The Teachings Of Old Wovoka's Grandfather - Preserved Among The Peyote Indians

Svanur Gísli Þorkelsson
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An old Cherokee native sat by the fire with her grandchildren
and educated them about Life.

"There's a great fight inside me," he said.

That's where two wolves collide.

The other wolf carries fear, sadness, anger, envy, regret, greed, pride,
self-pity, inferiority complex, rejection, untruthfulness, self-promotion and the self. He brings us joy, hope, peace, love, generosity, peace of mind, humility, goodness, mercy, friendship, consensus, truth love, faith and affection.

The old man looked at the children and whistled the edges.

"This same battle is waged within you and all other men."

The children wondered about their grandfather's words
for a while and then one of them asked; "Where does the wolf win?" "

"The one you grow," the aged native replied.

Far too long ago (1983) I stayed for a while among the Mi Skokmaq Indians on their private land in Eskason in the northeast part of Nova Scotia Canada.

The Mi öndkmaq Indians are an ancient nation that has settled in Nova Scotia and along the beaches of northern Canada since "man was created" as their heritage suggests.

They are said to have invented ice hockey which they consider the same game as ancient Nordic ice hockey.

They say the game is so similar that the Nordic men must have learned it from the predecessors of Mi Segkmaq Indians on their travels west over the ocean earlier in the years, those mentioned as peelers in the Icelandic book Ara Fróða.

It's possible that the original "redskins" is referred to. and. indigenous people of Newfoundland; the Beothuk tribe, who colored themselves red with red clay and therefore got this nickname.

That hafattbálkur is extinct but his heirs have been found in the heirs of several Icelanders.

Regarding the Icelandic Games, I think it's completely the other way around, but let's leave it between parts for a while, even though there is proof that the Nordic men had an influence on the culture of the indigenous North America with their visits 1000 years ago.

In Eskason I stayed with the then chief of the foreign land and he was the only Mi aðkmaq Indian who had then managed to get educated according to the council and had a master's degree from the University of Halifax.

In the special country lived about 1500 people and most of them were ill-mannered by alcoholism and other illnesses that the disease can follow.

I remember the early days I never saw a sober man or woman in the streets of town. Everyone but the chief and his wife were constantly drunk.

- The chief told me that everyone was on benefits from the state and all benefits went to buying beer.

Children and teenagers were no exception and everyone smoked.

When I had stayed for just over a week with Mi Þegarkmaqanni,
I got the news from Iceland that my father had died on a hospital bed.

I told the chief's wife the news who didn't wait for the invitation
but started cooking a big soup in a big pot.

Not long before people started to rush.

I have no idea how the news of my father's passing got to the public so quickly, but everyone came to show me their sympathy and stay with me for a while.

The chief couple's living room was large and at best there were
just over 50 people sipping soup in between assuring me
that my father is now in a better place in the spirit world
where I would meet him when that time comes.

For the next three days this lasted, from noon until evening.

I'm sure more than half the villagers came to visit me at that time.

And the amazing thing was that no wine was seen on any person.

The story of the Indians in North America after the white man's occupation is a thorny straw.

I'm not going to tithe her here as there are no materials nor circumstances.

But I can't help but sympathize with their cause as they try to explain why so many of them have failed to unite with the ways of the white man and leave their culture and human dignity in exchange for the anesthetic good alcohol.

Perhaps the story of North America’s last attempt to justify their share of landlords aggression is the saddest chapter in that enigma.

After 1890, when it became clear that the white man had succeeded in inflicting the Indians to land in North America in full force, then flee them from their countries to foreign countries or outright kill them,
there was a brief resistance movement among Indians and,
a kind of death boat culture of those who were in that one will disappear.

The movement was called the Spirit Dance. (Ghost Dance)

The originator of the Spirit Dance was named Wovoka
and was of the tribe of Paiuta Indians.

He received a wisdom or a calling that he published to the Indian nations gathered at a national convention in Nevada in the following letter.
Nevada, August 1891

When you come home you have to dance nonstop for five days.

Dance for four nights and in the morning of the fifth day bathe
in the river and then leave your home.

Everyone must do the same.

I Jack Wilson (Name whites gave Wovoka) love you all and my heart is full of joy for the gifts you gave me.

When you come home, I will give you a nice cloud that will make you feel good. I will give you good spirit and I will give you a good make up.

I want you guys to come back in three months, some from each tribe.

This year will be considerable snow and some rain.

This fall there will be such rain that has never been seen.

Grandpa says; when your friends die, you can't cry.

Thou shalt not injure any man or harm anyone.

Always do the right thing. I will give you satisfaction in life.

This young man has a good father and a good mother.

Don't tell the white people about this. Christ is now walking the earth.

He came on like a cloud.

The dead have risen.

I don't know when they will be here, maybe this fall or by spring.

In time there will be more sicknesses and everyone will be young again.

Don't refuse to work for the whites and don't cause any trouble while living among them.

When the earth shakes, have no fear

. She won't hurt you.

I want you to dance every six weeks.

Make yourself a happy day, dance and make food so everyone can eat.

Then take a bath in water.

This is what it's all about.

You will get good words from me again sometime.

Don't lie to yourself.

Dust.
As this message began to spread, it soon changed in the treatment of Indians and not least among whites.

The result was that Wokova was thought to announce the end of the world, the earth would perish and new earth will rise from the sea not different from what is described in the Icelandic Valuspá.

The white man would sink under a five-tall mudslide and the Indians would inherit the earth.

The Buffaloes and the Antelopes would return and their ancestors would walk the Earth again free from disease, famine and violence.

Paradise on Earth as many Christians saw it,
except there were no Christians in it, only Indians.

It was said that Wovoka's vision had appeared to him when a solar eclipse passed over the country and he also suffered from severe heat stroke.

For this apocalypse to take place, Indians would have to purge themselves of all evil, (especially white man alcohol) and practice integrity among themselves and also towards the white man.

Those who controlled the Indian specialties far and wide across the United States were threatened by this newfound enthusiasm of India.

While the Indians dance' message was essentially peaceful, they saw it as "wild and crazy" and waved goodbye to soldiers to protect landlords near the foreigners.

When the Sitting Ox, one of India's most respected leaders and a great war hero, became a duck dancer, the army didn't blink.

When they tried to arrest the Sitting Ox, shortly after he had participated in his first breath dance, he resisted and was killed instantly.

His followers fled to Pine Ridge Specialty from where they defended the army under the command of the Big Foot chief.

There they were arrested and brought to Undadur Knees.

The day after arriving there or 29.

In December 1890, the Army ordered the Indians to turn over all their weapons of destruction.

Yellow Bird healer encouraged a confrontation and said that the shirts of the spirit dance men were now bulletproof.

Black Plowdog and his men believed this and refused to give up their weapons. They fired rifles in negligence that prompted the cavalry to open fire at Camp Indiana.

In a short time, they hid 250 Indians,
including a number of women and children.

Two weeks after the massacre at Undaður Kne,
all the remaining duck dancers surrendered to the army.

Most Indians then saw the spirit dance as their last attempt
to save their culture and freedom.

Today, the teachings of Old Wovoka's grandfather,
preserved among the Peyote Indians.

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