BE BETTER

EVIL COMES FROM WITHIN

Čwé·?n relatives,

My family, I need you all to please keep in mind, a lot of what we've been taught has been absolutely wrong and full of holes and has really confused the people and has tainted our perception of life, it has created a reality that many of us are not happy with for numerous reasons but you need to understand this, the power is in our hands to change everything and we absolutely do have the power to do that. 

One of the things I would like to say is, everything we thought and were taught about religion and spirituality has come from one main perspective but related to a few others, the Avrahamic faiths which is Christianity, Judaism and Islam, Christianity being the main one with close relatives, Judaism and Islam.

Traditional indigenous people who choose to practice traditional indigenous spirituality, another term would be called animism. This is usually frowned on and made to look savage, heathen or hellbound. Some people find it very difficult to make them all work together for example if you practice one of the three faiths then it's hard for you to fit in Indigenous spirituality or if you are a traditionalist practicing indigenous spirituality then sometimes you find it hard to pull from the knowledge wisdom and understanding that can be found within the Avrahamic faiths.

I like to put it this way, before the colonial invasion none of us practiced the Abrahamic faiths and we didn't read scriptures because there weren't any. This wasn't our culture or any part of it at the time. Our colonial era grandparents' lifestyle consisted of the Avrahamic faiths, main Christianity because the one who colonized us are Christians. They lived by the scriptures while our pre-colonial grandparents read peoples energy using what is called, Divination, they listened to the leaves whistling in the wind or observing the animals or just observing nature because living one with nature, you'll come to a point where you will learn how to read signs and symbols that nature provides for you similarly to how animals can detect danger before humans can so they run away while humans stand still and you're consumed by the danger the so-called inferior animals had already detected.

Listen again, after the invasion many of our families have adopted either by choice or through force, one of the Abrahamic faiths mainly Christianity so this means you have grandparents who were pre-colonial and they practiced nature-based beliefs and on the other hand you have grandparents who practiced religion, either 1. Christianity 2. Islam and 3. Judaism, so as a good grandchild you don't pick one grandparent over the other if you are one who honors your ancestors.

Honor all of your grandparents, colonial and pre-colonial, the religious ones and the nature-based ones but with this you need to come to an understanding within yourself before you can understand your ancestors and honor them properly because if you are conflicted within yourself how can you properly honor grandparents who may be nature-based or religious.

Personally speaking I'm a born again primitive, learning nature, becoming one with it and not seeing myself Superior to it or inferior standing beneath it. This is the whole basis of the Thanksgiving Address which you'll see at the end of my comment.

My EXISTENCE IS MY RESISTANCE

On this Red Road, this new journey, leave your old baggage behind and start a new. Whatever you screwed up, messed up, whoever you offended, now is your chance to start over and do better. Will we still mess up or screw up, yes yes & yes but how you handle these situations is what will set you apart from your old self. We have to mess up in order to learn, grow and evolve so don't be perfect but strive for perfection. 

I've never met a perfect person and that's a matter of perspective anyways however many teachers who have achieved their life's dream have taught that striving for perfection is just having goals with a plan of action so you're able to live and achieve the abundance you deserve.

I used to dislike gay people, some white people, some black people, some indigenous people, some wealthy people, republicans, democrats, in other words I was your average American because in America it seems everyone is on edge, everyone hates everyone, you will get sued for breathing to hard, American Culture is a death culture which is why since the founding of this country, America has only had 25 years of peace, the rest of the time America has been at war.

WHICH WOLF ARE YOU FEEDING

In the past 10 years I've met people who I would have thought were white people but turned out to have indigenous blood, they just took after the European side more in how they look. I've learned and have connected with many cousins of fair complexion and like I said before, we are cousins, We are Family, regardless of my Brown Hue and their European visage, We are Family because my blood is their blood and vice versa, we share the same ancestors, we share the same blood, that makes us family and I embraced it no differently from me embracing Africans connected to our bloodline because it's not about admixtures it's about your mind, the good mind is what we Tuscarora call it, it's about your heart and your intentions followed by your actions.

In 1989 I started looking at the world differently but about 25 years later around 2009-2011, that's when it finally clicked and I started to understand. This led me deeper into metaphysics, Buddhism and other eastern religions which took me back to African spirituality which led me to Hoodoo, Moorish science here in the west, going to the Islamic mosque jid, the Jewish Synagogue and learning Kabbalah, Gematria Sufism, Yogic philosophy which lead me back to what mama and grandma as well as my dad would share with me when talking about our indigenous American roots and this also taught me how important the. Church was during the 1800s and early 1900s, it was for our survival. The underground railroad would've been seriously handicapped without the church. 

Many of the negro spirituals were actually coded songs, when speaking of the Jordan, Jesus or Moses, these were metaphors. Moses during colonial times was no other than Harriet Tubman, the Jordan was the Ohio, Mississippi River and in our case, the Cape Fear. Wading in the water was about knowing the right time to escape and there's much more so I gained a brand-new look and understanding of the church. Here's two videos about the coded language:

Coded Negro Spirituals

Coded Language of Harriet Tubman

which lead me to uncover as much as I could specifically to our families and region of my ancestors and this lead me to a deeper appreciation of the the land, nature, water creator and all beings living within the sacred circle then I got to know myself, a different me, a better me, one my family, parents, ancestors and my people would be proud of as I am proud of them and honored to share our DNA relations .

I say all of this because we've been programmed to dislike peoples color, complexions hair and more. The hate comes from all sides, not just white people. Every culture, every race or nationality has shown hate to other cultures because this is the psychology of humans.

People have been doing this since the beginning however the great thing about us is we have the ability to choose so you can choose to be narrow-minded or you can choose to expand your consciousness which oftentimes will take you out of your comfort zone, remember it's about Growth and Evolving into a better human who knows how to live harmoniously with nature without destroying the world in the process. Tesla brought free energy to the world through his inventions and he wanted to give it to the people so we could live free but the World Powers had other plans which by being alive today is evident.

The WOP-World Power Brokers(Bankers) made their choice and they chose power over chosing humanity. To maintain their power is contingent on you being properly manipulated to maintain and sustain this power structure.

We've been taught to hate gay people when in fact, the indigenous peoples had a different view of gay people. In our culture we believe this is someone who embodies both male and female energies. They merge into a separate being with a purpose when born in this 3D reality however sometimes in the spirit world you agree to come here without separating to two energies.

If everyone is born with a purpose then this also applies to gay people because they are born with a purpose whether they know it or not but the problem lies with the power structures of the world who controls people and controls our perspective and how we see reality.

So I totally get the agenda to try to make everyone gay because this feeds right into the population control agenda because two species of the same sex cannot reproduce which cuts down on the population and when you pair this with them going to war with the public or should I say killing us through our foods which are genetically modified to also reduce the population and the many many other things we consume to reduce our population so this is a real thing when we're talking about population control by all means necessary.

This includes what's known as the gay agenda but the gay agenda and indigenous to spirits are not the same thing but when you do not understand this you mix it all together as a gumbo because you're looking through the lens as an average American or for us someone who has been reprogrammed in the image of our conquerors.

NATURE WAS THE RELIGION OF AMERICA

Here's a 2 minute video on Animism: https://youtu.be/3sI0N6bR7jg

Family I hope these words have helped someone or helped show different perspectives and giving you something to think about and to let you know that my words are not just mine because they are in line with our ancestors on how they saw creation as one, here's the Thanksgiving address below:

Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address

Greetings to the Natural World

The People
Today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things. So now, we bring our minds together as one as we give greetings and thanks to each other as people.

Now our minds are one.

The Earth Mother
We are all thankful to our Mother, the Earth, for she gives us all that we need for life. She supports our feet as we walk about upon her. It gives us joy that she continues to care for us
as she has from the beginning of time. To our mother, we send greetings and thanks.

Now our minds are one.

The Waters
We give thanks to all the waters of the world for quenching our thirst and providing us with strength. Water is life. We know its power in many forms- waterfalls and rain, mists and
streams, rivers and oceans. With one mind, we send greetings and thanks to the spirit of Water.

Now our minds are one.

The Fish
We turn our minds to the all the Fish life in the water. They were instructed to cleanse and purify the water. They also give themselves to us as food. We are grateful that we can still find pure water. So, we turn now to the Fish and send our greetings and thanks.

Now our minds are one.

The Plants
Now we turn toward the vast fields of Plant life. As far as the eye can see, the Plants grow, working many wonders. They sustain many life forms. With our minds gathered together, we give thanks and look forward to seeing Plant life for many generations to come.

Now our minds are one.

The Food Plants
With one mind, we turn to honor and thank all the Food Plants we harvest from the garden. Since the beginning of time, the grains, vegetables, beans and berries have helped the people survive. Many other living things draw strength from them too. We gather all the Plant Foods together as one and send them a greeting of thanks.

Now our minds are one.

The Medicine Herbs
Now we turn to all the Medicine herbs of the world. From the beginning they were instructed to take away sickness. They are always waiting and ready to heal us. We are happy there are still among us those special few who remember how to use these plants for healing. With one mind, we send greetings and thanks to the Medicines and to the keepers of the Medicines.

