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OCTOBER 2014

Manataka American Indian Council

SPIRITUAL MEDICINE

THE COSMIC NEW AGE HAS COMMENCED

by Hunbatz Men, Maya Itza Tradition

Solar Initiate: May the Great Father Sun be with you when you receive this message. The Mayas are already here to continue the harmony of the Cosmic New Age. The following message was delivered at the sacred temples of Chichen Itza last December 21, 2012. We are attaching this message for a better understanding of the things that happened on that important day and marked the beginning of the counting of this Cosmic New Age in which the initiates are going to start their work for the wellness of mankind. May the Great Spirit be always with you. Council of the Supreme, Commandment of the Mayan Elders

I feel really glad to share with you what happened at the Mayan temples of Chichen Itza, Mexico, on the 21 of December, 2012, when we performed the ritual of the prophecy of the New Age. The ritual began at 7 AM when the sun had just started to form the shadow of the Pyramid of Kukulcan right there in Chichen Itza. About 200 people from many places of the world took part in this ritual, and I, Hunbatz Men, was watching if the guards of the government would interfere or not. Fortunately, these people did not interrupt us; it was like magic but none of the security guards came to bother us.

Around 7.30 AM, it suddenly started to drizzle, but this light rain looked more like some type of dew, and it just lasted for about 15 minutes. Just after this rain, there was an absolute silence that lasted for 15 minutes, too. Then I watched all around and I was nicely surprised to see that about 70% of the people were wearing white clothes. A few minutes later all of them started to play some type of musical instruments, so an atmosphere of joy could be seen and heard everywhere. Summarizing, first, there was the dew-rain: then the absolute silence; next, many people wearing white and playing some musical instruments. In conclusion, my heart was very happy for all those wonderful things I could experience in just a few minutes.

But the biggest surprise is that none of the local authorities intervened to stop the rituals. This was great for me since it seems like the Mayan Gods gave their consent to allow everything go smoothly and harmoniously. After that, my group of about 200 people and I concluded our ritual in front of the Pyramid of Kukulcan giving thanks to the spirits and our Father Sun. We were going to walk in circles around the pyramid but we had just walked a few steps when a group of about 10 people started to ask questions. Some of them looked familiar to me, and as we were about to complete the first lap, I realized I had not seen those people for many years.

I can say that by the second lap I had already talked with several of these people who were wearing very strange clothes that did not look like native clothes by the way. I also noticed that they asked questions that were unclear to me. By the third lap around the pyramid, I came to the understanding that the faces of those people did not belong to this physical dimension. Mi understanding became clearer when I saw someone I was sure did not exist in this third dimension anymore; anyway I kept walking with the group. It is then when I realized I had just entered another dimension. Thus, even before completing the third lap around the pyramid, I thanked all the participants and ended the ritual in honor of the Cosmic New Age.

Now, after some reasoning, I can understand that the pyramid is actually in several dimensions and the people I talked to there had just gotten manifested in that sacred site of Chichen Itza. It is here where we could have many questions but just a few answers. The good thing is that many spirits got manifested in such a sacred site like the Mayan temples of Chichen Itza. It can be said that in a cosmic way these spirits were allowed by our universal creator to be manifested at the beginning of this Cosmic New Age and accompany us during this ritual in honor of our Father Sun and all the givers of life that were with us, too. This way our initiatic work fulfilled its commitment to our universal creator Hunab K’u and all the high spirits successfully.

But I truly believe that the sacred crystal skulls also helped us from their own dimension, like it was the case of the sacred crystal skull NAGA K’U that was sent to me from Tibet. This sacred crystal skull was always with us during the whole of the ritual. All the energy it projected to us, together with the energy of the initiates who were with us, contributed to the fulfillment of part of the prophecies. Only with the help and energy projected by Naga K’u and the spirits of the high Tibetan teachers, who were always with us in spirit, we were able to complete our sacred mission.

Continuing with our initiate’s process, let me inform you that we were also given another sacred crystal skull named K’IN BATZ that belongs to the Maya Lacandon people of Chiapas, Mexico. This crystal skull was lent by the Maya priest Kayun from the Maya Lacandon community to the French initiates Carole Tridon and Franck Echardour who took the skull on a journey through several sacred sites in France. After that process our French siblings have returned this sacred skull to Mexico and given it to me on the condition that I shall hand it in to its original owners, the Maya Lacandons, in a ritualistic act that is going to be performed during the pilgrimage of the skulls in March 2014.

