What an unforgettable study.
One autumn day my mom said, "Ronnie did you see there is an Indian powwow at the fairgrounds?"
I was turning sixteen next year and we had no money she knew this is what I would want to do any day birthday or not. That visit lasted 8 years. Mom, drove us there on a Saturday. It was cheap but I felt bad mom was spending this on me and not rent or food. We go in and I was in a paradise no one else was in. They had real Eagle feathers ... how can you sell these? I was told "we gather them from the ground and as Indians here in this country we have permission to sell Eagle feathers." I got 5.
I was loving this, and my mom knew it. Best day ever. I have been studying the Lakota. The Lakota are a blending of many tribes and were mainly seen as the Teton. Teton Sioux (from Thítȟuŋwaŋ), they are one of the three prominent subcultures of the Sioux people, with the Eastern Dakota (Santee) and Western Dakota (Wičhíyena). Their current lands are in North and South Dakota. I had tons of books and had at this time maybe a year or so of dedicated study. I was hoping to meet anyone Sioux. I had some amazing conversations, and I see my mom although interested and was having fun being with me and watching my mind work, she was getting tired.
I suggested we go, and mom said we haven't seen anything down there. Several booths we haven't seen. I said, "mom it's okay I got some Eagle feathers and got to talk to real Sioux Indians, and they said my research was great and to keep studying. Told me that what I am doing will move me past darkness and into the light.
Mom insisted we check out everything because we probably cannot afford to come back. So, we traveled forth. His name was Red Deer, and his American was John Scott (I believe). So, John Red Deer is the name he went by. Please excuse me as I may have his first name wrong. It has been a million years. I am old and even relatives now I haven't seen escape me. It is because we get old. His first name may have been Jim and not John, but my mind is not connecting it. His name Red Deer I will forever remember. He introduced himself not like anyone would. He was as strange as me if not more. "Hi, you have Eagle feathers with you ... humm ... yes." "Your journey, you are a traveler." "HI" he said again. I am looking at him as normally as I could, but I knew he knew I am thinking how? The feathers were in a brown paper bag. Couldn't see them. As a matter of fact, I think I asked my mom to put the small bag in her purse. It was strange.
"Hi, I am Ron are you a Sioux?" He smiled, "If I am not a Sioux will you stay and talk to me anyway?" My mind is thinking who is this guy. He thinks all I want to do is talk to Sioux Indians ... then I thought he is right. That was on my mind coming here.
He said hi I'm John Red Deer, I am a medicine man in my tribe, I am a Hopi Indian. Do you know about us? "No, I do not ... Hopi ??? what a strange sounding name?" John said Hopi means peace. I was like wow the entire time with Red Deer.
So many of you have criticized me on spuing out things and have no evidence or a book I can take you too to show you how I found this. It is very hard to speak to the ignorant the stupid. They do not understand anything especially how learning is a inward prosses. What 100% can I give you? I witnessed it I experienced it and I speak of what I learned. You do not believe me saying I am a lie.
Then I think it is up to you to prove to me you were happy or unhappy on your 10th birthday. I need hard evidence so give me a book a research papper and eyewitnesses to the event and I will listen to you. You see how stupid you are? Hear how stupid you sound? You are a 3yr-old fool needing facts about someone's special feelings and experiences in life. If you do want to understand then go. Especially if this is all crap to you. Do not stay here.
Red Deer and I remained in correspondence for 8 years and letters just ended. He was moving around the country with this powwow, and he sent me letters from everywhere. He was a great friend and teacher.
Which brings me to indigenous peoples. Technically there are not any. No one is indigenous here. And no Red Deer did not tell me this. This is what my journey has found out. But I will not go into that here, I want to tell you what I was told that is not in the Documentary on the Hopi you will watch bellow.
I am paraphrasing and this was a long time ago. The story went something like this.
How the Hopi came here.
