Attention! Keeper of Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
Imparts Sacred Message for the Future of the Earth
I, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, of the
Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nations, ask you to understand an Indigenous
perspective on what has happened in America, what we call “Turtle Island.” My
words seek to unite the global community through a message from our sacred
ceremonies to unite spiritually, each in our own ways of beliefs in the
Creator.
We have been warned from ancient
prophecies of these times we live in today, but have also been given a very
important message about a solution to turn these terrible times.
To understand the depth of this
message you must recognize the importance of Sacred Sites and realize the
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 since the age of 12 when I received the Sacred White Buffalo
Calf Pipe Bundle and its teachings. Our people have strived to protect Sacred
Sites from the beginning of time. These places have been violated for centuries
and have brought us to the predicament that we are in at the global level.
Look around you. Our Mother Earth is
very ill from these violations, and we are on the brink of destroying the
possibility of a healthy and nurturing survival for generations to come, our
children’s children.
Our ancestors have been trying to
protect our Sacred Site called the Sacred Black Hills in South Dakota, “Heart
of Everything That Is,” from continued violations. Our ancestors never saw a
satellite view of this site, but now that those pictures are available, we see
that it is in the shape of a heart and, when fast-forwarded, it looks like a
heart pumping.
The Diné have been protecting Big
Mountain, calling it the liver of the earth, and we are suffering and going to
suffer more from the extraction of the coal there and the poisoning processes
used in doing so.
The Aborigines have warned of the
contaminating effects of global warming on the Coral Reefs, which they see as
Mother Earth’s blood purifier.
The indigenous people of the
rainforest say that the rainforests are the lungs of the planet and need
protection.
The Gwich’in Nation in Alaska has
had to face oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain,
also known to the Gwich’in as “Where life begins.”
The coastal plain is the birthplace
of many life forms of the 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 mankind’s misuse of power and their lack of
understanding of the “balance of life.”
The Indigenous people warn that
these destructive developments will cause havoc globally. There are many, many
more indigenous teachings and knowledge about Mother Earth’s Sacred Sites, her
chakras, and connections to our spirit that will surely affect our future
generations.
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 types 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 using more
resources to carry out destruction in the name of peace is not the answer! We
need to understand how all these decisions affect the global nation; we will
not be immune to its repercussions. Allowing continual contamination of our
food and land is affecting the way we think.
A “disease of the mind” has set in
world leaders and many members of our global community, with their belief 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.
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 chemicals and methods of
warfare that are doing irreversible damage, as Mother Earth is becoming tired
and cannot 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 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, I ask all
nations to begin a global effort, and remember to give thanks for the sacred
food that has been 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. You yourself are the one who must decide.
You alone – and only you – can make
this crucial choice, to walk in honor or to dishonor your relatives. On your
decision depends the fate of the entire World.
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. 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, there is no beginning
and no ending.
Chief Arvol Looking Horse is the
author of White Buffalo Teachings. A
tireless advocate of maintaining traditional spiritual practices, Chief Looking
Horse is a member of Big Foot Riders, which memorializes the massacre of Big
Foot’s band at Wounded Knee.
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