Removing Barriers to Reduce the Suffering for Indigenous People Worldwide

PART III of III
By Chris (Comeswithclouds) White
ONAC of VA and HOSLJ Commandry of Virginia

17. We can bring Indigenous People and everyone else back to the sacred hoop. Black Elk, a widely known Indigenous medicine man and Catholic elder, believed he had an obligation to help bring people back into the sacred hoop, that they might again walk the “Red Road” (a spiritual path to walk with God) in a sacred manner pleasing to the powers of the universe that are one power. There are many hoops that make one circle. And we believe one mighty flowering tree can shelter many people. And we believe that place is holy.

18.  We can become a new tribe of people. There is a rising consciousness to being related. A new language is being spoken. Clear communications, cooperation and understanding is key to acceptance and bringing about this transformation. However, first we must understand the Number One in regard to being related. Are we just a drop in the ocean or are we a drop like many other drops that make the ocean? Before moving in the direction of heaven, a place that is up somewhere and in the future, which is not real, a place where God is not. God is in the “Eternal Now.” We have a new vision, a new message. When someone holds their index finger out and up like this, that no context need be set. That everyone understand that the number one means we are all related. And that we all labor to become one first, before we labor as self in the direction of going up to heaven by our self. We speak something new into existence for Indigenous People (the people of Mother Earth) now. “No one ever hated his own flesh.” If being one or all related, we would love one another because it is our self. Today is the day we create a new future for human-hood. We can teach that living a life powerfully and loving the life they live is not the same as survival or geared by self-interests. We empower Indigenous People to speak it into their own lives.

19. Loving creation. Jesus said, “the Kingdom of God is within” (me or within you). The idea that by loving your neighbor and loving creation as if it is yourself, then the Kingdom of God will arise within me or you. Heaven is a promise that arises from being related, being one. Not a destination to be hoped for. Join us in not looking at how we are different, but speaking a new message, a new language and creating a new possibility, which is an old message of how we are alike. We are all related. “Jesus and God are one, we are one in Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ we are one with God.”

20. Creating our future starts now. As a peaceful people, we can invite people into one sacred hoop. Time is short. “Time” is a limiting factor and “Time” limits our accomplishments in this life span. Things we see are temporary and are passing away. The things which we cannot see are eternal. And the “Red Road” is a spiritual place big enough for us all to walk.

In response to request by Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem Grand Chancellor Chevalier Massimo J Ellul GCLJ GCMLJ Grand Priory of Malta through the Oklevueha Native American Church Elder James (WFE) Mooney Grand Priory of Indigenous People Worldwide.

21. Know that the work we’re doing Now collectively, may not be realized in our life time. It’s a goal we’re working towards which will benefit people beyond any of our expectations or imaginations; absent envy and self-seeking. As a peaceful people we can invite people to one sacred hoop and accomplish good. We are creating those extraordinary possibilities which will impact the next seven generations, in this time we call, “Now.” Will time and future generations judge what we say and create as faithful and good? 

22. May we “all” use “Time” wisely, by what we say and do right “Now.” We have a mission. We all do. We believe, our mission is given to us by Creator: to help others join that family, too. We believe God loves everyone and there is no one in the entire world He doesn’t want to be of One Family. One Tribe. One People.” To be one with God – the consciousness of One.

23. Perhaps, the greatest moments of Indigenous Peoples’ history lie ahead of us. The teachings of Jesus Christ are revealed through the Native Way. A great spiritual renewal and awakening is coming. We are onboard. Let us be evident, let us become manifest, let us appear together – as ONE. 

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President's three guiding principles  &
Native American Church of Virginia's responses:

1. Be humble.
“We don’t have the right to claim that we have done anything on our own. God gives us what it takes to do all that we do,” – 2 Cor 3:1-5

2. Uphold the distinction between faith and government, between church and state.
      The Native Way is a view of life that, by virtue of being created by the One Creator, we are all related. We are all creatures of creation. We communicate and have relationship with Creator God the way we are led to. Those who violate this God given truth or “way of being” violate a basic unalienable right of humanity. It is a God given appointment for each man (humankind) to seek Creator God. God is calling man unto himself and not man calling man unto God. And this divine appointment is a “God-given natural, unalienable right.” We are all created in this world. We are “born within” “Mother Earth.” Are we not all indigenous to earth, therefore being related or of one another? The words I speak are not just for those labeled as Indigenous, but for all mankind, the Indigenous to Earth," shared Chris (Comewithclouds) White, CEO Native American Church of Virginia.

3. Treat others as we want to be treated.    
     "Jesus said, “the kingdom of God is within” (me or within you). The idea that by loving your neighbor and loving creation as if it is yourself, then the kingdom of God will arise within me or you. Heaven is a promise that arises from being related, being one. Not a destination to be hoped for. Join us in not looking at how we are different, but speaking a new message, a new language and creating a new possibility, which is an old message of how we are alike. We are all related. Jesus and God are one, we are one in Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ we are one with God," added Chris (Comewithclouds) White, CEO Native American Church of Virginia.

Language - words, affect and transform us and how we treat others. Take for example the Bible book of James chapter 1 versus 21-27. James paints word pictures and illustrations to show us the necessity of putting the Word of God into our life. Just listening to the Word and then doing nothing with it is foolishness he explains.

     21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
      22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
     25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
      26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. (James 1)

Fairfax Virginia -- Native American Church of Virginia (NAC of VA) CEO Chris (Comeswithclouds) White received an invitation to speak to 40 George Mason University religious studies students last month (October) by Professor John Turner.