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We invite people throughout the world to join us on January 26, 2013 by making an offering to Mother Earth or showing gratitude in however way you choose, following your own unique ways and traditions, with thoughts of love and thankfulness.

We invite you to initiate the Feast wherever you are, through your own efforts, in the cities, the territories, and in the communities.

This sacred act will invoke the Spirit to guide us to a good life, and will let Mother Earth know we stand together in alliance with her.

- Dave Courchene, Claudette Commanda, A.J. Felix, Josephine Mandamin, and Marlyn Cook


Mitakuye Oyasin,
Akasa

Just click on the title link to take you to the info! :)

"How Come?"

I ask these questions every day...How Come?  I know in my lifetime I may never know the answer.
What I will use is my voice...through the power of my vote.  I have already voted for the person I think
will bring the best of what is offered to us right now.  Do I want more?  Yes...I want world hunger to end, I want water to be freely availabe to all, not just a few.  I want medical availability when I need it, because it is a human right, not to be determined by lobbyists in Washington, or Wall Street, or insurance companies, but because all humans deserve it.  I want education to be free for all who seek it, taught by those who have lived a certain subject, be it by building a road or bridge, technology, medicine, reading, writing and arithmetic.  Taught in love for another human, and given so that the benefit's reaped will come back to them in another form ... be it barter system or a gift.  That is futuristic of me you say, or living in a dream world, but I don't think it is impossible.  It worked in centuries past and it could work again.  In doing so, everyone benefits....just ask the Elders what they remember.  I see all these things and more through using the power of our voice, but first, we must walk through what is now available to us.

It is time to vote!  Get your vote out!  Vote for the person you most align with, who you think will bring your values to the table.  I pray we all make the right choices...for us, and for the next seven generations.

Then let's pray for a new vision...one where every child's tummy is filled each day, where their needs are met, where they learn in ways that enrich their souls and passions, taught to them by those whose ideology meets and bouys up their own, by those who we can trust with our lives, so that we all can live honorably, and in peace...so that we all can love and be loved.

So we never have to ask ourselves, ever again, "How Come?"  So that finally and forever, we can lay down racism in all of its forms, the guise of religions that hold us back from truly knowing and embracing and yes, even loving one another, instead truly 'seeing' the human behind the eyes, truly listening to their hearts, embracing the life they have lived in whatever form it has taken, so that we are not afraid of cultures that may be different from ours and...so that one day we become that beautiful Rainbow Race, the Ancient Ones said we'd become!

A'HO!
Akasa

(this rainbow appeared over my home two years ago after a turbulant storm...much like what we are now going through in the U.S.  I pray another appears for all of us that spans the U.S!)

"From the Heart of the World"

This film is about the Mamas, the Kogi Peoples of the
Sierra Nevada.

They have asked that we share this film so that we may
re-align ourselves with Mother Earth and our fellow human
beings....

I do so now.

A'HO!

Elders....

Elders

we have been here so short a time

and we pretend that we have invented memory

we have forgotten what it is like to be you

who do not remember us

we remember imagining that what survived us

would be like us

and would remember the world as it appears to us

but it will be your eyes that will fill with light

we kill you again and again

and we turn into you

eating the forests

eating the earth and water

and dying of them

departing from ourselves

leaving you the morning

in its antiquity

~W. S. Merwin~