In a Sacred Hoop of Life, where there is no beginning and no ending!
Mitakuye Oyasin,
Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
WE
ARE AT THE CROSSROADSWe are at the Crossroads!
(excerpts from a message sent earlier this year)
Mitakuye (my relative)
I, Chief Arvol Looking Horse of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nation, would like
to ask for this time for you to understand an Indigenous perspective in
reflection of what has happened in America, what we call “Turtle Island”.
For the past six years, my work has concentrated on an effort on uniting the Global community, through a message from our sacred ceremonies in recognizing a day of World Peace and Prayer on June 21st as a time to unite spiritually, each in our own ways of beliefs in the Creator. We have been warned from the messages, passed down from Ancient Prophecies of these times we live in today, but also a very important message of a solution to turn these terrible times around.
To assist you in understanding the depth of this message involves the
recognition in the importance of Sacred Sites. It is important that you
realize the whole 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 of Sacred
Sites since the age of 12, upon receiving the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
Bundle and it’s teachings.
Our people have strived to protect Sacred Sites from the beginning of time. There needs to be an understanding in the concern of the protection of Sacred Sites that goes deeper than just the issue of Shrines built by humans. Our people have built similar objects and Shrines to identify and to remind the significance in the power of the Sacred Site. We have also witnessed them being destroyed for many decades, but we also realize it is what is underneath them that is important. These places have been violated for centuries and have brought us to this predicament that we are in concerning the unstable Global Level thus far.
Look around you, our Mother Earth is very ill from these violations and we are
at a brink of destroying a healthy and nurturing survival for generations to
come, our children’s children.
*Our ancestors have been trying to protect our Sacred Site from the continued
violations called the Sacred Black Hills in SD, “Heart of Everything that
is”. Our ancestors never seen this site from a Satellite view, but now
that those pictures are available with modern technology, 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 now that the coal is depleting, we are suffering and going to suffer more from the extraction of the coal and poison processes used in doing so.
The Aborigines has warned of the contaminating effects on the Corral Reefs from Global Warming, which they see as Mother Earth’s blood purifier, our sacred water is being polluted.
The Indigenous people of the Rain Forest relay that the Rain Forest are the lungs and need protection and now we see the Brazilian Government approved the depletion of 50% of this Sacred Site.
The Gwich’in Nation has an issue of oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, also known to the Gwich’in as ‘Where the life begins!’ The coastal plain is also the birthplace of many other life forms of 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 the misuse of power that mankind has made and their lack of understanding the “balance of life”. The Indigenous people warn that these destructive developments will cause havoc globally.
There are many, many more Indigenous awareness’s and knowledge of Mother Earth’s Sacred Sites, connections (Mother Earth’s Charkas) to our spirit that will surely affect our future generations. These people are still suffering from this contamination and their livelihood is being destroyed as I write this to you.
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 whole picture in the type 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 the
destruction in the name of Peace and elimination is not the answer! We
need to understand how all these decisions affects the Global Nation, we will
not be immune to it’s repercussions. To allow continual contamination of
our food and land, is now affecting the way we think. A “disease of the
mind” has set in World Leaders and many members of our Global Community, with
their understanding 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. In times of disasters it is sad to say that
it is the only time that we unite spiritually, but we must not taint it with
anger and retaliation.
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 methods of chemicals and warfare that is becoming irreversible, as Mother Earth is becoming tired and can not sustain any more impacts of war.
...I ask the Global Nations to begin a Global effort, in knowing that each and
every one of us are making a daily effort in waking to a gratitude of another
day, that is gifted to us and begin to remember to give thanks for the Sacred
Food that has been also 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. We have come to a time and place of
great urgency. The fate of future generations rests in our hands. We must
understand the two ways we are free to follow, as we choose—the positive way
or the negative way…the spiritual way or the material way. It’s our
own choice--each of ours and all of ours.
You yourself are the one who must decide. You alone—and only you--can
make this crucial choice. Whatever you decide is what you’ll be, to walk
in honor or to dishonor your relatives. You can’t escape the
consequences of your own decision. On your decision depends the fate of
the entire World.
You must decide. You can’t avoid it. 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, where there is no beginning and no ending!
Mitakuye Oyasin,
Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
WE
ARE AT THE CROSSROADS
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