Single copies are $1.00 to cover the cost of mailing. 10 booklets -
$5.00. 25 booklets $10.00 For higher quantities send us an email.
See related story below.
Allowing fulfillment of the Vision of Okipa. All people of
all races, men and women, are welcome to be a part of this new Okipa.
Ceremonial fire, "Vision of Okipa:, Talking Circle, Flute Music, Sweatlodge
Ceremonies, Pipe Ceremonies, Round Dance, Drumming. Hosted by Janet and
Cedric Red Feather, Mandan Nueta Waxikena. 952-217-4453
eaglesong7@yahoo.com
June 11, 2006
All Across Earth Mother
A World Day of Prayer, Invocation and Meditation An Invitation to Men and Women
of Goodwill. World Invocation Day is a world day of prayer and meditation
when men and women of every spiritual path join in a universal appeal to
divinity and use the Great Invocation. Together they focus the invocative demand
of humanity for the light, the love and the spiritual direction needed to build
a world of justice, unity and peace. Maggie
Erotokritou surya@spidernet.com.cy
http://www.lucistrust.org/
International
Indigenous Business and Entrepreneurship Conference
June
19 - 22, 2006,
Albuquerque,
NM USA
"Fostering
Indigenous Entrepreneurship"
http://iibec.mgt.unm.edu/
Manataka Summer Gathering
June 23 - 25
Gulpha Gorge
Campgrounds
Hot Springs
National Park, AR USA
manataka@sbcglobal.net
This is a
non-Manataka sponsored event to be attended by non-Elders of Manataka,
non-members, non-Indians and non-people. The Unknown Ceremonial Elders
will be on hand for the Flag Ceremony, the Fire Ceremony, the Pipe Ceremony, the
Making-A-Relative Ceremony, the Naming Ceremony, the Honoring Ceremony and the Blessing Ceremony. The Women's Lodge and the Medicine Tipi Lodge will be open. Drumming and
singing, trade blanket, games, crafting and many other non-events are not
sponsored. We invite everyone to not come and enjoy a non-gathering. Admission is
FREE. No money changing on sacred grounds. For more information go
to: Summer Gathering
The National Park
Service has decided not to allow Indian religious ceremonies, so we will not be
there except in peaceful spirit.
Great Inter-Tribal Gathering of the Nations
Intertribal Coalition to Defend Bear Butte
August 2006
Sturgis, South Dakota
Bear Butte is "Nowah'wus" to the Cheyenne Nation. It is "Mato
Paha" to the Lakota. Across the Great Plains over thirty
indigenous Nations acknowledge the sacredness of this Butte and
it's surrounding area. It is a mountain inhabited by spirits and
spiritual powers that are well known to our people. For this
reason Bear Butte is central to our ceremonial life as native
people of the Great Plains and is necessary for the continued
health and well being of our people. All life on Bear Butte must
be respected and defended. No people have a right to destroy or
disrespect our sacred mountain. Rally to bring tribes and
individuals together to defend Bear Butte. Contact information:
Debra White Plume, Director; 101 Lonesome Valley Rd., Manderson
S.D. 57756 605-455-2155 or Vic Camp, P.O. Box 95,
Manderson S. D. 57756, 605-455-1122
SEE MORE NON-POWWOW EVENTS HERE
2006 POWWOW NOW CALENDAR - LARGEST ON
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MANATAKA ELDERS INSTRUCT
CLERGY ON
AMERICAN INDIAN SPIRITUALITY
ATLANTA -- A delegation of elders paid what some
have described as an historic event to explain Native American spirituality to a
gathering of religious leaders here.
Elders from the Manataka American Indian Council of Hot Springs, Ark., gave 16
hours of intense presentations for the 3,500-member Association of Professional
Chaplains annual convention May 3-10.
Central to the presentations were handing out
3,000 copies of MAIC’s 16-page brochure titled “Native American Spirituality: An
Informational Guide for Health Care Providers, Hospital Staff and
Administrators, Chaplains, School Administrators, Funeral Directors and Others
Regarding Ceremonies, Rights and Obligations.”
“To our knowledge, nothing has been done like
this before. We are grateful that a national, global clergy organization has
for the first time opened its doors to American Indian spirituality,” said MAIC
Chairman David Quiet Wind Furr.
