# North American Indian Prophecies

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> 1986 Continental Indigenous Council
>  Tanana Valley Fairgrounds
>  Fairbanks, Alaska
> 
> 
> There was the cycle of the mineral, the rock. There was the cycle of the plant.
> 
> And now we're in the cycle of the animal...coming to the end of that and
> beginning the cycle of the human being. When we get into the cycle of the human
> being, the highest and greatest powers that we have will be released to us.
> They will be released from that light or soul that we carry to the mind. But
> right now we're coming to the end of the animal cycle and we have investigated
> ourselves and learned what it is to be like an animal on this earth.
> 
> At the beginning of this cycle of time, long ago, the Great Spirit came down
> and He made an appearance and He gathered the peoples of this earth together —
> they say on an island which is now beneath the water — and He said to the human
> beings, "I'm going to send you to four directions and over time I'm going to
> change you to four colors, but I'm going to give you some teachings and you
> will call these the Original Teachings and when you come back together with
> each other you will share these so that you can live and have peace on earth,
> and a great civilization will come about." And he said "During the cycle of
> time I'm going to give each of you two stone tablets. When I give you those
> stone tablets, don't cast those upon the ground. If any of the brothers and
> sisters of the four directions and the four colors cast their tablets on the
> ground, not only, will human beings have a hard time, but almost the earth
> itself will die."
> 
> And so he gave each of us a responsibility and we call that the Guardianship.
> To the Indian people, the red people, he gave the Guardianship of the earth. We
> were to learn during this cycle of time the teachings of the earth, the plants
> that grow from the earth, the foods that you can eat, and the herbs that are
> healing so that when we came back together with the other brothers and sisters
> we could share this knowledge with them. Something good was to happen on the
> earth.
> 
> To the South, he gave the yellow race of people the Guardianship of the wind.
> They were to learn about the sky and breathing and how to take that within
> ourselves for spiritual advancement. They were to share that with is at this
> time.
> 
> To the West He gave the black race of people the Guardianship of the water.
> They were to learn the teachings of the water which is the chief of the
> elements, being the most humble and the most powerful. When I went to the
> University of Washington and I learned that it was a black man that discovered
> blood plasma, it didn't surprise me because blood is water and the elders
> already told me the black people would bring the teachings of the water.
> 
> To the North He gave the white race of people the Guardianship of the fire. If
> you look at the center of many of the things they do you will find the fire.
> They say a light bulb is the white man's fire. If you look at the center of a
> car you will find a spark. If you look at the center of the airplane and the
> train you will find the fire. The fire consumes, and also moves. This is why it
> was the white brothers and sisters who began to move upon the face of the earth
> and reunite us as a human family.
> 
> And so a long time passed, and the Great Spirit gave each of the four races two
> stone tablets. Ours are kept at the Hopi Reservation in Arizona at Four Corners
> Area on 3rd Mason.
> 
> I talked to people from the black race and their stone tablets are at the foot
> of Mount Kenya. They are kept by the Kukuyu Tribe. I once had the honor of
> presenting a sacred pipe at the Kukuyu Tribe carved from the red pipe stone of
> Mount Kenya. I was at an Indian spiritual gathering about 15 years ago. A
> medicine man from South Dakota put a beaded medicine wheel in the middle of the
> gathering. It had the four colors from the four directions; He asked the
> people, "Where is this from?" They said, "Probably Montana, or South Dakota,
> maybe Seskatchewan." He said, "This is from Kenya." It was beaded just like
> ours, with the same color
> 
> The stone tablets of the yellow race of people are kept by the Tibetans, in
> Tibet. If you went straight through the Hopi Reservation to the other side of
> the world, you would come out in Tibet. The Tibetan word for "sun" is the Hopi
> word for "moon" and the Hopi word for "sun" is the Tibetan word for "moon".
> 
> The guardians of the traditions of the people of Europe are the Swiss. In
> Switzerland, they still have a day when each family brings out its mask. They
> still know the colors of the families, they still know the symbols, some of
> them. I went to school with some people from Switzerland at the University of
> Washington and they shared this with me.
> 
> Each of these four peoples happen to be people that live in the mountains.
