From: milo@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Michele Lord)
Newsgroups: alt.native
Subject: Yuwitaya Lakota/Prophesy
Keywords: Sovereignty Committee, David Seals
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:28:13 GMT
Organization: Alpha Institute, Aurora, CO.


This article is from YUWITAYA LAKOTA, Vol. 1, Issue 2, 
Spring Equinox, 1992. YUWITAYA LAKOTA is the News Letter of 
The Lakota Sovereignty Organizing Committee, Bear Butte Council,
Box 5686, Rapid City, SD 57709. Ph:(605) 341-6492
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                 Prophecies of the Black Hills

by David Seals

    Sweet Medicine of the Cheyennes was a prophet who lived a
thousand years ago. He said, "Some day you will meet a people who
are white good looking people, with light hair and white skins.
They will come here to kill you and to test you.. It will seem like
they will kill all the buffalo, and they will give you other
animals to eat and ride upon, and things to drink, and this other
meat and the thing they give you to drink will make you crazy and
sick.
   "But they will only seem like they are killing you and all the
buffalo. The buffalo will go away because you, the Suhaio and
Tsistsistas (Northern and Southern Cheyennes), will not honor the
White Buffalo Nation which has come down from the stars to live
among us. You will forget to do the buffalo ceremonies. You will
forget to hunt and live. And you will all die off.
   "When you are all dead, then I will return and we will renew all
the ceremonies again, and the buffalo and the people will live
again. All the nations will live together around the Sacred
Mountain, Nowah'wus, in the Black Hills.
   The time for fulfillment of this great prophesy is now. The
elders and medicine men and women of old knew it, with the spirits
of their ancestors as the messengers telling us. The Indians are
indeed dying, for all practical purposes. There are no medicine
people left among the Cheyenne or Lakota in the Black Hills
bioregion. The ceremonies have lost their power, for the pipes and
arrows are no longer connected to the White Buffalo Woman and the
Yellow-haired Woman who brought them, the Winyan Wakan of the
Lakota and the Ehyophstah of the Cheyenne. These are harsh truths
to have to speak, but all Indians know in their hearts it is so.
Even those who do sweat lodges and sundances and smoke their pipes
faithfully cannot resist the temptations of America, the egotism
of false shamans, the greed invited by the Bureau of Indian Affairs
and Hollywood, and they cannot keep their children from the
materialism and irresponsibility displayed everywhere. Many have
lost their language and culture.
   It is the end of this age. It is time now for the renaissance as
outlined in the "Statement of Renewal" in the first issue of
Yuwitaya Lakota. It will be a time of great cataclysm over the next
20 years, as this purification will require great destruction first.
But when it is over the buffalo will return. We will remember the
correct ceremonies, and in a matter of only a few years the great
herds will be here again.
   For the buffalo are the only economy of this great basin
stretching from Canada to Mexico, the Rocky Mountains to the
Mississippi River. They are, and have always been, the spiritual
necessity of this land as well. They are the heart and sou; of this
continent.
   All people who can see the vision of the Other World, and hear
the Oracle of the sacred earth Goddess, are welcome to come and
live near the Sacred Black Hills in the center of it all.
   And in the center of the Hills, although She is a lone sentinel
off to the north a few miles, is Nowah'wus, Bear Butte.
   On the Spring Equinox this year, at 1:48 A.M., March 20, 1992,
this cycle of sacred ceremonial renewal will continue at Bear
Butte. We will be praying there. Everyone is welcome to come in
their own way and pray in their own way. It will not be organized
in the usual way of the old dead age, so every person must
communicate alone with their spirit. The Great Powers will be there
on the mountain at that time.
   This is just the beginning of the renewal cycle. It will
continue through all the important celestial seasons of our world,
as they relate to the mysteries of the other world. Mid-Spring
ceremonies will be held in the center of the Hills, Pa Sla, and at
Grey Horn Pipe Mountain (formerly called Devils Tower) on the
Summer Solstice, and mid-summers eve again at Bear Butte. The
Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice will also always be honored as 
part of the cycle.
   The ancient 'Confederacy of the Black Hills' is already forming
again, comprised of all the nations who have lived here. The Ikce
Wicasa Ta Omininiye of the unified Dakota-Lakota-Nakota Nations are
gathering dozens of bands and tribes in Canada and the United
States together. The Northern and Southern Cheyennes are coming
this year, the Northern and Southern Arapahoes. The Crows and
Shoshones and distant friends like the Mohawks and Hopis will also
be here later this Spring and Summer.
   My own Huron ancestor, Deganawidah, also prophesied this
confederacy would be formed again, and the Iroquois are working out
a hemispheric 'League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations' to bring
thousands of tribes on this hemisphere together, from the Arctic to
the Antarctic. In this year of the Invasion of Columbus and Christ,
the half millennium of hell, as Zapotec Quetzalcoatl prophesied,
