hay'dutsi'la: Lessons and Legends

Hay’dutsi’la (by thinking with the mind)

According to our legends, hay'dutsi (thought) was the "first thing." Then there was tosok'jami (dream) This universe was not present, only hay'dutsi in the vastness. Thought thought and thought, "for a million years or more" and thought itself into voice. Thought thought voice should be pretty so changed to song. Song dreamed and sang "for a million years or more," then that which we are familiar with as the universe slowly began to appear.

Hay'dutsi'la means "by thinking." Anthropology will attempt to convince everyone that natives the world over are incapable of thought, but it is that study that in its rush to degrade natives has robbed the world of precious thought and dreams. Thought is the driving force of this hemispheric's indigenous, and has been for a very long time, dreams and thought. With this blog I expect to contact thinkers and dreaming children.

The European concept of native people being incapable of thought, by the Study of Man, and confused by the God-concepts that formed European thought, spread across the indigenous homelands, a blanket of hegemony, wounded by rote education, neglected in the realm of the great thinkers, Assigned a special place on the ladder of civilization, one step backwards and downwards, rendered mute by higher education and understood by the masses as frivolous or nonexistent, has caused native thought patterns the world-over to seek refuge in silence.

In that silence the study-of-man then finds a great arena where continuous and irreparable societal damage is constantly inflicted by the “learned” experts of the modern world.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Lessons and Legends

Anthropology has labeled the oral narratives, the spoken history, the knowledge that has traveled trough eons and ages, of the indigenous upon this hemisphere to arrive here now as myth. That is a gross error that will be corrected one day. Often I wonder if those ideals anthropology and academics stand for are not myth.
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From our lessons and legends we learn that our wa'tu (spiritual umbilical cord ) reaches beyond the stars into a land, our origin. Some legends state that we came here from the land beyond the stars and our wa'tu is connected there, all of us. Some of us don't know our legends, some legends were castrated during the conflicts of the crusade, and some were deliberately ignored out of existence.

I was terribly lucky to be informed by the older generations. According to legend, our spirits traveled through the stars to get here. Silver Fox, in spirit form, acquired the power to dream and created the dream. He came here first but there was no here, here, then Coyote spirit came. Silver left the land beyond the stars because he was a great creator, but everything he created Coyote changed "For the better", Coyote said. However, the change was always not good and always destructive.

When Silver Fox arrived Annikadel was here already. Annikadel was a great dreamer. He dreamed and threw the dreams to others and gave them the power to create whatever was in the dream. Annikadel also gave a song with the dream. It took a very long time to create this world and prepare it for children. Nowadays they say, "A million years or more." After many songs and many dreams here we are.

Earth was beautiful, and there were many homelands and many customs, languages, and songs. The homeland of my birth was beautiful with deer, birds, bears, eagles, hawks, squirrels and forests, and the big river brought us the salmon from the big water, every season. There was abundance of life in a great variety, all created to function with all others, balanced, complete.

Many events in history are distorted and confused and confusing in their deliberate distortion. "The discovery" is one. To Europeans it was new life, hope. To the natives it was a trespassing, an uninvited intrusion, an unwanted penetration, an entrance not announced, an offense. The trespassers were two-legged, but but the important part of their being, their life's spirit, wandered without focus or feeling. Often they were cruel. They were also stubborn and refused to depart our homeland. They lingered, and they invited more of their kind to come here and claim all that they wanted, to not share, and to destroy that which they didn't want. We heard them say, "For the better." They came without rules and laws. Like Coyote they damaged or change all that they touch saying, "It is for the better."

Today the ecology and life-cycles of nature upon this hemisphere has been altered, abused and damaged beyond repair and we hear "For the best because now we have paved the way for God or Science will fix it."