MAIC, a nonprofit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3),
cultural, educational and religious organization, was invited to the conference
to meet with Protestant, Catholic, Muslim, Buddhist and Jewish religious leaders
to formally recognize American Indian spiritual beliefs for the first time.
“It is our hope and prayer that this program will serve as a template for more
presentations to a broader audience of religious leaders, lay persons and the
public. The value and far-reaching social and religious effects of this project
are enormous,” Furr said.
In addition to the overview of traditional practices for religious and health
care providers, the MAIC representatives gave talks and demonstrations of Native
American culture and belief.
The delegation included Peter V. Catches, Jr. (Zintkala Oyate) Keeper of the
Spotted Eagle Way of Lakota medicine, MAIC Elder’s Council Chairman Rev. David
Quiet Wind Furr, MAIC Spiritual and Ceremonial Elder Jim PathFinder Ewing (Nvnehi
Awatisgi), Lee Standing Bear Moore, and Rev. Linda James.
The brochure was prompted by various incidents in which indigenous spiritual
elders were turned away from treating patients in hospitals and health-care
settings, most notably with the case of Baby Lupita Amador Nov. 1, 2003.
Despite prayers from across the United States and beyond for this 3-year-old
girl dying of cancer, a visiting Lakota holy man was barred by a home care nurse
who threatened the family with turning the child over to state welfare
authorities if “pagan rites” were administered.
“We wrote the brochure so that Native peoples would know their rights and so
that health care providers, physicians, hospitals, chaplains and others would
know that the First Amendment and specific federal laws guarantee free exercise
of religious and spiritual beliefs,” said Ewing.
“It is our hope that not only will there never be another incident of the type
that occurred with Baby Lupita but that every hospital and health care provider
in America will have a copy of this brochure,” Ewing added, noting that 10,000
copies have been printed and a CD and PowerPoint presentation is in the works.
According to Lee Standing Bear, the goal of the
seminar was to increase understanding and reduce stereotypical labels attached
to Indigenous spiritual beliefs.
"We encouraged participants to become advocates
of policy changes within their work places that would foster acceptance of
American Indian spiritual beliefs and increase actual participation in those
practices," said Bear.
"We achieved our goal at this historic meeting
to bridge the gap of understanding and
increase tolerance for American Indian spiritual beliefs. The reaction of
religious leaders was warm and accepting. We were impressed with the depth and
sincerity of the overall comments of participants," said Bear.
The MAIC committee responsible for organizing the event plans to create a CD
presentation and organize future seminars around the country that will
emphasizing American Indian spirituality. Committee members include
MAIC Elder’s Council Chairman Rev. David Quiet
Wind Furr, MAIC Spiritual and Ceremonial Elder Jim PathFinder Ewing (Nvnehi
Awatisgi), Lee Standing Bear Moore, Rev. Linda James, Annette Ewing, Bob
Donaldson and Aimee Dixon.
Copies of the brochure are available from MAIC,
www.manataka.org, or e-mail: Manataka@sbcglobal.net; or write: P.O. Box 476, Hot
Springs, AR 71902.
Inspiration
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us. ~ Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Do not pray for tasks equal to your power,
pray for power equal to your tasks.
Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle,
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Federal Bureaucrat Watch:
Should U.S. Government apologize
For American Indian Holocaust?
While the U.S. government is waging a war worldwide against
terrorists, it's own past history has to be dealt with
concerning it's actions against American Indians. Senator
Brownback of Kansas introduced a resolution (S.J.15) calling for
an apology from the federal government for it's long history of
official depredations and ill-conceived policies. Senator
Brownback's bill is backed up by congresswoman Jo Ann Davis of
Virginia with house resolution H. J. RES. 3.
In past years the U.S. Government has made it a point to
apologize for it's action against other groups of Americans like
African Americans and Japanese Americans. So one would think our
federal government would have no problem apologizing to American
Indians on paper. That's not true in this case.
Senator Brownback's apology resolution was before the U.S.
Senate in 2004 but no action was taken. Now, the Senate Indian
Affairs has passed the resolution out of committee and it will
be placed on the senate calendar for a vote by the full senate
in 2006. Maybe?
The American Indian community stands united with all Americans
in defense of our home land. American Indians have no problem
telling it like it is; they endured a holocaust. To them the
Indian holocaust started with an invasion committed by Columbus.
Without the support of Indian nations America, as we know it
today, may not have come about.