Now our minds are one.

The Animals
We gather our minds together to send greetings and thanks to all the Animal life in the world. They have many things to teach us as people. We are honored by them when they give up their lives so we may use their bodies as food for our people. We see them near our homes and in the deep forests. We are glad they are still here and we hope that it will always be so.

Now our minds are one

The Trees
We now turn our thoughts to the Trees. The Earth has many families of Trees who have their own instructions and uses. Some provide us with shelter and shade, others with fruit, beauty and other useful things. Many people of the world use a Tree as a symbol of peace and strength. With one mind, we greet and thank the Tree life.

Now our minds are one.

The Birds
We put our minds together as one and thank all the Birds who move and fly about over our heads. The Creator gave them beautiful songs. Each day they remind us to enjoy and appreciate life. The Eagle was chosen to be their leader. To all the Birds-from the smallest to the largest-we send our joyful greetings and thanks.

Now our minds are one.

The Four Winds
We are all thankful to the powers we know as the Four Winds. We hear their voices in the moving air as they refresh us and purify the air we breathe. They help us to bring the change of seasons. From the four directions they come, bringing us messages and giving us strength. With one mind, we send our greetings and thanks to the Four Winds.

Now our minds are one.

The Thunderers
Now we turn to the west where our grandfathers, the Thunder Beings, live. With lightning and thundering voices, they bring with them the water that renews life. We are thankful that they keep those evil things made by Evil-Ones underground. We bring our minds together as one to send greetings and thanks to our Grandfathers, the Thunderers.

Now our minds are one.

The Sun
We now send greetings and thanks to our eldest Brother, the Sun. Each day without fail he travels the sky from east to west, bringing the light of a new day. He is the source of all the fires of life. With one mind, we send greetings and thanks to our Brother, the Sun.

Now our minds are one.

Grandmother Moon
We put our minds together to give thanks to our oldest Grandmother, the Moon, who lights the night-time sky. She is the leader of woman all over the world, and she governs the movement of the ocean tides. By her changing face we measure time, and it is the Moon who watches over the arrival of children here on Earth. With one mind, we send greetings and thanks to our Grandmother, the Moon.

Now our minds are one.

The Stars
We give thanks to the Stars who are spread across the sky like jewelry. We see them in the night, helping the Moon to light the darkness and bringing dew to the gardens and growing things. When we travel at night, they guide us home. With our minds gathered together as one, we send greetings and thanks to the Stars.

Now our minds are one.

The Enlightened Teachers
We gather our minds to greet and thank the enlightened Teachers who have come to help throughout the ages. When we forget how to live in harmony, they remind us of the way we were instructed to live as people. With one mind, we send greetings and thanks to these caring teachers.

Now our minds are one.

The Creator
Now we turn our thoughts to the Creator, or Great Spirit, and send greetings and thanks for all the gifts of Creation. Everything we need to live a good life is here on this Mother Earth. For all the love that is still around us, we gather our minds together as one and send our choicest words of greetings and thanks to the Creator.

Now our minds are one.

Closing Words
We have now arrived at the place where we end our words. Of all the things we have named, it was not our intention to leave anything out. If something was forgotten, we leave it to each individual to send such greetings and thanks in their own way.

Now our minds are one.

Stop judging people all of the time based on their sexual preferences, religious or political affiliations.

Stop judging people based on your colonial mindset regarding race. Everyone has evil within them and good(God) within them.

Stop thinking you know everything because you leave no room to grow.

Stop gossipping and use that energy to create businesses and/or tech your children.

Stop being full(full of yourself). Empty you glass, at least pour half out so you can put the new stuff in.

It's not all about you. What does preparing the way for the next 7Generations mean to you? It means it's not all about you but you're definitely included but don't make it all about you.

Lastly, learn what your responsibility is to humanity, to your family and to yourself. You've heard that everyone is born with gifts or talents, this is true but the flip side to this is you also have a responsibility according to Indigenous elders across the nation and as I was taught by Tuscarora Seer Ted SilverHand, Tuscarora Pipe Carrier Rahkeh and Cherokee Seer Tsalagi Tonie White Wolf.

Honoring and learning your responsibility is your service to Self, Ancestors and Creator.

Rah: Ga Wah neh                  Lovell Eagle Elk 

THE MEDICINE WHEEL

THE SEVEN LESSONS OF THE MEDICINE WHEEL

"THE SCIENCE OF THE MEDICINE WHEEL

Many cultures have attempted to track the movements of the sun, the moon and the stars and have used these celestial bodies to measure time, to follow specific geographic routes using cardinal directions and to relate to the physical and spiritual world they live in. There are numerous examples of ancient sites around the world where ancient cultures and ancestors laid out stones in patterns that relate very closely to the movements of the sun and can be used as calendars showing accurate sunrises and sunsets on the solstices and observed equinoxes.

There are seven common teachings associated with the medicine wheel in many First Nations’ cultures. These teachings vary by tribal custom and by the elders relating their own heritage and stories. However, there are a lot of common themes that can be taught and discussed that are very relevant to modern life and can be proudly taught as evidence of the high level of knowledge in cosmic things, in the changing of seasons, in timekeeping, in the use and respect for animals, in plants and in the elements.

There is no right or wrong way to use the medicine wheel as a teaching tool. It is both a universal symbol and a personal mnemonic tool for various cultures. Inviting elders to relate their associated learnings about the medicine wheel is an important way of preserving and passing on culturally important knowledge. The knowledge vested in elders should be honoured and respected.

USING THE MEDICINE WHEEL IN TEACHINGS

THE CIRCLE

The circle, or wheel, is a common symbol in many cultures and represents several elements to the First Nations. The circle acknowledges the connectedness of everything in life, such as the four seasons, the four stages of life and the four winds, and it represents the continuous cycle and relationship of the seen and unseen, the physical and spiritual, birth and death, and the daily sunrise and sunset.

The circle is divided into four coloured quadrants. The colours can vary, but the symbolism remains similar amongst the first peoples. The wheel moves in a clockwise direction, with the teachings always beginning at the yellow, or eastern, quadrant. These colours relate to teachings of the directions, seasons, elements, animals, plants, heavenly bodies and the stages of life.

Question you can pose to students: Many things in the world are round. Can you name some?

Possible answers: The moon, the sun, the sacred hoop, the connections of all things, etc."

LESSON #1: THE FOUR DIRECTIONS

The four colour quadrants on the medicine wheel can represent the four directions: north, south, east and west. The teachings of the four directions start with the east, or yellow, quadrant and run clockwise around the circle. Red symbolizes the south, black the west and white the north.

How to teach the four directions: Here is a game you can play to help your students remember the directions. The teacher stands facing due north and holds out her arms. Pointing first with her right arm, she tells the students that this is east. The teacher then lowers her right arm and points with her left, showing where due west is when facing north. Then, the teacher can indicate that south is behind her, directly opposite of north. Practice with your students: have someone call out directions at random, and everyone must move or point in that direction as quickly as possible.

LESSON #2: THE FOUR SEASONS

The four seasons (spring, summer, fall and winter) are also represented in the medicine wheel’s colours. Yellow symbolizes spring. We start the wheel with yellow the same way we start the seasons with spring when life is renewed; it is a time of planting and birth. Red represents summer and is a time of abundance when ripe red berries are picked and fresh food is preserved. Black represents fall; this is when plants mature and harvests take place. White symbolizes the winter season when there is death and completion of the life cycle.

How to teach the four seasons: Students can name the seasons and talk about why each colour represents that specific season. Start with yellow and spring. Can they name some of the first yellow flowers that appear in early spring? What colour are most of the berries when ripened? Why would the colour white represent winter, and so on.

 

LESSON #3: THE FOUR ELEMENTS

The four elements, fire, earth, water and wind, can be taught through the medicine wheel. In the teaching of the elements, the yellow quadrant represents fire, since from fire we receive warmth and light. Red represents earth, as it is from the earth we receive the food we eat and the medicine we need to live; it is our life blood. Black symbolizes water. It is essential to our bodies, flowing to all the plants and animals on the earth. Wind is represented by the white quadrant. It is the air we need to breathe; it is the life-giving force we cannot see.

How to teach the four elements: An elder or teacher can discuss how the four elements are necessary to our existence and to the role we play in the world.

It is important to note the teachings in lessons 4 through 7 require an elder with special knowledge of the customs of the nation to discuss and teach to the youth of their community and heritage.

LESSON #4: ANIMALS

There are no firm rules about what animals are associated with the medicine wheel or in which quadrant they must be shown. This is a matter of choice and tradition. However, there are some common spirit animals that are associated with the wheel: the eagle, the buffalo, the wolf or coyote and the bear.

The eagle is most often shown in the yellow section and represents the eagle’s vision, power and ability to see the bigger picture of the world from above. The eagle is the bird that flies closest to the creator and is the messenger between people and the creator.

