~ Mother Earthbeats ~

I, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nation,
ask you to understand an Indigenous perspective on what has happened
in America, what we call “Turtle Island.” My words seek to unite the
global Community through a message from our sacred ceremonies to
unite spiritually, each in our own ways of beliefs in the Creator.

We have been warned from Ancient Prophecies of these times we live
in today, but have also been given a very important message about a
solution to turn these terrible times around.

To understand the depth of this message you must recognize the
importance of Sacred Sites and realize the interconnectedness of what
is happening today, in reflection of the continued massacres that are
occurring on other lands and our own Americas.

I have been learning about these important issues since the age of 12,
upon receiving the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle and its
teachings. Our people have striven to protect Sacred Sites from the
beginning of time. These places have been violated for centuries and
have brought us to the predicament that we are in at the global level.

Look around you. Our Mother Earth is very ill from these violations,
and we are on the brink of destroying the possibility of a healthy and
nurturing survival for generations to come, our children’s children.

Our ancestors have been trying to protect our Sacred Site called the
Sacred Black Hills in South Dakota, “Heart of Everything That Is,”
from continued violations. Our ancestors never saw a satellite view of
this site, but now that those pictures are available, we see that it is in
the shape of a heart and, when fast-forwarded, it looks like a heart
pumping.

The Dine have been protecting Big Mountain, calling it the liver, and
we are suffering and going to suffer more from the extraction of the
coal from there and the poison processes used in doing so.

The Aborigines have warned of the contaminating effects of global
warming on the Coral Reefs, which they see as Mother Earth’s blood
purifier.

The Indigenous people of the rainforest relay that the rainforest are
the lungs of the planet and need protection.

The Gwich’in Nation has had to face oil drilling in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, also known to the Gwich’in as “Where
life begins!”

The coastal plain is the birthplace of many life forms of the Animal
Nations. The death of these Animal Nations will destroy Indigenous
Nations in this territory.

As these destructive developments continue all over the world, we
will witness many more extinct Animal, Plant, and Human Nations,
because of mankind’s misuse of power and their lack of understanding
of the “balance of life.”

The Indigenous people warn that these destructive developments will
cause havoc globally. There are many, many more Indigenous
awarenesses and knowledge about Mother Earth’s Sacred Sites, her
Chakras, connections to our spirit that will surely affect our future
generations.

There needs to be a fast move toward other forms of energy that are
safe for all Nations upon Mother Earth. We need to understand the
types of minds that are continuing to destroy the spirit of our whole
global community. Unless we do this, the powers of destruction will
overwhelm us. Our Ancestors foretold that water would someday be
for sale. Back then, this was hard to believe, since the water was so
plentiful, so pure, and so full of energy, nutrition, and spirit.

Today we have to buy pure water, and even then the nutritional
minerals have been taken out; it’s just empty liquid. Someday water
will be like gold, too expensive to afford.

Not everyone will have the right to drink safe water. We fail to
appreciate and honor our Sacred Sites, ripping out the minerals and
gifts that layunderneath them as if Mother Earth were simply a
resource, instead of the Source of Life itself.

Attacking Nations and having to utilize more resources to carry out
destruction in the name of peace is not the answer! We need to
understand how allthese decisions affect the Global Nation; we will
not be immune to its repercussions. Allowing continual contamination
of our food and land is affecting the way we think.

A “disease of the mind” has set in world leaders and many members
of our global community, with their belief that a solution of retaliation
and destruction of peoples will bring Peace.

In our Prophecies it is told that we are now at the crossroads: Either
unite spiritually as a Global Nation, or be faced with chaos, disasters,
diseases, and tears from our relatives’ eyes.

We are the only species that is destroying the Source of Life, meaning
Mother Earth, in the name of power, mineral resources, and ownership
of land, using chemicals and methods of warfare that are doing
irreversible damage, asMother Earth is becoming tired and cannot
sustain any more impacts of war.

I ask you to join me on this endeavor. Our vision is for the Peoples of
all continents, regardless of their beliefs in the Creator, to come together
as one at their Sacred Sites to pray and meditate and commune with
one another, thus promoting an energy shift to heal our Mother Earth
and achieve a universal consciousness toward attaining Peace.

As each day passes, I ask all Nations to begin a global effort, and
remember to give thanks for the Sacred Food that has been gifted to us
by our Mother Earth, so the nutritional energy of medicine can be
guided to heal our minds and spirits.

This new millennium will usher in an age of harmony or it will bring the
end of life as we know it. Starvation, war, and toxic waste have been the
hallmark of the Great Myth of Progress and Development that ruled the
last millennium.

To us, as caretakers of the heart of Mother Earth, falls the responsibility
of turning back the powers of destruction. You yourself are the one who
must decide.

You alone - and only you - can make this crucial choice, to walk in honor
or to dishonor your relatives. On your decision depends the fate of the
entire World.

Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the
future of humankind.

Did you think the Creator would create unnecessary people in a time of
such terrible danger?

Know that you yourself are essential to this World. Believe that!
Understand both the blessing and the burden of that. You yourself are
desperatelyneeded to save the soul of this World. Did you think you
were put here for something less? In a Sacred Hoop of Life, there is no
beginning and no ending!

Chief Arvol Looking Horse