Message from Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle

Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle commented a few days ago on the current situation:

′′This moment humanity is experiencing can be seen as a door or a hole. The decision to fall in the hole or walk through the door is up to you. If you consume the news 24 hours a day, with negative energy, constantly nervous, with pessimism, you will fall into this hole.

But if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, to rethink life and death, to take care of yourself and others, then you will walk through the portal.

Goes w/summer flowers ...
Title: wigiwam (home in Potawatomi)
Materials: elm bark sheets and maple saplings

Take care of your home, take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual home. When you take care of yourself, you take care of everyone at the same time.

Do not underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. Take the perspective of an eagle that sees everything from above with a broader view. There is a social question in this crisis, but also a spiritual question. The two go hand in hand.

Without the social dimension we fall into fanaticism. Without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and futility.

Are you ready to face this crisis? Grab your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal.

Learn resistance from the example of Indian and African peoples: we have been and are exterminated. But we never stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire and rejoicing.

Don't feel guilty for feeling blessed in these troubled times. Being sad or angry doesn't help at all. Resistance is resistance through joy!

You have the right to be strong and positive. And there's no other way to do it than to maintain a beautiful, happy, bright posture.

It has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance of the world). It's a resistance strategy.

When we cross the threshold, we have a new worldview because we faced our fears and difficulties. 

This is all you can do now:
- Serenity in the storm
- Keep calm, pray everyday
- Make a habit of meeting the sacred everyday.
- Show resistance through art, joy, trust and love."

Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle
July 9th 2021

The All-Important Craft Table!

I feel this message (below) is a creative and valuable one for each of us as we pray for endurance in these challenging times of remembering ourselves and at the same time, forging new heart pathways forward. 

Good morning, Jaguar Woman!

Here I am, taking a break to watch Saturday morning cooking shows but I want to share the making of a lightening color theme tobacco bag. 

The northeast woodland traditional overlay applique technique is used ... a cross body shoulder strap with lightening color satin ribbon tassels will go on next. The design is a stylized flower and leaf in the northeast woodland motif.

It is constructed of cotton, lined, light weight and meant to hug the body, while at the ready to make a muluc offering while on a walk, morning sun ceremony, or making a faerie garden sit. Could be almost anything inside. The Traditional name for these are ‘possibles bags’. Don’t you love it? The larger bag, carried by both men and women is called a bandolier.

At the top right is a pile of self-dyed indigo silk and cotton. I had thought to use this, and shall, when the vision becomes more clear.

You are SO right when you say,”Do something creative ... and it almost doesn’t matter what it is.” And so, by these ways do we find and see the beauty of ourselves while carrying all manner of known and unknown possible magic at hand.

Migwech for your work, today's and every day's inspirational message. They make my heart feel good.

Dawn Woman

 

Excerpt from 'Spirit Talk':

This day we will consider visiting the natural world of the Mother Earth and the Father Sky-Sun … we 2-leggeds are walking erect color-beings … In the old honoring language … it is good to make an honoring prayer from the ‘grateful place’ … blow into an offering of tobacco 4 times, and then ‘put down’ the gift of the tobacco being, Se’-Ma’, onto the Mother Earth. Now offer honoring tobacco to the Father Sky-Sun in the same way … if it rains, consider collecting some of the ‘new water’, dip a finger into it and touch the top of your head 4 times, as the personal unification Water Beings blessing … If there is enough water, many things may be done with it, like ritually bathing the head, hair, face, body, eyes, wrists …

Getegemen - Garden

Potawatomi ‘Garden’ Vocabulary:

Basket = gokbenaben
Bees = amoyuk

Beans = koje'suk

Bloom = jijen

Butterfly = memiki

Cabbage = e'shobuk

Cherries = siwswe'mnen

Circle = waye'yak

Cloud = ngwankot

Corn = ndamen

Cucumber = kokobe'

Dance = nimedi

Drum = de'we'gIn

Earth = sugmuk

Feast = wewesnakewin

Fire = shkote'

