HOPI CHIEF DAN EVEMHEMA'S MESSAGE TO ALL MANKIND

The Eldest Elder, 106-year-old, Hopi elder Dan Evemhema, Kahmahoniwa, is a spiritual leader of the Roadrunner Clan Society, a Snake Priest, and Kachina Father.  He is a traditionalist who has found himself frequently in disagreement with Progressives on the Hopi Tribal Council, due largely to outside negative influences.. A life-long resident of Hotevilla, Arizona, Chief Evemhema is the most revered and most quoted elder of the Hopi people.   His "Messages to Mankind," begun many years ago, are partly his interpretation of previous fulfillments of ancient Hopi prophesies and his own divine revelations of coming events.  We are honored to present his 1996 'Messages to Mankind'.

"I am very glad to have this time to send a message to you. We are celebrating a time in our history which is both filled with joy and sadness. I am very glad that many have given us this opportunity to share these feelings with you because we know many of you are having the same troubles.
 
We Hopi believe that the human race has passed through three different worlds and life ways since the beginning. At the end of each prior world, human life has been purified or punished by the Great Spirit "Massauu" due mainly to corruption, greed and turning away from the Great Spirit's teachings. 

The last great destruction was the flood which destroyed all but a few faithful ones who asked and received a permission from the Great Spirit to live with Him in this new land. The Great Spirit said, "It is up to you, if you are willing to live my poor, humble and simple life way. It is hard but if you agree to live according to my teachings and instructions, if you never lose faith in the life I shall give you, you may come and live with me."

The Hopi and all who were saved from the great flood made a sacred covenant with the Great Spirit at that time. We Hopi made an oath that we will never turn away from Him. For us the Creator's laws never change or break down.  To the Hopi the Great Spirit is all powerful. 

He appeared to the first people as a man and talked with them in the beginning of this creation world. He taught us how to live, to worship, where to go and what food to carry, gave us seeds to plant and harvest. He gave us a set of sacred stone tablets into which He breathed all teachings in order to safeguard his land and life. 

In these stone tablets were instructions and prophecies and warnings. This was done with the help of a Spider woman and Her two grandsons. They were wise and powerful helpers of the Great Spirit.
 
Before the Great Spirit went into hiding, He and Spider- woman put before the leaders of the different groups of people many colors and sizes of corn for them to choose their food in this world. The Hopi was the last to pick and then choose their food in this world. The Hopi then choose the smallest ear of corn. 

Then Massauu said, "You have shown me you are wise and humble, for this reason you will be called Hopi (people of peace) and I will place in your authority all land and life to guard, protect and hold trust for Me until I return to you in later days for I am the First and the Last."
 
This is why when a Hopi is ordained into the higher religious order, the earth and all living things are placed within his hands. He becomes a parent to all life on earth. He is entitled to advise and correct his children in whatever peaceful way he can. So we can never give up knowing that our message of peace will reach our children. Then it is together with the other spiritual leaders, the destiny of our future children is placed. 

We are instructed to hold this world in balance within the land and the many universes with special prayers and ritual which continue to this day.

It was to 'the Spider- woman's' two grandsons the sacred stone tablets  were given. These two brothers were then instructed to carry them to a place the Great Spirit had instructed them. The older brother was to go immediately to the east, to the rising sun and upon reaching his destination was instructed to immediately start to look for his younger brother who shall remain in the land of the Great Spirit. The Older brothers mission when he returned was to help his younger brother (Hopi) bring about peace, brotherhood and everlasting life on his return.
 
Hopi, the younger brother, was instructed to cover all land and mark it well with footprints and sacred markings to claim this land for the Creator and peace on earth.
 
We established our ceremonials and sacred shrines to hold this world in balance in accordance with our first promise to the Creator. This is how our migration story goes, until we met the Creator at Old Tribe (place that solidifies) over 1000 years ago. 

It was at that meeting when he gave to us these prophecies to give to you now at this closing of the Fourth World of destruction and the beginning of the Fifth World of peace. He gave us many prophecies to pass on to you, and all have come to pass. This is how we know the timing is now to reveal the last warnings and instructions to mankind.
 
We were told to settle permanently here in Hopi land where we met the Great Spirit and wait for Older Brother who went east to return to us. When he returns to this land he will place his stone tablets side by side to show all the world that they are our true brothers. 