We can say then that in this Cosmic New Age the sacred skulls are going to help the new things coming from the cosmos to be manifested in this dimension in order to contribute to the spiritual development of the new initiates within the wisdom from the cosmos and with the purpose of helping mankind. Then the skulls from all over the world are going to fulfill part of the prophecies of the new awakening of mankind and the ancient temples from all over the world are going to receive the energy from the universe retransmitted by the sacred crystal skulls from all over the world and universe. Thus, these skulls are going to activate the 13 sacred sites where we are going to begin our work of reactivation.

This is the reason why we are going to start with these 13 sites and 13 skulls. Each of the 13 chosen initiates will have to choose a sacred site to perform this universal spiritual work. So the gate is open to any initiate who wants to participate and choose a sacred site to activate. Please let me know if you are interested so that I can add you to the record of initiates who will be in charge of activating the magnetic poles of our Mother Earth in conjunction with the cosmos. This way we are going to begin the New Age with the crystal skulls and the enlightened beings of these times; this great commitment is necessary in order to create a new pathway for the whole mankind.

When these initiates have concluded their work, the sacred crystal skulls will begin to activate other hundreds of sites more both in our world and the cosmos. Thus, this will be the beginning of all what will come from the new education coming from everywhere and we can say that these 13 sacred sites will be the source of the beginning. All the skulls from all over the world will be intercommunicated for the benefit of the holy human race and all the dimensions will be connected; as well, all the thinking beings are going to commence this work, and in this way everybody here and there will be connected cosmically forming a unique thinking mind that will work for the supreme mind following the laws of the universe.

WE inform:

All the initiates and followers from all over the world should know that the New Age commenced last December 21, 2012. Now we will proceed to perform the activation of the 13 sacred ceremonial centers in several places of the world. This activation will be performed through the 13 sacred crystal skulls we mentioned. So these 13 skulls will reactivate the 13 ancient centers in different places of our terrestrial globe.

We are convoking everyone on the day December 21, 2014, when we all together are going to perform this work to allow all that channeling of positive energy be used for the spiritual development of the human beings who from now on are going to venerate the universe.

Hunbatz Men, Maya Itza Tradition

E-mail: mayan20@prodigy.net.mx

Submitted by: Debra Massey

Conseil indien d'Amérique Manataka

MÉDECINE SPIRITUELLE

LA NOUVELLE ÈRE COSMIQUE A COMMENCÉ

par Hunbatz Men, Tradition Maya Itza

Initié solaire :

Le vénérable père soleil peut-être avec vous lorsque vous recevez ce message.

Les Mayas sont déjà ici pour continuer l'harmonie de la Cosmic New Age. Le message suivant a été livré aux temples sacrés de Chichen Itza dernier 21 décembre 2012.

Nous sommes y attacher ce message pour une meilleure compréhension de ce qui s'est passé ce jour-là important et a marqué le début de la comptabilisation de cette cosmique New Age où les initiés vont commencer leur travail pour le bien-être de l'humanité. Que le grand esprit soient toujours avec vous.

Conseil de la Cour suprême, le commandement des anciens Mayas

Je me sens vraiment heureux de partager avec vous ce qui est arrivé aux temples mayas de Chichen Itza (Mexique), le 21 décembre 2012, lorsque nous avons effectué le rituel de la prophétie du New Age. Le rituel a commencé à 07 quand le soleil venait juste de commencer à former l'ombre de la pyramide de Kukulcan là à Chichen Itza. Environ 200 personnes venant de nombreux endroits du monde ont pris part à ce rituel, et j'ai, Hunbatz Men, regardais si les gardes du gouvernement interférerait ou non. Heureusement, ces personnes ne pas interrompent C'était comme par magie, mais aucun des agents des sécurité est venu à nous embêter.

Autour de 07:30, il a soudainement commencé à arroser, mais cette pluie de lumière ressemblait plus à une sorte de rosée, et ça a duré seulement pendant 15 minutes environ. Juste après cette pluie, il y avait un silence absolu qui a duré 15 minutes, aussi. Puis j'ai regardé tout autour et j'ai été agréablement surpris de voir qu'environ 70 % des gens portaient des vêtements blancs. Quelques minutes plus tard tout d'eux a commencé à jouer certains type d'instruments de musique, donc un climat de joie pourrait être vu et entendu partout. En résumé, tout d'abord, il y avait la rosée-pluie : puis le silence absolu ; Ensuite, beaucoup de gens habillé de blanc et de jouer de certains instruments de musique. En conclusion, mon cœur était très heureuse pour toutes ces choses merveilleuses, que je pourrais vivre dans quelques minutes.

