Barbara's Sharebook 

How To Be An Ally To Indigenous Peoples

Text & Sponsor: Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign

www.honorthetworow.org

2013 marks the 400th Anniversary of the Two Row Wampum Treaty between the Dutch and the Haudenosaunee {Iroquois}. This treaty was a model for all Indigenous/Euro treaties that followed.

[This is on a poster, with beautiful artwork by artist Josephine M. Cook, Onondaga.

It is available as poster, postcard, bookmark, from a WONDERFUL site,

SyracuseCulturalWorkers.com

which is a WONDERFUL resource for posters, stickers, postcards, greeting cards, bookmarks, buttons, mugs, T-shirts, books, tapes, etc. Very artistic and great causes - EVERYthing they do! DO go to that site and see MUCH MORE that they have to offer.]

Here is what is listed on the Poster, How to be an Ally to Indigenous Peoples:

Care for the Earth/  Give thanks frequently

Respect and support Indigenous sovereignty

Learn about treaties

Remember that treaties are the Supreme Law of the United States {Article 6, US Constitution}

Demand that our nation honor its treaty commitments

Consider future generations in all your actions

Question and resist stereotypes/ including team names and mascots

Learn about and reject the "Doctrine of Discovery"

Reach out to your Indigenous neighbors

Slow down and listen more than you talk/  Notice where you are

Live with gratitude

Live lightly on the earth

Work to end global warming

Support renewable energy/  Stop hydrofracking, dirty coal and uranium mining

Don't co-opt Native cultures or ceremonies/  Return sacred objects

Read and promote the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day every October 12

Learn about the people indigenous to wherever you are

Read Native Authors/  Support Native craftspeople, businesses and events

Remember that all beings {animals and plants} are your relatives not your resources

Appreciate the diversity of nations, cultures and people

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Also there is a poster at that site, SyracuseCulturalWorkers.com, for Idle No More:

Aboriginal rights movement started by women in November, 2012 as a reaction to legislative abuses of Indigenous treaty rights by the Canadian government. The movement takes particular issue with the omnibus budget Bill C-45 which effectively removed protection of waterways in the Canadian wilderness. The bill gives multinational corporations direct and easy acess to Indigenous waters and land. Idle No More empowers Indigenous peoples and allies to stand up for their nations, lands, treaties and sovereignty. It's about love, about honoring human dignity and about holding sacred our relationship with the land.

www.idlenomore.ca

"I AM NO LONGER ACCEPTING THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE/ I AM CHANGING THE THINGS I CANNOT ACCEPT/  RISE"

{Text on Poster}

You know what the Historical Reason for the "State Militias" written into the Constitution, was???
 Well, DO you?

The State Militias were NOT "bands of Patriots fighting the British" or foreign invaders.
The State Militias were INSISTED UPON by the Southern States to PUT DOWN SLAVE REBELLIONS and to HUNT DOWN ESCAPED SLAVES and to TERRORIZE SLAVES SO THEY WOULDN'T RUN AWAY.
The ENTIRE SLAVE SYSTEM OF THE SOUTH, DEPENDED UPON "ARMED {White, of course!} CITIZENS" for its functioning as SLAVERY IN ECONOMIC PRODUCTION.
These ARMED MILITIA GROUPS were known as "Patrollers" or, in Slave dialect, "Paterollers", because that's what they DID.
There still were SLAVE REBELLIONS anyway, and Runaway slaves - but, the system COULD NOT HAVE BEEN KEPT GOING without CONSTANT ARMED WATCHFULNESS AND TERROR. The slaves were not as "docile" and "reconciled to their condition" as Southern propaganda has told us! These Armed Militias killed, maimed, re-enslaved and terrorized thousands of Black people - and even Free Blacks, whom they could not tolerate either!

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THAT is the True Story of THE SECOND AMENDMENT - which we are not taught in schools! Needless to say, the Second Amendment does not say a WORD about slavery directly, as even then decent people were ASHAMED of it... and you will find, in 18th-century literature, at the time the Constitution was written, euphemisms and avoidance of the subject...