> 
> In 1976 America had its bicentennial — celebrating 200 years of freedom. Some
> of the Native people thought this was significant and they carried a sacred
> pipe bundle from the West Coast to the East Coast of this land. They said that
> the roads of this land should either go North-South or East-West. If they went
> North-South we would come together as brothers and sisters, but if they went
> East-West there would be destruction and almost the earth itself would have a
> hard time. So you all know the roads went East-West. They said then things
> would be lost from the East to the West and from the South to the North and
> that they would come back again from the West to the East and from the North to
> the South. So nine years ago in 1976 from the West to East Coast of this land,
> from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. people carried a sacred pipe bundle by
> hand, on foot. My aunt had dreamt 15 years ago that people that didn't Like
> them would throw rocks and bottles at that pipe bundle as they carried it
> across the land. And sure enough that came about. But, as was in my aunt's
> dream, the rocks only came so close and then they dropped, and nothing touched
> it. When they reached the top of the Rocky Mountains, they hit a hard storm. An
> elderly man with long white hair said, "I will carry it now." They had a van
> that went alongside the people who were walking. He got out of the van and
> carried the sacred pipe bundle clear through that storm. He was so cold when he
> got back in the van that someone touched his hair and it fell. His hair was
> frozen. You have to be pretty cold for your hair to freeze but that old man
> carried it through that storm because they said if they carried this bundle
> across the earth, the powers would begin to come back. They said a spiritual
> fire would be lit in the North and would come down the Northwest Coast of this
> land. When it gets to the Puget Sound, it would go inland. I think this, nine
> years later, is the gathering in the North, myself. That's why I came here.
> This is it. We have the capacity to start the-spiritual fire now, here. The old
> people long ago saw it and foretold it and I'm going to come to that.
> 
> So we went through this cycle of time and each of the four races went to their
> directions and they learned their teachings. It was on Newsweek not too long
> ago that eight out of ten foods that people eat on the earth are developed here
> in the western hemisphere because that was our Guardianship, to learn the
> teachings of the earth, and the things that grow from the earth. We were given
> a sacred handshake to show when we came back together as brothers and sisters
> that we still remembered the teachings. It was indicated on the stone tablets
> that the Hopis had that the first brothers and sisters that would come back to
> them would come as turtles across the land. They would be human beings, but
> they would come as turtles. So when the time came close the Hopis were at a
> special village to welcome the turtles that would come across the land and they
> got up in the morning and looked out at the sunrise. They looked out across the
> desert and they saw the Spanish Conquistadores coming, covered in armour, like
> turtles across the land. So this was them. So they went out to the Spanish man
> and they extended their hand hoping for the handshake but into the hand the
> Spanish man dropped a trinket. And so word spread throughout North America that
> there was going to be a hard time, that maybe some of the brothers and sisters
> had forgotten the sacredness of all things and all the human beings were going
> to suffer for this on the earth. So tribes began to send people to the mounds
> to have missions to try to figure out how they could survive. At that time
> there were 100,000 cities in the Mississippi Valley alone, called the mound
> civilization: cities built on great mounds. Those mounds are still there. If
> you ever go out to Ohio or the Mississippi Valley, they're tourist attractions
> now. There was 100,000 cities of Native people and they were wondering how they
> could survive. They began to try to learn to live off the land because they
> knew a hard time was going to come. They began to send people to have visions
> to see how we could survive this time. People came on the east coast and they
> went across this land to the east and they were told in the prophecies that we
> should try to remind all the people that would come here of the sacredness of
> all things. If we could do that, then there would be peace on earth. But if we
> did not do that, when the roads went clear from east to west, and when the
> other races and colors of the Earth had walked clear across this land, if by
> that time we had not come together as a human family, the Great Spirit would
> grab the earth with his hand and shake it. And so if you read the treaty
> negotiations from Red Jacket of the Six Nations on the east coast of this land
> clear to Chief Joseph and Chief Seattle on the west coast of this land, they
> all said the same thing. Chief Joseph said, "I accord you the right, and I hope
> 
> you accord me the right, to live in this land." Always we were trying to live
> together. But instead of living together, you all know there was separation,
> there was segregation. They separated the races: they separated the Indians,
> and they separated the blacks. In the state of Washington it was against the
> law for an Asian to marry a white person up until not too long ago. There was
> separation.
