September 20, 2011 at 9:48 pm (Alberta Canada, Alberta Canada XL Tar Sands Plpeline, Climate change, Environment, Indigenous Environmental Earth, Oil, Water as a commodity, Water pollution, Water Video)
Tags: Alberta Canada, Alberta XL Tar Sands Pipeline, Gas, Indigenous Environmental Earth, Oil, water
I am posting this link because I believe that each person needs to learn what is at stake with the Alberta Keystone XL Pipeline Tar Sands struggle. The immediate consequences may not affect us yet but it will over time.
Let us learn from Indigenous communities that have already suffered from consequences of mining and contamination of water on tribal lands. If you want to know what is happening to your neighbors in North Dakota and Pennsylvania, listen to the people speak about ruination of mountains and how ground water is already impacted. I have heard them. It is hideous to think that multi-national corporations could even think of defacing the Earth in such a selfish way and for such a selfish end. MONEY, MONEY, MONEY.
The USA is not leading the world in alternative energy, rather it is still trying to extract dirty fuel. It must STOP. Many citizens in this country understand that we are at a pivital moment. We can walk into sustainability or we can watch the natural world being destroyed and what will protect us then?
If you want to know about fracking or privatization of bottled water watch Tapping, Blue Gold and Gasland.
The best site for watching videos on the protest in Washington, DC to stop the Alberta Canada XL Pipeline Tar Sands is at Indigenous Environmental Network at http://www.ienearth.org/index.html
We may not be given a second chance. It is now that the tipping point is being reached. We need to protect nature, which in turn gives us life. Nature is not dependent upon humans to survive. It is the other way around.
Visit http://www.ienearth.org/index.html to start learning about this threatening danger.
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July 25, 2011 at 2:50 am (Dr. Masaru Emoto, Grandmother Tonya Whitedeer, Sisterhood of the Planetary Water Rites, water, Water Blessings, Water Ceremony, Water Meditation)
Tags: Dr. Masaru Emoto, Grandmother Tonya Whitedeer, Japan, Paula DeJoshua, Shrine, Sisterhood of the Planetary Water Rites, water
Wisconsin Point, Lake Superior
July 25 will be a World Prayer Day. You can listen to Dr. Emoto telling about a sacred shrine in Japan and sacred water. Let us all offer prayers and water on July 25. Listen and see video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqCXpbU4Z0o
Please let us all stand together on July 25th either in circle or on your personal time to give blessings to our waters, and prayer for World. Peace for our Mother Earth..
The Sisterhood of the Planetary Water Rites has just now received this notice through our Sister in Utah, Paula DeJoshua of www.intothelightinlove.com
Let us do the best we can at this late notice to comply with Dr. Emoto’s wishes…
Waterblessings to All,
Grandmother Whitedeer
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June 17, 2011 at 1:45 am (Bad River Reservation, Environment, Mother Earth Water Walkers, water)
Tags: Bad River Reservation, Butterflies, Ceremony, Freighters, Grandmothes, Hills, Insects, Lake, Mine, Mother Earth Water Walkers, Mountaintops, North Country Trail, Opposition, Recycled, Running, Running Shoes, Runnoff, Stream, Swimming, Upson Lake, water, Water Ceremony, water contamination, water is a human right, water is a social issue, Wilderness, Wisconsin
by John Schneider, June 12, 2011
I watched the ceremony on the Lake Superior shore yesterday of the convergence of the Water Walk. Luckily I got there early and had time to run along the beach and soak and meditate in the lake before I ran up the road from the beach and caught up with the group coming down to the lake. I was tuned into the experience from the point of view of the lake, and from years of running daily
in the wilderness and swimming in lakes and rivers. And from the point of view of opposition to the mine that would send runoff and bring bilge spewing pollution from ore freighters on that beach. And level mountaintops (nearly weathered by time to hills) to feed industry, industry that should already feed from recycled metal first, but doesn’t. And be powered by Lake Superior ind/wave
power melting and recycling materials with zero carbon pollution in the atmosphere and no acid rain in the rivers and lakes.
But thanks to a Facebook friend I never met before, and her guide to the ceremony, a young native girl, and several kids swimming and wading in the mother lake. And several moms comments….but especially a 6 year old who was barefoot and remarked as I was putting my running shoes back on after swimming, “Oh I should have brought my shoes down too..” I realized the point of view of
my childhood again, I had camped in that very same area with my family as a kid, and still I think that trip is in my dreams.
Mother Earth Water Walkers Bad River copyright Jennifer
Dream on… this is looking through their eyes, the children and their mothers and grandmothers hopes for them…And then!! The great moment for me.. a small thing, but I happened to be right there where the boats would land with the Water Walkers.. the grandmothers….A man stepped up and asked if I would help pull the boats up. A great honor.. a few of us pulled together. Wonderful experience I will meditate on for years… Then I went to the North Country Trail at Upson Lake to explore the Penokees where they would be effected by mining run off. These mountains are wonderful. Their waters are beautiful; I meditated
beside a stream on the trail, watching the intricate insect life. I saw butterflies sucking moisture from mud on Upson Lake boat landing, now to explore this whole area via the trail and get others there too. We need to draw inspiration to fight the mine and fight for those precious waters feeding our very lives and the life web we inhabit.
