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Foundation
for Indigenous Americans of Anasazi Heritage Smoke Signal
Indigenous
Americans in the U.S Network 
2007 Year
in Review Newsletter.
Smoke Signals is the official
newsletter for FIAAH and the American Heritage
Registry. Smoke Signals is a newsletter to provide Indigenous American peoples
living in the U.S racially identified as black Americans with information to
keep our people abreast of the issues and current events effecting our survival
in our homeland of America
today and in the future.
One of FIAAH goals with this publication is to
promote awareness to our black American Sisters and Brothers about their stolen
birthright of indigenous American heritage, human, and indigenous rights, legal issues, ancestral traditions of our
cultural heritage, sustainable living concepts, and to .keep our people informed
of the programs being implemented by the Foundation For Indigenous Americans of
Anasazi Heritage.
Smoke Signals goal is to develop into a
quarterly magazine. As a magazine Smoke Signals will share timely news articles
and reports on events affecting the viability of the indigenous American
peoples worldwide, and bring to the collective attention concerns about issues
that directly affect the indigenous American collective lives today and our
future generations.
Table of Contents:
Sacred
Words
2007
in review
2008
Goals
International
Update
Heritage
Education
Anasazi
Power Prayer
Research
corner
Viable
Facts
Ecology
Update
Foundation
News
Calendar
of Events & Ceremonies
Why is Smoke Signals important?
Today, the systematic effort by the U.S to keep the collective of indigenous
American community genocide isolated, and collective racial enslavement/ ethnic
cleansing invisible, keeps the promotion of ethnic identity fraud of Indigenous
( Negro) Americans as African Americans profitable for the Patriarchal
black Americans supporting pan Africanism and integration... The
most destructive of the consequences from Colonialism as Patriarchy to the
current generations of indigenous American people living today are: 1- their
lack of awareness of the basic knowledge about their Negro Grandmothers
connection from life/God to their home land of America.
2- The respect for the knowledge of the origins of their mothers’ identity
shared with them to understand where they are a life support for the planet.3-
As a viable member of the earth their collective responsibility to sustain
their self determination to maintain the viability of themselves as a species
into the future in their land. and 4th because of their
ignorance about their heritage, allows the continuation of the
Ancestral homeland and wealth inheritance from their American Indian culture
and natural resources to be stolen from them for generations. The result
from the promotion of a false ethnic heritage identity and homeland
connection by the patriarchal leadership( government agents who identify
themselves as African American leaders/politicians) to their collective
masses , erases all recognition for today’s indigenous American
descendants to make a mental connection to their family’s American Indian/Negro
or black ancestors, grandmothers and parents ignored ethnic
origins, and respect for America as their homeland, and their
unconditional place to be fruitful and multiply. Millions of indigenous
Americans adopting the false propaganda as having origins from the land the
Romans sowed with salt called Africa, (a deforested lifeless land today called
the Sahara Desert), or slave ships from West Africa are lost souls, and live
with the emotional pain from being disconnected to their natural humanity and
belonging to a heritage land like all other peoples of the earth have received
as being a part of the human sphere from life itself. They perceive themselves
as nobodies, nomads, and people without purpose. A people without an
unconditional homeland is a people without humanity Regardless of how much we
wear other cultures clothes or posture in their image. We do not have a claim
to the land we have been taught to believe is the continent of Africa. Whether we like it or not .We are the original
Americans. Changing our name does not change our fate. Only we can change our
present and future. It is time we stop chasing rainbows and respect ourselves.
Only then will we be able to overcome our internalized feelings of inferiority,
leading to a lack of self respect, self worth, and value for our collective
belonging. It will be up to every person labeled as black American
to learn about their real heritage and homeland, and stop supporting people who
sell us rainbows, if they want to find the riches they inherited from life for
them. Smoke Signals is a life line to the truth and reality and those riche
Stop
the Curse
As long as the
indigenous American Indian people as Negroes continue to become/ and stay
dependant on artificial/ personal means of existence created by
man’s illusions of power as Creation , they lose all the power given to
them as a gift from life to protect them from oppression and death. This is the
condition our people live thru today in our homeland called America. America has become the new Africa
(land to be destroyed) and the indigenous American people called Negroes have
become another indigenous race of cultivated slaves (domesticated women
(slaves) and men (overseers) called Africans. (People to be ethnically cleansed
from their land) Today our media as well as our community newspapers are non-
informative. They keep us ignorant about ourselves and what is happening to our
people all over the land. Ignorance creates apathy; apathy guarantees victims
and collective death. It is time for all of our people to awaken to our truth.