Flint Hill Grounds = shokinkik

Flower = washkone'to

Food = wisnawen

Fruit = washkbak
Full Moon = nibakises

Garden = Getegemen

Good Rain = mnogmowIn

Gourd = shishigwIn

Grapes = siwnwen

Grass = mIshkos

Honey = amo

Hot Peppers = wasgagIn

Indian Tobacco = nInse’ma

July/Month of Young Corn = We'shkitdaminkesis

Lightning = sawasmo

Milkweed = nInwezhe’k

Moon = tpukises

Mother Earth = Kumde’kwe’

Muddy = winkiwIn

Onion = shakwesh

Outside = sagec

Peace = e’tokmite’k

Plenty Potatoes = topeka

Plum = pokma

Potatoes = pInyak

Prairie = mskoda

Pumpkin = wapkon

Purple = we'je'pwate'k

Rain = kmowen

Sage = wabshkukbyag

Spider = aspeke' e'e'buk

Stars = nagosuk

Strawberries = demen

Summer = E'mnokmuk

Sun = kises

Sunset = e'pkishmok
Sweat Lodge = mdodmogumuk

Sweet Corn = wishpumnuk

Sweetgrass = wiingaashk

Sweet Potato = wishpupnyak

Thunderbirds = cigwe’k

Toad = mamkeci

Tobacco = se’ma

Trees = mtugwe'nIn

Turtle = mshike’

Very Dark (Outside) = gispuknya

Very Light (Bright Sunshine) = waseya

Warm Wind = shawnash

Water = mbish

Watermelon = ashktamo

Well-Being = matsowIn

Whole Kernel Cooked Corn = pakswayuk

Wild = pkoc

Wild Rice = pkocnomin

Wind = notin

World = otake’

Worm = mose

Bodewadmin Longhouse Message

Good morning ... mno waben aanii ... good day friends ...
I am expanding this mailing in order to initiate important plant talk into our fall and winter gestational honor seasons, whereby we recognize and honor those seeds with which we sat and prayed last winter in the Bodewadmin Longhouse. As with the natural world or a tended, intentional garden, part of the growth can be predicted or shaped and part cannot. At this time we all, here on Turtle Island, find ourselves coming into new awareness and balance with the Great Mystery. The inner and outer landscapes are shifting. This offers so much opportunity for not only sacred choice to the exercised but also a vastly expanded view of Medicine Wheel teachings and disciplines by which to institute these choices ... then bringing these ones into the inner longhouse for growth and endurance prayers. 

This time of harvest is when the serious work of the next year's harvest begins ... praying over the seeds of this year. 

Now, some of this year's harvest produced undeniably questionable yields. To these things we might ask, who are you and what do you want? We always have the right to ask these questions ... and should ... in the interests of connection, honoring, knowledge, life, right livelihood and growth. The question is: do we want to know? Whether we do or we don’t is okay ... that’s the way it is with us ... however, these are our growth points or seeds, if you will. Harvest is the time to select the strongest and most desirable seeds to BEGIN bringing forward for the new season.

With these things in mind, a plant TEACHER AND HELPER  will be offered to assist renewed, or initiated, unity in our Earth Walk as we approach  a very important new vision quest season. The opportunity and indeed necessity to make and renew authentic approaches to our Earth Walk as Two-Leggeds is apparent to each of us.  Let us endeavor to make these Walks in harmony and balance with the Creator and Creator’s first, most beautiful and enduring gifts to us of our Mother Earth and our Father Sky-Sun.

Here is a great healing herb to become aware of that also happens to grow abundantly in our Oklahoma area ... Prunella Vulgaris. This program comes to us highly recommended, on YouTube from the Herbal Jedi. I invite you to visit and surf his site for many other important winter study considerations. 