will end.
   This renewal will not be easy or fast. Years will go by in which
it seem nothing good is happening. Civilization must collapse of
its own corruption. Roads and cities will blow away like the
topsoil and clean air, sweet water will be drained and poison will
flood the earth. There will be plagues, famine, earthquakes,
drought, and firestorms.
   Most people will be killed in these times to come, which have
already begun, according to the prophesies, because most people
have forgotten that there is no death and so they live in fear all
the time. They are not warriors. They are afraid to live in the
dream world. They do not know that that is where all life comes
from, where the buffalo come from, where the creation myths tell
the only true stories.
   Only a few people will be on Bear Butte on this Spring Equinox,
as on all Equinoxes and Solstices; but they will be the spiritual
survivors of the cataclysm to come, the founders of the new
Confederacy of the Black Hills. Regardless of race, age or sex,
these spirits will form the new government of this bioregion in the
years and decades and centuries to come.
   America will not last long. Its laws and broken treaties will
fade as bad chapters in human history. One hundred years from now
the USA will be remembered only as the villain greater than the
Romans or Russians, Cambodians or Mongols, English or Dutch,
Israelis or Arabs. The American economy and religion are doomed
by their own greed and blindness.
   According to the 'Statement of Renewal', the BEAR BUTTE COUNCIL
has already been meeting since last midsummer as the spiritual
government of the Confederacy of the Black Hills. It is a Council
of prophets, spirits, warriors, chiefs, and ancestors who remained
faithful to the Great Mystery. It will always be the only true
government of this sacred land. It is the only authority to which
citizens of this Confederacy will submit.
   The world media is being alerted to these prophesies for the
first time - which is also part of the prophesies. HBO -TV will
shooting a documentary abou the Black Hills this year, focusing on
these prophesies and sacredness of H'e Sapa, with Indians, for the
first time on 'commercial' television, in all the major creative
positions of writer, producer and director. My novel sequel to 
_The Powwow Highway_ will out this year, titled _Sweet Medicine_.
Many other books and films and events are being planned around this
dubious 500th anniversary when the world ended once before for us.
Presidential candidates, during the South Dakota primary were being
forced to discuss the Fort Laramie Treaty by the press for the
first time. The national awareness is being heightened about
Indians; more and more people are becoming attuned to the
indigenous knowledge of the magic in all Nature, and all Peoples.
   The path of truth is the one less traveled. It does not favor
or recognize race, color, knowledge, wealth, ideals, or past. It
happens to be in accordance with Indigenous concepts, principles
and philosophy of life. Lakota being one. This implies that one
need not participate, but allow other to express themselves
freely. One must respect and ascribe to achieve the same degree
of freedom. Who, when their life has come to an end, will say
they chose to pursue the return of all that is due to their
people: Prosperity. Freedom from injustice. Freedom to manage
their own affairs and land. Freedom to define and manage their
own government and policies. Freedom to choose. Freedom to
educate. Freedom to live without fear except from nature itself.
Freedom. Freedom.
   If truth is our ultimate common path of mutual destiny with
our freedom and the freedom of our people at the end, why should
anyone have to endure any suffering of any kind by waiting???
What we choose for our life today is what the children of
tomorrow will have to live with.
   The American political system has failed. The politicians are
calling for complete reform in all areas of the government. The
fact is that the country and the system has grown free reign and
has become too large and overburdened to be manageable.
Capitalism has grown too many arms reaching into and out of the
country. Economists are saying that even if reforms work that it
will take years to know. Boosting production and manufacturing
and development will only contribute to the serious problems that
need immediate attention and correction.
   In effect, they are saying admittedly that there may be no
solution with the present system. The Tribal governments are in
trouble as a result of federal control. The people are calling
for reform. How under the federal government, that can't even
manage their own affairs, provide additional money and control to
the tribes? Be serious. Legislators and other legal
representatives are questioning the justice or injustice of the
over-legislated system. People are within our borders, but we
can certainly provide them better considerations than they have
been provided to our people and to them by their own. Development
and settlement not withstanding, it is time to do what is best.
And it is better to shut the borders down and start over, than to
continue on in a continually depreciating condition.
 
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          Michele Lord               *  Walk in Peace with
      milo@scicom.alphacdc.com       *  our Mother Earth 
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