seconds, presenting the seed to the celestial bodies. And the seed will determine the moment of its awakening. The planets will all help it! And will give the sprouts the light they need to produce fruit especially for you. (The capacitive implosive physics which is the real gravity of astrology - reaches charge information climax in DNA- The planets dance [DNA like] recursion geometry - because gravity's orgasm is charge collapse by embedding...)
After that you may plant the seed in the ground. In no case should you water it right off, so as not to wash away the saliva which is now covering it, along with other information about you that the seed will take in. It can be watered three days after planting.
The planting must be done on days appropriate to each vegetable (people already know this, from the lunar calendar). In the absence of watering, a premature planting is not as harmful as an overdue planting.
It is not a good idea
to pull up all the weeds growing in the vicinity of the sprouts. At least
one of each kind should be left in place. The weeds can be cut back ." (Hint
from DW here- Genetic Diversity = Fractality = Implosion = Self Directing
Self Awareness)
According to Anastasia, the seed is thus able to take in information about
the person who plants it, and then during the cultivation of its fruit it
will pick up from the Universe and the Earth the optimum blend of energies
needed for a given Man. The weeds should not be disposed of completely, as
they have their own appointed function. Some weeds serve to protect the
plant from disease while others give supplemental information. During the
cultivation time it is vital to communicate with the plant - at least once
during its growth period. And it is desirable to approach it and touch
it during a full moon.
Anastasia maintains that the fruit cultivated from the seed in this manner,
and consumed by the individual who cultivated it, is capable not only of
curing him of any diseases of the flesh whatsoever but also of significantly
retarding the aging process, rescuing him from harmful habits, tremendously
increasing his mental abilities and giving him a sense of inner peace. The
fruit will have the most effective influence when consumed no later than
three days after harvesting.
The above-mentioned steps should be taken with a variety of plant species in
the garden-plot.
It is not necessary to plant a whole row of cucumbers, tomatoes etc., in
this manner; just a few plants each is enough.
The fruit of plants grown like this will be distinguished from other plants
of the same species not only in taste. If analyzed, it will be seen that
they are also distinct in terms of the substances they contain.
When planting the seedlings, it is important to soften the dirt in the
excavated hole with one's fingers and bare toes, and spit into the hole.
Responding to my question, "Why the feet?", Anastasia explained that through
perspiration from one's feet come substances containing information about
bodily diseases. This information is taken in by the seedlings. They
transmit it to the fruit, which will thus be enabled to counteract diseases.
Anastasia recommended walking around the plot barefoot from time to time.
For Love or Money
By Gayle Texas Wind Sexauer

Not too long ago Creator told me I would conduct a ceremony concerning money. The first thing that He told me was I would be burning a bill in front of a group of people and that it would cause strong reactions among those observing the act. It was not something that I was to do right away; it would take place at some point down the road. My part was to be vigilant and aware of everything that was taking place around me concerning the subject and be ready when He gave permission to proceed.
A couple of months went by as He revealed situations in my life and those around me that had to do with the giving and receiving of money. Whenever the topic came to the forefront, I went to Him and asked for understanding of what I was observing in others and myself. Currency and the flow of it became my focus since I had been prepared beforehand to see it in a different light.
Money is merely a tool for trade yet it has become a sign of worth in this world, self worth, and the worthiness of others. Often without realizing it, we equate a person’s financial status with their standing as a human being. Instead of remembering that Creator and the state of our Soul has nothing to do with treasures stored up on earth, we judge people and ourselves on the basis of what we have to show for our very existence.
We
allow the rise and fall of our bank accounts to send us into a tailspin that
saps the joy and peace from our lives. At any given moment, we are either
comforted or driven to despair over how much money we have on hand. Worry over
what we believe we do or do not have has become the curse of Humanity, causing
stress that leads to illness and broken relationships. We expend more energy in
the area of financial stability than we do to our standing strong on the
promises of Creator that He will provide for us in all things and in all ways.
Money is not the root of all evil. Our attachment to it brings about our downfall. Just as with any other tool, it can be used to help or to harm. When we treat others harshly, basing our feelings and decisions on personal gain or loss, an idol takes precedence over Creator’s Will for our lives.
The opportunity for conducting the ceremony Creator had described to me months before came on the last day of a Women’s Healing Retreat I was attending. As I rose from bed that morning, I was told that I was to burn the twenty-dollar bill that I had in my wallet. I would have been more comfortable with burning a lesser amount; but Creator knew the impact this particular denomination would have on those who observed my actions that morning.
HomeSick?
By Lauren Liori Lea Zack
Is your home making you sick? You may have multiple chemical sensitivity. 15% of the US population has sensitivity to chemicals commonly found in household products. Many of those with MCS are thrown into poverty and homelessness, unable to find housing that does not make them sick.
