--------A Tribal Cultures Influenced Catholic Globalization Mission
------------------------------------by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer
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---Peaceful Catholic globalization revolutionaries believe in creating a more uniform and
---homogeneous world, with a global culture uniting all of mankind into a single community,
---unfettered by war, ethnic conflict, religious sectarian disharmony and inequality (economic,
---political, social and religious) - it's the creation of a utopian world.
---It is also the establishment of the fullness of the Kingdom God on earth, so that "the earth
---is no differ than heaven", and everyone lives happily ever after on God the Father's and
---Jesus Christ's sacred earth, which has been transformed into a paradise - by way of the
---redemption of not only humanity but also mother earth or mother nature to her original
---purity and glory, and then exalting her even higher. Alleluia! Glory to God in the highest!
---And peace to His people on earth!
---Globalization has brought indigenous peoples powerful allies, a louder voice that can be
---heard internationally, an ecological awareness, earth saving and people unifying message,
---and increased political influence at home. Globalization's positive impact on indigenous
---peoples is a great blessing to all of mankind and the rest of the natural world. This impact
---is a very positive contribution to its Christian and Catholic role as a unifier of humanity
---and the world's different cultures.
---movement to change the faulty-translation and profane name of Minnesota's Rum River
---back to its sacred Dakota Indian name Wakan, which when translated into English means
---Spirit or Great Spirit. ---MultiCultural Review is a quarterly trade journal and book review for educators and
---librarians through out the United States. This nationally renowned trade journal and
---book review published an article of mine, titled, To Change A Name. An excerpt
---from the article reads: ---"Twenty-five years ago I became aware of the profanation of the Dakota name for the Rum River while
---researching the worldview behind the word wakan, which since the late 1960s has been embraced by the
---counterculture as a part of a movement toward global unity and environmental sustainability. In 1983
---I attended the Tekakwitha Conference held at Saint John's College in Minnesota. This is a Catholic
---Native American conference representing over 100 tribes, and there I heard missionary priest Stanislaus
---Maudin present a paper on the juncture between the Dakota concept of wakan - the term itself has
---been adopted by many Indian tribes - and the Catholic Church's globalization movement aimed at
---uniting humanity within a single united culture. Since attending that conference, I have been active within
---the Catholic Church's countercultural movement to promote respect for indigenous peoples and the
---environment as well as for the unity of all humanity. ---The word wakan is sometimes translated to mean sacred or holy. Reverend Stan
---Maudlin, now deceased, was the abbot of Blue Cloud Abbey and founder and
---Executive Director of American Indian Research Center. Rev. Maudlin was also a
---leader of the Tekakwitha Conference. For many years Rev. Maudlin was in constant
---correspondence with the Vatican Commission on Traditional Religions. During the
---1983 Tekakwitha Conference, Rev. Maudlin addressed a large group of conference
---participants and said "there is a whole world view behind the word wakan".
---A few years ago, Rev. Maudlin gave his support to change the name of the Rum
---River back to its sacred Dakota name [Wakan]. ---I went to the 1983 Tekakwitha Conference with a combined youth of the 1960s
---countercultural and Catholic globalization mission, and my mission had a "world view
---behind the word wakan". And a short while after Reverend Maudlin addressed this
---conference and said "there is a whole word view behind the word wakan", I was
---interviewed by Reverend Matthew Fox, the conference's keynote speaker and (at the time)
---leader of the Catholic Church's globalization movement to unite humanity within a
---single united global culture. From my perspective this culture will be a culture
---made up of the best of the past of all the world's different cultures and traditions,
---a culture that will be wakan (sacred), or predominately permeated with the culture(s)
---of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
---Near the end of the interview, Fox asked me to keep in touch with him, so as to
---keep him informed about the progress of my countercultural and Catholic globalization
---mission. A few years ago, Fox sent me a letter wherein he expressed his support for the
---effort to change the name of the Rum River back to its sacred Dakota name [Wakan].
