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"The FBI Secrets: An Agent's Expose"

http://whitewolf.gaia.com — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:19:02 GMT

"The FBI Secrets: An Agent's Expose"

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Peltier Central Texas Branch Support Group
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Swearingen has a new book that is going to be coming out April 1, 2009 titled "The FBI Secrets: An Agent's Expose" and guess who does the intro Ward Churchill !!!!

Thanks to Oieya for the research on this ... This book will no doubt go deeper into the fbi lies from and ex agents perspective...

Bet Joe Trimbach is havin cold sweats!!
wanbli

Former FBI agent M. Wesley Swearingen, in support of parole for Leonard Peltier, once stated: “I was an FBI agent in Los Angeles when Leonard Peltier was convicted, and I know from FBI documents that I read and from statements made by fellow FBI agents, that Peltier was wrongfully convicted of murdering two FBI agents just because the agents investigating the case wanted someone to pay for killing the two FBI agents. I know, for a fact, that the FBI is also covering up its culpability in the death of the two FBI agents.” (This is the same agent who exposed the FBI misconduct in the case of Geronimo Pratt whose conviction was eventually overturned.

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Re: Song of Grandmother Turtle Pipe

http://environsand.gaia.com — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:25:36 GMT

Yes, I would have liked to have listened too
and am sorry I missed this post earlier!

Re: Song of Grandmother Turtle Pipe

http://whitewolf.gaia.com — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:16:47 GMT

I wish I would have gotten this sooner. I would have liked to have listened.

Song of Grandmother Turtle Pipe

http://seeds.gaia.com — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:21:35 GMT

Long ago the Northeastern coast of Turtle Island, first contact was

made between the indigenous peoples and the Europeans. The tribes

knew of the fore coming loss of their ways and held council. They

determined that one tribe should travel far away to their cousins in

the south known as the Incas of Heart Island and one tribe would stay

in their homeland.

http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/DiosasAnci anos2012

The Mik'maq tribe of Northeastern Canada stayed behind but sent their

most sacred item, Grandmother Turtle Pipe, to be held safe until the

Time of the Renewal would come. They knew that Grandmother Turtle

Pipe would return during the Time of the Renewal. The Anishnawbe

tribe traveled with the 5000 year old pipe which held the power of

women's medicine. The sacred Grandmother Turtle Pipe found safe

refuge with an Incan family who passed it down for many many

generations.

500 years later the pipe gave the message to her caretakers that it

was time for her to come back to her people. The Time of the Renewal

has come and she must return home. Three Holy People traveled from

South America to Nova Scotia to bring Grandmother Turtle Pipe to her

homeland.

The sacred Grandmother Turtle Pipe selected Little Grandmother Selina

to carry her and share her medicine to heal the Way of the Feminine.

The time has come.

The time has come to hear the medicine of the Grandmothers and

embrace a new way of living. Little Grandmother Selina carries the

medicine of the women to heal and prepare us for the ways of Peace.

Please join me on our web-cast program Women and Prophecy, Wed

night, February 18th, 6pm Pacific time, to hear Little Grandmother

Selina's powerful story and her connection to the Grandmothers and

the 13 Original Clan Mothers who are making themselves known at this

time of the Women. Her wisdom heals the deepest part of us in need
of remembering who we are.

http://www.talkshoe .com/tc/34032

Featuring
women sharing prophecy and spiritual teachings from around
the world.
Women elders, Wise Ones and Grandmothers reveal the
secrets passed down
from their ancestors.

Blessings,

Janet Lightstone

www.sistersofhonua. org

We Shall Remain - PBS

http://whitewolf.gaia.com — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:51:51 GMT

There is a link here to have them remind you when it is to be on.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/the_films/making_of

Preserving the Nipmuck language

http://whitewolf.gaia.com — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:50:43 GMT

My friend Heroness sent me this link about a series WGBH is doing on the Nipmuck.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/native_now/language_nipmuc

Re: Medicine Wheel

http://whitewolf.gaia.com — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:59:29 GMT

That is an interesting medicine wheel. I have not seen one like it. Most are of stone, outside. Some have symbols painted on the stones. I had not heard of that book. Thank you for sharing this.

Tribe of the Week - Acoma Pueblo

http://whitewolf.gaia.com — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:15:05 GMT

The Acoma Pueblo, also known as Sky City, is located west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Set high atop a mesa it provided protection from attackers. The Acoma people used mica for their windows. When Coronado entered the valley and looked up, he saw the sun glint off the mica and thought he found the lost city of gold. Since there were no roads to the top, it was almost unassailable. After repeated attempts, Coronado and his men finally made it to the top.

