All Blog Posts Tagged 'Indigenous' (57)

Tens of thousands of gallons of oil flooded some streets and yards in Mayflower, Arkansas.  Aerial Footage of Arkansas Tar Sands Oil Spill http://youtu.be/3iIdWGGlBP8

Key problems with the Keystone XL Pipeline:…

Good day to all of you.  It is my pleasure to convey congratulations on behalf of all of us at the Alberta Office of Aboriginal Child and Youth Advocacy to one of our own for being recognized for a very prestigious and well deserved National Award.…

The Four Worlds Guiding Principles for Building a Sustainable and Harmonious World



The Sixteen Principles for building a sustainable and harmonious world community emerged from a 40-year process of reflection, consultation and action within Indigenous communities across the Americas. They are rooted in the concerns of hundreds of Indigenous Elders Spiritual Leaders…

1. Each morning upon rising, and each evening before sleeping, give…

After being discouraged by the Harperian changes to the protection of our lands, waters, rights, governance and freedoms, about local resistance actions, and after watching the Shift of Ages, I realized my move and new work had distracted me and disconnected me further from the path of global harmony and peace. So I sat down and applied my work skills to my personal life, by creating a logic model, a personal action plan (vision, goals, objectives and indicators) for getting back on…

                                                            Bangkok, Thailand

                                             12 AM, 1/1,2012  

Very Beloved Friends and Relatives,…

1. Spiritually centered – actively in a relationship with the Creator.

2. Morally strong – lives a good moral life, suitable to stand as a role model to younger people, with particular attention to the issues of addictions, relationships and honesty regarding money.

3.…

"With the heartfelt understanding that each one of us is the spiritual representative of all those beloved…

We know from our ancient Indigenous teachings that the sacred eagle of humanity has two perfectly balanced and harmonious wings—one representing woman and one representing men. In all our relationships as women and men, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, we must join together…

An Indigenous Call For Urgent and Collective Action To All Members of the Human Family for Protecting and Restoring the Sacred…

The “Tree of Souls” in the film Avatar is the Na’vi “link” to the spiritual and guiding force Eywa. The Na’vi  held the Sacred Tree of Souls in great respect and understood that without it, their way of life and their world, would die.

In the…

Stop Peru's Road to Rainforest Ecocide and Genocide of Uncontacted Indigenous Tribes

Plans are to build a highway through Alto Purus - Peru’s largest national park – comprised of vital intact Amazonian rainforest ecosystems and inhabited by at least two 'uncontacted' indigenous tribes.



Let…

Life unfolds forever through countless, interrelated cycles. This sacred message from our Creator is woven into the lines of the palms of our…

By now many relatives have heard something about the Kony 2012 “Invisible Children” Video that has gone viral over the past few days (58 million views so far) and related controversy.

 Looking beyond the controversy to…

The Brazilian government is moving ahead "at any cost" with plans to build the third-largest dam in the world and one of the Amazon's most controversial development projects – the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River in the…

If the Government of Canada is willing to take this kind of very aggressive, international action toward the European Union, as described by the linked Guardian article below, what is the Government Of Canada and their Multi-National Oil Industry Partners capable of doing to First Nations…

After the unified actions and victories this past week by the Government of Canada and Multi-national Oil Companies, not only in Canada, but, as well, with-in the European Union, it is clear that closing down any dimension of the Alberta Tar Sands and related Pipe Lines and Tankers,…

Very Beloved Relatives,

Today I participated in a live, on-line, interactive presentation by  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on "Internet Rights and Wrongs: Choices and Challenges in a Networked World" at George Washington University, followed by on-line…

"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…

Please join us on Thursday, December 1st at 7pm. (Doors at 6:30 with the Dakota Oceanside Drum) at the Rio Theatre, Broadway and Commercial or via Global Internet for a Public Forum about the Tar Sand's pipelines and tankers in British…