Two Worlds - Native American Radio

Listen Sundays from 9-11pm
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A talk with Sitting Bulls grand son

19:00 talks about Lakota, DNA & Genealogy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8E1UquRde4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Seminole massacre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWTeawuIMa4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Past Injustice is Todays Injustice

http://nativeamericanhistory.about.com/od/nativeconceptsandperspectives/a/How-The-Injustices-Of-The-Past-Are-The-Injustices-Of-Today-In-Indian-Country.htm

Our spirit don't speak English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDshQTBh5d4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

The Creator, Mother Earth & You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn1ym5r7pqg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

The natural world was made by God.
Ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.—Job 12:7–10 NIV

In His hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the hills are His also. The sea is His, for He made it; and His hands formed the dry land.—Psalm 95:4–5

All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.—John 1:3

The power and wisdom of God can be seen in nature.
Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God’s wonders. Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash? Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge?—Job 37:14–16 NIV

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.—Psalm 19:1 NIV

Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.—Isaiah 40:26 NIV

Since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made.—Romans 1:20 NIV

O Lord, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your creatures. Here is the ocean, vast and wide, teeming with life of every kind, both large and small. —Psalm 104:24–25 NLT

God and nature have a living relationship.
The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display his craftsmanship.— Psalm 19:1 NLT

The earth is full of [God’s] unfailing love.—Psalm 33:5 NIV

You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. You drench its furrows and level its ridges; you soften it with showers and bless its crops. The grasslands of the wilderness overflow; the hills are clothed with gladness. The meadows are covered with flocks and the valleys are mantled with grain; they shout for joy and sing.—Psalm 65:9–10, 12–13 NIV

The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.— Psalm 145:9 NIV

The beast of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.—Isaiah 43:20

You have made heaven, the earth and everything on it, the seas and all that is in them, and You preserve them all.—Nehemiah 9:6

Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them.—Matthew 6:26

God expects us to take care of the natural world.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”—Genesis 1:26 NIV

The land belongs to me. You are only foreigners and tenant farmers working for me.—Leviticus 25:23 NLT

A righteous man regards the life of his animal.—Proverbs 12:10

Lack of care for His creation displeases God.
They have made it an empty wasteland; I hear its mournful cry. The whole land is desolate, and no one even cares.—Jeremiah 12:11 NLT

Woe to you shepherds who only take care of yourselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock? You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock.—Ezekiel 34:2–3 NIV

Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?—Ezekiel 34:18 NIV

If we don’t take care of our planet, we will suffer the consequences.
The earth mourns and dries up, and the crops waste away and wither. Even the greatest people on earth waste away. The earth suffers for the sins of its people, for they have twisted God’s instructions, violated his laws, and broken his everlasting covenant. Therefore, a curse consumes the earth.—Isaiah 24:4–6 NLT

The time has come for rewarding your servants the prophets and people—and for destroying those who destroy the earth.—Revelation 11:18 NIV ■

Woman-The True Leader

Native  societies are traditionally matrilineal and matrilocal. Many Native American tribes have been matrilineal.

Matrilocal means that a married couple lived with or near the woman’s family, that women owned their homes and fields, and a child’s clan affiliation derived from the mother.

“Europeans were astonished to see that native women were the equals of men—politically, economically and theologically. “Women had autonomy and sexual freedom, could obtain divorce easily, rarely experienced rape or domestic violence, worked as producers/farmers, owned their own homes and fields, possessed a cosmology that contains female supernatural figures, and had significant political and economic power,”.

“Native women’s close association with nature, as mothers and producers, served as a basis of their power within the tribe, not as a basis of oppression. Their position as ‘the other’ led to gender equivalence, not hierarchy.”

“The U.S. government and missionaries made a concerted effort to transform native gender roles and attitudes towards sexuality and the body,” says Johnston. “They sought to inculcate Euro-American values of true womanhood and confine native women to the domestic sphere.

They met with resistance from the traditional natives, but, over the course of contact, wealthier members of that society, often of mixed ancestry, readily accepted both Christianity and the ideals of true womanhood.

This gender inequality intersected with class inequality because more affluent women were freed from most domestic labor by hired help of slaves, and they had the means to acquire education and gentility.

By the end of the 18th century, native women no longer agreed among themselves what it meant to be a woman.”

Our society is modeled after White Euro-American values. Maybe the matrilinear societies were set up for balance, for women to have power.

