Face Painting Traditions Among Native American Warriors

Every story has a reason, to begin in such a season, to express oneself and the galaxy.  Find the perfect resonance calling, that I may paint my rawling * (the soul is golden, dream wisdom of the fierce warrior, who stands their ground together, like a dog soldiers), the expression of my devotion to God (oneness of all life, relatives). I come to you dressed in fashion, my face makes a statement to speak of heavenly beings again.  Gifting what my treasures, to dance and measure, the greatness of divine of all things.  


I fly with the eagle (holy morning star) and run with the buffalo (four sacred directions), where green grass flows over rolling hills (spiritual embrace of rainbow colors).  And if I paint my shadow (soul), then all will be known, the paddles (guide my journey), will be used on the ocean floor, to drive back home, to adore.  Heaven gift me spirit, I bring my soul near it. I express my heavenly virtues under the sun.  Watch me dance now, with my face and brow, there will be actions, when the night falls. I am the painted skill of all (display God's glory). 


Heaven gather in me. Bring the dance and song, together. I shall shine this glory, with my ability.  And if my face is chosen, to represent the golden, then the rays of God's blinding light shall sea, bringing me back to harmony. The places I seek, is the heart of the meek, to bless the star of the divine. But if I must trouble, then I will surely stumble around the rock, and glide freely. For my dance, will set me twirling around thee. And relatives be sure, that when you fumble, get up and make a tumble, because it's part of your dance, don't you sea. Bring spirit to action (ascending flesh, liberty), make embraces mere impaction (descending soul, increases density), toward the living life of eternity.


Sung by White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother
 

* Rawlings, Raw, Ralph: someone who lived at a row (a hedgerow or a row of houses), from northern Middle English raw ‘row’, Old English rāw. Germanic rad ‘counsel’, ‘advice’ + wolf ‘wolf’. To read more about Brother Wolf and his fierceness! http://peacefulwisdomprayer.blogspot.com/2009/05/brother-wolf-speaks-warrior-freedom.html

This was first introduced into England by Scandinavian settlers in the Old Norse form Ráðulfr. This interesting name is of early medieval English origin, and is one of the patronymic forms of the surname Rawling, developed from the Middle English given name "Rawlin". The personal name was adopted from the Old French "Raulin", itself a double diminutive of "Raw", with the Anglo-Norman French suffixes "-el" and "-in". Raw "someone who lived at a row" (a hedgerow or a row of houses) was one of the many variant forms of the male personal name Ralph, in origin an Old Norse name composed of the Germanic elements "rad", counsel, advice, with "wolf", wolf. This was first introduced into England by Scandinavian settlers in the Old Norse form "Rathulfr", and was reinforced after the Conquest of 1066 by the Norman forms "Raulf, Radulf".

A Coat of Arms granted to the Rawlings family is per pale white and black on a chevron between three martlets as many crescents all counterchanged. The Crest is a black ram passant attired gold.  Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling. Thank you http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Rawlings


Face Painting Traditions Among Men of the Plains
by Jonathan Holmes

While many of the traditions concerning face painting has been taught to me by northern and southern tribal elders, I prefer to maintain their privacy. Therefore, I have only used literary sources for references.

For years I have heard different generations ask about the practice of face painting by men dancing at Inter-tribal Pow-Wows or Formal Southern War Dances. So, in this article I will try to answer some of these questions. However, since this is sometimes a very complex topic, I would still suggest the reader do further study on their own, including talking with recognized elders within the tribal tradition the dance style and dance clothes in question may represent.

Obtaining Paint
The oldest materials used in paint were derived from animal, vegetable and mineral sources, with earth or mineral paint being the most common. White and yellow paint was obtained from white and yellow clays along river beds, and buffalo gallstones produced a different kind of yellow. Green paint was obtained from copper ores. One type of blue paint came from drying a certain type of duck manure, and some tribes would combine a bluish mud and yellow clay to make green paint. Powdered charred wood and black earth was used in making black paint.
The base for red paints, probably the most commonly used color, were crimson colored clay.
A brownish red paint could be obtained by baking yellow clay over ashes until it turned red.

