Morningstar's Blessings

Morning Star dawns in the Rainforest....Wongali sings humans from night dreaming into the day dreamtime. I have spent many days listening, feeling, tasting, and touching both the heart love and the pain of the People's. I write this morning to my Relatives, keepers of the ancestral Morningstar traditions and original language. Deeply the prayers both spoken and unspoken are carried in the heart-mind connections of those that gathered recently to usher in the New Fire of the New Sun.

There is a collective pain crying to be healed among all the People's who gathered and continue to gather worldwide. The simple version is generational trauma, grief and loss of language, culture and Way of Life. This feeling of loss comes from the potent, genetic memories we all share of living in balance and harmony with all Life, as children made of Earth and Sky - love for this Way of Life. The comprehension of the loss  and it's vast and interwoven fabric that lay it's shadow upon the human heart is being unraveled and dispelled by the willingness to Be Love, fully and deeply, the Love of the Wakan and Divine that is and can never be extinguished, for this is how we are made. I only speak from my own knowing, and the little I have learned by the Elders that have generously shared their teachings, so that the People may Live. Dawahongva taught me: "do your best each day to live by the original instructions".

Nothing can be extinguished forever. In the dreaming, which for me is the dialogue, the communication the creationing with the Sentience of All Life, anything "lost" can be re-dreamed, re-membered. "Lost" is only the feeling of dis-connection from Source Love - Wakan Dream....ing. The Way of Life we all cherish and long for can only be rewoven, by living it....with Love during this transitional time into the 5th Sun.

So, my Kungangi Relatives, I carry you in my heart and send you strength and courage to teach your children all you know. Live the ceremonies, speak language that was passed to you....dream your Life Ways back into existence. All the money in the world will not take the place of living the Wakan Dream. We will do the best we know how each day....we have gathered shared and and affirmed our knowing of the inner and inter-connectedness with each other and All Life. We are our mothers Rainbow Serpent children.

Rainforest dawn
Wakan Wongali talks
Dancing with  Inipi stones
tones of wisdom from
her ancestral bones
Permissions and Blessings
from the original seeded Beings

Frangipani scented lotus
painting
the One Language
Beauty Way Alter
connecting heart of fire
to heart of womb
with the hearts
of Mother's Children

Water of Life
Earth of Life
Air of Life
Fire of Life
One Love
Dreamseeding
Creation

Pilamayalo, with gratitude to my Morning Star relations.....

Kungangi Rainforest

2012

Dream Flight

A twenty four plus hour journey to Australia began from the New Mexico Sunport in Albuquerque. Within the terminal is a crossroad, and at this juncture is a statue called: the Lincoln Fox Bronze Statue: Dream of Flight.

Our first morning sunrise. I am told by Indigenous Elder Riko, that this place we are, is where the heart, head and tail of the Serpent originate and end in it's never ending cycle of giving love, protection and care for the People's.

The core group of volunteers, which are the backbone of any ceremony or gathering of intention, have built huts made of bamboo and tarps. The Kitchen is over seen by Lavina who is love, grace and prayer in motion.  

International and regional Elders and Youth Leaders are coming in and getting settled into their huts.  Ceremony begins tomorrow. During the next 4 days we will also have Talking Circles to share our oral traditions, inter-generational dialogues and continue to make relationship agreements with each other and our intentions for the collective Dream that brings us all together. The abundance of love within and shared with everyone is nourishing, peaceful, and with much happiness.

Many Blessings to All My Relations,  ~ April

Why support "The Digital Message Stick" ?

Why is the "The Digital Message Stick" important?

When I think about Robert Chavez of H.O.P.E.'s message to 

educate our families and our communities about the reality of LANL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3rHQLigPRQ

and our Traditional and Indigenous Wisdom that teaches us 

All Life is Sacred...

When I think about Thomas Banyacya who spoke out publicly

for decades giving permission for both video and audio recordings...

about the mis-use of uranium and it's effects on Traditional Life Ways

and the devastation that it has and continues to have 

on All Life and the One Humanity...and still so many have not heard his

guidance....

When I think about WHY so many people still know nothing about our history, 

about how precious our water, air, land, Life Ways are, for the health and well-being NOW and for the future generations....

When I think about how decades of censorship of our voices in mainstream media, school textbooks, and intentional lack of funding resources to educate people has hindered our region from being heard....

When I think about the loss of language which is the foundation of every culture

and the need to preserve our Traditional and Indigenous Cultural Life Ways

which embody the teachings to guide the One Humanity at this time....

