¡Colores!; 220; Hopi Prophecy

Tonight, Hopi prophecy, the belief, handed down from generation to generation, that human kind determines its own destiny, and we are orchestrating our demise. When you kill Mustap over the line, you went like this, meaning this whole world belongs to the Creator, not to the newcomer. That's next. You

You From the beginning, the story has been told by the elders to the young, the story of the coming of the first people to this earth, the meeting with Masao, the creator. These are his words.

Martin Gosh was Siyoma was born in Hote Villa, nephew of Yuki Uma, a religious leader who led a small band of hopies who were evicted from a Rabi, because they wished to follow the traditional way of life. They founded Hote Villa in 1906. In their new home, the religious exiles have kept the breath and the life of the Hopi prophecy. My father was born in Hote Villa. My father was born in Hote Villa. My father was born in Hote Villa.

And then he gave us permission to live here with him and give us this knowledge to take care of this world for him. So this really belongs to the great spirit, Masao. This is the great spirit holding the world right here. This is the line that he gave them the path through here. This is a good life all the way to here. If you follow my footsteps, you will live a long life. Before the white man came, they already knew that someday somebody would come around a white man, take over the land and claim it. White man split them here. This is the road of the white man through here, all the way to here.

The elders said, this is a rocky road here. They don't know where this leads to. They said, this only leads to the destruction of this world, then there are some people are still following the first step of the great spirit through here. Tom Tarbit of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a longtime student of the Hopi. He is director of the Planting Stick Project and acts as liaison between two very different cultures. At first, they were united all across the entire array of villages in one web, just because they had all been following the same cosmic song that put them in their places. So the United States couldn't break that unity at first, but eventually they started breaking down until a wrybie itself split.

Roy Stevens, who is from Indonesia, describes himself as a biocasmologist. He is part of the society of Hopi and planetary friends. Their mission is to help the world understand the wisdom of the Hopi. The Hopi, of course, they were also forewarned about the intrusions by modern civilization, the modern man. And so they, when it came, right away the song, you know, what the dangers come from came from. There was education. Because they want us to live like a white people. This is what broke everything, the religious, what we believed in, and everything. They built a boarding school up there and came to Canada, 1887.

Around the turn of the century, a simulation of Native peoples into the mainstream of American society was the official policy of the United States government. The two leaders over here in all the wrybie, they fell for it. They got weak and say it was okay for the kids to go to school, but you kill them and some of other religious leaders were against it. And the prophets, who realized that the new system they were being offered, was not in accord with what Masao had taught them about survival, was in fact leading to doom, were brutally evicted by the faction that naively took the modern world to be a safe bet. One morning, they just lost their time to eat. And they arrived, those people from kings, and some from the pelaka, and from the old wrybie. Generally speaking, it's the law that everyone, every American child, goes to school.

And in certain respects, in certain parts of our history, this was a valuable thing to prevent child abuse. And they took all the people out from their houses. They dragged them. They took all the men. They turned their shirt off, pulled their shirt off, turned them up. So they knew all the winter beginning that education was not such a good thing. Because the whole period, their education was definitely superior. But the fact that they didn't have hospitals at the time, because people were really healthy, they were strong. People were men used to run 40 miles in one day straight to the fields and back. They were champions. They didn't have jails, they didn't have prisons, they didn't need to rely on all kinds of administrative buildings and surfaces and so on. They were self-reliant. That's what the power is. They're still not only the power of the whole people. That should be also the power of every individual.

Third and around, pushed them around, pulling their hair, things like that. It means their ladies. Some of them took out their weapons and other things. And that's when they start to fight back. And one of them from Tupac. I don't know his English name, but his name is Baye Stu. He came around and he swiped horse. And he got mad. He said, what are your people doing? Why are you fighting for? What are you fighting for? They didn't do anything. Just because they don't want to live like white people. I want to be stopped. So he went around and with all those people with his, how do you call that whip? So that's how he cleared this off.

