First Nations Peaceful-Warrior Program

This is an intro to Yeshua-Do Peaceful-Warrior Program among First Nations People of North America

"O Great Spirit whose voice I hear in the winds,
I come to you as one of your many children.
I need your strength and your wisdom.
Make me strong not to be superior to my brother,
but to be able to fight my greatest enemy - "Myself"

- Chief Dan George

We believe that the future of our country depends on the strength and health of our Young people. The “Peaceful-Warrior” philosophy,  is as innate and unique  with its connectedness of the First Nations People, to promote and empower the strengths that already exist from within. This particular program not only focuses on Martial Arts skills, but also reinforces the lessons and traditions of their culture. The focus of the “Peaceful Warrior” Program is on the process of Healing, Self-discipline, and Empowerment, through all aspects of Oneness, “Body-Mind-Spirit.”  It is a non-violent approach to conflict resolution through non-aggressive martial arts training and meditation.  This awareness will raise self-awareness and self-confidence in youth as well as encourages, healthy living and thoughtfulness to others and their surroundings.

We promote a variety of aspects with emphasis on “young-warrior skills” through teachings, teamwork, group dynamics, games and activities that teach physical and mental coordination which are the backbone of our Program, Yeshua-Do self-defense techniques as the encompassing theme. The plan involves, the unity, participation of family, through dojo parties and sleepover training sessions, and campouts in the Yukon wilderness where we will learn warriorship combined with survival skills.  Elders are welcome to teach wisdom, ecology, and traditional ways.

We promote Unity and families are more than welcome to join in!

“The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass speaks to me.

The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me.

The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me.

The strength of the fire, the taste of salmon, the trail of the sun,

and the life that never goes away, they speak to me                 

 - And my heart soars.” 

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak He increases the strength of him who has no might. Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall; but those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint. 

- ISAIAH 40.28-31

Preparing Young Warrior

Chief Dan George

"How long have I known you, oh Canada?   A hundred years?  Yes, a hundred years.  And many many 'seelanum" more.  And today, when you celebrate your hundred years, oh Canada, I am sad for all the Indian people throughout the land.  For I have known you when your forests were mine; when they gave me my meat and my clothing.  I have known you in your streams and rivers where your fish flashed and danced in the sun, where the waters said come, come and eat of my abundance.  I have known you in the freedom of your winds.  And my spirit, like the winds, once roamed your good lands. But in the long hundred years since the white man came, I have seen my freedom disappear like the salmon going mysteriously out to sea.   The white man's strange customs which I could not understand, pressed down upon me until I could no longer breathe. When I fought to protect my land and my home, I was called a savage.  When I neither understood nor welcomed this way of life, I was called lazy.  When I tried to rule my people, I was stripped of my authority. My nation was ignored in your history textbooks - they were little more important in the history of Canada than the buffalo that ranged the plains.  I was ridiculed in your plays and motion pictures, when I drank you fire water, I got drunk -- very, very drunk.  And I forgot. Oh Canada, how can I celebrate with you this Centenary, this hundred years?  Shall I thank you for the reserves that are left to me of my beautiful forests?  Fore the canned fish of my rivers?  For the loss of my pride and authority, even among my own people?  For the lack of my will to fight back?  No!  I must forget what's past and gone. Oh, God in Heaven! Give me back the courage of the olden Chiefs. Let me wrestle with my surroundings. Let me again, as in the days of old, dominate my environment. Let me humbly accept this new culture and through it rise up and go on. Oh, God! Like the Thunderbird of old I shall rise again out of the sea; I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success---his education, his skills, and with these new tools I shall build my race into the proudest segment of your society. Before I follow the great Chiefs who have gone before us, oh Canada, I shall see these things come to pass. I shall see our young braves and our chiefs sitting in the houses of law and government, ruling and being ruled by the knowledge and freedom of our great land. So shall we shatter the barriers of our isolation. So shall the next hundred years be the greatest and proudest in the proud history of our tribes and nations."

These words were spoken by Chief Dan George, a hereditary Chief of the Coast Salish tribe and honorary Chief of the Squamish tribe of B.C., Canada. This speech was given at Canada's centennial celebration in Vancouver in 1967.

John A. Fabien (Chippewan Dene-Kua) the First Nation Coordinator

John is going to work with YCMA and speak on behalf of the First Nation People in Canada

Wovoka's Message:
The Promise of the Ghost Dance

[James Mooney, an ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, was sent to investigate the Ghost Dance movement in 1891. He obtained a copy of Wovoka's message from a Cheyenne named Black Short Nose, who had been part of a joint Cheyenne-Arapaho delegation that visited Wovoka in Nevada in August 1891. Wovoka (also known as Jack Wilson) delivered his message orally, and it was transcribed by a member of the group who had attended Carlisle Indian School. Mooney renders the "Carlisle English" of this transcription in a more grammatical form.]

THE MESSIAH LETTER

When you get home you must make a dance to continue five days. Dance four successive nights, and the last night keep us the dance until the morning of the fifth day, when all must bathe in the river and then disperse to their homes. You must all do in the same way.

I love you all, and my heart is full of gladness for the gifts you have brought me. When you get home I shall give you a good cloud [rain?] which will make you feel good. I give you a good spirit and give you all good paint. I want you to come again in three months, some from each tribe there [the Indian Territory].

There will be a good deal of snow this year and some rain. In the fall there will be such a rain as I have never given you before.

Grandfather [a universal title of reverence among Indians and here meaning the Messiah] says, when your friends die you must not cry. You must not hurt anybody or do harm to anyone. You must not fight. Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life. This young man has a good father and mother. [Possibly this refers to Casper Edson, the young Arapaho who wrote down this message of Wovoka for the delegation].

Do not tell the white people about this. Jesus is now upon the earth. He appears like a cloud. The dead are still alive again. I do not know when they will be here; maybe this fall or in the spring. When the time comes there will be no more sickness and everyone will be young again.

Do not refuse to work for the whites and do not make any trouble with them until you leave them. When the earth shakes [at the coming of the new world] do not be afraid. It will not hurt you.

I want you to dance every six weeks. Make a feast at the dance and have food that everybody may eat. Then bathe in the water. That is all. You will receive good words again from me some time. Do not tell lies.

[TEXT: James Mooney, The Ghost-dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890, 14th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Part 2 (1896).]

Anger

 "Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you."
Ephesians 4:31-32

 
In this world of hurt - divorce, broken families, disappoints, unemployment, financial problems,  not to mention the history of hurts and broken promises of years past  -- with all this it is so easy to be angry. 

When we keep our anger because we have been wronged- it does not hurt the person who caused the hurt --it only hurt us. 

Yet the Lord wants you to give Him you anger--and take His Love as a replacement.

Lord- Help me forgive others as you have forgiven me-

Ambition

"Do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not keep worrying. For all these things the nations of the world eagerly seek; but your Father knows that you need these things. But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added to you."
Luke 12:29-31

The Lord promises to take care of our needs.  We don't have to be troubled or strive for the things of the World.  We will always have wants, but He will take care of our needs, as we keep our minds and hearts on Him.  Our desire should be to  have a closer relationship to Jesus, not to things of the world. 

Belief:

 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."
John 3:16

To become a Christian (a follower of His Way) is the simplest, yet, the hardest thing we can do.

"Simple", because it only takes a bit of faith in such a loving and great Savior, the Lord, Jesus Christ.

 "Hard," because human beings want to reach our Creator by our "own" good works.  "Our" way,  "our" time.  We add so much to the truth; the Gospel.

 We need to share with all, despite the sin they may be in.  The Gospel, should be shared freely, and not be a burden by adding our own do's and don'ts.

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