"One day the people of the Lakota had the hills around a valley area positioned with scouts. One morning one of the scouts seen a lot of smoke on the horizon indicating many fires. The scout was thinking how did any large group pass him in the night. Taking his hourse and telling other scouts he was going to invesigate and return. He travels into the open area taking him hours to get to the area. From a ridge he sees thousands of Indians an entire village men women and children.
The scout was in shock and quickly ran his horse back to the other scout. Telling them they run their horses to the closet villages and tell everyone. The chiefs and warriors all gather weapons and go to engage this enemy. They get there and the chief and men and women came out to greet the war party and asked them in to eat and smoke. So, the Lakota did. The Lakota wanted to know who they were and how did you get there. They could only sign at this time. Each time the Hopi are asked where did you come from the Hopi point up. Always and the other Indians did not understand what they meant. Eventually the communications problem was resolved over time and we now know the Hopi never have believed they come from here. They come from another planet, and were brought here in ships and are here as a witness to what man is doing to this world. The Spirit will read the Hopi people as a whole and all this information over centries have doomed all of you. You have destroyed yourself and the Hopi are the Conduent or, so it was told to me.
Now is that not amazing. A book? Yes, in fact there are many. The Hopi bible is one such book that will tell you about this. Unfortunately, the bible is littered with garbage and has been destroyed by Christian faith. Much of what is in the Hopi bible is freemason propaganda. However, the entire telling of the worlds is very accurate. We are int he 4th world and the 5th world are a removal of the faithful and ignorant. So that clarity and love can replace this. But a lot of believers are going to die here on the material plain before this can happen. Now the bible says the next world is spiritual and doesn't say removing the faith and ignorant. But this must happen for clarity to survive and love to be present here.
You can say everything you want about me and what I am doing here and really put it down. I will tell you. You wish you had 8 years of study with a Hopi medicine man. You wish you had my clarity. I am here to share that with you. Who is ready? No one is by the e-mail and questions that are only to create a debate on foolishness. It is foolish you trying to debate me on everything. Now you're running around I got him I got him "He doesn't know how crayons are made!" He is a lie don't listen to him. You want to find something I do not know in debate so you can say I know nothing at all and am a fool.
Soon as a mater a fact. For many what I know about these next 10 years are not survivable for most of you. Survival isn't always or doesn't always mean death. Sometimes it is just a forced change that destroys you so completely it is worse than death.
Good luck.
The Hopi, the westernmost branch of the Pueblo Indians, are believed to be descendants of an ancient people who built a sophisticated civilization in the desert areas of the American Southwest. Their ancestors are referred to as the Anasazi by outsiders, although the Hopi call them Hisat-Sinom or Hisat-Senom. This group survived, thrived, and built impressive urban centers and settlements in the middle of a desert, over an extended period, through a number of climatic changes and crises. These people have generally practiced a quiet, settled agricultural lifestyle over a two-thousand year period, with a long history of farming and waging peace against neighbors and invaders, alike. The great, Golden Age of the Anasazi ended gradually in droughts, waves of disease, alien invasions, or other crises, leading to a great discontinuity and a loss of name and traditions for most of the peoples of the group.
For the first festival hosted by the National Museum of the American Indian, the Hopi people shared artist demonstrations, history presentations, and performances of music and dance. In this segment, Bruce Talawyma gives a talk on the history and culture of the Hopi people and shows a short video on the Hopi way of life. This is the first of two talks on the topic he gave on this day of the festival. This presentation was webcast and recorded in the museum's Rasmuson Theater on November 18, 2018.
"Kill the Indian, Save the Man" Mr. Beat looks at the Assimilation Period of Native American history. Yeah, it's depressing...but you should watch the whole video, anyway. Uh ok, so this is, like, the description of the video so keep reading. This was produced by Matt Beat and filmed by Matt and Shannon Beat. Drone footage by Shannon Beat. Music by Kwon, Jimena Contreras, Zachariah Hickman, and Doug Maxwell and Media Right Productions. Creative Commons credits: Ken Lund, Bjoertvedt, rossograph, and Tony the Marine.