After European Americans won "their independence" the federal
government embarked on a path to take away Indians'
independence. The federal government set the tone that Indians
were a problem (enemy) to contend with for the new country. Over
time the federal government made hundreds of treaties with
Indian nations. Every one of them was broken by the federal
government.
Laws were passed by state and city governments against Indians.
Indians could only enter a town to trade their goods. Indians
had to use "Black Only" bathrooms; they had to be out of town by
sunset so there was no need to have the word Indian added.
Indians had to request permission of a state government to cross
it's border, with the understanding they were to do so only to
cross the state, not stay in it.
When one looks at the darkest history of U.S. policies against
Indians, we see that bounties were placed on Indian scalps, and
massacres were legal. Hanging Indians, for whatever reason, was
the norm. History note: President Lincoln oversaw the hanging of
38 Indian men. Three hundred three men were condemned to be
hung, but Lincoln was concerned with how this would play out
with European nations. This event, in Mankato, Minnesota,
December 16, 1862, was the largest mass hanging in America's
history. Now what was the U.S. Civil War about? http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/hanging.html
More of Americas dark history toward Indians played out at
Indian Boarding Schools for kids, (1878-1930s) Their job was to
kill the "Indian" in them. Forty percent of Native American
women accessing care through the U.S. Indian Health Service in
the 1970s were sterilized against their will. http://www.kporterfield.com/aicttw/articles/boardingschool.html
Maybe, just maybe, in the year 2006 the U.S. Government will
deal with the question of whether or not it should apologize to
the American Indian peoples. That's one hatchet the federal
government is finding hard to bury.
Mike Graham is a member of the Oklahoma Cherokee
Nation. Founded United Native America in 1993 to form a national
group to take action on American Indian issues. The groups main
issue is to bring about a federal national holiday for Native
Americans. Graham has been a guest speaker on national and
international radio talk shows and television programs. He has
traveled across the country discussing issues with Indian nation
leaders.
www.UnitedNativeAmerica.com
author's email
view author's other articles
from:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=4411
Fraud Watch:
Jimmy Boy Dial, Lumbee-Cheraw, Editor, The Spike
http://www.thespike.com/ recently sent us
this notice regarding the United Lumbee Nation of North Carolina and America,
Inc. The letter below is a "Scathing" report on the veracity of this
group. To read more of the same letter go to:
www.thespike.com/ULN/ULN.pdf
Eco-Notes:
American lawns generate massive amounts of
"green waste", waste water, require tons of herbicides, and cost the average
homeowner much money and time.
According
to the Audubon Society, the average American lawn generates almost 2 tons of
clippings a year, and requires 2½-4 times more water than shrubs or trees.
Homeowners use 50% more herbicides than they did 20 years ago, spend 40
hours per week mowing the lawn each year, and spend over $8 billion annually
on lawn care products and equipment. Read on for more eco-friendly ways to
maintain a lawn!
1) Use an electric or manual push mower to cut your grass.
Don’t use conventional gas-powered lawn mowers – they pollute air and
contribute to global warming. According to Sylvan Garden, "a typical 3.5
horsepower gas mower...can emit the same amount of
VOCs—key precursors to
smog—in an hour as a new car driven 340 miles. To top it off, lawn and
garden equipment users inadvertently add to the problem by spilling 17
million gallons of fuel each year while refilling their outdoor power
equipment. That’s more petroleum than spilled by the Exxon Valdez in the
Gulf of Alaska."
You can get a push mower from companies such as SunLawn Imports, Inc.
(970/493-5284, http://www.sunlawn.com/)
or Real Goods (800/919-2400
http://www.realgoods.com/shop/shop6.cfm/dp/601/ts/1063505).
Mowing with a push mower has an extra benefit--it's a good form of exercise!
2) Use hand tools or electric-powered tools such as hedge
trimmer or lawn edger to maintain your yard. Don't use gas-powered tools.
Use good old fashioned push broom and rakes for yard clean up, instead of
noise and air polluting leaf blowers. Don't use the hose to wash down your
driveway or sidewalk, as this is just a waste of water. On the coasts, the
leaf and grass clippings end up in the gutter and go down the storm drains,
out to the ocean.
