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"Amazing Grace"
This hymn was written in 1779 by John Newton who, until his early 20's, was an unbeliever. A decade later he had become a devout preacher.
The tune was known as "an early American Melody" and became a favorite of the Cherokees. It was sung on the Trail of Tears and can be considered the Cherokee National anthem::
u ne la nv i u we tsi
(God's Son)
i ga gu yv he i
(paid for us)
hna quo tso sv wi yu lo se
(Now to heaven He went)
i ga gu yv ho nv
(after paying for us)
a se no i u ne tse i
(Then He spoke)
i yu no du le nv
(when He rose)
ta li ne dv tsi lu tsi li
(I'll come the second time)
u dv ne u ne tsv
(He said when He spoke)
e lo ni gv ni li s qua di
(All the world will end)
ga lu tsv ha i yu
(when He returns)
ni ga di da ye di go i
(We will all see Him)
a ni e lo ni gv
(here the world over)
u na da nv ti a ne hv
(The righteous who live)
do da ya nv hi li
(He will come after)
tso sv hna quo ni go hi lv
(In heaven now always)
do hi wa ne he s di
(in peace they will live)
Click Here to hear song in Cherokee...Wado! >>>------>
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Cherokee Nation Citizens Answer The Call of the Wild..........
An injured Red Shouldered Hawk has returned to the sky thanks to the efforts of two Cherokee Nation citizens who share a passion for wildlife.
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NEW INFO***The Arkansas National Park and Wildlife Center is home to more than 200 animals and has trained wildlife specialist on staff to assist with rehabilitating injured animals. The center is funded through gate admission fees and private donations from concerned citizens like Pat Gwin (employee of the Cherokee Nation) who sent along money to board the hawk.
"There is no fee to rehab animals, but we do appreciate donations," Davis (Don "Cloud" Davis citizen of the Cherokee Nation) said.
"It's (give donations) just the right thing to do," Gwin said.
Gwin, who has also worked as a wildlife specialist, has been involved in saving numerous wild animals and often pays for any rehabilitative costs associated with them, ranging from surgery and medication to rest and relaxation in a safe environment. While driving to his parent's house on Christmas day, he spotted a Screech Owl that had been hit by a car lying along the side of the road.
"I've just done it (helped animals) all of my life," Gwin said. "I do it out of respect for the animal. This owl was hit by a car and that is not a natural way for an owl to go. Certain things deserve a certain amount of respect."
Gwin has taken care of the owl ever since, even allowing it to live inside his house.
"Would you want to live outside in this weather?" Gwin said while holding the small owl that seemed to feel right at home in his hands.
Gwin trapped mice and birds for the owl to eat and nursed it back to health. However, an eye injury will prevent it from ever being able to hunt food for itself in the wild, so the owl is going to live at the Arkansas National Park and Wildlife Center where it will be used in a breeding program.
According to Davis, if a wild animal cannot be released to the wild due to an illness or used in an educational or breeding program, federal law mandates that it be euthanized.
"Basically, we’ve saved its life," Davis said. "I'm very blessed to get to do what I do. I just love them all, from chipmunks to bears. I think a love of nature is just inherited through indigenous blood."
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Heroes
Lori Piestewa
On March 23, PFC Lori Piestewa and her company were ambushed near Nasiriyah, Iraq. She and her company were considered MIA. After an attempt to free American prisoners of war it was learned that Lori Piestewa, as well as several other members of her company, did not survive the ambush.
Since then many people have joined to make sure that Lori Piestewa's memory is not forgotten. Here are some highlights of those efforts:
The American Indian College Fund announced it has established a college fund in honor of Army Pfc. Lori Piestewa, who is believed to be the first American Indian woman killed in combat. Piestewa, a Hopi Indian from Tuba City, Ariz., died in southern Iraq. She was a single mother with a son, 4, and a daughter, 3.
