Forgotten Ages Research

The Elders Speak—Native American Visions for America

Report Topics:

• Chumash Grandfather Semu on the Next Extinctions and Future War, 1990
• Sun Bear’s Prophecies for the Present Century
• Two Native American Visions on Future Volcanic Eruptions
• A Warning from Brave Buffalo of the Lakota
• The Hopi People’s Visions for the Future
• More Native American Prophecies

Full Report:

Chumash Grandfather Semu on the Next Extinctions and Future War, 1990

“The prophecies say that when the coyote and the crow and the Indian perish from the Earth, everybody, including all races, will die.

“If people would change their minds and really be spiritual, there would be no need for arms and fighting. Everything could be settled by speaking the truth. But now people would not know the truth if you spoke it. It only upsets them. It hurts their ego. And then you are the enemy.”

Native American Cree Prophecy on Future Realization

“Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last fish has been caught, and only after the last river has been poisoned—only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten.”

Sun Bear’s Prophecies for the Present Century

In 1992, the modern Shoshone medicine man and spiritual teacher, Sun Bear, had a profound vision in which he foresaw a sobering future ahead for America:

“I saw the time when the cities will not exist in their present state. During the changes the most dangerous places will be near cities with nuclear and chemical plants. But all major cities will experience a breakdown in services. Electric service will be out of order because of the storms and earthquakes, broken water mains and no more gasoline because of a major breakdown of the system. I also saw race riots in the big cities. When there is no money to pay their salaries, the police will not be there to protect the people in the city.

“As part of the transformation, we will be learning important lessons about our overdependence on technology. When we reach the time technological gadgets do not work, you may find that you do not need a lot of things that you have now.”

Two Native American Visions on Future Volcanic Eruptions

A Yakima Peoples’ prophecy, popularized by Sun Bear in his teachings, was that, “when Little Sister (Mount St. Helens) speaks, Grandfather Tahoma (Mount Rainier) will answer.” Members of the Puyallup People still anticipate that, because of Mount St. Helens’ violent eruption in 1980, Mount Rainier may yet fulfill the vision of its future eruption, with its ashes to someday cover the Pacific coast from Vancouver and Seattle to Portland, Oregon.

Ever since 1980 the prophecy has had the potentiality of being fulfilled as Mount St. Helens remains active. Beginning in 1986 a new lava dome began slowly building on the north side of Mount St. Helens, accompanied by earthquake swarms. More significant swarms followed in 1998 and 2001. September 23, 2004 marked more quakes increasing in intensity by September 26 to ten events registered between 2.0 and 2.8 Richter.

By the first of October a new series of tremors began, monitored up to 3.3 Richter, punctuated with a clearly visible column of white steam and ash that rose for twenty minutes and reached an altitude of 16,000 feet. Two days later another venting took place, along with a landslide in the Mount’s crater. Activity has since died down, but the lava dome has still been growing sometimes nearly 5 feet per day, indicating that subterranean magma is continuously on the move.

Another Indigenous visionary, Speaking Wind, a Pueblo spokesperson from northern New Mexico, has received a directive from the Great Messenger to further clarify the ancient prophecies for his People. He states, first of all, that the Earth Mother is not dying, nor is She going to end or blow up. She is merely washing Her face. The prophecies take this form:

“There are Two Twins, the Grandmother and Grandfather, who shall speak together. The Grandfather shall awaken the Firebird, who comes from underneath the Waters of Life. And the Firebird ignites the Circle of Fire.”

Speaking Wind believes that the Twins are two volcanoes, and the one called Grandmother is Popocatepetl just outside Mexico City, which has become active again.

Just before Christmas, 2000, the “Smoking Mountain” let loose with incandescent rocks thrown a quarter of a mile into the air and landing half a mile down its slope, accompanied by a column of ash rising two miles high and spread out over fifty square miles.

In a single day Mount Popo, as it is also called, erupted loudly a record two hundred times. This has been part of a cycle of eruptions which began in 1944 and has continued on and off through the present, the most violent outbursts since A.D. 800.

Speaking Wind warns that when Popo is ready to speak loudly, “she will spit the cork out,” which means that Mexico City “goes up into the air.” The Grandfather volcano is Mount Rainier. If and when both Popo and Rainier erupt together, then the Third of Three Warning Signs will be given.

The First Sign was of famine to be heard from different parts of the world. This has already been fulfilled in the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s, with waves of mass starvation in India, Africa and Asia. The Second Sign, when life shall begin to change form, began appearing in 1996 and still goes on today, with mutations showing up all over the world in frogs, amphibians, fish, birds, cows and sheep—with multiple limbs, tails, single eyes, dual heads, three hearts, and the like. The Third Warning Sign is directly linked with the prophecy given above—the waters in the oceans will begin to boil and much of the sea life will appear on the surface killed by the heat.