Mais la plus grande surprise, c'est qu'aucune des autorités locales est intervenu pour arrêter les rituels. C'était formidable pour moi, car il semble que les dieux Mayas ont donné leur consentement pour permettre tout aller en douceur et en harmonie. Après cela, mon groupe d'environ 200 personnes et moi avons conclu notre rituel devant la pyramide de Kukulcan qui confessent les esprits et notre père soleil. Nous allions à marcher en rond autour de la pyramide, mais nous avions vient de marcher quelques pas quand un groupe d'une dizaine de personnes ont commencé à poser des questions. Certains d'entre eux semblait familier pour moi, et comme nous devais tout à accomplir le premier tour, j'ai réalisé que je n'avais pas vu ces gens pendant de nombreuses années.

Je peux dire que par le deuxième tour j'avais déjà parlé avec plusieurs de ces personnes qui portaient des vêtements très étranges qui ne ressemblent pas à vêtements natives en passant. J'ai aussi remarqué qu'ils ont posé des questions qui n'étaient pas claires pour moi. Par le troisième tour autour de la pyramide, je suis venu à la compréhension que les visages de ces personnes n'appartenaient pas à cette dimension physique. Accord de mi est devenu plus clair quand j'ai vu quelqu'un que j'étais sûr n'existait pas dans cette troisième dimension plus ; en tout cas j'ai continué à pied avec le groupe. Il est alors quand j'ai réalisé que je venais d'entrer une autre dimension. Ainsi, avant même d'avoir terminé le troisième tour autour de la pyramide, je remercie tous les participants et s'est terminé le rituel en l'honneur de la Cosmic New Age.

Maintenant, après un raisonnement, je peux comprendre que la pyramide est en fait dans plusieurs dimensions et les gens que j'ai parlé à il y avaient juste obtenu se manifeste dans ce site sacré de Chichen Itza. C'est là où nous pourrions avoir beaucoup de questions mais juste un peu de réponses. Le point positif est que beaucoup d'esprits se manifeste dans un tel site sacré comme les temples mayas de Chichen Itza. On peut dire que, de manière cosmique, ces esprits ont été autorisés par notre créateur universel à se manifester au début de cette cosmique New Age et de nous accompagner au cours de ce rituel en l'honneur de notre père soleil et tous les donneurs de vie qui étaient avec nous, trop. De cette façon notre travail initiatique rempli son engagement envers notre créateur universel Hunab K'you et tous les esprits élevés avec succès.

Mais je crois vraiment que les crânes de cristal sacré nous a permis aussi de leur propre dimension, comme si c'était le cas du crâne de cristal sacré NAGA K'U qui m'a été envoyé depuis le Tibet. Ce crâne de cristal sacré a toujours été avec nous pendant toute la durée du rituel. Toute l'énergie, il devrait nous, ainsi que l'énergie des initiés qui étaient avec nous, a contribué à la réalisation d'une partie des prophéties. Seulement avec l'aide et l'énergie projetée par le Naga K'you et les esprits des hautes maîtres tibétains, qui étaient toujours avec nous dans l'esprit, nous avons pu terminer notre mission sacrée.

Continuer avec le processus de notre initié, permettez-moi de vous informer que nous avons eu aussi un autre crâne de cristal sacré nommé k BATZ qui appartient au peuple Maya Lacandon du Chiapas, au Mexique. Ce crâne de cristal a été prêté par le prêtre Maya Kayun de la communauté Maya Lacandon aux initiés Français Carole Tridon et Franck Echardour, qui a eu le crâne sur un voyage à travers plusieurs sites sacrés en France. Après ce processus de nos frères et sœurs Français ont retourné ce crâne sacré au Mexique et donné à moi à condition que je vais remettre à ses propriétaires d'origine, les Lacandons Mayas, dans un acte rituel qui va être jouée pendant le pèlerinage des crânes en mars 2014.

Nous pouvons dire alors que dans cette cosmique New Age les crânes sacrés vont aider les nouvelles choses venant du cosmos se manifester dans cette dimension afin de contribuer au développement spirituel des nouveaux initiés au sein de la sagesse dans le cosmos et dans le but d'aider l'humanité. Ensuite, les crânes de partout dans le monde vont remplir la partie des prophéties de la nouvelle prise de conscience de l'humanité et les temples antiques de partout dans le monde vont recevoir l'énergie de l'univers retransmis par les crânes de cristal sacré de partout dans le monde et l'univers. Ainsi, ces crânes vont activer les 13 sites sacrés où nous allons commencer notre travail de réactivation.

