This song has been playing in my head off and on for the last two days … blood lines …
Ohlo Lungwo Lungwoi Ohlo Lungwo Wei
Ka Ohlungwo Ilungwo Ohlo Lungwo Wei The Bird Tribes are rising
Ka old soul Oh it is written The Ancient Ones will rise again I bow in complete recognition The Bird Tribes are rising
Ka Ohlungwo Ilungwo Ohlo Lungwo Wei The Bird Tribes are rising
Ka Old Soul It is legend The Ancient Ones will rise again See my soul of different colours See my feathers worn from within
Ka Ohlungwo Ilungwo Ohlo Lungwo Wei The Bird Tribes are rising
Oh come sit by this fire Warm the seeds you’ve sewn Time travellers how far we have flown Are we not birds of the same feather? Is this not prophecy? I rise up for I remember All of Creation Is inside of me
Ka Ohlungwo Ilungwo Ohlo Lungwo Wei The Bird Tribes are rising
Crowfoot stood and watched as the white man spread many one dollar bills on the ground.
“This is what the white man trades with; this is his buffalo robe. Just as you trade skins, we trade with these pieces of paper.”
When the white chief had laid all his money on the ground and shown how much he would give if the Indians would sign a treaty, Crowfoot took a handful of clay, made a ball out of it and put it on the fire.
It did not crack.
Then he said to the white man, Now put your money on the fire and see if it will last as long as the clay.
The white man said, No….my money will burn because it is made of paper.
With an amused gleam in his eyes the old chief said, Oh, your money is not as good as our land, is it?
The wind will blow it away; the fire will burn it; water will rot it. But nothing will destroy our land. You don’t make a very good trade.
Then with a smile, Crowfoot picked up a handful of sand from the river bank, handed it to the white man and said, You count the grains of sand in that while I count the money you give for the land.
The white man said, I would not live long enough to count this, but you can count the money in a few minutes.
Very well, said the wise Crowfoot, our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever.
It will not perish as long as the sun shines and the water flows, and through all the years it will give life to men and animals, and therefore we cannot sell the land.
It was put there by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not really belong to us.
You can count your money and burn it with a nod of a buffalo’s head, but only the Great Spirit can count the grains of sand and the blades of grass on these plains.
As a present we will give you anything you can take with you, but we cannot give you the land.
In 1995, Roy Disney decided to release an animated movie about a Powhatan woman known as “Pocahontas”. In answer to a complaint by the Powhatan Nation, he claims the film is “responsible, accurate, and respectful.”
We of the Powhatan Nation disagree. The film distorts history beyond recognition. Our offers to assist Disney with cultural and historical accuracy were rejected. Our efforts urging him to reconsider his misguided mission were spurred.
“Pocahontas” was a nickname, meaning “the naughty one” or “spoiled child”. Her real name was Matoaka. The legend is that she saved a heroic John Smith from being clubbed to death by her father in 1607 – she would have been about 10 or 11 at the time. The truth is that Smith’s fellow colonists described him as an abrasive, ambitious, self-promoting mercenary soldier.
Of all of Powhatan’s children, only “Pocahontas” is known, primarily because she became the hero of Euro-Americans as the “good Indian”, one who saved the life of a white man. Not only is the “good Indian/bad Indian theme” inevitably given new life by Disney, but the history, as recorded by the English themselves, is badly falsified in the name of “entertainment”.
The truth of the matter is that the first time John Smith told the story about this rescue was 17 years after it happened, and it was but one of three reported by the pretentious Smith that he was saved from death by a prominent woman.
Yet in an account Smith wrote after his winter stay with Powhatan’s people, he never mentioned such an incident. In fact, the starving adventurer reported he had been kept comfortable and treated in a friendly fashion as an honored guest of Powhatan and Powhatan’s brothers. Most scholars think the “Pocahontas incident” would have been highly unlikely, especially since it was part of a longer account used as justification to wage war on Powhatan’s Nation.
Euro-Americans must ask themselves why it has been so important to elevate Smith’s fibbing to status as a national myth worthy of being recycled again by Disney. Disney even improves upon it by changing Pocahontas from a little girl into a young woman.
The true Pocahontas story has a sad ending. In 1612, at the age of 17, Pocahontas was treacherously taken prisoner by the English while she was on a social visit, and was held hostage at Jamestown for over a year.
During her captivity, a 28-year-old widower named John Rolfe took a “special interest” in the attractive young prisoner. As a condition of her release, she agreed to marry Rolfe, who the world can thank for commercializing tobacco. Thus, in April 1614, Matoaka, also known as “Pocahontas”, daughter of Chief Powhatan, became “Rebecca Rolfe”. Shortly after, they had a son, whom they named Thomas Rolfe. The descendants of Pocahontas and John Rolfe were known as the “Red Rolfes.”