Forgotten Common Sense.
In one of the last conversation Harry Belafonte
had with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Dr King wondered whether he was integrating
his people into a burning house. So Harry asked him, “What should we do?” Dr. King
replied “we should become fireman.” Today we should ask all the people who were
around in the civil right era, what happened after DR. King died, where are
their fire hoses, The truth be told,
after DR. King died, the American People was so angry about his murder they started to burning down the cities in the
United States . This action sent a clear message to the U.S, As a result the
civil rights amendments were enacted and Affirmative action, food stamps,
welfare, and many social programs were enacted on behalf of the American
People. Now 40 years later, as we look
at our inner cities, the policies towards our genocide have not change, the only difference now is
we as a people have less collective wealth with most of our young male
population in jail , we still have double digit unemployment, regardless of
education, and our collective population is halve of size it was 40 years ago
as a result from female abortions, and our collective children who are born still live under the national poverty level, meanwhile, discrimination against indigenous
Americans has not decreased,. My question is -What did he mean by integrating
into a burning house? What was the secret price our elders paid for their
opportunity to have access to buy” things?”
How are people tricked to walk into a burning
building? – First they don’t realize
the danger from the building being built to burn down around them; they put
their trust in supporting a deception for their personal gain. Second- they
passively wait for the people who tricked them into believing the building (deception)
was safe will return to rescue them, (they don’t believe they (personally) will
get caught (lose material gains) by the fire. The children however will burn to
death (meaning the children will have nothing to support their freedom)) Third-
they become so scared of losing what they gained through the deception instead
of saving their lives, they cop-out with excuses and
ignore their own ability to think towards finding ways to stop the deception as
the escape from the burning building, as a result they become the willing
VICTIMS to burn with the building. Ho HO
It is
time for our young people to recognize we have been left for dead in a burning building and start to
respect our right to live and stop
accepting our exploitation, victimization and supporting apathy towards the death of our children,
family and community.
It time for Smoke Signals.
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Sacred Wisdom
“by
Dr. RaDine A. Harrison-Pitts
The
last year has been filled with exciting challenges and discoveries for all of
us who have embraced our heritage motherland.. Over the last 13 months David
Pitts and I have traveled along the many interstates, highways and byways to discover
the vastness of the motherland we as a collective have been denied knowledge
of. Our travels has brought up many questions and uncovered painful realities.
In our explorations we have found what is left of the land of our ancestors is still
breathtakingly beautiful and rich with abundance of life. However we also found
that our homeland is being consumed and everything created as America is
being invaded, enslaved and massively destroyed People all over the world are
settling in our motherland, selfishly nurturing themselves on our milk and honey. While quietly participating in the systematic
ethnic cleansing of us, by keeping us the children of America starving from
self ignorance , while watching us slowly
decay towards our collective death along
with all of the life systems supporting indigenous America. Indigenous America is
being deprived of the ability to nurture itself from the natural environment
and us with what we need to sustain our viability in our homeland. David and I
uncovered there are some places where the milk and honey has not been
completely contaminated and is still flowing. In that regard FIAAH has moved to
Princeton, West Virginia. We are located between two
National Forest, Jefferson and Pipestern in the Appalachian
Mountains, on 216 acres of private mountain land. David and I have witness the unspeakable
beauty of our mother land America
in her natural Forest environment. I have
visited many lands; however I have never seen any land more beautiful than our
Motherland America. Our motherland encompasses all the regions of the planet in
one place, from tropical, tempered forest, to dessert oasis, to snow capped
mountains, to flat bottom parries and brooks. . America got it all.. As the indigenous people of North
America, we have come to realize, we are the keepers of the real
Garden of Eden. As I write these words, I pray that they do not fall only on
selfish hearts, simple and small minds. What is at stake is more than survival
of our lives and our future. What is at stake is our CREATION of our EARTH. What we are losing is our motherland, our America, our collective
souls, and our sacred throne. It is time to remember what we know in our
hearts. Let’s not forget the past but learn from the mistakes we made to create
our past and save our Garden while we save ourselves. FIAAH is dedicated to keeping
our people alive to see us overcome our ethnic cleansing from our homeland. And
I hope everybody reading these words are sick and tired of dying slowly and are
ready to live and cross the bridge back to life again. I live
in the love life has for us, My wish is for all of my brothers and sisters to
turn their heads away from the influence to the addictions of selfishness and
artificial illusion and follow the yearning within their hearts that will lead
you to crossing the bridge back to life and you can live in the love life has
for us to.
