Late elder of the Sicangu Lakota Wakan Olowan aka Willard Pipeboy by Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Tiokasin Ghosthorse says:
Several years ago in a 2003
First Voices Indigenous Radio interview
with the late elder of the Sicangu Lakota Willard Pipeboy, aka Wakan Olowan


I had a chance to ask him about some of the prophecies
and if he could share one regarding the current state of affairs.

Although Willard was declining in health he was still quick-minded
to remind me that the urgency of what he said,
“should not be taken rhetorically”.

Often times we of the Western mindset dismiss the arcane words that ill-fit
the status quo of a conceptual model of intellectualism as inapplicable.

I think the entrapment of transcendental (hierarchical) thinking
often leaves unsatisfactory conclusions of assigning “primitive” minds
in the category of Social Darwinism.

I also insert racial determinism as the political ideology
in the assignment of what is viable to the immediate survival
– an instinctual rather than an intuitive existence.

Anyway, back to Willard who simply said:
"there will be a war".

I thought quietly
"but that’s the way of humans from the beginning".

But there is a difference between those who wage war,
think war, live war, speak war and those who are living peace, waging peace,
thinking peace, and speaking peace.

The difference has little to do with a so-called dichotomy of races
but rather those who choose to "live With the earth"
and those who "live On the earth".

The phrase 'on the earth' intends a hierarchy as in domination.

Back to Willard (who often kept me on track and had a way of reading my mind
before I spoke), who said,
“then there will be a dictator”.

But I remember him saying these words many years before
as we sat around the Inipi lodge staring at the ceremonial fire.

There is more to this story, but time is short.

HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?
This is the most interesting thing I've read in a long time.
The sad thing about it, you can see it coming.
I paraphrase it here.
I have always heard about this democracy countdown.
It is interesting to see it in print.

"About the time the pilgrims, the pioneers, the discoverers,
the newcomer’s original thirteen states adopted
their new constitution in 1787,
Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor
at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say
about the fall of the Athenian Republic
some 2,000 years earlier:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature;
it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time
that voters discover they can vote themselves
generous gifts from the public treasury."

"From that moment on, the majority always vote
for the candidates who promise the most benefits
from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy
will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy,
which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations
from the beginning of history has been about 200 years"

"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. from dependence back into bondage"


A Sacred Truth- Thank You Song- The Sacred Pipe - Circa 2000