Early Native Americans were watchful of the sky and like all ancient
cultures observed that the planets, the stars and especially the moon
moved through never ending cycles that showed a continuous and balanced
pattern.
For the American Indian the hoop symbolizes the “Circle of Life” and
the continuous arc of balance, with no beginning...no end...just
continuum.
To American Indians Mother Earth was a living entity in need of
respect and protection. Their beliefs were based on a spiritual
understanding of wholeness and a spiritual lifestyle is at the core of
American Indian beliefs.
All indigenous cultures believed in the oneness of all that was, is,
and ever will be. And all believed in the never ending cycles. It was
their attunement to these cycles that led to heightened sensitivity,
perception and intuition...sometimes called second sight...into the
workings of Nature and the Creator in general.
I came across what I believe is an impressive group of videos,
containing talks with 3 American Indian Elders. Though I'm not sure when
these videos were filmed (perhaps as long as 10 years ago) they were
posted on you tube in 2007. The message these Elders gave at that time
is even more urgent today as we have already begun to see some of these
prophecies fulfilled.
April 22, 2009 is
Earth Day and will mark the beginning of ”
The Green Generation Campaign”.
There is much of value that can be learned in the philosophy and wisdom
of the American Indian. We can only pray that as the world focuses
attention on her need for respect and protection and takes action that
Mother Earth will once again find us worthy and be forgiving.
In this first video Elder Floyd Red Crow Westerman speaks. Westerman
was an accomplished singer/songwriter whose 1969 debut album“Custer
Died for Your Sins” earned critical acclaim. He was also a human rights
activist and a well known activist for environmental causes, the rights
of American Indians and other indigenous people. Westerman died in
December 2007.
Floyd Red Crow Westerman 2000
Westerman quotes from the video:
“We were told that we would see America come and go. In a sense
America is dying, from within, because they forgot the instructions of
how to live on earth.
Its the Hopi belief, its our belief, that if you are not
spiritually connected to the earth, and understand the spiritual reality
of how to live on earth, its likely that you will not make it.
Everything is spiritual, everything has a spirit, everything was
brought here by the creator, the one creator. Some people call him God,
some people call him Buddha, some people call him Allah, some people
call him other names. We call him Konkachila... Grandfather.
We are here on earth only a few winters, then we go to the spirit
world. The spirit world is more real then most of us believe. The
spirit world is everything.
Over 95% of our body is water. In order to stay healthy you've
got to drink good water. ... Water is sacred, air is sacred. Our DNA is
made out of the same DNA as the tree, the tree breaths what we exhale,
we need what the tree exhales. So we have a common destiny with the
tree. We are all from the earth, and when earth, the water, the
atmosphere is corrupted, then it will create its own reaction. The
mother is reacting. In the Hopi prophecy they say the storms and floods
will become greater. To me its not a negative thing to know that there
will be great changes. Its not negative, its evolution. When you look
at it as evolution, it's time, nothing stays the same.
You should learn how to plant something. That is the first
connection. You should treat all things as spirit, realize that we are
one family. Its never something like the end. Its like life, there is
no end to life”
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