NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN(HOPI) PROPHECIES
Talk Given by Lee Brown, 1986
Continental Indigenous Council, Tanana Valley Fairgrounds,
Fairbanks, Alaska
There was the cycle of the mineral, the rock. There was the cycle of theplant. And now we re in the cycle of the animal coming to the end of thatand beginning the cycle of the human being. When we get into the cycle ofthe human being, the highest and greatest powers that we have will bereleased to us. They will be released from that light or soul that we carryto the mind. But right now we're coming to the end of the animal cycle andwe have investigated ourselves and learned what it is to be like an animalon this earth.At the beginning of this cycle of time, long ago, the Great Spirit came downand He made an appearance and He gathered the peoples of this earth togetherthey say on an island which is now beneath the water and He said to thehuman beings, "I'm going to send you to four directions and over time I'mgoing to change you to four colors, but I'm going to give you some teachingsand you will call these the Original Teachings and when you come backtogether with each other you will share these so that you can live and havepeace on earth, and a great civilization will come about." And he said"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 those upon the ground. Ifany of the brothers and sisters of the four directions and the four colorscast their tablets on the ground, not only, will human beings have a hardtime, but almost the earth itself will die."And so he gave each of us a responsibility and we call that theGuardianship. To the Indian people, the red people, he gave the Guardianshipof the earth. We were to learn during this cycle of time the teachings ofthe earth, the plants that grow from the earth, the foods that you can eat,and the herbs that are healing so that when we came back together with theother brothers and sisters 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 thewind. They were to learn about the sky and breathing and how to take thatwithin ourselves for spiritual advancement. They were to share that with isat 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 theelements, being the most humble and the most powerful. When I went to theUniversity of Washington and I learned that it was a black man thatdiscovered blood plasma, it didn't surprise me because blood is water andthe elders already told me the black people would bring the teachings of thewater.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 thefire. They say a light bulb is the white man's fire. If you look at thecenter of a car you will find a spark. If you look at the center of theairplane and the train you will find the fire. The fire consumes, and alsomoves. This is why it was the white brothers and sisters who began to moveupon 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 racestwo stone tablets. Ours are kept at the Hopi Reservation in Arizona at FourCorners Area on 3rd Mason.I talked to people from the black race and their stone tablets are at thefoot of Mount Kenya. They are kept by the Kukuyu Tribe. I once had the honorof presenting a sacred pipe at the Kukuyu Tribe carved from the red pipestone of Mount Kenya. I was at an Indian spiritual gathering about 15 yearsago. A medicine man from South Dakota put a beaded medicine wheel in themiddle of the gathering. It had the four colors from the four directions; Heasked the people, "Where is this from?" They said, "Probably Montana, orSouth Dakota, maybe Seskatchewan." He said, "This is from Kenya." It wasbeaded just like ours, with the same colorThe stone tablets of the yellow race of people are kept by the Tibetans, inTibet. If you went straight through the Hopi Reservation to the other sideof the world, you would come out in Tibet. The Tibetan word for "sun" is theHopi 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. InSwitzerland, they still have a day when each family brings out its mask.They still know the colors of the families, they still know theymbols, someof them. I went to school with some people from Switzerland at theUniversity of Washington and they shared this with me.Each of these four peoples happen to be people that live in the mountains. In 1976 America had its bicentennial celebrating 200 years of freedom. Someof the Native people thought this was significant and they carried a sacredpipe bundle from the West Coast to the East Coast of this land. They saidthat the roads of this land should either go North-South or East-West. Ifthey went North-South we would come together as brothers and sisters, but ifthey went East-West there would be destruction and almost the earth itselfwould have a hard time. So you all know the roads went East-West. They saidthen things would be lost from the East to the West and from the South tothe North and that they would come back again from the West to the East andfrom the North to the South. So nine years ago in 1976 from the West to EastCoast of this