An Indigenous perspective following the events of 11 Sept 2001

[marty]

This one comes "from the heart."

Holding space in Dublin, Ireland,

Martin Giannini
mlg2010 at yahoo.com


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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 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.

--
Get strength from the mountain as you climb , . .

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