Real Sustainability: Treat the Earth with Respect

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Mitakuye oyasin!

We are all related!

It isn’t too late. We still have time to recreate and change the value system of the present. We must! Survival will depend on it. Our Earth is our original mother. She is in deep labor now. There will be a new birth soon! The old value system will suffer and die. It cannot survive as our mother earth strains under the pressure put on her. She will not let man kill her.

The First Nation’s Peoples had a value system. There were only four commandments from the Great Spirits:

1.Respect Mother Earth
2.Respect the Great Spirit
3.Respect our fellow man and woman
4.Respect for individual freedom

We must all stand together as a force of love. Be united NOW. There is only one way. Communication. Knowledge. Arm yourself with truth, love and perseverence. Extend your family. Join with others in giving. We are all related. People of the earth take back your heritage. I am not speaking of skin color or religion. Our heritage is this earth… Our heritage is also extended beyond this earth into the heavens where the spirit once lived before our birth into this world. You are bound to both.

THE TEN INDIAN COMMANDMENTS!

Treat the Earth and all that dwell thereon with respect!

Remain close to the Great Spirit

Show great respect for your fellow beings

Work together for the benefit of all mankind!

Give assistance and kindness wherever needed

Do what you know to be right

Look after the well-being of mind and body

Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater good

Be truthful and honest at all times

Take full responsiblity for your actions…..

FULL MOON PRAYER

We thank the Moon and the stars, who give us their light when the Sun retires….

We thank the Great Spirit, incarnation of all kindness, who directs all things for the good of Its children.”

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Aho Mitakuye Oyasin (We are All Related)

Ancestors of the past:
Mothers, Fathers,
Family, Friends,
Teachers, kind companions,
Honor to you;
We exist because of your forbearance;
We are here because of your hope;
We carry forth in your intention,
Thank you Ancient Ones.

Rocks that make up this earth:
Honor to you;
We exist because of your subsistence.
We are here because of your substance.
We carry forth on your ground.
Thank you Ancient Ones.

Stars that make up the sky:
Honor to you;
We exist because of your eminence.
We are here because of your radiance.
We carry forth in your light.
Thank you Ancient Ones.

We recognize our interdependence with the ancient ones;
Our existence is dependent on theirs;
Our body and spirit come forth from these ancestors;
Our children are your children.
Thank you to all our relations,
We are all related:
Aho Mitakuye Oyasin