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May 27, 2011 at 11:42 am (Environment, Grandmothers from Quebec, Gulf of Mexico Water Pollution, Mother Earth Water Walkers, water, Water Ceremony, Water conservation, Water Organization, Water pollution, Wisconsin)
Tags: Anishinaabe, Atlantic Ocean, Bad River Reservation, Gulf of Mexico0, Hudson Bay, Mother Earth Water Walkers, Native Women’s Association of Canada, Odawa, Ojibwe, Ottawa Canada, Pacific ocean, Potawatomi, water, water contamination, water is a human right, water is a social issue, Wisconsin
Press Release – For Immediate Release
Ottawa, ON (17 May 2011) – The Native Women’s Association of Canada is acknowledging with the highest esteem the Grandmothers and other supporters who are walking from the four oceans that surround North America. The leaders of the Water Walk carry copper vessels that contain the “healing and sacred salt water” from the Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and from Hudson Bay that will be used in a ceremony where the waters converge in Bad River, Wisconsin on June 12, 2011. The water will then be united in Lake Superior where the first Water Walk began in 2003.
Water is a life force that has been respected and honoured through ceremony since time immemorial by the world’s Indigenous peoples. With this respect it is of growing concern that many Indigenous people and others around the world do not have access clean drinking water.
The women in the Water Walk, many whom are Elders have taken on a physically daunting campaign journeying over 10,400,000 steps to raise awareness about the crisis. Like many great concerns it is the women who lead and give voice to the issue.
“The Anishinaabe, also known as the Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi, are the caretakers of the eastern woodlands and Great Lakes, the largest freshwater system on Earth. Anishinaabe women, as givers-of-life, are responsible for speaking for, protecting and carrying our water.” (Mother Earth Water Walk, 2011)
NWAC, NGO’s and government officials are listening and will respond. You too can support the walkers! For more information see http://www.motherearthwaterwalk.com/ and follow them on Facebook.
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May 9, 2011 at 11:20 pm (Birds, Minong Wisconsin, water)
Tags: Birds, Minong, water, Wisconsin
Today in Minong, Wisconsin, USA, the winds blew approximately 40 mph. It was enough to snatch a baby bird from its nest and hurl the small bird down in my back yard. From where the bird was carried is a mystery. I saw the baby bird on the lawn from my window and went out to investigate. The fledgling got scared and tried to fly. The bird could only make minute flights close to the ground. I kept my eye on the bird throughout the day.
Early this afternoon I went out and saw that the baby was not moving. The bird opened and blinked its eyes and I knew that it lived; however, I also knew that it could not fly now. Perhaps it suffered some internal injury. I sang the baby bird an honor song. Then I found a live worm and carried it to the bird on a straw strand. I thought the bird might be hungry and thirsty. At this point I also brought a small lid filled with water to tempt the bird.
Farewell baby bird
By 4 p.m. the baby bird had died. I bent down and kissed its tiny head the color of fall leaves. It felt warm. The body was black with tinges of blue and green. The color could only be seen from a close position. The bird with closed eyes blew over and I noticed one foot curled and the other straight. I dug a hole and gently placed the small bird in along with sacred tobacco that was used in earlier morning ceremony prayers.
I thought about the mother. She would never know what happened to her baby bird and my heart wept.
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March 31, 2011 at 12:40 am (Hopi Elders, Japan)
Tags: Hopi Elders, Japan, Lee Wayne Lomayestews, water
via Lee Wayne Lomayestews, Village Chief and YouTube video.
This link has a message that we all need at this time. We are experiencing a world that is changing and we need words of knowledge and wisdom from the Elders.
Please listen and watch at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buMD1Qi_fNw
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December 12, 2010 at 1:10 am (Earth Foundation, Green TV, International 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, Japan, UN COP20 Conference, Year of Biodiversity)
Tags: 2010 Year of Biodiversity, Agnes Baker-Pilgrim, Animals, Awakening people, Earth Foundation, International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, Mona Polacca, Praying, water
One good thing about technology is that with videos and cameras we are able to listen to the Sages of the world speak for the living Earth. They teach and remind us that the Earth that we live on is a gift of life to us all. We are all related. We are dependent upon Mother Earth to support our very lives. We need the butterfly and bee to pollinate our crops. We need the animal kingdom for food. We need trees for shelter, to heat our homes and cook our food. We need the plants of the Earth for medicine and food as does the animal, bird, reptile, insect or fish. We need pure water as does all of creation on this planet. We must stop abusing Mother Earth.
