In the eighth century the Roman Catholic Church choose the eve of October 31st to be a special time to honor the Saints in Heaven. Halloween is the vigil of All Saints Day. And All Saints Day is a Holy Catholic Feast Day; an official Holy Day, set aside for Catholics to glorify God, by honoring the Saints in Heaven.
However, I am sorry to say...for most people living in Anoka (including most of Anoka�s Catholics) the evening of October 31st is a time to celebrate, in a secular way, the combination of both a vigil of an ancient Celtic pagan rite, as well as an ancient Satanic witches'; meeting; and they erroneously call their secularized pagan/Satanic celebrations "Halloween" celebrations. By doing so they commit a sacrilegious act, they desecrate Halloween.
Therefore, I believe that both their eve of October 31st celebrations, as well as their sacrilegious definition for the hallowed name Halloween are radically evil. And I also believe that it is time for all of Anoka�s Catholics to start celebrating Halloween's true meaning, so that Anoka can fulfill its divine providential destiny, and become known throughout the world as the hallowed "Halloween Capital of the World".
The Encyclopedia Britannica says:
Halloween and Saints:
(1.) "The occasion of Halloween (Allhallows Even) is known as the vigil of Hallowmas or All Saints' day, Nov. 1, observed by the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. Pope Gregory III (731-741) assigned this date for celebrating the feast." The vigil of All Saints Day, which constitutes Halloween in the church calendar, is as old as the feast."
Eve of Samhain and goblins:
(2.) In pre-Christian Europe, the Celtic year ended on the eve of October 31st...or, in other words, on the Druids' eve of Samhain. "The eve of Samhain was celebrated with both religious and agrarian rites. For the Druids, the eve of Samhain was both the end of the summer and a festival of the dead. It was an occasion when fairies, witches and goblins terrified the populace. In some places, girls and boys dressed in clothing of the opposite sex and, wearing mask, visited neighbors to play tricks. These activities generally resembled the harmful and mischievous behavior attributed to witches, fairies and goblins."
All Saints' Day was established to displace the pagan celebration of Samhain:
(3.) "The Christian church sought to eliminate or supplant the Druid festival of the dead by introducing the alternative observation of All Saints' day, Nov. 1. This feast was established to honor the Saints but it failed to displace the pagan celebration of Samhain."
Likewise, Halloween (Allhallows Even) was established to displace the pagan celebration of the Eve of Samhain. The Christian church sought to eliminate or supplant the vigil of Samhain, by introducing the alternative observation that constitutes the vigil of All Saints' Day (Allallows Even) or Halloween. Therefore, Halloween was established to honor the Saints, but it failed to displace the pagan celebration of the vigil of Samhain.
And now-days America's Catholic bishops have fail to even try to displace the modern-day secular celebrations of the vigil of Samhain, by encouraging their people to celebrate the true meaning of Halloween.
Present-day eve of October 31st state sponsored celebrations, erroneously and sacrilegiously called "Halloween celebrations", are, in part, composed of a secularized celebration of a Satanic witches' meeting.
(4.) In the Encyclopedia Britannica it is stated that: "As Christianity spread gradually over Europe...it attempted to displace or suppress pre-existing pagan cults...Though the church was able to destroy...the outward forms of worship of these heathen religions...it could not completely eradicate the faith and beliefs of their priest and worshipers. These found an outlet during the middle ages in witchcraft which was devoted to the worship of Satan. One of their most important devotional meetings was held on the eve of Oct. 31st, witches were alleged to fly to these meetings on broomsticks, accompanied by black cats."
Throughout America....the combination of both a popular secular attitude, as well as a popular Protestant attitude are (in part) responsible for a hallowed Catholic Halloween being desecrated and degraded to a secularized pagan/ Satanic festival.
(5.) "Though some churches observe Halloween with religious services, most persons regard it as a secular festival. This reflects the prevailing American Protestant attitude toward a great many church festivals and holy days."
(6.) "The secular character of contemporary culture is also reflected in the public neglect of the religious significance of Halloween."
I believe that because Anoka's [eve of October 31st] civic festivities predominantly celebrate, in a secular way, the combination of both the eve of Samhain rites as well as a Satanic witches' meeting, that an abbreviation of the words...eve of Samhain/Satanic witches'; meeting.... should be used as the name that designates their eve of October 31st festivities, and not an abbreviation of the consecrated words Allhallows Even (Halloween).
The scary pagan and evil Satanic costumes, storefront paintings, logos, emblems...etc. that are traditionally seen on the eve of October 31st...originated, not from the Catholic Church's ancient holy evening called Allhallows Even or Halloween, but from a combination of both the eve of an ancient pagan Druid festival called Samhain, as well as an ancient Satanic witches� meeting, where Satan worshipping witches were alleged to fly to meetings on broomsticks.
Therefore, I believe that the image of an evil Satanic witch flying on a broom, the image that is used in Anoka's official "Halloween" logo and publications, is an example of Anoka's participation in a common mainstream American tradition of radical irreverent misbehavior.
This irreverent misbehavior is responsible for both the radical profanation of the hallowed name Halloween as well as the radical profanation of the holy evening that the hallowed name Halloween designates. This irreverent radical injustice, justifiably offends conscientious reverent people living in Anoka, especially good Catholics who know and celebrate Halloween's true meaning.