The prophecy says that when Grandfather (Mount Rainier) stirs, it will then awaken the Firebird (the Thunderbird and Kolus Birds of the Pacific Northwest), which will come from beneath the Waters of Life (the Pacific Ocean) and in turn awaken the Circle of Fire—the Ring of Fire, the great chain of volcanoes that encompasses the entire Pacific Rim. In addition, if Grandmother’s (Mount Popo’s) voice happens to become very loud, then Turtle Island (the North American continent) “will shake its tail off,” which means the Californian and Mexican coastal plates will suddenly shift and the Baja peninsula “will go into the water.” According to Speaking Wind:

“The Second Sign, which we are still in, can be changed through spirituality. We have not received the Third Sign yet, and if we do, it will be too late to stop these events. We cannot do it any other way except through spirituality.

“The Rainbow People will be the ones who will go into the sacred sites all over the face of the Earth. There is no place on this world that you can stand that there is not a sacred site within one hundred miles. The Rainbow People will show us how to call the rainbow. They shall stand in these sacred places, they shall speak the words, and out of them will come the rainbow. The rainbow is the bridge between the Creator and themselves.

“The Rainbow People are the ones who have returned completely now. These are also the ones who are beginning to wake up. As they wake up, they’re finding themselves very confused because they feel like they no longer belong where they have been all of their lives.

“They look at the ones all around them, they look at them as strangers, not realizing that they’ve changed. But they are beginning to find their own truth. Sometimes in an easy way, other times in a very difficult way.

“The prophecies tell us that the Rainbow Children will be known before the ending of the Second Sign. Before the Third Sign comes, everyone will know and have the opportunity of returning to the rainbow and the Rainbow People, or turning away and walking into the Third Sign Cycle.”

Ominously, as Speaking Wind has noted, recorded activity in the Pacific Ring of Fire has been increasing, peaking at 3,200 underwater eruptions per month. Such energy releases have been mostly benign in nature, though the major shock in the Western Ring region which caused the December 26, 2004 tsunami wave that battered the Indian Ocean had enough power to ring the entire planet like a bell. As Speaking Wind remarked, it will be up to the Rainbow People and other Earthworkers to try to keep the larger outbursts from growing in number.

A Warning from Brave Buffalo of the Lakota

“It is time for the Great Pufification. We are at a point of no return. The two-leggeds are about to bring destruction to life on earth. It has happened before, and it is about to happen again. The Sacred Hoop shows how all things go in a circle. The old becomes new and the new becomes old. Eveything repeats. White people have no culture. Culture is having roots in the earth. People without culture do not exist very long because Nature is God. Without a connection to Nature, the people drift, grow negative and destroy themselves.”

Another ancient Lakota prophecy speaks concerning a meteor shower that will cause many drastic alterations in the planet and all life:

“Star beings, that you call meteorites, will come to this planet in answer to the Mother’s call for help. The Sacred Mother is screaming for life and the meteorites will hear her cries and answer her call. They will hit the earth from the heavens with such force that many internal things will happen as well as external. The planet will move as a result of the impact. The rains will change their fall and the winds will alter their course and what has existed for hundreds of years will no longer exist. All the seasons will change places. The animals and plants will become confused. There will be great plagues you do not understand. These plagues will spread through your waters and through your blood and through your food because you have disrupted the natural chain through which the Mother cleanses herself.

“Only those who have learned to live on the land will find sanctuary. Go to where the eagles fly, to where the wolf roams, to where the bear lives. Here you will find life because they will always go to where the water is pure and the air can be breathed. There will be a better time coming, beyond the weather.”

The Hopi People’s Visions for the Future

By far the richest and most detailed Native American prophecies for the future originated with the Hopi peoples of the Four Corners area of the American Southwest. According to their Elders, there are many possible ways the future direction can go before we finally arrive into what they call the Next World Age, a time of new Creation. The story began ages ago, after the Hopis were led to their present homeland from the “Red City of the South,” which some believe may have been the ancient Maya city of Palenque, located in the Yucatan.

Researchers have noted that many of the Maya picture glyphs bear a striking resemblance to Hopi kachina spirit masks, while a number of Hopi kachina spirit characters have names that belong to the Maya Quiché language. The Hopis today in fact speak a Uto-Aztecan dialect that is related to both the ancient Nahuatl and Quiché languages.

Today, the Hopi’s sacred precincts in the Four Corners region are marked by the San Francisco Peaks to the south, the Grand Canyon to the west, Window Rock in the east, and the Kaibab Mountains to the north.