> 
> So when they got to the west coast of this land the elders that were made aware
> of these prophecies said they would then begin to build a black ribbon. And on
> this black ribbon there would move a bug. And when you begin to see this bug
> moving on the land, that was the sign for the First Shaking of the Earth. The
> First Shaking of the Earth would be so violent that this bug would be shaken
> off the earth into the air and it would begin to move and fly in the air. And
> by the end of this shaking this bug will be in the air around the world. Behind
> it would be a trail of dirt and eventually the whole sky of the entire earth
> would become dirty from these trails of dirt, and this would cause many
> diseases that would get more and more complicated. So the bug moving on the
> land, of course I it's easy to see now. In 1908 the Model-T Ford was mass
> produced for the first time. So the elders knew the First Shaking of the Earth
> was about to come about — that's the First World War. In the First World War
> the airplane came into wide usage for the first time. That was that bug moving
> into the sky. And so they knew something very important would happen. There
> would be an attempt to make peace on earth on the west coast of this land and
> so the elders began to watch for this. They began to hear that there was going
> to be a League of Nations in San Francisco so the elders gathered in Arizona
> around 1920 or so and they wrote a letter to Woodrow Wilson. They asked if the
> Indian people could be included in the League of Nations. At that time the
> United States Supreme Court had held that a reservation is a separate and semi-
> sovereign nation, not a part of the United States but protected by it. This
> became a concern because people didn't want the reservations to become more and
> more separate. They didn't want them to be considered nations. So they did not
> write back and the Native people were left out of the League of Nations, so
> that circle was incomplete. In the League of Nations circle there was a
> southern door, the yellow people; there was a western door, the black people;
> there was a northern door, the white people; but the eastern door was not
> attended. The elders knew that peace would not come on the earth until the
> circle of humanity is complete, until all the four colors sat in the circle and
> shared their teachings, then peace would come on earth.
> 
> So they knew things would happen. Things would speed up a little bit. There
> would be a cobweb built around the earth, and people would talk across this
> cobweb. When this talking cobweb, the telephone, was built around the earth, a
> sign of life would appear in the east, but it would tilt and bring death. It
> would come with the sun. But the sun itself would rise one day not in the east
> but in the west. So the elders said when you see the sun rising in the east and
> you see the sign of life reversed and tilted in the east, you know that the
> Great Death is to come upon the earth, and now the Great Spirit will grab the
> earth again in His hand and shake it and this shaking will be worse than the
> first. So the sign of life reversed and tilted, we call that the Swastika, and
> the rising sun in the east was the rising sun of Japan. These two symbols are
> carved in stone in Arizona. When the elders saw these two flags, these were the
> signs that the earth was to be shaken again.
> 
> The worse misuse of the Guardianship of the fire is called the "gourd of
> ashes". They said the gourd of ashes will fall from the air. It will make the
> people like blades of grass in the prairie fire and things will not grow for
> many seasons. I saw on television not too long ago that they were talking about
> the atomic bomb, the gourd of ashes. They said it was the best-kept secret in
> the history of the United States., The elders wanted to speak about it in 1920.
> 
> They would have spoken of it and foretold it's coming if they could have
> entered into the League of Nations. The elders tried to contact President
> Roosevelt and ask him not to use the gourd of ashes because it would have a
> great effect on the earth and eventually cause even greater destruction and a
> the Third Shaking of the Earth, the Third World War. I'll get to that in a few
> minutes.
> 
> So they knew after the Second Shaking of the Earth when they saw the gourd of
> ashes fall from the sky then there would be an attempt to make peace on the
> other side of this land. And because the peace attempt on the west coast had
> failed, they would build a special house on the east coast of this Turtle
> Island, and all the nations and peoples of the earth would come to this house
> and it would be called the House of Mica and it would shine like the mica on
> the desert shines. So the elders began to see they were building the United
> Nations made out of glass that reflects like the mica on the desert so they
> knew this was the House of mica and all the peoples of the earth should go to
> it. So they met and talked about this. They said that in the 1920's they had
> written and they had not been responded to, so they said this time we better go
> to the front door of the House of Mica because things might get a lot worse. So
> elders representing a number of tribes I believe drove to New York City. When
> the United Nations opened they went to the front door of the house of Mica and
> they said these words:
> 
> "We represent the indigenous people of North America and we wish to address the
> nations of the Earth. We're going to give you four days to consider whether or
> not we will be allowed to speak."
