Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers Form the 2012 Earthwatch Alliance?
The 13 Indigenous Grandmothers first gathered on October 11, 2004. They came from all over the world : the Arctic Circle, North, South and Central America, Africa, and Asia, and arrived at Tibet House's Menla Mountain Retreat amidst 340 acres of forests, fields and streams in upstate New York.
Called from their normal lives by the mutual words of their individual tribal prophets, these Grandmothers have literally been ‘hand picked’ to form a special alliance, in a last ditch effort to awaken the world in relation to how we treat each other and the Earth herself.
Since then, they have come to speak for Mother Earth herself, offering hope to the environmental warrior within us all.
Quickly agreeing to form a global alliance after their first meeting each other, they have pledged to rebalance the injustices wrought from an imbalanced world. In so doing, the thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers form a living link to a world now disconnected from the fundamental laws of nature and the original teachings based on a respect for all of life.
The grandmothers are both women of prayer and women of action.
Their traditional ways link them with the forces of the earth as they travel our dear planet, bearing their teachings of peace and messages of hope for future generations.
If you consider that the damage of pollution is being caused mainly from centralised wealth and the push of “boys toys,” perhaps the need to balance comes as no surprise … no more than understanding that science can only go so far, then there has to be God(dess) …
There lies the balance itself, perhaps, and a way back to more peaceful times?
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For an introduction to the chosen 13 – ‘Quickie YouTube Introduction’ Really Long Link
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The 13 Indigenous Grandmothers Creed.
We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers who came together for the first time from October 11 through October 17, 2004, in Phoenicia, New York. We gathered from the four directions in the land of the people of the Iroquois Confederacy. We come here from the Amazon rainforest, the Arctic circle of North America, the great forest of the American northwest, the vast plains of North America, the highlands of central America, the Black Hills of South Dakota, the mountains of Oaxaca, the desert of the American southwest, the mountains of Tibet and from the rainforest of Central Africa.
Affirming our relations with traditional medicine peoples and communities throughout the world, we have been brought together by a common vision to form a new global alliance.
We are the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. We have united as one. Ours is an alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the children and for the next seven generations to come.
We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the contamination of our air, waters and soil, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the threat of nuclear weapons and waste, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics which threaten the health of the Earth's peoples, the exploitation of indigenous medicines, and with the destruction of indigenous ways of life.
We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, believe that our ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking and healing are vitally needed today. We come together to nurture, educate and train our children. We come together to uphold the practice of our ceremonies and affirm the right to use our plant medicines free of legal restriction. We come together to protect the lands where our peoples live and upon which our cultures depend, to safeguard the collective heritage of traditional medicines, and to defend the earth Herself. We believe that the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future.
We join with all those who honor the Creator, and to all who work and pray for our children, for world peace, and for the healing of our Mother Earth.
For all our relations.
Margaret Behan-Arapaho/Cheyenne
Rita Pitka Blumenstein-Yup’ik
Aama Bombo-Tamang/Nepal
Julieta Casimiro-Mazatec, Huautla de Jimenez, Mexico
Kusali Devi-Newari
Flordemayo-Mayan - Highlands of Central America/ New Mexico
Maria Alice Campos Freire-Amazonian Rainforest, Brazil
Tsering Dolma Gyaltong-Tibetan
Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance-Oglala Lakota, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA
Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance-Oglala Lakota - Black Hills, South Dakota, USA
Agnes Baker Pilgrim-Takelma Siletz - Grants Pass, Oregon, USA
Mona Polacca-Hopi/Havasupai/Tewa - Arizona
Bernadette Rebienot-Omyene, Gabon, Africa
Clara Shinobu Iura-Amazonian Rainforest, Brazil
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Cynthia Jurs was interviewed by Kelly Howell/Theatre of the Mind.
In this 40 minute podcast interview, Cynthia discusses the spacebridge production, the making of the film and her experience working with the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.
Click here Really Long Link to hear the podcast interview.
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Google : 13 Indigenous Grandmothers for more information.
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They're a pretty amazing bunch really, aren't they?
Can't help but stand for the cause on this one
Aah that feels better already.
Lilla ...
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What an amazing group of women. Here's hoping they have some success despite our efforts to destroy the planet (consumerists I mean)
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I don;t know the story you mention, but perhaps the story line was drawn from the ancient tribal prophecies that has called these women forward to speak for the earth?
It is time for the feminine to be ungirdled and unleashed again... time to return to the time before the giants came?
A time for 'women to once again 'Run with the Wolves..." (A great book too if you get a chance to read it)...
Glad to be able to make more people aware of this eventuality, surprised that there is no Aboriginal woman there?
Lilla ...
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If they can make a difference to help our Earth, so can we.
Right?
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Thanks for your comment.
Mayn of the young are not listening to their elders... they never have.
Let us hope our prayers will encourage the growth of the young (and not so young) to start paying attention to these ladies ...
It strikes me as a dire warning though if Mother Nature has called forth these "grannies: to action... it means that we are indeed about to shift into a new state of being is the indigenous cultures and their ways are to be erradicated from the planets face and replaced by MTV?
Will the avarice never stop?
Lilla ...
just wanted to share with you this other interview with Cynthia Jurs (by the way,in the site there are plenty of interviews with the Indigenous Grandmothers...)
I hope you enjoy... ; )
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I will have a look at it over the next few days...
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You wouldn;t find a stronger supporter of this philosophy than me... 'boys toys' and their 'ingenuity' have ransacked the place, no doubts about it... yet our workload as women remains only marginally less as a result, whilst most men have left the fields and become pleasure seeking sluggards?
Some things change, some things never do... more proof for me that they came from another planet in the first place?
I heartily agree.
Lilla...
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I really have a soft spot in my heart for grandmothers who put mother earth first. Thanks so much for alerting us to this project. Very heartwarming indeed.
Mis
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It will take women to set it right (refer Mrs M comment)... *chuckle* only women make networks work .. where mother earth is concerned there can be no pecking order, it is all so interdependant. A web of continuity, each moment, creation, growing thing, dependant on the last creation or moment. All requiring complete synchronicity to function at all ... and order? Oh yes plenty of order amidst seeming randomness.
Men have their place, but this is perhaps not one of them ... caretaking is best left to those who know how, no?
Heartwarming to see you, as always.
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Lilla ...