Link: www.ancientwisdomtrail.com Ég kom nýlega yfir heimasíðu Frank Austin, Manyhorses. Það er af fallegustu og ljóst síður sem ég hef rekist á á vefnum. Eitt af því merki sem ég leita að þegar farið a staður er, hvernig mikið deila þeir með þér fyrir frjáls? Frank Austin Manyhorses er greinilega maður með mikla hjarta og mikinn skilning á helga heim og deilir þekkingu sinni á þessum vef fyrir frjáls.

Það er nóg í Ancient Wisdom Trail vefsíðu til að halda þér að lesa, umhugsun og læra í langan tíma. Allt af því að ég horfði á er einföld, skýr, guðlega og gagnlegt fyrir alla, að mínu mati.

Vinsamlegast taka nokkurn tíma til að fara á vefsíðu hans og hafa a útlit. Það verður þess virði tíma þinn. Ég hef ekki hitt Frank, en ég veit að út verði að fara yfir þegar leið er rétt. Það er skoðun mín að við erum í sama hjarta.

Taktu nokkrar mínútur til að tengja við þetta öfluga starf.

Þetta gæti jafnvel breytt lífi þínu ......

Hér fyrir neðan er bæn hans: Creator Fyrirgefðu mér að ganga sannleikur

Creator, fyrirgefið mér. Ég fyrirgef mér. Ég fyrirgef öllum þeim sem hafa skaðað mig. Ég sleppa þeim út úr huga mínum, líkama og anda. Þeir eru ókeypis núna. Creator taka þá, blessa þá og hreinsa þá svo þeir aldrei koma aftur til að skaða mig eða fjölskyldu mína alltaf aftur. Og ég spyr þá sem ég hef skaðað að fyrirgefa mér og gefa mér þannig að ég er frjáls, og blessi anda þeirra og setja þá aftur í helgu ljósi.

Þakka þér skaparinn. Blessaðu líkama minn, blessa anda minn. Lækna líkamann minn, lækna anda minn. Blessa mig þannig að ég er holur fyrir heilaga kærleika, heilagt ljós þitt, heilagt heilun orku þína, og heilagt heilun móður jarðar orku nú rennur upp fætur mína í hjarta mitt til að verða eitt með þér og allt sem er heilagt og guðlegt.

Þakka þér skaparinn. Ég veit hver ég er núna. Ég er maður (eða kona), og ég er sérstök. Ég er heilagt. Og ég er gjafara lífsins og kennari kærleika í sinni tærustu mynd það er. Aldrei aftur mun einhver eða eitthvað að taka það í burtu frá mér, því að nú veit ég hver ég er. Ég er ást. Ég er ljós. Ég er orka. Ég er sannleikur í sinni hreinustu mynd.

Creator, andar alheimsins, ömmur, fyrst Ancient Ones, María, móðir, bróðir Jesú, englar, Sacred dýrin, fuglarnir, leiðsögumenn, kennarar, steig upp skipstjóra, systur hring bræðralag, skepnum hafsins alla þætti sköpunarinnar sem Sacred og Divine, bjóða ég þér mesta gjöf frá hjarta mínu, huga mínum, líkama minn og anda fyrir leiðsögn þína, þekkingu þína, visku þína, andlegur styrkur þinn og sýn sem mun hjálpa mér að hjálpa bræðrum mínum og systur á heilaga braut heim til þín. Svo þegar það er kominn tími fyrir mig að koma heim til þín, mun ég koma til þín með beinum augum, skýr hjarta, opinn hendur og falleg spor fyrir barnabörn mín til að fylgja.

Þakka þér skaparinn. Þakka þér Amma og afi. Það er speki þín sem hefur fært mig aftur til miðju hjarta mínu þar sem nú stend ég við skaparann. Aldrei aftur mun ég ganga einn.

Öll samskipti mín.

Created með uncondtional ást,
Frank Austin, Manyhorses (Kennari)

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Þótt dagsetning hefur staðist fyrir hópinn bæn Skráin sýnir okkur mörg Sacred Sites sem þurfa vernd okkar og bænir. Það getur verið gott að senda bæn á síðuna næst þér og leggja áherslu á þessi svæði. Þá senda bænir til öllum öðrum stöðum. United við erum sterk ......... sameinuð erum satt .... sameinaðir við búa jafnvægi ...... þakka þér, Mirjam

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16-24 júní sett fyrir 2012 INNLEND helgum stöðum bæn DAGA

Washington, DC (6/15/12)-Observances og athafnir verða haldnir yfir landið frá 16. júní með 24 júní til að merkja 2012 National Dagar bæn til Vernda Native American helgum stöðum. The helgihaldi í Washington, DC verður haldinn miðvikudagur 20 jún 8:30, á United States Capitol Grounds, West Front grasi svæði (sjá nánar undir Washington, DC skráningu í stafrófsröð listanum við ástand á næstu síðum ).

Lýsingar á ákveðnum helgum stöðum og ógnir sem þeir standa frammi fyrir, sem og tímum og stöðum fyrir almenning commemorations eru hér fyrir neðan. Sum samkomur hápunktur í þessari útgáfu eru mennta ráðstefnur, ekki trúarlegum, og eru opnir almenningi. Aðrir eru helgihaldi og má fara fram í einrúmi. Auk þeirra sem eru skráðir hér fyrir neðan, það verður observances og bænir í boði á öðrum helgum stöðum sem eru í hættu og á þá ekki hættu á þessum tíma.

"Native og non-innfæddra safna á landsvísu á þessum tíma fyrir vígslu Sólstöður og að heiðra helga staði, en allir geta heiðra þessa merku lönd og vötn allan tímann með því einfaldlega að virða þær og líf þeir styðja og ekki leyfa þeim að skaðast, "sagði Suzan sýnt Harjo (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee). Hún er forseti The Morning Star Institute, sem skipuleggur National helgum stöðum Bæn Days. "Athafnir hafa verið gerðar eins og allt of margir Native American Peoples stunda lagalega baráttu við sambands stofnanir sem hlið við forritara sem ógna eða eyðileggja Native helgu staði," sagði frú Harjo.

"Þar sem Hæstiréttur Bandaríkjanna úrskurði árið 1988 að það er engin stjórnarskrá eða lögbundin orsök aðgerða til að verja Native helgum stöðum, eru Frumbyggjar Ameríku aðeins þjóðir í Bandaríkjunum, sem ekki hafa dyrnar að courthouse að vernda helga staði eða staður sérstakar athafnir, "sagði frú Harjo. "Það einfaldlega verður að breyta eins og a efni af sanngirni og eigið fé. Native þjóðirnar hafa verið cobbling saman vernd á grundvelli varna ætluð til annarra nota. Sumir stofnanir geta leyft sæti við borðið þegar þróun er ráðgerð, en flest ekki og Native Peoples eru ekki teknar alvarlega vegna þess að stofnanir og verktaki vita að Hæstiréttur virðist ekki hneigðist að heyra málsókn sem skortir sérhannaða rétt um aðgerðir. "

Á forsetakosningarnar herferð hans 2008, þá-Senator Obama beint þetta mál sem hluta af Native American stefnu vettvangur hans fyrir trúfrelsi, menningarleg réttindi og helgum stöðum vernd: "Native American helgum stöðum og vefsvæði sérstakar athafnir eru í útrýmingarhættu frá þróun, mengun og skemmdarverk. Barack Obama styður lagalega vernd fyrir helgum stöðum og menningarhefð, þ.mt urðun ástæðum móðurmáli forfeður 'og kirkjur. "

Margir Native Peoples samþykktu Frambjóðandi Obama vegna afstöðu hans á Native helgu stöðum, en hafa örvæntum við vaxandi ósamræmi hvað Frambjóðandi studd og hvaða lyfjagjöf forsetans hefur gert á helgum stöðum. The Forest Service, Bureau of Management Land, eru Justice Department og aðrar sambands stofnanir virkan stofna helgum stöðum og berjast Native þjóðir, sem eru að reyna að vernda helga staði í dómstólum og stjórnsýslu ferli.

The National Congress af American Indians, elsta og stærsta National Indian stofnun, hefur kallað á þing til enact lögum sem myndi veita orsök aðgerða, til forseta að uppfæra og styrkja núverandi Executive Order á Indian Sacred Sites og í Forest Þjónusta við nýta núverandi löggjöf og stefnu til að vernda Native American helgum stöðum. Á sama tíma, sem Forest Service hefur prangari sem áfangi helgu stöðum drög að skýrslu hennar, sem var roundly sagt í Indian landi, og endurskoðuð skýrsla er að halda leyndum, gegn stöðu stofnunarinnar á ættar samráði.

"Forsetinn hefur verið beðin beint að kalla á þing til að búa til rétt aðgerð svo við getum varið heilögum stöðum okkar, til að bæta Executive Order fyrir Indian Sacred Sites og stöðva Skógrækt ríkisins og aðrar stofnanir haldi áfram áratugum löng árás þeirra gegn Native helgu stöðum, "sagði frú Harjo. "Ég er enn bjartsýnn á að forseti getur og mun gera þetta, jafnvel þótt Congress er ekki að taka framförum í þessum eða svæði. Enn og aftur, biðjum við að þetta mun vera síðasta ár er hafnað réttlæti af Executive, Löggjafarþing og dómsmálayfirvöld útibúa. "

SÞ sérstakur talsmaður réttindi frumbyggja hefur mælt með því að í Bandaríkjunum íhuga að draga sambands leyfi sem leyfa sér skíði úrræði til að nota endurunnið skólp vatn til að gera snjó ofan á San Francisco Peaks, sem eru heilög mörgum Native þjóðanna á Suðvesturlandi. Sérstakur talsmaður hefur einnig kallað á í Bandaríkjunum að hafa samráð við og aftur helga staði að móðurmáli þjóða.

"Native American Peoples eru hvattir til þess að forseti breytt Bandaríkjunum stöðu og samþykktu yfirlýsingu Sameinuðu þjóðanna um réttindi frumbyggja, og hlakka til að umsókn hans til Bandaríkjanna lög og venjur," sagði frú Harjo.

Yfirlýsingin felur í sér eftirfarandi yfirlýsingar um helga staði:

"11. gr, 1: Frumbyggjar eiga rétt á að æfa og blása nýju lífi menningar hefðir sínar og siði. Þetta felur í sér rétt til að viðhalda, vernda og þróa fortíð, nútíð og framtíð merki um menningu þeirra, svo sem fornleifar og sögustaði, artifacts, hönnun, athafnir, tækni og sjón-og sviðslistir og bókmenntir.

"11. gr, 2: Aðildarríkin skulu veita bætur í gegnum árangursríka kerfi, sem kann að fela í sér endurheimt, þróað í tengslum við frumbyggja, með tilliti til menningar, vitsmunalegum, trúarlegum og andlegri eign þeirra tekin án frjáls, þeirra fyrirfram upplýstu samþykki eða í bága á lögum þeirra, hefðir og venjur. "

"12. gr, 1: Frumbyggjar eiga rétt á að láta í ljós, æfa, þróa og kenna andlega og trúarlega hefð þeirra, siði og athafnir, en rétt til að viðhalda, vernda og hafa aðgang í næði á trúarlegum og menningarlegum vefsvæðum sínum, á rétt í notkun og eftirlit með helgihaldi hluti þeirra,. og rétt til heimsendingar á líkamsleifar þeirra "

"Gr 25: Frumbyggjar hafa rétt til að viðhalda og styrkja sérstök andlegu tengsl þeirra við þeirra jafnan í eigu eða á annan hátt uppteknum og notað lönd, landsvæði, vötn og strandsvæði höfunum og öðrum auðlindum og að viðhalda ábyrgð gagnvart komandi kynslóðum í þessu tilliti."

The 2012 observances eru tíunda National Days bæn til Vernda Native American helgum stöðum. Fyrsta National Prayer Day var gerð 20. júní 2003, á US Capitol Grounds og almennur að leggja áherslu á þörfina fyrir þing að enact orsök aðgerða til að vernda Native helgum stöðum. Þessi þörf er til staðar enn.