land, from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. people carried asacred pipe bundle by hand, on foot. My aunt had dreamt 15 years ago thatpeople that didn't Like them would throw rocks and bottles at that pipebundle as they carried it across the land. And sure enough that came about.But, as was in my aunt's dream, the rocks only came so close and then theydropped, and nothing touched it. When they reached the top of the RockyMountains, they hit a hard storm. An elderly man with long white hair said,"I will carry it now." They had a van that went alongside the people whowere walking. He got out of the van and carried the sacred pipe bundle clearthrough that storm. He was so cold when he got back in the van that someonetouched his hair and it fell. His hair was frozen. You have to be prettycold for your hair to freeze but that old man carried it through that stormbecause they said if they carried this bundle across the earth, the powerswould begin to come back. They said a spiritual fire would be lit in theNorth and would come down the Northwest Coast of this land. When it gets tothe Puget Sound, it would go inland. I think this, nine years later, is thegathering in the North, myself. That's why I came here. This is it. We havethe capacity to start the-spiritual fire now, here. The old people long agosaw it and foretold it and I'm going to come to that.So we went through this cycle of time and each of the four races went totheir directions and they learned their teachings. It was on Newsweek nottoo long ago that eight out of ten foods that people eat on the earth aredeveloped here in the western hemisphere because that was our Guardianship,to learn the teachings of the earth, and the things that grow from the erth.We were given a sacred handshake to show when we came back together asbrothers and sisters that we still remembered the teachings. It wasindicated on the stone tablets that the Hopis had that the first brothersand sisters that would come back to them would come as turtles across theland. They would be human beings, but they would come as turtles. So whenthe time came close the Hopis were at a special village to welcome theturtles that would come across the land and they got up in the morning andlooked out at the sunrise. They looked out across the desert and they sawthe Spanish Conquistadores coming, covered in armour, like turtles acrossthe land. So this was them. So they went out to the Spanish man and theyextended their hand hoping for the handshake but into the hand the Spanishman dropped a trinket. And so word spread throughout North America thatthere was going to be a hard time, that maybe some of the brothers andsisters had forgotten the sacredness of all things and all the human beingswere going to suffer for this on the earth. So tribes began to send peopleto the mounds to have missions 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 moundsare still there. If you ever go out to Ohio or the Mississippi Valley,they're tourist attractions now. There was 100,000 cities of Native peopleand they were wondering how they could survive. They began to try to learnto live off the land because they knew a hard time was going to come. Theybegan to send people to have visions to see how we could survive this time.People came on the east coast and they went across this land to the east andthey were told in the prophecies that we should try to remind all the peoplethat 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, when theroads went clear from east to west, and when the other races and colors ofthe Earth had walked clear across this land, if by that time we had not cometogether as a human family, the Great Spirit would grab the earth with hishand and shake it. And so if you read the treaty negotiations from RedJacket of the Six Nations on the east coast of this land clear to ChiefJoseph and Chief Seattle on the west coast of this land, they all said thesame thing. Chief Joseph said, "I accord you the right, and I hope youaccord me the right, to live in this land." Always we were trying to livetogether. But instead of living together, you all know there was separation,there was segregation. They separated the races: they separated the Indians,and they separated the blacks. In the state of Washington it was against thelaw for an Asian to marry a white person up until not too long ago. Therewas separation.So when they got to the west coast of this land the elders that were madeaware of these prophecies said they would then begin to build a blackribbon. And on this black ribbon there would move a bug. And when you beginto see this bug moving on the land, that was the sign for the First Shakingof the Earth. The First Shaking of the Earth would be so violent that thisbug would be shaken off the earth into the air and it would begin to moveand fly in the air. And by the end of this shaking this bug will be in theair around the world. Behind it would be a trail of dirt and eventually thewhole 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 