Sacred Insights
We should not
hate the British, they have not taken India
from us, we have given India
to them.”. M. Gandhi
We should not
hate the U.S, they have not taken America
from us, and our elders have given America to them. RaDine A. Harrison
2007 in Review.
The
year was filled with progress, thanks to the many people who shared their time
to help make a difference.
During
the year FIAAH worked on many fronts to develop ways to break the ground in
rebuilding our lives in our motherland. The following is an overview: My
husband Mr. David Pitts lost the use of his kidneys in January 2007; this life
changing event has left David on kidney dialysis until he can regain the use of
his kidneys to support his life functions. Despite of this hardship on us, we
still persisted on to locate land for FIAAH to develop the institutions and
infrastructure for indigenous American people to use to return back to
supporting reality instead of dying in this artificial man made illusion. I was
able to participate and speak about our issue in the international forums,
including a trip to Bolivia
as part of the OAS indigenous Caucus negotiations for DADDIN. Life has guided
David and I in every action we have taken, and we have experienced success in
all endeavors. We purchased 216 acres, with a running fresh water brook and
pond for trout 4 mountains, and a small farm. We named FIAAH Headquarters and our homeland YUMWIJA meaning home of the real
and principled People. We are close to a major interstate, so it is easy to
come to and we have a lot of nice hotels, restaurants and Wal-Mart 3 miles
away, close enough for people to stay at until we build the Guest Cabins. We
had the water on the land tested we have Artesian alkaline water, with water soluble
calcium and magnesium, best water to drink for your bones and heart health,
Since I have been drinking it, I do not experience the effects from
dehydration. We have a lot of Projects to do, which will keep us productive and
full of growth and experiences for life to express it treasures of wisdom upon
us- from us to YOU!. We ask all people who are ready to change, life has given
us the place to learn how.!!!!!!!. We have set up a temporary school house with
two classrooms and we will be building two decks. The office will be ready by
our April 1st deadline. 2007 was a very challenging year for many
people, it forced us to look at ourselves and what are we going to do to
support Life .Everybody should be realizing the artificial lives we have
created to shelter ourselves in are not working and we have to become pro
active in releasing the past and creating a new. Change is upon us NOW .
Facing the
Challenges in 2008 and beyond will be determined by what we accomplish today. This
year we will be training as many people to share the knowledge of life with
others so they to can benefit from supporting life instead of selfishness. We
will continue to have every month a Sacred Journeys Ceremonial Retreat, and we
will build our sacred Site this summer, we hope all people registered will help
build and attend. We will have some events open to non registered peoples and we
have events only open to registered people. The events will be listed. If anyone would like to volunteer to support
the development of FIAAH, we will be willing to teach you. People can come and
stay if they bring their own tent; we have made locations for camping after the
first retreat in May. We are growing a garden and anyone who would preferred to
support us thru donations to rebuilding the land, is welcome also. The
Indigenous American Network internet radio station will start April 20th, on
365webradio.com. We will be broadcasting on the internet, our start up time
will be 8pm. Then I will do a show every Sunday at 9pm-1am. Show you support
and listen in. We are looking for people
to host shows at different times, if you are interested let the office know.
FIAAH International Update
FIAAH
as continued its work with the indigenous caucus for the U.N Draft Declaration
on Indigenous Rights and the American Draft Declaration for the Rights of
Indigenous peoples with the Organization of American States as well as the
Commission on Sustainable Development.
2007 was a rocky year internationally,
however FIAAH made strides and gains towards establishing the record for Negro
Americans recognizing their indigenousness to America with involvement in the
indigenous rights movement worldwide.
Outcomes- Brasilia Brazil: March 2006 Brasilia
is the capitol of Brazil.
Brazil
is a beautiful country; however Negro Brazilians living there are discriminated
against just like we are. Brazil indigenous population also identified as Negro's
is still producing themselves are fairly large and still inhabits a large
interior portion of Brazil. People there are close to there land so they can
sustain a high level of independence and viability of their reproduction... The
indigenous Brazilians (Negro’s) favor our features and were surprised to see us
as though many indigenous Brazilians have never seen a North American Negro.
