A Tribal Cultures' Influenced New Age Globalization Mission
by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer
Note: This article has been revised. I recently left the Roman
Catholic Church to become a member of the New Age Religion. This is why I have revised this article.
Peaceful New Age globalization revolutionaries, who have transcended the
Christian religion and are now embracing New Age Syncretism and working to establishment a one world
religion-believe in creating a more uniform and homogeneous world,
with a global culture uniting all of mankind into a single
community, unfettered by war, ethnic conflict, religious sectarian disharmony
and inequality - it's our mission to create this utopian world.
We are working to usher in a new age, a new world order, so that everyone doing God's will - will
live on God's "passing away" earth, which will have been transformed
into a somewhat temporary paradise - by way of the deliverance of Mother Earth or Mother
Nature from her sever bondage to corruption. Then, ultimately, we (every member
of the human race) will spiritually returned to our eternal home, where we will
experience blissful enlightenment forever.
Globalization has brought indigenous peoples of tribal cultures powerful allies, a louder
voice that can be heard internationally, an ecological awareness, earth saving and people
unifying message, and increased political influence - globally and more so within their particular
areas throught out the world. Globalization's positive impact on indigenous peoples is a great blessing to all of mankind
and the rest of the natural world. This impact is a very positive contribution to its
role as a unifier of humanity and the world's different cultures.
I initiated and am spearheading the local (MN), national (U.S.A.) and international
movement to change
the faulty-translation and profane name of Minnesota's Rum River
back to its sacred Dakota Indigenous name Wakan, which when translated into English means
Spirit or Great Spirit.
MultiCultural Review is a quarterly trade journal and book review for educators and
librarians through out the United States. This nationally renowned trade journal and
book review published an article of mine, titled, To Change A Name. An excerpt
from the article reads:
"Twenty-five years ago I became aware of the profanation of the Dakota name for the Rum River while
researching the worldview behind the word wakan, which since the late 1960s has been embraced by the
counterculture as a part of a movement toward global unity and environmental sustainability. In 1983
I attended the Tekakwitha Conference held at Saint John's College in Minnesota. This is a Catholic
Native American conference representing over 100 tribes, and there I heard missionary priest Stanislaus
Maudin present a paper on the juncture between the Dakota concept of wakan - the term itself has
been adopted by many Indian tribes - and the Catholic Church's globalization movement aimed at
uniting humanity within a single united culture. Since attending that conference, I have been active within
the Catholic Church's countercultural movement to promote respect for indigenous peoples and the
environment as well as for the unity of all humanity.
I am now active within the New Age countercultural religion and globalization movement
- a movement that has a worldview around the word wahkon (sometimes spelled
wakan) to promote respect for indigenous peoples and the environment as well as for
the unity of all humanity.
The word wakan/wahkon is sometimes translated to mean sacred or holy. Reverend Stan
Maudlin, now deceased, was the abbot of Blue Cloud Abbey and founder and
Executive Director of American Indian Research Center. Rev. Maudlin was also a
leader of the Tekakwitha Conference. For many years Rev. Maudlin was 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".
Several years ago, Rev. Maudlin gave his support to change the name of the Rum
River back to its sacred Dakota name [Wakan].
I went to the 1983 Tekakwitha Conference with a combined youth of the 1960s
countercultural and Catholic globalization mission, and my mission had a "world view
behind the word wahkon". And a short while after Reverend Maudlin addressed this
conference and said "there is a whole word view behind the word wakan", I was
interviewed by Reverend Matthew Fox, the conference's keynote speaker and (at the time)
leader of the Catholic Church's globalization movement to unite humanity within a
single united global culture. From my perspective this culture will be a culture
made up of the best of the past of all the world's different cultures and traditions,
a culture that will be wahkon (sacred), or predominately permeated with the culture(s)
of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Note: I am still promoting the establishment of a single united global culture - a culture
made up of the best of the past of all the world's different cultures and traditions,
a culture that will be wahkon (sacred), or predominately permeated with the culture(s)
of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. However, I no longer believe that the religion
of this culture will be a somewhat syncretistic-religious expression of Catholicism, but
an expression of the counterculture's syncretistic New Age Religion.
