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)