A culture in which women are expected to remain virgins until marriage is a rape culture. In that vision, women’s bodies are for use primarily for procreation or male pleasure. They must be kept pure. While cultural conservatives would disagree, this attitude gives men license to patrol—in some cases with violence—women's hopes for controlling their lives and bodies.

Those who are outraged by Gay Marriage, are basically outraged by the very idea{!} of Gay Sex. Of course married people have sex, and UNmarried people have sex too - it is just the idea of the State "officially" saying having - and enjoying! - Gay Sex is okay and not a "Sin".

Gay sex, dontcha know, is inherently WORSE than other, heterosexual sex. Of course, according to the Christian Catholic doctrine of Original Sin, heterosex is BAD, EVIL, DIRTY too - ALL sex is Bad, Evil, Dirty, Sinful. Even THINKING about Sex, is Bad, Evil, Dirty, Sinful in itself - so much more is actually DOING it! And ALL AFFECTION AND LOVING IS TAINTED because that dirty ol' Sex, Original Sin, etc., creeps into it.
But, because Society MUST go on, and children MUST be born "between pee and excrement" as I think St. Augustine said...
Marriage makes hetero sex OKAY! and at least, a bit LESS sinful...
THAT is why the Haters are against Gay Marriage. They are TIED to the idea of Sex as Sinful, Evil, Tainted UNLESS it has the official Stamp of Approval on it.... that makes {hetero} married sex Okay {just marginally!}. They don't WANT Sex to be other than a dirty shameful anti-life thing...

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/5-ridiculous-arguments-officially-filed-against-marriage-equality.html#ixzz2KFli2hLS

Devils marching "Sinners" down to Hell!

At any moment, Nigeria's parliament could pass one of the harshest anti-gay laws the world has ever seen.

10 years in prison for living with someone of the same sex
10 years in prison for supporting the idea of a pride march
14 years in prison for trying to have a wedding

All Out is working closely with the following partner organisations in Nigeria:

Changing Attitude Nigeria, Improved Youth Health Initiative, Initiative for Advancement of Humanity, International Center for Advocacy on Right to Health, Sexual Minorities Against AIDS in Nigeria, The Initiative for Equal Rights, The Initiative for Improved Male Health, Nigerian LGBTIs in the Diaspora Against Anti-Same Sex Laws.

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This is NO SURPRISE after the Kill the Gays Bill pending in the Ugandan Parliament.

Since being Gay is as old as the Human race, and older, found among all sorts of primates and other animals! - of course there have been Gay people in Africa since the beginning!

"each of us covenant and promise that we will not reveal any of the secrets of this, the first token of the Aaronic priesthood, with its accompanying name, sign or penalty. Should we do so, we agree that our throats be cut from ear to ear and our tongues torn out by their roots."

ADAM: "All bow your heads and say Yes."

TEMPLE PATRONS: "Yes." (All patrons sit down.)

PETER: "The brethren and sisters will now stand, push back the seats, place the robe on the left shoulder, and receive the Second Token of the Aaronic Priesthood. We and each of us do covenant and promise that we will not reveal the secrets of this, the Second Token of the Aaronic Priesthood, with its accompanying name, sign, grip or penalty. Should we do so, we agree to have our breasts cut open and our hearts and vitals torn from our bodies and given to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field."

"All bow your heads and say yes."

TEMPLE PATRONS: "Yes." (All patrons sit down.)

PETER: "We and each of us do covenant and promise that we will not reveal any of the secrets of this, the First Token of the Melchizedek Priesthood, with its accompanying name, sign or penalty. Should we do so, we agree that our bodies be cut asunder in the midst and all our bowels gush out."

"All bow your heads and say yes."

TEMPLE PATRONS: "Yes." (All patrons sit down.)

Death Oaths Made by All Mormon Temple Patrons from the 1930's until April 1990:

Mormon Temple Death Oath #1:

ELOHIM: "All arise." (All patrons stand.)