From: Homesick, a Video About Living With Multiple Chemical Sensitivities:
Coal miners used to send canaries into the mines
ahead of them to check the level of lethal gases. If the canaries died, the
gasses had reached deadly levels. If they lived, it was safe to mine…
Today, millions of people are made sick from the toxicity of their everyday
environments. These “human canaries” suffer from a condition called
Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS).
This condition overlaps with Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, Sick Building
and Gulf War Syndromes. There is no known cure for MCS.
15% of the US population has "an increased allergic sensitivity to chemicals
commonly found in household products.” (Estimate: The National Academy of
Sciences)
"The population that is allergic to
chemicals will grow to 60% by 2020.” (Business Week)
Homesick: Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
is an hour long video documentary produced and written by Susan Abod that is
now in the process of completion. In Homesick, Susan goes on the road to
find out how other people around the country are coping with MCS and dealing
with the difficult problem of finding safe housing. She visits their homes
and witnesses their daily struggles. They come from all walks of life and
live in diverse dwellings that include tents, a house on stilts and a
teepee.
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Spirit Keepers Messages
I prayed for the wisdom to know what would help the most. I saw two "Spirit Guides" as I prayed. The first who came to me was standing tall. He held a prayer stick from which hung the feathers of "Hawk" and "Owl". He did not speak to me. He pointed his prayer stick to the direction of the wind and I looked into the wind and saw many of the people who walk the Earth today.
They were standing in a muddy place. They were angry at me for sharing the way of the red path. They said to me that I would be a traitor, if I offer words to help any others. The "Spirit Helper" with the prayer stick looked at me, his hard face softened and he turned away. Another Spirit Helper came to me, with Deer skin over his head, the Spirit Helper drew a large medicine wheel on the ground in front of me. One side pointed to each spirit of the wind and to each element of the Earth.
The Spirit Helper stood in it and walked around slowly, and stopped in each direction and spoke.... In the first direction the Spirit Helper said, truth is the truth, there is nothing else. Truth is not owned by any people. In the second direction, the Spirit Helper said, all people have their own sacred ways to dance, their faith, do not change them or give them your ways. Let each find their own dance for the one truth. In the third direction the Spirit Helper said, what makes people strong is their heart? A painful heart is not strong. A strong heart is not selfish. In the fourth direction, the Spirit Helper said, each must protect their sacred ways, yet each must share the truth that makes those ways sacred.
Then the Spirit Helper stepped into the center of the circle, on good ground, there stood the spirits of all the ancestors. The Spirit Helper with the prayer stick stood there as well. but did not speak, just pointed the prayer stick to the Ancestor Spirits.
The Spirit Helper in the circle said, respect your ancestors, and
hold what is sacred, close to your heart. In this way you will
respect your Ancestors. Respect your Creator, and speak the truth to
those who wish to hear it. In this way you will respect the Earth.
The vision was suddenly
gone. I sat with the fire, looking where the Spirit Helpers had
been, I started feeling Creator speak to me, be a messenger not the
message. I offer you this truth that I know.
You may take it as a gift if you wish. As I watched the fire dance with smoke, I thought what many people think, that to be spiritual, means you have to be sitting some place in a higher state, praying to Creator. You can be conscious of yourself and spirit no matter what you are doing. There is spirit in everything. There is spirit in rock, in roads, in buildings. You name an object and there is spirit in it. There is even spirit in things that are made by man from many other sources of material. All objects have still been made of things from the Earth, so all things have spirits in them.
When you are conscious of yourself, then you can look around and be
aware of the spirit in everything around you. Some think that to be
spiritual means just to be aware of themselves and their own spirit.
You must be aware of everything, because everything has spirit.
We are all part of one spirit. If you focus too much on the part of
spirit that has your name on it, you will be missing something. You
might not even know that you are missing it until it is too late and
you don't have time to find it. The next thing about being
spiritual does not mean owning the truth. No one can own truth, it
can only be shared, no one can own it.
Like love means nothing, unless there is something or someone you can give it to. To know the truth of the earth and keep it to yourself can never help others to learn and understand their place on the Earth Mother. To hold these truths from others will never grow the corn that we need to live and make the water flow that we need to survive. Honor all that the Creator has blessed us with now and forever.
It is through this sharing and love that we survive here as the care takers of this our Mother Earth. Many blessings in these time of change and challenges.
May your spirit know true peace and love.
Waynonaha
Submitted by Waynonaha, 2007 All Rights Reserved
No offense intended for any individuals or tribes.
A Indian man was telling his neighbor, "I just got a new hearing aid from the Indian Health Service.
But it
cost me four thousand dollars, but it's state of the art. It's perfect."
"Really," answered the neighbor. "What
kind is it?"
