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Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 retweeted
In 1909, on a beach in southern India, a man looked at a thin, quiet boy and announced he had found the next Messiah.
The man was Charles Leadbeater, a leader of the Theosophical Society, who claimed he could see auras.
The boy was the son of one of the Society’s employees.
Leadbeater said the boy’s aura held no trace of selfishness.
His name was Jiddu Krishnamurti.
What happened next was one of the strangest projects in spiritual history.
The Society’s president, Annie Besant, became his legal guardian. He was taken to England, educated, and trained for one purpose:
to become the vehicle for the coming World Teacher.
In 1911, they built an organisation around him, the Order of the Star in the East, with Krishnamurti at its head.
It grew into a global movement with more than 43,000 members. A Dutch baron gave him a castle with 5,000 acres of woodland. In 1927, Besant declared publicly that the World Teacher was here.
Thousands were waiting for him to speak as the Messiah.
On August 3, 1929, at a camp in Ommen in the Netherlands, he finally did.
In front of Annie Besant and about 3,000 members, he dissolved the entire order.
"Truth is a pathless land," he told them.
No religion, no sect, and no organisation could lead anyone to it. A belief could not be organised. He did not want followers.
He gave back the castle. He returned the money and the land.
People who had spent twenty years preparing to follow him were told there was nothing to follow.
Think about what that took.
He was 34. He had been handed everything a spiritual teacher could want:
devotees, wealth, land, a global platform, and a ready-made identity as the saviour of humanity.
And he walked away from the one thing almost nobody walks away from.
Being someone.
For the next 57 years, he travelled the world saying the same uncomfortable thing in a hundred different ways.
No authority can see the truth for you. Not a guru, not a method, not him.
You have to watch your own mind, the fear, the comparison, the endless striving to become something, until you see that the one watching is made of the same thing it’s watching.
He put it in four words.
The observer is the observed.
Most of us are still waiting for someone to arrive.
The right teacher.
The right method.
The day we’ll finally be ready.
In 1929, the World Teacher arrived.
And the first thing he did was send everyone home.
Not because there was nothing to find.
Because no one else could ever find it for you.
Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 retweeted
They took her away from her family, cut off her long braids, punished her for speaking her own language, and tried to strip away her Native American identity. But the little girl they tried to silence grew up to become a writer, help create a groundbreaking opera, and lead a national movement for Indigenous rights. Her name was Zitkala-Ša.
She was born on February 22, 1876, on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Her Dakota name meant Red Bird. At eight years old she was sent to White’s Indiana Manual Labor Institute. The school’s purpose was to assimilate Native children. Their languages were forbidden and their traditions discouraged. One experience was especially painful: school authorities cut off her long braids. “Then I lost my spirit,” she later wrote.
During her time at school she discovered music and public speaking. She became a skilled violinist and won speaking competitions, which helped her gain admission to the New England Conservatory in Boston. In the early 1900s her essays appeared in *The Atlantic Monthly* and *Harper’s*. Her 1900 essay *The School Days of an Indian Girl* became an important firsthand account of boarding school life.
In 1913, working with composer William F. Hanson, she helped create *The Sun Dance*, widely recognized as the first opera written by a Native American. After marrying Raymond Bonnin she became increasingly involved in the struggle for Native American rights. In 1924 Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, granting U.S. citizenship to Native Americans born in the country. In 1926 she and her husband helped establish the National Council of American Indians, and she became its president.
Zitkala-Ša continued fighting until her death on January 26, 1938, at the age of 61. She reclaimed the name Zitkala-Ša, Red Bird, and turned it into a declaration of identity. She learned English and used it to expose injustice. She learned music and used it to preserve Native traditions. The boarding school system had tried to silence her culture, but she became one of its most powerful defenders .
Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 retweeted
This image highlights two historical realities that are essential to understanding how the United States was formed.
Before European colonization, Indigenous peoples lived on, governed, and maintained these lands for generations. As the nation expanded, Native communities were pushed off their territories through war, forced removal, and treaties that were frequently violated. The loss of land, culture, and autonomy had lasting consequences that continue to affect Native nations today.
At the same time, millions of Africans were forcibly taken from their homelands through the transatlantic slave trade. Enslaved people were compelled to provide unpaid labor that supported major industries such as agriculture, construction, and transportation. This labor contributed significantly to the country’s economic growth while denying basic human rights to those who were enslaved.
These histories are not competing narratives — they are interconnected parts of the same national story. Land was acquired through displacement, and wealth was built through forced labor. Understanding this does not place blame on people living today, but it does require honesty about how the past shaped the present.
Learning accurate history helps explain modern inequalities, ongoing discussions about justice, and the importance of acknowledging all communities involved in the nation’s development. Education, not denial, is what allows societies to move forward with greater awareness and accountability.
Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 retweeted
"Antes de que nuestros hermanos blancos llegaran para civilizarnos, no teníamos prisiones, por eso, no tuvimos delincuentes. Sin una prisión, no puede haber delincuentes. No teníamos cerraduras, entre nosotros no había ladrones. Cuando alguien era tan pobre que no podía tener un caballo, una tienda de campaña o una manta, lo recibía como un regalo. Éramos demasiado incivilizados para dar importancia a la propiedad privada. No conocíamos el dinero y por eso el valor de un ser humano no estaba determinado por su riqueza. No teníamos leyes escritas, ni abogados, ni políticos, y por eso, no fuimos capaces de engañar y estafarnos unos a otros. Estábamos muy mal antes de que llegaran los hombres blancos y no sé cómo explicar cómo fuimos capaces de convivir sin estas cosas tan necesarias para una sociedad civilizada."
John Lame Deer 🇺🇸 (1903-1976)
Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 retweeted
All of the centuries of Indigenous resistance to White colonization should never be forgotten and should always taught in U.S. schools because Native Americans were the good guys in that long fight for freedom—so many brave people fought the good fight for their land and liberty!
Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 retweeted
Indigenous Peoples Day is today and it’s important to remember Native Americans are not merely historical people. We are still here and the oldest injustice in US history—the dispossession of land from hundreds of Indigenous nations mainly by fraudulent treaties—is still ongoing!
Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 retweeted
I think this is sad because the Lakota people never wanted their sacred mountain defaced in this way with presidents who were all terrible for Native Americans with policies creating every problem facing Native American people throughout many decades. And it looked better before!
Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 retweeted
My mother and all of her siblings. In these places, separated into Onion Lake, Delmas and Beardy's. They destroyed a family. We brought the culture home again. They took their languages, we are learning them. They told them to never be native, we ARE NATIVE. Never assimilate. 🪶
We are here because our parents and grandparents survived your “schools.”
#historicaltrauma
#intergenerationaltrauma
#everychildmatters
Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 retweeted
Circa 1900. Near Browning, Montana. Blackfeet Reservation.
Imagine hearing this drum somewhere out on the Montana plains.
Before you ever saw who was making the sound.
Before you knew what was happening.
Just that deep, steady beat carrying across open country.
If you were a stranger traveling through this landscape 125 years ago, I imagine it would stop you cold.
In this photograph are two Blackfoot men identified as Black Bull and Stabs-Down-By-Mistake, standing beside a large drum during a Sun Dance near Browning, Montana. They wear dentalia necklaces, moccasins, and ceremonial clothing.
That drum was not background noise.
In ceremonies like the Sun Dance, sound, rhythm, prayer, sacrifice, community, and spiritual life were bound together.
And out here, on this huge, exposed country, the sound could carry.
That is the part I keep thinking about.
A lone traveler.
Wind across the grass.
Nothing around for miles.
Then somewhere in the distance...
boom.
boom.
boom.
You may not understand the ceremony.
You may not know who is there.
But you would know immediately that you had entered someone else’s world.
And on the northern plains, that world had existed long before railroads, towns, or reservation boundaries ever appeared on a map.
That drum would have meant something very different depending on who was hearing it.
But I doubt anyone heard it and ignored it.
ALT Black Bull and Stabs-Down-By-Mistake, two Blackfoot men, standing beside a large drum during a Sun Dance near Browning, Montana, circa 1900. Both wear dentalia necklaces, moccasins, and ceremonial clothing. Photo credit: Montana Historical Society Library and Archives, MHS Legacy Photograph Collection. Photographer unidentified. Photo No. 955-544.
Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 retweeted
White Army soldiers back in 1864 rode up on 500 Cheyenne and Arapaho civilians who thought they were under US government protection due to a recent treaty. Instead, those troops murdered over 200 innocent people at the Sand Creek Massacre. This should be in every US history book!
Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 retweeted
Today in 1877 they killed Crazy Horse. Your People live on, Tasunka Witko Lililililili ⭕️
#OglalaLakota
Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 retweeted
In Ojibwe our word for insanity is igiiwinadzed.
Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 retweeted
मलाई स्वर्गीय हजुर आमाले भन्नु हुन्थ्यो बाबू बगरको जाबो ढुङ्गा होनि त भनेर जथाभावी लैजानु हुँदैन,तिमिले एउटा ढुङ्गा सिलौटोको लागि लैजान्छौ भने अर्को ढुंगा ल्याएर राख्नुपर्छ। यो सुनेर के भन्या जस्तो लाग्थ्यो आखिर पुर्खाहरुले प्रकृति लाई बुझेर यसो भन्नुभएको जस्तो लाग्छ आज पनि।
Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 retweeted
I bought this original photo of my great great great grandpa Iseeo—a great Kiowa warrior who fought for the Indigenous way of life against the US Army in the Red River War. I think it is really awesome he and other brave fighters took up arms against the US despite disadvantages!