Okay. All right, come on, you go. You better go. Come on, take a step. That's what they were saying to my grandpa. Okay. The leaders from Ola Ribe is true, a line that that land belongs to Ola Ribe. And then whoever wants to follow, you kill men and the leaders. They step over the line. When you kill, you must step over the line. Like this, meaning this whole world belongs to the Creator, not to the newcomer. Then they started from there. And moved over to Ola about four miles, more or less northeast. And in effect, took the Ola Ribe spiritual union into exile.

The ragged band of exiles reached the other side of Third Mesa, where Hoteville now stands. They had not been permitted to take their belongings with them. So he stood there, and he went around like this. Like the circle around. And he went inside of that. And he said, this is where I'm going to stay. This is where I'm going to stay with my daughter, my only daughter. So that's where they settle. They purr off their little plate to get around there, where they stay for a while. And they build a fire, and they fed around each plate to start that. That's where they get all the men together, and then they march them up to Kim's cannon. It's about 35 miles from here, where the agency is.

Then they put them in prison. They asked them to sign some kind of paper, but they refused to sign it. And they told them if they signed a paper, they would give them food, but they still refused to sign a paper. And then after that, they took them to the blacksmith, and they chained them together in pairs. That's where they forced them to build the road over in Kim's canyon. Then when night, night time comes around, they would change it, you know, hook them up. Six people together. If someone, one person wants to use the art house, all six have to go with them. Then angles start getting swords on them. Blood on them.

Still they're going like that. I shut all my tears for him all that years. Since I was actually. Then a woman, it was really hard for them to survive over there during winter, winter days. And they survived by hunting and picking greens. And of course, again, they went in the day that they wanted to take us over there. Our fathers, they hold us. We're sticking in front of them, and they hold us. They don't want us to go, but they fight with us. They took their hands away from us like this.

Come on, come on. You have to go. They have to go. They drive us over there. I went. My father was holding. My uncle then was right here. They literally kept napped. The children took them, literally torn them apart away from the mother's parents' arms and put them in camps. You know, we call us boarding schools, but actually they were concentration camps for years. If I remember right, that was baby. My sister, my older sister, my older sister, and Helen, Zoma, we were right. And that forced them to adopt, to get tuned in to a different mode, see of life, through education.

They were forced, you know, to eat the white man's way, to dress the white man's way, to think the white man's way. They were severely beaten and punished, you know, when they just mentioned one hope he wore it. They used to have long dresses, long sleeves, like this kind of sweater they used to have. And they have a little red cap on, you know. Not a little red riding hood in my chest as well, say. And they took already my grandfather down there before they did that to us. That's a couple of more periods. I'm too pretty. Yeah. So the foreigner asked me if I could dress up. Yeah, some of them came back and then on top of it, they took them back again and took them to Alcatraz. You know, if you wanted to see the Hopi culture, now you'd have to imagine a pot that was set on the highway and run over by a truck.

These two lines right here, these are two-hearted people that are enjoying the land. They're going to destroy this world. So this one line here, there's a man right here that someday this man will wake up. This is the one line, means he's a one-hearted. Now, the Hopi are one of the last living examples who have a culture that installs wisdom in power. That gives the leadership capability or commission from the people to the person with the greatest wisdom to carry it out. But if this guy wakes up in time, then he would try to bring them back to this creator's way so that the world will be safe. But if we don't do anything, then the world will be destroyed.

The Hopi nation has never been conquered by an army. They have never signed a treaty with any government. Therefore, they consider themselves sovereign. The people who were educated children should create a great gap and they got accustomed to the converts and so-called progression. From there, they created today the so-called Hopi tribal council, which was not only illegally installed, but they also provided the material, the people for the creation of an agency that served the interest of government and big business. So that is the great dilemma right now in Hopi land. In 1936, an election was held. Traditional Hopi's refused to participate in the White People's electoral process. As a result, the tribal council was established by the votes of a minority of voting Hopi's.