I believe that it is radically wrong for civic leaders to sponsor a secularized pagan/Satanic religious festival where Satanic religious symbols and images are traditionally prevalent. And because Anoka claims to be the "Halloween Capital Of The World" I believe that it is even more so wrong for Anoka's civic leaders to sponsor October 31st secularized pagan/Satanic religions festivals. And for Anoka's Church of Saint Stephen to participate in these secularized pagan and Satanic festivals is very sacrilegious.
Hence, I am on a holy mission, especially focusing in on Anoka's popular eve of October 31st attitudes and festivities, to both redeem the consecrated name Halloween from its common mainstream American sacrilegious definition as well as to redeem the holy evening of October 31st from its state sponsored secularized pagan/Satanic religious festivities.
I prophesied over 40 years ago that Anoka would become known throughout the world as the "Halloween Capital of the World" because of the success of a futuristic Anoka, Minnesota Church of Saint Stephen social justice ministry, a ministry with a mission to redeem both the name Halloween from its common mainstream American sacrilegious definition as well as to redeem the holy evening of October 31st from its state sponsored secularized pagan/Satanic religious festivities.
This evil City of Anoka "Halloween" logo is located near the City Hall.
This evil "Halloween" logo is located on the back of the Anoka Drug Store.
This evil, in part, "Halloween" logo was the logo of an Anoka boat club. Boat Clubers who once belonged to the Anoka Two Rivers Boat Club still have reunions and display their evil logo.
I also prophecied over 40 years ago that:
The name of a river that finds its confluence with the Mississippi River in Anoka, Minnesota, (the "badly named" Rum River) would be reverted back to its Mdewakanton Dakota Native American name Wahkon.
PROPHETIC CREDENTIALS
About seven years after I made my 1960s prophecy that Wahkon, Minnesota would become the hierarchical center of Catholicism, I learned that the ancient Dakota Native American name for the Great Spirit was Wahkon
And about nine years after I made the mentioned above prophesy, I learned that the city of Wahkon, Minnesota was named after the sacred Dakota name for the lake that the city of Wahkon is located on (Wahkon/Mille Lacs Lake). The name for the city of Wahkon translates as Spirit or Great Spirit.
About ten years after I made the mentioned above prophecy I learned that Steven Gaskin�s large and very successful 2000 member commune, the commune that Richard Carter was associated with when it was originating in the San Francisco Bay area, were using the word wahkon (although they spelled it wakan) in a way that expressed that they believed that, of all cultures, the culture of the indigenous peoples of the Americans had the most valuable features, features that could and should be incorporate into their counter-cultural expression of a global culture. A global culture that would be made up of what they determined to be the best of the past of all the world's different peoples' traditions and cultures, a culture wherein they believed, "the world would live as one". Note: The Native American word wakan, sometimes spelled wahkon, is sometimes translated as holy or sacred.
I also came to believe that because the "Sioux" (Dakota/Lakota/Nakota) are often used to portray all Native American tribes in Hollywood movies, and that therefore the world psychic views all Native Americans as "Sioux"; and that when people watch the traditional Hollywood movies about Native Americans they often hear the actors portraying "Sioux Indians" using the word wahkon (sacred), or the combined words Wahkon-Tonka (Spirit-Great). Hence, I also came to believe that a lot of people throughout the world believe that the word wahkon and the name Wahkon-Tonka are used by all Native Americans; and that more and more people were becoming aware that there is a strong and universal concept behind the word wahkon, a concept that the whole world needs to embrace. In a popular movie called "Dreamkeeper" not only is the word wakan used, but there is a seen wherein an old "Sioux" (Dakota) story teller speaks of a Native American prophecy that predicts that the white man will eventually assimilate into traditional Native American culture.
Note to myself - add Rainbow Family Hopi prophesy statement #########
After I made these mentioned above discoveries, I came to believe that these discoveries gave me new and more convincing prophetic credentials; and that they would help members of my extended material family (the Rainbow family) to move closer to discovering their very holy and glorious ministry. A discovery that would influence them to move to Anoka/Wahkon in order to help me to complete the great work that the Lord Jesus Christ has given our family to complete. And sure enough, after some of my concerned family members witnessed this first set of my prophetic credentials they came to believe that I might acually have a very holy and glorious prophetic visionary mission for our Rainbow family and the Church.
The Second Set Of Prophetic Credentials:
About My Interview With Father Matthew Fox:
Several years after I found out that Steven Gaskin and his counter-cultural commune had a worldview behind the word wakan, I attended a 1983 intertribal Catholic Native American conference wherein more than a hundred tribes were represented. And during that conference (the Tekakwitha Conference), a missionary priest of 45 years, Father Stan Maudlin, a founder and leaders of the conference, spoke to a large number of conference participants and said: "There is a whole worldview behind the word wahkon".
At the time, many of these conference participants were already participating in this worldview movement; a movement with a mission to transform the Church into an institution that would serve as the basis and principle of unity for a single united global culture; a culture made up of the best of the past of all the world's different peoples' traditions and cultures; a culture wherein the world would be united. But the majority of these conference participants had not yet heard that some members of this worldview movement, had "a whole worldview around the word wakan/wahkon".