Bænir verða í boði fyrir eftirfarandi helgum stöðum, meðal annars:

Antelope Hills. Apache Leap. Badger Two Medicine. Badlands. Bear Butte. Bear Lake. Bear Medicine Lodge. Black Hills. Black Mesa. Blue Lake. Boboquivari Mountain. Bunchgrass Mountain. Cave Rock. Chief Cliff. Strandsvæði Chumash Sacred Land í Gaviota Coast. Cocopah Burial og helgihaldi Grounds. Coldwater Springs. Colorado River. Columbia River. Deer Medicine Rocks. Dzil Nchaa Si An (Mount Graham). Eagle Rock. Everglades.

Fajada Butte. Ganondagan. Great Mound (Mound Bottom). Gulf of Mexico. Haleakala Crater. Hatchet Mountain. Hickory Ground. Helgafell. Hualapai Nation mikil og í Truxton og Crozier gljúfur. Indian Pass. Kaho'olawe. Kasha-Katuwe. Katuktu. Kituwah. Klamath River. Kumeyaay Hljómsveitir greftrun og helgihaldi ástæðum. Lake Superior. Luiseno Ancestral Uppruni Landslag. Mauna Kea. Maze. Medicine Bluff. Medicine Hole. Medicine Lake Highlands. Medicine hjólum. Migi zii WA sin (Eagle Rock). Mokuhinia. Moku'ula. Mount Shasta. Mount Taylor. Mount Tenabo. Níu Mile Canyon.

Ocmulgee Old Fields og National Monument. Onondaga Lake. Palo Duro Canyon. Petroglyphs National Monument. Pipestone National Monument. Puget Sound. Puvungna. Pyramid Lake Stone Mother. Quechan Burial og helgihaldi Grounds. Rainbow Bridge. Rattlesnake Island. Rio Grande River. San Francisco Peaks. Serpent Mound. Snoqualmie Falls. Sweetgrass Hills. Sutter Buttes. Tse Whit Zen Village. TSI-litch Semiahmah Village. Valley of Chiefs. Valmont Butte. Wakarusa votlendi. Walking kona Place. Woodruff Butte. Wolf River. Yucca Mountain. Zuni Salt Lake. Helgum stöðum allra fjarri Native þjóðanna. Allir Waters og votlendi.

Arizona: Mount Graham, Dzil Nchaa Si An

Mount Graham er heilagt Vestur Apache fólk og er þekkt fyrir San Carlos Apache sem Dzil Nchaa Si An. Það er heilagur landslag þar Gaan eða Mountain andar búa og forfeðranna Apache hvíld. Það er staður af vígslu og lyf plöntur, og heim til hættu Mount Graham rauðu íkorna. The Pinaleño Mountains eða Mount Graham er einstakt vistfræðilegar fjársjóður. Það er hæsta fjall í Suður-Arizona og nær sex mismunandi svæðum líf úr dalnum hæð að hámarki á 10.720 ft kallað "Sky Island" vistkerfi, gamla skóga vaxtar á leiðtogafundi Mount Graham eru að Arizona jafngildi rainforests. The nóg uppsprettur og hár Meadows hæð hafa boðið næring og uppspretta lækna til Apache fólk sem búa í eyðimörkinni. The kaldur rakur einkenni fjallsins hafa nurtured 18 mismunandi plöntur og dýr finnast hvergi annars staðar í heiminum.

Í 1980, University of Arizona og samstarfsaðilar þess á þeim tíma, þar á meðal Vatíkansins og Smithsonian Institution, valdi Mount Graham sem staður til að reisa Observatory með sjö stórum stjörnusjónauka þekktur sem Columbus Project. Frá því í 1988, Arizona Congressional sendinefndinni tókst að ná undanþágur fyrir verkefnið frá útrýmingarhættu, umhverfis-, sögulegri varðveislu og öðrum lögum. Árið 1989 var University of Arizona veitt 20 ára sérstakra nota leyfi frá Coronado National Forest og bandaríska Skógrækt ríkisins, og ráðstöfun reiðmenn hélt verkefnið skola með opinberum bótum án þess að þurfa að hlíta sambands lögum eða reglugerðum, þar á meðal sambands Indian lögum sem ætlað er að vernda trúfrelsi, greftrun ástæðum og menningar eiginleika. Vatican talsmenn fram að Mount Graham var ekki trúarleg eða helgur staður. Háskólinn starfsmenn og lobbyists reynt að grafa undan reputations Apache trúarleiðtoga og sérfræðinga, og haldið að minnsta kosti eitt San Carlos ættar opinbera að vitna að Mountain var ekki heilagt eða veruleg á Apache þjóða.

Í áratugi hafa Apache Peoples, vísindamenn, náttúruverndarsinna og háskólanema mótspyrnu Háskóla ákvörðun Arizona að byggja upp stjörnusjónauka á leiðtogafundi fjallsins. Jafnvel þótt oft ský kápa gerir sjónauka útsýni lélegur og Mount Graham var raðað 38 í rannsókn á stjarnfræðilegur staður í Bandaríkjunum, hafa Arizona Congressional sendinefndarinnar og University varað við verkefnið. Í dag eru bygging stjörnusjónauka og vegna sambands lokun toppur fjallsins desecrating fjallið og óbætanlegur samskiptum sínum við Apache þjóða.

Baráttan heldur áfram til að vernda náttúru-og menningararfleifð á Mount Graham frá fordæmi-stilling eyðileggingu enn völdum háskóla byggja Observatory hennar á Mount Graham. Í viðleitni menningar verndar og umhverfis stofnanir og áhrifum ættbálkar að vernda helgi á Mount Graham áfram fullum krafti.

Háskólinn í Arizona er nú starfar Observatory sína án gildrar sérstakra nota leyfi. 20 ára Þess sambands leyfi rann út þann 19. apríl 2009. Háskólinn hefur beðið Coronado þjóðgarðurinn um nýtt leyfi, en frá og með júní 2012, ákvörðun um hvort að veita leyfi hefur ekki enn verið gert. The Forest Service hefur ákveðið að það þarf að undirbúa á umhverfisáhrifum yfirlýsingu (EIS) til að safna upplýsingum um kosti og galla að veita nýtt leyfi. Háskólinn hefur mótmælt strenuously til nýrra EIS. Frá hvaða lítil upplýsingar um Mount Graham Coalition og San Carlos Apache ættkvísl hafa lært, eru Forest Service og lögfræðingar skólans "í viðræðum" til að ákvarða endanlegt form endurnýjun leyfisveitingar ferli.

There ert a tala af ástæða fyrir Skógrækt ríkisins að neita nýtt leyfi. The fallið niður leyfi fengið fjölda skilmála sem voru brotnar af háskólanum. Margar af þessum aðstæðum ætti að hafa leitt til afturköllunar á leyfi en gerði ekki. Öll þessi brot þarf að rannsaka til að ákvarða hvort skólinn geti fylgt reglum um nýtt leyfi.

Skilyrði um Mount Graham hafa breyst verulega frá því að leyfi var veitt og Observatory er enn minna í samræmi við trúar-og vistfræðilegar mikilvægi Mount Graham. Þar sem leyfi var veitt, hefur "lögun" af Mount Graham verið talið rétt að staðsetningu á landsvísu lista af sögulegum stöðum. Í samlagning, the Forest Service viðurkennir nú að Mount Graham er hefðbundin Cultural Property til Vestur Apache fólki og hefur gert ráðstafanir til að hafa samráð (þó það hefur a langur vegur til fara) með hefðbundnum Apache um innra eðli fjallsins og hvernig á að vernda það. Háskólinn getur farið á þing fyrir enn aðra undanþágu til trúfrelsis og umhverfismál lögum og að þvinga Forest Service til að gefa út nýtt leyfi. Stuðningsmenn Mount Graham væri síðasta að heyra hvaða þrýstingi með þessum línum og verður alltaf vakandi að stöðva þetta gerist.

Fyrir þessum og mörgum öðrum ástæðum, það er mikilvægt að stuðningsmenn Apache þjóða og Mount Graham að hvetja Forest Service að neita Háskóla nýtt leyfi og krefjast þess að núverandi stjörnusjónauka á Mount Graham að fjarlægja.

Eftir 20 ár í byggingu, stóra sjónauka verkefnið er enn ekki lokið og mjög alvarlegar spurningar enn um mikilvægi þess, gagnsemi og virkni af óákveðinn greinir í ensku stjarnfræðilegur sjónarhorni. Hvað er ekki að ræða er áframhaldandi brot á Vestur Apache þjóða. Jafn ljóst er hættulegur stöðu móðurmáli Mount Graham rauðu íkorna. Nýjasta könnun líffræðingar áætlað að aðeins um 214 af þessari einstöku tegundum, fannst nú hvar annars á jörðinni, enn. Það hefur verið auðkenndur með líffræðingar sem einn af spendýrum líklegast að fara útdauð í Bandaríkjunum í fyrirsjáanlegri framtíð.

Nokkrir eldar rúst efst Mount Graham á síðustu árum. Þeir voru börðust til að vernda stjörnusjónauka meira en vistkerfi og þar af leiðandi var mikið tjón gert á fjallið sem gæti hafa verið í veg fyrir. The Forest Service hefur ákveðið að þynna skóginum og annars vinna vistkerfið til að reyna að vernda það sem eftir stendur og til að endurheimta það sem hefur orðið fyrir skemmdum. Núverandi eldar brenna í austur-og suðurhluta Arizona styrkja hætta á að frekari aðgerðir verður tekin vernda mannvirki á dýralíf og andlegum gildum.

Bænir og kostgæfni þarf nú meira en nokkru sinni fyrir Mount Graham. Vistkerfi er undir alvarleg ógn af loftslagsbreytingum og önnur mynstur eyðingu, það er tækifæri fyrir Skógrækt ríkisins að synja nýja leyfi fyrir stjörnusjónauka og þeir þurfa að vera fjarri, og það er tækifæri til að vernda núverandi vistkerfi og endurheimta sumir af því sem hefur rofnað. Og, að helgi á Mount Graham heldur áfram að vera áskorun og en Mountain er fær um að vernda sig, stuðningsmenn geta hjálpað til við að vernda hana.

Fyrir frekari upplýsingar, hafið þá samband við Mount Graham bandalag, Roger Featherstone, forseti, á greenfire@featherstone.ws eða Dinah Bear, ritari, á Bear6@verizon.net

Arizona: San Francisco Peaks

The San Francisco Peaks eru heilagt Apache, Hopi, Hualapai, Navajo, Yavapai og önnur Native Nations. The San Francisco Peaks er heimili til margir helgu verum, læknisfræði stöðum og uppruna staður. Ótal athafnir eru gerðar þar til lækninga, vellíðan, jafnvægi, minnast, kaflar og vatn í heimi og lífið hringrás.

The San Francisco Peaks eru á sambands landi innan Coconino National Forest. Reyndar, the US Forest Service hefur gefið til kynna að San Francisco Peaks eru heilög og heilagt yfir þrettán Tribes í suðvesturhluta Bandaríkjanna.

Þrátt fyrir framangreint, Skógrækt ríkisins og einkarekinna Snowbowl skíði úrræði, sem er staðsett á San Francisco Peaks, áætlun til að stækka skíðasvæðið og nota endurunnið skólp til að gera tilbúna snjó. Stækkun og skólp til snjó áætlanir haft hörmulegar áhrif á móðurmáli trú og fólk og á vatni og heilsu á öllu svæðinu. The creeping afþreyingar þróun hefur áhyggjur Native andlega leiðtoga og ættar embættismenn í áratugi, en núverandi áætlanir langt umfram fyrri starfsemi á úrræði.

Áætlanir Snowbowl til skýr-skera 74 hektara af sjaldgæfum Alpine umhverfi sem er heimili til tegunda, gera nýja keyrir skíði og lyftur, bæta við fleiri bílastæði hellingur og byggja 14,8 míla grafinn leiðsla að flytja allt að 180 milljónir lítra (á tímabili) í afrennsli að gera tilbúna snjó á 205 ekrur. Þrátt fyrir áframhaldandi mótmæli og hungurverkfalla, Snowbowl hefur hafið byggingu leiðsla afrennsli hennar til snowmaking, með samþykki og vernd af hálfu Skógræktar ríkisins og US Department landbúnaðarráðherra.