The scholarship will go toward any remaining unmet financial needs for college that her children have when they become college age, after taking into account other scholarships that have already been established for them. Any remaining funds will be used to underwrite an annual scholarship to a tribal college or university for a female American Indian military veteran.
A fund has been set up for the family of Lori Piestewa, a mother of two children who was the first U.S. female soldier killed in the Iraq war. During the National Indian Gaming Association's (NIGA) 2003 Annual Trade Show and Convention in Phoenix, Arizona, a moment of silence was observed and prayers were offered, led by Color Guards from the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation and the Oneida Indian Nation of Wisconsin. An honor song was performed by Southern Nation drum group. Over the three-day conference, NIGA received over $85,000 in pledges to be given to the Lori Piestewa Memorial Fund.
The Grand Canyon State Games announced the inaugural Lori Piestewa National Native American Games to honor Army Pfc. Lori Piestewa, believed to be the first Native American woman killed in combat. The games were held July 17-20, 2003 throughout northern Arizona and attracted thousands of participants from as far away as Alaska and Hawaii.
"We are grateful that the family of Lori Piestewa is allowing her name to be used with the inaugural National Native American games, " said Erik Widmark, executive director Grand Canyon State Games. "We accept this honor with great humility and profound responsibility. Lori's passion for sports will be emblematic of the energy, enthusiasm and commitment the participants will put forth in this inaugural national competition."
Piestewa Peak named for Lori Piestewa
Squaw Peak in north-central Phoenix will be renamed Piestewa Peak. The State Board on Geographic and Historic Names waived its five-year waiting period and approved the change by a 5-1 vote before a cheering crowd after a four-hour hearing. The board sided with dozens of supporters who said that the word "Squaw" is offensive and that the mountain should be renamed after Army Pfc. Lori Piestewa, pronounced py-ESS-tuh-wah. The Hopi from Tuba City was the first female American Indian soldier to be killed in combat.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~Eagle Cry.......
He does not cry in fear.
He cries in sadness
He cried at the Little Big Horn.
He cried at Wounded Knee.
He cried at the Trail Of Tears.
And now he cries for all Americans.
~~~Running Bear
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE "TRAIL of TEARS":
Migration from the original Cherokee Nation began in the early 1800’s as Cherokees, wary of white encroachment, moved west and settled in other areas of the country. White resentment of the Cherokees had been building and reached a pinnacle after gold was discovered in Georgia, and immediately following the passage of the Cherokee Nation constitution, and establishment of a Cherokee Supreme Court. Possessed with ‘gold fever,’ and a thirst for expansion, the white communities turned on their Cherokee neighbors and the U.S. government decided it was time for the Cherokees to leave behind their farms, their land and their homes.
A group known as the Old Settlers had moved in 1817 to lands given them in Arkansas where again they established a government and a peaceful way of life. Later, they too, were forced into Indian Territory.
President Andrew Jackson, whose command and life was saved due to 500 Cherokee allies at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814, unbelievably authorized the Indian Removal Act of 1830. In following the recommendation of President James Monroe in his final address to Congress in 1825, Jackson sanctioned an attitude that had persisted for many years among many white immigrants. Even Thomas Jefferson, who often cited the Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois Confederacy as the model for the U.S. Constitution, supported Indian Removal as early as 1802.
The displacement of Native People was not wanting for eloquent opposition. Senators Daniel Webster and Henry Clay spoke out against removal. Reverend Samuel Worcester, missionary to the Cherokees, challenged Georgia’s attempt to estinguish Indian title to land in the state, winning the case before the Supreme Court.
Worcester vs. Georgia, 1832, and Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia, 1831, are considered the two most influential decisions in Indian law. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled for Georgia in the 1831 case, but in Worcester vs. Georgia, the court affirmed Cherokee sovereignty. President Andrew Jackson defied the decision of the court and ordered the removal, an act of defiance that established the U.S. government’s precedent for the removal of many Native Americans from the ancestral homelands.
