"They say we have been here for 60,000 years, but it is much longer. We have been here since the time before time begin. We have come directly out of the Dreamtime of the Creative Ancestors. We have lived and kept the earth as it was on the First Day."

Anonymous Aboriginal Tribal Elder.

"In a nutshell, First Nations Spirituality is based on our ties to the land and to the Medicine Wheel Teachings. It is a profound understanding of the deep connection between the temporal world and the upper world. It is a refinement of thought and feeling that rests above the profane. It is the growth of the soul to embrace mindfulness; staying in the present and acting in non-judgemental ways which creates an entrance to our souls, where our life's journey starts on a path of seeking the truth of our existence. First Nations spirituality is all good" (S. Thunderbird)

 I have taken a variety of ancient teachings given to me over the years by many Elders and Traditional Teachers and offer them in the language and rhythm of the modern world.The Following Themes and Stories, among many others, are amplified in Teya Peya's Workshops and Speeches. 

WHAT DOES PEACE AND HARMONY REALLY MEAN?

 Natural Law does not come from humans, it comes from Nature. Have we been taught to behave in a way that is antithetical to our natural instincts, natural rhythms and feelings about our place in the world?

To what extent do our adversarial and competitive institutions require us to act in a contrary way? It is ironic that in our vastly electronic world we are more disconnected than ever before. We spend endless time text-messaging, blogging, face-booking, twittering, not actually saying anything but desperately trying to communicate. Choosing the path to technology is faster, but as Cree Elder, William Commanda warned, it does not enhance the mind, body, spirit or emotions. Taking the path to spirit is slower, but the "grass is still green there."

Sometimes situations, world events, occur that are not our choice, or so it seems -- that we have been victimized by a situation beyond our immediate control. How do we reconcile the mind, body, emotions and spirit with the painful involvement in such unasked for manifestations. The Old Ones answer by saying it, we did ask for it some manner and now we must deal with it. See below.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR! Some Elders suggest that all that has manifested itself in world history was asked for at some level.  Those of you who are walking your earth walk, during such events must walk with strength, courage and wisdom, because you are needed as a counterbalance to that which is invading our world. 

No one is on this Earth who is not needed at this time. Your children need you; your families and other loved ones and your community and nation need you. Here are some teachings from the ancient brains of my Ancestors:

• Speak only on what you know; Share what you know.

• Share what you have, after-all it is only stuff, and you can always get more stuff.

• Care about what you know and what you do and say.

• Raise your arms to the Universe and count to ten before you raise your voice in anger.

• Do not shame: Do not blame.

• Listen, really listen.

• Take responsibility for your place in the world.

• Take ownership of your feelings and actions/reactions. 

• Hug your family, Hug your friends, co-workers and animals. 

• Help the poor .

• Do not trivialize the normal tasks of everyday life for they are the sacred threads that hold us together.

• Elevate the world. (See Respect below).

• There is work to be done. There will be another time to find a better day to die.

1. ANGER MUST NOT BE SHOWN 

After all it is your own. Your reaction to any situation is your responsibility. The minute anger is imposed on another person the receiver is being interfered with. In the time of the Ancestors, showing restraint regarding displays of anger was a survival tactic in that it facilitated a cohesion of spirit and good will in tribes and clans. This was very important because people lived within such close quarters, it was vital that anger and other negative behavior remain outside the group. 

Without the burden of anger, it becomes easier and possible to accept what is rather than what ought to be (that comes later). Such conditions as blame, gossip, so-called statements of fact (actually judgmental assumptions/speaking on what you do not know) about someone or something is discouraged as they cause another person to assume responsibility for your feelings. To comment on another's behaviour is considered a gross breach of etiquette.

TALKING CIRCLE: Within a circle, and in the presence of the Talking Stick, the indulgence of personal hostility towards others threatens the viability and harmony of the circle and is actively discouraged. After all, the intent of a circular-based spirituality as manifested in a Talking Circle is not to have it dissolve into an adversarial, blaming/shaming debating society. It would defeat the whole purpose.

Back in the time of the tribes, the Ancestors did not interfere in any way with the rights, privileges, and activities of another person. Non-interference quite simply meant that you were not your sister's keeper; thus if someone was on the verge of making a mistake, or acting irresponsibly action was not be taken unless the person was too young to understand, and then discipline was exacted in the form of a gentle story.  