When I think about these things, I am delighted by

the opportunity that has come from an official invitation from the Rare Earth Foundation and the Yabarrah Elders to begin with this first documentary, plus build a global social network, plus guide our Youth with the wisdom from Traditional and Indigenous Elders to be the future Leaders, for a more harmonious Life Way with Mother Earth, through

a global youth media network with a focus on preservation of language and culture...this is truly a big Vision, that Taos and our region

is invited to participate in...all because they invited two "regular" people 

(Eric and I) who love and care for our community, our Life Ways, and our families, who are all inner-and inter-related and connected.

Please Join us for Music from Ruben and Friends, Refreshments, a presentation about the film and 

connected programs, Skype with Melueka from Rare Earth Foundation and Poet Lyla June Johnston, 

Raffle for Art, Door Prizes, and more!

Saturday October 20th 4-9PM BAREISS GALLERY

If you can't make it please go to our fundraiser site : http://www.wisdomkeeperslive.com/

And Please share with others! We have almost reached our goal!!!!

We are grateful and thank all of you for your support of us and this collective vision.

Much Love and Peace, 

April

Support Elder and Youth Collaborative Initiatives: The Digital Message Stick, the Re-generation Festival and H.O.P.E

This summer my son and I attended  a few regional conferences that included inter-generational dialogues about Elders guiding and supporting
our Youth Leader's who are stepping up in answer to the call for active solutions to the many crises caused by generations of abuse to our People's and Mother Earth.
In these two videos Robert Chavez and Marian Naranjo of H.O.P.E : Honoring our Pueblo Existence, speak about the need for more education regarding the ongoing effects toxic uranium dumping from Los Alamos National Lab has on our communities.
Youth Leader Robert Chavez: http://youtu.be/z3rHQLigPRQ
Elder Marian Naranjo: http://youtu.be/FokNYSAqHdI

At the SEED Institute conference in Albuquerque, both Elders and Youth agreed that now is the time to raise awareness, educate, and fund Youth Leader's initiatives for a more harmonious Life Way, through responsible use of media technology as a "tool". This said, we all know that to raise our voices above the din of well funded corporate media, will mean that we need to support each other.
Lyla June Johnston, a Youth Leader from Taos New Mexico, shared "Hozho", one of her spoken word pieces at the fundraising dinner for youth initiatives. http://youtu.be/4tAo9puhnNs . Lyla is the founder of the Re-generation Festival, and asks for world wide participation as a means to help end suicide, drug addiction overdose, and death by the effects of generational trauma from the the colonized world.   
For more information about the Re-Generation Festival: http://regenerationfestival.us/

Now my son and I have been officially invited to attend the Rare Earth and Yabarrah Elders Gathering in November to kickstart the "Digital Message Stick" documentary. 

The Gathering is to ceremonially share in the Yabarrah Elders teachings about the Solar Eclipse and to bring Elders, Youth Leaders and NGO's together to dialogue about the need to bring Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom to the forefront in guiding humanity toward a more harmonious relationship with our Mother Earth. The film will begin in Australia and gather messages from Indigenous and Tribal Peoples around the world by different producers. The documentary will be shared with the world, to give a unified resounding voice for the solutions we all want - to put the up-side down colonized culture, right side up. Elders, Youth Leaders, Tribal Nations and NGO's may contact us to include their messages. Yet this is only the start. Rare Earth wants to be able to continue this dialogue with additional episodes and a social media platform to strengthen our collective voices and calls to action. 

My son Eric, graduated Taos High, New Mexico, and received a scholarship to attend the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. He graduated in 2011 with a degree in Film Production. His Tsalagi name is Edoda Dideyo husgi, and his media name is Earthouse Productions: "Mother Earth is my Studio".
Elder's have placed in my care, their messages via audio or video, that they would like to be shared with the Yabarrah Elders and the world. My son and I ask for your support in helping create the Digital Message Stick documentary with the Yabarrah Elders and the Rare Earth Foundation. http://www.indiegogo.com/globaleldersgatheringAprilEric

If you are inspired and would like to support any or all of these Youth Leaders, please follow the links provided. Please contact me for more information about any of these initiatives or sponsoring benefits. Email: liveolakhota@gmail.com or call 575-751-1962 , Thank you ~ April Mondragon

