THE WARRIOR'S VOW

The vow of every warrior
Who ever road the plains
To protect the children
Forever will remain.

Those hearts full of courage
Promised to defend
The Elders and the Life Givers
Until the bitter end.

Those times are a memory,
To many, a bygone day,
But a new sun is dawning
Upon the Warriors way.

The peaceful Warriors awaken,
Their hearts hear the cry,
Their eyes embrace the vision
Found in Brother Eagle’s eye.

They rise from every nation,
Ready to claim the right,
To stand as men of courage,
The defenders of the Light.

Jamie Sams, in Earth Medicine

Women can be warriors too. In fact some of the ones fighting the hardest to clean the water, bring back the trees, protect the children are women. That doesn’t take away from the vital roles of men in their families and communities. One of things that troubles me the most about the new “reproductive technologies” is the ability of someone to get pregnant via the test tube and petrie dish. Kids need mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, aunts and uncles; family friends of every age. When the corporations sent their soldiers to every part of the country back in the fifties and sixties, we allowed our families and communities to be fragmented. What did we get in return? Strip malls and video games. Advertising and the latest I phone. Mega churches that look like auditoriums with sermons on financial planning and feel good gurus, that frankly make want to gag.

Something tells me trying to clean up this mess will make the Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee look like a cake walk.