I it's easy to see now. In 1908 theModel-T Ford was mass produced for the first time. So the elders knew theFirst Shaking of the Earth was about to come about that's the First WorldWar. In the First World War the airplane came into wide usage for the firsttime. That was that bug moving into the sky. And so they knew something veryimportant would happen. There would be an attempt to make peace on earth onthe west coast of this land and so the elders began to watch for this. Theybegan to hear that there was going to be a League of Nations in SanFrancisco so the elders gathered in Arizona around 1920 or so and they wrotea letter to Woodrow Wilson. They asked if the Indian people could beincluded in the League of Nations. At that time the United States SupremeCourt 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 concernbecause people didn't want the reservations to become more and moreseparate. They didn't want them to be considered nations. So they did notwrite back and the Native people were left out of the League of Nations, sothat circle was incomplete. In the League of Nations circle there was asouthern door, the yellow people; there was a western door, the blackpeople; there was a northern door, the white people; but the eastern doorwas not attended. The elders knew that peace would not come on the earthuntil the circle of humanity is complete, until all the four colors sat inthe circle and shared their teachings, then peace would come on earth. So they knew things would happen. Things would speed up a little bit. Therewould be a cobweb built around the earth, and people would talk across thiscobweb. 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.It would come with the sun. But the sun itself would rise one day not in theeast but in the west. So the elders said when you see the sun rising in theeast and you see the sign of life reversed and tilted in the east, you knowthat the Great Death is to come upon the earth, and now the Great Spiritwill grab the earth again in His hand and shake it and this shaking will beworse than the first. So the sign of life reversed and tilted, we call thatthe 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 thesetwo flags, 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 ofashes". They said the gourd of ashes will fall from the air. It will makethe people like blades of grass in the prairie fire and things will not growfor many seasons. I saw on television not too long ago that they weretalking about the atomic bomb, the gourd of ashes. They said it was thebest-kept secret in the history of the United States., The elders wanted tospeak about it in 1920. They would have spoken of it and foretold it'scoming if they could have entered into the League of Nations. The elderstried to contact President Roosevelt and ask him not to use the gourd ofashes because it would have a great effect on the earth and eventually causeeven greater destruction and a the Third Shaking of the Earth, the ThirdWorld War. I'll get to that in a few minutes.So they knew after the Second Shaking of the Earth when they saw the gourdof ashes fall from the sky then there would be an attempt to make peace onthe other side of this land. And because the peace attempt on the west coasthad failed, they would build a special house on the east coast of thisTurtle Island, and all the nations and peoples of the earth would come tothis house and it would be called the House of Mica and it would shine likethe mica on the desert shines. So the elders began to see they were buildingthe United Nations made out of glass that reflects like the mica on thedesert so they knew this was the House of mica and all the peoples of theearth should go to it. So they met and talked about this. They said that inthe 1920's they had written and they had not been responded to, so they saidthis time we better go to the front door of the House of Mica because thingsmight get a lot worse. So elders representing a number of tribes I believedrove to New York City. When the United Nations opened they went to thefront door of the house of Mica and they said these words:"We represent the indigenous people of North America and we wish to addressthe nations of the Earth. We're going to give you four days to considerwhether or not we will be allowed to speak."They retreated to one of the Six Nations Reserves in New York State. The SixNations Reserves are keepers of the Great Law of Peace of the prophet thatappeared here in North America, Dagonnorida. And this Law of Peace is stillrecited, it takes four days between sunrise and noon. Each year an Indian,by memory, must recite it about this time of year. Four days later they cameback and I believe the nations of the earth heard that the Indians had cometo the door. And they voted to let the Indians in. They wanted to hear whatthey had to say. But the United States is one of five nations of the UnitedNations with a veto power and still they were concerned because this timethe Native sovereignty was even