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'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
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