The buffalo is frequently represented in the red quadrant. The buffalo is a provider, a strong spirit with great endurance and emotional courage. In some cases, red also symbolizes the mouse or rabbit, spirit animals that are associated with abundance and busy working.

The wolf or coyote is normally shown in the black quadrant. The coyote is a spirit animal that is playful, adaptable and is often characterized as a “jokester”. The wolf spirit animal is intelligent, has strong instincts and demonstrates freedom as an essential way of life. The wolf at times can also represent distrust and fear of being threatened.

The white, or northern, quadrant is frequently associated with the bear, a brother to people. The bear is strong, confident and is a powerful image of healing for both the physical and emotional. The white section is also often associated with the white buffalo calf, which is a sacred animal to the first nations.

LESSON #5: PLANTS

The medicinal plants associated with the medicine wheel are all plants that can be used to smudge. The plant associated with the yellow/eastern section of the medicine wheel is tobacco. Tobacco is a sacred plant used to honour the creator. It was the first medicinal plant given to the people, and it is often offered as a gift to other medicinal plants, to honour the spirits or to begin a personal conversation with the creator.

The plant associated with the southern section is sage. Sage is often used in ceremonies as a smudge to remove negative energies, to cleanse the mind, and to ready for the ceremonies and teachings.

Sweetgrass is associated with the black/western quadrant. It is a calming smudge and is used for purification prior to important ceremonies.

Cedar is represented by the white/northern part of the medicine wheel, and it is a plant that can be used to purify an area such as a home or sweat lodge. It is often considered a guardian to keep away evil.

LESSON #6: HEAVENLY BODIES

The alignment of the medicine wheel on the ground is placed in relation to the heavenly bodies and how they move through our lives. The sun rises in the east, and so it is represented in the yellow section, the beginning of the medicine wheel. The rising sun signals a new day, and this section is also seen as morning in some teachings. The sun represents new beginnings and a renewal of the rhythms of life.

The earth is represented in the south, which is directly below the stars, or heavens. The earth is the sacred home of the people and is the giver of the essentials of life. It is a living system in which people are integrally bound from birth until death.

The moon is represented by the west or the blackness of night. The moon helps to guide times of planting and is a way to record time and events.

The stars are represented in the northern section. They mirror what is below and represent those that have gone before. They also represent ways of understanding and of navigating at night using constellations.

LESSON #7: STAGES OF LIFE

The four sections of the medicine wheel also symbolize the four stages of human life.

The eastern section represents the beginning of life, birth and early childhood. It is a time of innocence and purity. The east is where people come from. The east represents new life being brought into the world.

The southern section represents youth and adolescence, a time of growth and the beginning of knowledge. It is a time of learning and represents the mental development of self.

The west is the time of adulthood and parenthood, when responsibilities and nurturing are one’s main occupations. The west represents the emotional self and meeting the fulfilment of life as we find our meaning and place.

Finally, the northern section of the wheel represents elders, grandparents and death. The white symbolizes the hair of the elders and their years of learning. This is the place of wisdom and of imparting the knowledge gained from a lifetime of living in the physical world to the younger generations. It is a time of reflection, rest and increased understanding of the aspects of the spiritual world.

 https://saymag.com/the-seven-lessons-of-the-medicine-wheel/#:~:text=THE%20SCIENCE%20OF,all%20things%2C%20etc.

We Are Who We Are

My Family

We Are Who We Are

(unapologetically)

Our ancestors have been here in the Cape Fear region before the existence of European records of our land.

Our families, the Blanks, Freemans, Spauldings, Mitchells, Webbs, Lacewells, Grahams, Moores, Jacobs have been here before any outsiders stepped foot on our land. 

Some of our families belonged to the Siouan Culture (some claim eastern Blackfoot)...not to be confused as the same as the plains Blackfoot/Blackfeet people, Sissipaha/Saxapahaw/

isi asepihiye.

I am not certain but it is my belief that when people indicate a Blackfoot ancestry that it is Eastern Blackfoot instead of Plains Blackfoot. Eastern Black Foot may have gotten it's start through derogatory means but has became part of identity today much like the word Miccosukee (Pigs) Iroquois or Sioux (snakes), both were meant to be derogatory but have become a part of the norm and is now used for identity 

The Sissipaha were a Siouan group, mainly in northern North Carolina. They were a relatively small group, in close proximity to the plantations of the South.

Over time, unable to maintain an adequate population due slave raids and warfare, the Sissipaha scattered to more numerous tribes or coinhabited in "interracial" communities with runaway Black maroons on the frontier or in the Great Dismal Swamp area. By 1716, the Sissipaha ceased to exist as an independent tribe (ishi/ or /si/ means "foot" and/paha/ means "black/.) 

The colonists called them the Saxapahaw. The Haw River in North Carolina is named after them.

In a book, Chronicles of the Cape Fear, they mentioned one of the local native names for the Cape Fear River was, Sapona.

This is probably due to tributary rivers of the Cape Fear like the Haw river. There was definitely an Occaneechee-Saponi trail south to the Cape Fear as my 3rd great grandmother is from Granville County and she started a church in Hallsboro NC and since the popularity of DNA test I've connected with many from the regions occupied by the Saponi along the Virginia/ North Carolina border from the Piedmont to the coast and I match some enrolled in the various NC state tribes. 

This isn't unique to me. Many in our state match people of the various tribes because of mixing through refuge and consolidation by the Euro-colonist.

Today some of us acknowledge and accept our Blackfoot(Saponi), Waccamaw (Woccon), Mingo, Tuscarora, African, Middle Eastern, Asian and European connection and mixed heritage in the Cape Fear region while some of our family members choose to side with one over the other. Also knowing the history of NC, our family historians know and can show and prove that these admixtures are not unique to the Cape Fear region. Certain admixtures are present in all of the tribes, not just us and it doesn't negate your or my indigenous ancestral lineage or heritage. 

I've even heard another Tuscarora community member with the last name Jacobs refer to us as tainted blood because of African blood being present while these same people cheez with the biggest proud smile on their faces of having European blood.

The Gullah people in our area are proud of their dominant African heritage however like them we are proud of our dominant indigenous heritage and as historian Ernestine Keaton, we with dominant indigenous heritage and identify as Indigenous are called "Free Issue" people compared to those who have more of the Gullah heritage. 

Some of the enslaved Africans and enslaved Indigenous people escaped to the Great Pocasin (Green Swamp) where they followed a maroon called the "Swamp General or General of the Swamp" who we think was one of our indigenous ancestors because he knows the layout of the terrain which aided in successful raids until someone who looked like him became an informant which lead to his capture and execution.

As for the Jacobs name, my 5th great grandfather is Shadrack Jacobs who descends from Peter who descends from Primus then Daniel then Gabriel back to Robert. Daniel is the father of Tuscarora Chief Abraham and Thomas who are I directly descend from in my Jacobs line.

Following the wars called the French and Indian Wars, quite a number of Tuscaroras moved to the lower Cape Fear region and the southeastern part of North Carolina through lands obtained from  King George and these Chiefs and other kinsmen we're able to maintain their blood kinship ties with other Tuscaroras in Bertie, Bladen County called the "mother county" because Robeson and Columbus County came out of Bladen County, Cumberland, Duplin, Craven, Sampson, New Hanover and Brunswick County which was created out of Bladen & New Hanover Counties of North Carolina for hundreds of years.  

King George's Land Grant to Abraham Jacobs and Thomas Jacobs was present in 1764 in Duplin County along with Thomas Pugh and his wife Mary Scott according to Fix Cain of Skaroreh Katunuaka's historical facts who's one of the tribes tribal historians, he claims that tribal historians have noted that the Jacobs surname is highly recognized as Tuscarora in New York and it's obvious that Abraham Jacobs and Thomas Jacobs were part of the Tuscaroras who remained. 

My 5th great grandfathers Chief Jacobs and Chief Mitchell follow the same trail and relocation to the lower Cape Fear. Chief Mitchell established what's known as Mitchellfield Cemetery today. His land was adjacent to my other 5th great grandfather Abraham Freeman Sr. who children occupied what's known as Seabreaz (Freeman Beach/Carolina Beach) westward into Bladen/Columbus Counties). Freeman township is visible from hwy 74. 

Evidence of our existence and resistance is all around us if people would just open their eye ( 👁️ ) to see and ears to hear (eye or 3rd eye and ears signify your mind.

Fact of the matter is my family have no recent African ancestry and can only point to ancient admixtures when travelers or explorers from different lands landed on these shores and left DNA behind when introduced into the indigenous populations here.

We know our family history better than anyone else from the outside looking in. If your historical knowledge is primarily based on European records then no wonder for the confusion with acknowledging indigenous people who have more than one phenotype, hair texture or complexion and our existence shouldn't be a threat to who you are or any other indigenous people. We are of one blood and one mind, if you honor yours and my ancestors then you will learn to accept this even though you were brought up in a climate of division because our ancestors are the same, we fought the same war past and in the same struggle present.