stronger. And I believe they vetoed theentrance of the Native people.So then they knew other things would happen on the Earth, and the UnitedNations would not bring peace on earth but there would be continuing anddeepening confusion. And that the little wars would get worse. So theyretreated to the Six Nations Reserve and they talked about this and theysaid the time is really getting close now 1949. They said, "We're going todivide the United States into four sections and each year we're going tohave a gathering. We're going to call these the 'White of PeaceGatherings'." They began to have these around 1950. And they authorizedcertain men to speak in English for the first time about these prophecies.One that I used to listen to many times, over and over, was Thomas Benyaka.He is a Hopi man. I believe he is still living. He was authorized to speakin English about what was on the stone tablets and he has dedicated hislifetime to doing this. And they began to tell us at these gatherings, theysaid "In your lifetime you're going to see things happen" It was strangewhen they said it in the 1950's and 1960's but now it seems very clear. Butthen it was unusual. They said, "You're going to see a time in your lifewhen men are going to become women. The Great Spirit is going to make a manon the earth. He made him a man but this man is going to say, "I know morethan the Great Spirit. I'm going to change myself to be a woman:" And theywill even nurse children. The Great Spirit is going to make the woman on theearth. She's going to say, "I know more than the Great Spirit. I want to bea man. And she will be physically a man." This sounded strange. And maybe ina vision they saw Boy-George.They said "You're going to see a time in your lifetime when the human beingsare going to find the blueprint that makes us." They call that now, DNA,deoxyribonucleic acid. They said, "They re going to cut this blueprint."They call that now, genetic splicing. And they said, "They're going to makenew animals upon the earth, and they're going to think these are going tohelp us. And it's going to seem like they do help us. But maybe thegrandchildren and greatgrandchildren are going to suffer." I don't know ifyou heard on the news last night in the United States now they havegenetically spliced a new germ, never before released in the environment.They want to release this germ into the cottonfields of the south becausethey say it will rejuvenate and strengthen the cotton. They had scientistson the CBS Evening News the other night talking about it. One scientist saidwhat the elders said in the 1950's, that this will not harm us. We've put itin a lot of tests. And the other scientist said what the elders also said,no, this has never before been in the environment. We have no idea what itwill do. The elders spoke of it long ago. They said it would see harmless,but it may be able to hurt the greatgrandchildren. The elders said long ago,"They will release these things, they will use them." This is going to bereleased not too long from now. They are making new animals. The elderstalked about this. They said, "You will see new animals, and even the oldanimals will come back, animals that people thought had disappeared. Theywill find them here and there. They'll begin to reappear."They said (and I know many of you are from tribes that also have thisprophecy, "You're going to see a time when the eagle will fly its highest inthe night and it will land upon the moon." Some tribes say the eagle willcircle the moon. Some tribes say the eagle will fly it's highest in thenight. "And at that time," they say, "Many of the Native people will besleeping," which symbolically means they have lost their teachings. Thereare some tribes that say it will be as if they are frozen: they've beenthrough the long winter. But they say, "When the eagle flies it's highest inthe night, that will be the first light of a new day. That will be the firstthawing of spring." Of course, at the first light of a new day, if you'vestayed up all night, you notice it's really dark. And the first light, youwant to see it, but you can't. It sneaks up on you. You want to see itchange but it's dark and then pretty soon it's getting light before you knowit. We're at that time now. The Eagle has landed on the moon, 1969. Whenthat spaceship landed they sent back the message, "The Eagle has landed."Traditionally, Native people from clear up in the Inuit region, they haveshared with us this prophecy, clear down to the Quechuas in South America.They shared with us that they have this prophecy. When they heard thosefirst words, "The Eagle has landed," they knew that was the start of a newtime and a new power for Native people. There was absolutely nothing strongbefore us now. We may do anything we wish. In 1776 when the United StatesGovernment printed the dollar, in one claw [of the eagle], if you've evernoticed, there is an olive branch in this claw. They said that representedpeace. The Indian elders shared with me in South Dakota that to