Issues covered in Brasilia: Indigenous identity” Who has the right?
I
voted indigenous people should not be of mixed identity. Indigenous people are
not of mixed heritage. Indigenous people are born from indigenous women. All
states agreed and the provision was accepted.
Indigenous
Identity recognition will not be given to people of multi ethnic backgrounds.
This is great, because a lot of people of mix heritage have been claiming to be
indigenous will face new obstacles. The
Euro-American Indian calling themselves Native Americans can be attacked for
their misleading perceptions and included as participating in the systematic
ethnic cleansing of America-by
their deception of claiming our indigenous identity.
I am
clear the so- called Native Americans want all the indigenous Americans
ethnically cleansed off our homeland to. We are in the way of them claiming our
birthright inheritance,. However, the U.S sees them as Negro’s to, and will get
rid of them next.
April 2007- Las Pas Bolivia, tenth OAS negotiations
meeting for American Draft Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
La
Pas is a very interesting country and culture, the people also experienced
slavery by the Spanish. At the negotiations we had a double task to do, the U.N
Declaration was being stalled at the U.N by the United
States, Canada,
and many African States.
We started working on ways to negotiate the language so they would pass it at
the U.N. The 10 days I spent their was grueling and at times I was not sure we
could pull it off. There were so many divisions and the mixed blooded people
were trying to sell out the indigenous people who they claimed to belong to.
Many people including me rallied against the wording that would excluded us, however
we could not stop in the end the context in which the declaration will be
applied by States.
May 2007. Permanent Forum on
Indigenous Issues. FIAAH Ambassador RaDine A Harrison- Pitts received an
overwhelming applause from the members of the Permanent Forum for the presentation
on behalf of Indigenous Americans of Anasazi heritage formerly known as the
Negro American People. She addressed the issue of taxation, Imminent Domain and
ethnocide of indigenous communities by the United States. The forum did adopt
into there work to look into policies
being implemented by the United States against the black American peoples that constitutes
ethnic cleansing of the people displaced
from New Orleans as a result of Hurricane Katrina. This is the third request
presented by FIAAH to the international community, in which the international
community has investigated and made a report from UNESCO on our behalf. A copy of this address and past documents are available
by email, contact admin@fiaah.org or call
the office.
On September 13, without prior notice the U.N
Declaration accepted a watered down version of the Human Rights Council
Declaration Draft was adopted. I was not pleased at what was accepted, but it
is something, we still have a long way to go to establish all the principle
rights indigenous people have for self development and governance in their
lands..
Rev.
RaDine A Harrison-Pitts as FIAAH Ambassador will continue to attend the Permanent
Forum on Indigenous Issues at the U.N/ New
York from
April 20th –May 2,2008 and the OAS negotiations for DADDIN
commencing from April 12-18th,2008.
An update will be forth coming in next issue, scheduled September 2008
Heritage Education
Education
for Extinction- The New history of the American Negro
By
Rev. RaDine Amen-ra
The
purpose of this writing is to shed light on the real heritage of the black
American people in America
and challenge key assumptions that is making the current version of United States
propaganda of African/American history education more myth than reasonable
reality for black Americans. Unfortunately, black Americans have a very
fragmented understanding of their Ancestry. An overriding majority make note of
their “Indian blood tie” as told to them by their elders. Surprisingly, few
recount stories from elders that tie them to their African bloodline. In fact,
research suggest that the African side of most people who identify themselves
as African Americans is as much a mystery as the “Indian bloodline is a fact.
Just how the two words used in Colonialism to
interface with the other has been uncovering itself with shocking implications.
If fully revealed and understood the result will stop the passive acceptance by
black Americans to changing their ethnic identity from Black Americans to African Americans and give them
back their lost/hidden heritage and homeland inheritance they have been so
desperately seeking..
The awareness of a heritage cultural legacy
strengthens a people understanding of the world in which they live and there
position in that world. A people without a cultural heritage are likely to
believe they have no collective power worth respecting, humanity worth claiming
or defending. Keeping their cultural heritage a secret maintains their position
for perpetual control, ethnic cleansing and poverty. The fact that the American
Negro people inhabited the Americas
millions of years before the arrival of Columbus
and subsequent invasion of people from Europe is supported in early American
history and by archaeological discoveries of tools and artifacts in America.