---an internationally renowned leader of the countercultural revolution. Gaskin once wrote:
---"The word wakan has a strong and universal concept and people around the world
---know something about it." The purpose of Gaskin's hippy community is to be
---wakan (holy) and influence the whole world to become wakan. This hippie community
---once had 1500 members, and according to Stephen Gaskin, it is a demonstration project for
---a sustainable future, a nonviolent ecofriendly cooperative community of pioneers ushering
---in a new age. ---Gaskin's internationally renowned ecovillage is called The Farm. It is located in Tennessee.
---It was established in the late 1960s. Steven Gaskin and 200 of his hippie followers formed
---into a commune and moved from the San Francisco Bay area to the small town of
---Summertown Tennessee. And near this town they set up their communal village. Today
---it is the largest hippie community in the world. It has 250 members and it is very successful.
---A letter of mine was published in the Farm's FREE PRESS newsletter. And on
---The Farm's website there is a link to the Hippie Museum wherein there is an introduction
---to an article of mine about my hippie visionary mission. A link to this article
---is also displayed on Hippyland, the world's largest hippie website. ---Hippyland (or Hippy.com) is a website with 26,000 registered members. An article of
---mine [A 1960s Hippie Activist] was recently posted on this site's [ACTIVIST
---SPOTLIGHT] display. ---Skip Stone is the creator and webmaster of Hippyland. He has a special place on his
---Hippyland site where he posts hippie articles about religion. It is named Coolove.
---He recently posted an article of mine on Coolove. This article is Hippyland's
---[MOST READ ARTICLE ABOUT RELIGION]. Click Coolove to view and
---read this article. Albert Bates is an internationally renowned hippie countercultural
---activist and a very prominent member of The Farm. He is the author of several
---books. One of his books Climate in Crisis is introduced by Al Gore. In respect to
---my Coolove article he wrote, while corresponding with me, "good article". ---In an article of mine that was published in the Thomas Merton Center's newspaper
--- The NewPeople, an article titled A Thomas Merton Influenced Movement there are
---the following statements:
---"The 'Sioux' (Dakota) are used to portray all Native American tribes in Hollywood, anyone wanting to see a
---"real Indian" wants to see a war bonnet and a tipi. Therefore, I believe that the world psychic views
---all Native Americans as "Sioux"; and that when people watch the traditional Hollywood movies about
---Native Americans they often hear the "Sioux" using the word wakan (sacred), or the combined words
---Wakan-Tonka (Spirit-Great). Hence, a lot of people believe that the word wakan and the name
---Wakan-Tonka are used by all Native Americans...." ---The word wakan is used by a lot of Native American tribes, bands, and villages throughout America.
---And because we believe that Native American culture has the most valuable features of all cultures,
---features such as kinship tribalism, an ecological spirituality, a charismatic spirituality...etc., and also
---because we have therefore made it the predominant culture of our globalization movement, we therefore
---describe our movement as a world-view behind the word wakan movement.
---An article of mine was published in Multicultural Pavilion. Multicultural Pavilion
---is Paul Gorski's website. Paul Gorski is a national and internationally renowned
---leader of multicultural education and social/political activism. Gorski and I
---occasionally correspond. I sent my article Multicultural Activism to him and he
---published it on his website. An excerpt from the article reads:
---An American Indian environmental activist wrote an article for the best-selling Minnesota newspaper
---(the StarTribune) wherein he advocated the formation of a group of American Indian environmental
---activists who would then canoe from the mouth of the "Rum" River to its confluence with the Mississippi River.
---And do so, in an effort to change the dominant culture's collective attitude toward rivers in particular and water
---in general. The author of this StarTribune article (David Gonzales), envisioned (in part) a future "Rum" River
---canoe journey wherein a group of American Indian environmental activists would stop along the way and set up
---colorful tepees and camps at key environmental locations along the river as "environmental schools" to promote
---American Indian environmental awareness.
---To view and read a recent article about this topic, click Dakota Indian group's canoe
---journey and environmental activism on the Wakan Wakpa (Rum River).