Near the end of the interview, Fox asked me to keep in touch with him, so as to
keep him informed about the progress of my countercultural and Catholic globalization
mission. Several years ago, Fox sent me a letter wherein he expressed his support for the
effort to change the name of the Rum River back to its sacred Dakota name.
The founder and leader of the largest hippie community in the world [Stephen Gaskin] is
an internationally renowned leader of the countercultural hippie revolution. Gaskin once
wrote: "The word wakan has a strong and universal concept and people around the
world know something about it." The purpose of Gaskin's hippy community is to become
wakan (holy) and influence the whole world to become wakan. This hippie community
once had 1500 members, and according to Stephen Gaskin, "it is a demonstration project for
a sustainable future, a nonviolent ecofriendly cooperative community of pioneers ushering
in a new age".
Gaskin's internationally renowned ecovillage is called The Farm.
It is located in Tennessee.
It was established in the late 1960s. Steven Gaskin and 200 of his hippie followers formed
into a commune and moved from the San Francisco Bay area to the small town of
Summertown Tennessee. And near this town they set up their communal village. Today
it is the largest hippie community in the world. It has 250 members and it is very successful.
A letter of mine was published in the Farm's
FREE PRESS newsletter. And on
The Farm's website there is a link to the Hippie Museum wherein there is an introduction
to an article of mine about my hippie visionary mission. A link to this
article
is also displayed on Hippyland, the world's largest hippie website.
Note: Since I converted to the New Age Religion and globalization movement, the webmaster
of hippy.com has personally published articles of mine on his website. Including a recent
article of mine titled, Ending Catholicism And Related U.S. Imperialism
Hippyland (or Hippy.com) is a website with 250,000 registered members. Several years ago,
an article of mine [A 1960s Hippie Activist]
was posted on this site's [ACTIVIST
SPOTLIGHT] display.
Skip Stone is the creator and webmaster of Hippyland. He has a special place on his
Hippyland site where he posts hippie articles about religion. It is named Coolove.
Several years ago, he posted an article of mine on Coolove. This article
was Hippyland's [MOST READ ARTICLE ABOUT RELIGION]. Click
Coolove
to view and read this article.
Albert Bates is an internationally renowned hippie countercultural
activist and a very prominent member of The Farm. He is the author of several
books. One of his books Climate in Crisis is introduced by Al Gore. In respect to
my Coolove article he wrote, while corresponding with me, "good article". More recently,
both Albert Bates and Skip Stone sent me positive e-mail responses to an article of mine
that I sent them, an article titled Creating a new U.S.A culture based on traditional tribal
values. Skip Stone posted this article of mine on his hippyland website.
In an article of mine that was published in the Thomas Merton Center's newspaper
The NewPeople, an article titled A Thomas Merton Influenced Movement there are
the following statements:
"The 'Sioux' (Dakota) are used to portray all Native American tribes in Hollywood, anyone wanting to see a
"real Indian" wants to see a war bonnet and a tipi. Therefore, I believe that 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 "Sioux" using the word wakan (sacred), or the combined words
Wakan-Tonka (Spirit-Great). Hence, a lot of people believe that the word wakan and the name
Wakan-Tonka are used by all Native Americans...."
The word wakan is used by a lot of Native American tribes, bands, and villages throughout America.
And because we believe that Native American culture has the most valuable features of all cultures,
features such as kinship tribalism, an ecological spirituality, a charismatic spirituality...etc., and also
because we have therefore made it the predominant culture of our globalization movement, we therefore
describe our movement as a world-view behind the word wakan movement.