The U.S. government used the Treaty of New Echota in 1835 to justify the removal. The treaty, illegally signed by about 100 Cherokees known as the Treaty Party, relinquished all lands east of the Mississippi River in exchange for land in Indian Territory and the promise of money, livestock, various provisions and tools, and other benefits.
When the pro-removal Cherokee leaders signed the Treaty of New Echota, they also signed their own death warrants. The Cherokee Naiton Council earlier had passed a law that called for the death penalty for anyone who agreed to give up tribal land. The signing and the removal led to better factionalism and the deaths of most of the Treaty Part leaders once in Indian Territory.
Opposition to the removal was led by Chief John Ross, a mixed-blood of Scottish and one-eighth Cherokee descent. The Ross party and most Cherokees opposed the New Echota Treaty, but Georgia and the U.S. government prevailed and used it as justification to force almost all of the 17,000 Cherokees from their southeastern homeland.
Under orders from President Jackson and in defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Army began enforcement of the Removal Act. More than 3,000 Cherokees were rounded up in the summer of 1838 and loaded onto boats that traveled the Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers into Indian Territory. Many were held in prison camps awaiting their fate.
An estimated 4,000 died from hunger, exposure and disease. The journey became an eternal memory as the "trail where they cried" for the Cherokees and other removed tribes. Today, it is remembered as the "Trail of Tears." The Oklahoma Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association has begun the task of marking the graves of Trail survivors with bronze memorials.
Info provided by the Cherokee Nation Cultural Resource Center. For information regarding culture and language, please contact:
cultural@cherokee.org
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"It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of 1838-1839. Although we know about the terrible human suffering of our native people and the members of other tribes during the removal, we rarely hear of those black people who also suffered."
-- Wilma Mankiller ~ Autobiography Mankiller: A Chief and Her People
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wishing you the best im doing ok just been working in the yard been over doing it been clearing out some of the yard that was growing up wishing you many blessing your a true friend
wishing you a week filled with peace & harmony.
Tom Ammaniano (state assemblyman from San Francisco) just introduced a bill into the state assembly to tax and regulate marijuana as we do alcohol -- i.e., it would be legalized, taxed, and regulated. Like alcohol, sales would be limited to folks over 21, penalties would be in place for dui, sale to minors, etc. in other words, it sounds like the right approach. The bill's official number is AB390, and more info will probably be available soon at www. norml. org and www. mpp. org.
If you have a minute, call and/or email your state assembly person and Senator to encourage them to support the bill. You can look up their contact info online based on your zip code: http://www. legislature. ca. gov/port-zipsearch. html.
Feel free to pass this along. The bill is fighting an uphill battle against a vast legacy of misguided and uninformed policy, and it will only have a chance of passing if people speak up in favor.
This bill will provide California with one billion dollars of revenue each year (each ounce is taxed $50)
In spanish Red is translated as "Web", "Net", or "Mesh". We want to preserve a healthy planet and also share the knowledge and respect we have of planet's native people and ancient cultures; and also to raise interest and knowledge about science. We propose that everything is connected, to the Space-Time Lattice. Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum postulates that Reality and Synchronicity Magic (C. G. Jung), appears as a result of a hypercomplex distortion of the space-time lattice produced by the activation of a “Neuronal Field” originating in the brain: The Syntergic Theory.
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just thought I would stop in and say Hi, I hope you have a terrific day, it is pretty cold here, can't wait for spring, with many blessing and much love Gayle Mizheekay Ikway
hoping that your week will be filled with enough challenges to keep you inspired & much serenity to keep you relaxed. your friend many blessing love dream walker
MAY THE UPCOMING NEW YEAR FILL YOUR WORLD WITH SO MUCH LOVE; YOUR CUP WILL RUN'TH OVER! MANY, MANY BLESSINGS! ~LOVE~LIGHT~PEACE~HARMONY~RESPECT~ Hugs To You! SoaringEagle May the RED ROAD, be the path that we ALL choose to follow; so that PEACE may be achieved!
