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Kditor/Publisher-Rev Billy Hults
Asst Editor/Graphics-Sally L ackaff
Improvisational Engineering-Gary Keiski
M u sic & W ild life -P e te r S iegel
C o n tr ib u to r s A lex l.a fo lle tt, M ik e Burgess
A n d y K err, M a ry A n n R a d m a c h e r-I le rs h e y ,
B ra n d o n Ogilvey, A llis o n P rid e , a n d Jam es
M a ssa
This bein g oar fourth Itsw e «n J four being
very im p o rtan t to the k io p i o *io n g others we
fig u re it s «boat tim e for a c le a r exp lan atio n of
w h at we a re ap to with this p a p e r
E d ito ria l policy is a * follow *
W e print w hat
we litre It * a free country stilt
If yoa Xon t litre
it s ta rt your own p ap er
oar A d vertisers
H yoa do litre It. tell
it is their fa u lt w e have enough
money to p a t it on the streets for fre e
iee And m eet them
P atro n
they ore nice people it s
sort of litre a boycott in reverse lor a II yoa
politicAlly co rrect folks
O ar Advertisers p ay ap
to tw e n ty backs eACh with no sny over how big
their Ad is or w here it ends ap
You coaid have
this kind of e x c ite m e n t in yoar life too
send a
w a n t Ad or a personAt Ad And $5 in smAll bills
And w e will ran it And throw in the ed ito rial
com m ents for free
A ll Ads And p a y m e n t*
lor the n e x t issue must be in by the 15th of the
c u rre n t month
If som eone reAlly thinks whAt they Are promot
in g needs
the whole bAck p a g e it will cost the
to ta l p rin tin g fe e for tla it issue
And a free
dinner for SAlly At the restA urA nt of her choice
W arning: SAlly is not a veg itarian
Oh. I Almost forgot we used to mail copies of
The E d g e to friends And s ta ff bat now thAt we
Are eig h t pA g es this costs 5 2 cen ts so if yoa
WAnt as to m ail yours to you p le a *e send us >5
And w e II send you some until we need
more money then we II tell yoa to send as 15
more
Thanks
L E T T E M S TO TH E EDGE
D e e r P e v . Billy -
—A b o u t m y re c y c lin g prvibli-m.I g o tta te ll you
I h ave m a ik a couple of b rea k th ro u g h s th is
sp rin g. . .
p robably b e c a u se it w a s so w arm . It h a s
b een WArm sin ce About EebruAry. I had tw o
a v o c a d o v o lu n tee r s w in ter over
o u tsid e , T H A T w arm . And m y kids sta r te d
w a n tin g lo ts of p ick les on th eir c h e e s e san d ­
w ic h e s really ea rly th is year.
I g u e s s p ic k le s can ab sorb a lot of h eat, or
so m e th in g .
S o , I’m stu ck w ith th e se huge jars lull ol
p e r le c tly good pw kle w a te r , th a t I IIA I E to
th r o w a w a y b eca u se I know
h ow gtxxi it i a n be. A lte r all, it m ade a
cue um lwr edible, didn’t It?
But the w arm w e a th e r a ls o so lv ed m y r e cy ­
clin g problem , re: pickle w a ter.
It h a s b een s o w arm th a t e v e r y slug that
e v e r lived h a s been resu rrected , and m ostly
in th is huge p a tc h ol o r e g a n o and w oodruff
and v in ca th a t I try to g a rd en around the
ed g e ol. A nd on e day I said "enough" to my
slim y sh ish -k eb a b sk ew er, and sta r te d c a r r y ­
ing a jar h all lull (or half em p ty ) ol pickle
w a te r , to b egin "the G rand M arm ad er
P a r a d e f’ E very slug th a t I find (e x c e p t the
big y ello w o n e s, th at ta s te like razor clam s. .
