Greta Thunberg Greeted by Chief Arvol Looking Horse on Standing Rock

  (Above) Photo by Sabrina Hornung Published at Censored News with permission. Thank you.

Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Greta and Paula Hornem today on Standing Rock. Photos courtesy Greta on Twitter.

Greta thanks Lakotas and Dakotas for leadership, resistance and hospitality

Article by Brenda Norrell

Censored News
Updated Oct. 10, 2019

STANDING ROCK DAKOTA NATION -- Chief Arvol Looking Horse greeted Greta Thunberg at Standing Rock today. Greta received a name from Chief Arvol Looking Horse. Translated into English it means, “Woman Who Came From the Heavens."

Tokatawin Iron Eyes and Greta spoke to students on climate change today in Standing Rock, urging action to protect the resources of the Earth for future generations.  Chief Arvol Looking Horse bestowed a Lakota name on Greta, “maphiyata echiyatan hin win,” which means “woman who came from the heavens," the Bismarck Tribune reports.

Former Standing Rock Chairman Jesse Taken Alive suggested the name, telling Thunberg “You have awakened the world. We stand with you.”

Chief Arvol Looking Horse said, “Historically when other Nations came to our territory that made an impact in our lives -- they received a name in Our language -- we didn’t use their language. Even Custer got a name."

"Only our People had the Right to request a Sacred Name - it was then we used a feather or a nickname was given by family - Tios’paye. We never used names to condemn because language was sacred.”

Greta, the Swedish activist now known around the world, said on Twitter, ‪The last two days Tokata Iron Eyes and I visited Takini School, Standing Rock Community School and the beautiful Standing Rock Reservation."

"Thank you everyone for your leadership, your resistance and your incredible hospitality! Indigenous peoples are at the frontline, they are often the ones who are affected the most by the climate and ecological crisis, yet they are not the ones responsible for it. They are also the ones who are leading the fight against it. We are now so desperate for their voices and knowledge of how to live in balance with nature."

#NoDAPL #NoKXL #WaterIsLife ‬ #wetlands"
Read Censored News coverage of Tokatawin and Greta on Pine Ridge:

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

PINE RIDGE, Oglala Sioux Nation -- Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner said if the man camps and oil pipelines come here and encroach on Oglala land, they will have to run over him because he is willing to die as his ancestors did.

President Bear Runner's words were the battle cry, the call to action, before Tokatawin Iron Eyes, Lakota, and Greta Thunberg spoke out for Mother Earth on Pine Ridge, in the heart of Native resistance.

Then, these two 16-year-olds woke up the world.

Read more: https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2019/10/live-from-pine-ridge-tokatawin-iron.html

Chief Arvol Looking Horse 'World Peace and Prayer Day' June 21, 2019

World Peace and Prayer Day / Honoring Sacred Sites Day

“All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer” Following the birth of a White Buffalo Calf in 1994, the 19th Generation Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations— Chief Arvol Looking Horse, was directed to honor the Four Directions with ceremony on Summer Solstice/June 21st. According to Lakota prophecy, the birth of “Miracle,” a female white buffalo, signaled a time of Earth changes and the coming of The Mending of the Hoop of all Nations. The Summer Solstice is said to be a powerful time to pray for peace and harmony among all Living Beings. Chief Looking Horse believes that this day of collective prayer will create an energy shift to heal the earth and achieve a universal consciousness toward obtaining peace. He believes that it is time all people understand Mother Earth is the Source of life, not a resource. WPPD has been held in the US, Costa Rica, Ireland, S Africa, Australia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, and Brazil. June 21st, 2017 will mark the 22nd year of World Peace and Prayer Day / Honoring Sacred Sites Day and will be held in the Hawaiian Islands and sacred sites around the world.
Published on Mar 20, 2017 
.worldpeaceandprayer.com

Chief Arvol Looking Horse to Obama -- Own your words, stop the pipeline

Chief Arvol Looking Horse

Chief Arvol Looking Horse: The dark spirit and disease of the mind

Arvol Looking Horse:
October 22, 2016
Protecting the Sacred

Mitakuyape (are now up against dangerous decisions that are coming from the disease of the mind. We are dealing with minds that hold no values of respect and honor toward another Nation’s Burials and Sacred Sites. Money has contaminated their minds to want the power to desecrate the sacredness of Mother Earth and allow my People’s burial places to be destroyed in order to continue to erase our culture.

Chief Arvol Looking Horse Honoring Water and Horse Nation March 22, 2014

March 22nd World Water Day Statement by Chief ARVOL LOOKING HORSE - 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe

Welcome Back the Wakiya Oyate (Thunders) Ceremony Honoring the Sunka Wakan Oyate (Horse) Nation

In the past the Welcome Back the Wakiya Oyate - Thunder Ceremony has always been done on March 21st, but because there is an International effort to respect the Mini wic’oni – the Water of Life – it was decided to unite our prayers and our energy, and to hold the event on March 22nd, on United Nations World Water Day.

In the history of our People, this is the time to do our ceremony to Welcome Back the Thunders. This ceremony for our Nation – The Buffalo Oyate (Lakota, Dakota, Nakota), has always taken place in the Heart Of Mother Earth – The Sacred Black Hills at Harney Peak, South Dakota. Russell Eagle Bear and Ben Rodd have been in the forefront for organizing this important ceremony for a long time. Each year many school bus loads of children, along with Elders and the People make this pilgrimage to offer prayers on top of Harney Peak.

As the Keeper of the Sacred Bundle, I would also like to acknowledge the importance of the Sunka Wakan Oyate – the Horse Nation. When I was taught the teachings and history of the Bundle, the Elders told me that the Horse Ceremony came along with the original teachings - 19 generations ago. We pray to the West, the Horse Nation, who attends to this direction in order to bring rain. The main medicine of the rain brings life, health and well being, this is why water is called Mini wic’oni – Water of Life.

Today the Horse Nation is being dismissed as having no worth any longer in this Society. There is no-where for them roam free and in places were they feel they have worth along with humans, they are being dismissed and replaced. Along with the Buffalo, they have been massacred, with no respect for their spiritual energy they give to this turtle island. If the assault of the Horse Nation is allowed to continue: this disrespect can affect the blessings from the Wakiya Oyate.

Today we are faced with many global challenges that affect the Mini Wic’oni in order for its medicine to be pure. We are at the time where these challenges can affect the survival of the generations to come; we need to pay attention.

I humbly ask People of All Nations to open your hearts and minds to this important information of how all things are connected. The future generations and all life upon Mother Earth depend on you to offer your thoughts and prayers on this day with us. I will be in Grandmother Country (Canada) spreading this important information and joining all who hold these issues sacred.
In a Sacred Hoop of Life, where there is no ending and no beginning! Ana-h’opta po
Hear my words!

Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle


Thank you to Raven Redbone and Make No Bones about It for sharing these words
http://ravenredbone.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/please-share-to-get-much-participation-to-bring-about-awareness/
Print and share the beautiful poster to help the horses:
http://www.equiculture.org/SharedFiles/Download.aspx?pageid=154&mid=276&fileid=520