From the desk of Harvey Arden

Founder:

~The Wisdomkeepers Collective ~

"Bringing the Elders to the World & the World to the Elders"

Author: WISDOMKEEPERS: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders
DREAMKEEPERS: A Spirit-Journey into Aboriginal Australia
NOBLE RED MAN: Lakota Wisdomkeeper Mathew King
TRAVELS IN A STONE CANOE: The Return to the Wisdomkeepers
Editor: PRISON WRITINGS: MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE by Leonard Peltier
WHITE BUFFALO TEACHINGS by Chief Arvol Looking Horse
VOICE OF THE HAWK ELDER [2006] by Seneca Wisdomkeeper Edna Gordon


Norman Wright wrote:

From: norman wright [mailto:wright056@ yahoo.com]

Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 3:05 PM

To: Harvey ArdenSubject:

~*~VOICE OF THE HAWK ELDER~*~

Hello there

Received this e-mail in my bulk folder and am interested in learning a little more about Leonard Peltier, and just why you need a broomstick to sweep him to justice! I am a teacher in a comprehensive school in Oxfordshire, England, teaching Humanities and Philosophy, and your e-mail has intrigued me.

I am also interested in your book'Voice of the Hawk Elder', as I look to encourage inquiry of my students into spiritual matters. As the order details are only in US$, is there any other way that I could pre-order a copy? I do have a PayPal account if that is of any assistance.

Yours faithfully

Norman Wright

Harvey Arden writes:

Dear Mr. Wright: --Thanks for your informed response. You can purchase copies of VOICE OF THE HAWK ELDER via PayPal directly at www.haveyouthought. com . You can also order there my earlier books on/with Leonard Peltier--PRISON WRITINGS: MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE & ~HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF LEONARD PELTIER LATELY?~ Email george@haveyouthoug ht.com for big savings on bulk orders for classes. You can also use Leonard's own website for a vast trove of free materials and links: www.leonardpeltier.net.

VOICE OF THE HAWK ELDER will be out in just a few weeks. For your (& your students') interest: I enclose below a few pages of Hawk Elder Edna Gordon's book referring to Peltier and related matters. I'd be interested in your reaction, since no one other than Edna and a few editors have seen this material before. A first for your class! Feel free to distribute it (and I really hope you do throughout UK & all Europe).. May your British students hear the call to join us in freeing America's #1 political prisoner, imprisoned for 31 years now for a crime the whole world--and especially the FBI--knows he never committed.

The illegal government tactics used so 'successfully' to imprison Leonard Peltier are now being aimed at ALL OF US. In the old days it was called COINTELPRO and today it's called the Patriot Act I & II in the U.S. I believe you Brits also have similar new anti-human rights laws veiled as "anti-terrorist" . If your students care to send brief written essays about Peltier to www.haveyouthought. com we'll print the most interesting and forceful on the website. Again, they can get all the info they need at www.leonardpeltier. net . Have them send essays to george@haveyouthoug ht.com with a CC to me at harvey@haveyouthoug ht.com Tell your students, Become part of the history of your own times!

Over my ten years supporting Leonard's freedom, I've rarely focused on high school/college- age students--feeling this is a subject better aimed at adults, so dark is the scenario. But, in a world that will soon be in the hands of the younger generation, inherited from we bumbling adults, I now think it's urgent that a WHOLE NEW GENERATION comes to Leonard's--and Civilization' s--aid. I'm 71 now, and I hope to live til the day Leonard walks free. I've had emails saying 'they' would assassinate Leonard if that ever happened. I shall happily walk out of the Penitentiary at Leonard's side on that blessed day. And if they shoot us down, I ask here for others willing to stand up and lead a new generation against these criminals who dare to call themselves 'Patriots' while committing the vilest acts against ourselves as a Nation, against the whole of Humanity. Know that the VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS is wise to them, regardless of what you read and hear on the corporate media.

I pray for a Tuesday afternoon, an ordinary Tuesday, when ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD take their BROOMSTICKS, as Hawk Elder Edna Gordon suggests in her book, and SWEEP INJUSTICE OUT OF THE CORRIDORS OF POWER. Not a shot need be fired if WE ALL RISE AT ONCE WITH OUR BROOMSTICKS and say "NO MORE!" to the MULTINATIONAL CORPORATOCRACY that is already well-along in its plan to install a tiny CRIMINAL ELITE at the top of the Pyramid of Power that crushes the vast majority of humankind.