J th row th em W A Y back into th e salm onber-
ries) g o e s in to pu hie w a ter. W h en
th a t jar is lull, it’s on to the next jar, I know ,
a fte r o b se r v in g th a ch e m ic a l rea ctio n that
g o e s on in the jar, th a t so m e d a y a tra v elin g
"GO" ch a m p io n is g o n n a be s ittin g on my
porch , an d just a b sen t-m in d ed ly help him self
to a jar ol th e se pickled d e a d b e a ts th at
h a s n ’t q u ite got to th e c o m p o st yet, and his
e y e s will ligh t up, and “G O ” will be history!
It’ll be o il th e th e S h ao-L in T em ple
w ith G A W D E N C L A M S !
John Browne
V ashon Island
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desperate cry on her behalf, in the
hope that the- United Nation* will
soon extend an invitation to H op
Elders and traditional leaders ot the
femr directum* If this invitation i*
extended, the traditional H op ume-
ties and traditional leader* of the
four directions will meet together to
choose appropriate representatives
to be sent to the United Nation*
where they will be given the oppor­
tunity to present thirtr oral message
of peace to the world leaders asaem
bled there* .
"If it (the door) i* not opened as
we humbly request ao that the red,
white, yellow and Wack peoples
might work together for a peaceful
wield, then wr will return to await
the inevitable time of punfuabon."
When I met with him and other
ciders out West. Banyacya repeated
the esaential message of native
groups all across the Americas; if
people all come together and follow
the original instructions, the wield
can move through the punficatum
consciously, with minimal tumult
and destruction
If the door to the UN is not
opened, then according to Banyacya
the Hopi will then tum elsewhere for
support, perhaps joining with other
indigenous people from around the
world to form a spntually based
United Nations This idea of a spiri­
tually baud United Nations has
wide su p p et arming indigenous
pipulatuins around the world, and
may be further advanced this June
when representatives of indigenous
nations hold their own Parliament in
Rio de Janeiro, parallel to the Earth
Summit of the developed nations.
Traditional H o p elders are firm
in their conviction that all the people
of the* Earth have both the opportuni­
ty and the respmstbility to avoid de­
struction. For this to happ’n, each
person and each nation must ask
whether they are contributing to the
imminent destruction of the Earth, ei­
ther through misguided action or
through indifference; then things
must be set straight.
"We help* they will heed our
warning for their own sake,"
Banyacya said, "and for the* sake of
the native peoples who want nothing
more than to rule themselves p'ace-
fully without being dictated to by
anyone else. Part of the commission
we received from the Creator
through Maasaw is to sound this
warning to the' world... If the task of
punficatKm is left to natural forces,
we may be all w ip d out. So it is up
to all people to punfy themselve's
voluntarily."
To support the H op elders in
their efforts to address the United
Nations, write to the Honorable
Bourtros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary
General of the United Nations, UN
Plaza, New York, NY 10017.
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A MESSAGE FR O M THE H O P I ELDERS
- BY STEVEN M C F A D D E N , © 1992 -
Elders of the H op Nation have
made their fourth and final ptignm
ace to knock on the door of the Unit­
ed Nations in New York City. If the
door does not open this year so that
the elders may address the assem
bkd nations ol the world who gather
there, then, the elders say, a time of
massive upheaval is inevitable.
To understand why the H op
elders would say this, one must un­
derstand something of their history
as a people Uvmg on and and iso-
lahd mesas in the part of Turtle Is­
land (North America) now known as
An/ona, the traditional H op have a
religion that is at once simple and
elaborate. To a large degree, these
Native Americans, whose name
means "peaceful people,” are guided
by prophecy -prophecy that is now
widely known around the world
They have lived plainly and respect
fully lor thousands of years m the
deaert, following what they believe
are the original instructions of the
Creator
H op legend holds I hat, after a
great flood destroyed the world be­
fore this one, the Creator appiinted
them guardians of certain sacred
land
At that time, they say, the
Creator gave them specific spntual
wisdom, along with some rocks bear­
ing symbt4s depicting the way the
future was likely to unfold Those
rocks are known as the H op
Prophecy Rocks
H op elders agree that for
hundreds of years world events have
been unfolding as desenbed by the
H op prophesy Rocks
In our
times as prophesied in the rock
symbols the world is apparently in
a phase known as koyaaiusqatsi,
chaos, the next great test of human
beings This is part of the Great Puri­
fication marking a transition to a
new era, an era known to the Hopi as
the Fifth World.