Earth Foundation and Green TV were in Nagoya, Japan, in October 2010 for the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity and recorded the voices of Mona Polacca and Agnes Baker-Pilgrim. Both elders are members of the International Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. I am noting below the videos produced by Green TV. I regret that there is some hesitancy in the voice control. None the less, the words of wisdom from both Grandmothers is too important to miss.
May we all learn before it is too late. We need to protect Mother Earth for future generations.
Listen to The International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers who spoke at this global environmental event.
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Grandmother Mona Polacca, Hopi Elder.
Ancestral Voices Grandmother Mona Polacca at
http://vimeo.com/channels/144533#16963069
Ancestral Voices Grandmother Agnes Baker-Pilgrim at
Grandmother Agnes Baker-Pilgrim
http://vimeo.com/channels/144533#16989714
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June 6, 2010 at 8:57 pm (Nibi Wabo, Nibi Wabo, water, Water Blessings, Water Ceremony, Water Meditation, Water Spirits)
Tags: Chief Golden Light Eagle of the Galactic Federation of Light, Tonya Whitedeer, water, Water Ceremony
This YouTube video is being shared with us via Tonya Whitedeer so that people around the world will open their eyes and pray for all our relatives who need our help, especially with what is happening to the air and water. Please watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voFj5YgxcuY and join us tomorrow June 6 – World Prayer Day. Let us remember that it is Mother Earth who supports our lives and she needs our help.
Let us cast a net of light to encircle the oil spill and make it unthreatening for all our relatives who are in harm’s way.
Miigwetch
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June 6, 2010 at 12:14 pm (Nibi Wabo, Tonya Whitedeer, water, Water Blessings, Water Ceremony, Water Meditation, Water Spirits)
Tags: Nibi Wabo, Tonya Whitedeer, water, Water Ceremony
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In Response to the Oil Spilling into the Gulf of Mexico ~
[Work on the Spirit Level DOES Help]
Drum, Rattle, Didj, Dance, Song, Flute, Ocean Healing Ceremony
on Saturday, June 5th, 6PM
Golden Gardens
8499 Seaview Place Northwest, Seattle, WA
RAIN OR SHINE
{{look for drummers in the section of the beach near the park entrance}}
Come to Golden Gardens RAIN OR SHINE with your noise makers and ecstatic bodies to send loving energy to the oceans and all our sisters and brothers that live there.
We will form a circle at 6PM and drum at length until we feel done. We could be there into the night. The more people that come, the larger the circle and power of healing there will be. YOU ARE THE CIRCLE. Please come if you can!
THOUGH OUR EXPRESSION IS UNGUIDED OUR FOCUS AND INTENT WILL BE ONE:
- Healing for the Ocean People
- Acknowledgment of our Human selves in part responsibility for the Oil Spills in the Gulf of Mexico
- Acknowledgment and reinforcement of our own Divinity in our place of the great web.
This is a devotional activity. This is a healing circle of giving as well as receiving for it is in both gratitude and love that the healing energies can flow. Feel free to hold your own meditations with your friends at your end of the circle. All expressions: joy, grief, sorrow, love, determination, welcome.
PLEASE POST TO ALL YOUR NETWORKS!!!!
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May 3, 2010 at 10:44 pm (Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Nibi Wabo, Nibi Wabo, Sisters of the Plaetry Water Rites, water, Water as a commodity, Water Ceremony, Water Meditation, Water Spirits)
Tags: Nibi Wabo, Sisters of the Planetary Water Rites, Tonya Whitedeer, water, Water Ceremony, water contamination, water is a human right, water is a social issue, Water Meditation, water privitization, Wisconsin
Tonya Whitedeer of the Sisters of the Planetary Water Rites in California sent the following excerpted email:
Pure Shell Lake in Shell Lake, Wisconsin
I wish I was not writing to tell you that the Gulf of Mexico is experiencing an epic oil spill. I wish we were not witnessing what may become the largest oil spill in US history. I am asking for your help. I am calling for a group meditation on Sunday evening. (Of course…any time you love water…whether today or tomorrow or Sunday…it will make a difference…so join when you can.)
I am calling for a miracle. Let’s join in a meditation to cap the oil leak Sunday night at 5:00 p.m. Pacific & AZ time. I feel that this oil spill has served to wake us up. Maybe this will allow us to refocus, and find a better solution to meet our energy needs. For that awakening, we give thanks. Our hearts open to the families who have experienced loss, and trauma. Our hearts embrace all life in the area affected; people, wildlife, flora and water.
Shell Lake and diminishing water table due in part to Climate Change
Grandmother and water sister Tonya Whitedeer says, “Invite the Spirit of Water to be fully present and enlivened and one with the Spirit of the Gulf of Mexico.” Turn your thoughts and prayers towards purity of water and to cap the oil leak Sunday evening 5 p.m. Pacific & AZ time, 6 p.m. Mountain time, Central standard time 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Eastern standard time. Let’s stand in solidarity and prayer for five minutes and give our healing energy to water. Tell the water that you love her and are doing your part to protect her insectamonarca friends where ever you live.
Blessings,
Memengwaa Ikway
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