Saving dignity and face was all important in Native cultures. Removing yourself from interfering in another life allows each person to remain truthful, and forgiveness (which is acceptance of deeds and thoughts) becomes possible. Thus the best way of raising children was by example, and by allowing children to make decisions at an early age. A mistake made became the child's responsibility and she would either learn from it or not.  It was her decision.  It requires tremendous trust and honour on both sides.

In a circle, all members honour and listen without comment or interruption to the story of each speaker. The speaker takes all the time she needs. When the Talking Stick was passed to the next person, that person would never comment on the previous story, but speak only from his own truth. In other words, non-interference is practiced as each story is accepted and honoured as a teaching and a truth from the individual speaker. Each person, in other words, has the right to stand in her own truth in an atmosphere of sacredness, trust and safety without risk of criticism, shame and judgment from others. 

This is the ethic of thoughtful consideration and consultation before a situation was acted upon. In other words, thoroughly thinking things through before any action was taken. This is the North on the Medicine Wheel, the Mental realm. Most tribes believed that calm, thoughtful, consultative and measured approaches to all things including crises was considered the wisest method..Ill-considered or hasty responses could end in someone being hurt or even dying.  

Therefore, there was an intentional slowing down, a conservation of energy in order to conserve physical, spiritual, emotional and physical energy, and to carefully consider all aspects of the situation.  More often than not, this was done in the form of speeches that contained only facts, not opinions (Trying offering an opinion with no adjectives!). As the conversation went round and round, the repetitiveness of certain facts start to emerge and eventually become the consensus.  

Important: Consensus did not mean that most participants had to agree; in some cases, it was not the end result that was important, but more the fact that everyone had an opportunity to be involved in the process. This method required enormous patience, respect and acute listening skills.

First Nations people do not generally fall all over themselves giving praise and thanks for good deeds done. In the time of the Ancestors, the highest form of praise was to simply ask that the doer continue on their present path. This is another one of those instances, where those who do not understand this type of interaction think that Native people are unemotional, and therefore unappreciative of gifts or actions meant to elevate their lives. Not so. 

Native Culture was based on a history where moderation, balance and harmony were the keys to survival. Thus, if one indulged in overt displays of praise and gratitude, then by definition, one had to engage in overt displays of disapproval or lack of appreciation, and these would be acts of interference. The overriding belief was that each person was respected for her talents and contributions to the overall well-being of the tribe.  There was no such person designated as the tribes "Praise-Giver" lest day-to-day tribal life end up being one very bad reality TV show!

When all the variables came together to provide the best result, then action was taken, for the time was right to do so. In the tribes, it was believed that each person needed to be prepared, emotionally, spiritually, mentally and physically for a successful conclusion of the action.  In other words, any action was not undertaken until there was total conviction that it could be performed successfully (hunt, raids).

There is a funny saying that says: "If you want to give God a good laugh, tell God your plans." In other words, it was understood by my Ancestors that the element of correct timing rested with their Ancestors and not with each individual. 

So, often as I have laid out my plans for short and long-term activities, my Ancestors have intervened and asked, "Excuse me, did we have a discussion about this?" which was usually followed with, "I dont think so. My world, My Rules, Your role is to listen and act." It would seem if we came into this world knowing how little control there is on our overall stay here, we would be much better off. But, then, that is the journey isnt it? 

To move around your personal medicine wheel, gathering knowledge and experience as you go, and when the time is right applying what you know, hopefully for the greater good of yourself, family, friends, ancestors, communities, nations.

STORY There were two fish with adjoining nests on the ocean floor. One of them decided to intrude into the others space, it was driven back. Over and over the two fish repelled one another until they floated motionless staring at one another across the new boundary that had been established between their territories. On the surface it appeared they were fighting over territory but they did not actually engage in physical fighting! It was more a matter of each fish exercising its right to its own space. It was not the stronger dominating the weaker. In the end there was a tacit agreement to co-exist.

In the way of the tribes, as each group established its territory, there would be a lot of whooping, threatening gestures, and charging forward and charging back, but no actual hand-to-hand combat took place. It was more a matter of demonstrating that they were strong enough to repel if forced, and would fight if they had to.

