THE ANCESTORS’ PROMISE >
We accept our sacred responsibility to care for peace, children, family, community, and Mother Earth before all else. Good Ancestors hold the long view. We are pulling together for the world we know is possible and future generations deserve to receive from us. We’re re-membering, renewing, and protecting our sacred connection and relationship with each other and our Mother, Earth.
Good Ancestors are kind and leave no one, no place, out or behind.
The Path We Walk begins inside each of us and is illuminated by the Ancestors’ timeless knowledge and instructions:
Live with Love ─ Respect ─ Honesty ─ Courage ─ Humility ─ Wisdom ─ Truth.
∙ Be of one mind. Lead by example. Give more than you take from each other and Mother Earth.
∙ Be the change you wish to see in this world. Enjoy Life. Never take hope away from people. Leave no one, no place, out or behind.
∙ Take action only if it is right and good for all children and their children’s children, for communities, and Water, Land, Air, and generations of other living beings.
∙ The well-being of families, communities, nations, and Earth is more important than the accumulation of wealth, status, or power.
∙ Respect all people’s needs and right to self-determination and freedom, to be safe and secure with access to healthy Water, Land, Seeds, Earth’s real Food and Medicine, and free to enjoy ancestral traditions. Be compassionate and understand there are extremely challenging circumstances and diverse traditions for which the struggle is greater for some than others.
Participate in ceremony and pray in your way to express love, respect, and gratitude for the gifts of Life.
Understand that people are but one strand in the Web of Life that is Earth.
∙ All Life is sacred, connected, and interdependent.
∙ Whatever we do to Mother Earth, we do to ourselves and each other.
∙ Honor sacred Earth and the Life she nourishes…all inhabitants, and oceans, rivers, springs, lakes, skies, deserts, forests, fields, valleys, prairies...
∙ Respect other living beings. Understand and meet their needs so they too may survive and thrive ─ now, and forever.
∙ Strive to live in rhythm with Life’s seasonal cycles of regeneration, of which humankind is a small part.
Honor the generations of ancestors who made your existence possible, who’s love, sacrifice, creativity, and dreams you carry.
∙ Look back and forward across generations for Life-affirming guidance, inclusive of all Peoples without preference for any cultures, nationalities, spiritual traditions, status, age groups, or place on Earth.
∙ Respect, defend, learn from, and help people who live with Water and Land in ways that care for everyone.
∙ Respect, learn from, and cooperate with the Original Free Nations and Peoples and their Knowledge-holders and Elders with special skills and knowledge of the sacred teachings of Water and Land and Earth’s Food and Medicine.
∙ Honor all treaties. Seek free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC), and where necessary, permission for the access and use of Traditional Knowledge prior to accessing or using any Original Peoples’ Traditional Knowledge, including that in the public domain.
Nurture children with love to be strong, healthy, kind, and able to flourish in secure, resilient communities and HomeLands.
∙ Help them remember who they are, that they were born complete ─ here now to freely share their unique gifts for the benefit of all Creation. And remind them, that on the path they walk, to be respectful and compassionate, leaving no one, no place, out or behind.
∙ Teach them that Earth is our Mother ─ that we belong to her ─ and what befalls Mother Earth befalls all of her children.
Love and care for yourselves properly.
∙ Gather, hunt, fish, grow, and share Earth’s abundant, healthy, real food. Cast out drugs and false entertainment that confuses your mind and weakens your will. Cast out selfishness, materialism, and consumerism to lead a meaningful life with dignity and purpose.
∙ If you weaken, begin again. For the Good Ancestors on The Path We Walk love you and help you be true to yourself, to remember and reclaim who you are, and walk in peace and harmony with every living being.
I promise, to the best of my ability, to honor this Message Stick and share these instructions with all I meet on The Path We Walk. I understand that we do not inherit Earth, but respect, care for, and defend her for future generations of Life. As a Living Ancestor, I pass on The Ancestors’ Message Stick to others, that as inhabitants of Earth, we may never forget our sacred connection and relationship with Mother Earth and the Life she nourishes…all living inhabitants, and the oceans, rivers, springs, lakes, skies, deserts, forests, fields, valleys, prairies, and ...
Signed:_________________________________________________________________
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