Food Not Bombs: NLC supports laws banning the sharing of food in public

From a Bear's perspective, the United Corporations of Amerika continue to create more and more laws and regulations, that serve no purpose but to make more suffering. Please read Keith McHenry, co-founder of Food Not Bombs post below. Philly is not the first city to create criminally insane laws which have resulted in FNB volunteers being  fined and  jailed, or limited to being able to feed people one day a month. Any financially poor person will tell you that any subsidy that they may have received in the past from Social Services for food, for households with dependent children or the disabled,  has been cut to about a dollar a day. Meanwhile the military industrial complex war machine fat cats roll around in pork bellies. 
Please consider calling or writing Mr. Brooks of the NLC to express your outrage. And then make a donation or volunteer at your local Food Not Bombs chapter.  ~ Bear


"…James Brooks, the National League of Cities' program director for community development and infrastructure, says he agrees with Philadelphia's approach to banning public feeding."
Religious Charity On Philadelphia Homeless Feeding Ban: 'We're Going To Break The Law"


Dear Mr Brooks,
We sure hope that the National League of Cities reconsiders it's support for laws banning the sharing of food in public. This policy could not be more misguided at this time when the U.S. Census is reporting that one in two Americans are struggling to survive. I meet people every week that have been unable to get food for their families from food banks or indoor soup kitchens and express huge relief that we are able to help. Food Not Bombs has been sharing food out door for over 30 years and provides meals outside in over 1,000 cities and not one person has reported that they were made ill eating our organic vegetarian food. Many people will not eat at indoor soup kitchens because they do not feel safe. We hear this all the time mostly from mothers with children. Even the experts claim we are heading for a Great Depression and food costs are rising. A war with Iran wont be much of a help either so we need groups like Food Not Bombs to build support for real solutions to poverty.
Our volunteers plan to resist this misguided policy in every city where a ban is proposed or implemented. As you may know efforts to stop our meals have cost cities tens of thousands of dollars which could have been better used to support efforts to end hunger. Nearly bankrupt cities should consider this fact when seeking to drive the poor out of sight. Silencing efforts to solve the economic and political crisis is counter productive. When we are able to spend billions to fight war it is clear we have the ability to make sure no one is forced to eat at a soup kitchen. Please join us in ending poverty and despair in our cities. Thanks for your consideration.

Keith McHenry
co-founder of the Food Not Bombs movement
www.foodnotbombs.net

Religious Charity On Philadelphia Homeless Feeding Ban: 'We're Going To Break The Law'
Huffington Post By Jessica Prois 07/17/2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/philadelphia-homeless-feeding-ban_n_1677689.html

...James Brooks, the National League of Cities' program director for community development and infrastructure, says he agrees with Philadelphia's approach to banning public feeding.


Corn May Rally to Record $8.50 as Drought Deepens, Newedge Says
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-17/corn-may-rally-to-record-8-dot-50-as-drought-deepens-newedge-says
National League of Cities
http://www.nlc.org/about-nlc

Water is Life: A Hopi Message ~ Together We Can Protect the Waters of the World

Water is Life.

The Hopi, and all First Nations of Turtle Island, are our Elders. The Hopi, rarely have come out publicly since Chief Dan Evehema brought the world the Hopi Prophecies. 

When I was young, my Hopi relatives, shared with me that if the Hopi Way of Life were to become threatened, if it were to end; all Life on Mother Earth would be threatened and come to an end. 

Now is the time to listen, and respond to our Elders request. We are to care and preserve our waters locally, regionally and globally. We are to come together as One Humanity in collective resistance to the desecration of the Holy Waters of Life. 

Please stand in unity and solidarity with the Hopi, sign the petition to defeat SB2109, and share this with all of your contacts. 

Waste, Asquali, Thank you

Stop SB 2109

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Protect_Hopi_Water_Hopi_and_the_World_Stop_Senate_Bill_2019/

Other Links:

The Traditional Hopi

http://traditionalhopi.org/

Hopi Prophecy

http://www.tribalmessenger.org/prophecies/hopi-hopi.htm

ACTION ALERT: 10K Metric Tons of Nuclear Toxic Waste

Our Mother Earth, her Peoples, and All Life, everywhere is being assaulted and violated by the corporate-military-political industrial complex. Locally and regionally we are being targeted by the Fracking Oil boys, the XL Pipeline, the attempt through SB 2109 to steal treaty water rights from the Hopi and Navajo Nations, and now we are facing 10 metric tons of nuclear and chemical waste being dumped here. Time to wake up, get up and stand up, we are in a fight for our lives. Please sign this petition, keep sharing it, and show up where ever and whenever you can to stop the devastation to our beloved Mother Earth.
Thank you, 
http://www.nukewatch.org/watchblog/?p=1207