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About migrations, origins, oral histories, evidence, Mali, Abubakari, Olmecs, Zulu elder, Hawaiian elder and more below:

African Sources: Oral histories from West African griots; metallurgical studies on West African alloys.
American Sources: Archaeological studies on Olmec heads and Mayan hieroglyphics; indigenous oral traditions.
European Sources: Accounts by Columbus, Balboa, and Rodrigo de Colmenares; records from the Portuguese crown.
Scientific Sources: Carbon dating of artifacts; metallurgical and linguistic analyses.
Archaeological and Anthropological Sources: Discoveries of African skeletons in the Caribbean; comparative studies of architectural and artistic motifs.
Oral Histories: Narratives passed down by indigenous and African-descended communities in the Americas.

This evidence reshapes our understanding of the Americas as a vibrant intersection of diverse civilizations long before 1492...

Additional Sources;

1. Malian Inscriptions and Artifacts in Brazil:
The "Brazil Tablet" or "Brazilian Statuette" is discussed in detail, highlighting its potential connections to Malian explorers. https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/did-early-transatlantic-explorers-drop-mysterious-tablet-brazilian-jungle-021497?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Further insights into the inscriptions and their possible interpretations are provided, suggesting a link to Malian colonists.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/does-mysterious-manuscript-describe-forgotten-malian-mausoleum-brazil-021528?utm_source=chatgpt.com

2. Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi) Migration:
Evidence of the Anasazi migrating southward into regions of Arizona and New Mexico is presented, indicating a swift movement.

The University of Arizona's State Museum provides information on the migration patterns of Ancestral Pueblo groups into southern Arizona.

The Utah History Encyclopedia discusses the southward movement of the Anasazi into the Little Colorado and Rio Grande river areas.

3. Cultural Connections and Theories:
The Santa Fe Institute explores various theories regarding the Anasazi's migration and potential cultural influences.

DesertUSA delves into the mysterious migration patterns of the Ancient Puebloans, providing insights into their movements.

Unveiling Pre-Columbian History: The African Influence on the Americas

On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus and his crew reached the Bahamas, an event often celebrated as a transformative moment in history. However, the dominant narrative surrounding this voyage omits critical details that reshape our understanding of pre-Columbian American history. Evidence from archaeology, anthropology, oral traditions, and various historical sources reveals significant African influence in the Americas long before Columbus's arrival.

African Contributions to Transatlantic Exploration

European seafaring advancements were not achieved in isolation. The Portuguese, for instance, sought the expertise of West African navigators to improve their ship designs and navigational techniques. Africans were not just consulted; they actively participated in these voyages. Pedro Nunes, the pilot for Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria, was of African descent. Tragically, despite his contributions, Nunes faced imprisonment and death upon returning to Europe after one of his expeditions.

Evidence of African Presence in Pre-Columbian America

Archaeological and historical records suggest Africans were present in the Americas centuries before Columbus. The Vikings, known to have reached North America by the early second millennium, were not the first outsiders to interact with Mesoamerican civilizations. Multiple forms of evidence point to African influence, including:

1. Artifacts and Metallurgy:
Columbus's second voyage uncovered gold-tipped spears in present-day Haiti, reportedly traded by black-skinned people from the southeast. Tests revealed these spearheads contained a unique alloy—18 parts gold, six parts silver, and eight parts copper—identical to West African metallurgy.

2. Linguistic Connections:
The indigenous term for these spears, guanin, matches the West African word for a similar alloy. Such linguistic parallels indicate cross-cultural interactions.

3. Iconographic Evidence:
The colossal Olmec heads, dated to around 800 BCE, depict distinctly African features, including broad noses, full lips, and even hairstyles resembling Ethiopian braids. Scholars like Dr. Ivan Van Sertima and Dr. Matthew Stirling have highlighted these sculptures' unmistakable Africoid characteristics.

4. Skeletal Discoveries:
The Smithsonian Institute unearthed African male skeletons in the U.S. Virgin Islands dating back to 1250 AD. Dental mutilations, a common African cultural practice, further validated their origins.