Researching
the United States version of American history of Negro’s and Indians is first
complicated by the fact that in historical documents, the two words, Negro and
Indians , are used to intermittently to describe the same people. . It is well
accepted by researchers of Early American Civilization such as Roger G. Kennedy
author of Hidden Cities. Researchers quietly admit, under colonialism the races
were said to be White, Red, and black, though of course not a single person
described was or is in fact white, black or red. The color scheme was
artificial, but within it, it was used to categorize people of an infinite
variety of colors. The founding fathers
of the United States used the identity
of Negro to represent indigenous American women and children captured and in
the process of being traded for their inheritance to land within the condition
of slavery, and the word African was a synonym for slave and “Indian” a person
who is no longer being traded for their land inheritance, they are being
disposed of and ethnically cleansed from
their land and existence- this is the
secret behind the actual ancestral
heritage link to Americas the current population
of Black Americans represent.
Failure to acknowledge this sameness has
fostered the myth that the original “Native Americans” are people with European
features, and black straight hair. This myth has had the intended
consequences of maintaining the
invisibility of the correct racial identity, while erasing from historical/
societal/ educational considerations, the heritage belonging to America of
anyone that looked differently. The historians and educators who promoted this
myth, also promoted the myth, the race of American Indians vanished (ethnically
cleansed) from there lands.
Why don’t
Black Americans identify with there ancestral American Indian heritage or
history?
Black
American people have been unknowingly cultivated/ educated into a self
destructive methodology of thinking that will exterminate them. Some call it
Education for extinction. This form of education encourages children/ adults to
dis-respect there humanity knowledge transferred to them by there families and
to respect the versions of European history as superior gospels of truth for life validation as a result from this mis-education , lack of respect for the verbal heritage
identity, compounded with false
information about the racial identity and heritage of American Indians fostered
the assumption to most of the indigenous
American people called “blacks” they are the descendants of dislocated slaves from another Colonist term for a land to be exploited of its resources
called “Africa” instead of dislocated indigenous people of America who were to being
robbed of their gift from life inheritance to America. . All of this education distortion, is there
attempt to permanently conceal the fact that to the race of American Negroes, they
actually represent the original ANASAZI people called North American Indians.
However most Black Americans can not find the slave stories from there elders,
and the elders did not validate they came from Africa.
The story from the elders gives humanity to the people, the story from the
educational media stripes the humanity from the people.. Many people, because
of there Brown skin color and curly hair texture and being labeled “Black”
would prefer to adopt the identity of being of African decent and the
descendants of imported Slaves. Unfortunately, because of the emotional violation from invalidation of a persons
human dignity of heritage from the slave
dogma, few Black Americans placed value on exploring their heritage tied to
their Grandmother identity of Indian bloodline or there ancestors life in
America before slavery.
The Black American elite conspire to keep
invisible the truth about the ethnic heritage inheritance belonging to the
black American younger generations, from there ancestors of belonging to America. The focus by Black American educators have been
to conceal this fact and line there pockets with government sponsored money
thru mis-leading the direction of the
younger generations quest for “Black Pride” by promoting superficial integration of South
Western Asia cultures being identified
as the Continent of Africa “ as their new adopted homeland.. The
psychological progression of miss-education towards our ethnic cleansing is
evident in the group of artificial labels placed upon indigenous Americans from
Indians, Negro’s, blacks coloreds, to African Americans. These artificial changes of names for indigenous North American
People continue to support the colonial ethnic cleansing identity for people
who are to be ethnically cleansed from the land.. The black Americans who sell
the identity of African to their people using the idea that” Changing and
accepting the redefining of a collectives identity by the oppressive society -changes
a collective position with in the society that is committing genocide against
their humanity. The truth is “It does
Not, it only keeps our genocide invisible, makes our systematic genocide easer
and the people being ethnically cleansed more powerless”
Clearly, the legacy
of a person’s heritage creates, maintains and defines a persons self worth,
self image, and connection with all that is living and in spirit. While the history
book of the United States
fail to freely illuminate on the original racial identity of Native Americans
as being brown/Black American people, the elders of each generation made sure
this connection of truth would not be forgotten. Their whispers about the
Indian bloodlines promises to re write U.S. version of American heritage and
change the way the people called Black Americans perceive their original heritage
and reclaim their stolen heritage inheritance as the Real American Indians call
Anasazi
Anasazi
Prayer of Power
MY allegiance is to
Life
I respect the Life within ME
The
joy for life flows through ME
The
power from Life surrounds ME
The law
for Life PROTECTS ME
My allegiance
is to LIFE
AND
full of Life IS HOW I REMAIN
Say
it every day and watch your insight grow!!!!!!!