The Hopis believe the Earth is like a spotted fawn, each spot a sacred power center or planetary chakra which needs to be cared for and protected. The Hopi Elders were given Stone Tablets of Living, that gave them title to their particular sacred location, from where to focus their energizing work. Their sacred location they call Sip-Oraibi, “solid foundation.” The Stone Tablets also contain Navode, wisdom and knowledge, Dudavo, instructions, Duptseuness, beliefs, Makusdadavo, prophecies and warnings, plus Weme, carefully guarded secrets and rituals to be performed by the Elders in the underground kivas or meeting places by which to bring good weather and keep the Earth in balance. From these Tablets’ words the people were to remain Hopi—peaceful—and never become Kahopi—misbehaved, out of balance.

Traditions say all went well for the early Hopi people, until one day the chief of the Bow Clan received a disturbing vision of the coming of evil to their world. He disappeared, suddenly and without warning, into the darkness of the night, in order to travel to the “Earth Center”—a special far away “sacred spot” where the wisest of all peoples from all over the world once met to plan the spiritual future of humanity.

This place was described as being like a paradise, with abundant food and riches, corresponding to what central Asian traditions called the mystical Shamballa.

The Bow Clan chief left behind two sons, twins, Masau and Pahana, whose quest became to search for and find their father, and eventually to return his spirit to his homeland. Masau became the first leader of all the Hopi, and to him and all succeeding Elders was given the task of preserving and following the precepts of the Stone Tablets left in their care. To the eldest brother, Pahana, fell the responsibility of traveling “toward the rising sun” on a world-wide odyssey. He was to take certain portions or pieces of the Tablets with him, some to plant like spiritual seeds in the earth wherever he went, to restore balance to the planet, others which were to be in his safe-keeping until the distant day he would return, to be offered as a gift and as proof of his identity. He would come either as a Teacher or as a Conqueror, depending on how the world would be ready to accept him.

Hopi tradition is filled with signs and portents prophesying the return of both Masau and Pahana, and possible global events accompanying their advent and reunification.

The younger brother, Masau, will return first, to once again be a leader—the first and last—among his people. He will be the flute-player and the corn-planter, guardian of the earth and the underworld. Sometimes he is pictured as a skeleton, in charge of death, fire, darkness and war, all indicating that his potential advent may not be of a positive nature. If he represents the Shadow Self aspect of his people, and Pahana the Divine aspect, then their eventual union is what may herald the new Creation, the dawning of the Next World Age. In his more positive form, Masau is the mediator between the living and the dead, who walks by night and is blinded by the sun in the daytime. He will carry ukase or violets in his belt, and will love to play a game called naduwanpikya, communicating by tapping on rocks.

Masau will lament to see the plight of his people and their land, severely abused by the white peoples. His cry will grow louder when Saquasohun, the Blue Star Kachina, will appear amid the seasonal Soyal and Niman kiva ceremonies, signifying that the old rituals are to end and are to remain hidden. A prophecy, given by Pahana to Masau, foretold that when he would see the “stars fall from heaven,” his people were to “lighten their burden,” let the old ways fall away, and begin to prepare for his imminent coming.

Masau’s cry and the cry of the Hopis will finally become so pronounced that it will be heard by the elder brother, Pahana, who will have been reborn in a different part of the world. But Pahana will only return when he will remember his connection with his people. He is described as being of a lighter skin than the Hopis, though not as fair as the Caucasian white people who defile their sacred land. They call him the True White Brother, and sometimes even call white people pahanas. Yet the name is ultimately derived from Pasu, meaning, “salt water” or sea foam.

We are reminded of other ancient American Teachers—Quetzalcoatl and Viracocha—both of whose skin was depicted as being the color of sea foam.

Pahana is further portrayed to arrive from the east wearing a red robe and a red or yellow hat that will rise from the top of his head “like the back of a horned toad.” The modern Hopis consider this prophecy partially fulfilled when in 1974 they met with several Tibetan monks whose religious attire of red and yellow robes and pointed hats matched closely that of Pahana’s. For the Kargyu Buddhist monks this was a fulfillment of one of their prophecies as well, that said:

“When the iron bird flies (airplanes) and horses run on wheels (trains and cars), the teachings shall reach the land of the red man (Native Americans).”

The Hopis and the Tibetans shared their mutual concerns, for both their sacred lands on opposite sites of the world are being despoiled by mining, nuclear testing, the destruction of the environment and toxic waste disposal brought about by the people who rule over them—the Chinese in Tibet and the American government and corporations in the Southwest.

