View from the Red Road

View from the Red Road

Indigenous Red “Indian” Nations and Peoples of Great Turtle Island of Grand Mother Earth (misnomer “Indians” of the “western hemisphere” of the “planet earth”) enjoyed freedom and democracy, which ended for them as “America” was formed. The term “western hemisphere” is a division of continents by militarily empowered, imperialist governments dividing our grandmother as an object they label as a “globe.”

Great trade existed between the over 500 separate and distinct nations, each with their own language and Way of Life. Trade good items such as the Sacred Red Canunpa Stone (“pipestone of Minnesota) and copper from Michigan, were found thousands of miles away from their origins via a great system of running and traveling along ancient pathways throughout Great Turtle Island.

True democracy existed (unlike the façade and farcical charade witnessed today in the “United States government”) where women and men in each community sat together in great circles to discuss and take action upon issues concerning their nationhood and peaceful community lives. These decisions were made in community circles called “Oyate Omniciye” in the Nakota (misnomer “Sioux”) Language, one of the hundreds of unique and distinct Red Nation Languages spoken before the columbus invasion.

Indigenous “sign language” was “spoken” by all Red People, including even the smallest children. It is now an endangered art form and the awareness of this is often unknown to “Indians” today, many having grown up away from their Way of Life and family in government and religious “boarding schools” where they were beaten and abused for speaking their own beautiful languages.

Red Peoples enjoyed a wonderful relationship with Nature and the Natural World, that which they understood as superior to Indigenous Peoples and all human beings. But this great understanding that the Red Humans held - looking “up” to and emulating “the higher ones”, the plants, trees, insects, fish, animals, rocks – was in direct contradiction to the foreign, invading, non-indigenous “white people” and their “religious” concepts of superiority over the natural world.

Prior to the columbus era (1492 to the present), Red Peoples had no dentists or doctors, for their Way of Life kept them healthy and strong. They were free of disease, rotting teeth, and obesity. They walked and enjoyed fresh air and clean water – they were pollution-free.

There were no laws as there were no lawbreakers. There was no “written word” from which the lie could be drawn and developed. Decisions of the community circles – where men and women were equally recognized and respected – kept peace and harmony.

The simple life of the Red People should be respected and should be taught today to dysfunctional societies void of spirituality and peace. Indigenous Red Nations should be allowed to be recognized and to join organizations like the “United Nations” so that groups like this can be transformed into nations who strive for peace – instead of those run by big oil companies and governments dividing Grand Mother Earth into sections of profit for the few who desire control and wealth.