(NAME-MCE) Special Invitation - Call to Youth: Speak With the Grandmothers

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Call to Youth:  Speak With the Grandmothers
5th Council of the The International  Council of Thirteen Indigenous 
Grandmothers
Deadline: June 1, 2007
_http://www.nativevillage.org/1International%20Council%20of%20the%20Thirteen%2
0Indigenous%20Grandmothers/The%20Thirteen%20Grandmothers'%20Youth%20Forum.htm_
 
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The  Grandmothers
Grandmother Aama Bambo,  Nepal, Asia 
Grandmother  Margaret Behan, Cheyenne/Arapho   North America 
Grandmother  Rita Pikta Blumenstein,Yupik, Arctic/North America
Grandmother Julieta  Casimiro, Mazatec,  Mexico/North America
Grandmother Flordemayo,  Mayan, Central America         
Grandmother Maria  Alica Campos Freire, Brazil, South America
Grandmother Tsering Dolma  Gyalthong, Tibetan, Asia
Grandmother Beatrice Holy Dance Long-Visitor,  Lakota, North America 
Grandmother Rita Holy Dance Long-Visitor,  Lakota, North America 
Grandmother Agnes Baker-Pilgrim, Takelma Siletz,  North America 
Grandmother Mona Palocca, Hopi-Havasupi, North America  
Grandmother Bernadette Rebienot, Bwiti, Africa
Grandmother Clara  Shinobu Iura, Amazonian Rainforest, Brazil South America



This year, The International Council of Thirteen  Indigenous Grandmothers 
will hold their fifth council gathering before and  during Sundance from June 
12-22, 2007 in the Black Hills of South  Dakota.  During the conference, the 13 
Grandmothers  will meet with Native Village director Gina Boltz who is 
assisting in the  creation and publishing of their Internet Youth Forum for kids and 
young  adults up to age 25.  

Kids, we need your help.  The 13 Indigenous Grandmothers -- elders, healers, 
wisdomkeepers and  spiritual leaders held in the highest regard -- want to 
hear from our  world's youth.  If you could ask them one question, what would it 
be:  How do we end global warming?  Why can't people just get along?   What 
can I do to become a better person?  No matter the  question, these wisest of 
women are here for you. All you have to do is  ask.

Native Village will compile and present your  questions to the Grandmothers 
during council.  Your questions,  along with the Grandmothers' answers, will 
later be posted in the  Grandmothers Youth Forum housed on the Native Village 
website.    
To post your message and for more information: 
_http://www.nativevillage.org/_ (http://www.nativevillage.org/) 
The  International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
_www.grandmotherscouncil.com_ 
(http://cdn-cf.aol.com/se/stationery/objts/paper-st/www.grandmotherscouncil.com) 

Thank  you for Speaking With the Grandmothers:



Warm Regards,
Gina Boltz, Director
Native Village  Publications
http://www.nativevillage.org




The  beginnings....

LIGHTING OF THE GRANDMOTHERS' SACRED FIRE
Source:  Grandmothers Council the  World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for 
 Our Planet  
Written by Carol Schaefer
Published by  Trumpeter Books, Boston, 2006

"In a magical  valley, protected by the ancient spirits of the towering 
Catskill  Mountains, a sacred fire was lit. 

"The  flame that kindled the sacred fire was originally ignited in 1986 just  
outside the United Nations building by Chief Shenandoah of the Iroquois  
Nation. He rubbed two sticks together to create a spark, then lit a torch  for 
peace in the International Year of Peace. That morning, in the  gleaming sunlight 
of a beautiful sunrise, the UN building shone like the  envisioned "Great 
Hall of Mica" spoken of in Hopi prophecy for over a thousand years. A message  
was to be delivered at an amazing shining place at the time of the "Great  
Turning" in hopes of ushering in a millennium of peace in the world. The  Hopi knew 
the times described in the prophecy had come.  

"Through extraordinary cooperation, the  peace torch traveled from the Great 
hall of Mica around the world through  sixty-two countries in eighty-six days. 
During the flame's miraculous  journey, it was borne by thousands of runners 
and witnessed by millions of  people, including many world leaders ... When 
the torch returned to the  United Nations, there were many incredible stories 
about the powerful  alchemical nature of the fire. Afterward, the flame was 
brought to the  altar of the holy Santurario de Chimayo in New Mexico where it has 
since  been kept burning, except for when it traveled to the hallowed land of 
the  Iroquois in 2004.

"Surrounded by golden  woods and in the cool, still, evening air of 
mid-October, 2004, the flame  initiated an unprecedented and historic gathering of 
thirteen indigenous  Grandmothers from around the world, keepers of their tribes' 
teachings  from original times. The Grandmothers had come to fulfill another 
ancient  prophecy, known by many of the world's indigenous tribes: "When the  
Grandmothers from the four directions, speak, anew time is  coming..."




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