3)
Diversify your lawn by planting a mix of different
grasses--that way, if one variety doesn't do well or dies, you still have
grass that can "take over" for the dead variety. If your lawn is hardy
enough, you won't need to use fertilizer. If you decide to use fertilizer,
use an organic one such as Neptune's Harvest Organic Fertilizer
(1-800-259-4769, or go to "Products" at http://www.neptunesharvest.com/.)
Read more about organic fertilizers at Sylvan Gardens
http://www.sylvangarden.com/resources.html .
4) Avoid toxic chemical pesticides and herbicides.
According to PANNA (http://www.panna.org/campaigns/pesticideFreeLawns.html )
"Every year U.S. homeowners apply at least 90 million
pounds of pesticides to their lawns and gardens...pesticides are applied
more intensively for lawn care than for farming! One recent survey
reported that when informed about the risks posed by lawn chemicals,
nearly 70% of homeowners indicate a preference for non-toxic
alternatives." Pull weeds by hand, and get information about
less-toxic weed control, lawn maintenance, and pest control from the
NCAP website:
http://www.pesticide.org/factsheets.html#alternatives
5) Conserve water. Water your lawn by hand with a hose
instead of using timed sprinklers. This avoids water-wastage from runnoff
and avoids watering your sidewalks and driveways. Water at night to avoid
evaporation of water before it has a chance to soak into the ground. Avoid
hoses made of PVC (polyvinyl chloride). PVC creates dioxins during
manufacture, the useful lifetime of the product, and upon disposal; dioxin
is a known carcinogen and hormone disruptor. Use hoses made of
rubber instead, such as
Craftsman, by Sears, or
Flexogen, by Gilmour.
If you do use sprinklers, reduce the time they are on to no more than 10
minutes. Turn off the automatic timer during the rainy season in your
area--there is nothing more wasteful than having the sprinklers running
during a rain! Or do what I do--don't water your lawn at all, and let Mother
Nature water it only during the rainy season, and let the lawn go brown or
die off-season.
6)
Save your grass clippings and use them as mulch for your yard.
Mulch is anything that is put on top of the soil around your trees and
shrubs to give nutrients back to the soil--grass clippings, tree bark,
leaves and other yard "green waste" as well as food waste from the kitchen
and even shredded newspapers! The mulch breaks down over time and adds
nutrients to the soil. Mulch also prevents soil erosion and hardpan (tough,
dried-out topsoil). Make a compost pile and feed it your grass clippings.
Read the Organic Trade Association's "Composting for
Everyone"
http://www.theorganicreport.com/pages/249_composting_for_everyone.cfm
to find out how to start your own compost pile using kitchen scraps
and green "waste" that would otherwise end up as landfill!
7) Research plants that are native to your area and
resistant to pests and drought, and replace some or all of your grass with
these low-maintenance alternatives. I've let the shrubs in front of the
house, on one side of the yard, grow down to the front sidewalk, eliminating
about 24 square feet of lawn. According to the Audubon society, "If each one
of us that takes care of our own lawn (49 million U.S. households), replaced
just ONE square yard (just 9 square feet) of our lawn with a non-turf
alternative, we would eliminate 1.2 MILLION hours of mowing and stop 60,000
tons of grass clippings from ever finding their way to a landfill. In
addition, millions of gallons of water would be saved and tons of
fertilizers and pesticides never applied." For more ideas about planting
native shrubs and trees, see: "Rethink Your Lawn" from the Audubon society
at:
http://www.audubon.org/bird/at_home/rethink_lawn.html
Try some of these ideas, and you’ll save money, reduce environmental
impacts, and have more time to enjoy relaxing in your yard!
Thanks for Going Green!
Liora Leah
I AM ROCK
By Liora "Rock" Leah
"How many of you were aware that you have had past lifetimes without
being a Human?...How about a lifetime within Gaia? How about being an
actual part of the earth for a hundred years or so, then coming back?
How about being part of the rocks, the plants or the trees?" Kryon,
http://www.kryon.com/k_chanelcrystallake05.html
Can you IMAGINE?!?! I went walking at my local Nature Center, and
imagined that one of my "past lives" was as a rock--not just any rock,
mind you, but a large granite boulder, sitting on a ridge far up on a
mountain peak. I had water from a nearby waterfall splashing me when the
snows melt in the Spring. I sat there as Rock for decades, maybe
hundreds of years, being slowly worn smooth by wind and water. The idea
of being whittled away over time by the elements really appealed to me,
and as I thought of this, I smiled with joy.