Anybody interested in picking up YOUR brookstick on a given Tuesday afternoon, lemme know at harvey@haveyouthoug ht.com with "SWEEP'M OUT" on the subject line of your email.

Today's younger people should clearly understand: UNTIL LEONARD PELTIER IS FREE, NONE OF US ARE FREE!
Here's the new materials on Peltier etc from Edna's book:


THERE’S AN INDIAN MAN I been writing to and he’s been writing back to me. His name’s Leonard Peltier, and he’s for sure one of the finest human beings on this Mother Earth, even though he’s sat in a prison cell for thirty years now. He was framed by the same people tryin’ to frame ALL of us these days. Oil people. Energy people. Money people. Same kinda people who built that Kinzua Dam right here in the middle of our territory and drove us Seneca People off our ancient lands.

Same with Peltier’s case. These energy folk wanted to steal the uranium on Indians’ lands out west in South Dakota, just like they stole the gold and the coal and pretty much everything else. So they staged a shoot-out and then they framed Peltier to hide their own crimes. Same kind o’ lies they’re doin’ all the time today with their wars and their so-called ‘terrorists’. They called us Indians ‘terrorists’ too when we tried to defend our land.
Lies. Lies. Lies.
Fillin’ their prisons with the innocent while the guilty run the country!


INJUSTICE is what these money people do best. Injustice is somethin’ they’ve got lots of, and they sure given plenty of it to Leonard Peltier! Thirty years just for bein’ innocent. Thirty years just for bein’ Indian. And still they won’t let him out.
These power people hate innocence. Maybe ‘cause they sold theirs so long ago. And they hate Indians, too. That’s ‘cause we love our Mother the Earth and we don’t want to see her raped!

So when I think of Injustice I think of Leonard Peltier.

Maybe Jesus died for us all, like they say, I dunno. But I do know Leonard Peltier is sittin’ in jail these thirty years for all of us Indian People, and it’s time we got him out!

I
CRY when I read Leonard’s letters to me, knowing how many people beg him to write back and then get upset when he doesn’t, and here he is sittin’ in his cell writing to an old lady he don’t even know!

He writes me: ‘Dear Edna! Thank you very much for your good words about me in your New Year’s message. Your words touched my heart and soul by this honoring.... This year I am receiving a lot of good words from our Indian People, who say, ‘Enough is enough! It’s time for you to come home, Leonard! This is the year!’ It makes me feel something is finally going to happen soon and I’ll get out of this hell at last!”

O
H, I GOT TO CRY here all over again, ‘cause he wrote this to me in 2003—already three more years’ve gone by. The only thing he’s got out of was Leavenworth. Now they sent him to Lewisburg prison in Pennsylvania, not so far from here, as it happens. Maybe I’ll get to visit him there. I hope so.
Leonard’s 62 years old now. He’s been there in prison since he’s 31. Imagine that! He’s spent HALF his life in jail now for someone else’s crime, somethin’ he never did. And those FBIs and government people KNOW it, but they still keep him in there.
Puttin’ the innocent in prison to hide your own crimes—I say that’s the worst kind of Injustice!

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OW I’M NO DARNFOOL. I have eyes. I see the world and all the Injustice that’s going on in it right now. Injustice to Indian people. Injustice to indigenous Peoples. Injustice to the poor and the weak and the so-called ‘developing’ peoples all around this Mother Earth.
The ‘ Third World ’—that’s how they call it.
But Mother Earth isn’t the Third World . She’s the FIRST world!

L
OOK AT IRAQ . That’s maybe the BIGGEST INJUSTICE they ever done since they tried to kill all us Indian people. But they failed when they tried to kill all us all, just like they’ll fail in Iraq and anyplace else they invade with their bombs.
Creator’s against us killin’ each other. The killers’ll ALWAYS be brought down! They may thump their chests now, but they’re comin’ down with a BIG BIG BUMP!
Remember Custer. He was a chest-thumper, too, but DOWN he came. Just like they all do. Bump BUMP BUMP! DOWN!
You’ll see. It’ll happen.
Tell’m Hawk Elder Grandma Edna Gordon told you so!