ELOHIM: "Each of you make the sign of the First Token of the Aaronic Priesthood, by bringing your right arm to the square, the palm of the hand to the front, the fingers together, and the thumb extended. This is the sign. Now, repeat in your mind after me the words of the covenant, at the same time representing the execution of the penalty."

"I ________, think of the new name, covenant before God, angels and these witnesses that I will never reveal the First Token of the Aaronic Priesthood, with its accompanying name and sign, and penalty. Rather than do so, I would suffer my life to be taken."

(Patrons perform the action as the Officiator guides them.)

"That will do." (Patrons sit down.)

Mormon Death Oath #2:

PETER: "The sign is made by bringing the right hand in front of you, with the hand in cupping shape, the right arm forming a square, and the left arm being raised to the square. This is the sign. (The officiator demonstrates.) The Execution of the Penalty is represented by placing the right hand on the left breast, drawing the hand quickly across the body, and dropping the hands to the sides. I will now explain the covenant and obligation of secrecy which are associated with this token, its name, and sign, and penalty, and which you will be required to take upon yourselves."

PETER: "All arise. (All Patrons stand.) Each of you make the sign of the Second Token of the Aaronic priesthood by bringing the right hand in front of you, with the hand in cupping shape, the right arm forming a square, and the left arm being raised to the square. This is the sign."

"Now, repeat in your mind after me the words of the covenant, at the same time representing the Executing of the Penalty."

"I, _________, think of the first given name, solemnly covenant, before God, angels, and these witnesses that I will never reveal the second Token of the Aaronic Priesthood, with its accompanying name, and sign, and penalty. Rather than do so, I would suffer my life to be taken."

(Patrons perform the action as the Officiator guides them.)

"That will do." (All patrons sit down.)

Mormon Temple Death Oath #3:

PETER: "All arise. (All patrons stand.) Each of you make the sign of the First Token of the Melchizedek Priesthood or Sign of the Nail by brining the left hand in front of you with the hand in cupping shape, the left arm forming a square; also by bringing the right hand is also brought forward, the palm down, the fingers close together, the thumb extended, and by placing the thumb over the left hip. This is the sign."

"Now repeat in your mind after me the words of the covenant, at the same time representing the Execution of the Penalty:"

"I solemnly covenant in the name of the Son that I will never reveal the First Token of the Melchizedek Priesthood or Sign of the Nail, with its accompanying name,and sign and penalty. Rather than do so, I would suffer my life to be taken."

(Patrons perform the action as the Officiator guides them.)

"That will do." (All patrons sit down.)

Even today, Mormon Temple patrons make the oaths of secrecy above, although without the gruesome penalties.

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Also, all Mormon Temple Patrons today still make an oath to sacrifice their lives and all they posses for the church
THAT MEANS THAT MITT ROMNEY HAS ACTUALLY TAKEN THE FORM OF THE OATH THAT WAS MANDATED FROM THE 1930's TO THE 1990's. Since he was a Mormon adult and Bishop, even, during that time. ALL Mormon adults are REQUIRED so to swear. They STILL have DEATH OATHS today.

They swear, as Mitt has done, {Ann too!}, to SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES AND ALL THEY POSSESS, FOR THE CHURCH.

 The site is called "Rethinking Mormonism", and you can go there to VERIFY;

 A friend of mine recently sent me some info, I followed up on it, at first dis-believing like no doubt most or all of you would! But, after several days of follow-up, I HAVE come to these conclusions: that humans never landed on the Moon; that the Astronauts were actors {altho really recruited from real Military Test Pilots}; and the "Moon" scenes were shot on a FILM SET.

[And, Oh! I REALLY DID LOVE THE MOVIE, "THE RIGHT STUFF"! SOOOO beautiful!!!!!]

According to Polls, 20% of Americans now apparently believe as I have come to believe...

The info that my friend sent me, that got me started doing my OWN research, was a website called "Wagging the Moondoggie", by David McGowan. That started it, but I went lots of other places too. One thing led to another. There are also of course "debunking" sites. I took all that into consideration!

And No, I am not a "conspiracy nut" that thinks the Illuminati and/or the Freemasons or groups like that, are behind all the bad things and deception in the world!!!