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NEW INFO***The Arkansas National Park and Wildlife Center is home to more than 200 animals and has trained wildlife specialist on staff to assist with rehabilitating injured animals. The center is funded through gate admission fees and private donations from concerned citizens like Pat Gwin (employee of the Cherokee Nation) who sent along money to board the hawk.
"There is no fee to rehab animals, but we do appreciate donations," Davis (Don "Cloud" Davis citizen of the Cherokee Nation) said.
"It's (give donations) just the right thing to do," Gwin said.
Gwin, who has also worked as a wildlife specialist, has been involved in saving numerous wild animals and often pays for any rehabilitative costs associated with them, ranging from surgery and medication to rest and relaxation in a safe environment. While driving to his parent's house on Christmas day, he spotted a Screech Owl that had been hit by a car lying along the side of the road.
"I've just done it (helped animals) all of my life," Gwin said. "I do it out of respect for the animal. This owl was hit by a car and that is not a natural way for an owl to go. Certain things deserve a certain amount of respect."
Gwin has taken care of the owl ever since, even allowing it to live inside his house.
"Would you want to live outside in this weather?" Gwin said while holding the small owl that seemed to feel right at home in his hands.
Gwin trapped mice and birds for the owl to eat and nursed it back to health. However, an eye injury will prevent it from ever being able to hunt food for itself in the wild, so the owl is going to live at the Arkansas National Park and Wildlife Center where it will be used in a breeding program.
According to Davis, if a wild animal cannot be released to the wild due to an illness or used in an educational or breeding program, federal law mandates that it be euthanized.
"Basically, we’ve saved its life," Davis said. "I'm very blessed to get to do what I do. I just love them all, from chipmunks to bears. I think a love of nature is just inherited through indigenous blood."
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On March 23, PFC Lori Piestewa and her company were ambushed near Nasiriyah, Iraq. She and her company were considered MIA. After an attempt to free American prisoners of war it was learned that Lori Piestewa, as well as several other members of her company, did not survive the ambush.
Since then many people have joined to make sure that Lori Piestewa's memory is not forgotten. Here are some highlights of those efforts:
The American Indian College Fund announced it has established a college fund in honor of Army Pfc. Lori Piestewa, who is believed to be the first American Indian woman killed in combat. Piestewa, a Hopi Indian from Tuba City, Ariz., died in southern Iraq. She was a single mother with a son, 4, and a daughter, 3.
The scholarship will go toward any remaining unmet financial needs for college that her children have when they become college age, after taking into account other scholarships that have already been established for them. Any remaining funds will be used to underwrite an annual scholarship to a tribal college or university for a female American Indian military veteran.
A fund has been set up for the family of Lori Piestewa, a mother of two children who was the first U.S. female soldier killed in the Iraq war. During the National Indian Gaming Association's (NIGA) 2003 Annual Trade Show and Convention in Phoenix, Arizona, a moment of silence was observed and prayers were offered, led by Color Guards from the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation and the Oneida Indian Nation of Wisconsin. An honor song was performed by Southern Nation drum group. Over the three-day conference, NIGA received over $85,000 in pledges to be given to the Lori Piestewa Memorial Fund.
The Grand Canyon State Games announced the inaugural Lori Piestewa National Native American Games to honor Army Pfc. Lori Piestewa, believed to be the first Native American woman killed in combat. The games were held July 17-20, 2003 throughout northern Arizona and attracted thousands of participants from as far away as Alaska and Hawaii.
"We are grateful that the family of Lori Piestewa is allowing her name to be used with the inaugural National Native American games, " said Erik Widmark, executive director Grand Canyon State Games. "We accept this honor with great humility and profound responsibility. Lori's passion for sports will be emblematic of the energy, enthusiasm and commitment the participants will put forth in this inaugural national competition."