Navajo Nation Human Rights framkvæmdastjórnarinnar formaður Duane H. Yazzie bar fyrir Öldungadeild nefndarinnar um 2011 heyrn Indian Affairs 'á bandaríska framkvæmd Sameinuðu þjóðanna yfirlýsingu um réttindi frumbyggja: "Sameining yfirlýsingu í núverandi lögum mun einbeita efnislega um gildi heilagt stöðum í stað þess að setja óþarfa álag á málsmeðferð. Einnig yfirlýsing mun leggja áherslu á alþjóðlega stefnu í stað þess að reiða sig á innlenda stefnu einn. Legislatively takast indverskum lögum lögspeki vilja gera við dispossession af Native American réttindi til helgu stöðum. "

Sameinuðu þjóðanna sérstakur talsmaður réttindi frumbyggja mælt árið 2011 að "United States ríkisstjórn þátt í alhliða endurskoðun á viðeigandi stefnu sína og aðgerðir til að tryggja að þær séu í samræmi við alþjóðlega staðla í tengslum við San Francisco Peaks og önnur Native American heilagt staður og að grípa til viðeigandi úrbóta aðgerðir .... ríkisstjórnin ætti endurlyfjagjöf eða halda áfram viðræðum við ættbálka sem trúarbrögð venjur eru áhrif á skíði aðgerðum San Francisco Peaks og leitast við að ná samkomulagi við þá um þróun á skíðasvæðið. Ríkisstjórnin ætti að gefa alvarlegum augum að fresta leyfi fyrir breytingar á Snowbowl þar til samningur er hægt að ná og þar, ef slíkt samkomulag, skriflegt ákvörðun er tekin af þar til bæru stjórnvaldi sem endanleg ákvörðun um ski area breytingar eru í samræmi við alþjóðlegar mönnum Bandaríkjanna réttindi skyldur.

"Sérstakur talsmaður vill leggja áherslu á nauðsyn þess að tryggja að aðgerðir eða ákvarðanir stofnana séu í samræmi við, ekki bara landslögum heldur alþjóðlegum stöðlum sem vernda rétt Native American til að æfa og viðhalda trúarlega hefðir þeirra. Sérstakur talsmaður er meðvitaður um núverandi ríkisstjórn áætlanir og stefnu til að hafa samráð við frumbyggja og taka mið trúarlegum hefðum sínum í ríkisstjórn ákvarðanatöku með tilliti til helgu stöðum. Sérstakur talsmaður hvetur ríkisstjórn til að byggja á þessum áætlunum og stefnumótun í samræmi við alþjóðlega staðla og þannig að koma á góðum starfsháttum og verða leiðandi fyrirtæki sem það getur til að vernda réttindi frumbyggja. "

Native þjóðanna og umhverfis stofnanir hafa reynt að vernda San Francisco Peaks í dómi. Héraðsdómur úrskurðaði í þróun árið 2006. Níunda Circuit Court af Áfrýjun overturned ákvörðun neðri dómi árið 2007 og réð til Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation og fleiri. A þriggja dómari pallborð níunda Circuit úrskurðaði að Forest Service brotið trúfrelsi Restoration lögum og National Environmental Policy lögum í því að Snowbowl Resort að stækka yfir 100 hektara af sjaldgæfum Alpine vistkerfi, hluti af svæði sem er heilagt Native Peoples.

The sambands-ríkisstjórn áskorun þá ákvörðun og bænaskrá Níunda Circuit fyrir rehearing en Banc. Slíkar bænir eru sjaldan veitt, en dómstóllinn veitt þetta einn. Málið var haldið fram fyrir framan 11-dómari en Banc spjaldið níunda Hringrás í Pasadena í desember 2007. Níunda Circuit út ákvörðun en Banc spjaldið 8. ágúst 2008, úrskurð í þágu þróunar. The Native þjóðirnar sendi skriflega af certiorari fyrir bandaríska Hæstaréttar. Hinn 8. júní 2009, sem Hæstiréttur neitaði að endurskoða ákvörðun.

Ættkvíslir reynt að ná einhverskonar stjórn gistingu með nýja stjórn, en slíkar tilraunir hafa ekki borið ávöxt. The Vista Peaks bandalag síðar höfðað mál gegn sambands stjórnvalda um NEPA mál sem Forest Service ekki nægilega íhuga inntöku endurheimta fráveitu vatni. Þetta voru þau sömu lög og staðreyndir sem áður þrír dæma spjaldið í huga að finna að Forest Service var ekki að fara með NEPA. The fyrir úrskurður var hins vegar veitt non-precedential af en Banc dómi í Navajo tilfelli. Þrátt fyrri rökstuðnings níunda Circuit er, getur dómari Murguia í Bandaríkjunum District Court úrskurðaði gegn Vista Peaks bandalag á öllum máli. Stuttu eftir það var skipun hennar við Obama á níunda Circuit staðfest. The Vista á Peaks Coalition kærði úrskurð.

An opinskátt fjandsamlegt þriggja dómari pallborð níunda Hringrás ekki aðeins útiloka gegn Coalition, en fram að Vista Peaks bandalag og lögmaður þeirra hefði misnotað dómstólum - án grundvelli stuðnings ásökunum sínum. Snowbowl er nú að fara eftir plaintiffs og Bono lögmaður þeirra, persónulega, fyrir tjóni sem nemur um $ 280.000. Sömu þrír dómarar heyra hreyfing Snowbowl er.

Í millitíðinni Snowbowl er að sækjast styrktar friðsamlegum mótmælendum og reyna "Retribution" frá þeim. Sumir meðlimir Flagstaff samfélag hefur hafið hungur verkfall. Sem lagaleg og hagnýt efni, hins vegar, Snowbowl er nú frjálst að vanhelga heilögum San Francisco Peaks með refsileysi.

Nánari upplýsingar veitir: Howard M. Shanker, The Shanker Law Firm, PLC, í Tempe og Flagstaff, Arizona, á (480) 838-9433 eða howard@shankerlaw.net

California: McCloud River - Winnemem Wintu Tribe undirbýr Balas Chonos

The Winnemem Wintu Tribe of Northern California prepares for Balas Chonos, the Coming of Age Ceremony, despite opposition by the US Forest Service. The Tribe has asked the Forest Service to close 400 yards of the McCloud River to recreational motor boaters for the four days of the Ceremony, June 30-July 3. The Forest Service claims that it is stymied by the Bureau of Indian Affairs' federal recognition policy and cannot close the River because the Tribe is not federally recognized.

The Tribe says that federal recognition is only one of the federal relationships with tribal peoples. In California, 90% of the tribes were not included on a very short recognition list, which was issued without warning during the Reagan Administration. Even those with a long recorded historical relationship as tribes with the US government – those that were signatories to the unratified treaties and those on the California Judgment Roll, for example — were excluded from that recognition list. Some 300,000 traditional people and their human rights to ceremony are affected because of this policy. Under the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, all federal agencies have an obligation to protect and preserve Native American sacred places and ceremonies, and to consult with Native traditional religious leaders, irrespective of their federal or non-federal recognition status.

The Winnemem Wintu Tribe asserts its right to ceremony for Indigenous women under Article 11, 12 and 25 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Winnemem Chief Caleen Sisk is asking for the mandatory closure of the McCloud River for the Coming of Age Ceremony for Marisa Sisk, who will be the next Winnemem Chief. Although the Winnemem Wintu would prefer to focus on the celebrant, the Tribe says it “must continue on the long road to justice, educating the world as about what it is to be traditional in the United States.”

After unsatisfactory meetings with Forest Service officials, Chief Sisk called for a War Dance, or H'up Chonos, a ceremony conducted when there is nothing that can be done except to pray. Over 200 people came from as far north as Olympia, Washington, and as far south as Los Angeles to support the Winnemem with a non-violent closure, communicating with boaters about the fact there was a ceremony and asking them to respect that. One hundred percent of the recreational boaters respectfully turned around.

The Tribe said that the “only interference to this non-violent ceremony was the US Forest Rangers, who daily came through in two vehicles, one being a canine unit, and buzzed us with their boats, backed by the auxiliary Coast Guards; on the third day (the Forest Service) summarily shut down our closure efforts.”

The Winnemem say that the Forest Service denies the closure, even though it has: 1) clear evidence of racial harassment, interference and health and safety endangerment by drunken, speeding boaters who ignore the Forest Service's “voluntary closure”; 2) the Farm Bill that gives authority to close areas and rivers for ceremony; 3) the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; 4) the California AJR 39 joint resolution, which asserts that the state of California recognizes the Winnemem Wintu and urges the US Congress to recognize the Tribe; 5) an informal poll by the local Redding newspaper, which shows that the public supports honoring the right to ceremony, as well as overwhelming internet support; and 6) resolutions of support from Indigenous leaders at the 2012 UN Permanent Forum on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The Tribe calls the show of force and the federal recognition issue “smoke and mirrors, and when the smoke clears, the Tribe suspects that the US Forest Service under the influence of the Bureau of Indian Affairs may be acting on behalf of special interests — the Bureau of Reclamation and Westlands Water, the largest water corporation in the world, which owns the area that is sacred to the Winnemem.” Westlands wants the Shasta Lake Dam Project, which will raise the dam by several feet. The Tribe says the project “will drown all of the sacred places which currently come out of the water for a few weeks each year, such as the Women's Healing Place and the Puberty Rock, and they will be lost forever.”

Chief Sisk says the Winnemem plan to “go forward with a dignified Ceremony, shored up by the War Dance prayers and backed by the promise of 300 – 400 supporters returning June 29 to close the 400 yards of the McCloud for four days for Marisa's Coming of Age. It is important for Marisa to know what she needs to do in these difficult times as a leader. The times are not peaceful, so a peaceful and dignified ceremony cannot be a lost goal. The goal is to do the best one can and never give up being Winnemem.

“The Winnemem Wintu ask for the prayers of all the good people gathered for National Prayers for Sacred Lands for the human right to ceremony without distinction between federally recognized and unrecognized, and specifically for the right for tribal women to ceremony. Women are the sacred center of life. We ask for prayers that the Shasta Lake Dam will not be further raised and for protection of our sacred Winnemem River, the sacred women's doctoring places, the Puberty Rock and the Children's Rock, as well as the safe return of the Tribe's salmon from New Zealand to their home waters above the dam. We ask for prayers that the Winnemem way of life will continue on. Hee Chala Bes-ken!”

Contact: Winnemem Wintu Chief Caleen Sisk at caleenwintu@gmail.com or Misa Joo at misa@misajoo.com

California: Medicine Lake Highlands and Hatchet and Bunchgrass Mountains

Medicine Lake Highlands is a critically important tribal region located northeast of Mount Shasta in the mountains of northern California. The Pit River, Modoc, Shasta, Karuk, Wintu and other Tribes revere the area for its natural healing powers and for its connections to their Tribes' longstanding histories. For example, the Pit River Tribe believes that the Creator and his son bathed in Medicine Lake after they created the earth, and the Creator imparted his spirit to the waters. Because of the Lake's sacredness, Tribes from the coast of California to the Rocky Mountains use the surrounding area as a training ground for medicine people. The Highlands is also sought after by geothermal energy companies that have applied for development permits from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the US Forest Service (USFS), which manage the area.

Since the 1990s, the Pit River Tribe, Stanford Environmental Law Clinic and other supporters of the protection of the sacred Medicine Lake Highlands in northeastern California have been challenging the BLM and USFS failure to undertake adequate environmental review and tribal consultation for industrial-scale energy development in the Highlands. On November 6, 2006, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the BLM and USFS original extension of Calpine Corporation's geothermal leases in the Highlands violated both the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). The agencies should have prepared an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) before renewing the leases and should have included a “no action” alternative. Because the agencies violated NEPA and NHPA, both the five-year lease extensions and the subsequent 40-year extensions were undone. The Court also said that BLM and USFS violated their fiduciary duty to the Pit River Tribe by failing to complete an EIS before extending the Calpine leases.

