Standing Rock: Winter Solstice

[Equinox Moon]

This is beautifully compiled narrative of Standing Rock, Aug. 2016 to present.

If you have not yet joined in on learning about Standing Rock, I invite you to now.

What has taken place here is unprecedented! The Native Peoples have been HIGHLY effective in fighting big-oil. They came at this from many angles: Lawsuits, financial divestment campaigns that worked, videos, drone videos, protests at banking headquarters, prayer, millions of people joining in on this one - all over the world. Standing Rock is HUGE. They have much to teach us all.

The Indigenous could be the leaders that save us and our planet.

[ffr]

1. According to rural whites, they're all to anxious for Jan 21st, when they get to finish the job

As they put it. Treaties be damned. tRump and his men are going to get it done if they have to bulldoze people. To them, the protests are portrayed as a few Native Americans and a lot of outsiders supporting them. They want the outsiders to silenced. They want their names, as they put it.

Ignorance is alive and it's going to go messy if they have their way in a few weeks time.



FCUK THE GOP. KEEP PROTESTING FOR THE RIGHTS OF NATIVE AMERICANS AND THEIR LANDS.

[Equinox Moon]

2. I understand your words, so does Standing Rock.

2,500 are still there in deep winter.
They don't trust either.

Yet, I also know how effective they are and will continue to be.
One big thing is the divestment. It is working, by the billions of dollars!

[yuiyoshida]

3. Ancient Hawaiian celebration of Makahiki tied to the stars

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The celebration of the mystical Winter Solstice is also celebrated during the Makahiki.


On November 18, for the second year in a row, a group of Maui Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) gathered in darkness long before dawn on the rim of Haleakala. They sat in the stillness of the night on a lava-strewn overlook peering into the heavens as their ancestors' royal counselors, holy men, wisdom keepers, and the master astronomer of the island did in times past.

As they waited in the numbing cold of the peak under the thin crescent sliver of the first new moon of the winter months, the group, all of Hawaiian ancestry, were seeking to bond with their cultural tradition through observing a sacred ancient ceremony.

The ceremony of Ka Ho'okupu, He Makana Kela (Bringing the Gift) was limited to Native Hawaiians in accordance with the Native American Religious Freedom Act. The now-annual gathering is sponsored by Hui `Ai Pohaku, (Keepers of the Culture) a group dedicated to preserving and protecting the cultural and spiritual essence of the Kanaka Maoli. It is an effort by elders in the host-culture community to expose its members to the core of their ancient cultural and spiritual customs and traditions.

According to Charles "Uncle Charlie" Kauluwehi Maxwell, Sr., a kapuna (revered elder) in the Kanaka Maoli community and Native Hawaiian cultural specialist, "the culture is alive and well, but the Kanaka Maoli are still seeking to renew and forge new links to their ancient past."

With their long tradition of observing the heavens for everything from navigating across the huge Pacific ocean to when to plant or harvest, marry or celebrate, and even when to make war or pursue peace, the stars have guided the Hawaiians from the kahiko (the ancient times). So, as their forebearers had done before them, the group gathered on the sacred slopes of Haleakala to await the long-anticipated appearance in the eastern sky of a star constellation called Na Huihui o Makali'i.

more...
http://www.moolelo.com/ancient-celebration.html

[Equinox Moon]

4. Beautiful - thanks

[JudyM]

5. Our Native Peoples are giving us all courage. We are so accustomed to being steamrolled by

our commercial-government. I hope our collective courage will grow far stronger, we desperately need that right now.

Thank you.

[Equinox Moon]

6. Yes, collective courage

and connection to and with, that which really matters.