Research
Corner- Yumwija is the original name for the
Cherokee nation of people, before the nation name was changed by Indigenous
American men establishing Patriarchy over the YUMWIJA peoples in 1708. The word
Yumwija means real or principled
peoples. This name was used from Main to Florida.
Viable Facts Why is knowing who you are
important?
The beauty of understanding where you belong
and who you are is it allows a person to live up to there full potential by
embracing a purpose and direction that supports their collective function to
life for life.
It
opens a treasure chest of unlimited possibilities.
We
can always look at the condition we live thru today as bleak and overwhelming.
However
now that we know the importance of our presence and the presence of others like
us- we can use our talents and gifts to rebuild our lives and start to create a
future for our children and new generations.
Who stands for
our Children – Who Stands for Life?
Today it is a known fact that one of the factors that have
had devastating effects on the stability and establishment of Black American
families in America is the
aftermath of the Vietnam War on the young Black American male population in America.
The
Vietnam War depleted the young Black American male population so drastically;
it changed the dating patterns for the Black American race. From the 70’s
until today the ratio of black males to females has seen a dramatic reduction;
there are currently 10 Black American women to every Black American male. Today
over 50% percent of young men between the ages of 18-28 are incarcerated in United States
jails, according to international figures, which left the percentage of
available young men to create stable families almost non- existent. The U. S
has the highest prison population in the World. There are more people in prison
in the U.S than all the prisons in the world including China.
This
imbalance has created devastating effects on the relationship between the young
adults of Black American women and men; instead of the Black American men
supporting sustainable life systems to support him independently and secure his
place as a powerful collective and influence with his people. . The Black
American man for the past 500years has allowed himself to become immersed in
the sexual imbalance created from the devastation of the mental war as Conquest by the European
collective (U.S) agenda towards maintaining the Black American mans
participation in perpetuating the genocide of the Black American race in America. Our
men continue to fall for the selfish distraction for using his fertility as sexual
lust to exploit the young women fertility, abandon the development of the
younger men and resign himself as overseer (playing God) over how the women
will fulfill her purpose to the race, instead he abandons his development into
the Natural Man of Life who protects the women and offspring of his race. The
brunt of the devastation affects the Young indigenous American women in her
Natural ability to create a foundation to establish new family relationships,
and sustain a balanced family unit. Instead the young indigenous American woman
has had to compromise her fertility, human dignity, ethics, emotional health,
and accept being abandoned with children, to sustain a relationship with an
indigenous American man.
Colonialism
has and continues to maintain and promote division between each other, war on
other lands, or using the law as a weapon of war against our people as one of
the systems the European uses to remove or kill the indigenous American Indian
male population from the land. Since 1509 Europeans have recruited Indigenous
American Indian men (blacks) into their battles, always at the expense of the
Collective American Indian man, woman, and child. In return the American
people, to their dismay, were always betrayed, and led to the slaughter of their
own Women and children, and forced to live in slavery to the people who their
fathers defended.
The United States has always used war
as a weapon to reduce the numbers of the collective American Indian male
population as a way of maintaining control of him. Today, with less than half
of the young adult population of indigenous American descent than there was 40
years ago, can the indigenous American people afford to kill another couple of
million boys, and now girls, to support the United States, at the expense of
the viability of the Indigenous American Indian (black) race again? What
positive outcome will this war bring for our people, will it change their laws
towards us, or is the U.S.
history lesson repeating itself? When will the Collective of American Indian
men find enough heart to say NO?
When
do we learn from the mistakes of the past? There is an old saying “People
who do- not learn from the mistakes of the past are destined to repeat them”
Rev.
RaDine Amen-ra, Author The Black American Handbook for survival
thru the 21st Century
. Ecology update
Genocide through our food. Most people today do not know the foods they
are eating are genetically engineered foods. What does this mean? Genetically
engineered foods are foods that have grown from genetically altered seeds.