them thatrepresents the enslavement of black people. In the prophecies of the SixNations people they say there will be two great uprisings by black people tofree themselves. We've seen one about 1964. There will be a second, moreviolent one to come. I'll get back to what that means in a minute. In theother claw is 13 arrows. The founding fathers of the United States said thatrepresents the 13 States. But the elders say that represents the enslavementof the Native people. When the Eagle landed on the moon, they decided toprint a special silver dollar to commemorate that. I don't know how many ofyou noticed it. The original design showed the spaceship landing on the moonbut at the last minute it was changed to an actual eagle. And in the eagle'sclaws is the olive branch, but the arrows are gone. The elders said, "That'sour prophecy we have been released." There was one more uprising coming forthe black race of people and then they will be released and this is alsogoing to have an effect on Native people, a good effect. There's a whole newset of prophecies from the Iriquois people about that and I won't have timeto go into tht this morning.But we're in that time now. We're between the first light of a new day andthe sunrise. The sunrise is about to come and when it comes up everyone isgoing to see it. But you know how it is in the village there's a few peoplethat get up early, and there are some that sleep until noon. I'm probablyone of those that sleeps until noon.They said when that Eagle lands on the moon, the powers will begin to comeback to us. As an alcoholic person, I feel that one of our greatest diseasesis alcoholism. Within seven days of the time of the Eagle landing on themoon, the first Native alcoholism program was started on an Apachereservation in Arizona. Within seven days of the time the Eagle landed onthe moon, the Freedom of Indian Religion Act was introduced into the UnitedStates Congress. Eventually it was passed in November of 1978, signed byPresident Carter, making the song that Kevin [Kevin Locke, a famous IndianBaha'i who spends his time travelling around the world sharing the NorthAmerican Indian culture through dance and music] sang legal to sing in everystate of the United States. It was punishable at one time to go to jail for10 years and/or a $10,000 fine for singing a song or doing a suat. This waschanged in 1978 the legislation was introduced in 1969, less than seven daysafter the Eagle landed on the moon. These are the physical manifestations ofthe spiritual prophecies that we have.So he said at this time you're going to see that things will speed up, thatpeople on the earth will move faster and faster. Grandchildren will not havetime for grandparents. Parents will not have time for children. It will seemlike time is going faster and faster. The elders advised us that as thingsspeed up, you yourself should slow down. The faster things go, the sloweryou go. Because there's going to come a time when the earth is going to beshaken a third time. The Great Spirit has been shaking the earth two times:the First and Second World Wars to remind us that we are a human family, toremind us that we should have greeted each other as brothers and sisters. Wehad a chance after each shaking to come together in a circle that would havebrought peace on earth, but we missed that.Tonight they were talking on the news about the sign for the Third Shakingof the Earth. I heard it while sitting in the airport after I missed myplane. They said they're going to build what the elders called the "house inthe sky". In the 1950's they talked about this: they will build a house andthrow it in the sky. When you see people living in the sky on a permanentbasis, you will know the Great Spirit is about to grab the earth, this timenot with one hand, but with both hands. Many of you of Native background mayhave heard "the spirits will warn you twice, but the third time you standalone." We've had two warnings, the first two World Wars, but now we standalone in the third one. As it says in the Baha'i Writings, there will beno-one protected. When this house is in the sky, the Great Spirit is goingto shake the Earth a third time and whoever dropped that gourd of ashes,upon them it is going to drop.They say at that time there will be villages in this land so great that whenyou stand in the villages you will not be able to see out, and in theprophecies these are called "villages of stone", or "prairies of stone". Andthey said the stone will grow up from the ground and you will not be able tosee beyond the village. At the center of each and every one of thesevillages will be Native people, and they will walk as "hollow" shells upon a"prairie of stone". They said "hollow shells" which means they will havelost any of their traditional understandings; they will be empty within.They said after the Eagle lands on the moon some of these people will beginto leave these "prairies of stone" and come home and take up some of the oldways and begin to make themselves reborn, because