"Twelve thirty"

From Grandmother Selma
There are times that I am not at all sure what is going on in the world around me. I do not think that this is just from being older or of a different generation than the majority of folks that surround me. The world really is changing and
Whereas I would like to assume that change is always good and for the betterment of mankind in the long run there are times where I serious doubt that premise and even question who came up with that concept in the first place?
I am Native. My brain is half red and half white. My being is half red and half white. I am convinced that my heart and soul are red though, thru and thru, for they do not respond or feel or act in any manner other than what I term as " traditional".
It dawned on me the other day that we actually are amongst the one percent of people in this country that live on a dirt road !! Was not fully aware that only one percent of the roads in this country were still dirt! Got to thinking about that simple fact and came to some conclusions.
People still walk down our little road in the morning and evening for their exercise. They do so without fear of being run over or of being bothered by some ill meaning individual. The kids play in the road, ride their bikes, kick dirt at each other, play marbles in the dirt, run barefoot and catch craw dads in the ditch when it rains hard. You can see the birds take a sand dusting bath in the road and the rabbits crossing it from one pasture to another. The coons and their tracks, the deer and their tracks.......and the occasional bent fence line where they failed to jump quite high enough.....the gopher turtles scoot across the road leaving the tracks of their bellies.....even the little snakes leave a trail.
Yeah.........we have to deal with the dust booming toward our homes .....and the pot holes from the rain when we get major storms......we have to mow the grass along the fence line and cut the weeds from around the mailboxes......and watch out for who may have moved into your mailbox over nite !!! But.......that is part of what makes it so nice........and what makes our dirt road special........it has a life force all its own ! It is not controlled by humans.......is not shaped and contained by false boundaries.......it breathes.....it sighs.......it has the ability to grow things if it wants to........it is alive and a part of our world !!!
Years ago.........from one of the Seneca Elders that I respect so very much....I was introduced to a term that cracked me up at the time.........she referred to the white dominant society as " the afraid of dirts "..........over the years I have realized just how very true that statement was and still is ! Society wants to pave or permanence everything that may present even a trace of dust...dirt or grime !! Why pave parking lots ? Why pave the areas outside of a stadium ?
Or even a school ?
Okay...........we have concrete buildings everywhere........we have to deal with that...........but think about how much nicer it would be to pull up to a store or apt complex and get out on ground that was growing grass......trees.......alive with grasshoppers and butterflies.......birds and squirrels...etc ..........think about going to a football game where the parking lot was greener than the artificial turf in the stadium............think about going to the grocery store and walking across grass and the living earth that created the food inside that you are about to purchase !! You could actually thank Earth Mother as you walked in the door to select your choices of her bounty!
When we as a society separate ourselves and others from the source of our substance ........we become as false as the covering that society places over the ground !! The surface of Earth mother can not breathe under false coverings..... and the percentage of her that is covered with this sort of substance is increasing daily..........and then we wonder why the natural world is out of balance??!
In order to regain any type of balance in the world around us......we as individuals must balance ourselves ......deep within.........and refuse to allow external influences to throw us off our center balance point. Then and only then can we hope to restore balance to the world around us........little by little.....community by community.....area by area.......until it has obtained a momentum all it's own to continue to improve.
The beginning lies with each and all of us........find a dirt road........walk on it barefooted.........play with the sand with your toes and allow yourself to go back to what balance that simple dirt road represents. Our ancestors and the generations that walked before us lie in that sand.....and communicate with us thru our touching it...........but only at the level that we
as individuals are willing to allow it. Until next time..........play on a dirt road and understand why it brings such simple pleasure.
Hugs
Gram Selma
P. S.
I wish to add a thought and explanation to all that read this........I know proper grammer....I know correct composition and all the rules of commas.......paragraphs...etc. I choze years ago to write as I speak.......and therefore everything that I have published has been just that way.......with dots for pauses in thought ........and as though I was speaking to those who chose to read. I prefer it that way.
Submitted by Selma Palmer, 2007 All Rights Reserved
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Beautiful Sisters and Brothers all over the world,
We are back home, the journey has been so beautiful! for we have been in many places where the spirit is strong and the medicine was a beautiful gift to the people.
We have dance at the Serpent Mound where is the knowledge of the union of polarities, and the rainbows were everywhere! We have entered into the place where everything becomes one, the new world is in the heart of all beings.
As we began the ceremony in the feminine side of the mound, the mother showed us the place where everything becomes one, start with the self, and all the relations within the self, for this is the time to bring the integration of the self, for the many has been struggling with relationships because all this relations needs to be purify before enter into the world of oneness.
The new world is about relationships, the relationship with the nature, relatives, but the most important is the relationship with the self, indeed, it is through the self where the connection to the spirit resides, in the heart that is able to connect and create and re-create with the all.
