Prophecies

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Excerpts from a talk at the 1986 Continental Indigenous Council, Fairbanks, Alaska
By Lee Brown, Cherokee

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 released to us.

At the beginning of this cycle of time, long ago, the Great Spirit made an appearance and gathered the peoples of this earth together, and said to the human beings, "I'm going to send you to four directions, and over time I'm going to change you to four colors, but I'm going to give you some teachings, and you will call these the Original Teachings; when you come back together with each other, you will share these so that you can live and have peace on earth, and a great civilization will come about.
During the cycle of time, I'm going to give each of you two stone tablets.
When I give you those stone tablets, don't cast them upon the ground.
If any of the sisters and brothers cast their tablets on the ground, not only will human beings have a hard time, but almost the earth itself will die."

And so He gave each of us a responsibility, and we call that the Guardianship. To the Indian people, the red people, He gave the Guardianship of the Earth.
We were to learn during this cycle of time the teachings of the earth, the plants that grow from the earth, the foods that you can eat, and the herbs that heal so that, when we came back together with the other sisters and brothers, we could share this knowledge with them.
Something good was to happen on the earth.

To the South He gave the yellow race of people the Guardianship of the Wind.
They were to learn about the sky and breathing and how to take that within ourselves for spiritual advancement.
They were to share that with us at this time.

To the West He gave the black race of people the Guardianship of the Water.
They were to learn the teachings of the water, which is the chief of the elements, being the most humble and the most powerful.
The elders have told me that the black people would bring the teachings of the water.

To the North He gave the white race of people the Guardianship of the Fire.
If you look at the center of many of the things they do, you will find the fire.
They say a light bulb is the white man's fire.
If you look at the center of a car you will find a spark.
If you look at the center of the airplane and the train you will find the fire.
The fire consumes, and also moves.
This is why it was the white sisters and brothers who began to move upon the face of the earth and reunite us as a human family.

And so a long time passed, and the Great Spirit gave each of the four races two stone tablets.
Ours are kept at the Hopi Reservation in Arizona at Four Corners Area on Third Mesa.
I talked to people from the black race, and their stone tablets are at the foot of Mount Kenya.
They are kept by the Kukuyu Tribe.
I was at an Indian spiritual gathering about 15 years ago.
A medicine man from South Dakota put a beaded medicine wheel in the middle of the gathering.
It had the four colors from the four directions; he asked the people,
"Where is this from?" They said, "Probably Montana, or South Dakota, maybe Saskatchewan."
He said, "This is from Kenya."
It was beaded just like ours, with the same colors.

The stone tablets of the yellow race of people are kept by the Tibetans.
If you went straight through the Hopi Reservation to the other side of the world, you would come out in Tibet.
The Tibetan word for sun is the Hopi word for moon, and the Hopi word for sun is the Tibetan word for moon.

The guardians of the traditions of the people of Europe are the Swiss.
In Switzerland, they still have a day when each family brings out its mask.
They still know the colors of the families, and they still know the symbols, some of them.
Each of these four peoples happen to live in the mountains.

Each of the four races went to their directions and learned their teachings.
It was in Newsweek not long ago that eight out of ten foods that people eat on the earth are developed here in the western hemisphere because that was our Guardianship -- to learn the teachings of the earth and the things that grow from the earth.
We were given a sacred handshake to show, when we came back together as sisters and brothers, that we still remembered the teachings.

It was indicated on the stone tablets that the Hopis had that the first sisters and brothers who would come back to them would come as turtles across the land.
They would be human beings, but they would come as turtles.
So when the time came close, the Hopis were at a special village to welcome the turtles that would come across the land.
They got up in the morning and looked out at the sunrise.
They looked out across the desert, and they saw the Spanish conquistadores coming, covered in armor, like turtles across the land.
So this was them.
So they went out to the Spanish man, and they extended their hand, hoping for the handshake.
But into the hand the Spanish man dropped a trinket.
And so word spread throughout North America that there was going to be a hard time, that maybe some of the brothers and sisters had forgotten the sacredness of all things and all the human beings were going to suffer for this on the earth.