I sat there as Rock, day after day, and observed and felt. I observed
Brother Sun rising each day. I felt Sun's heat on my body. I observed
the mountain lion stalking its prey. I felt his warm fur on my back as
he lay upon me and dozed, sated. I observed hawk spreading her wings and
drifting with the air currents. I felt the cool of her shadow as she
flew overhead. I watched as generations of seedlings sprouted, and grew,
and branched first into saplings, then into trees. I felt the singe of
fire after a lightning strike in the forest. I felt the cold sting of
winter as She covered all the world in snow. I saw the first blooms of
spring and the joyously romping ground squirrels. I watched each night
as the stars wheeled overhead, and conversed with Sister Moon as she
changed with the flow of Her monthly courses.
As I continued to walk, I imagined that one day, as Rock, I tumbled from
my perch. Maybe I was shaken loose by an earthquake, or an avalanche. I
fell, fell, fell, hundreds, maybe thousands of feet down, down, down,
yet I felt no fear as I fell, being Rock. I just accepted it, and fell,
until, KERSPLASH! I landed in a river. I became a River Rock. I sat and
sat in the river, for decades, maybe hundreds of years, being whittled
by water and wind, until there was nothing left of me but small grains
of sand. Some of my sand settled to the bottom of the river, where it
remains to this day. Some of me flowed with the great river to the sea,
where I was deposited and became part of the silt. Some of me flowed
into the sea, and was sent all over the world, landing on beaches
everywhere. The thought of being spread all over the world makes me
smile.
What can I learn from my lifetime as Rock?
Perserverance
Patience
Acceptance without Fear
Appreciation of all the cycles of Nature
Question: If Rock is worn to sand and there is nothing left of it, does
Rock still exist?
Answer: Rock may disappear into the "sands of time", but the Essence of
Rock will always remain.
Love and Light,
Liora "Rock" Leah
Manataka
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STORY...
The Medicine Pouch
By Waynonaha Two Worlds
This
story takes place several years ago and is a true story: For many years
we held a council for women at the reservation. At times there would be as
many as two hundred women there. We also would have a men's council at the
same time for the husbands and young boys.
At one council we decided to talk of personal medicine and how one has the
ability to carry that medicine, or power of healing. The word medicine was
a French word used by the fur trappers. When they would have a physical
problem or illness they would often come to the Villages of the people to be
helped. The word Medicine means Doctor and they would ask for a healer by
using this word, thus the healers were known by the name medicine doctor.
We prefer to use the word Healer or Holy person. A Healer is one who
studies the herbal and Earth ways of healing. A Holy person is a person who
works in a spiritual way with spirits and vision. Now that we have that
all in order lets go on.
We decided to create a small pouch for the women to wear to show a
material aspect of this idea. Each woman was excited and all ears for
the teaching. A small round piece of leather hide was given to each
woman and it had 12 holes punched in it. the women were told the story
of creation as we know it and instructed to lace the circles and to go
and gather a feather, stone, and shell. Each woman was given a piece of
corn and some tobacco for the pouch. All went very well, and all week
end we saw the pouches worn with great pride and respect. The gathering
ended and everyone went home.
A few months later a woman arrived on our door step. She was very upset
and told us she had lost her pouch. We brought her in and listened to
the story she told about the missing pouch. At the end of all her
tears and story she was invited to make another pouch. Grandmother
said it was fine with her, so we got out the hides and beads and she
made her now pouch she left happy and all was good. Months went by and
again, there she was on the door step. The whole scene was repeated
with a different set of circumstances around the lost pouch. We again
helped her make a new pouch.
This
time she wanted to make a bigger one, trusting that she would not lose
it if it were bigger. Again months went by and it was time for the
Woman's council, the same woman attended and ask to have a bit of
private time with us. Well you guessed it, she had lost the bigger
pouch. This time Grandmother ask us to hold off on the construction of a
new pouch. We figured she was going to scout around for a whole hide for
this woman. I guess the thought crossed our minds that the bigger the
pouch, the harder to lose.
The council got under way and the pouch was forgotten. On the last day
the women gathered after breakfast. Grandmother ask that all women
attend as she had something very important to share. The lodge was full
and all was quiet. Birds flew in and out the windows and bees buzzed
away in the flowers on the alter in the center of the round house. The
air was fresh and clear, telling us it would be a very hot day.
