12/28/09

Dear Agnes Pilgrim,

Thank you so much for writing back to me. The things you write are true. And I believe they are the symptoms of the disease and not the cause. They are the heart attack, not the over eating and fatty foods that caused the heart attack.

For me, the thing that is causing all this sickness and "dis"-ease is the modern way of hunting. Most of us no longer hunt in the old way as human beings, and we have therefore lost our knowledge and understanding of the interconnectedness of life. Today we hunt money, as individuals, and in doing so we are also hunting the land, and the water, and the air, and killing all of it in our mad quest for survival. Also, we are not hunting as free interconnect peoples, we are slaves on the plantations of the companies that own everything and have taken away our ability to survive without them. We have also lost our knowledge of ourselves as people, as tribes. Strong, powerful tribes capable of defending ourselves and all that we hold sacred.

But it does not have to be this way. We can create companies that help us live in the modern world, but with reverence and respect for all of life. Companies modeled on the Iroquois Confederacy, the Nez Perce nation, the Aniyunwiya. This is nothing less than the rebirth of the tribes, but in a new form, in a corporate form, with the respect for elders, the sophisticated methods of resolving conflicts, the mutual care, the role for each member of the community to play, that the First Nation peoples pioneered and refined.

I believe that the healing of ourselves, so that Mother Earth will love us again as people living in harmony, will only come with the healing of corporations. Today they are like medieval kingdoms run by greedy and cruel lords, but it does not have to be this way. Corporations can be like the Great Nations of this land, and the Great Indigenous Nations of other lands. They can be fair and just and formed for the good of all and not just to serve the greed of the few.

This is the vision of the old and the new that was given to me by the Great Peacemaker of the Iroquois. This is the path I am told we must walk.

I see the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers calling on all people to become indigenous again. To join the work of liberating ourselves from economic servitude, joining in a great new confederacy and taking our power away from the corporate monarchs and forming new companies to hunt together as people again. To hold sacred all that Mother Earth has given to us, in her love, to sustain us. To have reverence for the resources we need to make use of for our survival, and to use them as efficiently as possible. If we strike at the heart of how corporations are structured, we will not need to go to war over water or anything else. We will have won before the first battle begins.

You have the heart, the sense of urgency. You have given the voice to the voiceless. I believe I have the practical solution to make it happen now. We need each other to do the great work that needs to be done. I believe that the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers have the moral authority and respect to get many people to listen and hear this message and to join together to take the action needed to change things now, before it is too late.

If I were to travel to Oregon with my sister Elizabeth, would you have any time to council with me? I seek your wisdom and your vision to make my vision stronger. I wish the opportunity to show you that what you are working on, and what I am working on, will be easier if we work together. Maybe your physical presence at the Sacred Capital Conference is not needed. Perhaps we could do a live press conference that links all Thirteen Grandmothers around the world in a call for all people to become Indigenous again, to join this Great Economic Alliance for the Earth. To stop giving their power to companies that are killing the planet and to work to liberate themselves from needing them.

The time is now Aggie. I need your help.

With Hope, Determination, and Love,

Michael


agnes pilgrim wrote:
> Dear Michael:
> Thank you for your wisdom regarding our planet.
> .I'm so busy doing a lot of these things. I see a
> water war in our future we sure need to protect
> our waters keep big companies from taking over.
> Without water all life dies. Animals are being in-
> croached upon all over our planet.Their food in
> many places becoming scarce. Just came back
> from Australia some lakes are dried up and all
> you see is a big sheet of white salt! Wells coming
> up salty.Maybe Our Earth Mother is angry at us
> as we don't talk to the water and tell it IT'S Sacred.
> We know water can hear. It is not us adults who
> own the world it's the little people and we are not
> taking very good care of her. We got polution in the
> water,air it's all around us. We all have to do a better
> job. I pray people will wake up and be more sustainable
> You have a nice Holiday Love Grandmother Agnes Baker-Pilgrim.