These seeds were changed by chemical infusion into the mother plant to
introduce external DNA into the reproduction system. The plants will produce
mutated seeds that have the new strain of DNA. The purpose to change the natural
reproduction of the plants is to produce more produce quickly and to effect the
reproduction towards how the plants sustains the life of all life forms
dependant on it.. The power from controlling the basic components to sustain
life, gives multinational corporations a way to control human life and
death. The U.S has over the last 10 years infused genetically altered
produce into the mainstream food system. Some of these plants have been
injected with DNA from animals. Example: Most strawberry being sold on the
market today is produced from genetically altered seeds. These strawberry seeds
are a combination of strawberry DNA and fish DNA. The fish DNA was added to
seeds, for enabling the strawberry to grow in cold weather. Potatoes sold in
the U.S are grown from genetically altered seed that have been infused with
frog DNA. In the U.S.
over 74 % of farmland is used to grow produce from genetically altered seeds. In
Europe legislation has begun and in France has been passed to label
genetically altered seed produce. In France laboratory test have been
done on what effects from ingesting of genetically altered produce. Tests have
shown in laboratory rats. The immune systems started to breakdown and the rats
internal organs started to mutate. The effects upon the reproduction system
produced mutated rat strains. This result was so scary to the European
population; all food from the U.S must identify what seeds were used to produce
the product being sold in many European countries. Labels in Europe
read if they use genetically altered food. Why, the European people refuse to
be used as guinea pigs and place there future generations in immanent danger
towards extinction. Many countries in Africa are discovering the same horrible
results and are not accepting U.S.
food.
Why is genetically altered
food important to black American people living in America?
Black Americans represent the
ethnic group by heritage for the American Indians. If any change is done to the
mineral content from foods grown in America, it will directly effect
how they will be able to sustain their health and continue to sustain their
children in the future generations. In order for black Americans to
sustain there physical health their bodies needs food that supports the mineral
components of their DNA, these sustaining components are supported from the
plants and natural bio-diversity from the eco- system sustaining America,
without the connection to naturally open pollinated seed produce our people and
children will die and mutate with diseases never before heard of on the planet.
It will be no different from being slowly poisoned to death. What compounds
this issue, the multinational companies like Monsanto and DuPont originally
leaders in the petroleum based pesticide and insecticides production have
changed there focus to seed reproduction and are creating genetically altered
seeds that will destroy the sustainability for indigenous foods called weeds to
sustain their life and purpose for the land. Some of these seeds are called
terminator seeds. These seeds are currently used in growing cotton. These seeds
will produce seeds that give off chemicals that will destroy there production
into new seeds. This was done so farmers can not harvest the seeds to be used
for the next growing season, and the by- products from these seeds creates a
bacteria that contaminates the soil. FIAAH will be following the
development of this life threatening issue. We are encouraging all black
American people to support efforts to save heritage seeds, to start to grow
individual, community, and farms growing crops from heritage seeds. We also
encourage people to donate to programs for seed saving, seed exchange, and buy
seeds from these company’s.
FIAAH is also advocating to
the remaining black farmers, however the farmers are not interested in helping
to develop sustainable industry for their own people. FIAAH urges people
to buy or develop land already in their families towards basic food production.
And start to coop the food into there communities. Time is of essence. People
who take responsibility now will have their health to live later.
Company’s to support= Abundant
Life seeds- www.abundantlifeseeds.com
Mother Earth News. www.MotherEarthNews.com
Fedco Seeds www.fedcoseeds.com The
Seed Saving Exchange – www.seedsavers.org The
Scattered Seed Project – For
more info: email- sustainable admin@fiaah.org
Sustainable living update: Classes
start from May to October will be offered in survival, indigenous farming,
wilderness training, eco- home building. Check calendar of events 2008 Class project Indigenous Earth House ,
made of Mud and straw call for more information.
Creating
our garden of Eden at Yumwija. I have
been pre occupied researching all the
indigenous plants that live in the wild in north America, I have found many
indigenous trees and plants at nursery’s ( not hybrid) than I have money to
purchase . Many people suggested we start a seed bank and donation bank towards
our planting efforts. Here a Yumwaja we are taking donations towards our re establishing of wildlife and indigenous
habitat. For every 20.00 donation you will receive 1 bushel of fresh
produce of your choice from Yumwija.
Foundation
News-
FIAAH Institute for Indigenous American Studies will start offering classes in
July online; we will offer training programs in the following areas: School of Ancient Wisdom
and Healing Arts, School of American Heritage and Culture, School
of Anasazi History and School of Education. All schools provide instruction for
indigenous people to become competent educators and provide leadership in the
development of the infrastructure need to rebuild our viability and meet the
needs of our children and future generations. To receive a Institute brochure/
application for program admission and courses, please contact the office at
678-608-1239. People interest in the Indigenous Life ministry, contact office
for Ceremonial requirements now.!!