C'est la raison pourquoi nous allons commencer avec ces 13 sites et 13 crânes. Chacun des 13 initiés choisies devra choisir un site sacré pour exécuter ce travail spirituel universel. Si le portail est ouvert à tout initié qui veut participer et choisissez un site sacré pour l'activer. S'il vous plaît faites le moi savoir si vous êtes intéressé afin que je puisse vous ajouter au dossier de lance qui sera en charge de l'activation des pôles magnétiques de notre mère la terre en conjonction avec le cosmos. De cette façon, nous allons commencer le New Age avec des crânes de cristal et les êtres illuminés de ces temps ; Cet engagement est nécessaire afin de créer une nouvelle voie pour toute l'humanité.

Lorsque ces initiés ont conclu leurs travaux, les crânes de cristal sacré commencera à activer d'autres des centaines de sites plus dans notre monde et le cosmos. Ainsi, ce sera le début de tout ce qui viendra de l'éducation nouvel venant de partout et nous pouvons dire que ces 13 sites sacrés sera la source du début. Tous les crânes de partout dans le monde vont être intercommunicated pour le bénéfice de l'humanité Sainte et toutes les dimensions seront connectées ; ainsi, tous les êtres pensants vont commencer ce travail, et de cette façon tout le monde ici et là est connecté cosmiquement formant un esprit de la pensée unique qui fonctionnera pour l'esprit suprême, suivent les lois de l'univers.

Nous informons :

Tous les initiés et les disciples de partout dans le monde devraient savoir que le nouvel âge a commencé dernier 21 décembre 2012. Nous allons maintenant procéder à l'activation des 13 centres cérémoniels sacrés dans plusieurs endroits du monde. Cette activation se fera à travers les 13 crânes de cristal sacré, que nous l'avons mentionné. Si ces 13 crânes réactiveront les 13 centres anciens dans différents endroits de notre globe terrestre.

Nous sommes convoquer tout le monde le jour 21 décembre 2014, quand que tous ensemble nous allons effectuer ce travail pour permettre à tous cette canalisation de l'énergie positive être utilisé pour le développement spirituel des êtres humains qui vont à l'avenir pour vénérer l'univers.

Hunbatz Men, Tradition Maya Itza

Courriel : mayan20@prodigy.net.mx

Soumis par : Debra Massey

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Manataka Council Fire

Honored elders and members of Manataka;

In a very real way these corn kernels are what we are looking to preserve through the efforts of Manataka. It was the ancestors who originally selectively cross bred this grass seed to create what it was when the Europeans landed.

It was the ancestors who fed these new arrivals, and taught them how to plant it and harvest, prepare, and store it.

Indian Rainbow Corn

Knowing a good thing when they see it, and money, being ever the prime mover of all, they took this holy staple of indigenous tribes and developed it for their own designs. It is one of the most hybridized plants in existence...and its products pervade every foodstuff and feed in existence, all in the name of profit. I was blessed with the seeds, the rains were plentiful in Arkansas this summer, and from 42 seeds I increased to 4400 seeds. I tied the stalks to stakes due to two windstorms in July, the kernels had pretty much already made, so my efforts were rewarded. The corn grows 14' tall and grew in 4" of soil spread on rocky foundation, so it will grow in almost any conditions.

You are all invited to share in the seeds of our ancestors, and grow your own orange, purple, white, blue and red corn.

I only ask that you keep these historic markers far away from the genetically modified yellows, so the genetics may be preserved. This is historic preservation of native culture made manifest. I grew it in my side yard, many miles from any existing corn. Send me a request and I will forward TSA-LA- GI corn seed for you to take part in the preservation of this beautiful flour corn.

I am glad and joyful with blessings from the great spirit

Michael Eye of Eagle Feather Burton, Chairman,

Manataka American Indian Council

ELDERS SPEAK

"Life is like a path...and we all have to walk the path... As we walk... we'll find experiences like little scraps of paper in front of us along the way. We must pick up those pieces of scrap paper and put them in our pocket... Then, one day, we will have enough scraps of papers to put together and see what they say... Read the information and take it to heart." -- Uncle Frank Davis (quoting his mother), Pawnee

The Creator designed us to learn by trial and error. The path of life we walk is very wide. Everything on the path is sacred - what we do right is sacred - but our mistakes are also sacred. This is the Creator's way of teaching spiritual people. To criticize ourselves when we make mistakes is not part of the spiritual path. To criticize mistakes is not the Indian way. To learn from our mistakes is the Indian way. The definition of a spiritual person is someone who makes 30-50 mistakes each day and talks to the Creator after each one to see what to do next time. This is the way of the Warrior.