It wasn't until the 1950's and the movie industry arriving that a road was finally put in. This is the road that present day visitors take. If you ever get out to the Albuquerque area, I recommend taking the tour. There is a casino and hotel nearby if you have to stay overnight. Be aware that there is restrictions on photography and a permit must be obtained. As you approach the valley, the vista opens up and you can see for miles. You drive down a winding road to the valley floor and across the desert to the visitor center. From here you board a bus that takes you up to the top of the mesa, where a tour guide will show you around. A single tree sits by a water collection depression. An elder pointed it out to my wife and I, "This is the national forest of Acoma."

Here is a web site that has some pictures of Acoma. I would hold the caveat that when I was there you had to get a permit to take pictures and you are not to publish them. If you get stopped taking a picture without a permit or taking one where you shouldn't , like inside the church, they will confiscate your camera. They are not for commercial use. Pictures I have posted of my New Mexico journey do not contain the Acoma pictures out of respect. This is too bad, as there is one picture I love because of the angles with the white ladders and poles against the side of a kiva.

http://rozylowicz.com/retirement/acoma/acoma.html

Okay, now it is up to you all to fill out some of the information. I gave you some tidbits, now see if you can piece together the history of Acoma. What did they eat? How did they farm? How did they build the pueblo on the top of the mesa with no roads? The roads were built for movie crews, but what movie/s were produced there? Who were their friends? Enemies? Any interesting stories? Okay, my little Watson's its up to you. Good luck.

A New Tact - Tribe a week

http://whitewolf.gaia.com — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:49:15 GMT

Many of us know about the Lakota, the Cherokee, and the Navajo. Yet, when we look at a list like http://www.native-languages.org/languages.htm we see that we barely know any. One thing is for certain in looking at that list is that there certainly was a Native American presence long before Columbus. The idea that Columbus "discovered" America is preposterous. It is like me going to France and planting an American flag and claiming it for America. Though if I were to treat the French in the same way that Columbus treated the native population, I would find myself locked away for good. Not to mention that I would be seen as one of the most heinous of mass murderers in history. Despite the truth about Columbus coming out, school books still hold that he was the great discoverer, they have great pageants about Columbus discovering America. Though, I haven't seen anything that says he actually landed anywhere on the continental US.
So out of respect for the hundreds, if not thousands of tribes and nations that walked these lands, I think it is time we got to know them. Now, what will make this work best is if everyone takes the time to do a little research. Enter the tribe name in Google, Yahoo, MSN or whatever your favorite search engine takes you. Post any links or info you may find of interest in the thread of the tribes name. If you don't know how to use these tools, just ask here. Knowing how to use a search engine will come in handy when you want to research other things. Try to find things like where they lived What type of housing? What did they eat? Were they nomadic or did they live in a particular place or like the Wampanoag and Narragansett had a winter and summer home. Did they migrate as the Lakota did from North Carolina area up through the Great Lakes before settling in the plains? Were they broken up by war with only a small band left with others being absorbed by other tribes such as the Huron. What is their real name? Many names that we know now were names we learned from their enemies or from the European names or mispronunciations. This will work best the more people we can get to contribute. Think of it is kind of like a book club that meets each week to discuss a book that everyone has decided to read. Only we will be discussing tribes and putting a face on the people who walked these lands. Remember, if you have links that you can provide, that is even better. If you don't know how to cut and paste such things, just ask.

Now I hope that we can get as many people involved. Even if you don't know how to use research tools, and I hope you ask how, because they will help you find other things, questions will give us things to go out and research. I think by making each tribe a separate thread, we can return to the particular threads when we trip over a new bit of information either during research for another tribe, or by attending a local pow wow, or visiting a resource center. Also remember, that not everything out on the Internet is 100%. I hope that those who live close to the tribes being spoken of can verify some of the information. Even better if you are a tribal member.

Let's see if we can make this tribe one of the most active and informative on the web.

'Cultural Genocide' in the Land of the Free' by Tim Giago

http://whitewolf.gaia.com — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:17:24 GMT

Commentary: 'Cultural Genocide' in the Land of the Free

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By Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji) | Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services

It would appear to me that most Americans know more about the "Stolen Generation" of Aboriginal children in Australia than they do about the "Stolen Generations" of Indian children in their own country.

