WITHOUT KINDNESS, GENEROSITY AND RESPECT FOR ALL LIFE MANKIND WILL CONTINUE TO DETERIORATE AND BE BLINDED TO THE ALL THE GIFTS AND GOODNESS OF LIFE IN DIVINE CREATION. IN THE MIDDLE OF MODERN AMERICA THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE OF THE CONTINENT HAVE BEEN SHOVED ASIDE TO RESERVATIONS AND FORGOTTEN. IT IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE WHEN BILLIONS ARE BEING SPENT DAILY TO FUND THE PENTAGON, SPACE EXPLORATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE THAT NOT EVEN SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS RUNNING WATER IS AVAILABLE TO THE REMAINING PEOPLE OF THE WORST GENOCIDE IN HISTORY,. HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF NATIVE INDIGENOUS TO TURTLE ISLAND, RENAMED AMERICA JUST A FEW HUNDRED YEARS AGO WERE ALL BUT WIPED OUT BY SAVAGE, GREEDY SETTLERS FROM EUROPE WHO MURDERED ALL THE UNARMED AND PEACE LOVING ORIGINAL PEOPLE OF AMERICA USING RIFLES AND VIRUSES FOREIGN TO THEM. UNTIL WE RECONCILE WITH THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE OF TURTLE ISLAND THERE WILL REMAIN A WOUND SO GREAT IN THE HEART IF AMERICA THAT IT WILL BECOME A CURSE TO THE BALANCE OF ALL LIFE.
The most beautiful and closest people to Mother Earth were slaughtered ruthlessly by settlers and survivors left behind on Reserves of Land called Reservations without running water, electricity, homes nor food sources to survive. The lands where Millions of Original Natives once roamed and lived freely amongst each other, respecting Earth, one another and all life on Turtle Island as nomads, with none trying to claim ownership of any Earth anywhere, were confined to Reservations without water nor resources by the white immigrants who slaughtered their families, stole their lands and children and destroyed their heritage and culture. They were not allowed to speak their language nor practice their tradition of prayer and worship to Mother Earth and Father Sky and the Great Spirit until a few decades ago because the White People were threatened by the strength their ceremonies and connection to nature gave them. The new White people were so busy in the race to stake claim to the lands of Turtle Island that the survivors with their beautiful open hearts and simple lifestyles were murdered, men, women and children in their sleep and encampments with any survivors left behind imprisoned on Reservations which were later exploited for resources like uranium and coal and left toxic to natives living there. Now they struggle in poverty without their basic needs met on lands with aquifers polluted by Coal and Uranium Mining without even running water nor power nor decent traditional homes. It was the culture of the kind hearts of Native people to give away things they had and live without demands nor attachment to belongings. Their innocent generosity sadly became their worst demise as settlers took everything from them even their children and left them isolated on nothing but barren, rugged land.
Can you imagine how life would change on Earth if the Original Native Americans beautiful traditions were adopted by all people. The kind Navajo Water Lady is an living example of the big hearts of natives fulfilling the Tradition of their Culture by helping her people in the best way she knows how.
Until human beings find their Humanity and begin to respect and care for all life and each other with kindness and have their basic needs met there will be no peace for the people.
- Anna Mary Yeager Smith, Great Grand daughter of Cherokee Nation Chief