Question, HOW CAN WE TUSCARORA EXPECT OTHERS TO ACCEPT US IN NC WHEN WE DON'T ACCEPT EACH OTHER? 

A lost History: understanding where the Eastern Blackfoot identity orginated Writting and artwork done by Guy Smith

     After first contact, the tribes on the eastern coast of what would become the United States of America felt the impact of the encroachment of the European Settlers on their lands. 

The tribal bodies that were found in the then Virginia colony were by this point under a constant state of stress. This stress caused the tribes, in many cases, to become restructured to adapt to the requirements of colonial life.

The groups seem to have adopted many peoples from other nationalities that could be found in ports throughout early America like the #Irish, #Scottish, #English, #Moorish, #NorthAfrican, free peoples of #SubSaharan #African #ancestry, as well as a host of other non Siouan tribes that also found themselves faced with a ever changing backdrop of western society as the British dove into their identities as colonialists.

     By the end of the 1600s the Eastern Siouans, or as they were known to each other, the Nassayn people, later they would come to identify as the Blackfoot Indians found in pockets of the South and the Midwest, were regrouped with other refugee indians from other non Siouan Bands at Fort Christianna in 1713, these indigenous factions over the next forty years, and their generations that followed, created kinship ties that would bond them together indefinitely.

Fort Christanna was a walled-off, self sustaining Indian village with its own crops to feed the peoples within the bounds of its walls, it was roughly six-square miles in size, by what is now Lawrenceville, Virginia, and was originally propped up by Virginia’s Governor, Alexander Spotswood.

Spotswood had the Virginia General Assembly charter the Virginia Indian Company to have the trade rights to the trading post at Fort Christanna, and in turn the Virginia Indian Company was responsible for funding its upkeep.

The Virginia Indian Company, in conjunction with the College of William & Mary, financed a school at the fort to teach Native children, as well as a church for the purpose of converting the tribes to Christianity. 

However by, “1717, the General Assembly, run by businessmen who fancied themselves a spot in the ‘Indian trade’ business,” disbanded the Virginia Indian Company, “claiming it gave the governor too much control.

Thus, the funding for Fort Christanna was cut off.”  After this agreement between the Virginia General Assembly, the Virginia Indian Company, and the College of William & Mary was disbanded the Native Americans still utilized Fort Christanna. This was until the fort, “fell into disrepair in the 1750s”.

     By the 1750s the peoples were separated into smaller tribal groups, thus for the purpose of this I will use their tribal affiliations once leaving the fort as they migrated, as they used their Kinship Networks to act as the Governance arms of their prospective tribal bodies.

However when talking about these refugee groups as a whole, because they united cohesively as peoples at #FortChristanna, I will reference them as the Nassayn peoples, or the Nassayn from Fort Christanna. 

Moving on, after leaving the fort the breakdown of leadership was dictated by each faction, but for the most part each family group had a chieftain to represent them, think of this position as akin to the Mayor of a city, while the tribal body as a whole had a “king Chief”, which would be equivalent to the state Governor, that would talk on behalf of the whole group when the Bands would meet together.

As I explained when looking at the settlement of the Tennessee communities, the Nassayn people, after Fort Christanna, were organized by tribal leadership under common surnames that acted as more of an identification to tribal heritage alignments rather than for hereditary purposes, with the exception of assimilation in where names were often changed, or in the case of free slaves where surnames of their past owners were bestowed upon them, the names did not serve the function of identifying ones blood relationships as surnames are commonly used in western societies.

For example, the Bass surname was from the #Nansemond, while the Sweat family name was from #Pamunkey stock, and both these tribal groups were from the #Powhatan Confederacy, the Gibson and Chavis families were from the #Saponi people proper, being that they were apart of the original Saponi tribe, and thus these families also have ties with the #Tuscarora tribe as well, while the Harris families came from the #Catawba tribe.

These reorganized Nassayn groups after leaving the fort were identifiable through their families surnames, and after the 1700s they primarily lived as small Bands, the groups for the most part were made up of English speaking individuals, they were Christian in religion, they privately owned lands, they often worked as farmers, laborers, and soldiers, fighting in almost every American Conflict since the country's inception.

Before the United States of America many of them earned their land titles through warring in support of the Crown, while later their offspring would gain more lands from fighting in service of the United States in wars like the Revolution and the War of 1812.

Through out the 1700s and 1800s these families would frequently move between their communities in the #Ozarks, the #Ohio River Valley, across #Appalachia, into the #Piedmonts, and in other places across the south, with these indigenous peoples keeping their links continuing well into the 1900s identifying under many names from #Blackfoot to #Cherokee to Black Irish or Black Dutch, etc, etc, etc.

The Iroquois (our folks in particular) were the Blackfoot the Iroquois. We were better known by some as Mingo. This is where you get the Indian settlement name in east Arcadia,  San Domingo,  from. San D' Mingo....this didn't come from the Spanish or because of Spanish relationships between them and natives. Mingo was corrupted into San Domingo with folks trying to trace the settlement name to the Spanish. Where it came from is the Algonquian word,  Mingwe.

The Europeans took that word and corrupted it into Mingo but the meaning stayed the same.

The older folks said San Domingo was an Indian word that meant,  Dangerous. Well that's exactly what Mingo means, Dangerous and Treacherous.

As Mingos, Blackfoot Mingos, the Iroquois Confederacy wanted us to abide by there rules and we said, no.

So because the French was building relationships with the Iroquois Confederacy, the French thought that relationship with the Confederacy included us since we were also Iroquoian but the French found out that we didn't care to have a relationship with them or the Confederacy.

They found out when we started killing them so they started calling us dangerous and a treacherous people, or simply, Mingo. We eventually started mixing and migrating with the Shawnee throughout Virginia,  Carolinas, Ohio and West Virginia.

 Our history was extremely active. Lots of wars,  moving around,  migrations and creating new bloodlines through mixing with others.

So down in the Cape Fear region, we hear historians speak about the Cape Fear/Waccamaw fighting against the Tuscarora. This is true but falsely implies all fought with Barnwell. 

Those of our family members who migrated from the Granville area,  those who identified as Eastern Blackfoot, and those are the ones who recognized some kinship to the Catawba,  those are the ones who mostly fought with Barnwell because they had long time historical feud with the Tuskies over land near the NC, VA line. 

The ones already in the Cape Fear joined the Tuscarora Confederacy.

Language gets confusing because we spoke 3 languages, Iroquois,  Algonquian and Siouan and within these three we also spoke a few different dialects and out of these I think we spoke a trade jargon for doing business with Europeans.

Now we can see how John Lawson  can be right and wrong at the same time, creating all types of errors and confusion today by people going off of his writings to try and understand Indian people especiallytheir languages duringcolonial times....

The original Waccamaw is from the Georgetown SC region connected to the Demery Settlement.

We have historical documentation connecting them as relatives to us in the Cape Fear region.

Lawson and other Colonial writers really made lots of mistakes in their recordings because they didn't know our languages however today they're writing is taken as ultimate truth.

WE DISAGREE

Later in the early 1700's we see that our ancestors practiced a Iroquoian culture and we've connected many of our people in this area to Indian Woods,  Tuscarora reservation.

Many other families in our area who were not connected to our Siouan ancestors of the 1500's are found living in this area in the 1700's again showing a migration from Indian Woods to Lake Waccamaw.

These other families are Brewington,  Pierce,  Cherry, Boone, Walker, Register, George, Blount, Hays, Bowen and Smith, Taylor, Collins, Rogers & Farrow. Some of the first set of family names are even recorded at Indian woods as well. 

We are recorded as a historical (Pre-colonial Nation/Tribe/Confederacy) in colonial records. 

Today some of us acknowledge and accept our Blackfoot(Saponi), Woccon, Waccamaw, Mingo & Tuscarora connection and mixed heritage in the Cape Fear region while some of our family members choose to side with one over the other.

Lumbee tribal members share some of the same ancestors as Waccamaw and Tuscarora. So does the Cohari, Meherrin, Occaneechi and Haliwa Saponi.

Many of the tribes have become Eurocentric in their thinking by choosing the way of the commercial NDN, favouring money, benefits, status and favour with White America over scattered and battered family members longing to reconnect with their heritage.

We acknowledge that we practiced a Siouan Culture because our neighbors to the North (were predominantly Algonquian) and south (our region) were predominantly Siouan like the Catawba and Waccamaw of South Carolina however the Iroquois culture was more dominant, absorbing smaller Algonquian and Siouan tribes in the neighboring region.

We also acknowledge that the Tuscarora culture is also alive and strong here as well and when I talk to some of our elders and ask them about hunting and farming practices, they tell me of the ways taught to them by their parents and grandparents which are the same ways the Iroquois practiced for example, the 3 Sisters.

We can't look over the fact that we were the first group of natives to greet the first Europeans. 

We were the first to make European contact by way of Chief Watcoosa which also made us the ones to experience European slavery, thievery and deceit before other Tribal Nations.

First contact means we took the brunt of all the hell that followed and made its way up the east coast then finally out west via the westward expansion.