And then a short while after Father Stan Maudlin made his statement about there being a "whole world-view behind the word wahkon", Father Matthew Fox, an international leader of this world-view movement, came up to me and asked if I would like to have a talk with him. I said "yes" and we then talked for about one hour. During that hour, I a spoke to him about my youth of the 1960s counter-cultural and Catholic - worldview round the word wahkon - prophetic visionary mission. And at the end of the interview, he said that he would like for me to keep in touch with him so as to keep him informed about the progress of my - worldview around the word wahkon - prophetic visionary mission.
Rev. Matthew Fox recently gave his support for the effort to regain the sacred Dakota name for the badly named "Rum" River. And Father Stan Maudlin (now diseased) also gave his support for the effort to regain the sacred Dakota name for the "Rum" River.
About my internationally renowned friend Chris McCloud:
I became friends with Chris McCloud during Christian church services in Anoka, Minnesota. At the time, we found out that we were of the same expression of the 1960s youth counter-cultural movement; and that we were therefore, both, working to unite all good willed religions into a single religion that would serve as the basis and principle of unity for a single united global culture, a culture wherein, we hoped, all of humanity would eventually be united. A number of his internationally recognized accomplishments are listed below:
(1.) In the 1960s, he went on, and completed, a twenty-two country music concert tour.
(2.) In the 1960s, he won a contest to represent the U.S.A. in an international music festival in Tokyo Japan, a music festival that he later participated in.
(3.) In the 1960s, he was associating with internationally renowned Rock and Roll stars, including Paul McCartney. When he was associating with Paul McCartney, he was of the Christian and Roman Catholic expression of the 1960s youth counter-cultural movement, and Paul McCartney was of the Hindu/Buddhist expression.
After these mentioned above contacts and associations with Father Matthew Fox and Chris McCloud, I came to believe that I had received new and more convincing prophet credentials. I also believed that when the mentioned above missionary priest of 45 years (Fr. Stan Maudlin) spoke to a large number of 1983 Tekawitha Conference participants and said: "THERE IS A WHOLE WORLDVIEW BEHIND THE WORD WAHKON", that by these words of his, I, at the time, received another authentic prophetic credential. There is an official Tekakwitha Conference tape with this above mentioned statement on it. And Richard Carter has become a bi-nationally known environmentalist, I therefore believe that my recent contacts and associations with him have also given me a new prophetic credential.
About another prophecy of mine:
About twenty-five years ago, I prophesied that the Hindu/Buddhist expression of the counterculture's "a new age a coming" movement would experience a popular revival; and that when it did, it would be correctly recognized by the Church as the end times of the last days "great apostasy" that Saint Paul predicted would come to pass nearly 2000 years ago. This Biblical prophecy is found in II Thessalonians 2-3, and this same scripture revealed to the early church as well as to all the following generations of believers that when this "great apostasy" arrived, it would be a sign that would alert the Church to the reality that it had come to the end of an age, and that a new age of church history was at hand. And about twenty years ago, the number one best-selling book, entitled: Hidden Dangers Of The Rainbow, along with several other best-selling books, identified the recently popularized Hindu/Buddhist expression of the counterculture's New Age movement as the "great apostasy" of the end-time.
About evidence that indicates that some of my late 1960s prophecies (the ones that have not already been fulfilled) will probably be fulfilled in the near future:
About my prophecies concerning Anoka's future as the "Halloween Capital of the World". Within the last fifteen years, the majority of America's citizens have learned about, both:(1.) the long history of the Roman Catholic Church's hallowed Halloween, a holy evening that is now-days commonly neglected by most of America's Catholics...and (2.) the coinciding ancient Celtic pagan festival, a religious festival that is now-a-days, for the most part, celebrated secularly, plus�it is also commonly and erroneously called "Halloween".
This fifteen year long campaign to educate the public about the ancient European roots of our country's traditional eve of October 31st civic festivities came about by a national effort to try to understand why there is so much violence in America's culture, especially on the eve of October 31st, and what could be done to curb it. In a resent Minnesota Star Tribune newspaper article, entitled: Violent characters ruled out for many Halloween celebrations there is a nation-wide report on the changing attitudes and policies associated with state sponsored eve of October 31st festivities, festivities that occur in our schools, town halls, city streets, etc. This article focused, primarily, on the positive changes that have taken place in Anoka, Minnesota, the self acclaimed "Halloween Capital Of The World".
Another Star Tribune article was titled: Hallowed Halloween. An excerpt from that article reads: "Halloween as practiced for many years is a bastardization of its original meaning - that of a Holy Evening honoring the church's Saints." And another excerpt from that same article reads: "What does it say about our culture when we encouraged children to dress in order to frighten, then beg for treats with the threat of a trick if a treat isn't given? The true meaning of Halloween is far more inspiring and noble."