5. Historical Accounts:
European explorers, including Columbus and Vasco Núñez de Balboa, recorded interactions with African-descended populations in the Americas. Rodrigo de Colmenares, a captain under Balboa, noted the presence of black-skinned individuals east of the Gulf of San Miguel.

Cultural Parallels Between Africa and the Americas

The influence of African civilizations extended beyond physical presence, deeply impacting Mesoamerican culture.

1. Architecture and Engineering:
The dimensions of the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan and the Great Pyramid of Giza are strikingly similar, both featuring a base of 230 meters. These architectural feats suggest shared knowledge of engineering principles.

2. Religious and Spiritual Systems:
Both Egyptian and Mesoamerican societies worshipped a sun deity and had texts comparable to Egypt’s Book of the Dead. Rituals, calendrical systems, and funerary practices bear uncanny similarities, including cranial deformation, a practice observed among elites in both regions.

3. Hieroglyphic Scripts:
French missionary Pierre Maillard documented glyphs used by the Mi’kmaq people in Canada. Comparative studies by Barry Fell in the 1970s revealed striking parallels with Egyptian hieroglyphics, supporting the theory of cross-Atlantic cultural exchanges.

Reverse Influence: Mesoamerican Impact on Africa

Evidence also suggests that cultural influences traveled from the Americas to Africa. Botanical exchanges, such as the transfer of maize and tobacco to Africa, highlight this bidirectional exchange.

Loan Words Found Among the Garifuna

Loan words from African and Indigenous languages appear in Garifuna, an Arawakan language spoken by descendants of the Garinagu people. These linguistic borrowings provide evidence of cultural exchanges that enriched both societies.

Mexican and South American Sources and Connections

Connections to Mexican and South American Indigenous cultures further enrich this narrative. Indigenous trade networks, shared agricultural practices (e.g., the cultivation of maize and beans), and spiritual beliefs resonate with the heritage of Southeastern Native tribes, emphasizing broader pan-Indigenous ties across the Americas.

The Calabash Gourds as Evidence

Calabash gourds were used across various Indigenous cultures as tools, containers, and ceremonial objects. Among the Skarure Woccon people, these gourds symbolize cultural continuity, embodying ancestral traditions tied to the land and its people.

Scientific and Historical Validation

This growing body of evidence challenges mainstream historical narratives. Carbon dating, metallurgical analysis, iconography, and oral histories corroborate the presence of Africans in the Americas before Columbus. Scholars like Dr. Ivan Van Sertima have championed these findings, despite resistance from Eurocentric perspectives.

Additional Resources

NPR: "The Khoisan Once Were Kings of the Planet"

New Scientist: "Humanity's Forgotten Return to Africa"

NY Times: "A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World"

ResearchGate: "Spread of Salutrean Culture From Africa to North America"

With all of this evidence, it is impossible to dismiss these findings as mere coincidence, especially given the precise alignment of timelines and historical events. The pre-Columbian history of the Americas is far richer and more interconnected than traditionally acknowledged. Africans played a crucial role in shaping the cultural and technological landscapes of the Americas, as evidenced by artifacts, architecture, and shared traditions. Recognizing this history not only honors the contributions of African civilizations but also fosters a more inclusive understanding of global heritage.

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Mainstream scholarship often hesitates to recognize connections like those between the Dogon and Mesoamerican cultures due to several factors:

1. Eurocentric Historical Framework
For centuries, Western academia has focused on narratives that emphasize European primacy in global exploration and innovation. This bias often minimizes or dismisses evidence of transcontinental interactions involving non-European civilizations, especially African and Indigenous American cultures.

2. Lack of "Concrete" Evidence
While linguistic, cultural, and symbolic parallels are compelling, mainstream historians and archaeologists prioritize physical artifacts and incontrovertible evidence, such as documented trade routes, genetic studies, or inscriptions. Without direct proof of Dogon-Mesoamerican interactions, these connections remain speculative.