To the Hopis the portent was given that just before Pahana’s return, a “gourd of ashes” would be released that could dry up and destroy whole regions in a single instant. This the Elders saw fulfilled in the modern development of nuclear weapons. They instructed that if these were to manifest, and to do so before Masau and Pahana came, then they themselves would need to go and offer a message of universal peace to “a house of mica on the eastern shore”—what they believe is now the United Nations Building with its great glass façade, overlooking New York Harbor. Twice rejected, the Elders were finally allowed to speak before U.N. representatives in 1993 and again in 1994. Today, they are part of a special movement to allow Indigenous Peoples from all over the world to have the right to speak in United Nations decisions.

Another warning given was that, just prior to the twin brothers’ return, there would be a sharp increase in violent weather, lightning bolts would become more powerful, with greater destruction caused by unusual floods and droughts. Today, these are the climate changes we are just beginning to be subjected to as a result of global warming.

When Pahana first arrives and presents his missing pieces of the Stone Tablets of Living, his coming will be marked by “a great explosion that will shake the world.” Some feel this could be a massive volcanic eruption to take place somewhere on the planet, while others see it as a meteor impact to cause a major cataclysm. Whatever its origin, it will be Pahana’s warning to all humanity that either they change themselves for the better, or other changes of an ominous nature will change humanity for them. It is all a matter of choice.

This is what has been portrayed for many ages on Prophecy Rock, located near Oraibi in the Four Corners area. The great boulder stands two stories high, with carvings showing two lines or pathways—one the direction of the spiritual path humanity can take, the other the path of self-deception which leads to ruin.

Accompanying Pahana, the Hopi legends say, will be two Helpers, dressed in the same attire as the elder brother. Between them, however, they will carry three major symbols.

The first will be the meha symbol, a plant with a long root that has a flower that looks either like a cross or a swastika. This represents, in its positive form, the creative feminine principle. The second symbol is the Sun, the masculine creative principle. This will be an important key for Pahana will identify himself as belonging to the Sun Clan, and shall declare all Hopis to be Children of the Sun. The third symbol is simply called the Red symbol, indicating either just the color, or a certain sign associated with the color, not as yet identified. All three individuals, Pahana and the Two Helpers, will wield these symbols with great power.

The symbols are very significant, for as the prophecies foretell, they will also manifest in negative ways if the Hopi message of peace is not heeded. On Prophecy Rock, three great Purifications are pictured, two of which the Hopis claim have already come to pass. The first was World War I, during which the Iron Cross of Germany threatened the globe. The second was World War II, and this time the Nazi Swastika and the Japanese Rising Sun became the symbols of conquest that failed. The Elders warn that if the call to peace continues to go unanswered, then the third great Purification will be fulfilled, far worse than the other two.

They foretell that not from the east but out of the west, from across the great ocean, will come a red people not related to the Native Americans, who will dress in red with red helmets, and will have all three symbols in their banner of war—the Cross-Swastika, the Sun and the Red symbol. A Conqueror will come with a force that will “cover the earth like ants,” and will overwhelm the land in a single day. They will not hurt the Hopi people as long as they remain “inside their homes and do not go outside,” for the invaders will unleash a “mystery egg” that will decimate whole regions to such an extent that “only the insects will survive”—or any other creature that will be well hidden and well protected.

If such a terrible event still does not convince humanity to alter its ways, then Pahana and the Two Helpers will stamp their feet, the Twins who hold firm the positions of the Earth’s poles will leave their places, and in a matter of minutes all the cities will be destroyed everywhere. The “wicked will speak no more,” and “those who fight and kill will be killed.” This will be the most catastrophic option Pahana will resort to, but will not be necessary if humanity chooses a better way of living.

Regarding these last forebodings of Pahana, before his death in 1972, Hopi Elder Dan Katchongva wrote down several of his people’s prophecies regarding the end of the Present Age. One of the prophecies speaks of the “worst case” scenario, of what will happen if nothing is done right now to help return humanity to a better balance of living on our planet:

“The Hopi have been placed on this side of the earth to take care of the land through their ceremonial duties, just as the other races of people have been placed around the earth to take care of her in their own ways. Together, we hold the world in balance, revolving properly. If the Hopi nation vanishes, the earth motion will be interrupted and disturbed because of an unwanted visitor from the heavens. The water will swallow the land, and the people will perish. Only a brother and sister will be left to enter a new life. For this reason those gifted with the knowledge of the sacred instructions must live very cautiously, for they will remember and have faith in these instructions, and it will be on their shoulders that the fate of the world will rest.”

Whether or not these terrible disasters take place, Pahana has promised to not only fulfill the teachings of the old Stone Tablets, but to introduce a New Life Plan. Their lost father, as the Great Spirit, shall also finally return, to lead his people to a new sacred location. The “spots of the fawn” or sacred power points of the Earth’s surface are predicted to change and shift their locations. The Hopis have always regarded their present home as Dupacha, the “temporary house,” and look forward to their being re-located to a new and better land in the New Earth of the Next World. In words reminiscent of Black Elk’s vision of all races joined within the Sacred Hoop, so the Hopis also predict that some day their great mother, Spider Woman, will weave a web of friendship and peace among all people, bringing them into one world, filled with One Spirit, and One Life.