When the road in the sky has been fulfilled and when the inventing of something that in Hopi means, gourd of ashes, a gourd that when it drops upon the earth will boil everything within a large space and nothing will grow for a very long time. 

When the leaders turned to evil ways instead of the Great Spirit, we were told there would be many ways this life may be destroyed. If human kind does not heed our prophecy and return to their original spiritual instructions. 

We were told of three helpers who were commissioned by the Great Spirit to help Hopi bring about the peaceful life on earth would appear to help us and we should not change our homes, our ceremonials, our hair, because the true helpers might not recognize us as the true Hopi. So we have been waiting all these years.
 
It is known that our True White Brother, when he comes, will be all powerful and will wear a red cap or red cloak. He will be large in population, belong to no religion but his very own. He will bring with him the sacred stone tablets. With him there will be two great ones, both very wise and powerful. 

One will have a symbol or sign of a swastika (with the arms turned the opposite way from the Nazi's depiction of it) - which represents purity and is Female, a producer of life. The third one or the second one of the two helpers to our True White Brother will have a sign of a symbol of the sun. He, too, will be many people and very wise and powerful. We have in our sacred Kachina ceremonies a gourd rattle that is still in use today with these symbols of these powerful helpers of our True Brother.
 
It is also prophesied that if these three fail to fulfill their mission then the one from the west will come like a big storm. He will be many, in numbers and unmerciful. When he comes he will cover the land like the red ants and overtake this land in one day. 

If the three helpers chosen by the Creator fulfill their sacred mission and even if there are only one, two or three of the true Hopi remaining, holding fast to the last ancient teaching and instructions the Great Spirit, Massauu will appear before all and our would will be saved. 

The three will lay out our a new life plan which leads to everlasting life and peace. The earth will become new as it was from the beginning. Flowers will bloom again, wild games will return to barren lands and there will be abundance of food for all. Those who are saved will share everything equally and they all will recognize Great Spirit and speak one language.
 
We are now faced with great problems, not only here but throughout the land. Ancient cultures are being annihilated. Our people's lands are being taken from them, leaving them no place to call their own. 

Why is this happening? It is happening because many have given up or sought to manipulate the original spiritual teachings. The way of life which the Great Spirit has given to all Its people of the world, whatever your original instructions were, are not being honored. It is because of this great sickness - called greed, which infects every land and country, so that simple people are losing what they have kept for many thousands of years.

Now we are at the very end of our trail. 

Many people no longer recognize the true path of the Great Spirit. They have, in fact, no respect for the Great Spirit, or for our precious Mother Earth, who gives us all life.  We are instructed in our ancient prophecy that this would occur. 

We were told that someone would try to go up to the moon: that they would bring something back from the moon; and that after that, nature would show signs of losing its balance. Now we see that coming about. 

All over the world there are now many signs that nature is no longer in balance. Floods, drought, earthquakes, and great storms are occurring and causing much suffering. We do not want this to occur in our country and we pray to the Great Spirit to save us from such things. But there are now signs that this very same thing might happen very soon on our own land.
 
Now we must look upon each other as brothers and sisters. There is no more time for divisions between people. Today I call upon all of us, from right here at home, Hotevilla, where we too are guilty of gossiping and causing divisions, even among our own families; out to the entire world where thievery, war and lying goes on every day. These divisions will not be our salvation. Wars only bring more wars, never peace. 

Only by joining together in a Spiritual Peace with love in our hearts for one another, love in our hearts for the Great Spirit and Mother Earth, shall we be saved from the terrible Purification Day which is just ahead.
 
There are many of you in this world who are honest people. We know you spiritually for we are the "Men's Society Grandfathers" who have been charged to pray for you and all life on earth never forgetting anything or any one in our ceremonials. 

Our prayer is to have a good happy life, plenty of soft gentle rain for abundant crops. We pray for balance on earth to live in peace and leave a beautiful world to the children yet to come. We know you have good hearts but good hearts are not enough to help us out with these great problems. In the past some of you have tried to help us Hopis, and we will always be thankful for you efforts. But now we need your help in the worst way. We want the people of the world to know the truth of our situation.
 
This land which people call the Land of the Freedom celebrates many days reminding people of the world of these things. Yet in well over 200 years, the original Americans have not seen a free day. We are now suffering the final insult.
 