An article of mine was published in Multicultural Pavilion. Multicultural Pavilion
is Paul Gorski's website. Paul Gorski is a national and internationally renowned
leader of multicultural education and social/political activism. Gorski and I
occasionally correspond. I sent my article Multicultural Activism to him and he
published it on his website. An excerpt from the article reads:
An American Indian environmental activist wrote an article for the best-selling Minnesota newspaper
(the StarTribune) wherein he advocated the formation of a group of American Indian environmental
activists who would then canoe from the mouth of the "Rum" River to its confluence with the Mississippi River.
And do so, in an effort to change the dominant culture's collective attitude toward rivers in particular and water
in general. The author of this StarTribune article (David Gonzales), envisioned (in part) a future "Rum" River
canoe journey wherein a group of American Indian environmental activists would stop along the way and set up
colorful tepees and camps at key environmental locations along the river as "environmental schools" to promote
American Indian environmental awareness.
To view and read a recent article about this topic, click
Dakota Indian group's canoe
journey and environmental activism on the Wakan Wakpa or "Rum River".
In my article Environmental Activism
I present a piece about Tom Wisner, a nationally
renowned environmentalist's who has given his support for [both] the movement to
regain the sacred Dakota name for the river and my environmental activist plans
to help clean up the Wakan Wakpa (Rum River). An excerpt from the article reads:
Tom Wisner, a nationally renowned singer, song writer and environmentalist made the movement to regain
the sacred Dakota name for the badly named "Rum River" the centerpiece of his 2005 Winter Solstice
radio broadcast, a two hour show that was broadcasted on the internet. Mr. Wisner is known nationally
for his song "Chesapeake Born". "Chesapeake Born" became the title song for the 1986 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
In a letter to me, Tom Wisner wrote: "Thanks for including the affirmation for my support of the
Wakan River cause in your recent writings about the Rum River name change! I will continue to think
through and to refine commentary as time goes on! More will be included in this coming cycle of
programs and broadcasts about the Year of the River! I think the idea of a Native American canoe
journey down any river could be beneficial to the political interest to legislate for clean water. I'm not as
sure about the placement of "Colorful Teepees" as I am sure about the presence of powerful men like Banks
or Means or the native voice like that of Winona La Duke who recently was quoted saying, 'we don't need
sustainable development we need sustainable community". The image of the whole watershed is an important
ecological piece in the story. Thanks for the work you are doing! I believe the work of bringing integrity
to the naming of place, issue and cause is a legitimate part of the work to clarify our place in building
a better world.
Indigenous Peoples Literature is an award winning site about indigenous peoples
issues. This site has been accessed over 10,000,000 times. IPL posted my
article Restoring The Fundamental Human Rights Of Indigenous Peoples
. In response
to this posting, both Steven Newcomb and Tony Castanha - the
two internationally
renowned leaders of the movement to restore the fundamental human rights of
indigenous peoples by trying to influencing the Vatican (Pope) to publicly revoke two
15th century Papal Bulls - contacted me. Newcomb wrote: "Thomas, good article".
And Rob Capriccioso, an author for Indian Country Today, the world's leading American
Indian news source, also contacted me and presented his ICT
article
about this
topic. Tony Castanha has also contacted me to thank me for my youtube video
wherein I protest against the Papal Bull Inter Caetera. And after the Anoka County
Union
published a
letter
of mine about this topic Steve Newcomb sent me a message wherein he
wrote:
"Thanks Thomas, keep up the good work..." Indian Country Today publish a
letter
of
mine about my and Newcomb's work
associated with a draft Minnesota apology resolution
for the abuse of Minnesota's Indians we are working on. More...
After I sent the Pontifical Council For Justice And Peace (1.) a
letter
that I received
from Archbishop Harry Flynn, (2.) a
letter
from the Board of Directors of the
Tekawitha Conference and (3.) an
article
about my Rum River name-change
movement and associated Catholic globalization mission, I received a
letter
from the Pontifical Council
For Justice And Peace.
