I am cherrokee I'm not mad its showing that all the things our ancestors went through we still can show compassion towards non natives

This brings tears to my eyes, because ive been here I intimately understand these experiences and truths and I am thankful and brought to a higher level of peace truly for once finding out that I am not alone in experiencing these things from the sacred medicines.

It's wonderful to see how beneficial these ceremonies are to those that have attended them!

Wow! Speechless! I’m so thrilled you did this video and shared the many tales of hurting people finding the wisdoms of the ancestors, humanity, Mother Earth and freedom! I wish you many blessings of light, love, prosperity, health, laughter and kindness! We are all human and subject to failure, we are so similar much more than the labels that are used to divide us! Race, religion, creed, politics, status, etc ! Thank you for sharing this beautiful message! Always my brother! Live, laugh and love, perspective and gratefulness are keys to our success!

we all got some white in us some just got a better tan. we all connected and should give spiritual medicinal sacramental plants a good open minded name. When I took psilocybin mushrooms I gained a extreme compassion for the spirits behind us I couldn't stop listening to native American flute and chanting. It was really cleansing, healing and made me feel reconected with my heart space.

Touching documentary Thank you

It's interesting to see another perspective! My uncle lectured me about to treat everyone with respect and to help them if they want help! I believe Mother Medicine talks and guides us with every step we take on The Road of Life! These individuals asked for help and guidance and everyone of them were shown how they are and what they needed to do in order to help others and help themselves! Positivity is all I see here! Spiritual awakening is one of the most beautiful emotions to experience!

Aho Mitakuye Oyasin... This was foreseen by my ancestors that the children of the people that committed so many atrocities against my ancestors, would one day seek the guidance and direction of our ceremonies i feel good to see these prophecies come true. The creator has blessed my life and spirit to understand the power of understanding that all the races of this earth our mother were native and recognized mother earth and father sky some races are further away from these traditions but want to remember again. This video is an example of human beings being human again to erase all the lies that were told to them and the weight of abuse and hatred that this system of authority has turned people into parents make children subservient to serve the system like they have. The system of greed and authority breaks a child instead of recognizing the beauty of life and that our children are sacred and we learn from them and their spirit this has been forgotten in the majority of western cultures more respect is given to the authority of the system and its choke hold that abuse of children is a norm in most families. The great awakening needs to start with this concept honor our children by all means without exception honor their spirit as the closest thing to our creator as it is that they are the closest example of our creators love in spirit. Unite the races through love and understanding through our ceremonies that help them remember their ancestors from ancient times that were connected in the same way. Aho Mitakuye Oyasin

Pride keeps you from going into the fire, the fire breaks down the pride. Love love love we are awakening :))))))

Wonderful day to hear this long message. Thankful for all of it!

Thank you ONAC, James and Linda. Helped me more than you'll ever know...

thanks holmes! good job you've done!

Uncountable people are crying out for help for love more and more kids struggle by depressions deseases as cancer addictions are getting more and more every day the Native people always were connected with nature they knew how to live in harmony and peace.I,m very motivated how they live and all of them are my inspirations.Nature is healing and after struggling with cancer twize after both of my daughters died I began to go inside myself asking What is this all about,what do I need to learn,what do I need to change????? Why am I here,what can I do?....All I realize is that selflove is the key to my healing,and selflove no one ever teached us loving thyself LOVE is the key LOVE is the only truth LOVE is what we are.My heart goes out to all those struggling people out there. Blessings

Well done docu-journal. I appreciate the calm frankness and realness woven all throughout this. All the people spoke so well and honest. Seems a good encapsulation of the concrete importance in the air, when you join sacred healing events like this one. I come from Ayahuasca medicine, and there are many similar elements in what comes up for people, and how it heals. Spirit healing is all about finding that root issue creating the problem in the system, which is often existing only because of denial, fear, ego, pain. Facing demons. Deep work these medicines.

We were placed here to have our fires, dances, ceremonies and to live as nature rather than fight what is natural. The world will end soon all of us will go but where we go after is up to the individuals path before they die. Before we all go we will sing our songs, dance our dances, paint our selves and go as we once were. Others will cry and run around afraid with the little time creator is allowing to live. As the lost scramble we will prepare to ascend into what we really, the stars and the space particles we were created out of. That day may not come when me or you are alive but we must prepare our children for the day so if they face it they face it!. They will not run away from the inevitable which is earth and us coming to a close. Have fun my brothers and sisters, find fun and comfort before we go.! Love is fun and contagious!