A description of this is described by Frances Densmore in her work titled Teton Sioux Music,
“On the Standing Rock Reservation is found a yellow ocherous substance which, after being reduced to a fine powder, is used by the Indians in making yellow paint. This substance, when treated by means of heat, yields the vermilion used on all ceremonial articles as well as in painting the bodies of the Indians. The baking of this ocherous substance – a process which requires skill – is done by the women. First, the substance mixed with water is formed into a ball. A hole is dug in the ground in which a fire of oak bark is made. When the ground is baked the coals are removed, the ball is placed in the hole, and a fire is built above it. This fire is maintained at a gentle, even heat for about an hour, which is sufficient for the amount of the substance usually prepared at a time. The action of the heat changes the color of the substance to red. When the ball is cold, it is pounded to powder. In the old days this red powder was mixed with buffalo fat in making the paint, but at present time it is mixed with water. White, black and blue paints were obtained by mixing colored earthy substances with buffalo fat. The blue was found in southern Minnesota and required no treatment by heat, and the white and black in North Dakota.” (Densmore, 1918, p. 116)

To prepare them for use, most of the raw colored earth or clay deposits were baked and then ground into a powder. The powder was kept in a small buckskin bundle and would have been put into a larger decorated paint bag with other bundles of different colors, perhaps a bone or wooden applicator and a small mirror. When used they would either apply the paint dry or mix it with bear grease, buffalo tallow, or water to achieve the desired effect.

Because of the religious significance and the ceremonial uses many tribes had for red paint, the bright vermilion red paint offered to tribes by European Fur Traders was highly sought after at a very early date. According to J. Frederick Fausz, Ph.D., in his published curriculum for the 2004 course titled The Louisiana Expansion at the University of Missouri – St. Louis, he states that long before French explorers met them in 1673, the Osage had moved onto the central plains along with the related, neighboring tribes of Kansa (aka Kaw), Omaha, Ponca, and Quapaw. When St. Louis was founded in 1764, it is said that the Osage used their talents and knowledge to make the fur trade profitable because they were considered the best fur producers south of Canada. Therefore, the Osage received many European items in trade including Chinese vermilion (aka mercury sulfide face-paint).

Even among the Omaha, there is evidence that paint was obtained at a very early stage from traders, as evidenced by the following,
“Another saving of labor in comparison with old methods was involved in buying paints from the traders. The paint was sold in small packages not much larger than a paper of darning needles.” (Fletcher-LaFlesche, 1911, p. 615)

Older Uses of Face Paint
The painting of a man’s face and body among the Plains tribes during the buffalo days was said to be a form of mental conditioning. Warriors would paint themselves with personal protective designs and colors before they engaged in battle with an enemy. Hence the stereotypical term “war paint”.
This paint would have been prayed over. It was believed that prayers were put into the paint, and when applied, the power of the prayers were conveyed upon the wearer. Other times there might even be special songs sung when paint was applied. Some warriors applied the paint themselves, others preferred to be painted by a holy person or medicine man.

Frances Densmore in Teton Sioux Music again states that among the Teton Lakota,
“Little Buffalo (Tatanka-Cikala) was a man who ‘made medicine’ for the warriors. Using blue clay mixed with ‘medicine’, he painted a band across the man’s forehead with a branching end on each cheek bone, the painting being done only in war. Bear Eagle (Mato-Wanbli), who had been painted in this manner by Little Buffalo, recorded the two following songs. He said that the first one was sung by Little Buffalo alone as he painted them, and the second by the warriors after the painting was finished.” (Densmore, 1918, p. 350)

Face painting was, at other times, not connected with war preparation, as designs of various kinds were used to designate membership in societies; used when participating in ceremonies; used as marks of achievement; and used in morning for the dead.

According to Oglala Lakota holy man, Nicholas Black Elk in Joseph Brown’s work titled, The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux,
“By being painted, the people have been changed. They have undergone a new birth, and with this they have new responsibilities, new obligations, and a new relationship.” (Brown, 1953, p. 111)

Returning warriors of many Plains tribes, who had taken scalps of their enemies, often painted their faces black before returning to their camp. It has been said that the Crow believed that a blackened face symbolically represented the fires of revenge that had burned out after vanquishing their enemy.