Today, only five of the 12 Hopi villages have chosen to be represented on the tribal council. His puppet government is a replacement for whatever traditional government would have existed. And it's the rubber stamp. It's the signature on the contracts by which the minerals are taken away. Because the consol or any Indian bureau, I think, ask any permission from the Hopi that our leaders, it is ruled by the Secretary of Interior. That's in their constitution. It's in the tribal council constitution that he has final yay or nay over anything that the tribal council government does. I think it's going to come out since we have few documents on how the government created this council over here. We wanted to abolish the council.

Then, if we clean this mess or we'll get rid of the consol, all the other Native people will be free too. In 1882, a reservation was set aside for the Hopi. It included lands that were occupied by members of the Navajo tribe. Centered on coal-rich Black Mesa, this area later became known as the Joint Use Area. Congress divided the Joint Use Area between the two tribes in 1974. Thousands of Navajo's caught on the wrong side of the fence were forced by law to move. Some are ignoring the order and refuse to relocate, either from the partition land or from the Peabody Coal Company lease area. The coal stripped mine from Black Mesa is used to fire power plants which in turn provide electricity for southwestern cities.

It's ignorant, greedy people will start mining this before they go on. And if you go up to the mining area, they say that what kind of a spirit do you have? You've got to have some kind of spirit, some kind of spirit, some kind of spirit, some kind of mind to get a job up there. They never, the government never asked us and then put up this Hopi tribal council. So what they're doing is everything is illegal, moving the Navajo people out and strip mining over here. People disagree with the mining ever since then because there's a lot of wrongdoing that the company has been doing to the culture and the religion belief and also to the contaminating the land, water to air.

The people were talking about it because the whole Black Mesa is a secret role. There's a lot of areas up on Black Mesa's of that, the herbal medicine that they used to cure sickness and use for the ceremonies. And also, the black who's for the ceremony, so that's why the people look at it is the whole people are out of Black Mesa. So called prophecies, actually it's not something miscarriages, it's just like common sense. We know what can happen.

Like we know that after winter, spring will come. If we don't follow those instructions, if we get off of that instructions, the world might turn over, if we're not purified. If we don't know what we're going to do, if we don't know what we're going to do, if we don't know what we're going to do. And this winter, the flowers have bloomed. That means that we're close to purification, so we already started, we're already starting purification. But yet, in the glory of all this technology and might that we have acquired, we remain blind. This happens in the past, tell us something's happening to a land in life and the people.

And the land life also tell us, different times, tell us also that something is happening and something is coming soon. We came to live in peace for a way upon this continent, or this land in life that grace be gave us. We were not to fight each other, we're not to create a destroying thing, sensory. We all have certain religious instructions, but it seems that different religious groups, societies, seem to have forgotten those basic instructions, teachings, warnings, and are doing something just the opposite. Running after more things that are not in line with the law of grace, spirit of love, nature, and created this problem. We are all given instruction to take care of this land in life according to the law of grace, spirit of love, nature.

And that is what I'm doing. And I hope that you, leaders, or you who are belonging to some of the society that may be able to help correct these things, better hurry up and look into this, and correct them, so in this process. We are really deep, deep, deep trouble right now. And it's time that more than society, governments, people, everyone, make a serious, serious beginning in respecting not only nature, but the people who have protected nature like indigenous people. And redeem a tone, and we cannot say, well, it's not one of my concern because somebody that is stealing and emerging for me so many generations ago. The fact that we are enjoying wealth, this technology, and resources, that doesn't take away that we don't have any more responsibility. I see the return successful return to the natural war, or that means voluntarily, not by force, because nature will force us into that, if we don't do it ourselves.

It's to empower the Aboriginal people, not just only the Native American, but all over the world, Australia, Africa, whatever is left on that wisdom of that knowledge, that education. So if we fix this right, then maybe a few people will be safe around this world, not just here in Hopi, but all around the world, that will survive this purification. And we would all meet here in this continent, which we call heaven. Then all the people will come up to Hopi Nation to start a new life and leave our long happy lasting life after that. There will be no wars, anything like that. We will live in peace and start a new life again.

This is what Martin has told me, so we need to start working for the Creator to survive this world. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.