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Words of Wisdom From "America's" First Nations People"
Strong Women Make Strong People
From this Turtle Island
Through these Sacred Waters
& Blown by the Four Winds
At the Beginning of the Time,
Came the Strong Women.
The Mother Earth
The Grandmother Moon
The She Manitou
The Peoples’ Woman
A Will to Endure Regardless of Assault
She Is Life,
She Brings Life,
She Brings Love,
Warmth & Tenderness
She is the Spirit Everlasting
poem by Nantinki Rose
When a woman’s heart is on the ground her people cannot survive
MOVING WITH GRACE THROUGH THE AGES
Moving with grace through the ages of the Ancient Civilizations, carrying the secrets of the medicines, and the dreams, and the spiritual connections, We descendants have carried these gifts up through today.
Wide audiences have hunted for suggestions and connections to these secrets for years, Now.
When we tried to share these
answers, they tell us they already know what we are going to say.
Creating likeness to our ceremonies, they demand miracles. Results that don’t quite meet expectations turn faces blackened with rage.
We wonder at this picture. We contemplate with intelligence these suspect people that want to share our medical knowledge with the world...only after they copyright it.
People and companies that want to videotape and record get paperwork signed over with full ownership rights. This consumption has thus far made billions of dollars for corporations and companies that wittingly and designedly ignore the poverty and needs of the very
peoples, that loved humanity enough to share.Does it matter that we protect the innocent? These beloved Elders, Peoples and Innocents?
The Creator, God, or if you wish, Divine Providence, the one that teaches us all that we have to know, gives some tasks that are absolutely necessary.
Encounters with greedy corporate people has made it a lifetime desire for some of us to try and help protect these vulnerable peoples.
Listen to the Ancient Voices from within your very self, we are descendants of these Ancient Civilizations, and if we listen carefully, we will hear the right answers, we will feel them.
When the first light came and the
Creator gave the people animals to hunt, food to eat, people to be with, and all the beauty of the Mother Earth, The People were grateful. They showed the love of these gifts in ceremony and gave thanks each day. To demonstrate worthiness - since the beginning this has been done.From the Four Directions people did this. From the Four Winds this will be done again for the future of our world.
Nantinki Rose -(top photo w /grandchildren) Passamaquoddy/Mohegan is a Director of Four Winds Foundation International
We are grateful to have the words of
Grandfather Chief Dan George
( 1899 - 1981)
There is a longing in the heart of my people to reach out and grasp that what is needed for our survival. There is a longing among the young men of my nation to secure for themselves and their people the skills that will provide them with a sense of worth and purpose. They will be our new warriors. Their training will be much longer and more demanding than it was in the olden days. The long years of study will demand more determination, separation from the home and family will demand endurance. But they will emerge with their hand held forward, not to receive welfare, but to grasp the place in society that is rightly ours.
I am chief, but my power to make war is gone, and the only weapon left to me is speech. It is only with tongue and speech that I can fight my people’s war.
Oh, Great Spirit! Give me back the courage of the olden Chiefs. Let me wrestle with my surroundings. Let me once again, live in harmony with my environment. Let me humbly accept this new culture and through it rise up and go on. Like the thunderbird of old, I shall rise again out of the sea; I shall grab the instruments of the white man’s success - his education, his skills. With these new tools I shall build my race into the proudest segment of your society. I shall see our young braves and our chiefs sitting in the houses of law and government, ruling and being ruled by the knowledge and freedoms of our great lands.
This excerpt is from his book "My Heart Soars"
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