> 
> They retreated to one of the Six Nations Reserves in New York State. The Six
> Nations Reserves are keepers of the Great Law of Peace of the prophet that
> appeared here in North America, Dagonnorida. And this Law of Peace is still
> recited, it takes four days between sunrise and noon. Each year an Indian, by
> memory, must recite it about this time of year. Four days later they came back
> and I believe the nations of the earth heard that the Indians had come to the
> door. And they voted to let the Indians in. They wanted to hear what they had
> to say. But the United States is one of five nations of the United Nations with
> a veto power and still they were concerned because this time the Native
> sovereignty was even stronger. And I believe they vetoed the entrance of the
> Native people.
> 
> So then they knew other things would happen on the Earth, and the United
> Nations would not bring peace on earth but there would be continuing and
> deepening confusion. And that the little wars would get worse. So they
> retreated to the Six Nations Reserve and they talked about this and they said
> the time is really getting close now...1949. They said, "We're going to divide
> the United States into four sections and each year we're going to have a
> gathering. We're going to call these the 'White — of Peace Gatherings'." They
> began to have these around 1950. And they authorized certain men to speak in
> English for the first time about these prophecies.
> 
> One that I used to listen to many times, over and over, was Thomas Benyaka. He
> is a Hopi man. I believe he is still living. He was authorized to speak in
> English about what was on the stone tablets and he has dedicated his lifetime
> to doing this. And they began to tell us at these gatherings, they said "In
> your lifetime you're going to see things happen..." It was strange when they said
> it in the 1950's and 1960's but now it seems very clear. But then it was
> unusual. They said, "You're going to see a time in your life when men are going
> to become women. The Great Spirit is going to make a man on the earth. He made
> him a man but this man is going to say, "I know more than the Great Spirit. I'm
> going to change myself to be a woman:" And they will even nurse children. The
> Great Spirit is going to make the woman on the earth. She's going to say, "I
> know more than the Great Spirit. I want to be a man. And she will be physically
> a man." This sounded strange. And maybe in a vision they saw Boy-George.
> 
> They said "You're going to see a time in your lifetime when the human beings
> are going to find the blueprint that makes us." They call that now, DNA,
> deoxyribonucleic acid. They said, "They re going to cut this blueprint." They
> call that now, genetic splicing. And they said, "They're going to make new
> animals upon the earth, and they're going to think these are going to help us.
> And it's going to seem like they do help us. But maybe the grandchildren and
> greatgrandchildren are going to suffer." I don't know if you heard on the news
> last night in the United States now they have genetically spliced a new germ,
> never before released in the environment. They want to release this germ into
> the cottonfields of the south because they say it will rejuvenate and
> strengthen the cotton. They had scientists on the CBS Evening News the other
> night talking about it. One scientist said what the elders said in the 1950's,
> that this will not harm us. We've put it in a lot of tests. And the other
> scientist said what the elders also said, no, this has never before been in the
> environment. We have no idea what it will do. The elders spoke of it long ago.
> They said it would see harmless, but it may be able to hurt the
> greatgrandchildren. The elders said long ago, "They will release these things,
> they will use them." This is going to be released not too long from now. They
> are making new animals. The elders talked about this. They said, "You will see
> new animals, and even the old animals will come back, animals that people
> thought had disappeared. They will find them here and there. They'll begin to
> reappear."