Grand Mother entered the lodge and ask us all to place our medicine
pouches in a basket that she passed around. That year as in the past,
we had made pouches for the women. Each woman was alarmed that their
newly made pouch was to be taken from them, yet each in turn trustingly
placed their pouch in the basket which was placed on the alter. Grand
Mother then spoke; she said that the pouch represented our need to
cling to the material objects, to remind us who we were.
She
told of a time when she was a child and the children were taken away to
the Indian schools. Each child was given a very small pouch to wear
under their clothing. The pouch was to give the children something to
hold on to when every thing else was taken from them. The children were
also told if the pouches were taken from them, that they still had the
medicine in their heart. We each carry the medicine of all our
relations, from the beyond the beyond the beyond. We carry it in our
hearts and souls, our spirits are all part of that great mystery that
surrounds all living things. Grand Mother said that we do not really
need these pouches and all we had to do is look into the hearts to see
the medicine or healing power we carry.
After that she passed the basket back around the circle of women, and
said " now if you feel that you need the pouch then find yours and take
it and wear it." The basket went full circle, all the women sat with
bowed heads and did not look at who searched for their pouch, in the
basket filled with little pouches. In the end the basket was placed on
the alter and never again referred to.
We were all curious as to what had happened. During the next two days
we noticed that the basket remained untouched and full of pouches. The
wisdom of our Elders is a gift and we need to protect the ones Creator
has chosen to help us. Mitakuye Oyasin
Waynonaha Two Worlds. Copyright (c) 2003 by Waynonaha Two
Worlds. All publication rights reserved
Submitted by Suzanne
OPINION PAGE...
LEE
STANDING
BEAR'S
FORMULA
FOR PEACE
World
peace is a process of transformation on many levels of human relations.
Powerful Motivations for War
World
leaders see peace as a political process driven by varied interests of security and
political stability - to protect power bases. Yet, wars destabilize,
increase power and enforce political ideologies - powerful motivations for war.
Global
leaders of commerce see peace as an opportunity to expand free markets - to protect
profits. Yet, the economic spoils of war often go to the barons of
business - powerful motivations for war.
Leaders
of organized religions see the peace process as an affirmation of dogma and
doctrine that controls the masses. Yet, organized religion is responsible for
many wars - powerful motivations for war.
The
world peace process today is motivated by fear of losing something, a desire for
more power or by greed - the very same reasons wars
occur.
Is
there a better way to achieve world peace?
The process of achieving peace is the same whether it is on a global scale or on
the personal level.
Begin
With Tolerance
Peace
on earth is about learning tolerance. We must tolerate many things in
order to survive. Tolerance against the ravages of a storm is no different
that enduring other people, political and religious ideologies,
cultural beliefs, and races. We must tolerate those things we fear
or do not understand. We must tolerate even those things we
dislike.
As
tolerance grows within us, we gain strength and experience to handle even
tougher challenges tomorrow. As tolerance matures it gives birth
to understanding.
The
Next Step is Understanding
Understanding
another person, culture, race, political persuasion or religion is not
easy. Somehow people think if other people are like them, it validates
themselves. And conversely, if others are different, they become a threat.
Understanding means to be aware of differences
and accepting those distinctions as advantageous. The Creator made
every tree, snowflake, human and all things of creation different. Nature and history says
diversity increases the odds of survival.
Once
we possess understanding, we grow. This growth is not only intellectual,
it is emotional and spiritual. Understanding then ripens within us giving
birth to compassion.
Moving
to Compassion
Compassion
is more than sympathy and kindness. Compassion looks in to the very soul
of another part of creation and feels the same experiences. Compassion is
more than idle concern because it has movement, it moves one into
action. Compassion has legs and arms that move to correct problems
experienced by others.
Compassion
allows us to transcend ourselves, to move beyond the realm of crass pity or
self-serving mercy to a garden of peace within. The garden becomes alive
with the blessings of life which quite naturally gives birth to love.
Love
Conquers All
Loving
ones family, friends and neighbors is not enough. Love in its purist form
is not only motivated by passion, security, or self-esteem felt within ones own
small circle. Love in a global sense means accepting all creation on its
terms and allowing the forces of spirit to guide relationships and events.
One must feel the power of the Great Mystery to know love.