Thank you for your courage...

But a better day to live forever!

Beautiful

Excellent Documentary...More People Need to See This... No Disrespect I'm Just wandering if you changed the title of the film for KZfaq Viewers it would get more Hits. Something like Peyote, Native American Healing Medicine subtitle Chasing a Good Day to Die. Just a thought...I stumbled across this by accident searching Peyote as Medicine Glad I found it....One Love....

Evidence is the Loudest Voice! Or some ol’ grandma said, “The proof is in the pudding” The sincerity of everyone is clear.

This is one of the best, if not the best documentaries I've watched especially now having experienced my own 4 nights of Plant Medicine Ceremonies with Ayahuasca. You articulated your experiences so raw and truthful that I could completely relate. It was beautiful...thank you..Aho!

At 58:21 the fire looks so mesmerizing.

YES!

Thank you for sharing your experience with us. Very very special. I just love it and wish that I could experience this one day myself. You all are very lucky. May God bless you all

Its not about who or race or color Its about learning peace to accept our flaws and move on Unconditional love is all The prophecy does not speak of the children of the ones that committed the evil acts, its about all people sharing the wisdom to help heal without prejudice of whom is the healer or whom is the one hurt It is about Unity of mankind

Eternal gratitude for sharing these life giving insights. Thank you.

At 3:54 I knew I was home... I knew I'd finally Found my Calling...

I tried to join your group. I don't have $250. I'm a disabled senior. God answered my prayer.

Amazing... Thank you for posting this. May the Creator BLESS all our brothers and sisters!

Does not the rainbow 🌈 prophecy open the ceremonies of all the tribes to each other of the four colors of the wheel to share?

Thank you for sharing this story.

intelligent documentary...thanks

Wow! Thanks.

those r the same thoughts going thru my mind as of ryt now. sad to say..

This film is Medicine also, Thank You 🙏 All for Sharing it🌟💖🌟🦋🌎🌝🌻🐝

There is only one world and one God and one fire we can all come around to pray and worship. Who can own God and say He is only for US only.

Aho....

Y’all still at Nebo?

Aho strong holy fire place.

Do you Still have these Ceremonies Would love to attend one and know someone very close to me in need of this modern medicine does not help.

I believe we all at one time were the aggressors if we believe in spirits we then know we come back here till we are done learning or teaching. So as true believers of being one we must then never remember the past and point fingers cause we may be pointing it to ourselves

Its should living all in harmony Its about peace Love for natural earth Love for simple life for those who need no mansions super riches

#medicinemovie An inspiring, real and touching movie about deep transformation with medicine.

