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A DOOR OF PROMISE According to legend, Creator God visited the Cherokee at Nikwasi. He called Himself Yowah ( Yahweh) and brought a small flame of eternal fire. Yowah asked them to keep the flame alive in His honor. If they would, He promised, they would not perish from the earth. "The fire on the altar must burn continuously; it must not go out" (Leviticus 6:13). Though the Tsalagi passed through many trials, they tended the holy flame, and Yowah God has kept His covenant of love for a thousand generations.

The Cherokees were once a large and powerful nation.

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The Great Creator Yowah has made it possible for The First International church of Christian Yoga/Denise's Cherokee Maiden webpages to have a great victory in saving this beautiful wetland area. City hall finally voted 4 for and 4 against rezoning, which defeated the resolution. Let our war cry sound, "Let us take back the land!" Now the water birds and other animals are safe. The trees are also rejoicing.

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In Oct., 1977, the native people, the original residents of much of the world, presented a statement to the rest of the planet at the United Nations building in Geneva. Grandfather David, the oldest Hopi at 103, came up with a handful of white cornmeal, sprinkling a little to each of the four winds. The meeting was four days long, there were 35 Indian nations represented. They pleaded for their existence before the community of nations, and for those who have no voice- the four legged ones, the winged ones, the ones that swim, the ones with roots. They pointed out that they had a representative form of government when the white men came to the shore, all of whom were representing monarchies- that they were an older civilization, and they did not consider themselves to be underdeveloped. They lived in a caring relationship with the universe. They consider themselves to be the "protectors of life as it was entrusted to us by our creator." They spoke of the barbarity of the decadent European civilization, about being considered wards of the government of the United States, about being hunted like antelopes in the jungles of South America. They spoke of recognizing all the cultures of man as part of God's great pattern, yet remaining to their ways that the pattern might remain complete. Their presentation was very polite, and very forgiving, and they were very gentle in their presentation before the community of man, considering what had been done to them and what is still being done. They talked about the multinational corporations and about how corporations owe no allegiance to any culture, society or state of morals whatever, and they move in on indigenous peoples all over the world and rip them off their land, rip them off their labor, rip them off their lives. Rip them off their civilization, rip them off their religion, without anyone being able to say anything about it. This fight goes on, in the sacred Black Hills of Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in the traditional lands of the Six Nation Confederacy and in many other places. We should open our hearts and hear the words of these people of the Earth, who come from sovereign nations, who have been forced to surrender, who have been moved to the concentration camps we call reservations.

The constitution of the United States was designed as a protection against tyranny. But as it was only a framework, any number of different systems of government might have evolved from it. At first, only a privileged class -white male landowners- were allowed to vote. What the founding fathers failed to see was the emergence of a new kind of player, the multi-billion dollar corporations. The system of government we have ended up with is government for hire. In their greed and through their political power which they have purchased, the corporations push our sacred Mother Earth and her inhabitants ever closer to the brink, exterminating whole species of plants and animals along the way, leaving behind a new trail of tears from which we will not be able to recover. If you believe in the transmigration of the soul, or reincarnation, or if you care about the quality of life of your grandchildren, then remember it is we, or they, who will have to inhabit this Earth in the future.

Sequoyah was the great Cherokee hero who invented the Cherokee alphabet.

links to other web pages.

The official web page of the Eastern Cherokee Nation.

Visit our home of Kriya Yoga.

Visit The First International Church of Christain Yogi, dedicated to our guru Paramahansa Yogananda, and with new emphasis on saving our Sacred Mother Earth and her precious inhabitants

Visit our Cherokee webpage with photos including photo of our guru Paramahansa Yogananda with Native Americans, some photos of us horseback riding, doing rain dance, photo of us with Chief Ernest and more.

Cherokee history.

Our Tribute to the Beatles

Denise's Cherokee bookstore.

More Cherokee history.

Altavista search results for the word Cherokee

Native web.

Go buy my beloved Ted's CD with 11 songs, I sing on one of the songs and the sacred chant!!

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Find out about the murderous Andrew Jackson. Also see more information below.

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