"Everyday people are straying from the Church and going back to God."
(Lenny Bruce, Comedian)

"No man with any sense of humour ever founded a religion."
 (Robert G. Ingersoll, Prose-Poems and Selections)

WHEN WE LOSE SOMETHING

When something precious is lost it affects all aspects of your earth walk. Native people almost lost our culture. This included:  Children being taken away to residential schools which resulted in virtual slavery, imprisonment and numerous types of emotional and sexual assaults at the hands of priests and nuns; the appropriation of ancestral land; fall of the matriarchy; loss of fishing and hunting rights; ceremonies; language, songs; food; regalia were outlawed.

There was a grieving process in all of this. Anger replaced the loss which was then expressed in two ways. External: individuals lashed out at themselves, other people and things; Internal: Individual voices were effectively silenced and the anger mounted. Alcoholism, and other self-destructive substance abuse problems were an inevitable result when those living in fear and unable to speak of their internal despair had been de-valued. Once rejected, depression took over and resulted in hopelessness. What emerged was a 'fight or flight' attitude.  It is this sense of despair and hopelessness that many of my people fight everyday.

Starting in 1850 and ending around 1890 close to 90 million buffalo were assassinated.  It was an effective way to bring the Plains First Nations to their knees.

Native people are currently in a stage of revitalization are working hard to modify some of these destructive behaviours and return to a state of MENE-DOH (Ojibwa), also called in Lakhota HUNTA HO (Clearing the Way): Spirit, air, food, water, safety, protection, rest, activity, sexuality, reproduction. 

It is important that all Free People of the World Find Ways, by Working, Loving and Staying Together to Return to a State of Mene-Doh.

PEACE OF WILD THINGS

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound, in
fear of what my life and my children's lives may be.

I go and lie down where the wood drake rests
in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things who do
not tax their lives with forethought of grief.
I come into the presence of still water and I
feel above me the day blind stars with their light for a time.

 I rest in the grace of the world, and  I am free.

(Wendall Berry)

A WORLD IN BALANCE

 A very abridged version of a Tsimshian Story told to my by my mother, Elder, Gandoox, about when all living things were in balance and harmony:

Long, long ago when the mountains grew tall and put on their dignity, they thought they were people.....

Long, long ago, when the fish swam in the rivers, and the birds flew in the sky among the stars bringing messages from my Ancestors, and animals roamed freely in the great forests, they thought they were people....

Long, long ago, there were women and there were men and they thought they were people...Long Long ago...

MEMORY AND THE POWERFUL SONG OF
 DIVINE DISCONTENT

"'I did this says my memory, I cannot have done this, says my pride. Eventually the memory yields." (Nietzsche)

Within all of us is the constant struggle that occurs among the ego, guilt and a need for spiritual peace.  The 'G-word' - Guilt, that insatiable mischief-maker who sits at the source of your sense of unworthiness and with great glee often rewrites personal histories and memories until you believe the new world-view you have created for yourself. 

The late humorist, Irma Bombeck once remarked that "Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving." Lack of self-worth causes the door to the truth to remain padlocked. The ego cries for peace, yet remains firmly entrenched in familiar patterns of self-deprivation and self-hate. The ego seeks and probes but insidious little voices whisper, "You are safe here in my dark heart, why change, it's what you know." You are comfortable here and know your predictable responses"; "Do you really want to go into uncharted territory, stay with me, stay with me."  And so we do and remain within our predictable safe but illusory world. What if there was another way?

When you honour your memories, you are hearing the truth of your existence. You are acknowledging the words of the Ancestors and respecting them - it is disrespectful to ignore the teachings from the Spirit World for it holds your memories, your personal history.

Each day you walk in the real world you remember your Ancestors and their lives which created your memories. It takes courage to do this because often the memories are things you want buried in the mists of time never to be brought into the light. However, if you continue to define yourself by that which you do not want to see, you give it life and control and you become a walking, living bad dream in your illusory world.