> 
> They said (and I know many of you are from tribes that also have this prophecy,
> "You're going to see a time when the eagle will fly its highest in the night
> and it will land upon the moon." Some tribes say the eagle will circle the
> moon. Some tribes say the eagle will fly it's highest in the night. "And at
> that time," they say, "Many of the Native people will be sleeping," which
> symbolically means they have lost their teachings. There are some tribes that
> say it will be as if they are frozen: they've been through the long winter. But
> they say, "When the eagle flies it's highest in the night, that will be the
> first light of a new day. That will be the first thawing of spring." Of course,
> at the first light of a new day, if you've stayed up all night, you notice it's
> really dark. And the first light, you want to see it, but you can't. It sneaks
> up on you. You want to see it change but it's dark and then pretty soon it's
> getting light before you know it. We're at that time now. The Eagle has landed
> on the moon, 1969. When that spaceship landed they sent back the message, "The
> Eagle has landed." Traditionally, Native people from clear up in the Inuit
> region, they have shared with us this prophecy, clear down to the Quechuas in
> South America. They shared with us that they have this prophecy. When they
> heard those first words, "The Eagle has landed," they knew that was the start
> of a new time and a new power for Native people. There was absolutely nothing
> strong before us now. We may do anything we wish. In 1776 when the United
> States Government printed the dollar, in one claw [of the eagle], if you've
> ever noticed, there is an olive branch in this claw. They said that represented
> peace. The Indian elders shared with me in South Dakota that to them that
> represents the enslavement of black people. In the prophecies of the Six
> Nations people they say there will be two great uprisings by black people to
> free themselves. We've seen one about 1964. There will be a second, more
> violent one to come. I'll get back to what that means in a minute. In the other
> claw is 13 arrows. The founding fathers of the United States said that
> represents the 13 States. But the elders say that represents the enslavement of
> the Native people. When the Eagle landed on the moon, they decided to print a
> special silver dollar to commemorate that. I don't know how many of you noticed
> it. The original design showed the spaceship landing on the moon but at the
> last minute it was changed to an actual eagle. And in the eagle's claws is the
> olive branch, but the arrows are gone. The elders said, "That's our prophecy —
> we have been released." There was one more uprising coming for the black race
> of people and then they will be released and this is also going to have an
> effect on Native people, a good effect. There's a whole new set of prophecies
> from the Iriquois people about that and I won't have time to go into that this
> morning.
> 
> But we're in that time now. We're between the first light of a new day and the
> sunrise. The sunrise is about to come and when it comes up everyone is going to
> see it. But you know how it is in the village there's a few people that get up
> early, and there are some that sleep until noon. I'm probably one of those that
> sleeps until noon.
> 
> They said when that Eagle lands on the moon, the powers will begin to come back
> to us. As an alcoholic person, I feel that one of our greatest diseases is
> alcoholism. Within seven days of the time of the Eagle landing on the moon, the
> first Native alcoholism program was started on an Apache reservation in
> Arizona. Within seven days of the time the Eagle landed on the moon, the
> Freedom of Indian Religion Act was introduced into the United States Congress.
> Eventually it was passed in November of 1978, signed by President Carter,
> making the song that Kevin [Kevin Locke, a famous Indian Bahá'í who spends his
> time travelling around the world sharing the North American Indian culture
> through dance and music] sang legal to sing in every state of the United
> States. It was punishable at one time to go to jail for 10 years and/or a
> $10,000 fine for singing a song or doing a suat. This was changed in 1978...the
> legislation was introduced in 1969, less than seven days after the Eagle landed
> on the moon. These are the physical manifestations of the spiritual prophecies
> that we have.
> 
> So he said at this time you're going to see that things will speed up, that
> people on the earth will move faster and faster. Grandchildren will not have
> time for grandparents. Parents will not have time for children. It will seem
> like time is going faster and faster. The elders advised us that as things
> speed up, you yourself should slow down. The faster things go, the slower you
> go. Because there's going to come a time when the earth is going to be shaken a
> third time. The Great Spirit has been shaking the earth two times: the First
> and Second World Wars to remind us that we are a human family, to remind us
> that we should have greeted each other as brothers and sisters. We had a chance
> after each shaking to come together in a circle that would have brought peace
> on earth, but we missed that.
> 
> Tonight they were talking on the news about the sign for the Third Shaking of
> the Earth. I heard it while sitting in the airport after I missed my plane.
> They said they're going to build what the elders called the "house in the sky".
