What is at stake

Venezuelan woman. Bella Maria‎ by Nell's Photography (2017)

We all have the ability to bring back the knowledge that have been lost or taken by the Evils of others, we only need understand we have the power to step up to the plate doing what the Grandmothers/Grandfathers ask to regain this Ancient Knowledge/Wisdom...

Many times the road is hard, but we must do the same as those ancients who took the same walks to gain the same lessons...


There are no short cuts, no easy or simple ways...


~ Cloudwalker

Healer healing in a man in ceremony. 

"Heyoka help to maintain balance in individuals by introducing contradiction through comical actions, humor, satire and paradox, much like a Zen master, to prevent arbitrary social conditioning from becoming rigid identity; to balance the chaos inside their own circle, not worrying about what can't be." is an academic explanation of a complex texture of what cannot be contained by hand, but felt as heart.

There is a special relationship between a Heyoka and all the elements of Life. When one reads about their abilities, their exploits it is a distant translation. In the flesh, in a Sacred Lodge, or wherever living is engaged in mysterious forces, or the mundane the Heyoka creates something otherwise inaccessible out of air, a joke, a gesture, or a backwards prayer blurring the lines between profane and decent.

Being a Heyoka is never an ambition; it is a calling one hears, and runs from until it connects you into its source. "When any child finds that calling moving around within them who will assist them?" is the only and the first question that comes from within the Elders hearing what the Ancestors say!

Gregory E. Woods, Sirmiq Aattuq Wisdom Keeper
April 14, 2017

Ya' Hear Jimi?

JIMI HENDRIX

In the depth of his genius and originality the gem of his words, "When the power of love is greater than the love of power the world will know peace." came forth like the hot waters of geysers in the lands the Americans stole from the Nez Perce, the Absaroka and others to establish the worlds' first national park: Yellowstone.

Jimi Hendrix being a Black Indian meant a great deal to Native people who knew this and to Black Indians who understood the danger of being or admitting to being a mixed breed in those days... It took great commitment to his art to free himself as the musical conduit, and others in the 1960's collective struggles to change lives, and to change the world as they knew it. Jimi Hendrix represents many things. In 2012 he is strange because the concept of freedom he lived and embodied then does not live in the current phenomenon of today's dictatorial patriotism stilted in an idea of freedom in the narrow spheres of one class of people. – Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5/23/12 

Symbols worn by Sher Nero-Mejia. 

She Got Old and Meant Something. . .

Jennie Lee, burlesque dancer known as The Bazoom Girl

at the height of her career was off-limits to Colored men.

Jennie Lee, the Bazoom Girl performed into her middle years. She died at 62 in 1990.

"Old age is the snow of the earth; it must, through light and truth, give warmth to the seeds of you below, protecting them and fulfilling their purpose.: – Kahlil Gibran

This woman is...

Jodi West, born 30 May 1964, has a numbing quality to her makeup, her beauty and deep in her eyes she plays with it all! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 4/29/18

"Jodi West's sensual powers work visually first, and in the aftermath of the spell cast what's next..." ~ Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

4 Looks at Famous Women.

Linda Fiorentino easily entices...

Lauren Holly, actress 

Lisa Kudrow as a lady!

Lauren Bacall, actress

2 Looks, two eras.

Lorna Litz 2

Lena Olin, a timeless sensual beauty.

Differences between the African and the Euro-American

Abby Parece ,by the way in jeans, makes the light look better back in 2015!...

Abby Parece made a statement in 2015: "If you keep looking back you might miss what is standing right in front of you!" "What would Sankofa say?" would be the question to ask, not being a white man. I am an African First Nation man.

Sankofa affirms the spiritual practice of looking backwards to better see the present and the future. It is distinctly Akan, from the Adinkra system of writing in present day Ghana and the Ivory Coast. In Colonial times European countries after slaughter and subjugation the continent of Africa was divided amongst the war participants against African rule, thus becoming countries with multi-linguistic groups, and cultures living in new circumstances.

The immediate task to maintain cultures and rituals throughout the continent of Africa was, and to this day difficult because Europeans as Colonial powers are extremely brutal. There are quite a number of West African authors, from the 1960's onward who have critiqued this time and illustrated detailed stories of that initial period, and how it moved through the decades. In these struggles, Sankofa was the appropriate technique amongst others to maintain the ancient cultures as France, and England, in particular thrust their nasty spirit into daily life!

In the United States, white Americans have inflicted themselves with gross contradictions to live by as they spread dark forces upon the people indigenous to this land, and the enslaved Africans they kept alive to copulate bringing forth more 'property' to bear upon their individual, and collective wealth. This system of manipulation for financial gain and cultural dominance to this end slaughter ancient ritual practices of the many African traditions that survived the Middle Passage. The Church, the educators, the business men, and the Department of War were the high priests of this orgy of dismantling the soul of people, Red and Black.

The 20th century bore fruit from this violence in both of our communities. Sankofa became more of a presence in the African spiritual communities in major cities as more and more Black American's struggles brought them closer home to who their ancestors prayed better understanding of self over mere survival. Washington DC's African spiritual communities are 'houses'.

There are eleven (11) houses: Yoruba, Akan, Ausar Auset, and one house of Voudoun. Each employ Sankofa in the practicality of unlearning what white people poured into our souls, as bowel. It is safe to say, and accurate to say the Sankofa presents itself to need, and is indifferent to being disregarded the way whites like to overcome their dichotomies with denial insisting upon other ethnic groups to simply get over whatever they (we) think they did to us!


