Earth Quake Message of the Ancients

The absolute truth on Earth Quakes, I happened across an Uncle Friend and Brother Roy from Moricetown in the Foothills of the Rockies, a Child of the Rainforest, and elder.
I was having truck problems at the time, just outside, his house. I had just lost the steering gauge in my truck, I was feeling sorry for myself, and a good friend of mine Harvy, took my shaken family home to Hazelton, Thank You Harvey!
Roy who had just decided to go to the movies with Harvey, had not gone to the Movies in long while, gave up the movie that night to keep me company, while the tow truck assisted me in getting home, he told me this fantastic story!
I was shaken by the fact that my truck, nearly, killed four of us in the truck
And Uncle Roy decided to change the subject my understanding was of this story, goes like this, I asked Roy how have you been lately?
Roy said, “I’m just glad that my song-birds and birds are back around my house!”
I said, “What does that mean?”
He told me, “His father who was near death at the time told him, Son! When the birds leave your yard, chick-a-Dee’s, song birds for a while (four-days) expect a Earth Quake!”
This so happened to be a week after the Earth quake in Northern Australia, RIGHT!
His father said, “four days after that, they will all return!”
And they did! Wow! Think faster, my dear friends, God has taught the birds to speak to us directly! When the birds leave your yard? Don’t say I didn’t tell,YOU!
Thank You Uncle Roy Michell and Harvey Gunanoot. from Louise (my Sis) Robert Junior, Wife Mavis and humble me! Robert Edward Sebastian Sr
Hey! Also Thank You to Danny and Willie Ried the Tow-truck operators and Richard and wife at Two-Mile Service-station who got my truck going again!

Prejudice Ha! Lets get together, Now!

Prejudice is an excuse to hide the truth

Robert with former BC Premier Bill Bennet
We are all God’s children. Prejudice is alive and well in the history of the Bulkley Valley BC. In the old days when contact first happened the Non-native came to this beautiful valley and many started homesteads, The Native people accepted them as friends, we knew from our prophets that there was lots coming and we should get along with them. Many of us natives changed and began homesteads also we worked along with the first pioneers, we were neighbors. A lot of the white homesteaders learnt to speak Wet’suwet’en. Many of the sawmill owners spoke the language.
Then a change came from Ottawa (the law) said we were not allowed to own land and that we had to go to a reservation. If we didn’t go to a reservation we would be arrested. Many resisted, some were sent to Okalla prison in Vancouver.
One man would not go to the reservation and he held out at his homestead. A couple of police and civilians tried to talk him off his property, some how they just disappeared. Even the police were scared to serve John Baptise notice he was to leave. He was ready to die. He held out and Ottawa heard about him rather then start a native uprising they granted him his land as a Reserve. The John Baptise reserve. Others were not so fortunate they were simply burnt out and they’re land was given to soldiers returning from the Boar War in Africa. The change in the Bulkley Valley was now here! Signs went up in restaurants and bars in Smithers and Telkwa, “Whites Only” the 180 degree turn, in attitude happened, but not all accepted it. The Mayor of Smithers Jim Davidson remembers those days, but most of his friends were Native, no one changed that. He stayed away from the restaurant that carried that sign. Others kept their Sawmills going with their Native friends.
But soon new people came to the valley out numbering the Natives they carried the prejudice banner proudly and boycotted native owned businesses, which soon went under. Natives could not vote, own land, join the general public.
Then the war came WW2 and everyone enlisted even the natives who were not welcome to be Canadian but could fight for Canada? When the War ended in Europe some of our warriors stayed in Europe and began families, they were accepted over there. Others came home to fight prejudice looming big time.
At one dance in Telkwa Cyrle Shelford who was a MLA in the valley, was partying with his natives friends who he went over seas with him. They decided to go to a dance, the locals would not let his Indian friends in so Cyrle took his group and partied outside, he said if my friends can’t come in we’ll stay outside. The hero’s were outside everyone joined them. The organizers of the dance soon changed and they let the Indians into the dance, they never changed this because Cyrle still lives here with us. In 1965 the signs came down, “whites only”. But a small select few still hold their banner, it is tattered and ragged and is slowly falling. My God! lets get with the real world we are all Gods Children. Love one another history is just a lesson, lets move forward together. This is the Canada I love! We are one! RES.