---In my article Environmental Activism I present a piece about Tom Wisner, a nationally
---renowned environmentalist's who has given his support for [both] the movement to
---regain the sacred Dakota name for the river and my environmental activist plans
---to help clean up the Wakan Wakpa (Rum River). An excerpt from the article reads:
---Tom Wisner, a nationally renowned singer, song writer and environmentalist made the movement to regain
---the sacred Dakota name for the badly named "Rum River" the centerpiece of his 2005 Winter Solstice
---radio broadcast, a two hour show that was broadcasted on the internet. Mr. Wisner is known nationally
---for his song "Chesapeake Born". "Chesapeake Born" became the title song for the 1986 National Geographic
---Special on the Bay region. Wisner's classroom techniques were filmed by Washington-area NBC-TV and other
---stations, and he received national, state, and local awards for excellence in teaching. He was given
---citations by two governors and was named a major figure in land-conservation work by President Reagan's
---Commission on the Out-of-Doors
---In a letter to me, Tom Wisner wrote: "Thanks for including the affirmation for my support of the
---Wakan River cause in your recent writings about the Rum River name change! I will continue to think
---through and to refine commentary as time goes on! More will be included in this coming cycle of
---programs and broadcasts about the Year of the River! I think the idea of a Native American canoe
---journey down any river could be beneficial to the political interest to legislate for clean water. I'm not as
---sure about the placement of "Colorful Teepees" as I am sure about the presence of powerful men like Banks
---or Means or the native voice like that of Winona La Duke who recently was quoted saying, 'we don't need
---sustainable development we need sustainable community". The image of the whole watershed is an important
---ecological piece in the story. Thanks for the work you are doing! I believe the work of bringing integrity
---to the naming of place, issue and cause is a legitimate part of the work to clarify our place in building
---a better world.
---Indigenous Peoples Literature is an award winning site about indigenous peoples
---issues. This site has been accessed over 10,000,000 times. IPL posted my
---article Restoring The Fundamental Human Rights Of Indigenous Peoples . In response
---to this posting, both Steven Newcomb and Tony Castanha - the two internationally
---renowned leaders of the movement to restore the fundamental human rights of
---indigenous peoples by trying to influencing the Vatican (Pope) to publicly revoke two
---15th century Papal Bulls - contacted me. Newcomb wrote: "Thomas, good article".
---And Rob Capriccioso, an author for Indian Country Today, the world's leading American
---Indian news source, also contacted me and presented his ICT article about this
---topic. Tony Castanha has also contacted me to thank me for my youtube video
---wherein I protest against the Papal Bull Inter Caetera. And after the Anoka County Union
---published a letter of mine about this topic Steve Newcomb sent me a message wherein he
---wrote: "Thanks Thomas, keep up the good work..." More...
---from Archbishop Harry Flynn, (2.) a letter from the Board of Directors of the
---Tekawitha Conference and (3.) an article about my Rum River name-change
---movement and associated Catholic globalization mission, I received a letter from the
---Pontifical Council For Justice And Peace.
---Archbishop Harry Flynn has sent me letters of support for some of my activist
---initiatives. To view and read the archbishop's letters of support click letters
---National Multicultural Institute's October 2008 newsletter [SPOTLITE] posting
---of an article of mine can be viewed and read by clicking Independent Indigenous
---Sovereign Nations . An excerpt from this article reads:
---..."However, the indigenous peoples living in this land our still being denied three of
---their--endowed by the Creator--unalienable equality rights, or fundamental human
---rights. The right to absolute root ownership of their traditional/ancestral homelands,
---the right to be recognized and treated as full independent sovereign nations and
---the--freedom of religion--right to fully re-establish their traditional religions within
---their sacred ancestral homelands"..
---An article of mine about the--regaining sacred ancestral homelands--topic is
---displayed on the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community's website. To view and
---read this article click Regaining the Mdewakanton's Mille Lacs ancestral homeland.
---An excerpt from this article reads:
---The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe oral tradition tells that, by the end of the 1760s Kathio battle, their
---ancestors had violently forced the Dakota from their Mille Lacs area homeland; and that that is how they took
---possession of the Mille Lacs area land that they now live on. However, because they were indigenous red
---pagans they didn't own the land that they, with the help of the Europeans, took from the Dakota people. And
---these indigenous red Ojibwe pagans, to this present-day, do not own the land that they are now living on,
---its U.S.A federal land. The indigenous people of the Americas, still, do not have a papal granted moral right
---to own land. The papal bull Inter Caetera has not yet been revoked. I am working to rectify this injustice.