Excerpts from a National Catholic Register article about Halloween:
(1.) "Tis the season when the line between Christian and pagan practices seem to blur. Halloween, derived from All Hollowed's Eve, refers to the night before All Saints' Day. But it comes from the Celtic pagan feast Samhain, when spirits from the Otherworld (which are not to be confused with either heaven or hell) were most able to enter the regular world through a fairy mound, called in Irish sid. On this day, Nov. 1, more than any other the Celts believed they were most likely to be accosted by foreign spirits, who could influence their lives." (2.) "This feast, (the feast of Samhain) though probably older than Christianity, lent itself to the Christian idea of the communing with the dead through prayer and sacrifice, now especially marked by the Church on All Saints' day on Nov. 1.. (3.) "Catholics don't seem to have a different perspective on Halloween from anyone else, which he finds disappointing because the celebration can be a cateching tool. Several years ago, he said, one family in his parish held a saints' party at Halloween time, where kids dressed up as saints." (4.) "We need to complete the process of truly Christianizing the observance."
I believe that these, mentioned above, excerpts should influence their readers to believe that there is evidence that indicates that, in the near future, Anoka could become the capital of the Catholic Church�s movement to reclaim "Halloween" (or the eve of October 31st) as the Vigil of the Solemnity of All Saints' Day, just as my 30 year old prophecy predicted.
Is there a new prophetic credential that can and should be attributed to my prophetic visionary ministry because of, both, the present-day trend toward "Christianizing the observance" as well as the trend to focus on Anoka ("The Halloween Capital Of The World") for leadership advise when it comes to promoting positive change associated with our country's eve of October 31st festivities? I believe that there is a new prophetic credential that can and should be attributed to my prophetic visionary ministry because of these recently established trends.
About my prophecy - wherein I predicted that the "Rum" River's name would be reverted back to its Native American name (Wahkon).
In respect to my prophecy wherein I predicted that the profane "Rum" River name would be reverted back to its sacred Mdewakanton Dakota Indian name Wahkon, I can say that there is now evidence that indicates that it will not be long until this prophecy of mine is fulfilled.
The evidence includes...recent precedence associated with the successful efforts of activists to change some other derogatory geographic place names that are offensive to Native Americans. I believe that (in part) these name changes have come about because of a change in consciousness due to America's contemporary multi-cultural movement. This movement has had a lot to do with the rise of consciousness associated with an increased sensitivity to the feelings of, and respect due to, people of different cultures.
An example of this rise in consciousness can be witnessed by the very successful contemporary movement to change school sport team names, that in a negative way stereotype Native Americans. Names such as: Warriors, Braves and Red Skins. And in a resent article found in the Star Tribune titled: A Name That Offends, there is information about the success of a grass roots movement to change the names of a number of towns, lakes, and parks...etc. The derogatory name for these towns, lakes and parks...etc, was squaw. The article says that the word squaw was derived from the French word meaning vagina. And the article goes on to say that the word squaw goes beyond its definition as Native woman. And that it is: "A word that not only puts down Native women but, because in Native culture women are held in such high regard, it also puts down the Natives� whole culture, race, and values." This article also explained the process that a citizen who desires to change a clearly derogatory name must follow, including petitioning a county board (or county boards) and paying the nominal cost of advertising for a public hearing.
I believe that this derogatory name changing precedence should help people who have been skeptical about my "Rum" River name changing activist work to come to believe that my work to revert the profane "Rum" River name back to its sacred Mdewakanton Dakota name will be successful.
I believe that this derogatory name changing precedent should influence my Rainbow family relatives, and other people, to come to the belief that a new prophetic credential can and should be attributed to my prophetic visionary ministry.
A Minnesota bill was pasted that changed MN's geographic place names that were named Squaw. And more recently, a bill that I wrote and that MN Rep. Mike Jaros introduced to the MN legislature, if passed will change 14 other derogatory geographic place names that are offensive to American Indians as well as to many other people. The profane Rum River name is one of the names on this MN bill�s list of names we are trying to change. About the history of my and my brother Tim's movement to revert the derogatory name of the "Rum" River back to its sacred Mdewakanton Dakota name (Wahkon).
Our first move, at the state level of government, was to call Rep. Charles Weaver and ask him if he would find and send us information about the governmental process that we would need to follow for us to go forward and pursue the goal of our mission to change the profane and derogatory name of the "Rum" River.
Rep. Charles Weaver then contacted the State DNR Office and talked to Glen Yakel, Minnesota's Geographic name keeper. Glen Yakel then sent us the State DNR's process papers. The papers informed us as to the correct way to proceed with our mission to change the name of the "Rum" River.
After studying the process papers we learned that there was a stipulation where if a name for a geographic place had been in existence for 40 years there was no state assisted process to use in ones quest to change the name of a geographic place. So I called Glen Yakel to find out if there were any exceptions to this 40 year stipulation. And if there was an exception, if he would lift the stipulation so that we could proceed with our mission to change the name of the "Rum" River.
During that conversation with Glen Yakel he told me that they had determined that it was reasonable for us to believe that the "Rum" River's name was not only derogatory, but "radically" derogatory toward Native Americans. And that therefore the 40 year stipulation had been lifted and that we could now proceed to seek a public hearing where the County Boards Of Commissioners of the (so-called) "Rum" River area could come together and determine if they believe that the "Rum" River's current name is derogatory and offensive to American Indians. And if at that public hearing they were to decide to change the river's name, they would at that time give the "Rum" River a new name. A new name that State DNR officials would have to give their approval of in order for it to become the official new name for the river.