Two years later on the spring of 1616, Rolfe took her to England where the Virginia Company of London used her in their propaganda campaign to support the colony. She was wined and dined and taken to theaters. It was recorded that on one occasion when she encountered John Smith (who was also in London at the time), she was so furious with him that she turned her back to him, hid her face, and went off by herself for several hours. Later, in a second encounter, she called him a liar and showed him the door.
Rolfe, his young wife, and their son set off for Virginia in March of 1617, but “Rebecca” had to be taken off the ship at Gravesend. She died there on March 21, 1617, at the age of 21. She was buried at Gravesend, but the grave was destroyed in a reconstruction of the church. It was only after her death and her fame in London society that Smith found it convenient to invent the yarn that she had rescued him.
History tells the rest. Chief Powhatan died the following spring of 1618. The people of Smith and Rolfe turned upon the people who had shared their resources with them and had shown them friendship. During Pocahontas’ generation, Powhatan’s people were decimated and dispersed and their lands were taken over. A clear pattern had been set which would soon spread across the American continent.
I was speaking to self about the interferers, the violators. I received a word “Nimrod” right at 4:44, and Angel message. I believe this is the one some wish to resurrect using the purity and innocence of the human spirit and soul … human “sacrifice”.
Her name was Lili’uokalani, and she was queen regnant of the Hawaiian Islands. That is, until the United States decided those islands with their beautiful sunsets and amazing beaches were a little too fine to be left to self-rule, and stole them in a coup d’état.
–On This Day in History Shit Went Down: January 17, 1893–
Born in 1838, she became queen in 1891 when her brother died. Then she had the audacity to take a look at this thing called “the Bayonet Constitution,” which had been forced on her brother and her nation in 1887 to give a bunch of power to American and European elites living in Hawaiʻi, and she said, “This is some major fucking bullshit.”
And it was some fucking bullshit. It was named after an implement of death because they threatened to murder her brother if he didn’t adopt it. And it disenfranchised two-thirds of the native Hawaiian population of their right to vote. Lili’uokalani proposed a new constitution that would bring back power to the monarchy and the people by restoring their voting ability. The people were all hey that’s totally awesome please do it.
But the wealthy foreigners and native elites who loved to exploit Hawaiʻi and her people were all hell fucking no. So, they formed a “Committee of Safety,” which was a fancy term for “Protect the Rich People.”
And those loyal to Queen Lili’uokalani responded by forming their own “No, fuck you” committee against said rich people and gave some speeches in the palace square. Then the bad guys said fuck this it’s coup time, and they said hey ‘murica lil’ help and ‘murica was all oh yeah we love to steal places, and gave them the loan of a bunch of Marines and sailors from the USS Boston, which was moored nearby purely by coincidence, I’m sure, to march around and be all intimidating and the royalists were all, well I guess we’re boned and gave up. Queen Lili’uokalani was deposed as monarch on January 17, 1893.
Two years later there was a rebellion to restore her to power, but it failed and Lili’uokalani abdicated her throne in order to save the lives of her supporters who had been sentenced to death. She was sentenced to five years hard labor for the rebellion, but it was commuted to imprisonment in the palace; she received a pardon the following year. Hawaiʻi was annexed by the U.S. in 1898 and became a state in 1959.
And that’s the story of how Americans got a place where they could travel to surf and get skin cancer without needing a passport.
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Did you know that one of the first coins in the world had a bee symbol on them?
Did you know that there are live enzymes in honey?
Did you know that in contact with metal spoon these enzymes die? The best way to eat honey is with wooden spoon, if you can’t find one, use plastic.
Did you know that honey contains a substance that helps your brain work better?
Did you know that honey is one of the rare foods on earth that alone can sustain human life?
Did you know that bees saved people in Africa from starvation?
One spoon of honey is enough to sustain human life for 24 hours?
Did you know that propolis that bees produce is one of the most powerful natural ANTIBIOTICS?
Did you know that honey has no expiration date?
Did you know that the bodies of the great emperors of the world were buried in golden coffins and then covered with honey to prevent putrefaction?
Did you know that the term “HONEY MOON” comes from the fact that newlyweds consumed honey for fertility after the wedding?
Did you know that a bee lives less than 40 days, visits at least 1000 flowers and produces less than a teaspoon of honey, but for her it is a lifetime.
Thank you, BEES!
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