THIS YEAR LAST YEAR - WE VISITED STANDING ROCK, CAMP OCETI SAKOWIN, FORT YATES - WE MADE OUR SPIRITUAL JOURNEY - TO NORTH DAKOTA - THE LAND OF CHIEF SITTING BULL.

This year last year 2016 - we took a "spiritual journey " to North Dakota - to visit Standing Rock, Camp Oceti Sakowin - we all wanted to experience - a one in a life time uplifting of the soul. We visited the reservations - we met many people - and all thAT we observed - was eye opening.

We witnessed the gathering of over 10 thousand people - from all over the Nation and the world - standing tall - shoulder to shoulder - with the " Protectors of the Water " - at Camp Oceti Sakowin - very near Standing Rock.

We were in the land of Chief Sitting Bull - we witnessed the beauty of the Black Hills - with awe and deep sense of spiritual awakening.

 Just gazing at the Black Hills - considered to the Tribes as Sacred Land - for which they fought and laid down their lives  - a few victories one to be remember for generations - led by Chief Sitting Bull.

The Black Hills - unique with patterns of red - that from afar - suggest that there were once inhabited by celestial beings -
the patterns were unique and spiritual.

The more you see the patterns - the more you experience an uplifting of one's senses - feel some message is beaming to you - a type of communication - that those who experience the feelings - do not forget.

As we share the experience - with those who have been to the Black Hill - each person has something unique to reveal - and always with respect.

The Black Hills that Chief Sitting Bull and other Chiefs  fought - keeping the " greedy " at bay - those who wanted to mine gold, and in recent times other precious minerals. 

The tribes that once made their home - now known as the Black Hills - always remember the Black Hills - as a place sacrosanct - " not so those that speak with a forked tongue ".

One of kind tepees on Camp Oceti Sakowin.

The protectors of the Water 

Life is for the living not the living dead. 

The land that Chief Sitting Bull and the other Chiefs who fought for all the land in North Dakota - is there for all the world to see. 

There is much work to be done - the crux of the situation - is " respect " .  Those with a forked tongue - break the treaties - and more steal the land - they have raped the women - and killed innocent children - they have committed atrocities - difficult to describe - all recorded by historians.

We have the empirical data -  we have argued in the courts - that are Non-Native - we have written as best we can - about the cheating, the lying, the stealing, the rapings, the murders  and we will continue - to stand tall and represent - for humanity.

The flag of the Lakota Nation

Way back in 1851 the Treaty of Laramie - signed with the Lakota Nation - a treaty that gave the Lakota, the Nakota, and the Dakota tribes - now the Lakota Nation - their sovereignty. The United States has broken the treaty again and again and again and again.

You would not know this - as this Nation - again and again has broken treaties - reminiscent of the words " he who speaks with a forked tongue  - is not to be trusted ".

The Black Hills of North Dakota

The Black Hills of Dakotal - have also been sacred to the tribes - who looked at that part of the land - Mother Earth - as Sacrosanct - only the " indigenous " comprehend this - as they have it in their DNA. Spiritual teachings passed - from generation to generation for thousands of years - for sure over 14, 000 years. Carbon dated - artifacts and human remains.

It is difficult for those that never, ever learned from " birth " - how best to treat Mother Earth. 

So when we hear from those that are not " indigenous " - utter words - that are empty - even if they try to say something about " climate change" - the " carbon foot print " - " Pollution and contamination " - the indigenous understand these words - as insults to Mother Earth.

In the first place it is a "disgrace " to contaminated, pollute, bring about a state of confusion - when abatement and mitigation is called for - after the facts.

 Clean up - when in the first place - the sordid actions - should not have happened - the pollution and contamination - on such a large scale - should not have happened in the first place. Such action cry to heaven for justice - such actions are an anathema - such actions are a disgrace to the human race.

Camp Oceti Sakowin in winter

Those that stayed - had to deal with flooding -

then the troops were sent -

and everyone evacuated - today nothing much remains -

the fight goes on .

The North Dakota Pipe line -

carry fossil fuel - from sand tar -

coming all the way from Canada - one pipe going -

to Texas and the other to Louisiana.

Recently there was a 650,000 gallon spill -

and no one seems to care - the Great Spirit sees it all.

The present administration - has granted the owners of the North Dakota Pipeline permission to carry on pumping - fuel from the extract of " sand tar " - a crude oil that needs further refinement - the spills that occur cause harm to the watershed - and the surrounding environment.

Anyone one looks at this situation - that has wisdom - knows what happened when the First People - saved the lives of the Pilgrims that landed on Turtle Island - now know as United States of America.

The tribes gave what they had - to the pilgrims who had left their land - for a new spiritual quest - a new life.

The Native Tribes offered - yams, corn, berries, wild fowl, clean drinking water and more.

The pilgrims were suffering, many very sick - skin and bones - from extreme starvation - nearing death.

 The pilgrims seemed to be grateful for a little life - but this charade - was short lived - as often happens with the sordid who are " greedy " and ungrateful. 

That seems to be the on going saga - for those who are decent - their heart in the right place - to witness with patience. Now, our patience is running out.

The Great Spirit sees it all.

Again and again history reveals to us - even today - how those that " do not have their heart in the right place " - how such monsters - steeped with greed - will sell their mothers for a nickel.

Suffice to say -  " GREED " - will bring the destruction of those " rogue developers " - those that prey on other human beings - and most of all - those who with " intent " - pollute, contaminated, lie, cheat, rape, maim, kill, murder - and represent the " devil ". 

We call them evil. Aho. 

On this day - that most Native American do not celebrate - the least the " thieves can do " - is recognize this is not their land - it belongs to the Great Spirit.

Those that steal land - have blood on those hands - and the time has come to recognize and respect - all Native Americans - also know as the First People. Aho.

Muwekma Ohlone Warrior

Here is San Francisco the Muwekma Ohlone - as do other Ohlone - who preserved and protected this land - all of it - every square inch for over 13, 000 years.