It is toward the fulfillment of this more positive vision of the future that the Hopi Elders offered this prayer before the United Nations in 1993:

“Great Spirit and all unseen, this day we pray and ask You for guidance, humbly we ask You to help us and fellow men to have recourse to peaceful ways of life, because of uncontrolled deceitfulness by humankind. Help us all to love, not hate one another.

“We ask you to be seen in the image of Love and Peace. Let us be seen in beauty, the colors of the rainbow.

“We respect our Mother, the planet, with our loving care, for from Her breast we receive our nourishment.

“Let us not listen to the voices of the two-hearted, the destroyers of mind, the haters of self-made leaders, whose lusts for power and wealth will lead us into confusion and darkness.

“Seek visions always of world beauty, not violence nor battlefields.

“It is our duty to pray always for harmony between man and earth, so that the earth will bloom once more.

“Let us show our emblem of love and goodwill for all life and land.

“Pray for the House of Glass, for within it are minds clear and pure as ice and mountain streams. Pray for the great leaders of nations in the House of Mica who in their own quiet ways help the earth in balance.

“We pray to the Great Spirit that one day our Mother Earth will be purified into a healthy peaceful one.

“Let us sing for strength of wisdom with all nations for the good of all people.

“Our hope is not yet lost, purification must be to restore the health of our Mother Earth for lasting peace and happiness.

“Tachqua Ikachi—for Land and Life!”

More Native American Prophecies

The Navajo peoples today still honor the memory of White Shell Woman, their prophetess. Near the beginning of their existence, the Navajo recall a time when the world was plagued by great monsters called Yei’iitsolbahi’, who symbolized Poverty, Old Age, Disease and Death. White Shell Woman gave birth to Twins, who helped imprison these monsters, but she also predicted a future Age when the monsters would escape, and return with a vengeance.

The Navajo believe this is happening in the world right now. The monsters will make an effort to put out the Sacred Fire, and will try to convince the people to no longer respect the Mother Circle, the planet. This, too, is now being fulfilled. But the prophecy continues on with the hope given that, if the people sincerely call upon White Shell Woman’s memory and once more live her twelve principles of Earth-centered teachings, she in turn will call forth her Twins to do battle again with the monsters of chaos and destruction, defeating them before they can manifest into their worst forms. In particular will come the Elder Brother, called the “Great Chief of the East,” and “Someone Familiar,” who shall bring lasting peace to his people.

Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee seer, with his brother Tecumseh, was instrumental in forging a powerful intertribal alliance before the War of 1812. Through their visions received from the “Masters of Life,” they preached the message of giving up white technology, and learning to rely on their original more natural way of living. They recognized that the key to bringing about the future they desired was not by changing everything around them, but instead by changing their own individual thinking. Though defeated at Tippecanoe and exiled to Kansas, the brothers’ spiritual teachings continue on among their people.

The early nineteenth century dream-prophet, Shramala, received a vision that the future is composed of four different roads, each with a different color and having a different destiny. However, these did not correspond to the Four Directions, for all the roads end up in the same place, toward the North, where Wisdom dwells. Shramala taught his people that the road which most directly led toward perfect peace, which did not pass through unwanted detours of war, starvation and death, could only be traveled by honoring the Earth with music, dancing and celebration.

In the mid-1800’s, the Cree prophet Abishabis headed a religious movement that spread in Canada from the Hudson Bay region to Manitoba in the west to Ontario in the east. He prophesied the coming of Wasiteck, the “Light,” a Man of Peace who will be Christ-like in both his teachings and his character. Abishabis drew up what he called the “Track of Heaven,” a chart of the future based on the movements of the planets and stars.

These prophecies he translated into a series of chants and songs, which the people were asked to sing every day, so that the envisioned Time of Peace the prophecies described could be made manifest through them.

Smohalla, the Wanapam dream-prophet, and his Yakima visionary assistant, Kotiakan, in the late nineteenth century were responsible for a great spiritual and traditional revival throughout the Pacific Northwest Columbia Plateau region, forming a confederation of local tribes. Among their followers was Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce.

The two forecast that, even with the steady overwhelming encroachment by white settlers, the white world will someday pass away, and that the spirits of the Native American ancestors would re-inhabit and re-animate the landscape once again.

Much of the prophets’ teachings had been gleaned from Kauxuma Nupika—the Kootenai prophetess well known for her healing powers and her ability to scry the future—and from Dla’upac, who predicted a possible return to a cyclic pattern of fire and floods to plague the world, to be followed closely by the advent of the Creator Spirit, Xwamipipama, accompanied by powerful ancestors reincarnating back into a new Earth.