Today let me see my mistakes as a positive process. Let me learn the aha's of life... Awaken my awareness so I can see the great learning that You, my Creator, have designed for my life.

Copyright: Coyhis Publishing found in the book, Meditations with Native American Elders: Any republishing of part or all of their contents is prohibited.

At Manataka we teach the path of a blessed life is called the Good Red Road. The journey presents many powerful messages leading one to the wonderful place where our Spirits live forever. ~Lee Standing Bear Moore

THE COSMIC NEW AGE HAS COMMENCED

by Hunbatz Men, Maya Itza Tradition

I feel really glad to share with you what happened at the Mayan temples of Chichen Itza, Mexico, on the 21 of December, 2012, when we performed the ritual of the prophecy of the New Age.

The ritual began at 7 AM when the sun had just started to form the shadow of the Pyramid of Kukulcan right there in Chichen Itza. About 200 people from many places of the world took part in this ritual, and I, Hunbatz Men, was watching if the guards of the government would interfere or not. Fortunately, these people did not interrupt us; it was like magic but none of the security guards came to bother us.

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Dear Manataka Friends:

I am finding it difficult to write this note as I sit here getting ready to write to you about my feather case. Words cannot express what went through my mind Saturday as one of our lawyers sat at our Native church. I will never forget the expression on his face as I asked him to share with the church attendees about the win. He looked at us with a glowing smile and said, "We Won."

Two words I will never forget: "We Won." For most of you, this is just another case in the courtrooms but for the ones involved, this is far more than a win for us. It is a win for every Native person in the United States of America. What was decided by the three judges of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans LA will be remembered for years to come and will be a referred to from now until the Lord comes back. This was not a victory for our eagle feathers. This was a victory for all Indian people throughout the United States. While the case was about our rights as Native People to use such articles as eagle feathers in our ceremonies and powwows, the case will affect every aspect of our Native lives. READ MORE...

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The highest peak in the Blue Ridge Mnts.

"You want to know who's a real medicine man? He's the one who doesn't say 'I'm a medicine man.' He doesn't ask you to come to him. You've got to go and ask him. And you'll find he's always there among his own people." -- Louis Farmer, Onondaga

The Medicine Man is a role model of what it is like to live in harmony and balance with the Creator. It takes a long time, a lot of sacrifice and discipline to become a Medicine Man. A Medicine Man is humble and never crass about anything. He knows he lives to do the will of the Great Spirit. He knows he is to help the people. He lives very low key - the more low key he lives, the more people seek him out - and such is life. The more one serves the people and is quiet about it, the more he is sought out. The quieter he is, the more powerful is his medicine.

Great Spirit, allow me this day to be humble. Allow me this day not to seek attention, but to live quietly and keep my focus and attention on serving You.

Copyright: Coyhis Publishing found in the book, Meditations with Native American Elders: Any republishing of part or all of their contents is prohibited.

At Manataka, most of our Medicine people are women. Maybe that is because the great feminine spirit resides inside the sacred mountain. Her nurturing and caring ways is powerful and beautiful at the same time. ~Lee Standing Bear Moore

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Many of the foods people love today have grown and been planted, stewarded and eaten on Turtle Island for centuries, if not millennia.

Indian Country Today Media Network has rounded up a list of 10 key plants, nuts, seeds, berries and roots that Natives have farmed and foraged for time immemorial in the present-day Americas. In a second installment, we'll feature some of the indigenous game, fish and shellfish our ancestors fished and hunted pre-European contact. READ MORE...

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As a part of the opening for the exhibit, the Museum held FolkFabulous on the historic Horseshoe at USC. The goal of the event is to spotlight artists in the exhibit and to bring together members of the Native American communities throughout the Southeast for a celebration with the interested public.

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This week the Center and allies filed a lawsuit against the Forest Service to block the dangerous timber sale. Aside from ruining these ancient forests, a key scientist says the project could "break the back" of the vital relationship between Alexander Archipelago wolves and their main prey base: Sitka black-tailed deer. A long history of clearcut logging on the Tongass, as well as on private and state-owned lands, has already devastated much of the wolf's habitat in southeast Alaska. The last thing they need is another massive logging project. Get more from Alaska Public Media.

