"It's my hope this long-forgotten message to [President Harry] Truman will now—much too late, I'm afraid—get the attention it deserved back at the beginning of the Cold War. I first read it many years ago and was inspired to do so again today; it deeply moved me, to say the least. More than that, it deeply frightens me, it's a wake-up call from the Great Spirit that still isn't going to be heeded. But even when warnings are too late, they still must be given, so do share this with anyone and everyone."
Louis Kervin Jarvis
On Sep 6, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Louis Jarvis wrote:
The U.S. should never have mined the Sacred Scripture Circle---Hopiland from the Grand Canyon to the Sangre de Cristo---to obtain the uranium for "Little Boy," the bomb that killed as many as 100,000 innocent civilians in mere seconds at Hiroshima. In January 2012, Secretary Salazar (a 5th generation resident of the SLV and 12th generation Spaniard in New Mexico) signed a 20-year moratorium on new uranium mining in the Canyon, where traditional Hopi believed the Sipapu is located. If mining is renewed, Book of the Hopi foretells the consequence: "The United States will be destroyed, land and people, by atomic bombs and radioactivity."
Some of us remember Thomas Banyacya. On March 28, 1949, Thomas helped translate for the traditional [Hopi] Elders a letter to President Truman; this excerpt is the heart of the message:
"Today we, Hopi and white man, come face to face at the crossroad of our respective life. At last our paths have crossed and it was foretold it would be at the most critical time in the history of mankind. Everywhere people are confused. What we decide now and do hereafter will be the fate of our respective people. Because we Hopi leaders are following our traditional instructions, we must make our position clear to you and we expect you to do the same to us.. Now we are all talking about the Judgment Day. We are all aware of that fact because we are all going to that same point no matter what religion we believe in. In the light of our Hopi prophecy it is going to take place here and will be completed in the Hopi Empire. So for this reason we urge you to give these thoughts your most careful consideration and to reexamine your past deeds and future plans.
"Again we say let us put our house in order now. This land is a sacred home of the Hopi people and all the Indian Race in this land. It was given to the Hopi people the task to guard this land not by force of arms, not by killing, not by confiscating of properties, but by humble prayers, by obedience to our traditional and religious instructions and by being faithful to our Great Spirit Masau'u.. What Great Spirit made and planned no power on earth can change.
"Now we ask you, Mr. President, the American people and you, our own people, American Indians, to give these words of ours your most serious considerations. Let us all reexamine ourselves and see where we stand today. Great Spirit, Masau'u has granted us, the Indians, the first right to this land. This is our sacred soil.
"There is something terribly wrong with your system of government because after all these years, we the Indians are still licking on the bones and crumbs that fall to us from your tables. Have you forgotten the meaning of Thanksgiving Day? Have the American, white people, forgotten the treaties with the Indians, your duties and obligations as guardians?
"Now we have heard about the Atlantic security treaty which we understand will bind the United States, Canada and six other European nations to an alliance in which an attack against one would be considered an attack against all. We, the traditional leaders want you and the American people to know that we will stand firmly upon our own traditional and religious grounds. And that we will not bind ourselves to any foreign nation at this time. Neither will we go with you on a wild and reckless adventure which we know will lead only to a total ruin...
"Now we ask you, American people, what has become of your religion and your tradition? Where do we stand today? The time has now come for all of us as leaders of our people to reexamine ourselves, our past deeds, and our future plans. The Judgment Day will soon be upon us. Let us make haste and set our house in order before it is too late."
It appears, unfortunately, that President Obama is as blind as President Truman.
Louis Kervin Jarvis
On Sep 6, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Louis Jarvis wrote:
The U.S. should never have mined the Sacred Scripture Circle---Hopiland from the Grand Canyon to the Sangre de Cristo---to obtain the uranium for "Little Boy," the bomb that killed as many as 100,000 innocent civilians in mere seconds at Hiroshima. In January 2012, Secretary Salazar (a 5th generation resident of the SLV and 12th generation Spaniard in New Mexico) signed a 20-year moratorium on new uranium mining in the Canyon, where traditional Hopi believed the Sipapu is located. If mining is renewed, Book of the Hopi foretells the consequence: "The United States will be destroyed, land and people, by atomic bombs and radioactivity."
Some of us remember Thomas Banyacya. On March 28, 1949, Thomas helped translate for the traditional [Hopi] Elders a letter to President Truman; this excerpt is the heart of the message:
"Today we, Hopi and white man, come face to face at the crossroad of our respective life. At last our paths have crossed and it was foretold it would be at the most critical time in the history of mankind. Everywhere people are confused. What we decide now and do hereafter will be the fate of our respective people. Because we Hopi leaders are following our traditional instructions, we must make our position clear to you and we expect you to do the same to us.. Now we are all talking about the Judgment Day. We are all aware of that fact because we are all going to that same point no matter what religion we believe in. In the light of our Hopi prophecy it is going to take place here and will be completed in the Hopi Empire. So for this reason we urge you to give these thoughts your most careful consideration and to reexamine your past deeds and future plans.
"Again we say let us put our house in order now. This land is a sacred home of the Hopi people and all the Indian Race in this land. It was given to the Hopi people the task to guard this land not by force of arms, not by killing, not by confiscating of properties, but by humble prayers, by obedience to our traditional and religious instructions and by being faithful to our Great Spirit Masau'u.. What Great Spirit made and planned no power on earth can change.
"Now we ask you, Mr. President, the American people and you, our own people, American Indians, to give these words of ours your most serious considerations. Let us all reexamine ourselves and see where we stand today. Great Spirit, Masau'u has granted us, the Indians, the first right to this land. This is our sacred soil.
"There is something terribly wrong with your system of government because after all these years, we the Indians are still licking on the bones and crumbs that fall to us from your tables. Have you forgotten the meaning of Thanksgiving Day? Have the American, white people, forgotten the treaties with the Indians, your duties and obligations as guardians?
"Now we have heard about the Atlantic security treaty which we understand will bind the United States, Canada and six other European nations to an alliance in which an attack against one would be considered an attack against all. We, the traditional leaders want you and the American people to know that we will stand firmly upon our own traditional and religious grounds. And that we will not bind ourselves to any foreign nation at this time. Neither will we go with you on a wild and reckless adventure which we know will lead only to a total ruin...
"Now we ask you, American people, what has become of your religion and your tradition? Where do we stand today? The time has now come for all of us as leaders of our people to reexamine ourselves, our past deeds, and our future plans. The Judgment Day will soon be upon us. Let us make haste and set our house in order before it is too late."
It appears, unfortunately, that President Obama is as blind as President Truman.