So tribes began to send people to the mountains to have visions to try to figure out how they could survive.
At that time there were 100,000 cities in the Mississippi Valley alone, called the mound civilization: cities built on great mounds.
Those mounds are still there.
They began to try to learn to live off the land because they knew a hard time was going to come.
They began to send people to have visions to see how we could survive this time.
They were told in the prophecies that we should try to remind all the people that would come here of the sacredness of all things.
If we could do that, then there would be peace on earth.
But if we did not do that, if we had not come together as a human family, the Great Spirit would grab the earth with His hand and shake it.

The elders on the west coast prophesied that they would then begin to build a black ribbon.
And on this black ribbon there would move a bug.
And when you begin to see this bug moving on the land, that was the sign for the First Shaking of the Earth.
The First Shaking of the Earth would be so violent that this bug would be shaken off the earth into the air and it would begin to move and fly in the air.
And by the end of this shaking this bug will be in the air around the world.
Behind it would be a trail of dirt and eventually the whole sky of the entire earth would become dirty from these trails of dirt, and this would cause many diseases that would get more and more complicated.
So the bug moving on the land, of course it's easy to see now.
In 1908 the Model-T Ford was mass produced for the first time.
So the elders knew the First Shaking of the Earth was about to come about -- that was the First World War.

In the First World War the airplane came into wide usage for the first time.
That was that bug moving into the sky.
And so they knew something very important would happen.
There would be an attempt to make peace on earth on the west coast of this land, and so the elders began to watch for this.
They began to hear that there was going to be a League of Nations in San Francisco, so the elders gathered in Arizona around 1920 or so, and they wrote a letter to Woodrow Wilson.
They asked if the Indian people could be included in the League of Nations.

The United States Supreme Court had held that a reservation is a separate and semi-sovereign nation, not a part of the United States but protected by it.
This became a concern because people didn't want the reservations to become more and more separate.
They didn't want them to be considered nations.
So they did not write back, and the Native people were left out of the League of Nations so that circle was incomplete.
In the League of Nations circle there was a southern door, the yellow people; there was a western door, the black people; there was a northern door, the white people; but the eastern door was not attended.
The elders knew that peace would not come on the earth until the circle of humanity is complete, until all the four colors sat in the circle and shared their teachings, then peace would come on earth.

So they knew things would happen.
Things would speed up a little it.
There would be a cobweb built around the earth, and people would talk across this cobweb.
When this talking cobweb, the telephone, was built around the earth, a sign of life would appear in the east, but it would tilt and bring death (the swastika of the Nazis).
It would come with the sun. But the sun itself would rise one day, not in the east but in the west (the rising sun of the Japanese Empire).
So the elders said when you see the sun rising in the east, and you see the sign of life reversed and tilted in the east, you know that the Great Death is to come upon the earth, and now the Great Spirit will grab the earth again in His hand and shake it, and this shaking will be worse than the first.
So the sign of life reversed and tilted, we call that the Swastika, and the rising sun in the east was the Rising Sun of Japan.
These two symbols are carved in stone in Arizona.
When the elders saw these two flags, they knew that these were the signs that the earth was to be shaken again.

The worse misuse of the Guardianship of the fire is called the gourd of ashes.
They said the gourd of ashes will fall from the air.
It will make the people like blades of grass in the prairie fire, and things will not grow for many seasons.
The atomic bomb, the gourd of ashes, it was the best-kept secret in the history of the US.
The elders wanted to speak about it in 1920.

They would have spoken of it and foretold its coming if they could have entered into the League of Nations.
The elders tried to contact President Roosevelt to ask him not to use the gourd of ashes because it would have a great effect on the earth and eventually cause even greater destruction and a the Third Shaking of the Earth, the Third World War.

So they knew after the Second Shaking of the Earth when they saw the gourd of ashes fall from the sky, there would be an attempt to make peace on the other side of this land.
And because the peace attempt on the west coast had failed, they would build a special house on the east coast of this Turtle Island, and all the nations and peoples of the earth would come to this house, and it would be called the House of Mica, and it would shine like the mica on the desert shines.
So the elders began to see they were building the United Nations made out of glass that reflects like the mica on the desert so they knew this was the House of Mica, and all the peoples of the earth should go to it.
So they met and talked about this.
They said that in the 1920's they had written and they had not been responded to, so they said this time we'd better go to the front door of the House of Mica because things might get a lot worse.