Spiritual Elders

Welcome:

Who We Are: Abenaki, Cherokee, Oglala Sioux, Mohawk, Jicarilla Apache, Mescarlaro Apache, Paiute, Eastern Shoshone, Kenneste, Navajo, Penobscot, Ojibway, Shoshone/Bannock, Mayan, Hopi, Puebloan, Appalachian Cherokee, Dakota, Coahuilteco/Huichol, Algonquin representatives from 21 tribes of Spiritual Elders of Mother Earth.

Why Have We Come Together:
Don Alexandro, a thirteenth generation Quiche Mayan High Priest, dreamed of connecting Spiritual Elders in South America with those in North America. He sent the Staff from his family that they had held for many generations to the North to help North American elders unite. This occurred in 1999, in the canyon lands of the Canoncito Band of the Navajo Nation. From 1999 to 2000 for one year the North American elders kept the Staff of the Mayans, which was for them a guide to the ways in which they needed to unite with respect, knowledge, wisdom and courage of the people.

Then, in 2000, when the Staff returned to Central America, a new Staff was created from the heart of the canyon lands of the Navajo for the North American Elders Council, which has emerged as the Spiritual Elders of Mother Earth.

Guidance from Our Elders

What are you going to give to the next seven generations. Do you have a beautiful gift to pass on. I think so . . . .We are all asking ourselves what do we do next, and where are we. Our ending time has come, and we are now asking for the best possible way to go back and restructure, reset and put things back on track that give strength to us. So we have a huge task the next five to ten years. We are going to have to come together. This pathway has to be open, so that we can make another 500-year calendar to bring in sacredness. Look at the elements. Look at the environment. Look at the clouds, the mountains, the plants, your people, and the grandchildren that are unborn yet. We want to make an entrance, a pathway, a blessing way. We have experienced negativity. There is social illness; there is great pain and suffering. Those kinds of illnesses we do not need to take into this new pathway. If we do, we only become sicker. We can put everything forward that is sacred. You and I have to do it. Our children's generations that are coming are waiting for this gift. . . . So we are going to have to hold hands and go in one direction. All of us have to communicate, sing one song, say one prayer, and walk the next decade together with one voice, for our survival and the survival of future generations.

Leon Secatero, Canoncito Navajo Spiritual Elder