Piestewa Peak named for Lori Piestewa
Squaw Peak in north-central Phoenix will be renamed Piestewa Peak. The State Board on Geographic and Historic Names waived its five-year waiting period and approved the change by a 5-1 vote before a cheering crowd after a four-hour hearing. The board sided with dozens of supporters who said that the word "Squaw" is offensive and that the mountain should be renamed after Army Pfc. Lori Piestewa, pronounced py-ESS-tuh-wah. The Hopi from Tuba City was the first female American Indian soldier to be killed in combat.
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE "TRAIL of TEARS":
Migration from the original Cherokee Nation began in the early 1800’s as Cherokees, wary of white encroachment, moved west and settled in other areas of the country. White resentment of the Cherokees had been building and reached a pinnacle after gold was discovered in Georgia, and immediately following the passage of the Cherokee Nation constitution, and establishment of a Cherokee Supreme Court. Possessed with ‘gold fever,’ and a thirst for expansion, the white communities turned on their Cherokee neighbors and the U.S. government decided it was time for the Cherokees to leave behind their farms, their land and their homes.
A group known as the Old Settlers had moved in 1817 to lands given them in Arkansas where again they established a government and a peaceful way of life. Later, they too, were forced into Indian Territory.
President Andrew Jackson, whose command and life was saved due to 500 Cherokee allies at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814, unbelievably authorized the Indian Removal Act of 1830. In following the recommendation of President James Monroe in his final address to Congress in 1825, Jackson sanctioned an attitude that had persisted for many years among many white immigrants. Even Thomas Jefferson, who often cited the Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois Confederacy as the model for the U.S. Constitution, supported Indian Removal as early as 1802.
The displacement of Native People was not wanting for eloquent opposition. Senators Daniel Webster and Henry Clay spoke out against removal. Reverend Samuel Worcester, missionary to the Cherokees, challenged Georgia’s attempt to estinguish Indian title to land in the state, winning the case before the Supreme Court.
Worcester vs. Georgia, 1832, and Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia, 1831, are considered the two most influential decisions in Indian law. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled for Georgia in the 1831 case, but in Worcester vs. Georgia, the court affirmed Cherokee sovereignty. President Andrew Jackson defied the decision of the court and ordered the removal, an act of defiance that established the U.S. government’s precedent for the removal of many Native Americans from the ancestral homelands.
The U.S. government used the Treaty of New Echota in 1835 to justify the removal. The treaty, illegally signed by about 100 Cherokees known as the Treaty Party, relinquished all lands east of the Mississippi River in exchange for land in Indian Territory and the promise of money, livestock, various provisions and tools, and other benefits.
When the pro-removal Cherokee leaders signed the Treaty of New Echota, they also signed their own death warrants. The Cherokee Naiton Council earlier had passed a law that called for the death penalty for anyone who agreed to give up tribal land. The signing and the removal led to better factionalism and the deaths of most of the Treaty Part leaders once in Indian Territory.
Opposition to the removal was led by Chief John Ross, a mixed-blood of Scottish and one-eighth Cherokee descent. The Ross party and most Cherokees opposed the New Echota Treaty, but Georgia and the U.S. government prevailed and used it as justification to force almost all of the 17,000 Cherokees from their southeastern homeland.
Under orders from President Jackson and in defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Army began enforcement of the Removal Act. More than 3,000 Cherokees were rounded up in the summer of 1838 and loaded onto boats that traveled the Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers into Indian Territory. Many were held in prison camps awaiting their fate.
An estimated 4,000 died from hunger, exposure and disease. The journey became an eternal memory as the "trail where they cried" for the Cherokees and other removed tribes. Today, it is remembered as the "Trail of Tears." The Oklahoma Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association has begun the task of marking the graves of Trail survivors with bronze memorials.
Info provided by the Cherokee Nation Cultural Resource Center. For information regarding culture and language, please contact:
cultural@cherokee.org
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"It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of 1838-1839. Although we know about the terrible human suffering of our native people and the members of other tribes during the removal, we rarely hear of those black people who also suffered."
-- Wilma Mankiller ~ Autobiography Mankiller: A Chief and Her People
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