PHOENIX, AZ, U.S.: While Yellowstone's buffalo were being slaughtered and President George Bush craved war, Indigenous from the Americas gathered for the resurrection of their spiritual destinies to protect the earth and all that is sacred.
With equal intensity to the destruction in the world, Indians from the Arctic came defending the caribou homeland, Navajos from Big Mountain, Ariz., called for protection of Black Mesa and Lakota from Pine Ridge, S.D., urged solidarity in rekindling the spiritual fortunes of mankind.
United Nations Representative Wilton Littlechild, Cree, joined the circle of many nations on top of South Mountain, a mountain sacred to the Salt River and Gila River O'otham, as Lakota and others made prayer offerings at sunset on Friday, March 7, beginning a three-day conference here.
Littlechild, representative of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, said that for the first time, spiritual priorities are emerging from the United Nations as a result of input from Indigenous nations.
With equal intensity to the destruction in the world, Indians from the Arctic came defending the caribou homeland, Navajos from Big Mountain, Ariz., called for protection of Black Mesa and Lakota from Pine Ridge, S.D., urged solidarity in rekindling the spiritual fortunes of mankind.
United Nations Representative Wilton Littlechild, Cree, joined the circle of many nations on top of South Mountain, a mountain sacred to the Salt River and Gila River O'otham, as Lakota and others made prayer offerings at sunset on Friday, March 7, beginning a three-day conference here.
Littlechild, representative of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, said that for the first time, spiritual priorities are emerging from the United Nations as a result of input from Indigenous nations.