Maybe it was the white European society that came in and conquered that insisted on patriarchy.
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Cultural Perspective

Kay Givens McGowan writes, “The great Native American civilizations of the Southeast … including the Cherokee, Choc-taw, Chickasaw, Muscogee, and Seminole, Yamassee—were matriarchal societies. In them, women, as equals of the men, had power and influence.

All of this changed with the coming of the Europeans, who assumed that Native people lived as Europeans did, in patriarchal systems, in which elite men defined the “appropriate way” for women to behave.”

The Haudenosaunee Clan Mothers are an example of the powerful roles American Indian women held.

The Onondaga Nation website states that the Clan Mothers “work with chiefs in making decisions for the people.” They also have the duty to ensure their way of life continues.

The Tuscarora women in North Carolina are known for their strength and resiliency as described in the stories of how the women fought until their last breath during the Fort Neeherooka massacre where the monument stands today, hundreds of years later as a reminder. Our Tuscarora relatives in New York also exemplified this during the "Death March or Death Trail" when relocating to New York and our Tuscarora women who stayed and were fragmented, enslaved and in many cases sacrificed their identities in order to survive.

The traditional roles of women in American Indian cultures have never been uniform, varying over time and from culture to culture.

The coming of the Europeans and their eventual domination of the continent disrupted all aspects of Native societies, including the roles of American Indian women.

Today, women of the First Peoples of the U.S. and Canada are seeking to reclaim their traditional roles even as their nations seek to reclaim their heritage.
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The woman has been subjugated by design.  The Subjugation of the woman came into institutionalized social practice by Edicts and Bulls issued from the Roman Church.

Subjugation means to bring under the Yoke or into Subjection; to bring into bondage or complete subservient, submissive control. 

(Down the line in time, they burned the books of the ancient information regarding civilization for civilized people, and eventually, for a more closer radius, after the Re-Construction era, began educating us, and our children, thus the public educational system has greatly assisted in the now dumb-down education.

The Public School system was originated to watch children while parents worked in factories.  The purpose of it, from its onset was not conducive to a pristine education.

It was more like a baby-sitting service, and let’s face it, that is what it has come to now, however it becomes more and more difficult to manage a people, or even relate to a people who are lacking in the fundamentals which are supposed to be passed down from their Mother, while in the womb (the first school room), and during the most impressionable years. 

The modern natives have forgotten the principles of the most important factor, the raising of the children who are placed into society to govern themselves and society. 

That is the concept and purpose of government (govern-the-mental).  This is not to say that there ought not be institutions of learning,  of refinement of the mental faculties, and development of the being. 

The question to ask is who is governing your mental?, and the mental of your children?  .   

The Inquisitionists’ Pseudo-Religiously imposed unconsciousness of the Woman, is key to maintaining the subjugation of the Nation, and the denial of the  Nation’s  Nationality and Birthrights. 
Pseudo-religion is the suppression of Civilization and the propagation of idol-god worship, and the mental-suppression tactical usages of Fear, Guilt, and Superstition.

    This suppression continues due to the natives lack of knowledge of self.  As an example, by her not knowing that the true meaning of religion means “the study of the stars”, she continues to force herself and her children to practice pseudo-religion, which is designed to suppress civilization. 

If she were truly conscious she would not subject her children to false teachings that teach inferiority, she would be in tune with her nature, thus knowing that each energy (child) she brings into physical manifestation has a purpose, and she would never use terms such as a "generation gap", because she would know that what influences the child she brings in, is based on the cycles of energy at the time of conception and throughout the pregnancy and birth. 

She would know the child, and be able to bend their inclinations at a young age towards their purpose. 

Sometimes when one pays close attention, and listens carefully, a child will tell you who they are, and who  they are not.

Let us clear up some confusion regarding the Matriarch / Patriarch.

If anyone tells you that there exist, or will exist, a Matriarch and a Patriarch, clearly they don't know what a Matriarch is.   The Patriarch does not include the woman in her proper position. 

She is usually depicted as someone inferior, or insubordinate.  It was / is the inquisitionists intent to use mental warfare methodologies to separate and divide men against Women.  (see Willie Lynch)..   

Last word: think about your own mom, dad definitely is the enforcer usually with the last word but if you are willing to be intellectually honest with yourself you will realize that mom allows him to be the head.

My mom wore a shirt, "if mama ain't happy nobody is happy". I think that has some truth to it.

Respectfully, if it wasn't for mom, most households would unravel. To Deny the the importance and role of women is like taking a point blank shot at both feet then trying to run a race. Failing before you start.

Lovell Pierce Jr