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  From: SCOTT PARKS
    To: ALL
  Date: 09/21/93
    Re: Pt 1/5: The Hopi Indians
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From: peterm@dna.lth.se (Peter Moller)
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I hope that I don't offend anyone by posting this to what might seem
to be the wrong newsgroup. I feel this is a text of most urgency and
that it should be propagated as much as possible! The following text
is in no way a joke, but was handed to me by an cherokee (sp?) indian
woman a few days ago, and I do ask you to read it and then to
distribute it as much as possible.

Peace be with you all!


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                        North American Indian Prophecies
                            Talk Given by Lee Brown
                      1986 Continental Indigenous Council
                           Tanana Valley Fairgrounds
                               Fairbanks, Alaska

There was the cycle of the mineral, the rock. There was the cycle of
the plant. And now we re in the cycle of the animalŠ coming to the end
of that and beginning the cycle of the human being. When we get into
the cycle of the human being, the highest and greatest powers that we
have will be released to us. They will be released from that light or
soul that we carry to the mind. But right now we're coming to the end
of the animal cycle and we have investigated ourselves and learned
what it is to be like an animal on this earth.

At the beginning of this cycle of time, long ago, the Great Spirit
came down and He made an appearance and He gathered the peoples of
this earth together ‹ they say on an island which is now beneath the
water ‹ and He said to the human beings, "I'm going to send you to
four directions and over time I'm going to change you to four colors,
but I'm going to give you some teachings and you will call these the
Original Teachings and when you come back together with each other you
will share these so that you can live and have peace on earth, and a
great civilization will come about." And he said "During the cycle of
time I'm going to give each of you two stone tablets. When I give you
those stone tablets, don't cast those upon the ground. If any of the
brothers and sisters of the four directions and the four colors cast
their tablets on the ground, not only, will human beings have a hard
time, but almost the earth itself will die."

And so he gave each of us a responsibility and we call that the
Guardianship. To the Indian people, the red people, he gave the
Guardianship of the earth. We were to learn during this cycle of time
the teachings of the earth, the plants that grow from the earth, the
foods that you can eat, and the herbs that are healing so that when we
came back together with the other brothers and sisters we could share
this knowledge with them. Something good was to happen on the earth.

To the South, he gave the yellow race of people the Guardianship of
the wind. They were to learn about the sky and breathing and how to
take that within ourselves for spiritual advancement. They were to
share that with is at this time.

To the West He gave the black race of people the Guardianship of the
water. They were to learn the teachings of the water which is the
chief of the elements, being the most humble and the most powerful.
When I went to the University of Washington and I learned that it was
a black man that discovered blood plasma, it didn't surprise me
because blood is water and the elders already told me the black people
would bring the teachings of the water.

To the North He gave the white race of people the Guardianship of the
fire. If you look at the center of many of the things they do you will
find the fire. They say a light bulb is the white man's fire. If you
look at the center of a car you will find a spark. If you look at the
center of the airplane and the train you will find the fire. The fire
consumes, and also moves. This is why it was the white brothers and
sisters who began to move upon the face of the earth and reunite us as
a human family.

And so a long time passed, and the Great Spirit gave each of the four
races two stone tablets. Ours are kept at the Hopi Reservation in
Arizona at Four Corners Area on 3rd Mason.

I talked to people from the black race and their stone tablets are at
the foot of Mount Kenya. They are kept by the Kukuyu Tribe. I once had
the honor of presenting a sacred pipe at the Kukuyu Tribe carved from
the red pipe stone of Mount Kenya. I was at an Indian spiritual
gathering about 15 years ago. A medicine man from South Dakota put a
beaded medicine wheel in the middle of the gathering. It had the four
colors from the four directions; He asked the people, "Where is this
from?" They said, "Probably Montana, or South Dakota, maybe
Seskatchewan." He said, "This is from Kenya." It was beaded just like
ours, with the same color

The stone tablets of the yellow race of people are kept by the
Tibetans, in Tibet. If you went straight through the Hopi Reservation
to the other side of the world, you would come out in Tibet. The
Tibetan word for "sun" is the Hopi word for "moon" and the Hopi word
for "sun" is the Tibetan word for "moon".

The guardians of the traditions of the people of Europe are the Swiss.
In Switzerland, they still have a day when each family brings out its
mask. They still know the colors of the families, they still know the
symbols, some of them. I went to school with some people from
Switzerland at the University of Washington and they shared this with
me.

Each of these four peoples happen to be people that live in the
mountains.