After we learned that the State DNR Office had given us the go ahead to pursue a public hearing we contacted governmental officials of both the Shakopee and Prairie Island Dakota Mdewakanton communities to let them know about our campaign to change the name of the "Rum" River. In response to our campaign, both a governmental official from Prairie Island's Mdewakonton Dakota Community, as well as a high ranking member of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota community got in touch with us and told us that they supported our effort to revert the profane "Rum" River name back to their peoples' name for the river.
I recently discovered that there was another method that I could use to change the name of the "Rum" River, and that it was the MN legislative method. I am now pursuing the legislation method. My proposed state bill to replace the name of the "Rum" River as well as a number of other derogator names can be found by clicking bill
After I was put on the agenda to speak to Wahkon, Minnesota's City Council about our campaign tochange the name of the river. I then presented our proposal to the city council. At the time, a newspaper reporter for Mille Lacs County's official newspaper (The Mille Lacs Messenger) was there. She later wrote an article in the Messenger about the city councils' response to my presentation. About a month later she interviewed me to get some more information about the progress being made in our campaign to change the name. During that interview she said that she believed that our campaign to change the name of the river was a "good cause". And then about a week after the interview another article about the effort to change the name appeared in the Mille Lacs Messenger.
While seeking support from the Mille Lacs Lake Band of Ojibwe I was advised by Don Wedll, the Mille Lacs Bands DNR Commissioner, to seek the support of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council. I then contacted Joe Day, the executive director of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council. He was happy to hear about our proposal and proceeded to give us his help.
I then went on a mission to see if the pastors of the Christian Churches located on the south end of Mille Lacs Lake would sign our petition to change the name of the river. Five out of the six pastors that I talked to signed the petition. Their names are Father Ray Steffes, Father Nathan Packard, Father William McNif, Rev. Jason Mondley and Rev. Richard Fitzer. Father Joseph Brenhan, the assistant pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Wahkon, Minnesota and Sister Mary George of little flower mission also signed the petition.
Don Wedll, a very well known and respected person throughout Minnesota's Native American communities, also signed the petition.
Because we received so much support from the pastors of the Christian Churches around the south end of Mille Lacs Lake we decided to go forward and send a letter to the editor of the Saint Paul/Minneapolis Archdiocesan newspaper (The Catholic Spirit) wherein we solicited his support for our proposal. And not long after sending that letter we received a letter from him wherein he said: "I think you've got a terrific project here, and I hope to be able to carry something about the project in the Catholic Spirit soon." And he also said: "I would think that both Archbishop Flynn as well as the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council would support the name change of the Rum River, given the derogatory history behind the name."
We also sent a letter to both Archbishop Harry Flynn as well as to the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council soliciting their support for our proposal to revert the current name of the "Rum" River back to its Native American name Wahkon. Both Archbishop Harry Flynn and Merton J. Lassonde, the Executive Secretary of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council, responded with encouraging letters.
Father Mike Paquet, the pastor of the Church of Saint Stephen in Anoka, Minnesota signed our petition.
On April 6, 1998 I presented our proposal to Saint Stephen's Social Concerns Committee, at the time, all twenty members of that committee signed our petition.
There is an international Native American Catholic organization called the Tekakwitha Conference. Over a one hundred tribes are represented during this conferences annual conferences. I sent a letter to this organizations Board of Directors soliciting their support for the effort to rename the "Rum" River. In response to that letter, we received a letter from Mike Valdo, TCNC Board President, wherein he wrote: "Thank you for your letter dated March, 1998, soliciting our support of changing the name of a river in Minnesota. I feel that I need to get their involvement in this proposal. I commend you for the work you are doing in promoting this project and wish you continued success." On March 19, 2002 the Tekawitha Conference Board of Directors gave its support for the effort to change the profane"Rum" River name.
I have been to at least thirty churches within the four counties of the (so-called) "Rum" River corridor and almost all of the pastors of these churches have signed the petition to rename the river.
Both Anoka and Mille Lacs Counties' official newspapers as well as an Isanti County newspaer have published articles about our proposal. And an article about our proposal was published in one of Minnesota's most popular state-wide newspapers, the Saint Paul Pioneer Press. And more recently (Oct. 2006) the Star Tribune Minnesota's best-selling state-wide daily newspaper published an article about our effort to rename the "Rum" River.
And a number of radio stations have broadcasted news stories about our proposal.
I received a letter from the president of the Minnesota's Historical Society, wherein he thanked me for my concern about this issue. And the staff member that was assigned to look into this issue said he was "quite impressed" with the work we are doing to rename the river. And more recently the Minnesota Historical Society's Indian affairs Committee gave their support for the effort to change the derogatory "Rum" River name.
The Bishop John Kinney of Saint Cloud Diocese wrote me and wished me well in respect to my social justice ministry to rename the "Rum" River. And more recently he sent me a letter wherein he gave his support for the effort to change the derogatory Rum River name.