3. Fragmented Evidence
The evidence for such connections—artifacts, oral traditions, linguistic parallels, and symbolic overlaps—is often scattered across disciplines like anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics. Mainstream academics tend to silo these fields, making it harder to build interdisciplinary arguments for direct links.

4. Resistance to Paradigm Shifts
Acknowledging African or other non-European influences in the Americas prior to Columbus would require rethinking established historical narratives. This challenges deeply ingrained academic traditions and could undermine careers built on existing frameworks, leading to resistance.

5. Colonial Legacy
The colonial project depended on the idea of Indigenous isolation to justify conquest and exploitation. Acknowledging transcontinental links predating Columbus undermines these colonial narratives, so such evidence has historically been marginalized.

6. Oral Histories Are Devalued
Indigenous and African oral traditions are often dismissed as unreliable or "unscientific" in favor of written records. This Eurocentric bias leads to the erasure of non-Western contributions to history.
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7. Controversial Proponents

Scholars like Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, who argued for pre-Columbian African influences in the Americas, faced criticism not only for their conclusions but also for their methodologies. Mainstream academics often dismiss their work as pseudoscientific, even when it includes valid points.

8. Political Implications

Recognizing African influence in pre-Columbian America has significant cultural and political implications. It challenges narratives of European supremacy and reinforces the contributions of African and Indigenous peoples to global history, which can be seen as threatening to some established power structures.

9. Complexity of Validation

Proving ancient transoceanic contact requires interdisciplinary collaboration, advanced technology (e.g., DNA analysis), and significant funding. Such resources are not always allocated to these kinds of studies, further delaying validation.

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BE BETTER

EVIL COMES FROM WITHIN

Čwé·?n relatives,

Family, hear me clearly. Much of what we have been taught about life, about ourselves, about spirit, about one another has been incomplete, distorted, and full of holes. That confusion did not happen by accident. It has shaped how we see the world, how we see each other, and how we see ourselves. And if we are honest, it has created a reality that many of us are deeply unhappy living in.

But understand this. The power to change that reality is not outside of us. It never has been. It is in our hands. It always has been.

Most of what we were taught about religion and spirituality comes from one dominant lens with a few close relatives. The Abrahamic faiths Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, with Christianity being the most dominant here because it arrived with colonization. These systems were not born from this land. They were brought here.

Traditional Indigenous peoples practiced what today is often labeled animism, a word that has been intentionally made to sound primitive, savage, or damned. In truth, it is a way of life rooted in relationship. Relationship with land, water, animals, wind, ancestors, and spirit.

Many people struggle to reconcile these worlds. If you practice one of the Abrahamic faiths, it can feel difficult to understand Indigenous spirituality. If you are a traditionalist rooted in Indigenous ways, it can be difficult to extract wisdom from religious systems that were once used as tools of domination.

Before colonization, none of our people practiced Abrahamic religions. We did not read scripture because there was none. That was not our culture. Our colonial era grandparents lived under Christianity because the colonizers were Christian. Scripture governed their lives. But our pre colonial grandparents read something else entirely.

They read energy. They practiced divination. They listened to the leaves in the wind. They watched animals. They observed patterns in nature. When you live in relationship with the natural world, you learn to read signs and symbols the same way animals sense danger before humans do. Animals flee while humans hesitate. And often the so called inferior beings survive while humans stand still and are consumed by what they failed to notice.

After invasion, many of our families adopted Christianity, Islam, or Judaism. Sometimes by choice. Often by force. That means most of us carry both lineages. Pre colonial grandparents rooted in nature based spirituality and colonial era grandparents rooted in religion.

If you truly honor your ancestors, you do not choose one grandparent over another. You honor them all. But to do that properly, you must first resolve the conflict within yourself. A divided spirit cannot honor a whole lineage.

Personally, I call myself a born again primitive. I am relearning nature. Becoming one with it. Not seeing myself as superior to it or beneath it, but as part of it. This is the foundation of the Thanksgiving Address. Gratitude, balance, relationship.