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Mr. President:

Leonard Peltier is in frail health, he’s 70 years old this September and he's been a political prisoner since he was 31.

We, the people of the world, ask that you, President Obama, COMMIT A HOLY ACT, while you can, to bring about justice in this brief life.

Liberate Leonard Pelteir today. Liberation for Leonard Peltier is liberation for us all! Let the name, Leonard Peltier be heard on the wind, echoing among the starts. We are a chorus of millions Hear Us!

Millions around the globe know that a great injustice continues as long as Leonard Peltier is imprisoned. Here is a powerful opportunity to hear the voice and will of the people. We call out to you. Will you hear us? Sincerely, - The people of the world.

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(NaturalNews) Why are genetically modified organisms (GMOs) a serious threat to humanity and the environment? The reasons span the realms of science, social justice, economics and the environment, and once you understand this, you'll readily understand why so many environmentalists, humanitarians, responsible scientists and social justice advocates are strongly opposed to GMOs. Here are the top 10 ways GMOs threaten us all:
#1) Every grain of GM corn contains poison

GM corn is genetically engineered to develop a deadly pesticide in every grain of corn. When this corn is harvested and turned into Corn Flakes, corn tortillas, corn syrup or other corn-based foods, that same poison remains in the corn. What is the effect of human children eating all the poisons grown in GM corn? Nobody knows for sure because the tests have not been conducted on human consumption. That's why GMOs remain an untested experiment that exploits humans as guinea pigs. READ MORE...

BOOK REVIEWS

NV - Reincarnation Beliefs of North American Indians by Warren Jefferson New!

This book provides an in-depth look at spiritual experiences about which very little has been written. Belief in reincarnation exists not only in India but in most small tribal societies throughout the world, including many Indian groups in North America. The stories and commentary presented here are well researched and drawn from anthropological records and other reliable sources of information. Learn about a Winnebago shaman’s initiation, the Cherokee’s Orpheus myth, the story of “A Journey to the Skeleton House” from the Hopi, the Inuit man who lived the lives of all animals, the Ghost Dance, and other extraordinary accounts. “The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character. We believed that the spirit pervades all creation and that every creature possesses a soul in some degree, though not necessarily a soul conscious of itself. The tree, the waterfall, the grizzly bear, each is an embodied Force, and as such an object of reverence.” —Ohiyesa Read Reviews ISBN: 9781570672125; Author: Warren Jefferson; Page Count: 208; Publication Year: 2009; Width: 6.0; Height: 9.0; Format: Softcover ; Publisher: Native Voices; Price: $16.95

NV - Basic Call to Consciousness John Mohawk New! Akwesasne Notes Basic Call to Consciousness is a compelling critique of Western Culture and an eloquent text on the rights of Indigenous nations. New contributions by John Mohawk, Chief Oren Lyons, and Jose Barreiro provide an added depth and continuity to this revised edition. In 1977 a conference on Discrimination Against the Indigenous Populations of the Americas was hosted by the Non-Governmental Organizations of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland in 1977. Included here are the three position papers that were delivered to the UN by leaders of the Haudenosaunee, or Six Nation Iroquois. These position papers, the first authentic analysis of the modern world ever committed to writing by an official body of Native people, called for fundamental changes in the policies of developed nations and an end to the destruction of the natural world. John Mohawk introduces the events that transpired prior to the trip to UN. Chief Oren Lyons gives an overview on the struggle for self-determination before and since the Geneva meetings. And an afterword by Jose Barreiro looks to a new era of possibility for Native nations. This edition with its expanded end notes, index, and bibliography section, is a valuable resource as a college textbook for classes in history, sociology, religion, and anthropology. Not many books portray the heart and courage of so many people in one volume. In a compelling and impassioned voice, Basic Call to Consciousness speaks for the basic rights of humankind and all our relations. Photos, illustrations. Page Count: 160; Width: 6 inches; Height: 9 inches; Format: Soft cover; Publication Year: 2005 Price: $12.95 + s/h

NV - Sisters In Spirit by Sally Roesch Wagner New!

This compelling history of women's struggle for freedom and equality in this country is recounted with documentation of the Iroquois influence on this broad social movement. Iroquois women had always possessed rights beyond the wildest imagination of their European sisters: control of their own bodies, custody of children they bore, the power to initiate divorce, choice in the type of work they did, a place in the spiritual sector of their communities, and the enjoyment of a home life free of violence.