The Pawnee scouts would paint their faces white to symbolize the wolf, whose spiritual power was considered to be of great help for a scout. According to Fletcher; LaFlesche in their work titled The Omaha Tribe, among the Omaha,

“Men generally painted their faces and bodies in accordance with dreams or in representation of some achievement or accorded honor”…”Before the advent of the looking glass a young man was painted by his friend”…When going into battle, on the surround at the tribal buffalo hunt, when taking part in the Hedewachi ceremony, at the Hethushka society, and the Pebble society, the painting on their faces and bodies had a serious significance partaking of the nature of an appeal or prayer.” (Fletcher-LaFlesche, 1911, p. 350)

Further in this same work, in a chapter on the Omaha men’s warrior society called Hethushka, it states, “Each man painted himself in accordance with the directions given him at the public ceremony when he received his grade of war honors.” (Fletcher-LaFlesche, 1911, p. 461)

At one time it is said, the Omaha and the Ponca were one tribe. After separating they retained similar societies such as the Hethuska society, and had similar ceremonies for conferring war honors. An example of the war honors among the Ponca includes reference to painting in Fletcher; LaFlesche’s work,
“First Honor: To strike an unwounded man. The sign of this honor was an eagle feather worn upright in the scalp lock; moccasin strings made of the skin of a gray wolf; the upper part of the body painted black”…”Second Honor: To be the first to strike a fallen enemy”…”the sign of this honor was an eagle feather worn horizontal in the scalp lock; painting the body irregularly in black stripes”…”Fifth Honor: To take a scalp. The sign of this honor was to paint the face with a slight tinge of red and put black stripes across it.”…”Sixth Honor: Capturing horses from the enemy. The badge of this honor was to wear at the dances a coil of rope around the body and to paint on the body figures shaped like the impression of a horses hoof.”
(Fletcher-LaFlesche, 1911, p. 440)

Modern Uses of Face Paint
Today face paint is still used by many Plains tribes for a variety of reasons. Many ceremonies, such as Sun Dance ceremonies, Naming ceremonies, Society ceremonies, Healing ceremonies, and ceremonies for returning Veterans may involve the painting of faces in one form or another.

Some designs and color patterns may be “owned” by individuals, families, clans or societies. In some tribes the rite to wear a design and color pattern may be handed down from one individual to a younger relative. For example, an old combat veteran, too feeble to dance at Pow-Wows anymore, could give his young grandson the rite to use his face paint pattern and colors when he dances.

In some tribes, face paint patterns, face paint colors, the paint itself, and a possible set of protective prayers or songs, could be purchased from one individual by another. A young man might come up to an older man saying something like, “I remember you used to wear a particular pattern of paint when you danced. I would like to give you these gifts in exchange for the right to honor you by wearing your design when I dance.” It would then be said that he paid for the rite to wear a particular design and color pattern.

Some modern traditional dancers are combat veterans who wear face paint that they wore while in combat, or in a dream related to their combat experience, or as a result of their combat experience.
In both Ponca and the Osage men’s warrior societies, it is common to see men wearing protective red paint at the corner of their eyes.

For the Ponca Hethuska,
“The common face paint design for a straight dancer is a red line extending back from the corner of each eye for about 2 inches.” (Howard, 1965, p. 65)

Among the Osage Inlonschka,
“In modern times Osages use very little face paint in the Inlonschka. Usually only a streak of red one finger wide is used from the edge of the eye to the earlobe, a pinch of red is placed on each earlobe.” (Callahan, 1990, p. 112)

Often times among the Ponca and Osage, a boy or young man is usually painted for the first time by a relative when they are given their “Indian Name”, or when they are brought into the dance circle for the first time. Depending upon their age, the individual applies it themselves from then on. This red protection paint, is said to protect the straight dancers from harm while in the dance circle.
Other southern plains tribes have similar variations of eye paint in different colors and different patterns such as in a “V” shape coming out from the corner of the eye, in a “V” shape with a center line or also known as a “crows foot” design, or a series of small dots.