it's a new day. But manywill not. And they said there's going to come a time when in the morning thesun is going to rise and this village of stone will be there, and in theevening there would just be steam coming from the ground. They will be assteam. And in the center of many of those villages of stone when they turnto steam, the Native people will turn to steam also because they never wokeup and left the village. And this used to bother me when I was a young man.I used to ask the elders, "Isn't there anything we can do?" And they said,well, it's just that way that if a person does not have the spiritual eyesto see, it's very hard to show them. Or if they don't have the ears to hear,it's very hard to speak with them. We wish that we could go get them all butwe can't. It's just that some are not going to wake up. But some will wakeup .And so they say there's going to be the Third Shaking of the Earth. It's notgoing to be a good thing to see but we will survive it. We will survive it.And when we survive it, then there's going to be another attempt to make acircle of the human beings on the earth. And this time the Native peoplewill not have to petition to join but will be invited to enter the circlebecause they say the attitude towards us will have changed by then, andpeople will let us into the circle and all the four colors of the fourdirections will share their wisdom, and there will be a peace on earth. Thisis coming close. A lot of times when I share this message of the prophecies,people say, "Can't we change it? Could we stop it?" The answer is yes. Theprophecies are always "either/or". We could have come together way backthere in 1565, and we could have had a great civilization, but we didn't.Always along the path of these prophecies, we could have come together. Westill could. If we could stop the racial and religious disharmony, we wouldnot have to go through this third shaking. The elders say the chance of thatis pretty slim. It seems to me like it's pretty slim, too. But they say whatwe can do is we can "cushion" it. The word we use is "cushion". We cancushion it so it won't be quite as bad. How do we do this? We do this bysharing the teaching that will reunite us. The Hopis in their prophecies saythere will be a religion that comes here. Maybe it will be true and bringunity, or maybe it will not be true and not bring unity. If it does notbring unity, a second religion will come, and the people of this religionare known in the Hopi language as the Bahani, the people of Baha. Ni means"people of". So I was looking for the people of Baha. I wondered who thepeople of Baha were. I was a Baha'i for quite a while before somebody toldme that baha'i means "people of Bah". I thought, "0 my God!" Here I waslooking for it all these years and I never even noticed it! And I found it!I was stubborn and didn't want to become a "Baha'i but my grandfather whopassed away, you know he must have found out about it in the next realmbecause he came back to me four times to tell me, "Hey, look at that again,look at that again. Look one more time." Bah, it means "light or glory".Baha'i means "follower of the light", or the "people of Bah". We've beenwaiting for these people for a long time. They say they will bring aTeaching that will unite the earth. So we need to share this Teaching. Theysay the fire will come from the North. So here we are, in a circle, in theNorth, talking about the Bahnis, the "people of Bah", and the teachings ofBaha'u'llah.When I heard about these [prophecies], none of them made any sense. Now mostof it has come to pass. Last I heard on the news, they said the "house inthe sky" will be put up in 1996. It was going to be put up sooner, but it'sbeen postponed for four years. Maybe it will be postponed again. But in nottoo long it's going to go up. The earth as we know it is going to change.Each of us carry, I believe, a sacred drop of light. In the Indianteachings, they say it takes nine ancestors to agree before conception canoccur. Nine ancestors of the husband and the wife have to come together inthe spiritual realm and say; "We will bring life," before a woman can becomepregnant. At that time the soul is born.I delivered my first daughter and a man from the Blood Reserve who went toSouth Dakota and was the first Bloodin 82 years he came to my house bycoincidence four days before my wife went into labor. Each night we had aceremony, and on the morning after the fourth ceremony my wife went intolabor at sunrise. And that night, at sunset, my daughter was born. And Itook her out, and I cut the cord, and I noticed at the sundance that whatpeople do in South Dakota, they pass the pipe three times, and they don'ttake it until the fourth time. And even in Washington I've heard the comingof a child is like the coming of a new pipe. When I was delivering mydaughter I happened to notice that the skull came out three times, and onthe fourth time, her head came out like the coming of a pipe. First I puther on the mother instantly and after a