Native American Prophecies Fulfilled

"North American Indian Prophecies"-- excerpts from a talk given

by Lee Brown (Baha'i- Cherokee) at the 1986 Baha'i Continental

Indigenous Council, Fairbanks, Alaska

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"There was the cycle of the mineral, the rock. There was the cycle of the plant. And now

we are in the cycle of the animal 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 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 who 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 stone tablets.

  Ours are kept at the Hopi Reservation in Arizona at Four Corners Area on Third Mesa. 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 Saskatchewan." He said, "This is from Kenya." It was beaded just

  like ours, with the same colors.

  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. Each of these four peoples

  happen to be people that live in the mountains.

  So we went through this cycle of time and each of the four races went to their directions

  and they learned their teachings. It was in Newsweek not too long ago that eight out of

  ten foods that people eat on the earth are developed here in the western hemisphere

  because that was our Guardianship, to learn the teachings of the earth, and the things that

  grow from the earth. We were given a sacred handshake to show when we came back

  together as brothers and sisters that we still remembered the teachings.

  It was indicated on the stone tablets that the Hopis had that the first brothers and sisters

  that would come back to them would come as turtles across the land. They would be

  human beings, but they would come as turtles. So when the time came close the Hopis

  were at a special village to welcome the turtles that would come across the land and they

  got up in the morning and looked out at the sunrise. They looked out across the desert and

  they saw the Spanish Conquistadores coming, covered in armor, like turtles across the

  land. So this was them. So they went out to the Spanish man and they extended their hand

  hoping for the handshake but into the hand the Spanish man dropped a trinket. And so

  word spread throughout North America that there was going to be a hard time, that

  maybe some of the brothers and sisters had forgotten the sacredness of all things and all

  the human beings were going to suffer for this on the earth.

  So tribes began to send people to the mountains to have visions to try to figure out how

  they could survive. At that time there were 100,000 cities in the Mississippi Valley alone,

  called the mound civilization: cities built on great mounds. Those mounds are still there.

  If you ever go out to Ohio or the Mississippi Valley, they're tourist attractions now. There

  was 100,000 cities of Native people and they were wondering how they could survive.

  They began to try to learn to live off the land because they knew a hard time was going to

  come. They began to send people to have visions to see how we could survive this time.

  People came on the east coast and they went across this land to the west and they were

  told in the prophecies that we should try to remind all the people that would come here of

  the sacredness of all things. If we could do that, then there would be peace on earth. But

• if we did not do that, if we had not come together as a human family, the Great Spirit

  would grab the earth with his hand and shake it.

  And so, if you read the treaty negotiations from Red Jacket of the Six Nations on the east

  coast of this land clear to Chief Joseph and Chief Seattle on the west coast of this land,

  they all said the same thing. Chief Joseph said, "I accord you the right, and I hope you

  accord me the right, to live in this land." Always we were trying to live together. But

  instead of living together, you all know there was separation, there was segregation. They

  separated the races: they separated the Indians, and they separated the blacks. In the state

  of Washington it was against the law for an Asian to marry a white person up until not

  too long ago. There was separation.

  So when they got to the west coast of this land the elders that were made aware of these

  prophecies said they would then begin to build a black ribbon. And on this black ribbon

  there would move a bug. And when you begin to see this bug moving on the land, that

  was the sign for the First Shaking of the Earth. The First Shaking of the Earth would be

  so violent that this bug would be shaken off the earth into the air and it would begin to

  move and fly in the air. And by the end of this shaking this bug will be in the air around

  the world. Behind it would be a trail of dirt and eventually the whole sky of the entire

  earth would become dirty from these trails of dirt, and this would cause many diseases

  that would get more and more complicated. So the bug moving on the land, of course it's

  easy to see now. In 1908 the Model-T Ford was mass produced for the first time. So the

  elders knew the First Shaking of the Earth was about to come about- that was the First

  World War.

  In the First World War the airplane came into wide usage for the first time. That was that

  bug moving into the sky. And so they knew something very important would happen.

  There would be an attempt to make peace on earth on the west coast of this land and so

  the elders began to watch for this. They began to hear that there was going to be a League

  of Nations in San Francisco so the elders gathered in Arizona around 1920 or so and they

  wrote a letter to Woodrow Wilson. They asked if the Indian people could be included in

  the League of Nations.

  At that time the United States Supreme Court had held that a reservation is a separate and

  semi-sovereign nation, not a part of the United States but protected by it. This became a

  concern because people didn't want the reservations to become more and more separate.