Love
becomes the seed for peace. Love is the gift we give to the world so
that it may radiate its light outward and upward bringing life to where no life
or light has been before. It is then the Creator within us gives birth to
a new kind of peace on earth.
A
New Kind of Peace
As
a quasi-political, economic body, the United Nations cannot bring about world
peace in the same way law enforcement agencies cannot stop crime.
The UN can only maintain an appearance of peace and often becomes embroiled in
wars.
Organized
religion is woefully lacking in its will and ability to stop war.
Leaders of commerce are often torn by greed and offer no assistance or answers
to world peace.
There
Is A Better Way To Achieve World Peace
For
hundreds if not thousands of years, Manataka, the Great Place of Peace, served
as a gathering place of the nations of Turtle Island. When the
elders of the nations came into the Great Circle of Peace, they brought with
them no animosities, no political agendas, no desire to increase their power,
and no greed came between them.
They
came to celebrate their philosophy of life - that all creation is precious and
deserving of our highest respect and love. As the elders stood in
the circle holding hands, praying and giving thanks to the Creator, powerful
gifts were given in return by the Great Mystery so they would begin to
understand the secrets of life.
We
propose the leaders of the nations once again come into the Great Circle of
Peace at Manataka. When they come with the same mind and heart, full
of tolerance, understanding, compassion, love and thanks to the Creator, there
can only be one result.
Another
seed of life and peace has been planted.
Inner-Peace
We can change the world by applying the formula above in our
personal lives.
©"Lee Standing Bear's Formula For Peace" by Lee Standing Bear Moore, all rights reserved, 2003-2006.
RUMOR OR FACT?
Remember last month when we asked if the
information below about AVIAN BIRD FLU was a hoax or not?
We received many
responses from our readers who have verified the majority of the facts below are
CORRECT. Statements typed in red font are
TRUE based on government, business and medical
community reports.
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We received a message containing the following
information.
Can anyone verify the veracity of this information:
Bird Flu Pandemic is a scare tactic to make millions of dollars
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'Bird
flu' was discovered in Vietnam 9 years ago and only 100 people have died
worldwide in that time.
(Resource #1 below)
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Americans alerted the world as to the
efficacy of
the human antiviral Tamiflu as a preventative.
(Resource #2 below)
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The efficacy of Tamiflu against the
common flu is questioned by a
great part of the scientific community.
(Resource #3 below)
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Roche Laboratories markets Tamiflu. (Resource
#4 below)
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Gilead Sciences, Inc. bought the patent for Tamiflu from
Roche Laboratories in 1996.
(Resource #3 below)
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Then president of Gilead Sciences was Donald Rumsfeld, the US Secretary
of Defense who remains a
major shareholder.
(Resource #5 below)
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Roche Laboratories controls 90% of
the crushed aniseed used to make Tamiflu.
(Resources #4 & 5 below)
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Roche sales of Tamiflu was over $254
million in 2004 and more
than $1000 million in 2005.
Please send verified facts to:
manataka@sbcglobal.net Thank you!
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Resources:
3.
Here is a medical news service site for physicians. The
‘About MedPage’ link includes the following:
“MedPage
Today is the only medical news service for physicians that links
consumer medical news and the professional medical analysis needed by
clinicians. Through our daily coverage of breaking medical stories and
topics widely reported in the consumer media, we provide clinicians with
the real-time information they need to address their patients' questions
and to find out how new developments might impact their clinical
practice.” The following link shows
an article entitled ‘Avian Flu Virus Showing Resistance to Tamiflu’.
This article is dated September 30, 2006. -
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/PublicHealth/tb1/1850
4. Here is a link to a press release by
Gilead Sciences naming Donald Rumsfeld as Chairman dated January 3, 1997.
There are other pages on this site that will link to the relationship
between Gilead and Roche.-
http://www.gilead.com/wt/sec/pr_933190157/
6. No hard facts as to Rumsfeld’s current
holdings in Gilead Sciences, however, here are some interesting facts about
his role in this ugly scam.
HISTORY....