The Tribal Chairmen of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota Community (Stanley Crooks) told a prominent member of the Prairie Island Mdewakanton Dakota Community (Dale Childs) that he would sign a recommendation letter for the name change of the "Rum" River. And after being asked by Dale Childs to write the recommendation letter for the Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota I wrote it. The recommendation letter was addressed to the Board of County Commissioners of the (so-called) "Rum" River area. And the letter was then approved by Dale Childs. The letter presented a number of statements that explained why the Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota would like to see the Rum River�s name reverted back to its sacred Dakota Mdewakanton name. And while I was waiting for Dale Childs to call me, to let me know when he and I could deliver the letter to Stanley Crooks for his signing, I sent a booklet about my, world-view around the word wahkon, Catholic visionary minestry to Dale Childs. After he received and read the booklet he made no farther attempt to contact me. At the time, I believed that after the Mdewakanton Dakota received the booklet about my world-view agenda they would probably disassociate themselves from me because my agenda included using the "Rum" River name-change proposal issue to promote my very grandiose Christian and Roman Catholic, world-view around the word wahkon, prophetic visionary mission.
The reason why I sent my, worldview around the word wahkon, booklet to the Mdewakanton Dakota was because I believed (and still believe) that, in due time, the Mdewakanton Dakota communities will approve of my Christian and Roman Catholic, world-view around the word wahkon, visionary mission; and that they will, at the time, give their public support for the effort to revert the profane "Rum" River name back to their sacred name for the river.
Its been seven years since I sent my booklet about both my movement to revert the profane "Rum" River name back to its sacred Mdewakanton Dakota name as well as my worldview visionary mission around the word wahkon, to the Mdewakanton Dakota Oyate (people) and I am only now getting a response to the e-mails and letters that I have been sending to the Prairie Island Mdewakanton Dakota Community. And I have also recently been receiving some e-mail replies from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota Community. And despite the fact that a number of popular Native American websites have published articles about both my (now) international movement to revert the profane "Rum" River name back to its sacred Mdewakanton Dakota name as well as my worldview visionary mission around the word wahkon one of the Mdewakanton Dakota Communities the Lower Sioux Mdewakanton Community is still not sending me any response e-mails or letters.
Both the Upper Sioux Mdewakanton Community as well as the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community have given their support for the effort to revert the river's name back to their sacred name for the river.
Efforts to change the river's name have received support from the following tribes, organizations and individuals.
* Upper Sioux, a Mdewakanton Dakota Community. This community is one of five Minnesota Mdewakanton Dakota Communities.
* Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community, a non-federally recognized 250-member Mdewakanton Dakota Community.
* Minnesota Historical Society's Indian Advisory Committee
* Mike Jaros, a (DFL) Minnesota State Legislator.
* Cankdeska Cikana Community College, a Dakota college established to bring higher education opportunities to the people of the Spirit Lake Tribe.
* Tekakwitha Conference, an international Catholic Native American organization. 172 tribes were represented at this organization's 2003 annual conference. And Tekakwitha Conference prayer circles, called Kateri Prayer Circles, have been formed on nearly all U.S. Reservations.
* Rev. Stan Maudlin, abbot of Blue Cloud Abbey and founder and Executive Director of BCA�s American Indian Research Center. Rev. Maudlin has been a prominent leader of the Tekakwitha Conference since its origins and he is in constant correspondence with the Vatican Commission on Traditional Religions. During the 1983 Tekakwitha Conference, Rev Maudlin addressed a large group of conference participants and said "there is a whole world view behind the word wakan". (The word wakan in the Mdewakanton Dakota�s compound name for the Rum River was mistranslated as Rum.) And in 2003, Rev. Maudlin won the South Dakota Hall of Fame reward.
* Division of Indian Work (DIW) , an organization that is in partnership with the Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches (GMCC). The Board of Directors and staff of GMCC and DIW are committed to continuing their evolution into an anti-racist, multi-cultural organization that works for racial justice in the Minneapolis area.
* Native Earthworks Preservation Group, a group born out of the need to preserve the heritage and culture of the indigenous people of North America.
* Alliance for Native American Indian Rights, an intertribal organization dedicated to preserving and protecting Native American burial grounds and other culturally significant places.
* STAR (Students and Teachers Against Racism) This organization seeks to bring the image of Native Americans into the present, to support the well being of Native children in schools through the accurate depiction of history and by raising awareness of the need for sensitivity to Native culture as well as bringing recognition to the ongoing contributions of Native Peoples today, and to celebrate the varied and rich cultural traditions of all Native people in the United States.
* Christine Rose, the editor and occasional writer for STAR's editorial material. "Understanding The Mascot Issue" which contains important writings, essays, studies, surveys, law issues, articles and personal writings by Native people regarding the mascot and has been used extensively by school boards and State Departments of Education as well as by many individual schools in determining the removal of Native-based mascots.
* Russell Means, an internationally renown American Indian activist.
* Clyde Bellecourt, an internationally renown American Indian activist.
* Rev. Sequoyah Ade, an internationally regarded essayist and Indigenist political commentator.
*Mike L. Graham, a member of the Oklahoma Cherokee Nation and founder of United Native America , a national organization with a membership of 30,000.
* Teresa Kurtzhall, volunteer staff member for United Native America.
* American Indian Genocide Museum, the purpose of this museum is to bring historical truth to light through the means of education using actual documentation of events that have transpired in the near extermination, and in some cases, the total extermination of native tribes and cultures. Racism, discrimination and injustice will be addressed with the purpose of promoting public awareness that these elements of genocide which existed in the past, continue to exist today. Note: Russell Means is on this organization's Advisory Board.