I
T’S TIME we ended government Injustice in this land once and for all. We Indians knew it first, but this government has never stopped trampling other Peoples for it’s own ends. The only ends a government should have is to help the People. Any ends beyond that should be declared illegal. Wars don’t help the People. Wars kill the People—so how can they EVER be legal or so-called constitutional or right except in self-defence?

WE SAY we’re fighting for Freedom, but Freedom for who? For you and me? Or for the Rich folks to be free to prey on the People? All these tax breaks the Rich, of
all people, are getting’ these days. That’s the People’s money!
They think they can make money on the End o’ the World! But Creator’s gonna step in, you’ll see. He’s gettin’ mad! He’s gonna stop the destruction of this World. But maybe we’ll all die before He does it. That’ll be our punishment, and it’ll be well-deserved!

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HERE ARE all the people who’ll stand up with me and say, “You STOP IT! No more Injustice!”
I’m sick in my heart at what we human beings have done—and keep doin’ today—to Mother Earth and to each other and to the unborn generations still to come. It’s all so unnecessary, and it’s wrong, just plain wrong wrong WRONG!
Who’s gonna stand up with me and SAY it to the government. and to the whole World out there You, Harvey? Or who??
Who’s gonna stand up for the Creation?


S
OMEBODY HAS TO STAND UP and fight and put this world in order. Just look at the turmoils going on in this world—all these earthquakes, the tsunamis, the hurricanes like Katrina, mudslides, glaciers melting, Global Warming, plus all the crazy people rattling their nuclear weapons. It’s disaster on every side!
And there’s all the sicknesess people are dying of these days—even people who led good lives. Diseases like cancer, diabetes, AIDS, and all that, and now they warn us Avian Flu is coming!
Creator’s not causin’ these things. Creator doesn’t cause cancer. People cause cancer! Cancer hardly even existed before we poisoned the rivers and the air.

N
OW WE SEE TREES DYIN’ from the tops down, killed by our poisons. You know, that’s part of the Iroquois prophecies of the End o’ the World! This could be it! Creator doesn’t cause the End o’ the World, it’s people who are causin’ the End o’ the World. We have to stop that!
If we don’t stand up and do it, who will? Isn’t there anybody ready to stand up and fight to save the World, to save Mother Earth, to save Creator’s Creation?
Maybe it’ll be you who’s reading these words! Yes, YOU!
That’s why each of us, every one, is so important.
Because if just one of us stands up to fight all this evil, why—who knows? Maybe one more person’ll stand up, then maybe another, then a few more, then lots of people start standin’ up and after a while everyone stands up.
Then ALL HUMANITY stands up together! And we all cry out with one voice on June 21, Arvols’ World Peace and Prayer Day—“STOP THE INJUSTICE!”
And it’ll stop!
And it all started with one person! Look at Rosa Parks! It can be done! We CAN save the World. We CAN!
We, the children of Mother Earth, WILL unite as One!

S
O WHAT CAN one person do in this violent world that’s destroyin’ itself before our eyes right now, this very day, this very hour?
You got to look for and find your own Inner Self. Yes, your Inner Self—it’s right there inside o’ you! It’s YOU yourself! Nothin’s more important than livin’ from your Inner Self.
That’s yours and yours alone. It’s the deepest part o’ your Soul, the part that connects up with Creation and doesn’t get lost in the little things.
I call it the Chapel of the Soul.
It’s the Within of the Within!
Let that be your refuge, your shelter, your own inner Umbrella Tree in these terrible times.
Stay connected to Creation!
You yourself ARE that connection!

[extracted from VOICE OF THE HAWK ELDER -- www.haveyouthought. com Harvey Arden wrote:

Excerpts from Seneca Wisdomkeeper Edna Gordon's VOICE OF THE HAWK ELDER:

W
E NEED CHANGES in this world, really big big changes. I’m prayin’ they’ll be peaceable changes, not violent and bloody ones. I’d like to see a peaceable revolution, a revolution of broomsticks instead of guns.
Call it a Broomstick Revolution.
That’s right. The People pick up their broomsticks and march together and Sweep Injustice Out! Make a clean sweep, a big cleanin’ like’s never been seen before.
Broomsticks against Injustice. Now that’ll be the day!
We’ll take our broomsticks and we’ll sweep Leonard Peltier right out o’ prison, along with all the other innocents.
Yep—a Broomstick Revolution! That’s what we need
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