On a dark mountain road the wind is howling. Is it angry? The power lines cannot hold against the fury of the trees and wind. Then more sparks in a stream. A wild fire roars into town. Northern California burns as I write. Las Vegas grieves.
Puerto Rico and Houston and even New Orleans still stagger to rebuild. Does anyone ask why? It was an education in racism, corruption and environmental injustice. I heard Thomas issue many warnings, struggling to explain in English what the Hopi elders he represented wanted him to say. Should it turn faster it would injure mankind. Now we are the regulators and watchers of the veil over all. And when his lodge is filled with them, he will return and make use of them to destroy the enemies of the Native people.
The Northern Paiute had Wovoka, a religious leader who was born around and predicted the coming of a new world. He was also the leader of the Ghost Dance movement, which was danced to help prepare for the new world. Part of the Ghost Dance movement was a belief that ancestors would return from the spirit world once the new world began. Pesantubbee in One of those visions occurred in when a group of Indians appeared to Charlie, who was half Cherokee, and two women near Rocky Mountain in northwest Georgia.
The leader of the group said:. God is dissatisfied that you are receiving the white people in your land without any distinction.
You yourselves see that your hunting is gone-you are planting the corn of the white people—go and sell that back to them and plant Indian corn and pound it in the manner of your forefathers; do away with the mills.
The Mother of the Nation has forsaken you because all her bones are being broken through the grinding. She will return to you, however, if you put the white people out of the land and return to your former manner of life.
Another prophecy, recounted by McLoughlin, was recorded on March 8, Draining the aquifer used for mining affected the rotation of the Earth. Is the inexorable drought out West partly due to the drying up of this vast underground body of water?
The drought of was the worst in memory, so much so that the Hopi did not bother to plant corn, their staple crop. Their home was not based on conquest. And they knew that any empire built on conquest must inevitably crumble. That is what we are seeing today. True title was implemented by the forces that give life. As we can plainly see today, America and the world are reaping the results of conquest, extraction and subjugation of the land, its first peoples and other species on whom we depend for our survival.
The results will be played out in our lifetime. Hopi are perhaps the only tribe never to have signed a treaty with the dominant power, the U. The very coal that lay under Hopi and Navajo Dine land was being dug up. How many people in our crowded cities realize that much of their electricity and economic ventures depend on the exhaustion of finite resources that were held together by an increasingly tenuous ecological web? Now with the heat dome over the West and the pandemic, many more are about to find out.
The very economic structure of our time was based on commercial dominion over aboriginal people all over the globe. The tens of millions of gallons of water used to slurry coal came from the Navajo Aquifer. The Ogallala aquifer is not far away, stretching from New Mexico all the way to South Dakota, but it has also been drying up with imponderable repercussions for the future of agriculture and the entire breadbasket of America.
How long will it be before America has famines? Another Dustbowl. The Hopi prophecies state that we are about the enter the fifth world. The time of plenty when there was enough food and water and resources for everyone is coming to an end precisely because governments around the world have abrogated Native title. The devastation unfolding could be incalculable.
When I first heard about the prophecies face to face with the elders who were trying to get the world to listen, I was flummoxed. I was told people on the coasts will have to move inland. I could not fathom the full extent of what they were saying. Their thoughts were clairvoyant.
And their prophecies are manifesting world wide. They may live in fancy homes and drive the newest cars but in a very crucial way they have only seen the surface of the implicate order and have not lifted the hood of what the land and its first peoples have to tell them. Today many elders are dying due to the virus. Languages are fading away.
And with them knowledge or rather a far-reaching wisdom about how the world actually works, that is far more radical than what science understands and what the dominant society is trying to find with the search for the most minute particles and black holes. Now we know.
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