Chief Arvol Looking Horse Speaks of White Buffalo Prophecy
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Uploaded on Aug 26, 2010
Chief
Arvol Looking Horse, 19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo
Calf Pipe. The leader of the Lakota Dakota Nakota Oyate, the great
Sioux nation, is a man with a vision.
A Great Urgency: To All World Religious and Spiritual Leaders
My Relatives,
Time
has come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I ask
you this from the bottom of my heart, to come together from the Spirit
of your Nations in prayer.
We, from the heart of Turtle Island,
have a great message for the World; we are guided to speak from all the
White Animals showing their sacred color, which have been signs for us
to pray for the sacred life of all things.
The dangers we are faced with at this time are not of spirit, mistakes that we cannot afford to continue to make.
I
asked, as Spiritual Leaders, that we join together, united in prayer
with the whole of our Global Communities. My concern is these serious
issues will continue to worsen, as a domino effect that our Ancestors
have warned us of in their Prophecies.
I know in my heart there
are millions of people that feel our united prayers for the sake of our
Grandmother Earth are long overdue. I believe we as Spiritual people
must gather ourselves and focus our thoughts and prayers to allow the
healing of the many wounds that have been inflicted on the Earth.
As
we honor the Cycle of Life, let us call for Prayer circles globally to
assist in healing Grandmother Earth (our Unc¹I Maka), and that we may
also seek to live in harmony, as we make the choice to change the
destructive path we are on.
As we pray, we will fully understand that we are all connected. And that what we create can have lasting effects on all life.
So
let us unite spiritually, All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer. Along
with this immediate effort, I also ask to please remember World Peace
and Prayer Day/ Honoring Sacred Sites day. Whether it is a natural site,
a temple, a church, a synagogue or just your own sacred space, let us
make a prayer for all life, for good decision making by our Nations, for
our children¹s future and well-being, and the generations to come.
Onipikte (that we shall live),
Chief
Arvol Looking Horse sees a great danger threatening "Grandmother Earth"
and a great hope for restoring her wholeness. So he is calling all
nations to prayer of any kind in an effort to return the planet to
balance, the people to spirit. I asked him why this path is the right
path to take. "A man or a woman without spirit is very dangerous,"
Looking Horse explained in a recent phone interview. According to this
Sioux chief, the absence of spirit is causing suffering everywhere. "We
are in a time of survival," he said. "But we don't want to believe it
because we have forgotten our spirits. We have forgotten that
Grandmother Earth has a spirit." Disconnected souls are hurting others
without even knowing they are hurting others." Those being hurt include
animals, trees and waterways. The Sioux have an inclusive worldview, but
it was not shared by the transplanted Europeans who undertook genocide
on Indian land, culminating in the Wounded Knee massacre of 1890. That
final brutality broke the "hoop" binding Indians together; however,
Sioux prophecy foretold that in a hundred years the people would be
reunited. Although surviving tribe members and their descendants were
stripped of religious freedoms (returned to them only 32 year ago by the
U.S. government), the rituals were kept and the prophecy not forgotten.
So the Sioux nations set out on horseback to "mend the broken hoop" of
their nation in 1986 at a sacred site known to non-Indians as Devils
Tower or the Great Horn Butte; their ritual went on for four years and
concluded in 1990, 100 years after Wounded Knee. During the course of
that long ritual, Looking Horse was surprised by a vision that came to
him of peace and unity that included not only the Indian nations but all
the nations of the world, each gathering with ritual plants around
sacred fires on every continent. The Sioux chief felt called to oversee a
much broader mending. But who was going to listen even to the chief of a
people largely ignored in the country where they lived? "It's everyday
life for us that we hold Grandmother Earth sacred, we hold the trees and
the plants, everything has a spirit. We need people to be really
respectful for each other. The Great Spirit put us here all together. If
we're going to survive, we need to have spirit and compassion. We're
asking people to go to their sacred places or sacred spaces to pray."
"Sioux Indian chief calls all nations to action on June 21" by Juliane
Poirier
Music gifted by Tony Gerber
jacob devaney
to me
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A Call to Heart for World Leaders, White Buffalo Day 2013
I
often wonder if those making decisions at the upper levels of
government have a heart but even if they forget to listen to it, it is
there. With so much distraction happening in the head and constant
external pressure, listening to the heart isn't always so easy to do. It
requires taking a moment to stop, breathe, listen within, and the
willingness to let go of the demands placed on us by our minds and
others. Accessing the wisdom of the heart almost always involves
clearing the mind and this year for the annual White Buffalo Day
Celebration we are reminded to step back and consider the larger picture
of our roles on this planet, our impact, and our potential to come
together and make much needed changes. Clearly this can only happen if
our political world leaders are listening as well. What will it take to
call them back to the heart?
Goat Carson at White Buffalo Day 2005. Photo Courtesy of Jeffrey Ehrenreich
White
Buffalo is a story passed down for 19 generations in The Lakota
Tradition with a beautiful vision of harmony between nations and healing
for the land. Sounds like something we could really use right about now
doesn't it? The story speaks of a White Buffalo being born to send a
warning to the people, but to also symbolize a great potential for
change if the people choose to wake up and return to living in a
harmonious way with Mother Earth. Coinciding with a pipe ceremony in
Congo Square in New Orleans in 1994, a White Buffalo was born in
Janesville, Wisconsin and this was the beginning of White Buffalo Day.
On
August 27th every year around the world and in Congo Square, New
Orleans people gather to consider the implications of this powerful
idea. Congo Square is believed to be one of the birth-places of jazz and
blues, a place where Native Americans and African Slaves traded,
danced, and drummed freely thanks to progressive French Plantation
Owners in the area. Nestled in the heart of
The Treme Neighborhood made famous by the
HBO series
of the same name, Congo Square is also known as Louis Armstrong Park.
New Orleans has a rich history of cultural cross-pollination in art,
food, and its music has brought people together joyously for decades so
it is the perfect place for the vision of The White Buffalo to be
honored and celebrated each year.
David "Goat" Carson,
a native elder, reverend, poet, musician, oral-historian, and community
organizer in New Orleans has hosted The White Buffalo Day Celebration
for 20 years. Carson is most known for his Grammy-Awarded songs
performed by
Dr. John and his thought-provoking social commentary masked in works of fiction like
Shallow Graves. Respected
Black Indian Chief,
Allison "Tootie" Montana, was also central to the vision of White Buffalo Day in New Orleans. Musicians like
Cyril Neville,
known for his soulful musical expressions for social justice, along
with his wife Gaynielle have also participated in making White Buffalo
Day special over the years. With a growing list of New Orleans cultural
dignitaries and artists, the event has continued to be at the spiritual
heart of the city, attracting people from all ethnic backgrounds to
share a worthy vision.
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