History of the Shawnee Indians from the year 1681
to 1854 inclusive
By Henry Harvey
An Excerpt From:
The First American West: The Ohio Valley, 1750-1820
In the year 1809, Governor Harrison purchased from the Delaware's, Miamis and
Pottawatomies, a large tract of land on both sides of the Walbash river, and
extending up the said river about sixty miles above Vinvennes. Tecumseh was
absent at the time and his brother the Prophet made no objections to the treaty,
but when Tecumseh returned, he manifested great dissatisfaction, and threatened
some of the chiefs with death, who had made this treaty. Harrison hearing of his
dissatisfaction, sent an invitation to him to repair to Vincecces to see him,
and assured him that any claims he might have to the lands ceded by that treaty,
were not affected by the treaty at all--that he might come on and present his
claims, and if they were found to be valid, the lands would be given up, or an
ample compensation made for it.
Accordingly,
on the 12th of August, arrived at Vincennes, accompanied by a large number
of his warriors. When the council convened, Tecumseh arose and said, "Brothers,
I have made myself what I am; I would that I could make the red people as great
as the conceptions of my own mind. When I think of the Great Spirit that rules
over all, I would not then come to Governor Harrison to beg of him to tear this
treaty to pieces, but I would say to him, brothers, you have liberty to return
to your own country. Once, there was not a white man in all this country. Then,
it all belonged to the redmen: children of the same parents--placed on it by the
Great Spirit, to keep it, to travel over it, to eat its fruits, and fill it with
the same race. Once a happy people, but now made miserable by the white people,
who are never satisfied, but always encroaching on our land. They have driven us
from the great salt water, forced us over the mountains, and would shortly push
us into the lakes, but we are determined to go no further. The only way to stop
this evil is for all the red-men to unite in claiming a common right in the
soil, as it was at first, and should be now, for it never was divides, but
belonged to all. No one tribe has a right to sell even to each other, much less
to strangers, who demand all, and will take no less.
"The white people have no right to rake the land from the Indians who had it
first--it is ours--it belongs to us. We may sell, but all must agree; any sale
made by a part is not good. The last sale is bad. It was made by a part only; a
part do not know how to sell; it requires all to make a bargain for all; a part
cannot do it."
Harrison in reply, declared to Tecumseh, that he and his band had no right to
interfere or say one word in this matter, as he said the Shawnees had been
driven from Georgia by the Creek Indians, and therefore, had no claim to land in
this country. This exasperated the chief, and he pronounced the declaration of
Harrison, a falsehood. Harrison told him he was a bad man, and for some time it
was apprehended that a serious conflict would ensue. Harrison ordered Tecumseh
from the house immediately, which order was obeyed...
Continued at:
History of the Shawnee Indians from 1681 to 1854
Legends
of Old:
Fox and Mountain Lion
Jicarilla Apache
Fox could find nothing to eat for a long time, so that he grew weak and
thin. While on a journey in search of food he met the Mountain Lion, who,
taking pity upon his unhappy condition, said, "I will hunt for you, and you
shall grow fat again." The Fox agreed to this, and they went on together to
a much-frequented spring. Mountain Lion told Fox to keep watch while he
slept; if a cloud of dust was to be seen arising from the approach of
animals Fox was to waken him. Fox presently beheld the dust caused by the
approach of a drove of horses.
Fox wakened Mountain Lion, who said, "just observe how I catch horses." As
one of the animals went down to the spring to drink, he sprang upon it, and
fastened his fangs in its throat, clawing its legs and shoulders until it
fell dying at the water's edge. Mountain Lion brought the horse up to the
rock, and laid it before the Fox. "Stay here, eat, drink, and grow fat,"
said he.
Fox thought he had learned how to kill horses, so when the Coyote came along
he volunteered to secure one for him. Fox jumped upon the neck of the horse,
as Mountain Lion had done, but became entangled in its mane and was killed.
Frank Russell, Myths of the Jicarilla Apaches, 1898
Submitted by Blue Panther
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LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR...
Greetings from the United Bay Area Native American Council, Inc. here in the
San Francisco Bay Area Indian Country!
I
wanted to personally thank you for putting out the information in this
edition of the 'Smoke Signal' about the Gathering of Nations from July to
August to defend Bear Butte. I went ahead in our extensive email data base
and forwarded it dozens and dozens of our Native people here in California
and the Pacific Northwest.
UBANAC is hoping to send a small delegation of our Council there! Thank you
for your service to all of Indian Country!
"In
the Spririt of Unity Among Our People"
Mike Raccoon Eyes Kinney
UBANAC, Inc.
510-236-1631
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