Quite People- Who Us?

Today as days of old, becoming a Chief is a very important event, for the Gitxsan and Wetsuweten tribes here are some of the rules. Firstly the Chief is mostly picked from birth, then groomed all his/her life for that position. In the grooming the child is held very strictly and habits are drilled into the child much like the modern day child in a royal family. Both education and manners are essential to him/her becoming a community leader and a religious person. They are constantly watched and all behavior is noted to see what kind of a leader they will make.
I heard it expressed by one of our chiefs that a Chief is looked to; much like a Bishop, in modern day churches. Now! You must remember that this ancient system has been here (British Columbia) for over a thousand years,
A modern day Chief must walk his/her territory, all houses or clans have designated land holdings, fishing holes and members. They must lead in all the attributes of the society, including laws written and unwritten, common law, and constitutional (or Feast Hall) laws. Chiefs do not react to just anything that bothers them, as they do not want to bring shame to their family, or “Dirty their Official Blanket!” They are extremely careful and they walk softly on the breath of their Grand parents. It is said that they are led by the wise from “up-above”
Many young people try to make their mark in our ancient system, but these new comers can be seen miles away. They are humored. In order to speak in one our feasts you must log hundreds of hours in the system before people will even acknowledge you being there. Even then you may not get a chance to say a word. This is not a democracy, but there are avenues to make your point in the feast hall. If the point you want to make is so crucial to the path of our people you must bring it to the feast hall through your father’s side of the family, and to do this you must pay your father Clan for this privilege. In that way you will be heard.
At one Feast at Hagwilget years ago, it was this one Chiefs turn to speak, no one dared say a word before this Chiefs took his turn to speak. The Chief pondered, ached, a thought about what he was going to say. A day and a half went by, finally the Chief rose to feet to speak. This was recorded by one of the first Doctors to the Hazelton area at contact time. A day and half, people waited for the man to take his turn to speak, can we do that today, I doubt if we could sit and be quite for one hour let alone 36 hours. I understand now why they call our village (Hagwilget) village of the quite people! RES

Healing touch not new to US! Lets use together!

Hold on to your, “Ma’ahh” , your inner spirit. This is your spiritual centre, the real you. There are ways to keep you spirit inside you and keep you healthy. Years ago, I was in Morley Alberta, and a friend of mine, a Holland from Telkwa BC who taught me to how to wave my spirit back inside of me.
This method of waving a spirit back inside of yourself, is much like a nurse who uses, “healing touch.” Healing touch is a very modern method of patient care.
Although healing touch is said to be relatively new in modern therapy, it is as ancient to my culture and as important as any modern method of healing. In healing touch you wave the bad energy out of a patience body. But the major key to healing touch is that of shaking that bad energy away from the healer. If you are not careful you could well, wave the disease into yourself.
Your Ma ‘ahh can be seen by a good healer, one with a lot of experience in healing touch. When they look at you they will see a color formation glowing around you, this color will determine how sick you are! A rough example is yellow will say your energy force is low and you should strengthen your spirit level through praying.
When a healer is laying their hands onto you and brushing away the bad feelings, they must shake, away these bad feelings from the patient and more importantly from themselves. One of our ancient methods to shake away bad feelings was to take these feelings, swallow them, and burp them back and throwing them into the sky, with your hands. Very effective!
It is also very important to pick a healer who is avidly trusted and who will not play or steal your spirit. The Gitxsan and the Wet’suwet’en have practiced the laying-on of the hands for centuries. Modern medicine is now just excepting this method as vital to healing a patient. We (natives) have used this method for centuries; we just were not listened to. Let’s put our cultures together and build a future, now! RES