Personally, I find that a tea of this plant journeys immediately to calm not only the solar plexus but the entire system ... especially the mind. Balance is felt in the liver and kidneys ... seats of anger and fear by the system of Chinese Medicine. These are two emotions that can be ‘doctored’ by self heal or Prunella vulgaris. Each person will have a personal experience to sensitize, honor and remain aware of its effect, should you feel guided to ‘make medicine’ with this or any plant being. When the mind is then calmed, endeavor to notice and remain fused with this plant blessing, as long as possible ... it will not last long ... but long enough to give us a ‘leg up’ toward reaching and maintaining a higher quality of life, a measure of equanimity ... and TIME  by which to ‘seat’ these ephemeral blessings. Do not expect this period to last longer than 20 minutes or so ... hold the focus and make the most of the gift.

In support of these new ‘relations’ a good WAY to pick will be offered as part of the fall (dwaget) and winter (pon) studies. For now, begin thinking of making an approach to this being and leaning into ‘coming to know’ this beautiful being.

The picking season is actually mostly past but this gives us the opportunity to Begin - coming into balance - with this little, mighty self healing plant for the coming gathering season, next  May-June.

Now, if you live in this Oklahoma temperate zone and have a full sun growing spot, this third week of August is the final planting window for seeding a winter garden. The autumn sun soon softens its vigor so planting any time after this does not support a completion growth cycle ... the plant can make a strong start but cannot grow strongly into November or in the case of some greens like collard greens, all winter. This can be one of the driest months so keep the ground well watered and do not allow the seeds or small plants to dry out until the rains begin.

Bama mine.
Be well.

Much love,
Minisa
Dawn Woman
CPN

Message from Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle

Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle commented a few days ago on the current situation:

′′This moment humanity is experiencing can be seen as a door or a hole. The decision to fall in the hole or walk through the door is up to you. If you consume the news 24 hours a day, with negative energy, constantly nervous, with pessimism, you will fall into this hole.

But if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, to rethink life and death, to take care of yourself and others, then you will walk through the portal.

Goes w/summer flowers ...
Title: wigiwam (home in Potawatomi)
Materials: elm bark sheets and maple saplings

Take care of your home, take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual home. When you take care of yourself, you take care of everyone at the same time.

Do not underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. Take the perspective of an eagle that sees everything from above with a broader view. There is a social question in this crisis, but also a spiritual question. The two go hand in hand.

Without the social dimension we fall into fanaticism. Without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and futility.

Are you ready to face this crisis? Grab your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal.

Learn resistance from the example of Indian and African peoples: we have been and are exterminated. But we never stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire and rejoicing.

Don't feel guilty for feeling blessed in these troubled times. Being sad or angry doesn't help at all. Resistance is resistance through joy!

You have the right to be strong and positive. And there's no other way to do it than to maintain a beautiful, happy, bright posture.

It has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance of the world). It's a resistance strategy.

When we cross the threshold, we have a new worldview because we faced our fears and difficulties. 

This is all you can do now:
- Serenity in the storm
- Keep calm, pray everyday
- Make a habit of meeting the sacred everyday.
- Show resistance through art, joy, trust and love."

Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle
July 9th 2021

Bodewadmin Longhouse Message

Good morning ... mno waben aanii ... good day friends ...
I am expanding this mailing in order to initiate important plant talk into our fall and winter gestational honor seasons, whereby we recognize and honor those seeds with which we sat and prayed last winter in the Bodewadmin Longhouse. As with the natural world or a tended, intentional garden, part of the growth can be predicted or shaped and part cannot. At this time we all, here on Turtle Island, find ourselves coming into new awareness and balance with the Great Mystery. The inner and outer landscapes are shifting. This offers so much opportunity for not only sacred choice to the exercised but also a vastly expanded view of Medicine Wheel teachings and disciplines by which to institute these choices ... then bringing these ones into the inner longhouse for growth and endurance prayers. 

This time of harvest is when the serious work of the next year's harvest begins ... praying over the seeds of this year. 

Now, some of this year's harvest produced undeniably questionable yields. To these things we might ask, who are you and what do you want? We always have the right to ask these questions ... and should ... in the interests of connection, honoring, knowledge, life, right livelihood and growth. The question is: do we want to know? Whether we do or we don’t is okay ... that’s the way it is with us ... however, these are our growth points or seeds, if you will. Harvest is the time to select the strongest and most desirable seeds to BEGIN bringing forward for the new season.