> 
> In the 1950's they talked about this: they will build a house and throw it in
> the sky. When you see people living in the sky on a permanent basis, you will
> know the Great Spirit is about to grab the earth, this time not with one hand,
> but with both hands. Many of you of Native background may have heard "the
> spirits will warn you twice, but the third time you stand alone." We've had two
> warnings, the first two World Wars, but now we stand alone in the third one. As
> it says in the Bahá'í Writings, there will be no-one protected. When this house
> is in the sky, the Great Spirit is going to shake the Earth a third time and
> whoever dropped that gourd of ashes, upon them it is going to drop.
> 
> They say at that time there will be villages in this land so great that when
> you stand in the villages you will not be able to see out, and in the
> prophecies these are called "villages of stone", or "prairies of stone". And
> they said the stone will grow up from the ground and you will not be able to
> see beyond the village. At the center of each and every one of these villages
> will be Native people, and they will walk as "hollow" shells upon a "prairie of
> stone". They said "hollow shells" which means they will have lost any of their
> traditional understandings; they will be empty within. They said after the
> Eagle lands on the moon some of these people will begin to leave these
> "prairies of stone" and come home and take up some of the old ways and begin to
> make themselves reborn, because it's a new day. But many will not. And they
> said there's going to come a time when in the morning the sun is going to rise
> and this village of stone will be there, and in the evening there would just be
> steam coming from the ground. They will be as steam. And in the center of many
> of those villages of stone when they turn to steam, the Native people will turn
> to steam also because they never woke up and left the village. And this used to
> bother me when I was a young man. I used to ask the elders, "Isn't there
> anything we can do?" And they said, well, it's just that way that if a person
> does not have the spiritual eyes to see, it's very hard to show them. Or if
> they don't have the ears to hear, it's very hard to speak with them. We wish
> that we could go get them all but we can't. It's just that some are not going
> to wake up. But some will wake up .
> 
> And so they say there's going to be the Third Shaking of the Earth. It's not
> going to be a good thing to see but we will survive it. We will survive it.
> 
> And when we survive it, then there's going to be another attempt to make a
> circle of the human beings on the earth. And this time the Native people will
> not have to petition to join but will be invited to enter the circle because
> they say the attitude towards us will have changed by then, and people will let
> 
> us into the circle and all the four colors of the four directions will share
> their wisdom, and there will be a peace on earth. This is coming close. A lot
> of times when I share this message of the prophecies, people say, "Can't we
> change it? Could we stop it?" The answer is yes. The prophecies are always
> "either/or". We could have come together way back there in 1565, and we could
> have had a great civilization, but we didn't. Always along the path of these
> prophecies, we could have come together. We still could. If we could stop the
> racial and religious disharmony, we would not have to go through this third
> shaking. The elders say the chance of that is pretty slim. It seems to me like
> it's pretty slim, too. But they say what we can do is we can "cushion" it. The
> word we use is "cushion". We can cushion it so it won't be quite as bad. How do
> we do this? We do this by sharing the teaching that will reunite us. The Hopis
> in their prophecies say there will be a religion that comes here. Maybe it will
> be true and bring unity, or maybe it will not be true and not bring unity. If
> it does not bring unity, a second religion will come, and the people of this
> religion are known in the Hopi language as the Bahani, the people of Baha. Ni
> means "people of". So I was looking for the people of Baha. I wondered who the
> people of Baha were. I was a Bahá'í for quite a while before somebody told me
> that baha'i means "people of Baha". I thought, "0 my God!" Here I was looking
> for it all these years and I never even noticed it! And I found it! I was
> stubborn and didn't want to become a "Bahá'í but my grandfather who passed
> away, you know he must have found out about it in the next realm because he
> came back to me four times to tell me, "Hey, look at that again, look at that
> again. Look one more time." Baha, it means "light or glory". Bahá'í means
> "follower of the light", or the "people of Baha". We've been waiting for these
> people for a long time. They say they will bring a Teaching that will unite the
> earth. So we need to share this Teaching. They say the fire will come from the
> North. So here we are, in a circle, in the North, talking about the Bahá'ís,
> the "people of Baha", and the teachings of Bahá'u'lláh.
