Phil Lane Jr.'s Blog (285)

Mitakuyepi, All My Relatives, Cante Wasteya Nape Ciyuzapi Yedo, I Shake Your Hands With a Good Heart,

With all that is unfolding regarding the wide-spread and heart-felt movement to buy back Pe' Sla, the Heart of All That Is, that was illegally seized by military forces on behalf of the US Government,…

“The New Global Civilization, now unfolding, that the Prophecies of Indigenous Peoples and the Ancient of Days have long envisioned is not to be confused, even remotely, with the various new world orders that are fearfully alluded to by various contending sources. This includes a new world order where the extremely wealthy or a secret elite enslave…

We know from our ancient Indigenous teachings that the Sacred Eagle of Humanity has two perfectly balanced and harmonious wings—one representing women and one representing men. In all our relationships as women and men, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, we must join together to eliminate all forms of disrespect, mistreatment,…

Native Americans’ resistance to the westward expansion of Europeans took two forms. One was violence. The other was accommodation. Neither worked. Their land was stolen, their communities were decimated, their women and children were gunned down and the environment was ravaged. There was no legal recourse. There was no justice. There never is for…

An Indigenous Call for Urgent and Unified Action to All Members of the Human Family…

http://www.scribd.com/doc/95890322/Indigenous-Elders-At-Rio-20-Brazil#fullscreen

Indigenous Elders At Rio+20, Brazil

Dear Relatives,

This is a statement of my grandmother Ella Deloria, regarding history, which is well worth contemplating.   

"We can never be sure of what…

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

(please add names of groups to be presented in…

 A Call for Action from the International Indigenous Leaders Gathering Keynote to Our Relatives Gathered at the Rights of Mother Earth Conference

Haskell Indian Nations University

Presented by Sun Dance Chief…

The Four Phases of Community Healing…

This a live (24/7) global map that allows you see Earthquakes, Volcanos, Epidemics, etc.,as they unfold. Unusual number of earthquakes over the past few hours. Not to big, but wide-spread! Quite fascinating! Live Map-Earthquakes, Volcanos,Epidemics

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 book, The Sacred Tree, Indigenous values and…

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 future, this is another sign of the Prophecy that was…

Over the past two years, the Commission has made it a priority to take every opportunity to hear directly from the people most affected by the residential school system: the students and staff who worked in the schools. In this interim report, it is not possible to summarize all that the Commission was told. But, for a variety of reasons, including…

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 state of Pará. The Belo Monte dam complex dates back to…