Why is that? Well, movies such as "Rabbit-proof Fence" and the newly released film "Australia" probably have something to do with it. In "Rabbit-proof Fence," two little aboriginal girls are taken from their homes to the Catholic mission boarding school without the consent of their parents. They run away from the school and follow the path of the rabbit-proof fence hundreds of miles knowing that the fence runs next to their land and will lead them home. The fence was designed to contain the proliferation of rabbits that had begun to overrun Australia.

The movie "Australia" contains some key roles for the aboriginal people. The main focus is on a small boy who barely escapes the hands of the police early on in the movie only to be captured in the end and sent to the island mission school that is designed to "breed the black" out of the aboriginal children.

It wasn't until 1973 that the practice of taking aboriginal children and placing them in mission boarding schools was prohibited by law in Australia. There has never been a law passed in America to end the same practice. In the 1960s the government-backed practice of taking Indian children from their parents and placing them in Bureau of Indian Affairs and Christian missionary boarding schools began to end of its own volition.

In Australia and in America the children were taken from their parents and their homelands to "breed the black out of them" and in America they were taken to "breed the Indian out of them." The saying popular in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and in other denominations, as well as in the halls of Congress, was "Kill the Indian, Save the Child."

This practice, though well-intended by those implementing it, did more damage to the American Indian children than any other. What started out as a practice to convert the children to a new religion and a new perspective turned out to be nothing more than "cultural genocide."

An abundance of lawsuits against the Catholic and Anglican churches resulting in victories for indigenous complainants in Canada and Alaska have received little or no attention in America.

A recent lawsuit against the Catholic Church by former students of the St. Francis Indian School on the Rosebud Indian Reservation is now in the courts. There are statutes in South Dakota that would consider a statute of limitations and also consider allegations other than sexual abuse as non-essential. If "cultural genocide" could be included in the number of reasons for the lawsuits in South Dakota, it would put an entirely new face on the process. Though many former students still sport the scars of the sexual, physical and psychological abuse of the Indian boarding schools, the attempts to destroy their cultural beliefs is just as damaging and just as significant. The collateral damage of "cultural genocide" is one of the intangibles that are not easily interpreted in a court of law. It has taken nearly a generation for the former students of the Indian boarding schools to finally step forward and openly speak of their sexual abuse. It is not in the culture, the very culture that the boarding schools attempted to erase, for these Indian people to do so.

But after two or three generations, they are, at last, stepping forward and sadly, their courageous stand is drawing criticism from many of their own "converted" people. These are the converts that went through their entire boarding school experience apparently wearing blinders because they failed to see the abuse, whether it was physical, psychological, sexual or cultural that was taking place all around them.

These converts are as much a part of the cover-up as are the movie producers in Hollywood that find these true-to-life situations of cultural genocide too powerful and embarrassing for the consumption of the general population of Americans.

If Australia can finally stomach these epic wrongs against the aboriginal people of its continent and actually produce films depicting these evils, one can only ask the question: Where are those American film producers with the same courage? And if the government of Australia can issue an official apology to its aborigine citizens for the evil it rained upon them, why can't the America government do likewise? What is needed is an American Indian Spike Lee or a David Wolper to tell America "the rest of the story."

The Act to Encourage the Gradual Civilization of Indian Tribes

http://whitewolf.gaia.com — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:18:02 GMT

The Act to Encourage the Gradual Civilization of Indian Tribes in this Province, and to Amend the Laws Relating to Indians (commonly known as the Gradual Civilization Act) was a bill passed by the 5th Parliament of the Province of Canada in 1857

The treaty built on the "Act for the Protection of the Indians in Upper Canada" passed in 1839, but required the "enfranchisement" of any recognized male Indian over the age of 21 "able to speak, read and write either English or the French language readily and well, and is sufficiently advanced in the elementary branches of education and is of good moral character and free from debt."[1] An "enfranchised" Indian would no longer retain the "legal rights and habilities of Indians" and would "no longer be deemed an Indian" but a regular British subject.[1] Such enfranchisement was mandatory, but any male Indian could be voluntarily enfranchised despite an inability to read or write, or a lack of school education, so long as he spoke English or French, and was found to be "of sober and industrious habits, free from debt and sufficiently intelligent to be capable of managing his own affairs.
"[1] Voluntary enfranchisement, however, required a three year probation term before it would come into legal effect