As with the lor» ol many other
tribal cultures. H op teachings hold»
that In ancient days the rainbow of
humanity was whole All the peo­
p le -r e d , white, black, and yellow
at one time recognized each other as
brothers and sisters
Eventually,
events forced them to part ways, but
they all pledged that when they were
reunited they would dasp hands
again in a sacred handshake If there
was mutual respect, then all the
brothers and sisters would cooperate
to bring together the material and
spntual aspects of the world. They
would correct each others faults and
live side by side in fulfillment
J iC N i THEY W ATCHED FOR
Unfortunately, when the Red
and White cultures did encounter
each other 500 years ago, the
European explorers had forgotten
the handclasp, and evidenced scant
respect for the people and the ways
of Turtle Island Today, observing
that the world is penloualy out of
balance, traditional H op elders say
that humanity is being tested
again -fust as we were tested in the
world before this one
The H op Prophecy Rock* have
given the elders signs to watch for:
the rocks predicted the First World
War, the Second World War. and
then a "gourd of ashes piured from
the sky," a metaphor most observers
have correlated with the dropping of
atomic bombs
Just as the world
before this one nerd not have been
destroyed by water if the p o p le had
heeded the warnings, elders say the
world today need rxk be purified by
the prophesied four elements, earth,
fire, wind, and water
The stone tablets have instruc ted
the H op to watch for signs that the
world is on a dangenms course I”hc
final stage of this dangemus course
can he identified by famine, sickness,
earthquake's, natural disasters, and,
finally, by the dangenms build up of
weapons that "are destructive to all
mankind "
By way of their prophecy nicks,
the H op
wen* given specific
instructions
Ihey were tokl that,
when the modern world came to this
time of great imbalance, they were to
make four attempts to address the
leaders of the world in a "House of
Mica" that would one day stand on
the Eastern shore of this land That
House of Mica, the Hopi believe, is
the United Nations, housed in a
distinctive glasa (mica) building in
New York.
If I he H op arc* recognized and
pTmittcd to speak, they say they can
then reveal some of their spintual
knowledge and thereby help the*
people tif the' world rediscover and
realign themselves with the anginal
instructions of the Creator
This
knowledge likely includes the foun­
dational Native American under­
standing that we exist in a universe
of living sp n t, that all things are
sacred and related
Respect and
harmony mull prevail
In this Latter part of the
Twentieth Century, many people
have written letters, kibbled, and
demonstrated to help the Hopi gain
recognition before the- United Na­
tions. The United State's govern­
ment, however, has steadfastly o p
posed all attempts to have the H op
recognized
THE FINAL STACE OF THE
PROPHECIES
During a journey to the Pacific
Northwest in March of this year.
World Peace University Symposium,
I met with Hopi spokesman Thomas
Banyacya and other native elders.
Banyacya said the signs that we have
entered the* final stage of the H op
prophecies are now clear
He re
sealed that the H op made their
fourth and final journey to the UN
on October 22, 1991. At that time,
they gave the UN until Se*ptember of
1992 to respond to their request to
address the ( umeral Assembly.
In a letter to the Secretary
General, Banyacya wrote "As Mother
New Hampshire based journalist
and teacher Steven McFadden is the
author of Profiles in Wisdom
Native
Elders SpniJi About the Earth, and
Farms of Tomorrow In September, Bear
& Co. wtll publish fits latest work. A n­
cient Voices. Current Affairs: The
le g e n d of the Rainbow Warriors.
Steven can be reached at P.O. Box 32i.
New Ipswich, NH 03071
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You can fool some of the people all of the tunc,
but you
can t fool all of the jjcople all of the tune.
A Lincoln
and all of the people some of the tune,
You can fool tixi many of the people, too much
of the time.
J. Thurber
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