Archbishop Harry Flynn has sent me letters of support for some of my activist
initiatives. To view and read the archbishop's letters of support click letters
I have also been receiving letters of support from both
Archbishop John Nienstedt and
Bisphop John Kinney. To view and read letters from these
bishops click letters
National Multicultural Institute's October 2008 newsletter
[SPOTLITE] posting
of an article of mine can be viewed and read by clicking
Independent Indigenous
Sovereign Nations
. An excerpt from this article reads:
..."However, the indigenous peoples living in this land our still being denied three of
their--endowed by the Creator--unalienable equality rights, or fundamental human
rights. The right to absolute root ownership of their traditional/ancestral homelands,
the right to be recognized and treated as full independent sovereign nations and
the--freedom of religion--right to fully re-establish their traditional religions within
their sacred ancestral homelands"..
An article of mine about the--regaining sacred ancestral homelands--topic is
displayed on the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community's website. To view and
read this article click Regaining the Mdewakanton's Mille Lacs ancestral homeland.
An excerpt from this article reads:
The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe oral tradition tells that, by the end of the 1760s Kathio battle, their
ancestors had violently forced the Dakota from their Mille Lacs area homeland; and that that is how they took
possession of the Mille Lacs area land that they now live on. However, because they were indigenous red
pagans they didn't own the land that they, with the help of the Europeans, took from the Dakota people. And
these indigenous red Ojibwe pagans, to this present-day, do not own the land that they are now living on,
its U.S.A federal land. The indigenous people of the Americas, still, do not have a papal granted moral right
to own land. The papal bull Inter Caetera has not yet been revoked. I am working to rectify this injustice.
At least a part of the Dakota people's original Mille Lacs area homeland should be give back to them.
More about this topic.....
I created and administer a facebook group named Regaining the Dakota Oyate's Mille Lacs homeland..
The Twin Cities Daily Planet published an article of mine titled Healing the Dakota People's Painful Wounds Of Ethnocide and Genocide..
Indian Country Today, the world's leading American Indian news source, published
my "letter to the editor", titled: Supports restitution.
This letter was also published
in the Saint Cloud Visitor, a Roman Catholic diocesan newspaper. An excerpt from this
letter reads:
Our bishops are finally starting to understand that 500-plus years ago our church instigated an
injustice against the indigenous peoples of the Western hemisphere. They need to apologize for what
happened, work toward stopping the ongoing injustice, and offer restitution to the indigenous
peoples of the Americas, which includes protesting against the current proposed legislation to make
"illegal" immigrants felons. It's time to give the indigenous peoples' homelands back to them and quit
imposing our culture on them.
The Winona Daily News published a
letter
of mine, titled, State looks to settle
up with the past. Excerpts from this letter read:
"Leonard Wabasha, a hereditary chief of the Dakota and director of the Shakopee Mdewakanton
Sioux (Dakota) Community Cultural Resource Department, invited me to address the Dakota tribal leaders
and government officials during the May 16 reconciliatory ceremony in Winona.
"When Minnesotans become aware of or able to look at their own history and acknowledge the painful
wounds of ethnocide and genocide right in their own state, they will be inspired to go through a radical
social, political and religious transformation. A peaceful cultural revolution will occur, and Minnesotans
will be changed for the better. And this will help to heal the Dakota Oyate's painful wounds caused by
ethnocide and genocide."
The Minnesota Indian Affairs Council (MIAC) asked me to write and send Anna
Marie Hill, the council's Executive Director,
a MIAC Draft Resolution endorsing the
bill
to replace Minnesota's derogatory geographic site names that are offensive to American
Indians. Alfred Bone Shirt (Sigangu), a nationally renowned American Indian activist
who is the contact person for the
Dakota-Lakota-Nakota
Human Rights Advocacy Coalition,
published my Minnesota Indian Affairs Council
Draft Resolution. My Minnesota Apology
Resolution is similar to
and associated with my MIAC Draft Resolution. Two excerpts
from Minnesota Apology Resolution read:
(4.) acknowledge the root cause of the subjugation and exploitation of Minnesota Indian tribes, as being
the papal bull of 1493 (Inter Caetera); wherein, Pope Alexander IV directed colonial European nations to
go to the Americas and "subjugate the barbaric people and their lands, and bring them to the faith".
