Hopi warnings to the world : ICT [2005/03/29]

Hopi warnings to the world : ICT [2005/03/29]: "Hopi warnings to the world Email this page Print this page
Posted: March 29, 2005
by: Brenda Norrell / Indian Country Today
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Photo by Kerry Richardson -- (Top photo) Thomas Banyacya (left) talks with Phillip Deere at D-Q University, near Winters, Calif. Hopi elders Dan Evehema and Banyacya urged mankind to turn away from greed, and turn to the spiritual path, in order to prevent global catastrophies. (Bottom photo) Brenda Norrell Indian Country -- Dan Evehema
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HOTEVILLA, Ariz. - From Hopiland, a spiritual vortex for Native people, spiritual leaders Dan Evehema and Thomas Banyacya became the voice of the voiceless: the birds and animals. Warning of the impending apocalypse, they urged all people of good hearts to join them.

Even in their last years, Evehema and Banyacya warned that material greed and ignoring spiritual truth results in climate change, and, ultimately, the destruction of the world.

Hopi Snake Priest Evehema said the disease in the world today is greed, and the final insult for this country's aboriginal people is the loss of ceremonial land.

''We are now faced with great problems, not only here but throughout the land. Ancient cultures are being annihilated. Our people's lands are being taken from them. Why is this happening? It is happ"