When the case was sent back to the trial court to implement the Ninth Circuit's decision, the trial judge ruled that, notwithstanding the invalidation of the lease extensions, the 1988 leases were still intact. In response, Stanford Environmental Law Clinic (SELC) filed an appeal challenging the lower court's interpretation, which went directly against the original Ninth Circuit ruling. At the new hearing on March 10, 2010, the SELC attorneys maintained that the leases, originally issued in 1988 for a duration of five years, and renewed once, expired by their own terms when the 1998 renewals for 40 years were declared null and void by the Ninth Circuit judges.

In August 2010, the Ninth Circuit Court Order indicated that while the Fourmile Hill lease extensions and the project decision remain unacceptable, the underlying leases themselves, granted to Calpine in 1988, continue to be in force. The Federal Agencies (Forest Service and BLM) will need to do a new Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) involving more environmental review and consultations with the Tribe in order to evaluate whether or not these leases should be extended.

The court ruled that the agencies retain full discretion regarding the Fourmile Hill lease extensions. Therefore, all parties, the Pit River Tribe, BLM, United States Department of Justice and Cal Pine Energy Corporation continue negotiations on how a new EIS will look.

The culturally-important Hatchet and Bunchgrass Mountains and the surrounding lands in Traditional Pit River Indian Territory are in jeopardy of being destroyed, due to a plan to build 49 monolithic windmill energy turbines and related roads and ancillary, interconnections, operations and maintenance facilities in the heart of this region. Hatchet Ridge Wind Company, an affiliate of RES America Developments and Renewable Resources, is initiating its windmill construction project. The project would significantly and negatively alter over 100 acres of this natural region and include up to 49 turbines on steel towers with a height of up to 503 feet. Ancillary facilities would include a substation, an overhead transmission circuit, a switching/interconnection facility and a control room/operations and maintenance building. Access roads would be built, including 6.5 miles of 20-foot-wide permanent roads, and one mile of additional roads.

The project would have severe negative impact on sacred and cultural places, as well as on the winged and four-legged beings. Native people could no longer access particular ceremonial plants on Hatchet Mountain as part of their cultural practices and they do not support the project. The visual impact of the towers on the ridge destroys the integrity of the setting of this sacred area. Birds traditionally important to the local tribal culture, such as eagles, ospreys, ducks and geese, cross the ridge and would be shredded by the blades. Migration routes of deer across the ridge could be disrupted. Sound quality issues would also affect the serenity and isolation of the ridge, disrupting human experiences in the area.

Bunchgrass Mountain is just north of the area impacted by the project. An ancient trail runs along the top of the ridge top, connecting the Pit River to Goose Valley and sites downriver; in addition to regular travel, this trail is used to reach remote areas during vision quests and such quests continue among some young men. Clearly, the proposed windmill project will have severe negative impacts on the natural world, as well as the well being and cultural rights of Native peoples. Although these turbines have been built and are up and running, we are firm that this project is in violation of federal law and the Advocates for the Protection of Sacred Sites and their allies have protested against the project, will continue to do so and will not sit idly by and allow the destruction of important sacred and cultural regions to take place.

For more information on the efforts to protect the sacred Medicine Lake Highlands and Hatchet and Bunchgrass Mountains from the building of massive energy power facilities, contact the Advocates for the Protection of Sacred Sites: Radley Davis, Pit River Nation, 530-917-6064; Mark LeBeau, Pit River Nation, 916-801-4422; and James Hayward, Sr., Redding Rancheria, 530-410-2875

California: Needles – Ft. Mojave Indian Tribe, at the Topock Maze area
Saturday, June 23, 2012, at 6:00 am

The Ft. Mojave Indian Tribe remains in urgent need of prayer to protect the Maze and surrounding sacred areas along the Lower Colorado River. The Maze is both a physical manifestation and a spiritual pathway for the afterlife. It has always been, and will always be, an integral and significant part of the Mojave way of life, beliefs, traditions, culture and religion. The Mojave will observe the Prayer Day at the Topock Maze site.

Pacific Gas & Electric, by its ownership and operation of the Topock Natural Gas Compressor Station near Needles, California over the last 50 years, has polluted the groundwater under and around the Maze with hexavalent chromium, a toxic chemical that can cause numerous human and ecological health problems. PG&E, BLM and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control proceeded with Interim Measures to contain and investigate the contamination, which included the construction of a new Treatment Plant within the Maze area and the drilling of about 150 wells in California and Arizona, on either side of the Colorado River.

These, taken together, create continuing cumulative adverse impacts to the Mojave people, its sacred landscape and tribal religious beliefs.

In 2005, Ft. Mojave filed a state lawsuit seeking the removal of the plant, total restoration of the sacred area, an environmental baseline of prior to the plant's construction and any other actions that could serve to remedy the desecration. Settlement negotiations concluded in November 2006 aimed to achieve each of these goals and secure other remedies including repatriation of portions of the sacred area to tribal ownership, sensitivity training for PG&E employees and contractors, a written public apology and reimbursement of past and future Tribal costs.

In 2011, during selection of the Final Groundwater Remedy, DTSC made a finding that the Topock Cultural Area is an historic resource under state law and the BLM determined that a Traditional Cultural Property (TCP) or property of traditional religious and cultural significance within a 1,600 acre Area of Potential Effect is eligible for listing on the National Register under Criterion A, as part of what tribes have identified as a larger area of traditional and cultural importance.

Yet, DTSC and BLM failed to consult with the Tribe on the final mitigation measures, assuming they knew what was best for all the Tribal Governments along the Lower Colorado River and how the sacred area could be best protected. DTSC's failure to complete a legally adequate environment document, and failure to live up to certain terms in its settlement agreement with the Tribe, is the subject of a second lawsuit brought by the Tribe under state environmental laws. In its approval of the Final Groundwater Remedy, BLM has continued to put off dealing with mitigation for the continued impacts of up to 170 new wells and related infrastructure into the Tribe's sacred area, putting the sustainability of the Tribe's cultural and spiritual practices of the Tribe at further risk for decades to come.

Prayer is needed:
1) for DTSC and PG&E to swiftly bring to conclusion their settlements with the Tribe, and recognize the sovereignty of the tribal government and the agency's public policy goals of truly inclusive and transparent decision making,
2) for BLM and DOI to follow through on promises to require meaningful mitigation for tribal cultural concerns during groundwater and soils remedy design and to improve its management of the area,
3) for additional sacred land in this area to be repatriated to the Tribe and
4) to ask for forgiveness for any continuing desecration that may occur until the offending facilities, including the interim measure treatment plant, are finally removed and until other required restoration of the landscape occurs.

This issue is national in scope: the Maze has been officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1978 and is formally recognized as nationally significant. Moreover, the failure of state and federal agencies to fully consider direct, indirect and cumulative impacts to Native Sacred Places during pollution remediation activities remains a national problem requiring Congressional Oversight. Pray that this oversight occurs at the highest levels.

Contact: Nora McDowell-Antone, Tribal Topock Project Manager, at (928) 768-4475, NoraMcDowell-Antone@fortmojave.com, or Courtney Ann Coyle, Tribal Attorney, at (858) 454-8687, CourtCoyle@aol.com

California: Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians, Luiseño Ancestral Origin Landscape

Pechanga is in need of urgent prayer to continue to assist it in protecting the Luiseño Ancestral Origin Landscape from the Granite Construction Company's proposed Liberty Quarry. The proposed quarry would be located on a sacred mountain within the Luiseño People's sacred place of origin. Parts of this Origin Landscape have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973 as the Murrieta Creek Archaeological Area (exva Temeeku) and are also listed in the state's Sacred Lands File Inventory.

After many public hearings before the Riverside County Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors, the quarry was DENIED this year! However, the Board on a 3:2 margin voted to APPROVE the inadequate environmental document under CEQA, potentially laying the groundwork for Granite to come back in the near future with a revised application to mine. This unusual turn of events means that the Origin Area is still at risk.

Granite wants to blast out the mountain, home to the Kammalam (ancestors in the form of rocks), so that it can produce aggregate. The quarry could operate for 75 years and, even after reclamation, would remain a permanent scar within the sacred landscape. It would also be located at the headwaters of the Santa Margarita River, the last remaining free flowing river to reach the Pacific Ocean in southern California, and be adjacent to the Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, which also includes part of the Origin Landscape.

The quarry would kill the mountain and forever disturb the sanctity of this incredibly beautiful and scenic area, located next to the reservation and at the doorstep of the City of Temecula.

In addition, the quarry would also pose environmental hazards to the Pechanga Community: air and water quality, visual and noise impacts, fire and emergency response, as well as sever a key wildlife linkage to and from the reservation. The Tribe was not consulted by the County of Riverside on these impacts during environmental review.

Pechanga respectfully requests prayer that:
1) Efforts to permanently prevent mining in any form at this location are successful and that
2) Tribal efforts to have this Origin Landscape formally recognized and protected will be successful.

For more information on the efforts to protect the Luiseño Ancestral Origin Landscape from the Liberty Quarry, contact Paul Macarro, Pechanga Cultural Coordinator at: pmacarro@pechanga-nsn.gov or (951) 770.8102 or Jacob Mejia at: jmejia@pechanga.com or (951) 770.2595.

California: Redlands – California-Pacific Committee on Native American Ministries of The United Methodist Church at the University of Redlands, Saturday, June 16, at 7:15 am

The California-Pacific Committee on Native American Ministries (CONAM) of The United Methodist Church will have prayer for sacred places on the Quad at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California. The public is welcome to join on Saturday, June 16, at 7:15 am

Tengiliður: Suanne Ware-Diaz á soozware@yahoo.com eða (571) 236-7274 fyrir frekari upplýsingar.

California: Viejas Band á Kumeyaay indíána - greftrun og helgihaldi Grounds -
Hefðbundin Mourning Ceremony, laugardagur 23. júní Ocotillo Area, 19:00

Í meira en tvö ár Viejas Band hefur heyja lagalega, stjórnmálalega og almannatengsl bardaga til að spara ættar ástæður greftrun og helgihaldi staður frá eyðileggingu með því að staðbundin og sambands stofnanir. Viejas hefur jákvæðar fréttir að tilkynna einn á framan og harmþrunginn fréttir til skýrslu um annað.

Padre Dam Site:

Á þessu síðasta ári, með hjálp þína, gerði við mikla framfarir í átt að verndun og heimferðar á grafreitinn og helgihaldi staður á Padre Dam Municipal Water District eign, sem vildi fá að þróa geyminn og dælustöð á síðuna.

Uppgjör málflutnings er nálægt á hendi, þar sem síða yrði aftur, varið í perpetuity og landið repatriated til ættkvísl. Viejas er mjög þakklát fyrir þann stuðning sem það hefur fengið frá samfélaginu, ríkisstjóri í Kaliforníu, Native American Heritage framkvæmdastjórnarinnar og dómstóla sem hafa einhliða með hljómsveitinni á mörgum mismunandi stigum.

Viejas óskar Virðingarfyllst bæn um:
1) Viðeigandi val staðsetningu fyrir verkefnið að tryggja sem District,
2) The jarðvegur tekin áður burt síðuna með District að koma aftur til eign í eins blíður hátt og hægt er og eins fljótt og kostur er, og
3) Fyrirgefning að áhrif fram og að þeir muni aldrei gerast aftur.

Ocotillo Express Wind Farm:

Á sama tíma hafa Viejas og annarra ættkvísla neyðst til að verja feður vora af frekari árásum og hugsanlega eyðileggingu ættar menningar auðlindir, helgum stöðum og urðun ástæðum af mörgum helstu endurnýjanlegrar orku og aðrar framkvæmdir gagnsemi í the heimamaður fjöll og eyðimerkur sem myndi að eilífu breyta Á menningar landslag á Kumeyaay þjóðarinnar. Þetta eru: Sunrise Powerlink Project, Tule Wind Project, Ocotillo Wind Express Project, Eco Station Project, Imperial Sól verkefni og aðra.