We experienced the brutality of the Spanish, English, French, Irish and British.

Some Africans were also imported into our homeland area while many of us were exported to the islands of the West indies, Europe and believe it or not, Africa. Natives was enslaved and shipped around the world.

In the islands they would breed us and reship young bucks back to the mainland. The enslaved only knows they're on a ship crossing a lot of water then arrives in America. And your left with the colonizers story of your origin.

As a result of our early contact, today our family members who are descendants of our Cape Fear region ancestors wear many faces from light to dark in visage showing our diversity and at the same time showing our pain because our diversity came at a huge cost.

It's cost was bloodshed, genocide,  enslavement, loss of identity  & loss of culture.

Because of this, you don't know that we are related. You dont know that my ancestors are burried in Mitchellfield, Freeman, Cutler, MT. Hebron and Gum Swamp cemeteries.

 You don't know that East Arcadia, Buckhead, St. James, Hallsboro, Bolton, Delco, Reiglewood & Lake Waccamaw families are family but chose to go different routes during an era when race and ethnicity was either a way used to break you or make you.

Because of this you didn't know you are indigenous Native American or Indian. If a black or white married into an Indian family then they become what the family is.

How we lost our identities here was because of families leaving Indian communities for mill work and what they thought was better schooling.

Those who left were usually branded as black, Colored or Negro. Then a law was passed making natives into negroes. 

All these things were put in place to ensure you would not be able to claim Indian and that you owned no significant amount of land.

It was a method used by people of European descent to continue to expand their power and maintain their power.

Also because of the moving around and marrying outside of our communities, many of us don't look the same even though we share heritage and same ancestors. Our look is diverse but that's all it I, just a look.... phenotype. Your blood is still native.

 If you're born looking white but have the same grandparents, aunts and uncles as me then we are cousins. If you look like an African American,  the same things applies.

Because of this many outsiders try and define us by our looks.  Sadly many of our own family members define each other the same way.

This is a true sign that you've been:

Assimilated - Broken - Conquered (ABC)

This behaviour has been very destructive in our Columbus, Bladen, Brunswick and Robeson county communities and throughout our state as well as throughout the east coast.

Because the racism from the past is alive and well in the present (today) and with its promoters (racist) and descendants wanting everyone to forget about it (stop talking about it and leave the past in the past) while it's still currently influencing the nation's mood (nation is more divided than ever) politics and policies, it will surely be alive & well in the FUTURE.

This is why our unity is so important. If you can't unite for yourself then do it for (y)our children.

Our (past ancestors) are a reflection  through the many faces of (their descendants), us.

We look like everyone whose ever came here because they mixed in somewhere down the line into our indigenous family.

"my ancestors wear many faces (various looks) but have one heart, one mind, one love"...we are one family.

THE DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIAN DISCOVERY IS PRESENT IN TODAY'S PRACTICE & ACCEPTANCE....your behaviour and treatment towards eachother proves how alive & functional this still is.

You have the right to believe as you will but you have to acknowledge how we came to believe as we do.

Your acceptance of their culture and denial of ours continues to give this doctrine life. You have made it immortal by denying your ancestors.

TO DENY ME IS TO DENY THEM

This is not to demonize any belief but to give account of how dysfunctional it caused us to be from its inception.

No one can tell our history but us who the history belongs to and is written about. 

We appreciate everyone who has attempted,  tried and made great accomplishments when telling our story but the whole story has gotta come from the descendants of the ancestors being written and talked about.

Because Europeans distorted and rewrote our history we will definitely have to correct many of the fallacies about us meaning it's ultimately up to us to tell our complete history. 

All of the good works that you (people of European descent) have done can't be denied...you helped give us historical context via time lines, neighboring nations, geography, Eurocentric perspective and you kept great records on your own illegal crimes, etc... 

because back then you never thought a few hundred years into the future that we lowly savage Indians would understand not only your entire language but also your way of thinking as well as you...... sometimes we understand to well too the point of becoming you.

But in your records, what was missing was the subtle little things which are the links (oral traditions) in the chain and without a complete chain it's hard, almost impossible to move forward effectively.... knowledge gets lost in grammatical translation; language.

You and I (natives & people of colonial European descent) together are able to right so so so many wrongs that your people by way of "the Doctrine of Discovery" have perpetrated on my people who were not even considered people.

See, according to the Doctrine of Discovery and Manifest Destiny which was founded on the Doctrine of Christianity, you killing me and taking my land wasn't a crime. 

It's only a crime when you murder a person which you said I am not and only a crime of theft (stealing land), when the person on the land is considered a person which again, according to the D.O.D., we were not so the land was free to take.

As a matter of fact, no person had ever discovered the land until you did because according to your laws, your religion and your Doctrine of Discovery, you were the only person(s) to step foot on the land.

The other millions of RED FEET who were already here were connected to non-human bodies, us, you know,  the ones who are not people so we couldn't claim anything worth listening to.

The difference between us is we even consider the winged, 4legged, aquatic beings people who should be respected because we cannot survive without them.  

“Onkwehonwe-neha” means that all life – earth, water, plants, vegetables, trees, animals, rocks, winds, sun, moon, stars, and spirit world are all part of the circle. We are all part of life that the Creator made, she continues.

The plants need our carbon dioxide which it converts into something we need called oxygen. We coexist.

Have you ever tried living without it? How did that workout for you? 

Unfortunately racism has left its nasty stench on many of the tribes in the southeast.

Oftentimes many tribes discuss race before anything else in Native American politics. 

The colonists have taught many of the tribes well. Many tribes tried to become Europeanised to escape persecution. The more white you can become the better off you would be, at least this is what you thought.

Many who sided with them and try to be just like them in some way still got screwed by them.

Marrying a white person was called, "Marrying Up".

It's hard to fault a people for doing that when they see that as their only way of survival, protecting the children and women and the elders and the tribe from extinction however in 2017 there's no excuse for that type of mentality today. 

Your Eurocentric way of thinking has caused such a divide in the Native American Home and Community structure that we've become dysfunctional to the point of family not accepting family and putting politics over blood. 

So we tell you straight forward without anything to hide that our ancestors today wear many faces and we are proud to embrace our diversity....

....Sometimes you have to put yourself in your ancestors moccasins and say what would I have done if it were me during that time and you will probably come close or dead on point to what you're ancestors did.

Paper trails connect our Waccamaw ancestors to this area in the 16/1700s.

Its naive to think all of the Cape Fear who fled to the swamps disappeared. 

What more than likely happened is our ancestors married into the ones who fled from the coast living in the swamps and mixed and became one. 

 ......We can trace our ancestors to the same areas that the Cape Fear which means they intermixed and intermarried and became one bloodline which gives us claim as the Cape Fear Indians because this is our region...Tuscarora of the Cape Fear. 

This is where our core families are from and always been.

The Cape Fear Region according to the Wilmington Business Development extends from Wilmington to Columbus County, (New Hanover, Brunswick & Columbus Counties..also to include Bladen County).

Our family owned the area known as Carolina Beach and many of our family members are still there today and recognized as the first owners there, the area known as Seabreez..

We are the only ones who can claim to be indigenous to the Cape Fear region extending 50 to 60 miles from the coast.

The Indians of the Cape Fear, one of our main objectives is to accept all of our family, whether they are paternal or maternal, light or dark, republican or democrat, independent or if you don't participate in politics at all. FAMILY FIRST, ALL ELSE SECOND.

We are a family oriented people and we feel all family members have the right to be accepted members.

To see exactly how you are related to the core families you would need your genealogy, paper trail, DNA test is helpful but not mandatory as well as census and other documentations unless you were raised knowing your history. 

DNA can help expand your knowledge and connect you with other relatives even if you were raised knowing who you are. 

Yes we've been pretty quiey up to now. We are openly proclaiming who we are and welcoming family to come and like our page, share information and connect with family and help others reconnect.

Some are relearning and reconnecting to their culture, language, songs, ceremony, dances, drumming, etiquette and respect.

Without this we are whatever people define us to be. Without this we give validity to the many false names & racist history that was imposed on us and we continue to give life to Walter Pleckers Racial Integrity Act and the colonial genocide perpetrated on us from years ago. Don't perpetuate our on genocide by promoting hate of our own people.

I personally refuse to do that. I'm pro culture & pro family.

This post is not meant to offend, challenge, belittle or convert anyone.

This post is not directed at anyone, it's directed at everyone.

All your feedback is welcome.

Sincerely,

Stá·kwiʔáh Čuʔwahrú·wa? 

Chief Eagle Elk

Distinction between Lumbee, Coharee and Tuscarora

Distinctions between Tuscarora, Lumbee, and Coharie people.

It is no real mystery in North Carolina that the Tuscarora, and Lumbee as well as the Coharie people are closely related by blood, but what may not be widely known is the distinction between the three groups that makes them a separate people today.

To put it short, the main distinction is Traditionalist vs Pan-Indian/Pow-Wow culturalist.