Lastly, whether you are a northern traditional dancer, a southern straight dancer, a fancy feather dancer, a chicken dancer or a grass dancer, and you are considering wearing face paint, the first question you should ask yourself is “why”. Why should you be wearing it? For protection; to honor someone else; to be part of your personal experiences as a veteran; or to follow the dictates of a dream or visionary experience; or to show family, clan or society ties. Once you have answered the why, then you can move on to the how and when.

References:
Brown, Joseph Epes.
1953. The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK.
Callahan, Alice A.
1990. The Osage Ceremonial Dance, Inlonschka, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK.
Densmore, Frances.
1918. Teton Sioux Music, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. 61, U.S. Government Printing Office, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Fletcher, Alice C. And Joseph LaFlesche.
1911. The Omaha Tribe, Bureau of American Ethnology, 27th Annual Report 1905-06, U.S. Government Printing Office, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Howard, Dr. James H.
1965. The Ponca Tribe, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. 195, U.S. Government Printing Office, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Mails, Thomas E.
1972. Mystic Warriors of the Plains, Doubleday, New York, NY.

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There is a place where the Buffalo (flesh of earth, the light that grows, the four sacred directions, where we do) roam, and my heart does know how to roam, to be across the rolling hills, to eat of the green grass and know my fills. I am nourished by this love, the place, where I live inside the dark, the heaven calling, to fill me up. We the Rainbow Clan do know (how to drink from this spiritual cup), that we are part of this sacred show, where the Horse (soul of heaven, the heart that knows) runs wild and free, to be with Warriors, the Dog (rainbow warrior of prophecy who stands their ground) who bleeds (follows the red road, the law of love, where the fighting is for the unification of the broken heart, to bring the warrior up).

Chief Arvol Looking Horse Speaks About the Sweatlodge‏ and White Buffalo Calf Woman Sings

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From Chief Arvol Looking Horse......

As Keeper of our Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle, I am concerned for the 2 deaths and illnesses of the many people that participated in a sweat lodge in Sedona, Arizona that brought our sacred rite under fire in the news. I would like to clarify that this lodge and many others, are not our ceremonial way of life, because of the way they are being conducted. My prayers go out for their families and loved ones for their loss.

Our ceremonies are about life and healing, from the time this ancient ceremonial rite was given to our people, never has death been a part of our inikag¹a (life within) when conducted properly. Today the rite is interpreted as a sweat lodge, it is much more then that. So the term does not fit our real meaning of purification.

Inikag¹a is the oldest ceremony brought to us by Wakan Tanka (Great Spirit). 19 generations ago, the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Oyate (people), were given seven sacred rites of healing by a Spirit Woman ­ Pte San Win (White Buffalo Calf Woman). She brought these rites along with our sacred C¹anupa (pipe) to our People, when our ancestors were suffering from a difficult time. It was also brought for the future to help us for much more difficult times to come. They were brought to help us stay connected to who we are as a traditional cultural People. The values of conduct are very strict in any of these ceremonies, because we work with spirit. The way the Creator, Wakan Tanka told us; that if we stay humble and sincere, we will keep that connection with the inyan oyate (the stone people), who we call the Grandfathers, to be able to heal our selves and loved ones. We have a ³gift² of prayer and healing and have to stay humble with our Unc¹i Maka(Grandmother Earth) and with one another. The inikag¹a is used in all of the seven sacred rites to prepare and finish the ceremonies, along with the sacred eagle feather. The feather represents the sacred knowledge of our ancestors.

Our First Nations People have to earn the right to pour the mini wic¹oni(water of life) upon the inyan oyate (the stone people) in creating Inikag¹a- by going on the vision quest for four years and four years Sundance. Then you are put through a ceremony to be painted - to recognize that you have now earned that right to take care of someone¹s life through purification. They should also be able to understand our sacred language, to be able to understand the messages from the Grandfathers, because they are ancient,they are our spirit ancestors. They walk and teach the values of our culture; in being humble, wise, caring and compassionate.

What has happened in the news with the make shift sauna called the sweat lodge is not our ceremonial way of life!