> 
> When I heard about these [prophecies], none of them made any sense. Now most of
> it has come to pass. Last I heard on the news, they said the "house in the sky"
> will be put up in 1996. It was going to be put up sooner, but it's been
> postponed for four years. Maybe it will be postponed again. But in not too long
> it's going to go up. The earth as we know it is going to change.
> 
> Each of us carry, I believe, a sacred drop of light. In the Indian teachings,
> they say it takes nine ancestors to agree before conception can occur. Nine
> ancestors of the husband and the wife have to come together in the spiritual
> realm and say; "We will bring life," before a woman can become pregnant. At
> that time the soul is born.
> 
> I delivered my first daughter and a man from the Blood Reserve who went to
> South Dakota and was the first Blood...in 82 years he came to my house by
> coincidence four days before my wife went into labor. Each night we had a
> ceremony, and on the morning after the fourth ceremony my wife went into labor
> at sunrise. And that night, at sunset, my daughter was born. And I took her
> out, and I cut the cord, and I noticed at the sundance that what people do in
> South Dakota, they pass the pipe three times, and they don't take it until the
> fourth time. And even in Washington I've heard the coming of a child is like
> the coming of a new pipe. When I was delivering my daughter I happened to
> notice that the skull came out three times, and on the fourth time, her head
> came out like the coming of a pipe. First I put her on the mother instantly and
> after a few minutes I cleaned her up and I washed her up. There was a circle of
> people just about like this around my wife and there were people of different
> backgrounds and we looked up and through the ceiling came a small drop of blue
> light. When it got close to the child you could not see it. That was her soul,
> she will carry that light throughout earth. In that is her special uniqueness
> as a being, a spiritual power. In that are gifts.
> 
> After we go through and then we carry it back here and it radiates to she mind
> but for some reason in this cycle we've been in the lower natures, the animal
> thought. But now we're going into the human world. The mind is going to be
> opened up to the radiance of our own soul and the cycle of the human beings is
> going to come back, and something so good is going to happen on the earth that
> it cannot even be described. The elders say it in different ways. They say,
> there will be grass at that time when they make that circle and bring the peace
> on earth. There will be blades of grass that have not quite come through the
> earth. Even they will try to push themselves up to be part of that day when the
> sun rises. The elders explain it like this: out here, outside this building,
> long before there was a fair ground here there were Native people. They say
> many of these Native people in different tribes were aware of these things, and
> they told the children. Their children grew up.
> 
> You know, one time the scientist came to the Hopis and they said, "We want to
> take a piece of the stone tablets." They said "We want to take the stone
> tablets to a scientific laboratory to determine how old they are." The Hopis
> said, "We know how old they are". Well, the scientists said, "We want to
> confirm it." Well, the Hopis let them take a little piece, and they did that by
> 
> the carbon dating method. They found these tablets were at least 10,000 years
> old, maybe 50,000. So when I say, "Thousands of years ago, there were Native
> people that spoke of these things," that's exactly what I mean. They told their
> 
> children and thousands of years ago, their children grew up and told their
> children, and then their children grew up and told their children. And they
> spoke about the people that will live in this time.
> 
> And now it is us. We are the ones they spoke of long ago. They say to be alive,
> to come into creation and to live upon the earth at this time is a great honor.
> 
> In the cycle of time, from the beginning to the end, this time we are in now
> will change the purification of all things. They say this is the hardest time
> to live, but it is also the greatest honor to be alive to live and see this.
> 
> In the state of Washington in 1855 they signed treaties and made 22 Indian
> reservations. They wanted to do it before there were problems. They thought
> they were advanced at the time, they had learned from what had happened
> elsewhere. They made 22 Indian reservations and the elders spoke in 1855 and
> they said, "We're going to become weaker, and you are going to become stronger,
> and if you wish to break these treacies, you may do so." They said, "But
> there's going to come a time when the earth itself will rise up and purify
> itself and this will be announced. It will be announced by the speaking of more
> than 16 Great Ones on the West Coast of this land. And when the 16 Great Ones
> speak, the purification will have begun. There was a new [?] five years ago
> when Mt. Saint Helens, one of the 16 great volcanoes on the West Coast of this
> land, "spoke". The Seattle Times did a special interest story. They went over
> to Watson Totus and Woodrow Bill. It was Woodrow Bill's son that made this hoop
> that I brought here today, my good brother Randolf Bill. They asked Watson
> Totus and Woodrow Bill as spiritual people of the Yakuma nation, "What does
> this mean?" What they said was so profound that they didn't put it on page 16,
> they put it on the front page of the Seattle Times. They said, "This means that
> the races and nations of the earth should slow down and come together and talk
> to each other." That's exactly what it meant. And we had four years and four
> days to do that.