The Tuscarora, preferably called Skarure people in their various communities tend to stick to the more traditional; Iroquois/Woodland culture of their ancestors where as the majority of the Lumbee and Coharie nations have adopted the Pan-Indian movement that started in the mid-early 20th century. 

This cultural movement mimicked the culture of Plains Nations people, however these displays of Pan-Indian culture is oftentimes looked at as disrespectful by traditionalist here as well as traditionalist of the people it is intended to mimic. In fact the name Lumbee and Coharie as a tribal identity was only created in recent history as the Lumbee was only established in 1958 and the Coharie in 1971. 

However the Tuscarora was established as a confederacy shortly after the establishment of the Haudenosaunee when split families migrated to what is now North Carolina, generations before the migration of Europeans to these lands.

"Today, much of the Coharie acknowledges their ancestral ties to the Tuscarora people via directly or by way of the Coree/Nusiock people who belonged to the Tuscarora Confederacy.

(The name Coharie iteself is a Tuscarora word, Coharie was named after the Tuscarora Chief, Coharie/Cohary who was executed alongside Chief Hancock at the end of the first Tuscarora war)

Their direct relatives, the Lumbee, seem to mostly agree that they have Tuscarora in them, but often times find confusion in this as the federal and state governments had insisted on changing their name multiples of times for the sake of their termination movement which was designed to eliminate indigenous rights and rights to lands. 

Today however, a minority, much of which consist of none native ‘historians’ have convinced the tribal government to seek full recognition under the identity of Cheraw despite all evidence indicating other wise.

Although their is small traces of Cheraw ancestry via the Grooms and possibly a few other families, it is not enough to claim it as their sole or primary heritage. The Catawba of whom the Cheraw absorbed into deny the Cheraw claims of the Lumbee."

The Tuscarora of the state is currently split into various communities and currently does not operate in a centralized single council despite various attempts being made to do so. 

They tend to oblige themselves by the traditional Iroquois laws and traditions of the ‘Great Law of Peace’ with a combination of values distinct among the Tuscarora.

Some of the language is still intact, and a renaissance to save it has been taking place for the last decade and a half. Traditional stories that originate with the Tuscarora, as well as the Haudenosaunee are still shared and the ceremonies are still practiced. Although some communities do host Pow-Wows, they do not tend to represent the same style of Pow-Wows hosted by the Coharie or Lumbee nations. Socials among the Tuscarora are more common than Pow-Wows, and they resemble something close to that of a close knit family reunion complete with food; song, dance, stories, and political and historical discussions, things like food stands or store fronts are none-existent among these socials, and the food is often cooked either on sight by a group of volunteers, or various individuals chip in with their own dishes for the whole community to enjoy. 

The songs and styles of drums and rattles are rather different than what is used at Lumbee/Coharie Pow-Wows, and one of the most noticeable differences is that the Tuscarora dance/move around the singers/fire counter clockwise, (with their heart on the side of the singers/fire). 

The Lumbee/Coharie Pow-Wows, like most Pow-Wows move clock wise and most traditionalist refuse to participate in these dances because of this. There is only one exception where Tuscarora move clock-wise which I wont speak of here publicly.

Some of the food sources are even traditional today which dates back to the Tuscaroras long established control of the salt and spice trade within the region. 

Although the food and the ways we prepare them are commonly shared among all of the people, it would appear that the Tuscarora for the most part are the ones that still understand their origins.

Much of the Tuscarora crops were still grown up into the early 2000s, and a cultural movement has been started by Tuscarora and Seneca people with the help of a a few seed stewards from Monacan, Saponi, and Lumbee people in hopes to reestablish our traditional crops; save our seeds from extinction, as well as to use this as a tool to educate as agricultural played a vital role in Tuscarora heritage.  

The most notable crop is the long white Tuscarora corn which has it’s historical origins in North Carolina among the Tuscarora, and was later adopted by the Haudenosaunee where it is also still grown today.

Our traditional dress is drastically different also, the Lumbee/Coharie dress is that of the style of the Pan-Indian movement, where as the Tuscarora traditional dress is that of conservative Iroquois style with a mix unique styles that originate within the south east.

In almost every manner, the distinctions is found in the physical, and psychological forms among the groups which can make it relatively easy to recognize where a person is from by simply talking to them.

This isn’t to say that the modern culture of the Lumbee/Coharie is negative, it is just distinct and different than that of their ancestors.  This Pan-Indian culture is shared among many eastern nations today, even of those who still hold on to their historical tribal identity.

There are many great Lumbee/Coharie people who do great things for their people by either using their traditional knowledge, or adapting the culture of the Pan-Indian Style.

It is my personal opinion that the Coharie and Lumbee be acknowledged as a distinct, and separate nations of that with the Tuscarora that share common ancestry. I personally acknowledge the right to self identify so as long as you don’t use it to oppress any other groups. 

(IE the Lumbee act where it labels all native people in Robeson and surrounding counties as Lumbee despite how distinct they may be). If a person wishes to identify with either groups, I feel their decision should be respected, and I also feel if any of  one groups members wish to disenfranchise and  enroll with a more traditional group, I feel their decision should also be respected.

Through Respected Separation, We Find Unity.

-Fix

 https://skarorehkatenuakafix.wordpress.com/#:~:text=Today%2C%20much%20of,of%20the%20Lumbee.

3rd EYE GATES OPEN

I'm sure everyone here is already aware that thoughts and energy imbalances can manifest as physical pain, dysfunction and discomfort.

This awareness will allow you to treat yourself on all levels instead of just the physical level which is what allopathic medicine focuses on. 

There's a time and a place for allopathy but we've been taught to only look at this as our only single source for healing which is fundamentally wrong.

This article is about, Signs and Symptoms of Spiritual Awakening and Expanded Consciousness ~ Ascension ~ Recieving Cosmic Downloads ~ Gates, Portals, Vortexes all opening during these hours known as Spirit hours also known as The Awakening which is when we're able to access, connect, etc....many religious people call this the Devil's Hour (what better way to scare someone off from evolving and exploring outside of religious dogma and indoctrination).

Here's a list of Ascension symptoms to help validate what some of you might be experiencing.

The following is a compilation of information from a variety of resources to offer an overall picture of Ascension symptoms.

Please note: Symptoms listed may or may not be attributed to this Ascension process so please follow your own inner guidance as to if you should consult a healthcare professional if/when needed.

Knowing

"You just know or sense intuitively that something is happening to your body. You have an unusual feeling that you can’t explain and sense your body responding differently now physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. You may feel at times like you are losing your mind or going a bit crazy with these unknown or uneasy feelings that are difficult to explain.

Physical Difficulties

•Aches, pains, and even itches throughout your entire body that come and go

•Soreness or stiffness in joints and muscles and bones for no apparent reason that are not due to injury, physical exercise or fatigue (especially in the neck, shoulder, back and spine)

•Pressure and pain in and around the head and face area including skull, eyes, ears, sinus, teeth including fillings, and gums,

Pinpricks, electrical shocks, falling asleep feelings, warming energies, tingles, and random spasms, rushes of energy, twitches and jolts that come and go for no reason

•Headaches and migraines that don’t respond to medicine

•Hair and nails grow faster and/or change in texture or density"

Vision

•General changes in vision and perception

•Catching glimpses of sparkles or flashes of light in your peripheral vision

•Dry or itchy eyes, blurry vision, seeing a haze or static-like energy in air

•Seeing auras or light around people, animals or objects

A sense of physical disorientation

•Often, in these cases, an eye exam would show no change in your actual vision. At times, you’ll additionally feel very ungrounded. You’ll be “spatially challenged” with the feeling like you can’t put two feet on the ground or that you’re walking between two worlds.

Heart

•Heart palpitations or flutters not related to exercise or medical conditions

•Lots of pressure on both the front of the chest as well as the mid back and upper breast plate area as there is an additional chakra vortex activating

•Periods of sudden nervousness or anxiety that comes and goes spontaneously for no reason

•Feeling drained of energy

•Unexplainable worry or panic

Nervous breakdown •sensations or feeling that you are spiraling out of control

Hearing

•Heightened sensitivity to sound

•Hearing unusual sounds or auditory sensations

•Ears popping and ringing

Hearing pings, beeps, tones frequencies whooshing and pulsating

•Feeling off balance, sense of vertigo

Cold or Flu Symptoms

•You might find cold or flu-like symptoms appearing and disappearing without developing into actual cold or flu. These could include:

•Stuffy head, pressure, sinus and allergy problems and respiratory changes

Changes in body

temperatures

•Increased sensitivity to heat or cold

Circulation issues

•Chills or hot flashes, night sweats and waves of heat throughout body

Fatigue

•Sometimes these symptoms manifest as periods of extreme fatigue for no apparent reason that happen out of the blue or upon awakening from a full-night’s sleep. You might feel as if you need many naps or the exact opposite—feeling wide awake and energized despite lack of sleep and being hyper-focused despite fatigue.

Intolerance

•During this time, you might feel a sense of intolerance towards lower vibrational things of the 3D world, reflected in conversations, attitudes, societal structures, healing modalities, etc.