The renown Piute prophets, Wodsiwob and Wovoka Wajud, leaders of the Nanigukwa or Ghost Dances of 1870 and 1890 respectively, both had intense visions of a time when their people would return to the old ways, and be able to live in true peace. Their original teaching was that this transformation would be possible only if their people stopped warring with the whites, plus gave up robbery, lying and alcohol. The two foresaw a time when the buffalo would return, their ancestors would be honored, and the ancient wisdoms were shared with everyone, assuring that prosperity and abundance were to be inevitably restored.

While their message attracted representatives from over thirty tribes, the more opportunistic of the participants began to manipulate the ceremonial gatherings, and eventually turned them into a call for war against the whites.

The U.S. Government’s brutal suppression of the movement led to the infamous Wounded Knee Massacre of December 29, 1890. Despite the misguided efforts and bloodshed, more than a century later many of the original positive elements predicted by the prophets are indeed coming true. Wovoka’s father, Tavibo, had also received visions of the future which included forebodings of the world being shaken by powerful earthquakes.

However, whether these catastrophes happen or not, he too forecast that the Earth will be returned to right balance, and She will offer Her fruits and blessings to humanity in their fullness once again.

Among the last of the Seminole elders in Florida, many have received the dream image of their great leader Coacoochee, Chief Wild Cat, who walks the Everglades again with his Walking Cane of Power. It is the instrument of great protection, and with the ability to change the course of the future. He comes to light the sacred fires once more, to teach again the forgotten healing arts among those who sleep, so that they may cure the Earth, who is like a sick person. If the Earth is not cured, the elders predict, then She shall tremble with fever and break out in sores—a forecast of coming earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. If, however, She is comforted and made well, then a better day will dawn for the world.

Among the more prominent of contemporary Native American writers has been Chief Oren Lyons, Onandagan Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan and spokesman for the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy. He believes that there are no secrets about the future, only common sense. If we are to have a peaceful, positive future, then Natural Law must be placed once more above human law. This is not something that can be avoided or ignored, for which there are any loopholes. Nature, Oren insists, must be kept pure, with all Life treated as being equal. We as humanity are not in control. The best role we can play is to be a steward, sensitive to the fact that every decision we make will have an impact upon the next seven generations to come. If we are to have a future that is to honor who we truly can become, then it must be one based on peace, not war. And there can be no peace if humanity is not of one mind.

Another member of the Six Nations Confederacy, who has served as the speaker of the House for the Grand Council, is Tadodaho Leon Shenandoah. He has been concerned that many of the old prophecies given to his people by Deganawida, Hiawatha and Handsome Lake (Skaniadariio), are beginning to show signs of being fulfilled. One prophecy foretold that the Iroquois would know that the end of the present world was at hand when the trees would begin dying from the tops down. This is now happening because of acid rain.

The predictions go on to say that a time is coming when there may be no corn to eat, that nothing will grow in gardens or fields, because the water will be too filthy to drink or be usable. Another sign is that a monster will then rise up out of the water and will murder many among humankind. One ancient name for this monster means, “a sickness that eats you from inside.”

Leon wonders if this could be the modern AIDS/HIV epidemic, or cancer. Whatever it is, this will then be followed by a great wind that shall make a hurricane look like a whisper, acting as a great cleanser in sweeping away the old world and bringing about new Creation.

However, the Iroquois elder also observed that we can change these future portents if we wish. His precepts for the future are that: 1) we live in harmony with the Natural World, 2) all races must stand together as one family, 3) we must raise leaders for peace not war, 4) all religions must unite as a single spiritual force, creating a spiritual energy a thousand times more powerful than nuclear energy, and 5) if we can combine our energy of peace with the spirit energy of the Natural World, as well as bring all people together in one body, one mind and one heart, then the future can blossom into nothing but peace.

We today who are the seventh generation from the Caretakers of the past, must now set the course for the next seven generations yet to be born.

Another contemporary teacher, Eddie Benton-Banai, whose real name is Bawd-way Wi Din or “Messenger,” is an Ojibway who was one of the early founders of the American Indian Movement. Today, as a Midewiwin priest, philosopher and poet, he is Grand Chief of the Three Fires Society, and also presides over the Red School House, an educational vehicle through which his goal is to re-awaken his people to the traditional ways and thereby save their future.

The Red School House is not only open for Native Americans, but to whites as well, for Eddie wishes to part what he called the “buckskin curtain,” that together they can create a spiritual renaissance, a revival of our original covenant with the Creator Spirit. Each person must now find and express their own “sovereignty,” their own inner responsibility and dignity. This is especially true, Eddie believes, for today’s children to learn—for they are the Grandmothers and Grandfathers of the world yet to come.

