Indigenous Native American Prophecy (Elders Speak part 5)

The final video of this 5 part series features a woman elder whose name we currently do not know. If you know this woman, please email us so that we can give her proper credit. It also features Chief Joagquisho (Oren Lyons), Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation, and a Chief of the Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Haudenosaunee or "People of the Long House."

In this segment a woman elder and Chief Oren Lyons talk about how the Earth and all life on it is interrelated in a system of “give and take.” If we wish to survive, we must respect this fact and restore the ecosystems we have disrupted to their original state of balance and harmony.

“Peace is an everyday fight. It’s something that goes on all the time. We believe that we are ourselves one half the negative and one half the positive, and it’s the balance that’s important – all the time to keep the balance.” – Chief Oren Lyons, Onondaga

Indigenous Native American Prophecy (Elders Speak part 4)

Part 4 of this 5 part series features a woman elder whose name we currently do not know. If you know this woman, please email us so that we can give her proper credit. It also features Chief Joagquisho (Oren Lyons), Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation, and a Chief of the Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Haudenosaunee or "People of the Long House."

In this video a woman elder and Chief Oren Lyons tell the story of the “Peacemaker,” an avatar who, at least a thousand years ago, at a time of constant war, called together all the chiefs of the six tribes of the Haudenosaunee at Onondaga Lake. There he delivered the message of peace - instructions about how to live by following the path of peace and law and by using their minds and reason in the “Council of Good Minds.” These laws and teachings brought not only peace to the six tribes, but also resulted in the Iroquois Confederacy that has successfully bound the six nations together ever since. Benjamin Franklin drew upon this Confederacy as source material for drafting the United States Constitution in 1789.

Indigenous Native American Prophecy (Elders Speak part 3)

Part 3 of this 5 part series features Chief Joagquisho (Oren Lyons), Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation, and a Chief of the Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Haudenosaunee or "People of the Long House."

In this video Chief Oren Lyons talks about the need for moral leadership in the world of business.

“When you say resources, you’re talking about our relatives, talking about our family. Fish are our family, it’s not a resource – it’s a family. It requires all the respect. The structure of the world itself is such [that] it functions on natural law, and the natural law is a powerful regenerative process. There’s a process of regeneration that continues and grows and is endless. It’s absolutely endless if everyone agrees to the law and follows the law. But if you challenge the law, and you think you’re going to change the law, then you’re bound to failure, and in that failure will be a lot of pain because the natural law has no mercy. It is only the law.” - Chief Oren Lyons

Indigenous Native American Prophecy (Elders Speak part 2)

Part 2 of this 5 part series features Chief Joagquisho (Oren Lyons), Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation, and a Chief of the Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Haudenosaunee or "People of the Long House."

In this video Chief Oren Lyons talks about the responsibility each generation bears to pass on a healthy planet to the “seventh generation” to come.

“No tree grows by itself. A tree is a community. Certain plants will gather around certain trees and certain medicines will gather around those certain plants, so that if you kill all the trees, if you cut all the trees, then you’re destroying a community. You’re not just destroying a tree, you’re destroying a whole community that surrounds it and thrives on it and that may be very important medicine for people or for animals. … If you replant the tree, you don’t replant the community - you replant the tree. So you’ve lost a community. And if you clear cut, which is what is happening in America and Canada a great deal these days, and I guess around the world, then you are really a destructive force.” - Chief Oren Lyons