(5.) acknowledge that this papal bull (Inter Caetera) was used to formulate colonial European international law,
a law that was later, both, incorporated into United States law as well as used to influence American citizens,
including Minnesota citizens, to conform to a unified white racist or white supremacist and religious sectarian
proselytizing mindset that was, and still is, the root cause of the subjugation and exploitation of Minnesota
Indian tribes as well as all other U.S. Indian tribes.
Indigenous Peoples Literature posted an article of mine titled:
Popes Remarks
Whitewashed The Genocide Of Indigenous Peoples. An excerpt from this article reads:
"Hopefully, Pope Benedict XVI will soon formally revoke the 15th century papal bulls which were
primarily responsible for the horrible atrocities committed against Indigenous Peoples and then lead the
Catholic Church and Western "Civilization" through a process of radical transformation, and by doing so,
lead humanity into a new age, wherein Indigenous Peoples will be given their due respect."
In respect to this coming new age, there is an posted article of mine titled
New Age Globalization And The Coming New World Order.
Other articles of mine on this topic:
Proposed Occupy Wall Street Global Initiative and Achieving World Peace And Ecological Balance
During the 1984 Mr. & Mrs. I. C. Rainbow family reunion my uncle Don Rainbow addressed
the seventeen families gathered at that Rainbow 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 other family in the
world." He made this very grandiose statement after I spoke to him about my vision of our family coming
together in kinship tribalism in order to promote the tribal way and to also promote my counter-cultureal
world-view around the
word wahkon globalization movement.
About a morality stance of mine associated with my Rum River name-change movement
and world-unifing globalization mission.
Anti-Alcohol stance:
During Prohibition there was a national movement to change the name of the "Rum River"
by those who saw the addictive and harmful nature of rum upon society. This is another
reason why I initiated and am spearheading the movement to change the name.
I recently received a supportive call from Gene Amondson, the 2008 Presidential nominee
for the National Prohibition Party. We spoke about the work we are doing to bring back
Prohibition as well as establish dry states, counties and cities, etc. . Amondson is an
international speaker and he has been on the John Stewart Daily Show once and on the
Oprah show twice. He asked me to keep him updated on the progress of my mission to bring
back Prohibition.
More...
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An article of mine about my opposition to tribal casino and bingo hall gambling is titled
Opposed to tribal gambling and derogatory
geographical site names. Excerpt from
the article read:
In an radio broadcast that can be downloaded and listened to at
radio broadcast
Waziyatawin (Angela Wilson), a leading Minnesota Dakota Native activist, talks about
Minnesota's Dakota tribes being "gaming" tribes that have an invested interest in their
casinos and that the tribal council members of these tribes are more interested in,
both, the money they make from their tribe's casino businesses and the respect
they get from prominent non-Indian leaders of the dominate culture - who like
them because they are tribal leaders - than they are about regaining and preserving
their people's good traditional values or liberating themselves and their tribes from
the earth and health destroying dominate culture.
During a telephone conversation with Tom Grey, the executive director of the National
Coalition Against Legalized Gambling and head of the national religious community's
new anti-gambling Washington office, told me that he supports my work to put an end to
legalized gambling. He also told me that when he comes to Minnesota he will meet with me.
More....
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My globalization mission counters the Western [predominantly American] expression of
globalization by which economies of different countries are oriented to a global market
and are controlled by multinational and global financial institutions. This is not only an
economic process; it is also a cultural process that creates a monoculture - a culture ruled
by the rich and powerful. It destroys the earth's life supporting eco-systems and radically
exploits third world nations. It steals their natural resources and makes their masses of poor
people wage slaves who work for almost nothing. From the perspective of poor and
indigenous people, it is nothing else but another variety of colonialism and imperialism.
To challenge this
greedy and corrupt expression of globalization we need to rediscover the
indigenous people's concept of community and ecological
awareness - and do so, by
creating and promoting a New Age, tribal cultures' influenced, globalization movement that will go forth
victorious and establish a new world order in which justice dwells
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