Bara í síðasta mánuði, á sterkum andmæli af Kumeyaay Hljómsveitir og Quechan og Cocopah þjóða, sveitarfélaga meðlimum samfélagsins, umhverfis hópa, stéttarfélög, ferðalöngum og þjóðgarðurinn stuðningsmenn var gegnheill eyðileggjandi Ocotillo Wind Express Facility samþykkt af County af Imperial og BLM . Ocotillo Express (Pattern Energy) sóa ekki tíma og byrjaði samstundis að hreinsa, skafa og eyðileggja svæðið og vildi ekki samþykkja að halda utan um byggingu þar til TRO heyrðist.

Svokallaða "Hreinsaður" Project myndi fela 112 iðnaðar-stór vindur turn allt að 460 fet á hæð, 42 km af nýjum vegi, 81 kílómetra frá undergrounded ljósleiðara, a 31-Acre aðveitustöð og Tengivirki, rekstur og viðhald bygging og önnur grunnvirki svo sem bílastæði, tjarnir og laydown svæðum sem voru ekki hluti af NEPA og CEQA skjöl. Verkefnið Réttur leiðin er yfir um 12.000 hektara af sambands þjóðlendu og er umkringd tilnefnd eyðimörkinni, menningar varðveitir, sviðum Critical Environmental Concern og deilir 5 mílna landamæri með Anza Borrego Desert State Park.

The project is within a valley that slopes from the mountains to the desert, and is mostly undeveloped Class L (Limited Use) lands. One ceremonial site, the Spoked Wheel Geoglyph, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2003, long before any wind project was proposed, and includes the whole viewscape from the site. The valley is ringed with sacred mountains — Coyote, Signal, Sombrero and Pinyon — and is used as a teaching area for tribal youth. Over 35,000 person hours were spent surveying and recording the massive amount of physical archaeology present at the site. The BLM relied solely on archeological values during the survey and only at the end of the NHPA Section 106 process acknowledged that the project area is a TCP within a larger TCP. Tribal Values considerations were an afterthought in the environmental documents and consultation was severely rushed due to arbitrary deadlines set by BLM to meet federal wind subsidy deadlines currently set for the end of 2012.

On June 23, Viejas and other Kumeyaay Bands will be holding a traditional Mourning Ceremony in the Ocotillo Area. The ceremony will begin at 7:00 pm and continue through the morning. The tribes will grieve for what has been lost and bring attention to efforts to save what is left of the area where the ancestors are laid to rest.

Viejas respectfully requests prayer that:
1) Preliminary Injunctions will issue to halt the destruction,
2) The BLM accepts historic human remains detection dog teams as a legitimate tool for identifying and avoiding ancestral cremation areas,
3) Subsidies and loans from federal and other entities are NOT granted for the project,
4) The Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) is NOT extended by Congress, and
5) That something good for the Tribal Peoples of our region comes out of this experience in the form of UNITY, DOCUMENTATION and RESPECT for traditional religious practices.

For more information, please contact: Robert Scheid, Viejas Public Relations Director, at (619) 659-2316 or by email at: rscheid@viejas-nsn.gov

Colorado: Boulder – Native American Rights Fund – Sunrise Ceremony, Wednesday, June 20
Please join us for a Sunrise Ceremony beginning at 7:00 am, on Wednesday, June 20, on the front lawn of the Native American Rights Fund, 1506 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado. The program and prayer service will last about one hour, followed by a potluck breakfast. Community members have been invited to speak, as well as other NARF staff. Speakers will be followed by a moment of silence to show concern for the sacred places that are being damaged and destroyed today.
In the United States, Native Americans are more closely tied to the land than any other group, yet the increasing exploitation of natural resources and population expansion has caused previously undisturbed tribal sacred places to become vulnerable to destruction. As part of its mission, the Native American Rights Fund has long advocated for sacred site protection, religious freedom efforts and cultural rights. Recently, NARF's Board of Directors has asked us to expand our efforts to protect lands that are sacred and precious to Native Americans.
Please show your solidarity for the protection of sacred places by joining us for the June 20 program. We ask you to bring food and/or beverages to share at the completion of the program.
Please join us! If you have any questions please contact Rose Cuny at 303-447-8760.

Kansas: Lawrence – Wakarusa Wetlands, Haskell Medicine Wheel – Open to the Public
Wednesday, June 20, at SUNRISE

Haskell Wetland Preservation Organization (WPO) and Save the Wakarusa Wetlands will observe National Prayer Day at SUNRISE, June 20th, beside the Wakarusa Wetlands at the Haskell Medicine Wheel, south of Lawrence, Kansas. Haskell WPO is a Native student organization. Save the Wakarusa Wetlands, Inc., is an association of local supporters, including Haskell Indian Nations University, Washburn University and Baker University alumni, students and supporters from all parts of the Lawrence community.

The ceremony will be held at the medicine wheel, where participants will erect a lodge pole at sunrise to mark the exact position of the Summer Solstice.

The event is open to all who wish to add their prayers to save this sacred place from the highway builders. Participants will ask for the protection of the Wakarusa Wetlands (aka, Haskell-Baker Wetlands), threatened by an eight-to-ten lane highway project approved by the Army Corps of Engineers, but delayed by a federal law suit filed by WPO and a consortium of supporter groups, including Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, Jayhawk Audubon, Kansas University Environs, Save the Wakarusa Wetlands, Kansas Sierra Club and KU EcoJustice.

Uppfæra:
On January 20, 2012 a panel of federal appeals court judges heard oral arguments challenging the state's efforts to construct 8-10 lanes of traffic across wetlands that once served as the primary refuge for Native children resisting cultural genocide. The written opinion could come at any time, but may not be released before mid-summer. For more than two decades, Haskell students and their allies have managed to block efforts to pave this sacred place, which was “surplussed” away from Haskell during the Eisenhower termination era. More than two thirds of Haskell's campus was “given away” by BIA officials at the time.
Last year, Republican Governor Sam Brownback announced that $192 million in Kansas taxpayer funds was being allocated for completion of the South Lawrence Trafficway. The SLT began as a scheme to help local developers turn the southern edge of Lawrence into a regional shopping mecca. In recent years, the SLT project has been hijacked by trucking interests that dream of turning two nearby closed military bases into national hubs for NAFTA product distribution. Thus, the SLT has mushroomed into an eight-to-ten lane behemoth promoted as key infrastructure. This latest version of the old frontier booster fable that the metro area is destined to be “the next Chicago” has all the officials of nearby towns clamoring for completion of the SLT.

Ironically, while in Congress, then-Senator Brownback sponsored a US apology to Native Americans for past egregious actions, but it specifically prohibited Native Peoples from taking any legal action that would provide redress or remedy for any of the actions, causing many Native people to call it a “hollow apology.”

About 600 acres of the Wakarusa Wetlands were located directly south of the dorms at Haskell Institute, the nation's largest and most tribally diverse federal off-reservation boarding school. This last major remnant of the wetlands was a crucial refuge where Native children from all across the country survived sustained government efforts to exterminate their cultures. Indian students took refuge in the Wakarusa Wetlands refuge — where they could speak their languages, sing their sacred songs and conduct ceremonies and dances that were federally punishable with starvation and jail time — and refused to let school authorities “kill the Indian” in them.

Parents and other tribal leaders camped, sometimes for weeks or months, beside these wetlands on the north bank of the Wakarusa. They were awaiting permission from school officials to let them reclaim or at least visit their children. These elders used the Wakarusa Wetlands as an outdoor classroom to pass on final lessons about healing and other traditional knowledge.

The wetlands quickly became the most essential place where Haskell students could get news about family and friends. The wetlands was where they heard about what was happening back home in the crucial era of allotments and the “surplussing” of their homelands. The wetlands also provided the least censored opportunity to send messages home whenever someone speaking a related language arrived in camp. Otherwise, the children had to learn enough English to send a letter home by way of school censors, and then further screened by the Indian agent when it reached their reservation, and again modified when the interpreter read their message to parents who often could neither read nor speak English. This place is soaked in Indian history, layered with the stories of Native elders and is the last resting place of some who came to Haskell in its darkest days. Spirit release ceremonies and clandestine burials took place in these wetlands. The disappeared and runaways are remembered here.

This sacred wetland, a place between land and water, is the largest intact trace of the original Wakarusa Bottoms, an 18,000-acre prairie wetland environment. It existed for thousands of years before white school officials obtained federal funds to drain it. Before Haskell opened, this place supplied Native Peoples of the region with valuable medicinal plants, important ceremonial items, waterfowl, furbearers and other relatives central to their ways of life.

Elders have said the Creator caused the course of the Wakarusa River to go directly east toward the rising sun, in sharp contrast to the other rivers in the region, as a sign of the abundant gifts to be found there.

Despite massive efforts to drain the wetlands in the early twentieth century — and Haskell's loss of all but a few acres of this property during the termination era — the Wakarusa Wetlands, like Haskell Indian Nations University itself, has survived and flourished. The entire historic Haskell campus, including the Wetlands, is being considered for designation as a National Historic Heritage area, but should have been declared a Traditional Cultural Property long ago.

Contact: Cleta Labrie cletalabrie@gmail.com President of Haskell Wetlands Preservation Organization (WPO); Dr. Dan Wildcat (WPO faculty adviser) at dwildcat@sunflower.com; or Michael Caron at (785) 842-6293 or by email at mcaron@sunflower.com with Save the Wakarusa Wetlands, Inc. Friend the Wetlands Preservation Organization on FACEBOOK.

Nebraska: Lincoln – National Congress of American Indians, Mid-Year Session
Nebraska State Capitol Grounds, North Plaza
Tuesday, June 19, Sunrise Ceremony

The National Congress of American Indians will sponsor a Sunrise Ceremony on Tuesday morning, June 19, at the Nebraska State Capitol grounds on the North Plaza. The NCAI is conducting its 2012 Mid-Year Session in Lincoln, Nebraska, June 17-20.

The NCAI Sunrise Ceremony will be held as a part of the observances and ceremonies during the National Days of Prayer to Protect Native American Sacred Places, from June 16 through June 24.

The public is invited to attend NCAI's respectful observance to honor sacred places, sacred beings and sacred waters, and all those who care for them and protect them from harm. Participants are asked to arrive no later than 7:00 am

For information about NCAI's Sunrise Ceremony, contact NCAI Deputy Director Robert Holden, 202.466.7767, email: rholden@ncai.org

New York: Ganondagan State Historic Site, at the Great White Pine Tree of Peace
Wednesday, June 20, at Noon

At Ganondagan State Historic Site in New York, there will be a Gahnonyoh (Thanksgiving), starting at Noon, on Wednesday, June 20, to protect sacred places and to promote world peace. “We invite spiritual leaders and the general public to join us on that day as we offer words of Thanksgiving or Gahnonyoh in Seneca,” says G. Peter Jemison (Seneca), who is the Caretaker of Ganondagan.

“We will gather before noon near the Great White Pine at the head of the Trail of Peace to offer words of Thanksgiving to the Creator,” says Jemison. “The event is open to the general public and all are welcome, but no photography, please.”

Ganondagan is the site of the seventeenth century town, once the capitol of the Seneca Nation, which was destroyed by the French in 1687. Today, it is the only historic site in New York dedicated to a Native American theme. Ganondagan is sacred to the Seneca People because nearby are the remains of Jikonhsaseh the Mother of Nations, who was the first person to accept the message of Peace brought by the Peacemaker, who united the Haudenosaunee or Five Nations: Seneca Nation, Cayuga Nation, Onondaga Nation, Oneida Nation and Mohawk Nation.

Contact: G. Peter Jemison at (585) 924-5848 or by e-mail at mailto:pjemison@rochester.rr.com

New York: New York City – Prayer of Remembrance for Sacred Places
Thursday, June 21, 1:00 pm
Hudson River at Bethune & West Streets

A Prayer of Remembrance for Sacred Places will take place on Thursday, June 21, at 1:00 pm The group will gather at the Hudson River in New York City at Bethune and West Streets.

The event is sponsored by Spiderwoman Theater, The Silvercloud Singers and the American Indian Community House.