When you do ceremony - you can not have money on your mind. We deal with the pure sincere energy to create healing that comes from everyone in that circle of ceremony. The heart and mind must be connected. When you involve money, it changes the energy of healing. The person wants to get what they paid for; the Spirit Grandfathers will not be there, our way of life is now being exploited! You do more damage then good. No² mention² of monetary energy should exist in healing, not even with a can of love donations. When that energy exists, they will not even come. Only Œafter¹ the ceremony, between the person that is being healed and the Intercessor who has helped connect with the Great Spirit, the energy of money can be given out of appreciation. That exchange of energy is from the heart; it is private and does not involve the Grandfathers! Whatever gift of appreciation the person who received the help, can now give the Intercessor what ever they feel their healing is worth.

In our Prophesy of the White Buffalo Calf Woman, she told us that she would return and stand upon the earth when we are having a hard time. In 1994 this began to happen with the birth of the white buffalo, not only their nation, but many animal nations began to show their sacred color, which is white. She predicted that at this time there would be many changes upon Grandmother Earth. There would be things that we never experienced or heard of before; climate changes, earth changes, diseases, disrespect for life and one another would be shocking and there would be also many false prophets!

My Grandmother that passed the bundle to me said I would be the last Keeper if the Oyate (people) do not straighten up. The assaults upon Grandmother Earth are horrendous, the assaults toward one another was not in our culture, the assaults against our People (Oyate) have been termed as genocide, and now we are experiencing spiritual genocide!

Because of the problems that began to arise with our rebirth of being able to do our ceremonies in the open since the Freedom of Religion Act of 1978, our Elders began talking to me about the abuses they seen in our ceremonial way of life, which was once very strict. After many years of witnessing their warnings, we held a meeting to address this very issue of lack of protocol in our ceremonies. After reaching an agreement of addressing the misconduct of our ceremonies and reminding of the proper protocols, a statement was made in March 2003. Every effort was made to insure our way of life of who we are as traditional cultural People was made, because these ways are for our future and all life upon the Grandmother Earth (Mitakuye Oyasin ­ All my relations), so that they may have good health. Because these atrocities are being mocked and practiced all over the world, there was even a film we made called ³Spirits for Sale².

The non-native people have a right to seek help from our ³First Nation Intercessors² for good health and well-being, it is up to that Intercessor. That is a privilege for all People that we gift for being able to have good health and understand that their protocol is to have respect and appreciate what we have to share. The First Nations Intercessor has to earn that right to our ceremonial way of life in the ways I have explained.

At this time, I would like to ask all Nations upon Grandmother Earth to please respect our sacred ceremonial way of life and stop the exploitation of our Tunka Oyate (Spiritual Grandfathers).

In a Sacred Hoop of Life, where there is no ending and no beginning!

Namah¹u yo (hear my words),
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White
Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle.

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Beloved Dancing Fingers and Relatives,


Recently there is an upsurge of hate crimes. There is a folding of dark and light space, called heaven and earth, the "shift".  And I have had more spiritual attacks on me, even by Lakota Peoples, and if Arvol Looking Horse wanted to help his people, he would be "Sitting upon the Mountain top" and looking into the valley below to seek me, White Buffalo Calf Woman, out from within.  He was informed when I started my walk as White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother five years ago, by Eagle Thunder, who went to his door. He refused to talk with me or invite me into his heart, even though many white calves told of my arrival, where Prophecy would walk and talk again. (Wakan Tankan = walking talking sacred, and united within and without, the Rainbow Warrior of Prophecy!)


Because the real problem is that he is a Lavender Person, crowned Holiness, who is the heart of the Lakota People.  This means, he becomes those around him, and the only way for him to be of sane mind and body is to practice his ceremonies and 20 minutes of drumming a day and bless the people constantly.  A remedy for all Lavender people and lavender overlays.  If sacred ways are not practiced, the Lavender person, who is crowned, like Holiness Looking Horse, the Lakota Chief, will become his relatives, and this means literally.  If others are hating around him, so will he.  If they are unable to forgive, you can bet so will he not forgive.  As the will of the flesh, like a child who learns to walk again, his head cut off (flesh unknowing), and thus the only way back is to use the soul's heart of love overflowing.  Not until he returns to love, the heartbeat of his true self with Holiness and Sacred thinking will the people know their way.  He must learn to make others flow into him.  To unite the heart of the people in flesh, to be Wakan (walkin) Tankan (talkin) sacred again.  There is so much to learn, about delivering Holiness to the people.  If you care at all for Chief Holiness Looking Horse, you would remind him constantly to bless himself and remind him to play his drum.  The heartbeat of the people as the master drummer. 