Harriet Star Leaf Gumbs, tribal spokesperson, teacher and historian for the Shinnecocks of Long Island, predicts that there will be a major revolution among all peoples in the world, that this must come if we are to survive. She also foresees that future generations will look back on the twentieth century as the Dark Ages, that the peoples who lived then will be remembered as the creators of garbage, poisons and cancer, inflicting their descendants for may years to come because of their modern short-sightedness.

However, Harriet also predicts that a better future can take place only if we today guarantee to leave our children a better place than was left to us. It is up to each person to hold a positive vision in their thoughts, while we celebrate a thanksgiving for what we have received from the Earth Mother and from the Creator. We are to then project that vision and that joy of thanksgiving forward, into the next seven generations.

Dhyani Ywahoo is an Etowah Cherokee chieftainess and founder of the Sunray Meditation Society in Vermont. She has reached out to bridge the gap between East and West by also embracing the discipline of Tibetan Buddhism. While keeping faithful to her traditionalist Native American upbringing, Dhyani nevertheless has found a sense of completion through her Buddhist practices, the two being perfectly complementary to one another. An avid student not only of her own tribal history, but also of all Native Peoples throughout the Americas, she firmly believes that we have already entered a prophesied period of world peace called the Age of Flowers.

“We are moving around the spiral, coming again to a place of whole civilization, of true planetary consciousness. According to the teachings of the Native elders, the Earth will not be destroyed by man’s armaments. If the Earth should decide to shake people free, it would be by the fire that comes to purify the aggressive tendencies of mind. So humans have a choice to transform that aggression.

“Many people are taking the right steps to look at the nature of their own minds, to find stability, to seek good relationships, and to be responsible in word, thought and action. This is making a difference.”

While much of the prophetic focus has been on the ending of the Present Age, a few Native American teachers have penetrated the veil of the future to witness what promises the next Ages beyond will hold for humanity. One such glimpse was given to Twyla Nitsch, also known to her many students as Two Wolves, or Yehwehnode, She Whose Voice Rides on the Wind. Twyla was the founder of the Seneca Indian Historical Society, and the Wolf Clan Teaching Lodge.

According to Twyla, the Next World Age, will be called the World of Illumination, a time when the Lost Wisdom of the past Worlds will finally stand fully revealed for everyone to partake in, with no more mysteries or hidden meanings. There will also be a Millennium of Peace, a birthing coming from the Rainbow Tribe for all humanity to join as One, forming a true Planetary Family. Through their combined Dream, a new Earth will begin to be formed, and Paradise will be restored.

The advent of the Next Age will be heralded by the appearance of four comets in the heavens which will bring a new wisdom of how to purify the four elements of the planet. New plants will also grow, causing the deserts to shrink, and new healing qualities in these plants will be discovered and applied. This will be the period, likewise, when the Nine-Pointed Star of Undivided Truth shall shine brightly in the Dream of all peoples.

The Age to be born beyond will be the World of Prophecy and Revelation. Here will be an era in which humanity will learn that all shared visions, all combined thoughts and feelings, can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, the means to bring all that is desired and remains in harmony with the Earth Mother’s and the Creator Spirit’s purpose, into complete manifestation. The one Dream of humanity will then join with the unified Dream of all Life of the planet, even with the Earth Mother Herself, to Dream together the great Dream of New Creation. We will also see the first reaching out heavenward, to share our great Dream with the Sky People inhabiting other worlds of the Universe.

Much farther in the future, we will enter yet another global experience or World Age, to be known as the World of Completion. This will be an Age when the Wheel of Life will be allowed to return to its starting place, and moves into the next spiral of the Sacred Dance, on a higher level of learning and understanding. Communication will be fully open with all the Kingdoms of the Earth Mother, visible and invisible, so that all can participate in the continuing action of New Creation. Within each human being the Eternal Flame will burn more brightly, while the Earth will be enveloped in a blanket of Living Light, becoming a Sun-Star among the Great Wheel of the Planets. Then humanity will also evolve into Perfect Light Beings.

This shall be a pre-requisite before we are eventually allowed to join back into the Light of the Creator Spirit, into Universal ONENESS. This shall be the ultimate fulfillment of Hail-lo-way-an, the Language of LOVE, that holds the Universe and all Existence together.

Spirit Messages Received by Apache Grandfather Stalking Wolf in the 1920’s

“These are the things yet to come that will mark the destruction of man. These things you may never see, but you must work to stop them, and pass these warnings on to your grandchildren. They are the possible futures of what will come if man does not come back to the Earth and begin to obey the laws of Creation and the Creator. There are four signs, four warnings, that only the children of the Earth will understand. Each warning marks the beginning of a possible future, and as each warning becomes reality, so too does the future it marks.