Contact: Murial Borst-Tarrant at mborst1@msn.com or 551-208-3536.

Ohio: Peebles – Serpent Mound, Wednesday, June 20, 10:00 am – 9:00 pm
Newark – Newark Earthworks, Great Circle entryway, Thursday, June 21, 6:00 am/8:00 pm
Chillicothe – Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, Mound City
Thursday, June 21, 7:00 pm
Oregonia – Fort Ancient Earthworks, Saturday, June 23, 5:30 am

In Ohio, there will be gatherings at the four major remaining earthworks sites to honor the brilliant achievements of the Indigenous Peoples who lived in the Ohio Valley 2,000 years ago and built enormous earthen architecture. Gatherings will occur near Peebles, in Newark, near Chillicothe and near Oregonia to acknowledge the original landscape, what has been lost and all that continues into the future. The public is invited to observe the National Day of Prayer to Protect Sacred Places at these places.

Two thousand years ago, Indigenous Peoples built more than 600 groups of earthworks, each group consisting of several large earthen geometric shapes with specific purposes. The earthworks were built by design, near creeks and rivers. Many of the earthworks are enormous, measuring from 20 to more than 50 acres in area, with walls varying from 3 to 30 feet tall and connected by walled earthen roadways; the design guided the Peoples through the earthworks along a ceremonial road. Large circles with entryways facing the east, squares with rounded corners and entryways, octagons with eight entryways, huge rectangular flat-topped or oval mounds, tall conical mounds and ceremonial roadways mark the Ohio Valley as a sacred landscape. In addition to using geometric forms to convey meaning and purpose, the builders used a standard unit of measure and other mathematical consistencies in the spacing of the earthworks. Distances between earthworks at Newark can be measured in multiples of 1,054 feet.

The Newark Earthworks consisted of four large earthworks built 2,000 years ago over a four-square mile area by the Peoples of the Hopewell Culture. Two remain preserved. The Octagon Earthworks is an astronomical calendar tracking the 18.6-year lunar cycle, marking the lunar standstills in spectacular moonrises. It was built in the shape of a circle and an octagon connected by a walled ceremonial road. The nearby Great Circle is itself nearly 1,200 feet in diameter and possibly had many uses, as a ceremonial center, for formal games such as stickball and as places of gathering. The Ellipse was a walled cemetery with many burial mounds and contained a number of earthen circles open to the east before it was excavated to clear the land for canals, railroads and heavy industry. The Wright Square stood between the Great Circle and the Ellipse cemetery, but has been destroyed by development.

Of the four major remaining sections of the Newark Earthworks, all but one have been acknowledged as sacred places and have become state parks/monuments. However, the Octagon Earthworks are leased to a private country club and open to the public only four days per year. The Ellipse cemetery is owned privately and currently being prepared for sale as an industrial park.

Serpent Mound is one of two effigy mounds in Ohio, and one of the largest anywhere in the world. Its iconic aerial outline is known far beyond the borders of this state. Nearly a quarter of a mile long, the undulating coils made of three foot tall earthen walls curve from a spiral tail to a head pointing across the Brush Creek valley at the point on the southwestern horizon where the sun sets on the summer solstice. Recent scholarly work points to a construction of this unique mound at about 1070 CE, later than many of the more geometric enclosures around Ohio. The landscape is also marked by geological interest. A “crypto-explosion” crater cradles the arc of the valley where Serpent Mound lays on a bluff; the result of a meteorite that folded the crust of the earth when it struck 250 million years ago. This bluff of sandstone also has interest, as a visitor may walk down to creek side and look back up at the point where the “serpent's head” ends, and see a snake headed prow of stone poke out over the water below.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park is made up of five sites in and around the city of Chillicothe, Ohio, where once could be seen the largest concentration of earthworks complexes anywhere in the world. Mound City is the name for the central enclosure, a rounded-cornered square that was one of the ancient cemeteries alongside the Scioto River where the National Park Service has its visitor center. Almost entirely destroyed during World War I by the construction of training camps and industry to support the war effort, it was rebuilt from the original foundations and above surviving parts of mounds during the 1930s and in another major effort during the 1960s and 1970s. An alignment along three of these reconstructed mounds, pointing towards a southwestern corner gateway of Mound City, is a dramatic view, and casts the entire complex into vivid contrast. The possible astronomical alignments for this and other units, such as the Hopewell Mound Group west of the city, are still being studied, using both old maps and surveys, and non-intrusive studies that can trace where walls and their associated clays still can be seen.

Fort Ancient is a vast, irregular enclosure with three miles of wall atop a pair of plateaus next to the Little Miami River valley. Military language was attributed to this location by early European occupants, who named features “North Fort” and “South Fort,” but later studies show that combat and conflict seem to have been entirely absent from this sacred site. Fort Ancient is the archaeological label used for a later cultural phase in Ohio, but much of the site was built around the same time as Newark and Chillicothe. Reflecting pools of water were built into the site to create a sense of place – world above, world below. More recent surveys have shown that four compass aligned stone mounds in the “North Fort,” were built alongside the traces of a circle, perhaps a “woodhenge” where posts in a circle aided in astronomical calculation and prediction. Fires were built on top of stone mounds into the historic era. From one of those stone mounds, on mornings near the summer solstice, a particular entryway to the northeast pours a path of light across the leveled plaza, until it paints the surface of the mound.

Many of the major earthworks in Ohio are now under consideration for designation as World Heritage Sites by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and a proposal is being prepared. For additional information about the Earthworks, see: http://whc.unesco. org/en/tentative lists/5243/. For more information about Solstice events see: www.AncientOhioTrail.org

Tennessee: Muscogee “Creek” Citizens Gathering, The Great Mound of Mound Bottom, Saturday, June 23, 10:00 am
Sellars Farm State Archaeological Area, Lebanon, Wilson County
Sunday, June 24, 2:00 pm

A Muscogee “Creek” Citizens Gathering will take place on Saturday, June 23, at 10:00 am, at The Great Mound, Mound Bottom archaeological site, in observance of the National Sacred Places Prayer Days. “This gathering will be ceremonial to honor and lift up the Mound,” said Melba Checote-Eads (Muscogee), who is organizing the gathering. “We will observe a day of prayer, singing, gifting and feasting at Mound Bottom, as is Muscogee tradition. Water will be furnished by Muscogee Citizens.”

Ms. Checote-Eads asks people to reserve a space by calling her at 615-765-5854, to bring a bag lunch and beverage, to wear hiking boots and to meet in the picnic area: “We will meet at the picnic area near the Harpeth River beside the Mound. We will walk one mile to the Mound and transportation will be provided for those unable to make the walk.” The group will tour the Mound at 10:00 am with Ranger Gary Patterson.

Mound Bottom is located in Cheatham County along the horseshoe bend of the Harpeth River. Mound Bottom is approximately one mile north of the point where US Route 70 crosses the Harpeth River, on the outskirts of Kingston Springs, Tennessee. The site is managed by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation as part of Harpeth River State Park. The Great Mound of Mound Bottom dates to the Mississippian era (900 AD-1300). Mound Bottom is about 100 acres and is nearly surrounded by the Harpeth River.

The flat-topped embankment that dominates the view from Mace Bluff is the largest of at least 14 Mounds that remain. The Great Mound stands 25 feet tall and 47 square feet in area; the remains of an earthen ramp leading from the plaza to the top of this Mound can still be seen. The entire complex, which is believed to have included hundreds of houses, was surrounded by an earthen wall topped with a palisade of upright logs. Mound Bottom likely began as a ceremonial meeting place around 950 AD and grew to become a fortified city with a population numbering in the thousands. Mound Bottom was part of a vast trade network that extended to Native Peoples in the Great Lakes area, Gulf Coast region and the Appalachian Mountains.

There also will be a gathering at the Sellars Farm on the following day, Sunday, June 24, at 2:00 pm The Sellars Farm State Archaeological Area is located in Wilson County: off Hwy-70 left at Poplar Rd., in Lebanon, Tennessee. The group will tour the Mound area and walk the path around the Mound, which is near Spring Creek, a tributary of the Cumberland River. Participants are asked to bring a bag lunch.

Ms. Checote-Eads describes the Mound site as covered with trees, grasses and wild flowers. It was a large village and trade area during the Mississippian Period. In 1939, a farmer dug up four statues, which were made between 600 and 800 years ago. Two of the statues are in the McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and have been featured on a US postage stamp.

For additional information, contact: Melba Checote Eads at melbaceads@dtccom.net or 615 765-5854.

Washington, DC: United States Capitol, West Front Grassy Area
June 20, Wednesday, at 8:30 am

The observance in Washington, DC, will take place at the US Capitol on the West Front Grassy Area on Wednesday, June 20, at 8:30 am The public is invited to attend this respectful observance to honor sacred places, sacred beings and sacred waters, and all those who care for them and protect them from harm. The observance will take the form of a talking circle.

All are welcome to offer good words, songs or a moment of silence for all sacred places, beings and waters, especially for those that are being threatened, desecrated or damaged at this time.

This observance is organized by The Morning Star Institute, a national Native rights organization founded in 1984 and dedicated to Native Peoples' cultural and traditional rights, including religious freedom and sacred places protection. The observance will be conducted by Mary Phillips (Omaha & Laguna Pueblo).

Contact: The Morning Star Institute at (202) 547-5531, Suzan Shown Harjo at suzan_harjo@yahoo.com or Mary Phillips at trumpetnative@aol.com or 510-205-4501.

Washington: Snoqualmie Falls, at the Cedar Tree, Friday, June 22, 11:30 am

Water is universally a Sacred Being, part of sacred ceremonies in all faiths and religions.

Snoqualmie Falls in Washington State is a place recognized as Sacred for thousands of years. For the Snoqualmie and other Tribes of the Puget Sound region, this is the Transformer's gift to the People.

It is a 268-foot waterfall listed on the Register of Historic Places as a Traditional Cultural Property. Over two million people come from all over the world to visit Snoqualmie Falls annually. Puget Sound Energy owns and operates a hydroelectric facility there. Snoqualmie Falls is impacted and desecrated by diversion of a significant portion of the water from the river by a hydroelectric facility before it can complete the Sacred Cycle of reaching the base of the falls and creating a healing connection by its transformation to legendary mists that connect worlds, carry prayers, and deliver blessings.

Puget Sound Energy, a public utility, owns and operates a public park located there. A popular hiking trail down to the viewing area near the base of the falls continues to be closed to visitors until sometime in 2013. Access to the base of the Falls, specifically a spiritually powerful location, is blocked.

On Friday, June 22nd, at 11:30 am, there will be a gathering, rain or shine, at Snoqualmie Falls.

We welcome anyone who would like to respectfully join together in Spirit for observance of our Sacred Places across the globe that are in need. Join us and others that are gathering to pray, each in our own way for their protection.

“When one is uplifted, we all are uplifted”.

“We give thanks for the teachings of the Sacred. We give thanks that we are still here. We give thanks for the breath of the Spirit”.

We pray for one another.

In the Spirit of Snoqualmie Falls, Lois Sweet Dorman.

Contact: Lois Sweet Dorman, Snoqualmie, at nightfishes@qwest.net.

World Peace & Prayer Days – Gray Horn Butte (Devil's Tower), June 16
Medicine Wheel, June 17
Grand Tetons, June 18 – 21
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 21

Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe: “Once again I am sending my voice to all Nations upon Mother Earth, those who can hear my sincerity with their hearts – - unite together at our Sacred Sites creating an energy shift of a great healing on this June 21st. We need to see and listen to the wamakas'ka (the animals) who are more than ever now showing their sacred color of white, there are so many. This color represents the direction of when physical life now goes into the spirit journey. They are trying to warn us to pay attention to our responsibilities as a Global Nation. In order to protect the remaining sacredness that is trying to survive upon Mother Earth, which includes even our own children, we now have no choice but to unify and make positive decisions together.

