Post by aneaglesangel on May 17, 2010 11:17:56 GMT -5
I was a child born of Thunder and Lightning, and I always felt a connection with Mother Earth. I didn't know that the call I heard was an echo of my red blood. And I have always felt lost between two worlds. The call of the drum beat in my heart, yet, by the color of my skin you can see I am spawn of the white man. In my heart I felt the call of nature and could never deny her. At the same time I felt the confusion of the white man who tries to change the world to fit his needs.
Now as I'm older I feel the greed of the white man, and I deny it. We can not change the earth to be what we want her to be. We can not pollute her and ask her to forgive us. We can not forget our Mother. We can not take without giving back.
I look around me and I see people run on greed. I see that we have forgotten our Mother and all her love. We drill deeply and steal her life's blood, then we spill it in her ocean's waters. We dig and tear out her gold, her minerals, and expect her to heal herself. Whole species have gone extinct under our unloving hands. We do not see that we need to offer her healing from within ourselves. I see that people have forgotten their roots and that they sprang from the earth and will return to her someday. I see that people expect to be given, and never to have to return the favor. I see that people have forgotten that their lives here are a privilege, not a right. We rape, pillage and destroy the waters, the air, the land we live on, and expect that Mother Earth will never fight back.
I think it's time we remember who our Mother is. I think it's time we give back to her. Send her healing. Send her our love. This is our home, she is our Mother, and if we turn our backs on her, she will do the same. We are all here, in on the same thing we call life. If we do not give back to our Mother, she will abandon us. We will have no home, we will perish. So before it's too late, fight for our Mother. Send her your love. Be good to her. Remember who she is, and what she gave to us! Stop allowing the smallest percentage of our population to make the rules. For in their greed, they do not know who their Mother is. And they don't care. What they care about does not concern the Mother. She gave us life, and she can take it away. If we do not have a home, here, on this planet, we will have no other. So before you forget her, honor her. Give her of your heart, and make her well. For she needs healing now, not after it's too late. Once she is gone, we will be, too! Remember the lessons the Mother taught us when we were young. What comes of the earth, will return to the earth, and it is our job to take care of our own!
I leave you with the words that inspired me to get on my soapbox. The words of Sub-Sachem Keith Brown, my friend, my brother, my teacher. I honor you, brother, and I know you listen to the call of our Mother, and that you love and respect her. Peace and love go to you, and our Mother, for aren't we all brothers and sisters on this world? Don't we all share the same fate? I do not believe it is too late, though it is close, to hear the cries of our Mother, and to answer them!
Written by Keith R. Brown for the Wiquapaug Eastern Pequot Indian Newsletter:
It is time to wake up people. Or, it may already be too late. Mother Earth is calling us for help. We continually take from Her, but we very seldom give Her back anything. Turtle Island was way better off when She was inhabited by only her Red Children. We knew how to make the land healthy, and in return, Mother Earth gave us all we needed to survive. Many of us still know these old ways, but foreigners do not. They care nothing about Mother Earth. We Red Children care so much for Mother Earth because she is made up of the dust of our ancestors flesh and bones that walked upon Mother Earth before us.
The Ancient One's left us a good Turtle Island to walk upon and it is up to us to leave it a better place for our children to walk upon. This is hard for us to accomplish. Foreigners came here and totally upset the balance of Nature. You came here for freedom of religion. You tried ramming your religion down our throats. What about OUR freedom of religion? Did you give any thought to that? You called us SAVAGES, but yet it was YOU who chopped off our heads and stuck them high on poles for the public to see. You even killed your own when you thought they were witches. Then somebody discovered GOLD and all hell broke loose. You tromped all over Mother Earth like She was yours and yours alone. You chopped down Her trees, which we need for the very air we breathe. You have polluted Her waters which we all know to be something that all living creatures need to survive. You also polluted the air we breathe with your filthy factories and automobiles that spew forth from them. You have even gone so far as to pollute outer space with your multi-billion dollar toys which you let drift out there. Has it ever occurred to you that someday, these things will come hurtling back to Mother Earth and cause great damage to yourselves and Her.?
Everything in this world that you people care about has a dollar sign attached to it. Why is that? Us RED Children are getting sick of this and have been for many, many years. And Mother Earth is sick of you, too. You're latest stunt was to drill for oil off of our coastline. Now just sit back and see what you have done to the coast of Louisiana. To fix this incredible oil spill that you have created, you must dive down to about five thousand feet below the surface of the ocean. Let us see how long that will take and let us see how much life you have just destroyed.
And, now you want to put your oil rigs off the coastline of the east coast? I can see why the Wampanoag Tribal people do not want you there with your promise of good jobs. Who will get these jobs? Maybe a handful of Wampanoag’s will, but the rest will be given to your own. We have read this same book before. Mother Earth does not need you polluting any more of Her sacred waters and Her precious Turtle Island. When you came to our homeland, you should have left one of your relatives home. His name is GREED!
When I was a child and I did something wrong, my Mother would say, "you just wait till your father gets home!" You just knew you were going to catch hell then. Well people, Mother Earth has just made this statement to HER husband, our Father, the Creator. You just wait till HE gets home and see's what you have done to Turtle Island, which is also HIS home. Boy oh boy are YOU gonna get it! If your own biological mother was hurt and injured, would you not stop what you are doing to help her? Knowing you, probably nothing. Our Earth Mother is asking for help and she knows that only Her Red Children will help Her. She has asked you for help for many years now and you have not heard Her like spoiled children. Her back is now against the wall and the only thing She has left to say is, "You just wait till your Father, the Creator, gets home!" Red Children, heed the words of a couple of our Elders. Wavoka, the Piute Messiah, left us a message. Find his story and read it. Also, an Elder, from which Tribe I do not remember made a statement when Mt. Saint Helen erupted. He said, 'The Daughter has spoken. Her Grandfather will answer her." Aho! Ewo-wox-co-dah-wa.