As we dance on to the male side of the mound we carry within the heart all the relations, for the pipes were carrying the prayers and the white feathers were leading the dance, yes, the heart was in struggle sometimes, as the dance begin to happen, for the purification was taking place where we have all the rainbow medicine all the way, when we got there then the prayers were answered and the heart and the mind became one, for all was done as the spirit shows to us for it is indeed, the union of polarities the first step the the true human is finding within the self. Yes, the time of the searching had been ended, and give birth for the time of finding.
Full of rainbows we came back again to the place where the feminine side of the mound, for the snake has eaten the tale as the uroboros, the ancient teachings has been showing to us, for male-female energies dance together as one, for balance is indeed the ways of the spirit, all is beautiful!
Thank you sooo much, to my beautiful people in Indiana and Ohio...
I am you
Magdala
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Who are illegal immigrants??
By
David House, Star-Telegram Staff Writer,
Associated Press Archives
Whether illegal immigration issues stir brilliant debates or cries of fear and
intolerance, one historical fact is always overlooked: America's own holocaust,
carried out by (guess who?) illegal immigrants from (guess where?) Europe --
uninvited foreigners who came to these shores and took everything they could.
That's not getting much mainstream attention. I'm taking off my reader advocate
hat to offer some personal thoughts about this matter out of love for my mixed
Cherokee/Scots-Irish heritage.
Somehow the deaths of a guesstimated 11 million Native Americans at the hands of
attacking, manipulative immigrants during a 400-year span seems worth bearing in
mind as Americans respond to alarms about porous
borders, jeopardized healthcare and threats to justice and quality of life posed
by "illegals."
Americans can say, surely not with pride, that our country knows from centuries
of personal experience how unchecked immigration devastates life and why it's an
issue that deserves the best of our thinking and empathy.
Our history brims over with examples -- brutal, bloody instances of inhuman
immigrant actions that are far removed from the basic aspirations so often
associated these days with "illegals."
Most "illegals" might dream of a better life, but it's doubtful that, like the
earlier immigrants and the perpetual forces they
set into motion, they're plotting to seize others' property, kill babies and
earn bounties based on body parts brought back from raids.
Consider that, in the late 1630s, the British wiped out every man, woman
andchild of the powerful Pequot tribe of southern New England in retaliation
related to conflicts arising out of fur-trade struggles. A few years later,
Dutch authorities in charge of the settlement of "New Netherland" on the island
of Manhattan carried out unspeakable actions
against a local tribe they feared.
Russell Shorto's national bestseller, The Island at the Center of the World,
examines Dutch Manhattan and includes a pamphlet account of one nighttime raid
by Dutch soldiers against that local tribe: "[I]nfants were torn from
their mothers' breasts, and hacked to pieces in the presence of their parents."
More graphic detail is included, and as Shorto noted, the account probably
involved some exaggeration, but there's no reason to doubt that the bloody raid
occurred and that soldiers were as lavishly praised as documentation says.
Immigrant authorities were just beginning in their efforts to obliterate "the
savages," as American history chronicles. One tiny detail includes legislation
approved in Massachusetts and elsewhere in New England in the 1700s that
authorized bounty payment for scalps or heads of Indians, young and old.
READ MORE....
"FIGHTING TERRORISM SINCE 1492"
No offense intended for any individuals or tribes.
At one time in my life, I
thought I had a handle on the meaning of the word service."
"It's the act of doing things for other people."
Then I heard these terms which reference the word: SERVICE:
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Then I became confused about the word "service ." This is not what I
thought "service" meant.
So today, I overheard two farmers talking, and one of them said he had
hired a bull to "service " a few of his cows. BAM! It all came into
perspective. Now I understand what all those "service" agencies are doing to
us.
I hope you now are as enlightened as I am.
Remember The Small Things
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Remember the small things that color your life,
A rainbow, a flower, a star, or a kite.
These are the things that will follow your days,
Even as others disappear in a haze.
The laughter of your children will still ring so clear,
Even when music no longer you hear.
Everyone ages, that fact is quite clear,
Age can be cruel, age can bring fear.
But while others are stressing, over each ache or pain,
You'll be remembering the sweet smell of rain.
As you grow old, you remember much less
Of what's most important, that's the price of success.
But if you can put your success on a shelf,
And still roll in the grass, still be good to yourself,
Then aging will never bring physical pain,
And life will not steal what's left of your brain.
So remember one thing, a small thing inside,
Remember down deep that small child you hide.
Don't give up the giggle, the whisper, the cheer,
Don't give up the laughter or what you hold dear.
As another birthday passes from sight,
Remember the small things, which color your life.
© by Theresa Morehouse
Submitted by Sheri Awi Anida Waya Burnett
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