* Tom Wisner, a singer and song writer who is known nationally for his song "Chesapeake Born". Mr. Wisner is writing a song in support of renaming the Rum River. "Chesapeake Born" became the title song for the 1987 National Geographic Special on the Bay region. Wisner's classroom techniques were filmed by Washington-area NBC-TV and other stations, and he received national, state, and local awards for excellence in teaching. He was given citations by two governors and was named a major figure in land-conservation work by President Reagan's Commission on the Out-of-Doors.
* Dr. Tom Pinkson, a psychologist, author, and founder of Wakan, a spiritual community dedicated to the sacredness of life. Dr. Pinkson has worked with indigenous elders all over the world.
* Charles E. Trimble (Oglala Lakota), the Interim Director of Institute of American Indian Studies at the University of South Dakota. He was a principal founder of the American Indian Press, and served as Executive Director of the National Congress of American Indians. And he is President of Red River Institute and a columnist for Indian Country Today. And he represented U.S. tribes at the founding of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples.
*Hunter Gray, a nationally renown Native American social justice organizer. He was the University of North Dakota's American Indian Studies Department Chair. Currently, he is the Chairman of Native American Commission SPUSA, a national Native advocate organization. And he is also the Regional Organizer of the Anti-Racist DSA.
* Jim Anderson, Cultural Chair and Historian for the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community. Jim Anderson is helping us to spearheading the movement to change the Rum River's derogatory name.
*Leonard Wabasha, Manager of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community's Cultural Resourses Department.
* Joe Day, both the Executive Director of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council as well as President of the Governor's Interstate Indian Council.
* Chuck Benson, of Lakota/Dakota descent and a relative of Petit Corbeau, the original "Little Crow" (great-grandfather of the famous Little Crow aka Taoyate Duta of 1862 "uprising" fame).
* Ernest Moristo (Tohono O'Odham), when addressing the participants of a United Nation's Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues meeting, he called for an assessment of the status of sacred sites of indigenous nations. In an e-mail to our director, he wrote: "We are a grassroots org. of Tohono O'odham Indians in Az. trying to protect our sacred sites. Interested in networking.
* Kristin and Curtis Ryan, the owners of a Web site that helps protect and preserve sacred Native American sites. It's located at: www.twilightspirit.com. This Web site has a gallery that include pictures of the Mdoteminiwakan/"Rum" River.
* Jeanne Svhiyeyi Aga Chadwick, the publisher/editor/webmaster of an American Indian/Indigenous online news ezine, called My Two Beads Worth. It has been visited by over 2 million people from all over the world. And an article about our campaign is posted on this website.
*Kathleen Franklin, an on-line teacher of the Lakota language
* National Environmental Coalition of Native Americans
* First Nations Environmental Network
* Kathryn Wild, PhD, CEO (Karuk Tribe of Northern California) - Kathryn Wild is developing an Environmental Education Retreat for California school teachers, offering university credit to learn gold rush history from an indigenous perspective.
* Wisdom University , this University's Creation Spirituality movement seeks to integrate the wisdom of western spirituality and global indigenous cultures with the emerging scientific understanding of the universe.
* Matthew Fox, an internationally renowned Christian theologian,environmentalist and indigenous peoples rights activist. Fox is also the founder and president of Wisdom University.
* AymaraNet, a South American organization with the world's only internet site with information on the Aymaras Natives in Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Ecuador.
* KOLA, an international human rights organization that helps indigenous communities throughout the world to rectify injustices inflicted upon them by non-indigenous people living in their homelands.
* United Nations' Secretariat of the Permanent Forum On Indigenous Issues
* Pax Christi USA
* Pax Christi Minnesota
* Pat Albers, Chair of the University of Minnesota's American Indian Studies Department.
* Colin G. Calloway, Chair of Darmouth College Native American Studies Research Center.
* Jacki Rand (Choctaw), a Professor of History and American Indian and Native Studies at the University of Iowa.
*LaVonne Brown Ruoff, a Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ruoff is a specialist in Native American literature.
* Michelene Pesantubee, an assistant professor of Religious Studies and American Indian and Native Studies at the University of Iowa.
Angela Carvender Wilson Ph.D.., an Arizona State University Assistant Professor of American Indian History. * Devon Abbott Mihesuah (Choctaw), an University of Nebraska professor of Applied Indigenous Studies, serves as Editor of the award winning journal, the American Indian Quarterly and edits University of Nebraska Press's book series, "Contemporary Indigenous Issues.
* Don Wedll, an American Indian rights activist who is well known throughout the state of Minnesota.
* Paul Pierce, President of the Anoka County Historical Society and a member of Anoka, Minnesota's City Council.
* Anne Mari Fitzell, a producer of an American Indian news web page.
* Lyn Miller-Lachman, the Editor-in-Chief of MultiCultural Review, "a quarterly trade journal and book review for educators and librarians.
* Barbara Gerner De Garcia, the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the board for the National Association for Multicultural Education.
* American Indian Cultural Research Center, located at South Dakota's Blue Cloud Abbey.
* Father James Notebaart, director of the Minneapolis and Saint Paul archdiocesan Indian Ministries Office.