Now as I'm older I feel the greed of the white man, and I deny it. We can not change the earth to be what we want her to be. We can not pollute her and ask her to forgive us. We can not forget our Mother. We can not take without giving back.
I look around me and I see people run on greed. I see that we have forgotten our Mother and all her love. We drill deeply and steal her life's blood, then we spill it in her ocean's waters. We dig and tear out her gold, her minerals, and expect her to heal herself. Whole species have gone extinct under our unloving hands. We do not see that we need to offer her healing from within ourselves. I see that people have forgotten their roots and that they sprang from the earth and will return to her someday. I see that people expect to be given, and never to have to return the favor. I see that people have forgotten that their lives here are a privilege, not a right. We rape, pillage and destroy the waters, the air, the land we live on, and expect that Mother Earth will never fight back.
I think it's time we remember who our Mother is. I think it's time we give back to her. Send her healing. Send her our love. This is our home, she is our Mother, and if we turn our backs on her, she will do the same. We are all here, in on the same thing we call life. If we do not give back to our Mother, she will abandon us. We will have no home, we will perish. So before it's too late, fight for our Mother. Send her your love. Be good to her. Remember who she is, and what she gave to us! Stop allowing the smallest percentage of our population to make the rules. For in their greed, they do not know who their Mother is. And they don't care. What they care about does not concern the Mother. She gave us life, and she can take it away. If we do not have a home, here, on this planet, we will have no other. So before you forget her, honor her. Give her of your heart, and make her well. For she needs healing now, not after it's too late. Once she is gone, we will be, too! Remember the lessons the Mother taught us when we were young. What comes of the earth, will return to the earth, and it is our job to take care of our own!
I leave you with the words that inspired me to get on my soapbox. The words of Sub-Sachem Keith Brown, my friend, my brother, my teacher. I honor you, brother, and I know you listen to the call of our Mother, and that you love and respect her. Peace and love go to you, and our Mother, for aren't we all brothers and sisters on this world? Don't we all share the same fate? I do not believe it is too late, though it is close, to hear the cries of our Mother, and to answer them!
Written by Keith R. Brown for the Wiquapaug Eastern Pequot Indian Newsletter:
It is time to wake up people. Or, it may already be too late. Mother Earth is calling us for help. We continually take from Her, but we very seldom give Her back anything. Turtle Island was way better off when She was inhabited by only her Red Children. We knew how to make the land healthy, and in return, Mother Earth gave us all we needed to survive. Many of us still know these old ways, but foreigners do not. They care nothing about Mother Earth. We Red Children care so much for Mother Earth because she is made up of the dust of our ancestors flesh and bones that walked upon Mother Earth before us.
The Ancient One's left us a good Turtle Island to walk upon and it is up to us to leave it a better place for our children to walk upon. This is hard for us to accomplish. Foreigners came here and totally upset the balance of Nature. You came here for freedom of religion. You tried ramming your religion down our throats. What about OUR freedom of religion? Did you give any thought to that? You called us SAVAGES, but yet it was YOU who chopped off our heads and stuck them high on poles for the public to see. You even killed your own when you thought they were witches. Then somebody discovered GOLD and all hell broke loose. You tromped all over Mother Earth like She was yours and yours alone. You chopped down Her trees, which we need for the very air we breathe. You have polluted Her waters which we all know to be something that all living creatures need to survive. You also polluted the air we breathe with your filthy factories and automobiles that spew forth from them. You have even gone so far as to pollute outer space with your multi-billion dollar toys which you let drift out there. Has it ever occurred to you that someday, these things will come hurtling back to Mother Earth and cause great damage to yourselves and Her.?
Everything in this world that you people care about has a dollar sign attached to it. Why is that? Us RED Children are getting sick of this and have been for many, many years. And Mother Earth is sick of you, too. You're latest stunt was to drill for oil off of our coastline. Now just sit back and see what you have done to the coast of Louisiana. To fix this incredible oil spill that you have created, you must dive down to about five thousand feet below the surface of the ocean. Let us see how long that will take and let us see how much life you have just destroyed.
And, now you want to put your oil rigs off the coastline of the east coast? I can see why the Wampanoag Tribal people do not want you there with your promise of good jobs. Who will get these jobs? Maybe a handful of Wampanoag’s will, but the rest will be given to your own. We have read this same book before. Mother Earth does not need you polluting any more of Her sacred waters and Her precious Turtle Island. When you came to our homeland, you should have left one of your relatives home. His name is GREED!
When I was a child and I did something wrong, my Mother would say, "you just wait till your father gets home!" You just knew you were going to catch hell then. Well people, Mother Earth has just made this statement to HER husband, our Father, the Creator. You just wait till HE gets home and see's what you have done to Turtle Island, which is also HIS home. Boy oh boy are YOU gonna get it! If your own biological mother was hurt and injured, would you not stop what you are doing to help her? Knowing you, probably nothing. Our Earth Mother is asking for help and she knows that only Her Red Children will help Her. She has asked you for help for many years now and you have not heard Her like spoiled children. Her back is now against the wall and the only thing She has left to say is, "You just wait till your Father, the Creator, gets home!" Red Children, heed the words of a couple of our Elders. Wavoka, the Piute Messiah, left us a message. Find his story and read it. Also, an Elder, from which Tribe I do not remember made a statement when Mt. Saint Helen erupted. He said, 'The Daughter has spoken. Her Grandfather will answer her." Aho! Ewo-wox-co-dah-wa.