Sacred Tree Society:
Who are we?
SACHEM'S COMMENTARY
This is not a tale from the mists of the past. This is a story of who we are now, and what we have done for ourselves for the dignity and in the memory of our ancestors who would for the most part probably would have liked to get along better with your ancestors. This story grows every day.
I am not going to try to appear wise and give responsibility up to commonly shared ideas of correctness, seeking to gain your sympathy. If you did something to us we probably deserved it, and in the antithesis, you probably did also. So for a moment let us drop the illusion of the need for apology, guilt, revenge and pride.
Am I a native aboriginal? Yes, from the beginning of first agreement, when my little brown first ancestors danced and sang. My father was Tsalagi, and Scot; my mother was Muskogee and Scot, more recently. Do I have my blood quantum? Yep, every bit I need to stay alive. Am I an Indian? Well, you probably do not realize that is a racial slur if you felt compelled to ask, nor would you mean it as such in good spirit with what you have been taught, so my ego is not crushed, nor am I offended, no I am not, I am a human. The concept of “Indian” was given to common knowledge by education of a false history that was built upon lies and the blood of our people, postulated by a conquering nation rationalizing its genocide upon us. The aboriginal people of this continent who had a great civilized culture that “needed” to be destroyed because it was inconvenient, heathen, savage, and godless was sacrificed to the great plan of conquest. We never called ourselves Indian. This is the same conqueror that also tells you that you are free, see the problem?
I am a child of our mother riding on the back of the great spiritual continent Turtle Island. Am I Anishinabe? Be my judge cousin; perhaps for your own edification remember the Creator’s instructions of the great hoop of life; it is simpler than argument. Am I First Fire agreement? I believe that we should spill no more blood upon the ground; it is already sacred with our ancestors’ bones, and blessed with their memory. I remember the tree when it was but a seed, and the agreement there of our ancestors under the great spirit of HE WHO CAN NOT BE CREATED; I am verifiably a product of 500 years or so of assimilation, cousin. Can you disagree?
The Sacred Tree Clan is about people like us, the mongrels of the world. No pedigrees, no great authorities are we, willing to tell you who you are and what you should do. We understand the need and responsibility of each of us to listen to the Creator and pursue the gift as we are able. It is incorrect in our culture to call another wrong and punish them for not doing as we see fit. We are nothing more than being part of the great human life that the Creator has given us all, a full time responsibility to people like us.
Instructions, traditions, who is right, who is wrong, who is a wannabe, who is a 4/4, who owns what, who is going to a better home awaiting past the clouds--it’s your life, if you choose to polarize, that is your business. We agree that agreement is much simpler than strife, and far more the Creator’s plan. I don’t feel like fighting anymore; life has given ample opportunity for that. If you can’t get along in this heaven where we get to practice the easy challenges, good luck in the next one; it might not be that simple when your responsibility grows in understanding, and you neglect to heed it. Practice the virtues of harmony and balance here now. This is wisdom we strive for. Don’t trash us with this “one life” theory; you leave your waste for my babies, this is our home. Be responsible for your path and what you leave in passing; you will find heaven sooner than you expect.
This is why the Sacred Tree Clan was brought forth from the archives of forever, we need a place to agree to empower ourselves, to feel good about what creator has given to us all to come home to the Seventh Fire.
We who are 7th fire generation and have worked this and other lifetimes to bring the prophecies to fulfillment for the evolvement of our relations to the place of harmony and balance, we will always have a home here on this planet. Why would we want it otherwise?
And so, cousin, here is the story old as tomorrow of the real people who sit now in the longhouse of the Little Shell Pembina Sacred Tree Clan, and how we learn to agree. You are invited to come share our fire with us; it is no farther away then the light of the Creator in each heart.
Be blessed in the Creator’s Gift shared by all,
Misajidamoo (Grey Squirrel),
Sachem of the Sacred Tree Longhouse of the Little Shell Pembina Nation.
BIRTH OF THE SACRED TREE SOCIETY
SACRED TREE SOCIETY CHANUPA BUNDLE