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AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM CHIEF ARVOL LOOKING HORSE, OF THE
LAKOTA, DAKOTA, & NAKOTA NATIONS
Mitakuye Oyasin (All My Relations),
I, Chief Arvol Looking Horse of the Lakota, Dakota and
Nakota Nations, 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 overnment 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 Chakras) 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' 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 you to join me on this endeavor.
Our vision is for the Peoples of all continents,
regardless of their beliefs in the Creator, to come together as one
at their Sacred Sites at that sacred moment of what is known as the
Summer Solstice of June 21st, to pray and meditate and commune with
one another, thus promoting an energy shift to heal our Mother Earth
and achieve a universal consciousness toward attaining Peace.
As each day passes bringing us to this day of concentration
together, 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
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