“This will be the first sign. There will come starvation before and after this starvation, but none will capture the attention of the world with such impact as does this one. The children of the Earth will know the lessons that are held in all of this pain and death, but the world will only see it as drought and famine, blaming Nature instead of itself.

“It is during the years of the famine, the first sign, that man will be plagued by a disease, a disease that will sweep the land and terrorize the masses. The white coats (doctors and scientists) will have no answers for the people, and a great cry will arise across the land. The disease will be born of monkeys, drugs and sex. It will destroy man from inside, making common sickness a killing disease. Mankind will bring this disease upon himself as a result of his life, his worship of sex and drugs, and a life away from Nature. This too is part of the first warning. But again man will not heed this warning and will continue to worship the false gods of sex and the unconscious spirit of drugs.

“The drugs will produce wars in the cities of man, and the nations will arise against those wars, arise against that killing disease. But the nations will fight in the wrong way, lashing out at the effect rather than the cause. It will never win these wars until the nation, until society, changes its values and stops chasing the gods of sex and drugs. It is then, in the years of the first sign, that men can change the course of the probable future. It is then that there can still be hope. But once the second sign of destruction appears, the Earth can no longer be healed on a physical level. Only a spiritual healing can then change the course of the probable futures of mankind.

“Then comes the second sign of the destruction of man. There will be holes in the sky. It is here, at the beginning of this second sign that man can no longer heal the Earth with physical action. It is here that man must heed the warning and work harder to change the future at hand. But man must not only work physically, he must also work spiritually, through prayer, for only through prayer can man now hope to heal the Earth and himself.

“These holes are a direct result of man’s life, his travel, and of the sins of his grandfathers and grandmothers. These holes, the second sign, will mark the killing of his grandchildren and will become a legacy to man’s life away from Nature. It is the time of these holes that will mark a great transition in mankind’s thinking. They will then be faced with a choice—a choice to continue following the path of destruction, or a choice to move back to the philosophy of the Earth and a simpler existence. It is here that the decision must be made, or all will be lost.

“This, then is the third sign, the night of the bleeding stars. It will become known throughout the world, for the sky in all lands will be red with the blood of the sky, day and night. It is then, with this sign of the third probable future, that there is no longer hope. Life on the Earth as man has lived it will come to an end, and there can be no turning back, physically or spiritually. It is then, if things are not changed during the second sign, that man will surely know the destruction of the Earth is at hand. It is then that the children of the Earth must run to the wild places and hide. For when the sky bleeds fire, there will be no safety in the world of man.

“For this time, when the stars bleed, to the fourth and final sign, will be four seasons of peace (one year). It is in these four seasons that the children of the Earth must live deep in the wild places and find a new home, close to the Earth and the Creator. It is only the children of the Earth that will survive, and they must live the philosophy of the Earth, never returning to the thinking of man. And survival will not be enough, for the children of the Earth must also live close to Spirit. So tell them not to hesitate if and when this third sign becomes manifest in the stars, for there are but four seasons to escape.

“The fourth and final sign will appear through the next ten winters (ten years) following the night that the stars will bleed. During this time, the Earth will heal itself and man will die. For those ten years, the children of the Earth must remain hidden in the wild places, make no permanent camps, and wander to avoid contact with the last remaining forces of man. They must remain hidden, like the ancient scouts, and fight the urge to go back to the destruction of man. Curiosity could kill many.

“There will be a great famine throughout the world, like man cannot imagine. Waters will run vile, the poisons of man’s sins running strong in the waters of the soils, lakes and rivers. Crops will fail, the animals of man will die, and disease will kill the masses. The grandchildren will feed upon the remains of the dead, and all about will be the cries of pain and anguish. Roving bands of men will hunt and kill other men for food, and water will always be scarce, getting scarcer with each passing year. The land, the water, the sky will all be poisioned, and man will live in the wrath of the Creator. Man will hide at first in the cities, but there he will die. A few will run to the wilderness, but the wilderness will destroy them, for they had long ago been given a choice. Man will be destroyed, his cities in ruin, and it is then that the grandchildren will pay for the sins of their grandfathers and grandmothers.

“There is only hope during the time of the first and second signs. Upon the third sign, the night of the bleeding, there is no longer hope, for only the children of the Earth will survive. Man will be given these warnings—if unheeded, there can be no hope, for only the children of Earth will purge themselves of the cancers of mankind, of mankind’s destructive thinking. It will be the children of Earth who will bring a new hope to the new society, living close to the Earth and Spirit.”

[Copyright 2009. Joseph Robert Jochmans. All Rights Reserved.]