Emotional Sadness or Disconnect

•Deep inner sadness for no apparent reason

•Feeling lost and or as if you are someone else

•Loss of ego or personal identity, old beliefs changing, feeling disassociated or fragmented

•Tears or crying for no apparent reason

•Feeling lonely or isolated, even when in the company of others, as if others can’t hear or see you or you’re not relating

•Desire to flee groups and crowds

•Disimpassioned, no desire to do anything

•Loss of motivation for hobbies and interests

•Experiencing more clumsiness or losing balance bumping into things, lack of coordination

•Feeling dizzy of lightheaded or jittery and nervous for no reason

•Moments of memory loss of “what was I just doing, or why did I come in here”, forgetting simple things or conversations, brain fog, jumbled words or scattered thinking

Relationship Changes

•Sudden or abrupt changes in relationships, job, career, living environment

•Urge to relocate or being drawn to particular area or place, resonating with certain geographic locations

•Changes in how you experience environment

•Sudden feelings of being connected to nature and animals like never before

•Increased sensitivity to plants, trees, flowers

•A deep understanding and appreciation of nature and animals and more natural or serene environments

•An overwhelming desire to be in nature or live around more natural and serene environments

•Nature begins to energize you and bring you peace of mind and expand your heart

•Change or withdrawal from family and friend relationships

•Chance encounters with unusual or meaningful people entering your life in synchronistic ways

Diet

•Changes in diet and eating habits and digestion

•Fluctuating between feeling hungry all the time to lack of appetite

•Foods and liquids begin to taste differently

•Cravings may come and go

•Healthier and more natural options may be more appealing than in the past

•Digestion, IBS, bloating, and gastrointestinal issues

•Swelling in lower abdomen and back

•Sudden weight gain or loss especially in belly area

Sleep and Dreams

•Unusual sleep patterns or changes in pattern

•Sleeping in short bursts on and off

•Finding more increased energy at night with frequent awakening between 2-4 a.m.

•Periods of insomnia that last for days.

•Intense or unusual or wild dreams or visions that can range from pleasant to bizarre to prophetic

•Increased lucid dreaming or astral projecting or other out of body experiences

•Specifically, you might be experiencing war and battle dreams, chase dreams or monster dreams. Many of us are literally releasing the old energy within and connecting with past lives, memories, experiences and knowledge.

Psychic Abilities

•Increased psychic awareness and sensitivity and other extra-sensory abilities

•Heightened intuition and the awakening of the third eye chakra or ‘inner vision’ and other chakras and psychic centers

•Causing interference in electrical appliances

•Electronic devices behaving in an unusual way or malfunctioning within your presence, especially when you are in a heightened state of emotion such as anger or sadness

•Having light bulbs blow out or flicker when you are near

•Batteries draining for no reason

•Personally feeling more drained or energetically depleted near too many electrical devices or when around them for long periods of time

•Sensitivity to electromagnetic fields and the ability to influence them

Odd Longings

•Many of us are experiencing a deep longing to go home, yet we’re not sure what home means. This is perhaps the most difficult and challenging of any of the conditions.

You may experience a deep and overwhelming desire to leave the planet and return to home. This is not a “suicidal” feeling. It is not based in anger or frustration.

You don’t want to make a big deal of it or cause drama for yourself or others in your life. There is a quiet part of you that wants to go home to the Ancient Knowledge that you are now aligning with.

The root cause for this is quite simple…you are ready to begin a new lifetime while still in this physical body.

Love

•Increased feelings of Divine and Unconditional LOVE

•Moments of gratitude and deep appreciation for life

•Increased peace, clarity, understanding and compassion

•Profound revelations and insights

•A sense of Oneness and interconnectedness

•Feeling more connected with nature, other people, animals, the universe, Spirit/Source, God, the All, etc.

•Encounters with angelic and cosmic beings and the awareness of the presence of non-physical entities or energies

•Sudden increase in synchronicity and meaningful coincidences that occur frequently when you least expect them

•Noticing 11:11 and other repeating number sequences such as 111, 1212, 333, 444, 144, or other numbers that are significant or meaningful popping up in your day-to-day life in unusual ways whenever you ‘happen to look’

•Uncanny alignment of events or chance encounters

•Meeting people in synchronistic ways which develop into significant relationships

If you identify with any of these conditions, know you are not alone! Most of us are likely experiencing many of these symptoms, and we are all in this journey together.

The first step is to spend time becoming aware of what you are feeling. Then, you will be able to begin the process of examining why your own symptoms are manifesting for you.

Also read Wave at Creator

http://nativeandproud.blogspot.com/2021/12/wave-to-creator.html

WAVE to CREATOR

Back in the 60's there was two medicine men who were forces to be reckoned with.

There abilities were uncanny. It seems like things just astrologically aligned for them and because of this they were able to help many people but sometimes it came at a cost to their own well being.

They definitely got the attention of the hippie population as many of them are usually looking for exotic people indigenous peoplesto learn from, communes, and things that provides a path to rebel against unjust wars, unfair taxation and abusive government, etc...it was especially popular with the hippie movement.

The two medicine men I want to talk about are Cherokee healer, Rolling Thunder and Tuscarora healer, Mad Bear Anderson.

RollingThunder:
To his neighbors and coworkers in
Carlin, Nevada he’s John Pope, a veteran brakeman for the Southern Pacific Railroad.

But his family, friends, and tribal brothers and sisters–as well as the hundreds of people who’ve witnessed demonstrations of his remarkable healing power–know him as Rolling Thunder, a native American Indian and heir to a traditional role among his people: that of inter-tribal medicine man.

In the manner of most such healers, Rolling Thunder deals more in matters of the spirit than of the flesh and–although he doesn’t “do anything for show”–evidences of his ability have been said to astound the most skeptical of observers.

For example, it’s reported that several years ago Rolling Thunder agreed to conduct a healing ritual for a research group at the Edgar Cayce Foundation in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

In addition to curing three patients with documented medical histories (who were selected beforehand by doctors at the conference), he treated a man who had severely crippled hands.

However, Rolling Thunder first had to describe the individual’s ailment so that the reluctant patient could be located in the audience and brought forward to be examined.

After the healer told the audience to look for someone with gnarled, twisted hands hidden in his pockets, the “volunteer” was found, brought to the stage, and cured of his handicap.

When he was questioned later about the incident, Rolling Thunder explained that the sick man’s spirit had come to him the night before the ceremony and insisted that he promise to treat the man, since the unfortunate individual wouldn’t have the courage to come forth and ask for help at the meeting himself.

Born in Oklahoma to Cherokee parents, reared in hardship, and later married to a Shoshone woman, Rolling Thunder is a modern-day Indian who’s trying to preserve the heritage of his ancestors.

Therefore throughout his adult life the medicine man has devoted his energies to various Indian causes (such as opposing the Bureau of Land Management’s systematic destruction of pinon trees on Shoshone Indian land), as well as to easing the pain of persons who come to him asking for assistance.

Rolling Thunder’s traditional name means “speaking the truth,” and he does offer a message about native Americans that’s sometimes grim and sometimes optimistic, but that always represents his true beliefs.

The tribal healer’s vision of reality is based upon the tragic past of his people and upon their close relationship to the earth, a special kinship between humanity and its environment that can provide inspiration for the simpler, back-to-the-land lifestyle so many folks yearn for these days.

However, this native American offers an unusual attitude toward living lightly on the planet, one that is entirely spiritual in its origin.

Like most American Indians, Rolling Thunder has a profound respect for Mother Earth and for all of her life forms.

During the course of his training in traditional native healing arts, the young Cherokee developed an awareness of and sensitivity to the spirit contained in all living things.

He has words of wisdom for the modern homesteader who wants to return to his or her “roots” in the soil, and to live a life that’s (quite literally) close to the land. He advises: “Love the earth, treat it gently, and it will reward you. “

Rolling Thunder also has much to say to practitioners of the various wholistic healing therapies.

Since he’s an inheritor and protector of ancient tribal secrets, the medicine man is naturally somewhat reserved when speaking with outsiders about such subjects, but willingly shares much of his knowledge with anyone who is seriously interested in his work.

MadBear Anderson:
Mad Bear is a highly sophisticated, articulate, and a skilled Medicine Man
who has traveled widely and lived and studied with Druids, Vikings,
Tibetans, Hindu yogis, and various aboriginal peoples in Asia and
Africa. He has been the catalyst for many healings.

Here's Rolling Thunder in his words:

Mad Bear said: "The purpose of good medicine is to make it simple.

There's no need to create any opposing destructive force; that
only makes more negative energy and more results and more problems.

"If you have a sense of opposition--that is, if you feel contempt for others--you're in a perfect position to receive their contempt.

The idea is to not be a receiver. You people have such anger and fear and contempt for your so-called criminals that your crime rate goes up and up. Your society has a high crime rate
because it is in a perfect position to receive crime.

You should be working WITH these people, not in opposition to them. The idea is to have contempt for crime, not for people.

It's a mistake to think of any group or person as an opponent, because when you do, that's what the group or person will become to you.

