However, the same Elohi also teaches us that "in the long, long past, seven brothers came from the stars and married with the children of the Sun.." and from this union the native Peoples of this continent were born. So, I believe, the truth is that WE ARE the children of the stars and it is us that must take the responsibility to "come to the aid of Mother Earth" and all her inhabitants.

I found the following article in a Native publication and wanted to share it with all of you who mean so very much to me. It reaffirms the wisdom and sight of the Elders and strengthens my resolve to take responsibility and make a difference.
The following excerpts are from a prophecy that was delivered by Cherokee Lee Brown in 1986 at the Continental Indigenous Council, Fairbanks, Alaska.- The words in parenthesis are my summations.

(They prophesied the coming of the automobile and soon after the 'First Shaking of the World' - The First World War) " ...And so they knew something very important would happen. There would be an attempt to make peace on earth on the west coast of this land...They began to hear that there was going to be a League Of Nations in San Francisco, so the elders gathered in Arizona around 1920 or so, and they wrote a letter to Woodrow Wilson. They asked if the Indian People could be included in the League Of Nations. The United States Supreme Court had held that a reservation is a separate and semi-sovereign nation, not a part of the United States, but protected by it. This became a concern because people...didn't want them to be considered nations. So they did not write back, and the Native people were left out of the League of Nations so that circle was incomplete...The elders knew that peace would not come on the earth until the circle of humanity is complete..."
(Mr. Brown went on to relate how the Nazi presence and the "Second Shaking of the World" was foretold. He then went on to relate how the "rising sun in the east" - the rise of Japan -was foretold and it's subsequent Nuclear disaster) "The worse misuse of the Guardianship of the fire is called the gourd of ashes. They said the gourd of ashes will fall from the air. It will make the people like blades of grass in the prairie fire, and things will not grow for many seasons... the atomic bomb... The Elders wanted to speak about it in 1920...The elders tried to contact President Roosevelt and ask him not to use the gourd of ashes because it would have a great effect on the earth and eventually cause even greater destruction and a Third Shaking of the Earth, the Third World War.
So they knew after the Second Shaking of the Earth when they saw the gourd of ashes fall from the sky, there would be an attempt to make peace on the other side of this land... they would build a special house on the east coast of this Turtle Island, and all the peoples of the earth would come to this house... So the elders began to see they were building the United Nations... So they met and talked about this. (Because they had not been responded to in 1920)..they said we'd better go to the front door... because things might get a lot worse.
So elders representing a number of tribes drove to New York City. When the United Nations opened, they went to the front door... and they said..."We represent the indigenous people of North America, and we wish to address the nations of the earth. We're going to give you four days to consider whether or not we will be allowed to speak." (But once again, and although every other nation voted to let them speak, the United States vetoed it) so then, they knew that other things would happen on the earth... so they retreated to the Six Nations Reserve and they talked about this... they said, 'We're going to divide the United States into four sections, and each year we're going to have a gathering... the White Roots of Peace Gatherings.

They began to have these in 1950. And they authorized certain people to speak English for the first time about these prophecies. Thomas Banyacya...was authorized to speak English about what was on the stone tablets, and he has dedicated his life to doing this. And they began to tell us at these gatherings, 'You're going to see a time when the human beings are going to find the blueprint that makes us.' They call that now DNA...They said, 'They're going to cut this blueprint.' they call that now genetic splicing... 'They're going to make new animals upon the earth, and they're going to think these are going to help us. And it's going to seem like they do help us.
But maybe the grandchildren and great-grandchildren are going to suffer...''You're going to see a time when the eagle will fly its highest, and it will land upon the moon. and at that time, many of the Native people will be sleeping,' which symbolically means they have lost their teachings. We're at that time now. The Eagle has landed on the moon, 1969...Traditionally, native people from clear up in the Inuit region have shared with us this prophecy, clear down to the Quechuas in South America.
At this time you're going to see that things will speed up, that people on earth will move faster and faster. Grandchildren will not have time for grandparents. Parents will not have time for children. it will seem like time is going faster and faster. The elders advised us that, as things speed up, you yourself should slow down. The faster things go, the slower you go.
Because there's going to come a time when the earth is going to be shaken a third time. The Great Spirit has shaken the earth two times... to remind us that we are a human family...that we should have greeted each other as brothers and sisters. We had a chance after each shaking to come together in a circle that would have brought peace...but we missed that. (Now) they were talking...about the sign for the Third Shaking of the Earth... they're going to build what the elders called the house in the sky.

In the 1950s they talked about this...When you see people living in the sky on a permanent basis, you will know the Great Spirit is about to grab the earth...with both hands... and whoever dropped that gourd of ashes, upon them it is going to drop...(the elders say)..At that time there will be villages in this land so great that when you stand in the villages you will not be able to see out, in the prophecies they are called villages of stone, or prairies of stone... At the center of each and every one of these villages will be Native people, and they will walk as hollow shells upon a prairie of stone. ...which means they will have lost any of their traditional understandings; they will be empty within. They said that after the Eagle lands on the moon, some of these people will begin to leave these prairies of stone and come home and take up some of the old ways and begin to make themselves reborn, because it's a new day. But many will not.
And they said there's going to come a time when in the morning the sun is going to rise, and this village of stone will be there, and in the evening there would just be steam coming from the ground. They will be as steam. And in the center of many of those villages of stone, when they turn to steam, the Native people will turn to steam also because they never woke up and left the village.
They say there's going to be the Third Shaking of the Earth. It's not going to be a good thing to see, but we will survive it... And when we survive it, there's going to be another attempt to make a circle of the human beings on earth. And this time the Native people will not have to petition to join but will be invited to enter the circle because they say the attitude towards us will have changed by then, and people will let us into the circle, and all four colors of the directions will share their wisdom, and there will be peace on earth. This is coming close."

Mitakuye Oyasin and we pray for the people and for the ones who wish to walk in a good way as Children of the Earth.


By William Blue Otter Anderson (used and reprinted with permission).