My existence is my resistance.

On this Red Road, this new journey, you must leave old baggage behind. Whatever you messed up, whoever you offended, whatever you failed at, this is your chance to do better. Will you mess up again. Yes. Without question. But how you respond is what separates who you were from who you are becoming.

Growth requires mistakes. Evolution requires discomfort. Do not chase perfection. Strive toward it. Having goals and a plan is what allows abundance to show up in your life.

I will be honest about my own evolution. I used to dislike gay people. Some white people. Some Black people. Some Indigenous people. Wealthy people. Republicans. Democrats. In other words, I was a typical American. A product of a culture where everyone is taught to fear and hate everyone else.

America is a death culture. Since its founding, this country has known peace for only a small fraction of its existence. The rest of the time it has been at war, externally and internally.

Which wolf are you feeding.

In the past decade I have met many people who appear white but carry Indigenous blood. I have embraced cousins of fair complexion just as I have embraced those of African lineage connected to our bloodline. Because it is not about admixture. It is about mind, heart, intention, and action. The good mind, as we say.

Around 1989, I began to see the world differently. But it was not until 2009 to 2011 that it truly clicked. That shift took me through metaphysics, Buddhism, Eastern philosophies, African spirituality, Hoodoo, Moorish science, Islam, Judaism, Kabbalah, Gematria, Sufism, Yogic philosophy. And all of that brought me full circle back to what my mother, grandmother, and father shared with me about our Indigenous roots.

It also gave me a deeper understanding of the role the church played in the 1800s and early 1900s. The church was survival. The Underground Railroad could not have functioned without it.

Many so called Negro spirituals were coded messages. Moses was Harriet Tubman. The Jordan was the Ohio River, the Mississippi, and for us the Cape Fear. Wading in the water was about timing your escape. When you understand this, your view of the church changes.

This path led me deeper into land, water, Creator, and the sacred circle of all beings. And through that, I came to know myself. A better version of myself. One my ancestors would recognize and my children can be proud of.

We have been programmed to hate based on color, hair, belief, politics, and identity. Hate does not belong to one group. It is a human pattern. But unlike other species, we can choose.

You can choose narrow mindedness or you can expand your consciousness. Expansion will take you out of your comfort zone. Growth always does. The goal is not domination. The goal is harmony with nature without destroying the world in the process.

World power structures chose power over humanity. Their survival depends on manipulation. Division is their fuel.

Indigenous cultures understood gender and sexuality differently. Those who carried both masculine and feminine energies were recognized as purposeful beings. Not mistakes. Not abominations.

Yes, population control agendas exist. Yes, food systems, war, chemicals, and manipulation are real. But do not confuse Indigenous understanding of spirit with political exploitation. When you lack understanding, everything becomes mixed together and misdirected.

Nature was the religion of this land long before America existed.

I share this not to convince, but to offer perspective. These words are not mine alone. They align with how our ancestors understood creation as one. That understanding lives in the Thanksgiving Address.

The address reminds us to bring our minds together as one. To honor Earth, Water, Fish, Plants, Food, Medicine, Animals, Trees, Birds, Winds, Thunderers, Sun, Moon, Stars, Teachers, and Creator. To remember that nothing exists in isolation.

So stop judging people based on sexual orientation, religion, or politics.

Stop judging through a colonial lens of race.

Good and evil exist within everyone.

Stop assuming you know everything. That leaves no room to grow.

Stop gossiping and redirect that energy into building, teaching, and creating for your children.

Stop being full of yourself. Empty your cup so something new can enter.

This is not all about you.

Preparing the way for the next seven generations means understanding that you matter, but you are not the center of everything. Responsibility is.

Learn your responsibility to humanity, to your family, and to yourself. Everyone is born with gifts. But gifts come with responsibility. That teaching was given to me by elders across nations and by those who walked this path before me.