* Bishop John F. Kinney of the Diocese of Saint Cloud
* Archbishop Harry Flynn of the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and Saint Paul
* Our geographic name-change proposal has also received support from thirty pastors of Christian churches located within the Rum River area. In our effort to change the river's name we have found that there is almost unanimous support for our efforts to change the Rum River's name by Christian ministers.
* And Christina Morris, Field Representative for the MIDWEST OFFICE NATIONAL TRUST For HISTORIC PRESERVATION sent our director a letter wherein she wrote: "We recognize the historic and cultural significance of the Wakan River to the peoples of Minnesota, and we commend you in your research of its history, and your efforts to revitalize the Mdewakanton Dakota Community by raising awareness of their heritage."
Letters of support from the mentioned above supporters can be found by clicking Mission and then scrolling down to CURRENT SUPPORT STATUS.
Subjects such as multicultural activism, counter-cultural activism, the indigenous cultures' influenced globalization movement, and Native American culture and spirituality have been written about in articles about our proposal to change the derogatory Rum River name.
The Fifth Set Of Prophetic Credentials.
Forty years ago, I also prophesied to friends and relatives that I would eventually be receiving recognition as the leading prophet of the youth of the 1960s counter cultural - one world government and ecumenical movement of the worlds religions - globalization mission. A mission with a goal to unite all of humanity, not only within a one world culture and government, but also within a single religion, a single religion that would come to perfection by incorporating all the treasures within all of the world's good willed religions, a single religion that would serve as the basis and principle of unity for a single united global culture, a global culture that would be made up of the best of the past of all the world�s different peoples' traditions and cultures.
And because of my local, national and international Catholic social activist movement to regain the Dakota indigenous people's sacred name for the "Rum" River...I was able to successfully introduce and influence a co-founder and leader of a popular (23,000 registered members) international website that promotes the youth of the 1960s counter cultural movement and revival to put a link to the related to my international river name-changing Catholic social activist movement - hippy visionary on-line Catholic book on his Hippyland (hippy.com) recommended articles list , he titled it Hippie Visionary.
And an internationally renowned 250 member hippie counter-cultural community of peaceful warriors "out to save the world", has a website with a homepage link to the Hippy Museum with information that presents my worldview vision as well as my prophetic credentials that indicate that I am the prophet who, under the Pope's close pastoral guidance, will usher in the fullness of the Kingdom of God on earth.
And after sending a printed copy of this on-line book of mine, along with information about my international movement to regain the sacred Dakota name for the "Rum" River, to the Pontifical Council On Peace And Justice...I received a letter from the council's Bishop secretaries wherein he (Bishop Giampaola Crepaldi) informed me that the council had "taken note" of both my Catholic social activist ministry to revert the "Rum" River's derogatory name back to its Dakota name ( Wahkon) as well as my "associated material". The Bishop Giampaola Crepaldi used the words "associated material" to let me know that the Pontifical Council On Peace And Justice had taken note of my book about my visionary ministry, a book wherein I express that I believe that I am the prophet who, under the Popes pastoral guidance, will usher in the second coming of Jesus Christ. Note: Two booklets of mine that are associated with this topic can be found by clicking Roman Catholic Ecumenism and East West United
These two glorious breakthroughs, the displaying of my picture and link to my visionary bookletvisionary on the most popular international hippie web site as well as the letter that I received from Bishop Giampaola Crepaldi, a secretary of the Pontifical Council Of Peace And Justice, are, in my opinion, profound new prophetic credentials of mine.
In 1984, during a reunion of my extended maternal family (the Rainbow family) Don Rainbow, a vice president of a Christian college, spoke to the members of the seventeen families gathered together at that family reunion and said: " A Rainbow is a sign of God's salvation plan; and I believe that we may be used to glorify God more than any family in the world." He made this very grandiose statement right after I talked to him about my, world-view around the word wakhon, prophetic visionary ministry.
An excerpt from a popular book entitled The Hippie Trip (by Lewis Yablonsky) says: "The hippie dream is a return to the tribal position of American society, or the more satisfying life of a more closely knit extended family. A situation where adults and children can live more intimately and humanely in a cohesive, emotionally closer, fundamental human unit living in a more natural state."
There is a hippie revival occurring during annual gatherings of the counter-culture's Rainbow Family Conferences. During these Rainbow Family Conferences, there are sometimes over 25,000 Rainbow Family counter-cultural revolutionaries gathered together. I believe that this is a sign that my extended maternal family, the Rainbow family, is being called to a very holy and glorious Christian evangelistic ministry. When my Rainbow family relatives come together in kinship tribalism in Wahkon Minnesota we will then go to these annual counter-cultural Rainbow Family gatherings as evangelists to Christianity and our counter-cultural [world-view around the word wahkon] prophetic visionary mission.
In the 1970s, I prophesied that my maternal extended family, the Rainbow family, would be evangelized to my Christian and Roman Catholic expression of the 1960s youth counter-cultural revolution, and that we would then, from Wahkon, Minnesota, usher in a new age of church history. And I believe that present-day evidence indicates that this prophecy of mine was inspired by God and that it will not be long until my maternal extended family, the Rainbow Family, will be coming together in kinship tribalism in Wahkon, Minnesota to usher in the fullness of the Kingdom of God, in preparation of Jesus Christ's imminent second coming.
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