
excerpt from the "White Buffalo Teachings"
By, Arvol Looking Horse
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After this fulfillment of the Mending of the Sacred Hoop Prophecy, we understood that a recognized day of Global Healing must occur in order to teach the Global Community the inescapable need to heal and unite in the name of Peace. The survival of our future generations depends on this. The birth of World Peace & Prayer Day came in 1996. The ceremony is to create spiritual energy by standing in a circle, no matter how you believe in the Creator, with the sacred fire in the center and after the prayers, we offer the tobacco carrying our prayers to the sacred fire. For five years the June 21st ceremony moved to the four directions and then back to the center for a Wo-pi-la (thank you ceremony). The first one took place at Grey Horn Butte, misnomer “Devils Tower”, Wyoming.
I remember praying during the ceremony, that one day we could be successful in changing back to the original names that our Ancestors gave to these Sacred Sites,in honor of all our relatives that have gone before us on this Turtle Island.
We began a Unity Ride on horseback from Canada, a two-month ride, praying that the Global community would awaken to this responsibility of healing our wounded Mother Earth. When we arrived at Grey Horn Butte, we found out that the Climbers Association was going to take us to court, feeling that their rights were violated when President Clinton issued a statement in support of our ceremonies, insuring that the month of June would be set aside for prayer instead of climbing at our Sacred Site. This would prohibit the climbers to climb there all the month of June. My Tribe, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, took the case, which went all the way to Supreme Court. The High Court finally ruled in our favor in the year 2000.
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In 1997 we took World Peace & Prayer Day to the north in Canada, where the Joseph Bighead Reserve sponsored the event. In 1998 we went to the east to Pipestone, Minnesota, where the sacred Pipestone Quarries are located.

Then, in 1999, we took the ceremony to the south in Costa Rica, where we were told that their Prophecy of the Condor and Eagle had come about, as it was told that the Nations of the South and North would come together and pray. We completed the journey as we came back to the center for a Wo-pi-la (thank you ceremony), to the "Heart of Everything That Is", the Sacred Black Hills in the year 2000.

Believing that the effort was complete, we asked the Global Community to continue the ceremony at their Sacred Sites, either at people's place of worship or at a significant site their Nation identifies as of great importance. This momentous work for Peace has a long journey yet to come. Modern science has confirmed the dangers foretold by our Prophecies.
We ask all Nations to recognize the urgent need of continuing the World Peace & Prayer Day ceremony at as many Sacred Sites as possible. We ask that the United Nations officially recognize June 21st as “Honoring Sacred Sites Day” around the world. The Prophecies of our Ancestors tell us that honoring the Summer Solstice at the Sacred Sites will be the key to healing the destruction we have visited on our ailing Mother earth. "
The Thunder People and our Ancestors have left Signs for us, using our Grandfathers, the Rock Nation, to locate our Sacred Sites, creating petroglyphs, mounds and formations of rocks, like the Medicine Wheel in Wyoming.
Our People have witnessed the mindless destruction of these Sacred Sites for many decades. The violation of these places has helped bring us to the environmental and spiritual predicament we are in today. We ask all people to leave the sacred Rock Nation alone at these Sacred Sites. But still many people continue to take home pieces of stone from these places as ‘souvenirs,’ which can create negative energy or bad dreams for their families. Such stolen souvenirs—pieces of Mother Earth herself—should be returned properly to the Sacred Sites, and those who have stolen them must ask for forgiveness for their senseless violations. Look around you—our Mother Earth has become sick and weak. With our thoughtlessness we are bringing disaster on all generations to come. We fail to appreciate and honor our Sacred Sites, ripping out the minerals that lay underneath them as if Mother Earth were simply a resource, instead of the Source of Life itself. Our Ancestors called the Sacred Black Hills the “Heart of Everything That Is,” even though they couldn’t have looked down on the land as our satellites do today. NASA took pictures of the Black Hills from outer space, and you can clearly see—the shape of a human heart! When the pictures are fast-forwarded through the four seasons, the Sacred Black Hills looks like a heart pumping. And that’s what she really is! A living Being! You can see where the gold, the uranium, the coal, the trees and forests have been raped from this Sacred Site. The mining and the clear-cut logging have taken so much,