Honoring responsibility is 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

Respected Separation: The Living Distinctions Between the Tuscarora, Lumbee, Coharie, and Waccamaw Siouan Peoples

In North Carolina, it is no secret whispered only in archives or family kitchens that the Tuscarora, Lumbee, Coharie, and Waccamaw Siouan peoples are bound by blood, kinship, and shared history. Our families intermarried. Our ancestors traded, fought, survived, and endured together. We are related, this much is undeniable.

What is less understood, however, is why we are distinct today.

The difference is not one of worth, legitimacy, or humanity.

It is a difference of cultural orientation, continuity, and choice.

At its simplest, the distinction can be described as Traditionalist versus Pan-Indian / Pow-Wow culturalist but that simplicity sits atop centuries of history, pressure, survival strategies, and colonial interference.

Traditional Continuity vs. Pan-Indian Adaptation

The Tuscarora who properly call themselves Skarù·ręʔ have, across their various North Carolina communities, largely retained a traditional Iroquoian / Eastern Woodland lifeway. This includes social organization, ceremonial orientation, movement patterns in dance, foodways, agriculture, language structure, and worldview rooted in the Great Law of Peace, shaped further by Tuscarora-specific values developed long before European arrival and are connector our Northern cousins through bloodline lineage, heritage, culture and spirituality. In North Carolina we see Urentę and Northern cousins, Orenda, Unkwe as the universal life Force of creator in all of us and we respect that integral part of our genetic and cosmological make up in each other.

By contrast, the Lumbee, Coharie, and Waccamaw Siouan nations—particularly through the mid-20th century adopted what is commonly known as the Pan-Indian movement. This cultural shift emerged during a time when Indigenous people were being actively terminated, relocated, renamed, and erased. For many communities, Pan-Indian identity became a means of survival, visibility, and political defense.

This movement drew heavily from the cultures of Plains Nations, borrowing regalia styles, drum structures, dance forms, and public Pow-Wow formats that were never historically native to Eastern Woodland or Iroquoian peoples. While meaningful to many today, these expressions are often viewed by traditionalists not only among the Tuscarora, but among Plains Nations themselves as misplaced, ahistorical, and at times disrespectful, particularly when they overwrite older, localized traditions.

Names, Time, and Colonial Invention

It is important to speak plainly about timelines.

The Tuscarora Confederacy existed long before European contact, later becoming the 6th Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy itself. Split families migrated south generations before Europeans ever set foot on these lands, establishing long-standing communities in what is now North Carolina.

By contrast:

The Lumbee identity, as a tribe, was established in 1958

The Coharie identity was formally recognized in 1971

The Waccamaw Siouan received North Carolina state recognition in 1971, each tribe holds membership with the North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs.

These dates do not negate ancestry but they do matter when discussing historical continuity.

Many among the Coharie openly acknowledge Tuscarora ancestry, either directly or through the Coree / Nusiok peoples, who were historically part of the Tuscarora Confederacy. Even the name Coharie itself is Tuscarora in origin named after Chief Coharie (Cohary), who was executed alongside Chief Hancock at the end of the First Tuscarora War.

The Lumbee, who are direct relatives of the Coharie and Waccamaw Siouan, largely acknowledge Tuscarora blood as well but confusion was deliberately cultivated by state and federal authorities who repeatedly renamed them as part of termination policies designed to dissolve Indigenous land rights altogether.

A small but influential group largely composed of non-Native historians has persuaded segments of Lumbee leadership to pursue identity under the name Cheraw, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. While there are minor traces of Cheraw ancestry through families such as the Grooms, these traces are insufficient to justify claiming Cheraw as a primary or exclusive identity.

Notably, the Catawba Nation, into whom the historical Cheraw were absorbed, rejects these claims outright.

Living Tuscarora Ways

The Tuscarora in North Carolina are currently organized across multiple communities and do not yet operate under a single centralized council though as of late 2025, this reunification feels closer to reality than ever before.