Our people are now losing the one thing which give life and meaning to life--our ceremonial land, which is being taken away from us. Hotevilla is the last holy consecrated, undisturbed traditional Native American sacred shrine to the Creator. As the prophecy says, this sacred shrine must keep its spiritual pathways open. 

This village is the spiritual vortex for the Hopi to guide the many awakening Native Americans and other true hearts home to their own unique culture. Hotevilla was established by the last remaining spiritual elders to maintain peace and balance on this continent, from the tip of South America up too Alaska. Many of our friends say Hotevilla is a sacred shrine, a national and world treasure and it must be preserved. We need your help.
 
Where is the freedom which you all fight for and sacrificed your Children for? Is it only the Indian people who have lost, or are all Americans losing the very thing which you originally came here to find? We don't share the freedom of the press because what gets into the papers is what the government wants the people to believe, not what is really happening. We have no freedom of speech, because we are persecuted by our own people, just for speaking our beliefs.
 
We are at the final stages now and there is a last force that is about to take away our remaining homeland. We are still being denied many things including the rite to be Hopis and to make our living in accordance with our religious teachings. The Hopi leaders have warned leaders in the White House and the leaders in the Glass House (the UN), but even they do not listen.
 
So as our prophecy says, then it must be up to the people with good and pure hearts that will not be afraid to help us to fulfill our destiny in peace for this world. We now stand at a cross roads whether to lead ourselves in everlasting life or total destruction. We believe that human beings spiritual power through prayer is so strong that it decides life on earth.
 
So many people have come to Hopi Land to meet with us. Some of you we have met on your lands. Many times people have asked how they can help us. Now I hope and pray that your help will come. If you have a way to spread the truth, through the newspapers, radio, books, thought-meeting with powerful people, tell the truth! Tell them what you know to be true. Tell them what you have seen here; what you have heard us say; what you have seen with your own eyes. In this way, if we do fall, let it be said that we tried, right up to the end, to hold fast to the path of peace as we were originally instructed to do by the Great Spirit.
 
Should you really succeed, we will all realize our mistakes of the past and immediately return to the true path-living in harmony as brothers and sisters, sharing our Mother, the earth, with all other living creatures. In this way we could bring about a new world. A world which would be led by the Great Spirit and our Mother will provide plenty and happiness for all.

God bless you, each one of you and know our prayers for peace meet yours as the sun rises and sets. May the Great Spirit guide you safely into the path of love, peace freedom and God on this Earth Mother. May the holy ancestors of love and light keep you safe in your land and homes.

Pray for God to give you something important to do in this great work which lies ahead of us all to bring peace on earth. We the Hopi still hold the sacred stone tablets and now await the coming of our True White Brother and others seriously ready to work for the Creator's peace on earth.
 
Be well, my children, and think good thoughts of peace and togetherness - peace for all life on earth, and peace with one another in our homes, families and countries. We are not so different in our Creator's eyes. The same great Father Sun shines his love on each of us daily just as Mother Earth prepares the substance for our table, do they not? We are ONE after all.

Chief Dan Evehema
From Hotevilla, Arizona
Hopi Sovereign Nation

Chief Dan Evehema with Dee See Mana
in a Corn Field in Hotevilla, Arizona

5/5/03

This is a message received from Harry Nutumya, grandson of Dan Evemhema, who fondly recalls his grandfather.    

"...They use to call him Little Dan because he had an older brother called Big Dan.  I knew him from childhood until his death a few years ago.  He never talked much about traditional things to me only made remarks like the Tribal Council was not doing any justice for our people, but were wasting money on trips which lead to drinking and misuse of money.  He was very agile and road horseback till almost death, he was good to me and was always happy to see me.  He instructed me to always to do more then average and be good to all living things.  I have a lot of his pictures and miss him very much, today I was out at his former ranch house and to find nobody home. 

Although I am progressive compared to him and a few others who only thought of living the traditional ways, I have worked off the reservations and came back to Hopi and now run Hopi Market and Art Gallery www.hopimarket.com.  I downloaded the story on Dan and will share that with my family..."  Thank you. 

- Harry Nutumya

Read Harry Nutumya's biography at:  http://www.hopimarket.com/Bio.htm

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