The revolutionary changes unleashed by the Iroquois-feminist relationship continue to shape our lives today. This book is used in many Women's Studies courses at colleges and universities around the country.

ISBN: 9781570671210 Page Count: 128 Publication Year: 2001 Width: 6.0 Height: 9.0 Format: Softcover Price: $13.95

Field to Fork: Big Pine Paiute Tribe of the Owens Valley - See more at: http://indiangiver.firstnations.org/nl140506-01/#sthash.DkuNMPxg.dpuf

The Big Pine Paiute Tribe of the Owens Valley is located on the Big Pine Indian Reservation in California, at the foot of the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. The tribe’s early ancestors utilized the land and water to create irrigated areas that produced the tribe’s main food source. However, at the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Los Angeles purchased most of the land and water rights in the Owens Valley and transferred them to the Los Angeles basin, thus severing the tribe’s connection with the land and water and interfering with its ability to feed its own people.

Today, the Big Pine Reservation is considered a “food desert” because of the lack of access to healthy and affordable food. In 2010, the tribe established the Sustainable Food System Development Project to transform its food desert into a more robust, sustainable food system by establishing a permaculture garden.

In 2013, First Nations awarded the Big Pine Paiute Tribe $37,500 through the Native Agriculture and Food Sovereignty Initiative (NAFSI) to expand the permaculture garden to include a demonstration site, a fruit orchard, a seed bank, and a weekly farmers’ market. This grant, underwritten by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, has allowed the tribe to develop an innovative field-to-fork model that will sustain the community for generations to come.

This grant allowed the tribe to expand their small permaculture garden into a larger educational community garden that teaches tribal members how to plant, grow and harvest healthy, organic heirloom fruits and vegetables as well as Native plants and medicine. The tribe used the expanded permaculture garden as a demonstration site to conduct several classes and workshops, including a three-day intensive permaculture course, food policy/sovereignty classes, youth mentoring sessions, and numerous gardening workshops.

The gardening workshops, in particular, have been very popular among tribal members. At these workshops, tribal members learn about composting, caring for plants and respecting ecosystems. Many workshop participants used these lessons to create their own personal home gardens. These workshops encouraged tribal members to start their own gardens while simultaneously attending to the community garden. As a result of these hands-on workshops, tribal members helped plant, grow and harvest more than 100 pounds of squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, green beans and bell peppers that were eventually donated to the tribal grocery store.

Many tribal members also volunteered at the expanded permaculture garden site outside of these workshops. For example, several volunteers helped plant 50 perennial fruit trees. The trees did not yield any fruit this season. However, once these trees mature, they have the potential to yield hundreds of pounds of fruit. These trees will produce healthy, fresh fruit for generations. The tribe speculates that eventually they will need to hire more workers to maintain the fruit orchard and the ever-expanding permaculture garden.

The tribe determined which fruits and vegetables to plant in the permaculture garden by conducting a community survey. This survey also helped the tribe determine which seeds to collect and store for the seed bank. The purpose of the seed bank is to gather the seeds of plants originally grown in the region and preserve them for future generations. The seed bank is a continuing process that will grow as the tribe becomes more and more aware of its needs and learns proper seed-saving techniques.

A portion of this grant was also used to host weekly farmers’ markets that helped farmers and workshop participants sell their fruits and vegetables. These farmers markets are intended to help growers earn extra money and provide tribal members with a healthy alternative to processed foods.

The Big Pine Paiute Tribe of the Owens Valley developed the Sustainable Food System Development Project to improve the physical health and well-being of their people and to preserve their tribal community for generations to come. The success of this innovative field-to-fork model reiterates that tribes have the potential to strengthen and improve their own communities.

By Sarah Hernandez, First Nations Program Coordinator

- See more at: http://indiangiver.firstnations.org/nl140506-01/#sthash.DkuNMPxg.dpuf

By Sarah Hernandez, First Nations Program Coordinator

- See more at: http://indiangiver.firstnations.org/nl140506-01/#sthash.DkuNMPxg.dpuf

By Sarah Hernandez, First Nations Program Coordinator

- See more at: http://indiangiver.firstnations.org/nl140506-01/#sthash.DkuNMPxg.dpuf

By Sarah Hernandez, First Nations Program Coordinator

- See more at: http://indiangiver.firstnations.org/nl140506-01/#sthash.DkuNMPxg.dpuf

ELDERS SPEAK...