  They didn't want them to be considered nations. So they did not write back and the

  Native people were left out of the League of Nations, so that circle was incomplete. In the

  League of Nations circle there was a southern door, the yellow people; there was a

  western door, the black people; there was a northern door, the white people; but the

  eastern door was not attended. The elders knew that peace would not come on the earth

  until the circle of humanity is complete, until all the four colors sat in the circle and

  shared their teachings, then peace would come on earth.

  So they knew things would happen. Things would speed up a little bit. There would be a

  cobweb built around the earth, and people would talk across this cobweb. When this

  talking cobweb, the telephone, was built around the earth, a sign of life would appear in

  the east, but it would tilt and bring death. (the swastika of the Nazis) It would come with

  the sun. But the sun itself would rise one day not in the east but in the west. (the rising

  sun of the Japanese Empire) So the elders said when you see the sun rising in the east and

  you see the sign of life reversed and tilted in the east, you know that the Great Death is to

• come upon the earth, and now the Great Spirit will grab the earth again in His hand and

  shake it and this shaking will be worse than the first. So the sign of life reversed and

  tilted, we call that the Swastika, and the rising sun in the east was the rising sun of Japan.

  These two symbols are carved in stone in Arizona. When the elders saw these two flags,

  these were the signs that the earth was to be shaken again.

  The worst misuse of the Guardianship of the fire is called the "gourd of ashes". They said

  the gourd of ashes will fall from the air. It will make the people like blades of grass in the

  prairie fire and things will not grow for many seasons. I saw on television not too long

  ago that they were talking about the atomic bomb, the gourd of ashes. They said it was

  the best-kept secret in the history of the United States. The elders wanted to speak about

  it in 1920.

  They would have spoken of it and foretold it's coming if they could have entered into the

  League of Nations. The elders tried to contact President Roosevelt and ask him not to use

  the gourd of ashes because it would have a great effect on the earth and eventually cause

  even greater destruction and a the Third Shaking of the Earth, the Third World War. I'll

  get to that in a few minutes.

  So they knew after the Second Shaking of the Earth when they saw the gourd of ashes fall

  from the sky then there would be an attempt to make peace on the other side of this land.

  And because the peace attempt on the west coast had failed, they would build a special

  house on the east coast of this Turtle Island, and all the nations and peoples of the earth

  would come to this house and it would be called the House of Mica and it would shine

  like the mica on the desert shines. So the elders began to see they were building the

  United Nations made out of glass that reflects like the mica on the desert so they knew

  this was the House of Mica and all the peoples of the earth should go to it. So they met

  and talked about this. They said that in the 1920s they had written and they had not been

  responded to, so they said this time we better go to the front door of the House of Mica

  because things might get a lot worse.

  So elders representing a number of tribes I believe drove to New York City. When the

  United Nations opened they went to the front door of the house of Mica and they said

  these words: "We represent the indigenous people of North America and we wish to

  address the nations of the Earth. We're going to give you four days to consider whether or

  not we will be allowed to speak."

  They retreated to one of the Six Nations Reserves in New York State. The Six Nations

  Reserves are keepers of the Great Law of Peace of the prophet that appeared here in

  North America, Dekanwidah. And this Law of Peace is still recited, it takes four days

  between sunrise and noon. Each year an Indian, by memory, must recite it about this time

  of year. Four days later they came back and I believe the nations of the earth heard that

  the Indians had come to the door. And they voted to let the Indians in. They wanted to

  hear what they had to say. But the United States is one of five nations of the United

  Nations with a veto power and still they were concerned because this time the Native

  sovereignty was even stronger. And I believe they vetoed the entrance of the Native

  people.

  So then they knew other things would happen on the Earth, and the United Nations would

  not bring peace on earth but there would be continuing and deepening confusion. And

  that the little wars would get worse. So they retreated to the Six Nations Reserve and they

  talked about this and they said the time is really getting close now... 1949. They said,

• "We're going to divide the United States into four sections and each year we're going to

  have a gathering. We're going to call these the 'White Roots of Peace Gatherings'." They

  began to have these around 1950. And they authorized certain men to speak in English

  for the first time about these prophecies.

  One that I used to listen to many times, over and over, was Thomas Banyaca. He is a

  Hopi man. He was authorized to speak in English about what was on the stone tablets and

  he has dedicated his life to doing this. And they began to tell us at these gatherings, they

  said "In your lifetime you're going to see things happen." It was strange when they said it

  in the 1950s and 1960s but now it seems very clear. But then it was unusual... They said

  "You're going to see a time in your lifetime when the human beings are going to find the

  blueprint that makes us." They call that now, DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid. They said,

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