The people are angry, not practicing the law of love, because they are the most abused people on this world, on the Western Shore (the rising sun, called the morning star), and therefore ordained by the Oneness of God.  Mothers and Sons cannot stand with each other, because hope seems lost here, when the world send them poison in housing, and other inconsiderate behaviors of those who hate.  And due to this loathing of others and inability to forgive by the flesh, the Red Road, Hatred has become a way of life even for the Lakota. And why wouldn't the heart of the world, feel your deepest pain.  But inside their hearts, the Blue Road, the Souls of their inner beings, they suffer for love, as Soul Elders suffer for children.  They just need to realize who they are, just like the rest of the world, united within, to bring the morning star arising, the Sun in the Sky.  We always try to look after the children, the eternal continuation of the living Red Road, the law of love.  Those who suffer, are those who understand true love and this is why according to God and the Great Spirits who lead us all, say the Lakota People on the Western Shore are ordained, to spread and teach the Sacred Nine Ceremonies to the world. "It is the crystalline stone river, where the green grass grows, is where our tears must flow."  

Practicing Sacred Ceremonies are imperative to represent the Holy Four Directions of all the Rainbow People.  That means you.  The Lakota represent everyone on this earth.  The flesh wants to cling to old ways, where realms of light and dark are separated, the second rolling hill in time we are leaving.  And the soul is learning to find it's place within the darkness of heaven.  It is the blessed and sacred ways of ceremony that teach us to unite within, to be great warriors without.  There is much to do, ahead for us to enter the dawning, the period of the third rolling hill, we enter now, where heaven and earth, fold together as Oneness.  We all feel it.  We are all colliding with Darkness.  But only perfect blessings, will keep you safe.  This is why sacred ceremonies and hourly blessings, will lead the way into the Realm of Darkness, we all know as Heaven, the soul within, the stars that shine without, and the place of our Dreams, that sails in the breeze.


Now Eagle Thunder (Daniel Larvie) made several attempts on my behalf, as the voice and army of God and knocked on the Door of Holiness Looking Horse, the Lakota Chief.  We are not able to contact Eagle Thunder these days by email and are very concerned for his welfare. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area, like Holiness David and I do.  We'll catch him at the next Pow Wow at Stanford University. He travels back and forth between the Pine Ridge reservation each year. Please send loving prayers to Eagle Thunder's Heart, the Violet Person, who was with a pure heart, and song (sound) mind (and still is).

However he, Chief Arvol is our Holiness Looking Horse, who sits on the western shore, and it will be he, who must come to me, to bring the people homeward.  It is the Spirit of the Lake, that must embrace the world.  Not an easy task, but One Holiness Looking Horse, must have enough LOVE to overcome the Hatred of the World and join my hands in unity. I will await his arrival. And I ask my family to send in the wind, the safe passageway for his and the Lakota people into my heart. It is time to come home...

There is much to learn by all. Just last night, I was attacked again, by spirit elders (Native Americans who are soul elders to myself, a soul child) who harmed me pretty good, all because I would not allow the spirit world to intervene. I just don't like seaing, how they can literally control and pin anyone down to the earth, they want (the Great Spirit Father who has much power, and those who serve him). I feel so much sorrow for those who commit spiritual crimes and always, continually sing and pray for our peoples of the four colors of the world. Our relatives need us, sow we plant the seeds of love and purification, by teaching the laws of love, the Red Road, first to all, by saying, "I bless myself", "I bless the world", and "I bless you". (as Heaven descends with purification, we must trust the Great Spirits, as death, always brings the rebirth of the new life)

Many of us here, Prophecy of Rainbow Warriors are from heaven, and since we are like children, we rarely defend ourselves. But when someone attacks the ones we love, we become fierce and righteous to their hate. We send love, our greatest weapon.