Enfranchisement required that Indians choose a surname (to be approved by appointed commissioners) by which they would become legally known.
The wife and descendants of an enfranchised Indian would also be enfranchised, and would no longer be considered members of the former tribe, unless they were to regain Indian status through another marriage

Enfranchised Indians were entitled to "a piece of land not exceeding fifty acres out of the lands reserved or set apart for the use of his tribe" as allotted by the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, and "a sum of money equal to the principal of his share of the annuities and other yearly revenues receivable by or for the use of such tribe."[1] This land and money would become their property, but by accepting it, they would "forego all claim to any further share in the lands or moneys then belonging to or reserved for the use of [their] tribe, and cease to have a voice in the proceedings thereof.
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Re: Medicine Wheel

http://druidcircle.gaia.com — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:22:09 GMT

photo to go with the rainbow crystal medicine wheel...

Re: Medicine Wheel

http://druidcircle.gaia.com — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:46:04 GMT

Hi everyone

What we seemed to find in our wheel, that we received similar visions relating to the 4 quarters/4 directions. When we entered at the east we received visions relating to spirit, and eagle medicine in particularly, the south represented emotions, sometimes fear of going forward, the west sector was earthy, relating to body and we received sensations of healing in the body. In the north sector several of us had a swaying sensation and saw mountains with snow.....

We read from White Eagle - The Quiet Mind and said a couple of prayers

"A chant for Healing", and a Sioux Prayer to honour Father Sky, Mother Earth and the 4 directions.

We ended by sending prayers thoughts to family, friends and mother earth/Father Sky.

The idea for our wheel came from a book Rainbow Medicine by Wolf Moondance

It must be good to experience the medicine wheel, which has been walked for generations....

Taikunping

Re: Medicine Wheel

http://whitewolf.gaia.com — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:11:10 GMT

The colors may not be represented in the formation. It is what is known by the people. If you notice the inner circle is quartered. This represents the four directions. Most everything else is similar. One would circle this saying prayers to each quarter. I suppose one could think of it as a meditative tool that allows one to focus, much the way some use labyrinths..
Where was this picture taken, if I may ask? It might give better insights based on the tribes in the area.

Re: Medicine Wheel

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:04:15 GMT

This is what it looks like , and it is also near quicksand as well.

I am not sure what Tribe roamed these lands , as I am unsure of this area , it is somewhere , my dad grew up.

Re: Medicine Wheel

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:55:55 GMT

This one that I have seen is with rocks, there is no colours , just the rocks.
Much later when I was younger I would make one , and play games using what I saw.With the snow, and my feet.

Re: Medicine Wheel

http://whitewolf.gaia.com — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:51:51 GMT

There are many "versions" of the Medicine Wheel. I have an old posting here from Bear Warrior regarding the Cherokee Medicine Wheel. http://pods.gaia.com/elders_of_seven_tribes/discussions/view/97006#97006
The basics are the same, but the colors of the directions may change nation to nation as well as the interpretation of the directions. You could also try Googling medicine wheel with the tribe name, like Lakota Medicine Wheel.

Question About Sacred Sites?

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:27:44 GMT

I have grown up in the Qu'Appelle Valley , and there are many sacred sites , yet many people do not understand why they are so sacred .
Could you direct me to some information about this .
Also there are many old graves up on the hills.
Why are thye there?
Another weird thing is when I am old , and need to die . I to want my children to take my ashes to the Ancient Healing Lands Of Qu'Appelle , and scatter them up on the top , so I will always be surrounded by what I truly love. The hills the wind the sparkling lake , the wild flowers so rare.

In respect to all sacred sites, love , and light, to all

Re: Medicine Wheel

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:19:56 GMT

Can anyone give me some information about the Medicine Wheel.
I have been to one , it is very old , and I would like to know more about it?

Petition to Protect Cherokee mixed bloods - Earth Feather

http://whitewolf.gaia.com — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:05:41 GMT

There is a move by Cherokee Nation and Eastern Cherokee to prevent
those of us of mixed blood heritage from saying we are Cherokee and
claiming our heritage. They are also coming against the United
Keetowah Cherokee who are federally recognized.

Read more about it here

http://taskforce.cherokee.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=y%2bJcRrV4oDc%3d&tabid=106& mid=2118

A petition has been started for us to protest this action. Please go
here & sign the petition to protect our heritage.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/cherokeeheritageNA?e

All of us of Cherokee descent need to band together & stand up for ourrights.