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'Spirit knows no color, Either your a haytah or a lovah' -India.Arie
“Every mestizo is one less Indian — or one more Indian waiting to reemerge.”
- Jose Barreiro, Taino/Guajiro
Wakan Tanka Tungasila, Kokyangwhuti Oonau
With gratitude for those that have walked before us, for those that walk today, and for the future generations - with gratitude for all who were, are, and will be caregivers of our teachings and original instructions, for those who have given, give, and will give their lives to insure that our teachings are passed on from generation to generation, so that we may Live.
With gratitude for the those who taught me, "We teach you so that you will re-member who you are and will seed and nourish these teachings, live them the best you are able during this time, where you live, so that One Great Peace may be realized."
With colonization wumyn and children were murdered, bought and sold, adopted and sent to missionary schools. Today our wumyn are still being murdered. Colonial Laws now say that if we do not send our children to colonial type schools, our children can be or are taken away from us. Too many children are adopted to families that have no knowledge of our ways or teachings. If a wumyn marries outside federally recognized People, the children and families loose their ancestral lands.
All of this is about taking of the lands, all of this is about genocide, all of this is about assimilation, all of this is to impoverish families and put them into the system of buying and selling land and enslave our Peoples to work for the colonial system. All of this is about incarceration of primarily our young MEN.
It is about teaching our children to hate or deny one or the other part of themselves which fragments their minds, emotions and keeps them in a perpetual state of duality and separation within themselves. In this separation our children commit suicide or become addicted to drugs because they do not feel loved, are ostracized and categorized by both colonizer and the Peoples. This is called internalized oppression.
All of this is about forgetting who we are, that we are made of Earth and Sky and are Spirit Beings and Creationing made us.... Creationing made us....Creationing made us Hozho, beautiful whole and perfect.
It is about creating separation and conflict based on this separation…all in the name of quantifying a Wumyn's eggs, her life, her worth and treat her like an object.
Wakan Tanka, my prayer is for our wumyn, to stand up in their Authority as Wumyn to let no man define our genetic eggs that contain our bloodlines and genetic memory of our ancestors. Our eggs, that are the future generations, Our eggs that are given to us whole and beautiful by Wakan Tanka.
My prayer is that this genetic memory awaken in our wumyn, and the inclusive and loving WISE nature of the Great Mother Earth - that all children are her children will be realized within all hearts and minds of the Peoples for the One Great Peace.
My prayer is for our Wumyn to rise as the teachers of our children to re-weave our Cultural Life Ways and Wise Ways of living in harmony and balance with Mother Earth, All Life and each other.
My prayer is for Unity and peace within the hearts and minds of all Two Legged Peoples because without Mother Earth, Water, Air and right relationship with Fire, and each other …there is no life.
My prayer is for our Nations to grow healthy and numerous, and our Life Ways nourish and educate others and become our Relatives. My prayer is for good health and gratitude for my relatives who choose to walk the Red Road of harmony with Mother Earth and the Blue Road of Spirit, for we now walk side by side for your blood is and has always been red - just like mine. And now, we have a common language that is born from our shared prayers and life ways together.
My prayer is that no matter where our children are, walking gently and in harmony with Mother Earth, Father Sun and Cosmos that they always remember who they are, and no longer acquiesce their cultural spiritual relationship and soveranty with Wakan Tanka, for it is Wakan Tanka who made us Wild, Whole and Beautiful.
May we continue to pray, sing, dance, and caregive the Life Ways and Wise Ways of our Healing Cultures, for now is the time of the One Great Peace to be realized.
With gratitude for our Men who walk side by side with us, stand with us, and protect us.
Aho Mitakuye Oyas'in
Alis~Itlatol
Hena Wakan Pi ~ Itlatol
All Life is Sacred ~ Life's Voice, Song and Wise Story
Thank you Jose Barriero and India.Arie for your wise words and onkwehón:we scholar Jack D. Forbes