---At least a part of the Dakota people's original Mille Lacs area homeland should be give back to them.
---my "letter to the editor", titled: Supports restitution. This letter was also published
---in the Saint Cloud Visitor, a Roman Catholic diocesan newspaper. An excerpt from this
---letter reads:
---Our bishops are finally starting to understand that 500-plus years ago our church instigated an
---injustice against the indigenous peoples of the Western hemisphere. They need to apologize for what
---happened, work toward stopping the ongoing injustice, and offer restitution to the indigenous
---peoples of the Americas, which includes protesting against the current proposed legislation to make
---"illegal" immigrants felons. It's time to give the indigenous peoples' homelands back to them and quit
---imposing our culture on them.
---The Winona Daily News published a letter of mine, titled, State looks to settle
---up with the past. Excerpts from this letter read:
---"Leonard Wabasha, a hereditary chief of the Dakota and director of the Shakopee Mdewakanton
---Sioux (Dakota) Community Cultural Resource Department, invited me to address the Dakota tribal leaders
---and government officials during the May 16 reconciliatory ceremony in Winona.
---"When Minnesotans become aware of or able to look at their own history and acknowledge the painful
---wounds of ethnocide and genocide right in their own state, they will be inspired to go through a radical
---social, political and religious transformation. A peaceful cultural revolution will occur, and Minnesotans
---will be changed for the better. And this will help to heal the Dakota Oyate's painful wounds caused by
---ethnocide and genocide."
---The Minnesota Indian Affairs Council (MIAC) asked me to write and send Anna
---Marie Hill, the council's Executive Director, a MIAC Draft Resolution endorsing the bill
---to replace Minnesota's derogatory geographic site names that are offensive to American
---Indians. Alfred Bone Shirt (Sigangu), a nationally renowned American Indian activist
---who is the contact person for the Dakota-Lakota-Nakota Human Rights Advocacy Coalition,
---published my Minnesota Indian Affairs Council Draft Resolution. My Minnesota Apology
---Resolution is similar to and associated with my MIAC Draft Resolution. Two excerpts
---from Minnesota Apology Resolution read:
---(4.) acknowledge the root cause of the subjugation and exploitation of Minnesota Indian tribes, as being
---the papal bull of 1493 (Inter Caetera); wherein, Pope Alexander IV directed colonial European nations to
---go to the Americas and "subjugate the barbaric people and their lands, and bring them to the faith".
---(5.) acknowledge that this papal bull (Inter Caetera) was used to formulate colonial European international law,
---a law that was later, both, incorporated into United States law as well as used to influence American citizens,
---including Minnesota citizens, to conform to a unified white racist or white supremacist and religious sectarian
---proselytizing mindset that was, and still is, the root cause of the subjugation and exploitation of Minnesota
---Indian tribes as well as all other U.S. Indian tribes.
---Indigenous Peoples Literature posted an article of mine titled: Popes Remarks
---Whitewashed The Genocide Of Indigenous Peoples. An excerpt from this article reads:
---"Hopefully, Pope Benedict XVI will soon formally revoke the 15th century papal bulls which were
--- primarily responsible for the horrible atrocities committed against Indigenous Peoples and then lead the
---Catholic Church and Western "Civilization" through a process of radical transformation, and by doing so,
---lead humanity into a new age, wherein Indigenous Peoples will be given their due respect."
---In respect to this coming new age, there is an article of mine wherein I present
---the following statement.
---In the Lord's Prayer Jesus said: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven". In reference to these words,
---the Catechism Of The Catholic Church says, in 2825 that: "For he did not say thy will be done in me or in
---us, but on earth, the whole earth, so that error may be banished from it, truth take root in it, all vice be
---destroyed on it, virtue flourish on it, and the earth no longer differ from heaven."
---A booklet of mine titled Rainbow Family Ministry is displayed on my website. Excerpts
---from the booklet read.
---The reason why this booklet is titled The Rainbow Family Ministry is because my extended maternal
---family name is Rainbow and this booklet is about my extended maternal family's ministry. This "Rainbow Family
---Ministry" is a combined Roman Catholic and youth of the 1960s countercultural world-unifying globalization
---ministry.