It's more useful to think of every other person as another YOU--to think of every individual as a representative
of the universe.

"Every person is plugged into the whole works.

Nobody is outside it or affects it any less than anybody else. Every person
is a model of life, so the true nature of a person is the nature of life.

I don't care how low you fall or how high you climb, economically or academically or anything else, you still represent the whole thing

Even the worst criminal in life
imprisonment sitting in his cell--the center of him is the same seed, the seed of the whole creation.".....

Mad Bear was a member of the Bear Clan of the Tuscarora Nation of the Six-Nation Iroquois Confederacy of the United States and Canada.

A Native American rights-activist, he was also a medicine man and a leader with great power and influence both among his own people and cross culturally.

So here's more about the 2nd WAVE according to my understanding after speaking with Shahawin.

1st Wave
The Indigenous Healers used musical carrier waves during that era in the 60's which was music of The Grateful Dead, they used this to push the energy wave throughout the universe because we are the universe and are intimately connected to it.

This wave went out and what was noticed was a polarity shift of the Mississippi river which changed directions.

It took 50 years for that wave to hit us today and now the Bear Council is ready to send the 2and wave from the Great Mississippi again all in alignment with the dimensional shifts from 3rd to 4th to 5th dimensions and beyond.

With these shifts, it will become evident as we see more storms like tornadoes, hurricanes, fires, etc which are the universes way of clearing the path for the 2nd wave to travel throughoutthe universe.

As Earth Mother's energy changes, some life will become unsustainable because it's all about frequency, vibration and energy which are one in the same.

Here's an example of what I'm saying to you, your carbon body is nothing more than a space suit giving the spirit being within a means to survive in this dense 3rd dimensional world.

Once your body returns to the ground the Spirit isn't able to survive as a Spirit being in this world of form, liquids and gases.

Well as humanity evolves up the dimensional ladder, our earth mother will go through her changes making it suitable for the evolved being to live however the ones who are not able to make the shift will still be stuck in a 3rd dimensional existence and the new earth will eventually become unsustainable for the old 3rd world beings.

You can see the energy changing just by observing the climate of politics and human to human relations today with the economy on the brink of collapse, the dollar being reduced to a piece of paper instead of money with value, death and destruction everytime you look at the news and to top it all off, China is the new financial superpower today, America is only hanging on because of it's militarily prowess.

Yes, there's many changes happening right before our eyes. This has happened many times by the way. Ever heard this saying before? "if you don't know your past your doomed to repeat it"...

That's because everytime the world starts over, so do we because we forget what once was instead of the world starting anew from where we left off with us evolving from the new start point instead of starting over.

That's why we're learning all of this old knowledge all over again about pyramids, vortexes, oneness, love, compassion, our star people family who modified our dna and left their signature found in the periodic table and the teachings called The Great Law of Peace which was established by Deganawida which was also called the Law of One during the Atlantean period taught by Thoth aka Djehuty, Jehuti, Tahuti, Tehuti, Zehuti, Techu, or Tetu, Lord of the Khemenu in the east (Khemet) and by the Greco'Romans located in the city of Khmun, later called Hermopolis Magna, he was called Hermes) and Shmounein in the Coptic rendering, and was partially destroyed in 1826.

In that city, he led the Ogdoad pantheon of eight principal deities. He also had numerous shrines within the cities of Abydos, Hesert, Urit, Per-Ab, Rekhui, Ta-ur, Sep, Hat, Pselket, Talmsis, Antcha-Mutet, Bah, Amen-heri-ab, and Ta-kens.

Over here in the west he was called Quetzalcoatl, Kukulcan or Ququmatz, Tlaloc, Tezcatlipoca, Huitzilopochtli and in North America, Deganawida. He's the same being and teacher known by different names by different cultures duringdifferenttime periods.

What about the supercontinent known as Pangaea, the enormous supercontinent that formed 300 million years ago and broke apart into the continents we know today. There were actually seven supercontinents throughout earth's history.

This results in new supercontinents forming and splitting up about every 400 to 500 million years.

We now know that over billions of years, continental drift has shaped almost every aspect of the Earth as we know it. Extinction events and climate changes are closely tied to plate tectonics.

So with all of this being said, what's the best medicine for humanity right now?

To some, the answer might seem obvious. They might respond with big-picture ideas like...

World peace & prosperity, decentralized currencies, cleaner ecosystems, & of course - a cure to COVID-19. Indeed, these are all good medicine...

While we may not yet know how to make these things happen, the fact that we talk about them at all gets the energy-ball rolling...

But did you know that YOU are also good medicine?

Your personal evolution affects the evolution of the collective consciousness...

When you unlock new levels of understanding, so do we...

And with these new levels, we can more clearly grasp & create real solutions to real problems.

Everything starts within, after all... and you're no exception.

Which is why we're so incredibly thankful that you're here with us on this planet...

So we can overcome our own inner turmoil, trauma, & illness...

Thereby liberating the collective from theirs. As we've explored briefly before...

Maybe the pandemic happened for a reason. It's kind of like the planet got so sick of our sickness, she gave us a sign - A Call to Action.

What if you could hear this call loud & clear, from a state of peace?

Speak with Mother Earth, lean into her love, & come to know her better...

Well, take a deep breath and look around you because she is Everywhere! Outside of you and within.

Earth surrounds you in her love... Heavens above - you're made of it!

And what if you always knew that, & felt it on all levels?

You'd be free with an entirely different outlook on life, a clear state, you could accomplish so much more... not just for yourself, but for our whole world...

This is why Nature gives so freely to us - so that we have the tools & the wisdom to give back and if you feel her call to you... it's time to answer.

Now we have the opportunity to evolve instead of forgetting by falling for the Spell which will cause many to be purged as Earth mother raises her temperature to kill the deadly virus called man.

There are more viruses than stars in the universe. More than a quadrillion quadrillion individual viruses exist on Earth, but most are not poised to hop into humans unless humans modify them to infect & affect us.

An estimated 10 nonillion (10 to the 31st power) individual viruses exist on our planet—enough to assign one to every star in the universe 100 million times over.

Viruses infiltrate every aspect of our natural world, seething in seawater, drifting through the atmosphere, and lurking in miniscule motes of soil.

Generally considered non-living entities, these pathogens can only replicate with the help of a host, and they are capable of hijacking organisms from every branch of the tree of life—including a multitude of human cells. It's no secret that humanity acts as a virus.

The human species, through the instrument of culture, has become the dominant force of planetary ecological change. Our adaptations have become maladaptive. Moreover, the human species as a whole now displays all four major characteristics of a malignant process: Rapid, Uncontrolled Growth; Invasion and Destruction of adjacent normal tissues (ecosystems); Metastasis (distant colonization); and dedifferentiation (loss of Distinctiveness in individual components).

We have become a malignant ecopathologic process. If this diagnosis is true, what is the prognosis?

The difference between us and most forms of cancer is that we can think, and we can decide not to be a cancer" which depending on the virus actually creates cancer i.e. human papilloma virus, hepatitis B virus, and herpes virus-8 which are the four DNA viruses that are capable of causing the development of human cancers.

So here's something significant you can do but don't stop once the dates pass, develop rituals within your daily lives that helps raise vibration.

Our Ceremonies, our dance, drums and songs naturally do this. It's a lifestyle I'm saying you need to adopt, internalize and own it.

Speak to your ancestors as if they're there because they are. Look at Earth mother as a sentient,  living being because she is. Our consciousness  chose the body's we have just like our mother chose her body which is the planet we live on but all apart of the collective universal consciousness.

Here's the dates of the upcoming event.

The 2and Wave Event, will take place on the 22nd & 23rd of January 2022. I was invited by the Bear Council to join the energy workers but I will not be able to attend however I will do my part from wherever I'm at on those dates.

You can participate by letting people know about the 2nd wave and start pushing it. Water (being near water) helps push the energy. Mountains provide a different energy to push but preferably water. Don't forget you're mostly water so if you're not near a lake, river or ocean,  that's ok, act on it anyway because you have power within you.

The hurricanes, tornadoes and climate changes are clearing the path for this Intentional Energy Wave.

Put your mind there and it will happen.

Rolling Thunder
https://youtu.be/RlW0GRhTRQ4

Mad Bear
https://youtu.be/Mz0T2ahu1X0

I want to thank Tuscarora Seer Uncle Ted Silverhand for his continued teachings, Council and insight as well as Rolling Thunders daughter Cherokee healer Shahawin who's continuing her dads path of healing. Thank you Shahawin for her teachings, council and perspective.
Thank you to the late Tsaligiu Tonie White Wolf, Cherokee Medicine woman and Seer for her teachings and guidance, nyaweh to Pura Fe for her teachings and confirmations when we talk and thanks to the teachers not mentioned here.

waʔkaya•θnahríhskę pronounced
wa' gah-yah snah-rees-keh meaning
"We are stronger together"

There's nothing we can't accomplish as long as we do it as one, together in unity.

Oo'neh (Hawuh)