> 
> Four years and four days later, Mt. Saint Helens erupted the second time. That
> was last spring, just about this time. That was our grace period. We could have
> still done something really good. But now things are going to speed up. Now
> things are going to really happen fast. Time is going to go so fast. The more
> we share the Message, the more we will cushion the Third Shaking of the Earth,
> and the easier it will be on ourselves and others.
> 
> A good friend of mine in Montana whose grandmother just passed away last year,
> the last thing she said to him was "Make a place for yourself in the mountains
> because the air will become so hot down here," where they were at on a
> reservation, that it would be hard to breath. And it won't be long, That's the
> last thing she told her grandson when she was passing. Go on the mountains and
> make a place for yourself. Put some things there that you can survive with.
> People are going to run to the mountains to survive and the Native people must
> be ready for this.
> 
> We are now within the purification of all things. Non-Natives call this the
> "Apocalypse". The Native elders call this the "Purification". I want to share
> one non-Native prophecy with you. There was a seer in Europe whose name was
> Nostradamus. I'm sure many of you have heard of him. He foresaw three Great
> Shakings of the Earth. He said the Third Great Shaking will begin when Lesser
> Arabia and Persia engage in a war. Five years ago, when Mt. Saint Helens went
> off, Iraq attacked Iran. Lesser Arabia today is called Iraq. Persia is called
> Iran. These two prophecies coincide. Both the Native elders and Nostradamus
> said this will start slowly, almost unnoticed by the people of the earth, but
> it will eventually involve us all. Eventually the "gourd of ashes" will fall
> from the sky so muck that the river that runs through the center of this [?],
> the Mississippi River, will boil from the heat of the "gourds of ashes" that
> will fall on this land. But don't despair. It sounds terrible, but we will
> survive it. We will live through it. I don't think there's anyone chosen to
> live through it, but some people will.
> 
> So, in closing I would like to call on each and every person, regardless of who
> you are, young or old, Native or non-Native, to arise now, and to awake, to
> embrace this time, to learn everything you can about the Teachings and the
> Writings, to arise and awake and go forth, all the peoples of the earth.
> Peoples everywhere are now receptive to the Message. This year is the year when
> that is really going to start, I believe, myself. Arise and awake. That's a
> phrase from the Damuleada of Buddha. It is time to arise and awake, to go forth
> and teach, to walk the road. We call it the good red road, the road that runs
> north to south, things that were lost from south to north but come back from
> north to south. There's ,people out there waiting to hear, waiting to hear...
> waiting to hear...
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  Hopi Elders Gather to Hear the Message of Bahá'u'lláh
> 
>  Kevin Locke, an American Indian believer and Auxiliary Board member,
>  spoke about Bahá'u'lláh to a gathering of approximately 100 Hopi
>  elders in Arizona.
>  
>  "He [Kevin Locke] spoke to them very directly about Bahá'u'lláh's
>  coming and His Message", relates the report. "He was very well
>  received and invited back, and invited to work with the youth and
>  children."
>  
>  This meeting was unique because the Hopi elders rarely gather, apart
>  from their own village ceremonies where only a few live in each
>  village. Elizabeth Dahe, a long-time Bahá'í and Hopi elder, invited
>  the other elders to gather and meet Mr. Locke. "She drew on her
>  life-long friendships and her own status as an elder, saying to Kevin,
>  `I realized that if I don't do these things now, there won't be time
>  later on.'"
>  
>  Report from the Continental Board of Counsellors received 2 August
>  
>  (Published in BAHA'I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE, No. 324 /15
>  September 1994)
>
> — *North American Indian Prophecies (Used by permission of the curator)*