The (Almost) Pahana Connection
In 1990 I first made contact with the Bear River Band in Northern California. They were looking for a new rancheria site and I knew of an old homestead for sale near Bear River that I thought might fill their rancheria needs. But they chose a site closer to town and I didn't get back to them until 1995 when I brought the Headwaters Lottery proposal** to the Bear River Tribal Council. ** See the Headwaters & Heartlands page.
My life started getting directly involved with Native Americans when I became involved with Sharon, a Cherokee-Pomo woman, in 1992. The Tribal Truth Institute proposal*** came about from that friendship. *** See the Tribal Truth Institute proposal page. Around 1992 I was also thinking the time has come to start making and distributing Rainbow Bibles.**** As you will have seen from the Rainbow Bible Story page, Rainbow Bibles are meant to be made of wool felt. Wool felt in colors is very hard to find now since acrylic felt has been introduced and taken over the felt market. Then the Spirit told me that the Hopi, being recognized as the people of peace, should really be the ones spiritually qualified to make Rainbow Bibles, and they should make them out of wool from sheep raised by their neighbors, the Navaho. But my life became busy and I put aside any plans for acting on this vision. **** See the Rainbow Bible Story page.
In 1993 I went to Joseph, Oregon with my sister where she was checking out the town's art community. I was puzzled by the fact that there didn't seem to be any Indians around the town even though the whole town has these Indian motifs and artifacts and galleries featuring Indian art. The town is named after Chief Joseph of the Nez Pierce. While babysitting my sister's boy by letting him play in the rocks on the edge of Wallawa Lake right at the spot where Chief Joseph had his village camp, I wondered up to the cemetery on the rise overlooking the lake. I found not Chief Joseph's but his father's marker there. His father was also named Chief Joseph. The Chief Joseph known to history died in exile in Washington I believe and the Nez Pierce were driven out of their homeland. At Chief Joseph's father's grave tombstone I said a prayer asking the Great Spirit of the Holy One to return the Nez Pierce to their homeland. In 1998, seven years later, I read an article in the Sunday paper which told about local ranchers and landowners around the town of Joseph, Oregon donating land to the Nez Pierce tribe so that they could begin to return to their old homeland. Now there has been established the Wallowa Nez Perce Interpretive Center which is coordinating plans to regain a 160 acre site for the Wallowa Band of the Nez Perce.
2004 Update: Again this gravesite has reappeared in my life as a few weeks ago I noticed another article about two Nez Perce men who are organizing a Nez Perce opposition to a proposed expensive housing development to be built adjoining this graveyard that holds elder Chief Joseph's remains. The whole area is considered sacred by the Nez Perce. In true synchronicity fashion, noticing that the last name of one of the Nez Perce fellows involved with protecting the cemetery site was the same as my Lakota friend who is going to supply the four buffalo horns for the Peace Altar project in Jerusalem, I contacted him. I offered my services of the ancestral lands, sacred sites Native American run lottery plan that I hope to begin working on again with the Bear River tribe.
In 1995, the Tribal Council of the Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria accepted the Headwaters lottery proposal as a means of regaining thousands of acres of ancestral land. The Council appointed me to work with Wayne Moon, Tribal Council Vice-Chairman in organizing the tribe's new Headwaters lottery project. About a year later Don Brenard returned to the rancheria after a stay in Montana and I met him for the first time. We soon discovered that we are spiritual brothers. We had much in common, both being visionary types with similar social change and spiritual visions even though we come different cultural heritages. We have remained close friends.
Don Brenard and me
(2006)
In 1996, David, the young son of
one of my best friends, knowing of my interest in "Indian stuff" gave me a stone
to identify that is very likely an old Indian artifact. David found the stone at the edge
of the sea, very close to the spot on the beach where the third Paxcalibur baptism was
done (see Step Three in the Story of Paxcalibur chapter). The stone has a design carved
deep into it. I took the rock to a local Indian artifacts expert, a teacher of archeology
at Humboldt State University. He can't identify the design which is shown here from a
rubbing taken off the stone. His best guess is that it represents a "zoomorph",
a funny shaped ritual club with two appendages making the thing look a little like an
animal with a long neck and tail.
I don't know what this stone and
its mysterious symbol mean as far as the Hopi prophesy tablets. It doesn't seem to fit the
missing Fire Clan tablet but is mysterious in its own right. Four pieces that do not meet
at a central point. My spiritual guidance is telling me that the missing corner piece of
the Fire Clan tablet is now a symbol for Four Corners and the mess there with the Navajos,
Hopi, and the government. Perhaps whoever is destined to be the real Pahana will be the
one to straighten out that mess and make Four Corners whole and holy again for both tribes
and all peoples. I think that's why Changing Woman is mixed in with Pahana.
Some time ago I had the privilege
of meeting Scott Walking Buffalo who is a Seed Carrier, traveling across the country
exchanging pure seeds to keep needed plant species from dying out. As he travels about he
also gives the Hopi prophesies information out. Under a blood red full moon I heard for
the first time about this missing White Brother going to a wall in the East somewhere as I
understand it before returning to Hopi land with the missing tablets. Well, coincidences
again for me or signs? I have been planning my own trip to the Holy Land to perform my
biomystic rituals* and I again "knew" just what wall is meant. It's the Wailing
Wall, part of the old section of Jerusalem and a wall I must pass in performance of my own
spiritual ritual.** Then it hit me. Yet another "solution" to where
the missing stone tablet piece is located! And this one more fantastic than the two
before.
Why of course there would be stone
tablets, a piece missing from vanishing White Brother. Missing sacred tablets reappear
with symbols carrying the key instructions the Great Spirit gave the Old World people that
has in turn given them immense power throughout the world. Only these two missing stone
tablets aren't known to bear Hopi symbols but Hebrew writing, the Ten Commandments.
Perhaps the missing Hopi tablet corner piece Pahana took with him is gone from the form it
was originally made in. Maybe the journey across the Atlantic Sea, the journey through
time, the arrival in the Old World transformed the Great Spirit's Hopi symbol code into
one that Whites could understand, one tailored made for the Old World's people, one that
would give them power to dominate and expand their territory and propel them across the
sea to the New World where the two tablet systems and their peoples would meet. In time
the people of the two worlds would blend together and harmonize to create instructions for
the 5th World. I wrote at the time this vision occurred that on my way back from my
pilgrimage to the Holy Land and Jerusalem, I will stop by to see the Hopi elders and give
them this vision and maybe a Ten Commandment souvenir tablets from Jerusalem.
* This didn't happen as I flew directly back. Actually I did look in my brief day
in Jerusalem but I couldn't find any souvenir Ten Commandment Tablets replicas for sale.
It may be considered sacrilegious to sell such religious items although the Holy City
bustles like a religious Disneyland without theme-park rides but with hawkers of all
manner of over-priced tourist trade souvenirs and cheap dime-store goo-gahs. See the Story of Paxcalibur chapter.
** I did perform the ritual given in vision that I was to do at the
Wailing Wall when I finally completed my vision-quest pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 2003.
See above link. 2008 update: Now there's a new Wall God is directing me to with
Paxcalibur, the apartheid Wall Israelis are building to wall out Palestinians and to wall
themselves into Fortress Israel. God wants the Wall destroyed. See Climax
Christianity.
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