Let us all remember the heart of Oneness, the Great Spirits, Great Spirit Father, Great Spirit Mother, and Great Spirit Uncle who lead us all, and the many who have not found their way homeward. It will take much hard work to bring our children home, to paradise, Heaven upon Earth. Let us start by showing everyone, that we walk the daily fire ceremony. Rituals are no longer the native people domain, it now belongs to the world, however it is the Lakota who are ordained in the western shore, where the Sun rises (in the world of light, where reflection is below, or mirror image - Mother Earth, the sun rises in the east, however in heaven where truth abounds, it is the western shore, where life rises up). Whom are ordained to manage and teach the ways of heaven upon the earth, to live the sacred ways! (Then comes the Dakota and Nakota, also ordained in the western shores to lead the spiritual world of oneness, where the Green Grass flows, the trail of tears.  However, the ones, where the water does flow on Mother Earth, the physical leaders who walk the blue sky, who are ordained, are the Blue Lake People, of the Taos New Mexico.)

Tell everyone, we are going home. We must save everyone and anyone we can. Be a good brother and hold their hands and show up when they are in need. Be a good sister and gift your heart, to all those who walk away, by sending love and blessings. And those who are willing to listen, after you practice the law of love, the embrace with validation of their voice, then and only then, shall we begin our walk into their hearts. Teach them the wisdom of the ages. Teach them the need for the daily walk about, with fire and blessings. And mostly teach them that prayer will literally save their flesh as well as their souls. The great migration has begun, let us join the eternal circle of life, and offer our hearts to all the relatives of the world of Heaven upon Earth. For even our Angels want to come home, to the land of abundance and brotherhood, the road of salvation when the dark and the light greet and dance together in harmony.

your devoted servant,
white buffalo calf woman, your twin deer mother
elder crystal person, wakan iyeshka or holy interpreter

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Song for You, my Children in the Wind!

Take my heart and fill it up, tell me when you know the start. Let me walk into the place, where sin has no place to start. Keep my hands from all hate. Keep my soul heaven sent. Hold my ways of sacredness, inside the heart of all those who win. I am the one who comes to hold. I am the one who is so bold. I am the place where paradise, is coming home, to all those who lie in the sun.

Prophecies are meant to be, to tell us stories for all to sea. And we must trust those who come, and walk with love and be like doves. When there is Oneness upon the land, then I will know all at hand, but now is the time for us to be, like little children who do believe.

Come, let's be the promise land, the place of wisdom that is at hand. And my true love, that is you, come be with God (oneness), the sacred view. We each have a gift, to be and stand. Each have a heart to love the land. And we shall be the heart that knows, that only love will fill the rose.

The place we need is left for you, to come to those who do not have a view. Those with closed doors and mistrusting hearts, we say to them, "It's time to start". Forgive them child, and learn to run, over rolling hills, and back again, to eternal dance is upon our souls, when we remember that we are bold.

We shall swarm the mountain tops. We shall roar thunder down below. And we shall be the Army of God, those who remember that love is told. We cannot stop from loving them. We cannot stop from being the wind. And we who know our place within, must trust our hearts, and begin the song. We sing and pray. We sing and dance. We are devout to the land. And when it's over and we've made it home, then we will be in the promise land.

Tears and Vision: dark (vastness of heaven), blue, thin black (horizon), violet, dark again (return to heaven from below) The colors tell me that we are bold, the related family who are not know (those with sin), they seek the heart of heaven sent, but they do not choose the loving wind. There is the will of many men (light of flesh, rainbow warriors of prophecy) who will win again, because their hearts are sent by God, and they will bring heaven down below. Because they are here. Because they are told! (good little children who know the way home, with love in their hearts)

Sung by White Buffalo Calf Woman, your devoted servant, Twin Deer Mother
Elder Crystal Person, sent by God, to show you the way home.
Drum by Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star, the house of the beloved,
who offers us shelter in the wind, with his devoted love, Elder Lavender Person
We are the House of David, the rising star, the perfect part of you within us all . . .

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