Is This Ignorance Or Malice, You Decide
Recently there have been two
places of Native American Cultural significance,
or to us, Sacred Places, that
have been abused by Non Native people,
representing the U.S. Forest
Service.
One was in the Deep South, in
Georgia, the other in the Far West, in California.
The thing that these two events
have in common, is a seemingly complete lack of respect
or awareness, of just how
important these places were and are to Native People.
I have personally seen this kind
of shameful lack of respect for our Sacred Places,
while attending a Celebration
Event at the Natchez Sacred Mounds in Louisiana.
For longer that I care to
remember, I watched in total shock while people,
who did not appear to be Natives,
both adults and children, played a game
of football on the top of the
Sacred Mounds.
No one in the area who saw this
happen, seemed to find anything wrong with this
and this is a memory that I cannot
ever forget.
Standing together has never been
one of our strengths, but if we as a People, as a race,
do not join hands across this
country, these Sacred Places, as well as our very being,
may soon become like the dust
blowing in the wind.
If you are able, please write,
call, blog, do something, do anything, just get involved,
but please, please, do not ignore
these things.
It is never going to stop unless
and until, we as a People stop it.
My ancestors, your ancestors, are
watching and waiting for us to unite and
once again become the strong,
proud, First People of this Country.
We cannot remain silent anymore.
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Forest Service desecrates sacred fire on San Francisco
Peaks, after similar abuse of Winnemem Wintu ceremony in California!
My heart and prayers go out to California and the San
Francisco Peaks 13 area Native American Nations, including Navajos, Havasupai,
Hualapai, Hopi and Pueblos because of their culture, ceremonies and problems
between them and Arizona, U.S. Forest Service officials.
We in the east also speak on behalf of Mother Earth the
four legged/those that swim/those that crawl/those that fly/those that burrow
in the Earth/the plant and tree Nations ( with the permission of Creator).
As one of those East Coast Spiritual People I can only
speak from our ceremonies and culture.
Creator gave us tobacco herbs (Kinnick, Kinnick) for
times just like this when drought makes for uncontrolled fires.
I offer prayers as when teaching in jails, prisons and
any place were fire is impossible yet prayer is needed and also between Sacred
Fires with Sacred Ceremonies.
Yes!
We also have many closed minded federal agents not
concerned with facts, Federal agencies using terms like federally recognized
and federally unrecognized, just what does that mean? No one really knows, it
is just words!
This has always been their way of dividing the Indigenous
Peoples.
We are also united under the Creator’s Law with you as
United Indigenous Nations, to protect and extend Life for all future
generations no matter the color of the skin!
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