The Cacique is asking for help.......YOU MUST READ THIS Honorable Mayor, With all respect, I humbly ask that you take the time from your important duties and obligations as Mayor of Amityville in the county of Suffolk in the empire state of New York in the country of the United States of America to read, investigate, analyze, judge and meditate under a prayerful heart what I will humbly request of you in this document of mutual communication as citizens of this great nation. You might not know me by name or title, I lived in the Village of Amityville in an adequate dwelling located in the corner of Oak and Lake in front of a beautiful park with a lake. You might have heard or known my family since we have been somewhat active in the community. My ex-wife Fanny Garcia has an educations degree and was a teacher in your school system for a while. My four sons, Renzo Andres, Ramon Antonio, Fabian Luis and Miguel Angel Garcia all studied proudly in the Amityville school system, participated in sports through your local clubs, worked in your local shops and businesses and attended our local Catholic church. I myself enjoy all this with my family and loved were I lived dearly. So what happened you might ask for me to be asking you for an urgent request now? Good question but if you do not already know let me first tell you a story about who I am... When every person is born we all are innocents, tender and in need of care; don't you agree? But, even though we are tiny, fragile and with soft skins, we all carry steal a great burden into life...The previous history of the life lived by our ancestors; is this right? We only know how great or small it is when we are told of it, but we are all born innocent of the previous acts of humanity. I was born on the 27th of February in the year of our Lord 1964 the day of the independence of the great land of my people Haiti Quisqueya, today known as Haiti/Dominican Republic, to a mother named Indiana and a father named Caonabo Garcia; the last silent Cacique of my land. At that time my mother Indiana was in New York City with a child in her belly was requested to return immediately to her land because the future Cacique needed to be born in the sacred land of his ancestors. You see honorable Mayor this fact I did not know at birth a fact that a neither asked or wanted but accepted as my fate in this the land of the living. When I was a child doing childish things I did not know history, family issues, secrets, death, agony, circumstances, responsibility, honor, loyalty, consequences....and must important who was an Indian....not to mention a Cacique and what that meant until I was trained by my elders from my birth until to the 12th of December of the year of or lord 1973 when for the first time in my life I left the country of my birth and stepped upon the land of the free in the city of New York in the empire state of United States. I did not question the fact that even though my father was the inspector of the system of education in my country I never attended public school but was personally trained...I thought that was normal but was not. I learned about our role as a family descendant of the Great Caciques of the Maya / Aztec Empire, I learned how we came to this land surrounded by waters, how we lived, our culture, our civilization, our beliefs and our struggles to survive. I learn how my people one day believe in and embraced a great wondering Cacique that appeared walking the lands because he was the perfect example to imitate, not just because of his words, but because of his actions, deeds, love, and miracles performed. I was told many, many times in many different ways how as he departed towards the East hovering on top of the waters after promising that one day he will return my people without hesitation or fear, full of love and passion, entered their ships and followed him into the unexplored waters after him. My people the Mayas discovered first Cuban (The land first touched) a short distance away, when into Jamaica ( Land of the Gods because it was so beautiful ) and settled in Haiti Quisquella ( Land of high mountain rest of the Great Cacique ) stayed, my beloved Island land that I Love. There we waited for his return...and...there we became TAINOS. It was hard for me been so young to understand, cope or comprehend what that descriptive word meant.....my best meaning is and what I understood after many years is....Godlike. As the time of my departure to safety in the Super Power of the time the United States of America drew near, even though I was not fully of age, I was told our cruel reality and the dangers of revealing our well-kept secret to the world. Why? DANGER OF DEATH. My ancestral Grandfather in 1492, when we supposedly were discovered, was Caonabo, my Grandmother was Anacaona together they were the Mayor Caciques of that time, Caonabo the Cacique who became CARIBE for the first time in our history. Caribe was a descriptive word that was very hard for me to understand even to this day.... my best meaning is and what I understood after many years is....The devil incarnated. It was told to me many times to calm my young spirit down from anguish when I used to hear them speak and describe the works and magnitude of selfless brutality this sound conveyed that they assured me that it is impossible to become Caribe voluntarily. To become one is only possible if the God of the Universe himself allows it for his glory. So, why did the godhead of his people become one?; When he realized that his hope of being able to finally see with his own eyes what his people were so anciently waiting for for so long was not true but a total lie. Engulfed in deep spiritual mourning over the fact that the person that he believed to be the Great Cacique of our past turned out to be a salvage. They came not to love but to rape, not to give but to take, not to heal but to kill. So he was turned CARIBE for the first time in his life. Then he proceeded to destroy their fort “La Navidad”, killed all but a few, took all their possessions and forced the saved ones under submission to teach us how to use and operate their foreign weapons and prepared for the return of the in basils. WAR was declared. It took trickery from the Spaniards to be able to submit, capture and then kill this great man. CAONABO After he was dead his wife continued with the struggle until she was tricked once again like her husband had been tricked into committing a larger mistake; remembering the Taino’s way of life, trusting and believing their intention for peace she was convinced to gather all the Caciques of the Islands to meet in a formal consul to negotiate peace amongst them; as the Caciques were seated and waiting inside the palace meeting hall and my Grandmother was outside inquiring why was taking so long to commence the meeting and talking to them, she witnessed with her own eyes how the soldiers of the enemy closed down the assembly and put it ablaze killing all inside it. Later as an example to her people she was hanged in the great plaza, cut into pieces and her bones and flesh were displayed all over the land. Our people fell under a dark cloud of an intense feeling of mourning, anguish, and hate and now we all became CARIBE against them. Fleeing for their lives, they mistakenly forgot about her young daughter, my ancestral Grandmother who was immediately protected and concealed. later she married my ancestral Grandfather known all over the world as Cacique Enriquillo. Tainos from birth, both of them became submissive to the new order and followed willingly the newly established laws and ordinances enforced by the new rulers. Knowing who they were in secret and what they represented to the people they submitted themselves to the point of becoming slaves under the new law of retribution and repartition established by Spain. Under their new master they followed instructions and obeyed faithfully and with joy were baptized with foreign names and they would have continued like this into death, but their master committed a grave mistake - He tried to commit the sin of rape. They ran away and in hiding, under the darkness of the night he was made CARIBE and felt, this awful taste and this intense pain in the heart for the first time in his life and because he was trapped with no way to go he submitted to the evil that he felt within and declared WAR again.. The war that he and his braves orchestrated lasted for another 20 years until the King of Spain himself was obliged to offer the first peace treaty of the new world to him under Enriquillo terms in order to stop the bloodshed of his Spaniards people. The treaty was honored for a few years until they killed him, The Cacique was buried in his sacred grounds in the area of the country were he specified under his terms in the treaty. Of course, his tomb became a place of pilgrimage for our people until they neglected their contract, abounded their words sealed and signed by their Kings, desecrated his tumb and built a Catholic church on top of his bones. They did not learn from the past and Spanish blood started to inundate the land again until they discovered the perfect weapon to submit our rage and destroy our race...the biological weapon of decease used to genocide our people all over the Americas. Now you know why the sea surrounding our Islands is not called today the Taino sea but it acquired the name of the Caribbean Sea because of all the years of suffering by millions of people from both sides of the conflict shedding their blood-fighting courageously for a just and Godly cause... to protect the lives and future of our people in the continents. When our people finally realized that in reality under the disguise of evil came to our land the Great Cacique that all along we all have been waiting for attached to wood posts poring his divine love to all the believers we received peace. ...( cont. upon request at renzocgarcia@gmail.com