Despite this decentralization, Tuscarora communities continue to live by:

The Great Law of Peace

Tuscarora-specific interpretations of governance

Living oral traditions

Ceremonial continuity

Language revitalization efforts ongoing for over a decade

While some Tuscarora communities host Pow-Wows, these are not the same as those held by the Lumbee, Coharie, or Waccamaw Siouan. Tuscarora gatherings more closely resemble community socials intimate, kin-centered gatherings that feel like extended family reunions.

There are no competitions for monetary gain, No storefronts and No commercialization. 

Food is cooked on site or brought by families to be shared freely. Stories are told. History is discussed. Songs are sung. Political and cultural matters are debated openly. These gatherings are not performances they are continuations.

Movement, Sound, and Direction

One of the most visible distinctions lies in movement.

Tuscarora dancers move counter-clockwise around the singers or fire keeping the heart toward the center. This is not symbolic flair; it is law, cosmology, and embodied knowledge.

By contrast, Waccamaw Siouan, Lumbee, and Coharie Pow-Wows, like most Pan-Indian gatherings, move clockwise. For this reason, many Tuscarora traditionalists refuse to participate. There is one ceremonial exception in which Tuscarora move clockwise but it is not discussed publicly.

The drums, rattles, and songs themselves are distinct as well rooted in Eastern Woodland/Iroquoian sound structures rather than Plains-style compositions.

Food, Seeds, and Memory

Foodways tell truths that paperwork cannot.

The Tuscarora historically controlled critical salt and spice trade routes, and many traditional food sources remain known and used today. While food and preparation methods are shared across related peoples, the Tuscarora have retained a clearer understanding of origin.

Into the early 2000s, Tuscarora families were still growing ancestral crops. Today, a revitalization movement led by Tuscarora and Seneca people are working to restore these crops and protect them from extinction.

Most notable among them is the long white Tuscarora corn, a crop originating in North Carolina among the Tuscarora, later adopted by the Haudenosaunee, and still grown today.

Agriculture was not supplementary to Tuscarora life it was foundational.

Dress, Psychology, and Recognition

Traditional Tuscarora dress reflects conservative Iroquoian aesthetics, blended with southeastern influences unique to our geography. In contrast, Lumbee, Coharie, and Waccamaw Siouan regalia largely reflects Pan-Indian Plains styles. They're all beautiful however we remain distinct as we still live according to the ways of our ancestors. In the face of colonial interruption, we are rebuilding, realigning and reclaiming what western government tried to erase.

Over time, these differences shape not only appearance, but psychology, speech patterns, and worldview. Often, one can recognize where a person comes from simply by talking with them.

This is not a value judgment.

It is an observation.

Respecting Difference Without Erasure

None of this is to say that modern Lumbee, Coharie, or Waccamaw Siouan culture is inferior or illegitimate. It is simply different from ancestral Tuscarora lifeways.

Many Lumbee, Coharie, and Waccamaw Siouan people do profound work for their communities whether through traditional knowledge, Pan-Indian practice, or adaptive cultural expression.

My position is simple:

These nations should be acknowledged as distinct peoples

Their right to self-identify should be respected

Ancestral truth should never be weaponized to erase others

Where correction is required is where identity is used to disenfranchise such as policies that label all Native people in Robeson and surrounding counties as Lumbee regardless of lineage, or when Tuscarora first-contact treaty peoples who never relinquished sovereignty are dismissed or misclassified.

These errors will be corrected—not by governments, but by the people.

If someone chooses to identify as Lumbee, Coharie, Waccamaw Siouan, or Tuscarora, that choice deserves respect. Likewise, if someone seeks to reconnect with a more traditional community, that decision should also be honored.

The living descendants of Tuscarora war crimes are still here.

They deserve acknowledgment.

Anything less mirrors the logic of boarding schools, killing the Indian to save the man.

That statement is offered not as accusation, but as invitation to reflection.

Respect is reciprocal.

Give it and it returns.

Closing

Through respected separation, we find unity.

Not by collapsing identities—but by honoring them.

Regardless of tribe.

Regardless of status.

We are still here.

Nyá•weh

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)