People
who have not submitted a email address to the office, please forward to admin@fiaah.org
All
correspondence to FIAAH P.O. Box 527,
Princeton West Virginia
24740.
We
will not continue to mail updates in the future. If you would like us to mail
update and newsletters, please send 20.00 to FIAAH
P.O..Box 527, Princeton,
West Virginia with a note:
Apply to postage; a postage account will be set up in your behalf for future
mailings
Sacred
Journey Retreats – this year we
will be building the Sacred Site, we
will start with the building of a underground sweat lodge , this will be our
first earth shelter, People who are
interested in participating in the building of the sweat lodge should come a
couple of days before the actual opening
ceremonies beginning in May, contact the office 678-508-1239
Sacred Wisdom Retreat for
Indigenous American Women- June 20th-23rd at this retreat indigenous women will learn
the sacred knowledge belonging to women suppresses for the last 500 years in America and stolen from the Ancient Schools
of Women- renamed the Ancient Mystery Schools in Egypt & America.. This
retreat is for women who are sick and tired of being sick and tired of living
to DIE. This is a powerful retreat to empower Life. Send e-mail for more info & registration
application to retreat to admin@fiaah.org
or call office @678-608-1239.
Festival of Dance: July 13-19th. Seven
days of drumming and Sacred Dance. Dance circles are held every night all night
around the fire. Purpose to integrate earth energies and cosmic forces thru
ones soul, purges unnatural conditioning and to open cosmic memory for
collective healing of our people. All
interested people send e-mail for info to admin@fiaah.org
or call office @678-608-1239
There
will be three class for new application registration this summer. All new registrant’s
applications will be completed at Headquarters. Indigenous Certification Course Dates are as follows:
May 9-11 – ICC Registration Class- Intro to Indigenous
Fundamentals New application deadline for course admission May 4th,2008
July 11-13th - IIC Registration- Intro to
Indigenous Fundamentals- New application deadline for course admission June30th
September 12 -14th- Registration- Intro to
Indigenous Fundamentals- New application deadline for course admission
September 4th
There
will be one Indigenous Civics Course offered this summer at Headquarters for
people who do not like online learning
May 23rd-26th Call
678-608-1239 courses can be paid online. Register Early for best logistics and hotel rates!!!!!!!!!!!
Calendar of
Ceremonies.
We as indigenous people live our lives respecting the cycles for generation and
growth. Our ceremonies reinforce our natural connection to the regenerative
cycles of growth, it heals our emotions, and continues the development of our
cognitive maturity, and the results allow us to experience comfort, safety and
prosperity from our life experiences. We start our calendar year on April 1st, In order to interface
with the current world we signify our
calendar year by writing it as follows
2007-8 until our new year begins, then we write 2008 we
are 4 months behind the European world new year.
The Indigenous New Years starts on April 1st.
Our year in review newsletter will start from April 2007- March 2007- 08
The Festival
of Dance will be held the third week in July. July 13th-19th This festival is to dance and raise the
vibration of the planet Earth through our dance, it will be held for 7
evenings. All indigenous people welcome.
The
last weekend in October every year is our Heritage
Harvest Festival ( Indigenous thanks Giving) . last community gathering
of the year.
Calendar of
Events for 2008 for West Virginia
Headquarters
May 18th, launching of Indigenous
Online Radio Network 3-9 pm 365
webradio.com
May 30th-June 1st Sacred Journey Retreat-
Opening Ceremonies
June - 2nd-6th
Indigenous Gardening Workshop
June 13th -15th Intro to Indigenous Masonry
June 20-23 Sacred Wisdom Gathering of
Indigenous American Women
July 4-6 Sacred Journey Retreat and
Ceremonies
July 11-13 IIC Registration- Intro to
Indigenous Fundamentals –
July 20th -27th Festival of Dance
August 1st – 3rd Sacred Journeys Retreat and Ceremonies
August 17th -23rd
Indigenous Fundamentals Teacher Training
Course
August 29th-31 Gathering of the Warriors-
Indigenous American Men only
September 12 -14th- Registration- Intro to
Indigenous Fundamentals- New application deadline for course admission
September 4th
October 25th – Nov
2nd -
Harvest Festival / last ceremonial retreat of the year.
We
will have the new dates soon.
Online
classes dates will be posted, if you are interested in online information
please e-mail us @ admin@fiaah.org or
call.