But, when, you turn that which has frightened you into a welcoming, honouring teaching, it becomes an integral part of your existence, after all, both good and bad memories have defined who you are up to this moment in time; then you reclaim your life, and the memory(s) no longer have the power to control your present reality. Your head comes up, your shoulders square, and you step forward with confidence striding towards tour endless personal horizon. Such is the strength of your Native spirit.

ON RECLAIMING PERSONAL POWER

FOUR THINGS STOPPING YOU FROM EMBRACING YOUR PERSONAL POWER
1. You are living in a time of instantaneous action/reaction. You have a thought, a feeling and your physical reality instantly changes if you immediately act on it through your electronics (Internet, Text-messaging). Have you imagined an event taking a specific course and then it does? Do you think about someone and she calls you. All of us have experienced examples of this type of occurrence in our everyday lives. You are starting to know what's going to happen before it does and it is scary.

2. You are hesitant to fully take your personal power into yourself because you are not clear about how your life might change. Fear of the unknown. Can you handle it? What if right now you were a thousand times more powerful? How would you be? How would that feel? What would you do with such power? Would you be safe? Would others be safe?

3. You don't realize you can create your own reality all by yourself!! If you choose to you also have the ability to create it with others. Most of us were taught to believe we must co-create with others, yet we are all creators of our own destiny. Only when you first become responsible creators, aware of what you create in your own life, can you truly co-create with another person.

4. You choose to ignore your First Impressions. If an answer comes, Do it or Don't do it, Yes or No comes in that flash of instant enlightenment you elect not to trust it. It came to fast, and like a good Canadian you work hard to talk yourself out of it. What you failed to recognize was in that instant, your Ancestors were speaking to you!

You can have a relationship with yourself and the wider world without others telling you how to do it.  You are born with a 'perfect essential self,',yet over time you talk yourself out of it as you buy into the dominant opinions and beliefs that surround you (parents, siblings, politicians, co-workers, friends, neighbours).  This conditioning starts at birth. As a child you had not yet learned to cognitively think for yourself and as a result you looked to those around you for opinions and feelings. As you walk your earth walk this early conditioning has the potential to dominate your life. It is your responsibility to keep your heart open, and your eyes and ears sharp so that you can dance your personal dance, sing your songs and speak words that will elevate your life and those around you and yet still meld with the greater good.

With the gift of personal power comes responsibility and accountablity.  How you walk in the world reflects on yourself and your community. How you conduct yourself creates a positive or negative world view. 

You already have everything you need to walk your earth walk. There will come the 'right' time when you will align with the twin elements of Wisdom and Courage to tap into all these gifts.  Wisdom to know that a change needs to be made, and the Courage to execute the change(s). 

QUIETING THE MIND
Loving yourself, being compassionate and creating are the most important reasons for being here on Earth. Never create when you are troubled. If you have a busy mind, get physical. The more physically active you are, the quieter and calmer your mind becomes. Another good way of quieting a busy mind is to look straight ahead and focus on something in the room. While keeping your head level, look up at the ceiling. This will immediately calm your emotions and quiet your mind. When you are calmer speak the following ALOUD.

"This too shall pass
If I can endure for this minute whatever is happening to me
No matter how heavy my heart is or how dark the moment might be...
If I can but keep on believing what I know in my heart to be true,
That darkness will fade with morning and that this will pass away, too...
Then nothing can ever disturb me or fill me with uncertain fear,
For as sure as night brings dawning, my morning is bound to appear."
(Anonymous)

WISDOM
Tsimshian: Wilgoosk  Ojibwa: Nbwaakaawin

Wisdom (North on the Medicine Wheel) is understanding the interconnectedness of all things. For women, the image caring for past, present, and future generations begins to emerge during menopause. Wisdom, no matter what path you are walking, is to pray for the world to wake up and acknowledge that we are one very large family.

Being wise is different from having information.Information comes in pieces; wisdom sees the pattern that connects the pieces, the great circles of birth and death and rebirth. Information is from the mind and for the mind; wisdom is from and for the heart and soul. For example, for women, acknowledging menopause as an important rite of passage affirms the extraordinary changes  you undergo at this most sacred time. 