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
March 7, 2018

Abby Parece by EASPHTOGRAPHY in October of 2015.

Crossed Purposes

It is always troubling the way white Americans rage against their women who tell the truth about white American historical contradictions. Jane Fonda gave a performance during the Vietnam conflict with American imperialism. She stepped out of her place in society and found her voice. The voice of white women then, as it is now, was never given respect due. President Bush made it clear during the invasion of Iraq pointing out, in no uncertain terms, the government was not going to pause to consider the word of a grieving mother, and Trump kept it crude; where he belongs, and maintained dominion over, and his contempt for women, and their pussy. It is said with aplomb.

Nowhere since the Vietnam War has a white man complaining about Jane Fonda's moral stance against that war addressed the immorality of that war! They are angered and offended that she spoke, and spoke from shared historical truths that easily are applicable to the Indian Wars, the mass killings of Blacks in the United States by whites from the government sanctioned massacre of Blacks in 1866 forward. She could have gone on to scores and scores of incidents, and around the world with story after story, but she placed full attention on what was current: the Vietnam War. Her biggest sin was being a woman. What kept her from getting killed was simple: she is and was a white woman!

It took a lot of courage for Jane Fonda to speak. White women live with the internal knowledge of the killing spirit of their men, and how recent the Inquisition Period is from now!

Now, the same venom is simmering across the country as white women, en masse, are speaking as a collective on a taboo subject in this culture: sexual harassment, and the entitlement of white men over white pussy. It is too hard to string thousands of women on a cross like they did and do to Jane Fonda! In this instance, Jesus does not save.

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
March 14, 2018 

Americans supports Israel's Apartheid system

[On the surface American Christians sound 'right' and justified vilifying Arabs, and those against Israel because of the Bible, and what is said in the Bible. It all incites self-righteous attitudes dipping its adherents towards a dogma, with a notion of supremacy over reasonable objections to the stance made by those in the so-called Army of the Lord.] ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5/25/18



THE CHILDREN OF GAZA
The children of Gaza and the Profits from their Genocide.
from "The International Times, the newspaper of resistance."

“The Israeli-Arab conflict is to the wider global war of civilizations what Off Broadway is to Broadway. It is the small laboratory where trends get tested out first, or are perfected, and then go global.” - Thomas Friedman, New York Times, 1 February 2014.

“That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true…” – Thomas Paine

A bearded old man holds a placard:
“You take my water, burn my olive trees,
“Destroy my house, take my job, steal my land,
“Imprison my father, kill my mother,
“Bombard my country, starve us all,
“Humiliate us all, but I am to blame:
“I shot a rocket back." 

A selection of ungodly chants
From the Zionist Book of Psalms
Are used to announce the destruction Of a country and its inhabitants: 

“There should be no electricity in Gaza,
“No gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing…
“We need to flatten entire neighbourhoods…
“Flatten all of Gaza.”
– Gilad Sharon, son of Ariel Sharon, Jerusalem Post.
Amen 

Gaza should be “bombed so hard the population
“Has to flee into Egypt.”
– Israel Katz, Minister of Transportation.
Amen 

Gaza should be “wiped clean with bombs.”
– Avi Dichter, Minister of Home Front Defence.
Amen 

Israeli soldiers must “learn from the Syrians
“How to slaughter the enemy.”
– Israeli Rabbi Yaakov Yosef.
Amen 

Vladimir Jabotinsky, Russian Jewish Revisionist leader,

born Oct. 18, 1880-Aug. 4, 1940.  

Here is Vladimir Jabotinsky, admirer of Mussolini
And godfather of Zionist terrorism,
Justifying the flattening of Arab villages in 1948
And their inhabitants being turned into refugees:
“The world has become accustomed to the idea
“Of mass migrations and has become fond of them.”
“Hitler, as odious as he is to us,” Jabotinsky adds,
“Has given this idea a good name in the world.”
Amen
[Tom Segev, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, New York: Henry Holt, 2001, p. 407] 

It’s an irony that Jabotinsky used Hitler
As precedent for the eviction of thousands,
Since forcible expulsion

Was amongst the charges against Adolf Eichmann,
An architect of industrialized mass murder;
Captured in Argentina, tried and hanged in Israel.

Undeterred, the former Chief Rabbi,
Mordechai Elyahu, has urged Israel,
Its army and its government
To employ “the Nazi choice”:
By which he’s meant the carpet bombing of Gaza,
And he urges the “indiscriminate killing of civilians”
On religious grounds.
Amen

The Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Schneerson,
A self-proclaimed Messiah
Whose followers await his return from the dead
(As if the Rabbi hadn’t preached enough when alive
By his making the claim that his religion
Heralded a new Master Race),
Has a devoted and powerful acolyte, Rabbi Manis Friedman,
Who declares that the “only way to fight a moral war”
Is to “destroy the Arabs’ holy sites”
To “kill men, women and children”, to eliminate anyone
Who stands in the way of a Greater Israel.

With an Old Testament ferocity,
And a religious racism which the atheist,
Christopher Hitchens, has called,
“The root of religious evil”,
The Rabbi acclaims Israel’s relentless colonizing impulse
Whereby the Torah is used
To justify mass killings
And such crimes
Are given a whole country’s blessing.

The Head of the National Defence College,
Professor Arnon Sofer,
Outlines Israel’s strategy:
“If we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill.
“All day, every day.”
Amen
Jerusalem Post, 24 May 2004]