Look behind you. See your sons and your daughters. They are your future. Look farther and see your sons' and your daughters' children and their children's children even unto the Seventh Generation. That's the way we were taught. Think about it: you yourself are a Seventh Generation." -- Leon Shenandoah, Onondaga

The Creator designed us with a free will. That means we function from choices and consequences. It is important that we practice thinking about consequences before we make decisions about choices. Every choice I make is like setting up dominos one after the other that produce consequences. Not just for me but also for my children and for the children that are unborn. My choices and decision today will have consequences for seven generations. For example, if I work on my own spiritual development and I walk the Red Road, the odds are that my children will. They will marry and their children will follow the Red Road and so will my grandchildren even up to the seventh generation. This will happen because of the choices and decisions that I make today.

Great Spirit, grant that the choices and decisions that I make today will honor Your laws and values. May I live in peace today that will ripple into the seventh generation.

Copyright: Coyhis Publishing found in the book, Meditations with Native American Elders: Any republishing of part or all of their contents is prohibited.

We are those we have been waiting for! It is this generation that will make a future for our children's children. ~Lee Standing Bear Moore

HISTORY & CULTURE

The Long Walk: A tragedy unobserved 150 years later

By Anne Constable, Santa Fe, The New Mexican

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Poultry is already the most deadly source of food borne illness. And working in a slaughterhouse is already the most dangerous job in America, according to some reports.

So what is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) plan to protect consumers and workers? It wants to privatize poultry inspection, putting companies in charge of their own inspections, and then increase the slaughtering line speed. In other words, the USDA’s new “plan” will put both consumers and workers at greater risk.

Please sign our petition, asking the USDA to rescind what Food & Water Watch has dubbed the “Filthy Chicken Rule.”

Food & Water Watch calls the USDA’s plan the “Filthy Chicken Rule,” because the plan almost guarantees higher levels of contaminants in slaughtered birds. First, by drastically reducing the number of government inspectors. And second, by increasing the line speeds from 140 birds to 175 birds per minute.

Potentially harmful bacteria lurks in almost all U.S. chicken. That’s according to a recent Consumer Reports survey that found, “More than half of the samples contained fecal contaminants. And about half of them harbored at least one bacterium that was resistant to three or more commonly prescribed antibiotics.”

Yet if the USDA gets its way, the few government inspectors left would have to inspect three birds per second. Inspect? They’d be whizzing by so fast they’d hardly see them!

We could also call the USDA’s new plan the “Dead Inspector Rule.” With breakneck line speeds at slaughterhouses, poultry processing plants are turning to toxic, bacteria-killing chemicals to remove contaminants that escape notice. These chemicals can be deadly. Plant inspectors and workers exposed to chemicals like chlorine and parecetic acid complain of respiratory problems. Many cough up blood. Some experience lung hemorrhage and, at least one has died of lung and kidney failure.

Or maybe we should call it the “Injured Worker Rule.” As editors at the Charlotte Observer, Raleigh News Observer, Bellingham Herald and Gaston Gazette have pointed out, faster line speeds mean more injuries.

If you’ve eaten chicken anytime since 1998, you may have already eaten food from slaughterhouses operating under the USDA’s proposed “Filthy Chicken Rule.” Tyson has been piloting the plan at some of its poultry plants for years. According to a Government Accountability Office report, under the pilot program, “sorting responsibilities [removing unsafe birds from production] on the slaughter line [were] not required or standardized and faster line speeds allowed under the pilot projects raise[d] concerns about food safety and worker safety.”

It’s time to tell President Obama and Secretary Vilsack to protect consumers and workers by abandoning their "Filthy Chicken Rule.”

Please rescind the so-called "Modernization of Poultry Slaughter Inspection" regulation.
Turning most poultry inspection over to poultry companies so that they can police themselves is no way to address the rampant food- and workplace-safety problems plaguing this industry.
The proposed rule would decrease the number of USDA inspectors in poultry plants while increasing line speeds by up to 175 birds per minute, or three birds per second. In order to compensate for missed fecal contamination, the proposed rule would permit companies to use more anti-microbial chemicals to clean the poultry carcasses.
Poultry is already the most deadly source of food borne illness. Working in a slaughterhouse is already the most dangerous job in America. This rule will worsen those conditions.
I urge you to withdraw the "Modernization of Poultry Slaughter Inspection" rule.