“To honor the birthplace of World Peace and Prayer Day/Honoring Sacred Sites where it all began in 1996, we will gather at Gray Horn Butte, aka “Devils Tower” on June 16th. Peace Riders who made the '96 journey from Canada to
Gray Horn on horse back, will join us and offer prayers as well and plant a Peace Pole reading “May Peace Prevail on Earth” in 4 different languages. We will do the same offering on June 17th at Medicine Wheel. On June 18th we will gather at the Grand Tetons to begin one of the many events of WPPD throughout the world. The Grand Tetons will be the beginning of a four day event to bring attention for the need to protect the last of the true wild Buffalo (bison) that exist in Yellow Stone National Park, they are in constant danger of being massacred when caught off park property.

“On June 21st I will pray with thousands of People at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development or Rio+20 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As part of the various gatherings and celebrations that will be held as part of the Sacred Earth Gathering in Aldeia Nova Terra during the month of June parallel to the conference, there will be a very special ceremony to celebrate World Peace and Prayer Day/Honoring Sacred Sites along with various representatives of the Brazilian indigenous tribes and spiritual leaders from different nations. The intent is to honor this day not only in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil but to also invite the participation of other WPPD activities worldwide to join though simultaneous acts of prayer and song so as to be united spiritually on this June 21st to celebrate the 2012 World Peace and Prayer Day/Honoring Sacred Sites. Onipiktec'a (that we shall live).”

Contact: Paula Horne-Mullen, Wolakota.org http://wppd2012.com/

The Morning Star Institute, 611 Pennsylvania Ave., SE #377, Washington, DC 20003 (202) 547-5531

In todays world in chaos it seems there is so much going on that when important moments arise we are so distracted that we dont even pay attention. NOW IS THE TIME TO PAY ATTENTION. Traditional People around the world are coming forward from communities that have chosen to never interact with the world…. that is until now. The question is why are they coming forward now to speak to us and what does this mean to each of here on the planet today?

This message from Radford Quamahongnewa is on behalf of his Leadership of High Traditionals from the Mother Village of Shungopavi of the Hopi people. Its an important message and one that we would be wise to listen to.

Time for the people to come together and protect life….

The issue of the water in Hopi and Navajo lands is complicated. It is NOT over until Senator Kyl pulls the bill from the Senate floor. Until that happens the Bill is still very much alive even though the Navajo voted it down as well as the Hopi saying NO to the bill.

Listen to and interview with Radford with Host Rob Simone who traveled to Hopi to speak with Radford in person. YOUR support of the work through this website allowed for all this work to take place with more to come. Thank you all and thank you Rob for taking the time to come out and spend time with the people prior to speaking with them.

Here is the hour long interview:

Radford Quamahongnewa: 7 minute message for the world. Here is their warning:

Hopi Message 2012 – World Waters at Risk – Prophecy

If you would like to support the Hopi Go to their new website: www.traditionalhopi.org

Sign the Hopi Avaaz petition:
Protect Hopi Water: Hopi and the World: Stop Senate Bill 2109

Thank you for supporting the work being done through this website. It is only with contributions from people in this community that the work is able to continue. With three months of travel in Arizona/Hopi funds are still needed for operating costs and future travel. From my heart… thank you!

May the message here today bring us all one step closer together as we walk the path towards a new tomorrow filled with spiritual awareness.

Many people from around the world have asked me the question; “What can I be doing to help change this world?”

Meditation and prayer are one of the most powerful tools we have to change this reality and restore balance and harmony to the existence here on earth.

Here is a very simple technique you may choose to use to create this very powerful and specific energy for change;

The color of light that I have always worked with is white as this contains all the colors within it. Although, for specific purposes I do use the GOLDEN light as this is the CREATOR energies of light. For the purpose of this meditation, I suggest you use the GOLDEN light but please, use the color you are connected with, blue, green, purple, violet, pink.

The most powerful way to do this mediation is to be touching the earth. Take your shoes and socks off and walk on the earth. Reach down and touch your hand or hands to the earth itself. You may do this as a walking meditation, sitting, laying down, even as you talk with other people.

Since I was a child I have always allowed the energies of the universe and the earth to flow through me.

Begin Mediation:

Since my first meditation, I have imagined the light of the universe entering into me through the top of my head. It travels down my body, through every cell in my being. This energy then enters into the earth and travels deep within, until it reaches the center of the earth itself.

From this center in the earth, another light begins to travel upward following the same path and then enters my body through my feet, the base of my spine and my whole body where I am sitting. The light continues until it reaches out into the universe and simply continues …… towards the unseen.

When these two energies are flowing between the earth and the universe, my body is the space where the energies become combined with my 'god spark', that which gives life and creates us as an individual here on this planet earth.

SJÁ þessum geislum orku og anda ljósi inn í þá. With each breath imagine it becomes clearer and more bright. Any level of light flow is good so be gentle with yourself. Even if you cant see this energy then KNOW that it is flowing and this too is powerful.

Once you see, feel or sense the flow… its time to share this creator energy with the world, the existence here on earth, with earth itself and the universe, with the seen and unseen worlds.

Allow this energy to expand now with each breath you have, allowing it to move out of your body from the center of your chest like a burst of light as these energy rays move through every cell in your body. See this light come out of every cell in your body in all directions allowing it to expand bigger and brighter as you see it wrap all the way around the world through the air. Imagine it is like a tube of light that just keeps expanding bigger and bigger until it fills the space around the world.

This light will expand through the ray of light that reaches into the earth. This will expand and then fill the space within the entire earth itself. The light above you reaching out to expand into the universe filling the entire universal space as it too fills with this golden light energy.

Remember not to HOLD onto this energy; your greatest strength comes from allowing this creation energy to FLOW THROUGH YOU……. as it communicates with all life in all dimensions and all existences in the seen and unseen worlds.

The key to this, is being able to use your mind to SEE this and by doing so it CREATES it and then MANIFESTS it. This is where the practice and patience is needed.

Now that you have the energies moving through you and flowing in all directions…. maybe as you walk upon or touch the earth…… or lay upon your bed, in whatever way you are comfortable with….

You may choose to send the following messages through the earth and the universe……….

“I only allow love and light to flow through me and to me as I live my life in the light of God. I live my life with spiritual, mental, physical and emotional balance and only allow these energies to flow through me with divine perfection.”

(God being what you believe, God, Gods, Buddha, Creator, Ancestors, Jesus, Allah…etc. All beliefs are respected by the Source of all life….)

“I now send gratitude to all that exists in the seen and unseen worlds. May I ask the EARTH to carry a message to all of humanity through the soles of their feet as they walk, may I ask that the energies of the UNIVERSE carry a message to enter into humanity through the tops of their heads.”

“May humanity awaken to who they really are. For each and every human being to recognize the truth of all spiritual energies in a way they will accept. May they see the truth of life in any and all forms and accept this into their hearts and minds. May all of humanity awaken to the need to take steps in the physical world in a peaceful way to create change through actions. May humanity become peaceful, strong and clear, respectful and honoring of all life as they live in this existence here on earth.”

(Find your words within your heart and mind for what you would like to see humanity to awaken to and then use this in your mediation.)

THANK the UNIVERSE and EARTH and YOURSELF for allowing the energies that are in balance to move thought you, sending gratitude in ALL directions for a balanced world to be restored. THANK your guides, protectors, and those who lead you in your spiritual path for supporting you and supporting you in this life both in the seen and unseen worlds.

You are now done…….

Remember that you can do this as you are walking through the grocery store, in a classroom, falling asleep at night, out at dinner with friends, walking in your yard or forest, touching the earth with your hands, gardening… ANY where, ANY time….. it is powerful. Take an hour to do this in complete focus or take a few breaths and do this in a matter of one minute. Both will and do have a powerful effect on humanity, the earth and all that exists.

Share this page and this meditation with the people around you. Begin to create prayer/mediation circles to create powerful change. We the people have the power within to manifest and restore balance.

You may copy this meditation to share with others as long as a link back to this page is given.

With great honor and respect to all life… in all directions,
Miriam Delicado

In a message from the Mamos of Colombia after a meeting with the Dalai Lama the following statement was released.
This statement is focused on the issues the Mamos now face and the views they have of the meeting that took place in New Jersey, May of 2011. This was a historic meeting.

ANCIENT WISDOM – A SOLUTION FOR THE MODERN WORLD

ANCIENT WISDOM – A SOLUTION FOR THE MODERN WORLD
Two very significant gatherings of Indigenous Peoples took place this past month, one at Menla Mountain Retreat Center in the Catskill Mountains of New York from May 7th – 10th, followed by one at the International Peace Education Summit, held from May 13th – 15th in Newark, New Jersey. The spiritual authorities of Gonawindua (Sierra Madre de Santa Marta, Colombia) from the Kogui, Arhuaco, Wiwa, and Kankuamo tribes, came to meet with spiritual elders from around the world, carrying with them the message that “through living in accordance with natural law, we restore the natural balance of the Earth.”

The four peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta are recognized worldwide as the “Elder Brothers” because of the ancient wisdom they hold, a wisdom they have kept intact for thousands of years without interference from the modern industrialized world. Their ancestral mission is to sustain the balance of the Earth, which they continue to enact through unbroken spiritual and traditional practices, guided in their communities by their spiritual authorities, the Mama (men) and Saga (women).

At Menla Mountain, delegations of elders from indigenous peoples of North and Central America and elders from the Dogon people of Africa gathered to meet with the Mama to council on the need to regain human accordance with Mother Earth. North American delegations were sent from several indigenous tribes. The Hopi, Mohawk, Dine, Anishinaabe, Algonquin, Lakota, Havasupai, and others were represented, including a member of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. The Native American elders joined voices in the meeting circle and recognized the unifying message of the Elders Brothers. The gathering was mutually interpreted as the fulfillment of a prophecy shared by all tribes present that the Elder and Younger Brother (a term used to refer to those of us raised in modern societies) would seek each other out in a time of great planetary imbalance. All present at Menla agreed that the restoration of balance is essential to world peace and to the sustenance of a healthy planet.

At the International Peace Education Summit, the Mama and a delegation of Hopi spiritual elders met with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama as foreseen in a divination by the Mama in 2005, which had revealed that this meeting would mark a major turning point. Other Noble Peace Prize Laureates and many others luminaries also attended the Summit to share their visions of how to work together to create world peace. Many present at the Summit were in agreement with the Mama that the greatest threat to humanity today is contemporary global development policy, because mass exploitation of the vital elements (minerals) upsets the balance that sustains life on our planet. Imbalance is clearly visible in the precipitous deepening and increasing frequency of natural disasters and conflicts, as well as in physical, mental, and spiritual illnesses.
The Mama shared their wisdom at the Summit in a workshop entitled The Return of Sacred Elements to Their Place of Origins with one of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, Hopi Elders from Shungopavi Village, and renowned anthropologist Wade Davis. The participants witnessed an historic event, as this was the first time the Mama addressed a large-scale audience outside of their traditional territory. At both Menla Mountain and the Peace Summit, the Mama spoke of the necessity for their Younger Brothers to attune with the Natural Law which supersedes all man-made laws.

The Mama, together with the other indigenous elders, are now calling out to all of us, particularly those with the power to implement economic, environmental, social and cultural developmental policies, as well as those with the power to end policies that foster and promote armed conflict in the world. They are calling for us to seek and recognize alternatives to the current model of development, ones which are based instead on the care and protection of all peoples, lands, and cultures. In this way, we will bring back into balance our relationship with the sacred elements–water, air, earth, and fire–in essence, everything that nourishes life.

Everywhere roads lead, the tourist industry follows. Tourists threaten the integrity of local communities, as they inevitably leave their mark. Along with the physical impact, an even more pressing threat is the deterioration of these original peoples' ancestral wisdom of how to maintain the balance of the planet. Tourism brings very different ways of perceiving the world, permeating and influencing the traditional and cultural values of native peoples, inevitably at their expense.

