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Thomas Banyacya speaks in 1995 as interpreter for Hopi leaders who keep their own government and have signed no treaty. He offers the teaching to every nation and begins with thanks toward the four directions and every living thing. Ceremonies, he says, hold land and life steady so rain, plants, and animals continue. From elders met in 1948 he carried forecasts he now treats as visible, including clothes and face paint that blur men and women. He retells the emergence. Earlier worlds turned inventions on one another, froze, or fell through gambling and leaders who would not admit fault. This life is the fourth. Two brothers received stone tablets. The light brother went far away and was expected home with useful arts, unless he brought the cross and used power to harm. Elders would not take cash instead of land, because the land is the Creator’s. Sky travel, uranium, and a weapon like a gourd of ashes were named ahead of time. Hopi work was prayer for this continent, not service in that destruction.
Key points
- Banyacya teaches that Hopi ceremony holds land and life steady, and that the warning is for every nation.
- Three earlier worlds fell through misuse, cold, or greed, and people now live in the fourth.
- A light brother carried stone tablets away and was to return as a helper, or as a danger if he brought the cross.
- Elders refused money in place of land because the land belongs to the Creator.
- Uranium and a weapon like a gourd of ashes were named before they appeared, and prayer was the assigned answer.
- He ties his imprisonment, and approaches to the United Nations, to the duty of carrying that warning.
Short quotes
we are one people so I will keep thanks to the four directions
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He opens by treating the audience and the directions as one circle of thanks. Watch at 1:02
white brothers brought that they called black book Bible
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He sets the visitors’ Bible beside principles his elders already taught. Watch at 7:49
we are living on this fourth world
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The emergence teaching places present life in the fourth world. Watch at 14:40
we give you money not the land
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The offer he rejects is cash rather than return of the land. Watch at 19:52
he was talking about uranium that he was going to take
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An elder’s warning is later heard as a forecast of digging uranium. Watch at 24:21
threw me in jail for over seven years to be a good Hopi
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Refusing the army, he says, cost him years in jail. Watch at 31:49
Video by Sacred Land Film Project. Watch on YouTube.