few minutes I cleaned her up and Iwashed her up. There was a circle of people just about like this around mywife and there were people of different backgrounds and we looked up andthrough the ceiling came a small drop of blue light. When it got close tothe child you could not see it. That was her soul, she will carry that lightthroughout earth. In that is her special uniqueness as a being, a spiritualpower. In that are gifts.After we go through and then we carry it back here and it radiates to shemind but for some reason in this cycle we've been in the lower natures, theanimal thought. But now we're going into the human world. The mind is goingto be opened up to the radiance of our own soul and the cycle of the humanbeings is going to come back, and something so good is going to happen onthe earth that it cannot even be described. The elders say it in differentways. They say, there will be grass at that time when they make that circleand bring the peace on earth. There will be blades of grass that have notquite come through the earth. Even they will try to push themselves up to bepart of that day when the sun rises. The elders explain it like this: outhere, outside this building, long before there was a fair ground here therewere Native people. They say many of these Native people in different tribeswere aware of these things, and they told the children. Their children grewup.You know, one time the scientist came to the Hopis and they said, "We wantto take a piece of the stone tablets." They said "We want to take the stonetablets to a scientific laboratory to determine how old they are." The Hopissaid, "We know how old they are". Well, the scientists said, "We want toconfirm it." Well, the Hopis let them take a little piece, and they did thatby the carbon dating method. They found these tablets were at least 10,000years old, maybe 50,000. So when I say, "Thousands of years ago, there wereNative people that spoke of these things," that's exactly what I mean. Theytold their children and thousands of years ago, their children grew up andtold their children, and then their children grew up and told theirchildren. And they spoke about the people that will live in this time.And now it is us. We are the ones they spoke of long ago. They say to bealive, to come into creation and to live upon the earth at this time is agreat honor. In the cycle of time, from the beginning to the end, this timewe are in now will change the purification of all things. They say this isthe hardest time to live, but it is also the greatest honor to be alive tolive and see this.In the state of Washington in 1855 they signed treaties and made 22 Indianreservations. They wanted to do it before there were problems. They thoughtthey were advanced at the time, they had learned from what had happenedelsewhere. They made 22 Indian reservations and the elders spoke in 1855 andthey said, "We're going to become weaker, and you are going to becomestronger, and if you wish to break these treacies, you may do so." Theysaid, "But there's going to come a time when the earth itself will rise upand purify itself and this will be announced. It will be announced by thespeaking of more than 16 Great Ones on the West Coast of this land. And whenthe 16 Great Ones speak, the purification will have begun. There was a new[?] five years ago when Mt. Saint Helens, one of the 16 great volcanoes onthe West Coast of this land, "spoke". The Seattle Times did a specialinterest story. They went over to Watson Totus and Woodrow Bill. It wasWoodrow Bill's son that made this hoop that I brought here today, my goodbrother Randolf Bill. They asked Watson Totus and Woodrow Bill as spiritualpeople of the Yakuma nation, "What does this mean?" What they said was soprofound that they didn't put it on page 16, they put it on the front pageof the Seattle Times. They said, "This means that the races and nations ofthe earth should slow down and come together and talk to each other." That'sexactly what it meant. And we had four years and four days to do that.Four years and four days later, Mt. Saint Helens erupted the second time.That was last spring, just about this time. That was our grace period. Wecould have still done something really good. But now things are going tospeed up. Now things are going to really happen fast. Time is going to go sofast. The more we share the Message, the more we will cushion the ThirdShaking of the Earth, and the easier it will be on ourselves and others.A good friend of mine in Montana whose grandmother just passed away lastyear, the last thing she said to him was "Make a place for yourself in themountains because the air will become so hot down here," where they were aton a reservation, that it would be hard to breath. And it won't be long,That's the last thing she told her grandson when she was passing. Go on themountains and make a place for yourself. Put some things there that you cansurvive with. People are going to run to the mountains to survive and theNative people must be ready for this.