I like the doc, but I think it’s weird to call it “Native American” Church when there are no Natives in sight. I understand that the tradition is Native but it doesn’t make sense to call it that and profit off their name and “sacred” reputation. What are you doing for the people that you got the idea from? How did this church start? Did natives teach you how to do it? Did they allow you to start a church? So many questions.

only a white man....

We are so intoxicated with all non natural items surrounding us We seek earth nature People have turned to own pets cause its a hidden unknown way to seek nature the wild farms earth

There are many ceremonies Its not about who or how Is did it work?? Yes!! So its just as powerful We all carry this knowledge some of us are in different stages of awakening our souls into the power of our minds The message is clear in-all books United as one Nation We are all equal While we continue to think as superiors to others prejudice will win Hate will win We all must know God ancestors spirits souls all how ever u call it are from sane place Every one has right every one can do this While we hold grudge hold hate remember the bad we cannot be at peace those who are like this are same as the bad people that committed the crimes The earth belongs to all just cause some committed crimes to the natives are blaming or saying all white people are all at fault they should know that many crimes were committed to many natives of different parts of the earth by greedy people who happen to share color of skin By judging all whites as the aggressors you become same as those who did aggression to natives In my family we practiced many similar things that were taught to us by our ancestors yet we were from other native lands

I see a lot of hatred here for the white man. Let me point out that I'm only 48 years old. the white people of today had nothing to do with what happened to the indegionous people's we are only the remnant of those people. what we need now is healing for all people because we truly are one. Only by forgiving can we be forgiven. The spirit has been calling to me for quite some time. in ignorance and fear I've looked for answers everywhere and found none. I'm going to join the onac right now. I applaud James Mooney for what he is doing. one love, one family, one destiny.

Read and study the information on the following two web-pages; nativeamericanchurches.org/ and nativeamericanchurches.org/joining-oklevueha-why-and-how/

For people who believe only Indians have the right to peyote, do all American Indians have the right to use it, or only those from within its natural range, i.e. Huichol, Apache, etc. What about the Aleut, Guarani, Carib peoples, do they also have an inherent right? It doesn't make sense for Plains Indians like the Sioux guy at 37:00 to say that they have an inherent right over everyone else. I don't question the Sioux right to use it and they know what they're doing with in their ceremonies, but they get peyote through importation and trade, not through natural gathering. By that guy's own philosophy only Southwest and Mexican Indians have the inherent right.