With these things in mind, a plant TEACHER AND HELPER  will be offered to assist renewed, or initiated, unity in our Earth Walk as we approach  a very important new vision quest season. The opportunity and indeed necessity to make and renew authentic approaches to our Earth Walk as Two-Leggeds is apparent to each of us.  Let us endeavor to make these Walks in harmony and balance with the Creator and Creator’s first, most beautiful and enduring gifts to us of our Mother Earth and our Father Sky-Sun.

Here is a great healing herb to become aware of that also happens to grow abundantly in our Oklahoma area ... Prunella Vulgaris. This program comes to us highly recommended, on YouTube from the Herbal Jedi. I invite you to visit and surf his site for many other important winter study considerations. 

Personally, I find that a tea of this plant journeys immediately to calm not only the solar plexus but the entire system ... especially the mind. Balance is felt in the liver and kidneys ... seats of anger and fear by the system of Chinese Medicine. These are two emotions that can be ‘doctored’ by self heal or Prunella vulgaris. Each person will have a personal experience to sensitize, honor and remain aware of its effect, should you feel guided to ‘make medicine’ with this or any plant being. When the mind is then calmed, endeavor to notice and remain fused with this plant blessing, as long as possible ... it will not last long ... but long enough to give us a ‘leg up’ toward reaching and maintaining a higher quality of life, a measure of equanimity ... and TIME  by which to ‘seat’ these ephemeral blessings. Do not expect this period to last longer than 20 minutes or so ... hold the focus and make the most of the gift.

In support of these new ‘relations’ a good WAY to pick will be offered as part of the fall (dwaget) and winter (pon) studies. For now, begin thinking of making an approach to this being and leaning into ‘coming to know’ this beautiful being.

The picking season is actually mostly past but this gives us the opportunity to Begin - coming into balance - with this little, mighty self healing plant for the coming gathering season, next  May-June.

Now, if you live in this Oklahoma temperate zone and have a full sun growing spot, this third week of August is the final planting window for seeding a winter garden. The autumn sun soon softens its vigor so planting any time after this does not support a completion growth cycle ... the plant can make a strong start but cannot grow strongly into November or in the case of some greens like collard greens, all winter. This can be one of the driest months so keep the ground well watered and do not allow the seeds or small plants to dry out until the rains begin.

Bama mine.
Be well.

Much love,
Minisa
Dawn Woman
CPN

Excerpt from 'Spirit Talk':

 

Excerpt from 'Spirit Talk':

Let us now assemble the honoring gifts once again, the high and personal inner gifts of qualities which only we can know, and the gifts of the known and understood common tradition such as tobacco, water or candles; chocolate … fruits … flowers; special drinks or nectars; ritual paintings, foods, cornmeal … and gifts of inspiration and the moment … 

Notice, attention, and gratitude for ‘being breathed’; 

Gratitude to the Father Sky-Sun for return at sunrise and sunset;  

Mindful Gratitude to the water beings as we drink, see, remember or feel them … 

Mindful Gratitude to the Fire Beings … 

Speak in a friendly way to the Wind Beings … 

Talk to a stone and a tree, a shrub, and the hill in the distance … 

Open the soles of your feet and invite them to ‘pick up on’ the Mother Earth as she vibrates and breathes through our bodies and connects with the upward solar rays of her lover. They are our elemental parents. 

Go outside and lie first facedown, then turn onto your back … Draw an arm’s-length circle with a stick around you, think a little introductory offering … and sit there as unmoving as possible, except for the eyes, for at least twenty minutes … Notice and follow the breath until something else engages your attention. The natural world soon comes to accept our presence … It is best if no food/water/phone enters the circle or is in sight/smell/earshot … and the sitting is best done in complete solitude … Then, when you are ready, stand up, or crawl out, noticing which direction you entered, faced, and departed. Try to make them the same. Then, make grateful farewells, and go.