For more on Women's Health

SPIRIT AND SOUL

The spirit was meant to pour through  your soul and all matter, like water. Your soul is boundless and not trapped in the body. The campfires of your Ancestors are the stars (the nearer stars are the new ancestors; distant stars are the old ancestors).Your spirit goes back before time was measured. You possess an ancient brain filled with knowledge and wisdom that will enhance your life.

 Look to the endless sky and see the dream time.  Call your Ancestors with a rattle.  They will come and be with you in time of plenty and in time of need for they are the mirrors to your past, present and to your future.  

THE CREE HAVE A HANDLE ON HEALING

Illness or any form of adversity is a predator. The bigger the predator (adversity), the greater the reward.  Face the challenge and in so doing, reap the reward. Heya ho.

BAD MEDICINE/GOOD MEDICINE

Gossip, Jealousy, Suspicion, Resentment are destructive actions; such negativity only serves to fracture your personal power.  The  'Power-over' mentality, that is, attempting to power yourself over another in order to achieve personal validation at their expense only serves to limit your own personal horizon instead of expanding it.  Each person is part of an harmonious world, a world of your own making.  It is up to each person to do something to change the world and make it a caring/sharing place. Remember, if you think that you can abuse your electronics by text-messaging negative things about another person, think again. Your are a mass of energy which flies free into the universe, electronics is called 'closed energy', and it has no place to go but back into you! Also, your Ancestors are watching. Whatever you say or do will affect the next seven generations of your family. Be judicious in the use of electronics.

If you do not endeavour to raise the collective consciousness of Mother Earth then you are reduced to the full-time job of constantly looking for victims to suck the blood of their personal power in order to try and maintain your own.  It is exhausting and destructive to become 'Vampires of the souls of others' because it only reinforces your personal fears and renders you unable to find your own way. You need only look inward and find vast resources of spiritual nectar with which to build and grow.

Humans were meant to sit in circles and look each other in the eyes, to share stories in a non-intrusive and respectful manner. Singing with the Spirits sounds better with a Chorus of voices singing in harmony, or unison, but always together!

SINS OF THE SPIRIT STARTING WITH THE FOUR AS AND OTHER THINGS

ACEDIA: Means inertia, cynicism, refusal to begin new things. The Soul closes down through tiredness. The opposite of this is ZEAL - energy, intense experience resting in the beauty of things. Falling in love with everything, life, earth, trees, land, water, sky.

ARROGANCE: (Not pride which is a good thing!) shows itself in racism, sexism, colonialism. "I am better than you because....." Rituals are needed to detox our arrogance. Racism has not been washed away at the level of the soul. After all, a soul with a superiority complex is a very small soul.

AVARICE: Greed for gain; knows no limits and extends to infinity. Infinity i.e. Spirit (Thomas Aquinas). Heart must be fed by the mind in order to love everyday. Mind, heart, and imagination instead of stocks, bonds and power is the path to the spirit. Love lasts -- stocks, well, you saw what happened to powerful corporations in the united States when ambition and greed overtook a more reasoned approach!! How about the current recession when once secure middle-class people are being forced out of their homes due to job loss.

ADDICTION: When lust takes over, such power holds the soul in a vise-like grip and narrows our personal horizons. Joy expands the heart. Without it there is no zeal, energy. There must a return of the fire to be Warriors of Peace.

DESPAIR: Lose hope and often self-destruction and violence towards self and others is the result.

FEAR: Carries you away from your path; it can be wielded to control other people, but at the same time, fear locks you into a box.

• "Those in great fear pay no attention to the suffering of others". (Thomas Aquinas)

• "Fear is the building of walls around the heart so love cannot enter." (Lakhota Elder),

• "Very little can be accomplished under the specter of fear." (Florence Nightingale).

FALL OF THE GODDESS: Mothers quelled their daughters' passion in order to save their lives. 300 years later the winners have rewritten history. To change requires 'will' and 'cooperation'. However, anything is possible when you own and honour the possibility. In other words, if you do not estimate and own what you know, then time and space does not matter. Western minds militate against the possibility of getting well. However, one does not have to be cured to be healed.

FIVE NATIVE BELIEFS

EACH INDIVIDUAL IS A GOOD PERSON - "How do you know you are a good person?" "What are the attributes of a good person?" (Universal respect (non-judgmental); Fairness to all; compassion/love; honesty; trustworthy; integrity; consciousness; accountability; sharing; courage; wisdom; honour, able to listen in an unbiased manner, supportive, generosity).

