Do you spend time each day listening to all of nature? What about the cloud people or the winged ones? How about the standing people from the moss to the greatest tree? Or do you listen to the whispers of the four legged and the creeping and crawling? Do you listen to Mother Earth herself? All have lessons for living if you but listen.
Old Mary 1953
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Feb.27th.
Never forget to pray for those who ignore you, hate you or do harm to you for they act from ignorance.
Grandmother Smith and others in 1954
Grandmother Smith and others in 1954
Friday, February 26, 2010
Feb.24th.
What is your purpose? Have you asked Great Mystery/ Creator/Grandfather? Each of us is different, so each has to ask for them self.
Big Tree 2/24/2010
Big Tree 2/24/2010
Feb. 26th.
If you but listen you are given warning of danger, direction for growth and everything you need from within. Like Grandmother told me, be still and learn.
Big Tree 2/26/2010
Big Tree 2/26/2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Feb. 25th.
Creator gives life from within. See Creator in everything but seek him within.
Big Tree 2/25/2010
Big Tree 2/25/2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Feb. 23rd.
Learn and use the good parts of other cultures but never allow them to become more important then your own.
Several elders 1950's
Several elders 1950's
Monday, February 22, 2010
Earth Keeper and who I am.
First that as Grandmothers brother. He passed on in 1956. Uncle Bob Filey was the traditional peace chief of the Seneca Nation and the voice of the traditionalist.
The name was and is given by the clan mother of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation and nobody knows who among the clan will be chosen. Grandmother was the Clan mother until her death in 1962 and she bestowed the name on me, while Uncle Bob was still alive. Not because I was the next traditional chief of the Nation but because she said the day would come when I would speak out for and too the people everywhere. I did not use it until about seven years ago when a Cherokee elder asked me what my traditional name was and why I wasn't using it. He told me then it was time. The name goes back to the formation of the 5 nations at least a thousand years ago. It honors the person who created the federation. So the name is Degandeweda or Big Tree.
No I gave Audrey the head of the Earthkeeper society and the Bear Claw medicine which many have carried including me and Frank Fool's crow before me. It has been about 10,000 years since a woman carried the claw. David is still the representative of his grandfathers medicine and with Audrey will receive and become caretakers of Refuge and of both my Peacemaker job and the dream of building a native center here. Big Tree's job is Peacemaker and spokesperson for peace. The Earthkeepers at one time was so extensive that it had members in every village from one end of (S. America) to the other N. America) Turtle Island plus members in Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. A year ago it was down to myself and three other people until David and Audrey came along. They have built it back up to around fifty now. Yes Earth Keeper is a title and describes the function the holder carries in relation to his/her tribe and part of the Earth. They are also responsible for greeting the sun each day and working with the little people in tending to all the other life forms here on Mother. Hope this answers your questions.
The name was and is given by the clan mother of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation and nobody knows who among the clan will be chosen. Grandmother was the Clan mother until her death in 1962 and she bestowed the name on me, while Uncle Bob was still alive. Not because I was the next traditional chief of the Nation but because she said the day would come when I would speak out for and too the people everywhere. I did not use it until about seven years ago when a Cherokee elder asked me what my traditional name was and why I wasn't using it. He told me then it was time. The name goes back to the formation of the 5 nations at least a thousand years ago. It honors the person who created the federation. So the name is Degandeweda or Big Tree.
No I gave Audrey the head of the Earthkeeper society and the Bear Claw medicine which many have carried including me and Frank Fool's crow before me. It has been about 10,000 years since a woman carried the claw. David is still the representative of his grandfathers medicine and with Audrey will receive and become caretakers of Refuge and of both my Peacemaker job and the dream of building a native center here. Big Tree's job is Peacemaker and spokesperson for peace. The Earthkeepers at one time was so extensive that it had members in every village from one end of (S. America) to the other N. America) Turtle Island plus members in Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. A year ago it was down to myself and three other people until David and Audrey came along. They have built it back up to around fifty now. Yes Earth Keeper is a title and describes the function the holder carries in relation to his/her tribe and part of the Earth. They are also responsible for greeting the sun each day and working with the little people in tending to all the other life forms here on Mother. Hope this answers your questions.
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