“Heart of Everything That Is” is weak, she’s dying.
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Our prayers are desperately needed so that Mother Earth’s living heart doesn’t stop beating. Long ago, I remember the Elders spoke of the danger in the construction of dams stopping the natural flow of rivers, as we understand as Mother Earth’s arteries. The clogging of this natural flow would now affect our own bodies, such as we have witnessed in heart problems. Our mind, body and spirit would now have problems in growth affecting our own natural “Way of Life”. *The traditional Dineh (Navajo) People have been desperately protecting their Sacred Site of Big Mountain from the human predators, understanding that Big Mountain is like the liver of Mother Earth, purifying the water and the air and the land. When the liver dies, the body dies. Even their own Tribal Governments won’t help them in this desecration. Both the Hopi and the Dineh spiritual Elders have tried to let the public know that they are not fighting over these sacred lands, as the U.S. Government has portrayed them doing. They simply wish to keep to their sacred Ways. The Elders of both Peoples honor and respect one another’s ceremonies. Today a few remaining brave Diné Grandmothers still stand guard, refusing to leave the Sacred Site. How can we allow this to happen? Would we allow our own hearts and livers to be ripped out of our bodies just for a someone’s profit? Understand that the whole point of your own existence depends on becoming a Keeper of Mother Earth..
*The Aboriginal People of Australia—our brothers and sisters Down Under—warn us that the Great Coral Reefs are dying from Global Warming and the dumping of toxic wastes. They see those vast underwater reefs as Mother Earth’s blood cleaner. Our Ancestors foretold that water would someday be for sale. Back then this was hard to believe, since the water was so plentiful, so pure, so full of energy, nutrition and spirit. Today we have to buy pure water, and even then the nutritional minerals have been taken out; it’s just empty liquid. Someday water will be like gold, too expensive to afford (they called the Lakota “savage” – yet the Lakota could drink pure water from every creek, stream, lake, and river in all of Great Turtle Island [misnomer “western hemisphere”]). Not everyone will have the right to drink safe water. An Inupiat brother from Greenland, Angaangaq, whose name means “The Man Who Looks Like His Uncle, warns us that our so-called “recyclable” containers don’t really help the environment, as we would like to think. In reality, when the “recyclable” materials dissolve into the earth, the vapor goes up into the atmosphere and blows toward his land to the North, turns solid from the cold and drops onto the land and water, affecting their seals, leaving deformities and growths, as has been witnessed this past year. He blames these ”recyclable” containers and countless other chemicals polluting Greenland’s atmosphere for the fact that Indigenous mothers often aren’t able to nurse and bond with their children anymore. Their breast milk is unsafe, filled with poisons that have caused sickness’ in their children. “Uncle’s” People have a Prophecy that when the once rock-hard glaciers grow so soft that you can leave a handprint on them, this would be a sure sign Mother Earth is in deep turmoil.
Now that Prophecy has been fulfilled by Global Warming. Just as I myself thought I would never witness the White Buffalo in our own Prophecies, “Uncle” thought that this Prophecy would never take place in his lifetime, but it has. He warns, “When will the world wake up to Mother Earth’s cries of pain? When? When finally your cities and countries are under water? Well, guess what! It’ll be too late then!” .
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It is a an in-depth look into the Lakota story of the White Buffalo Woman and the knowledge she gave to the Lakota people. It is a powerful message and the poetic invitations for us to come together in this important time to make a difference are echoed with hope throughout the book.
Thanks to Harvey Arden and all at HaveYouThought.com
With Thanks to Arvol Looking Horse WorldPeaceDay.com , Harvey Arden at HaveYouThought.com, and Scott Barta at 1851treaty.com