"Let neither cold, hunger, nor pain, nor the fear of them, neither the bristling teeth of danger nor the very jaws of death itself, prevent you from doing a good deed......" (Dr Charles Alexander Eastman, in 1911, Born Ohiyesa (The Winner) of the Santee Sioux, in 1858, a great speaker and one of the first Native Americans to earn a PhD).

EACH PERSON IS GOOD ENOUGH - that each persons value is for their existence and not, basically, for what they have, what they do and what they do not do. The circular-based nature of Native spirituality shows that all people were created equal; that each had a special and unique gift that was respected and celebrated. The tribe hummed because all those gifts were brought to the daily dance of survival. 

"Learn how to withhold judgment Learn to listen Get in touch with your own inner self Look at life with joy. Don't ever cry over something that cannot cry over you."
(Elder, Cheewa James, Modoc)

EACH PERSON IS LOVABLE AND LOVED You are unique. There is only one person in the world with your name and face; it makes  you unique in the universe. In the tribes everyone was loved, everyone was supported; the children were gently raised and loved madly. As a result, the support system was such that the need for validation, compliments, public recognition, accolades were not things that were seen as necessary to the enhancement of a persons life. 

"Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other we will have no more wars.  We shall all be alike -- brothers of one father and one mother, with one sky above us and one country around us, and on government for all."
(Chief Joseph, 1840-1904)

EACH PERSON BELONGS - Native people have trouble with this because they are mired in a dominant non-Native society. The advantage of being tribal is that not only do they have a tribe, but they have have a band (or house). Thunderbird is not only Coast Tsimshian, she has her band (Gilutsaaw) and her house (Niis-gumiik) - it creates for her a sense of belonging. This is the essential importance of basic cultural beliefs. When these were taken away, Native people found themselves adrift in an uncertain sea of outside influences not of their own making. A sense of rootedness in a world gone awry is something that all people seek - a need to say, "this is my place, this is where I belong. This is where I feel safe."

"The Indian loved to come into sympathy and spiritual communion with his brothers of the animal kingdom, whose inarticulate souls had for him something of the sinless purity that we attribute to the innocent and irresponsible child. He had faith in their instincts, as in a mysterious wisdom given from above; and while he humbly accepted the supposedly voluntary sacrifice of their bodies to preserve his own, he paid homage to their spirits in prescribed prayers and offerings." (Eastman)

EACH PERSON IS CONNECTED TO THE UNIVERSE - Most humans do not have a sense or feeling of being connected to the universe. But the Universe is Breath, we breathe, therefore we are connected. New air is in the lungs all the time; where was that breath two months ago? Was it in a penguin on the South Pole? A zebra in Africa? A panda in China or a polar bear at the North Pole? Was it in an elk or a hawk or a salmon or a porpoise? Where was it? We're all connected by breath, we're all one within each other, and that breath comes from the Great Mystery. That breath brings us to our home within our heart. Breath is the connection and the relation to each other; we are relatives with the winged, the finned, the shelled, the crawlers, the four and two-leggeds. It is comforting to know that we are not alone.

"... I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself."
(Lone Man (Isna-la-wica) Teton Lakhota)

DREAM TIME: REMEMBERING YOUR DAY & NIGHT DREAMS

• Visualize an old stone well
  You rest beside Well, say the following:
  This is the well of (say your name) my unconscious
  Relax
  Imagine pen and paper and start writing:
  I, (Say Your Name) release whatever I need to release and accept whatever I need to accept to remember my dreams now.
  In your mind, sign and date the note
  Fold the note into small square
  Drop it into the well of your unconscious
  
  Watch the note as it floats down, getting smaller and smaller until it disappears.
  Imagine you are in bed sleeping (if you are daydreaming).
  It is a peaceful and restful night
  Imagine yourself beginning to experience a dream
  Make it a simple dream
  Be acutely aware of the details
  Imagine waking up and being excited at remembering it
  Imagine recording the dream
  Feel the sense of pride
  Let the feeling flow through you
  then allow yourself to drift off to a dream-filled sleep.
   

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