For the peoples of Gonawindua, mining in Colombia threatens the survival of their cultures, since within their territory (as in the territories of other indigenous peoples of the world) lie large deposits of vital elements, viewed by industrial nations as resources to be extracted and exploited for the purposes of industrialization. The pursuit of these elements by modern societies creates all types of infrastructural incursions, from surface and underground mines, to roads and ports and large industrial processing plants that contaminate the soil and drinking water–all developed without respect for the original and natural function of the land and water. The Mama, whose ancestral role is to be the “Keepers of the Waters”, travelled all this way to appeal to people everywhere to deepen their relationship with the waters of Mother Earth.

For the Mama and other indigenous peoples of the world, the balance of the planet originates within their own territories, ensured by proper “nourishment” of their sacred sites. Carefully tended for thousands of years, these sacred sites embody the spiritual forces that sustain the natural world order, and thereby sustain us. Faced with the continued destruction of their sacred sites, native peoples are now unifying to offer their ancestral wisdom in an effort to restore balance between humanity and Mother Earth. This can only be achieved if all human beings recognize our interconnected role in this work and foster an individual and collective sense of commitment to act responsibly.
The elders are thus emphatically asking all citizens of the world, governments, institutions, corporations, and organizations—both national and international—to embrace this idea and with concrete actions contribute to the awakening of humanity's collective consciousness in order to ensure that this restoration is actually realized. They ask that from this moment on we work to guarantee generations of our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren a landscape full of promise, peace, and prosperity.
The Mama have a visceral understanding of global climate change, because every micro-climatic possibility on Earth is found in Gonawindua. In fact, they call their ancestral territory the “Heart of the World” and say that what happens in the Heart of the World flows through the entirety of Mother Earth, just as each beat of the human heart sends forth the vital blood needed by the human body to survive.

The agreements and declarations made at Menla and the Peace Summit mark an historic and international precedent before the world and will bring forth an initiative aimed at respecting the Sierra's ancestral centrality to planetary sustenance. Spokespeople for the Mama succinctly summarized their message:
“From this moment forward, we must join together to stem the onslaught of development projects in Colombia and the rest of the world – such as mining, ports, dams, tourism, and the creation of municipalities and transportation infrastructures. We must recognize the indispensable global importance of our ancient sacred sites and work with unified devotion to revive and utilize ancient traditional practices everywhere in order to recover and sustain natural balance on Earth.”

In fact, it is true that everything we have in our material life that we often take for granted has been taken from Mother Earth. It is only natural that we be reminded to respect and take care of her in return. In essence, the spiritual authorities of traditional peoples from around the world, as represented by the Elder Brothers, are asking each and every one of us to join together in a world-wide effort to restore balance for all life. This restoration is not only possible but necessary in a time when all of the world's people are re-awakening to our collective responsibility as stewards and children of our Mother Earth.

“We as the Spiritual Authorities of Traditional peoples from around the world, ask you to join our efforts in restoring balance for all life.”

Hopi meet the Dalai Lama and Colombian Mamos, May 2011

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Kæri Miriam,

When I watched the video of the native tribe speaking about the importance of bringing more balance to the way we all treat the earth, I had a heartfelt connection to their passion. I was shocked when one of them pointed out that Monsanto had been there and ruined their food and their treasured garden. He even invites anyone to come and help them, even if it's just to plant trees. It's an amazing experience and a deep rooted cry for help from a people who obviously have very simple lives. (see the video here: www.youtube.com)

I just came across the following article online. It tells of Monsanto's work in the region of Colombia around 2001 in a joint military effort to combat drug cartels by spraying Round-up pesticide on their Coca plants. Is this when the damage to their gardens occurred? Is that when they began to get ill, also? Is it still going on?

I heard in the news that Monsanto made a deal with Dole foods. I found the announcement here from Reuters (www.reuters.com/article)

Definitely eating organic these days. as I hate being experimented on. At a recent visit to the farmers market I found myself having a heated debate with a tortilla vendor on the importance of eating organic. Since his products were not organic I sensed he was a little defensive. And in this market, I can't blame him. But to try and tell me that genetic modifications to foods has been going on for thousands of years is pure ignorance. The man has confused Conventional Breeding with Genetically Modified tactics. This article explains the difference: (www.actionbioscience.org)

It's a tough debate. On the one hand you have the potential to create food that meets the ultra convenience of society, larger strawberries, crops that can survive frost, and healthy french fries from McDonalds with potatoes that absorb less fat when fried. On the other hand you have the fact that we are the guinea pigs and are all playing a part in this huge experiment, being that these manufactures have not tested their product enough to secure the safety of our environment. What happens when these plants cross-pollinate and form mutant plants? Will there no longer be a species that would come from a non-modified inherency? Is this part of another disaster waiting to happen? Or can we prevent it?

For anyone who cares to learn more:

Read more here: Genetically_modified_organism+cross+pollination+versus+gmo

NOTE: No one is an expert here and we are not qualified to share medical information. We are sharing information that we are learning from several sources. Please check with your doctor before taking any kind of supplements.

One of the best websites on the net for your health: www.natualnews.com

VIDEO FROM Leija Turunen FROM FACEBOOK AND YOURTUBE. PLEASE CHECK OUT HER CHANNEL HERE….

Japan's Nuclear Meltdown * Protect Yourself From Radiation * Natural Remedies

Miso and brown rice remedy:

> I studied in Beckett Mass at Mishio Kushi Institue for Macrobiotics with the Founder, so this is good information for this time.One thing I have tucked away in my memory; during WW2 and the bombings in Japan, the doctors prescribed MISO SOUP and soft BROWN RICE-chewed until liquid in your mouth.

Those that were suffering from radiation poisoning that received this in the hospitals, recovered.It was more effective than anything else. Mischo had experienced this himself and taught us this.We had nuke plants all around us in the Northeast, so I always kept this at home.

Somehow this combination washes the radiation from the cells and tissues of the body. I have often given this to clients that have undergone radiation (xray) and wanted to rid themselves of the residue. Það virkar.

I strongly recommend that everyone obtain this at home immediately. You can do this as a “daily practice” because, as we know, no one is going to tell us the truth about the amount of radiation actually being released.

It does have a tightening effect on the body, so unless you are very yin, a limited time is best for the yang people. Add a shittake mushroom if you have cancer.

As a back up for severe exposure and to keep in your medicine cabinet:You can also order potassium iodide tablets anywhere online. You need 10 days at 65mg, I'm doing both.
As always; check with your doctor if you have medical conditions prior to taking any herbal/supplemental remedy….

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Cilantro, Parsley help chelate minerals to pass them more rapidly out of the body
Yarrow flower (tincture, tea, supplement) helps recovery from radiation exposure.
Garlic stimulates the immune system.
Chaparral protects against radiation, but take no longer than one week.
Apples are a source of pectin which binds with radioactive particles to prevent absorption by the body.
Buckwheat is high in rutin, a bioflavinoid that protects against radiation
Avocadoes, Lemons, Oive Oil supply essential fatty acids.
Miso soup made with Konbu/seaweed.
Other supplements that can greatly assist the body in resisting and repairing the effects of radiation exposure/poisoning as listed in the leading guide to natural health include (guideliness given but follow instructions on labels or from your doctor):
Calcium (1500mg/day) and Magnesium (750mg/day) to prevent the absorption of other radioactive fall-out.
Coenzyme Q10 plus Coenzyme A (100mg/day) to boost the immune system and detoxify
Glutathione plus L-cysteine and L-methionine (500mg ea/day with 50mg vitamin B6 and 100mg vitamin C to improve absorption) to detoxify and reduce harmful effects.
Kelp (1000-1500 mg/day) to protect thyroid
Grape Seed Extract (as labelled) is a powerful anti-oxidant.
Pantothenic Acid (vitamin B5) (200mg before and after xray exposure; 50mg/day thereafter) to protect against harmful
effects of radiation.
Selenium (200mcg/day unless pregnant 40mcg/day) scavenges free radicals that can cause cancer.
Vitamin C with bioflavonoids including rutin (5000-20000 mg/day in divided doses) as a powerful free-radical scavenger to protect against cancers.
Lecithin (1tbsp/3times/day) protects cell membranes
Vitamin A with carotenoids including beta-carotene (25000 IU/day unless pregnant 10000/day) strengthens immune system especially taken with vitamin E.
Vitamin B complex plus inositol (50mg/each/3times/day) protects against harmful effects of radiation
Vitamin E (400IU/day increasing every 4 days to 1200IU/day) protects immune system in combination with vitamin A
Zinc (50-80 mg/day; limit 100mg from all sources) helps increase immunity.
If you can bathe, using baking soda helps neutralize radiation and revive the body.

from Kerry Cassidy: sent to her by a PC person…
also this : BUCKWHEAT (groats) help detoxify the body from radioactivity (a small cup should be used daily).
And even more important, it's quite YANG (many people are way too yin and keep on eating too yin foods).
Buckwheat rebuilds strength.
If you try to eat buckwheat when you feel weak, you'll regain strength.
Simple laws of the cosmos (yin/yang in foods).

From Wynne, a FB friend:
Foods: If you can't find iodine, eat kelp and seaweeds, Rosemary is a good alternative for those allergic! Also eat:
Dark greens (broccoli, cabbage, kale, bok choy), carrots, all tubar veg., garlic, onions, brussel sprouts, fennel. Drink peppermint and chamomile teas. Seagreens and vegetables are very good also for your cells. Cranberry to help kidneys. Eat citrus like oranges, lemons, grapes for antioxidants. 1 apples of day for the pectin. Eat yogurt for your stomach and intestines. Limit milk products, except yogurt. Use olive oil and if you have sensitive skin. Rub a little olive oil or Vit. E oil on your skin everyday, as it will shield.
Vitamins: Vit. B Complex, C with Bioflavinoids, D3, MSM to pull strontium, barium, etc. out of bones (remember this is where radiation goes thyroid and bones!!!!). Take Cal/Mag FOR your bones, alpha lipoic acid, bee pollen, Vit. E or essential fatty acids. There is more you can research online.
Don't forget your pets! Get a multi vitamin from the vet!
Wynne

From Yoshiko from Japan: remedy to cleanse the body:

Brown rice yogurt.

organic brown rice put in water in a bowl and let sit on your counter… as the water begins to bubble change the water. Drink this water it is good for you! Do this two more times. It could take 2-5 days for the process to be completed and will white like yogurt. The FULL INFORMATION IN THIS VIDEO OF INTERVIEW WITH YOSHIKO FROM JAPAN.

There will be more to come as we learn more.

Check my youtube channel Alienbluestar as well for new Videos as we move forward.

THE most important thing you can be doing at this time aside from your health…….

GET YOUR SEEDS AND PLANT A GARDEN THIS YEAR……. THE WORLD IS MOVING INTO SERIOUS FOOD SHORTAGES.
WATCH VIDEO HERE.

Remember we are in the time of great change. Its time to remain in our hearts now more than ever before. Unity is the key to overcoming these hardships as well as working on building a new path to follow…….

We are all connected…..
Ást Miriam

IN THIS POST WE HAVE CLEAR INFORMATION ON IODINE THAT A TEAM OF PEOPLE PUT TOGETHER FOR ALL OF US.
WE WILL HAVE MORE INFORMATION ON KELP AND NATURAL REMEDIES IN MORE DETAIL COMING……
ALSO A VIDEO ON KELP IS ALSO COMING FROM Leija Turunen FROM YOUTUBE.

Information on Iodine for Nuclear fallout from Japan and natural remedies

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Here's the shortlist of shortlists. Simple as 1-2-3.

(This is a collection of information, not medical advisement)

1) What is the danger?

Exposure to radioactive substances released into the environment. Outside the immediate vicinity of the reactor (or bomb), the danger is primarily airborne particles of radioactive 'dust' comprising 200+ radioactive elements, including radioactive iodine and boron, which are substances stored in the body. Radio-iodine is of special concern as it is quickly concentrated in the thyroid gland in the throat and the dangers and means of mitigation for this are well-documented. The key response is first to limit physical exposure to the radioactive particles and second to limit their absorption and affect in the body.

2) How to limit exposure?

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Hopi call for Prayer for Japan The Hopi have come forward with an official statement asking the world for prayers.

Lets all join our hearts to theirs and send cooling to the reactors. In my knowledge of Hopi I know that they believe that prayer can and does have physical effect on our world.