---I believe that it is very important for the Holy See to know more about this Rainbow Family Ministry
---expression of the countercultural revolution. I believe this, because there is evidence that indicates that
---God and Jesus Christ will use it to usher in a new age of church history, an age that is at hand.
---During the 1984 Mr. & Mrs. I. C. Rainbow family reunion my uncle Don Rainbow addressed
---the seventeen families gathered at that Rainbow family reunion and said: "A Rainbow is a sign of God's
---salvation plan and I believe that we may be used to glorify God more than any other family in the
---world." He made this very grandiose statement after I spoke to him about my vision of our family coming
---together in kinship tribalism in order to promote the tribal way and to also promote my Christian
---expression of the counter-culture's world-view around the word wakan globalization movement. ---*********************************************************************
---About my, combined, youth of the 1960s counter-cultural and Roman Catholic ecumenical
---mission to unite, both, the different churches of the Christian faith and the world's different
---religions. A unity wherein there will be only one religion and one Christian Church.
---An article of mine, titled, East West United presents my unifying theology wherein I show
---how Christianity and the Eastern religions can unite into a single religion. And by doing so, be
---blessed with new fulfilling insights and spiritual experiences that will help to bring about,
---for all people, mystical union with God.
---Two other articles of mine that addresses this subject are Evangelization In The Age
---of Globalization and Roman Catholic Ecumenism.
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---About a morality stance of mine associated with my Rum River name-change movement
---and world-unifing globalization mission.
---Anti-Alcohol stance:
---During Prohibition there was a national movement to change the name of the "Rum River"
---by those who saw the addictive and harmful nature of rum upon society. This is another
---reason why I initiated and am spearheading the movement to change the name.
---I recently received a supportive call from Gene Amondson, the 2008 Presidential nominee
---for the National Prohibition Party. We spoke about the work we are doing to bring back
---Prohibition as well as establish dry states, counties and cities, etc. . Amondson is an
---international speaker and he has been on the John Stewart Daily Show once and on the
---Oprah show twice. He asked me to keep him updated on the progress of my mission to bring
---back Prohibition.
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---An article of mine about my opposition to tribal casino and bingo hall gambling is titled
---Opposed to tribal gambling and derogatory geographical site names. Excerpt from
---the article read:
---In an radio broadcast that can be downloaded and listened to at radio broadcast
---Waziyatawin (Angela Wilson), a leading Minnesota Dakota Native activist, talks about
---Minnesota's Dakota tribes being "gaming" tribes that have an invested interest in their
---casinos and that the tribal council members of these tribes are more interested in,
---both, the money they make from their tribe's casino businesses and the respect
---they get from prominent non-Indian leaders of the dominate culture - who like
---them because they are tribal leaders - than they are about regaining and preserving
---their people's good traditional values or liberating themselves and their tribes from
---the earth and health destroying dominate culture.
---During a telephone conversation with Tom Grey, the executive director of the National
---Coalition Against Legalized Gambling and head of the national religious community's
---new anti-gambling Washington office, told me that he supports my work to put an end to
---legalized gambling. He also told me that when he comes to Minnesota he will meet with me.
---More....
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---My globalization mission counters the Western [predominantly American] expression of
---globalization by which economies of different countries are oriented to a global market
---and are controlled by multinational and global financial institutions. This is not only an
---economic process; it is also a cultural process that creates a monoculture - a culture ruled
---by the rich and powerful. It destroys the earth's life supporting eco-systems and radically
---exploits third world nations. It steals their natural resources and makes their masses of poor
---people wage slaves who work for almost nothing. From the perspective of poor and
---indigenous people, it is nothing else but another variety of colonialism and imperialism.
---To challenge this greedy and corrupt expression of globalization we need to rediscover the
---indigenous people's concept of community and ecological awareness - and do so, by
---creating and promoting a tribal cultures influenced globalization movement that will go forth
---victorious and establish a new world order in which justice dwells. ---More.... ---_________________________________________________________________________ ---A lead in article to my article A Tribal Cultures Influenced Catholic Globalization
---Mission article can be viewed and read by clicking Babylon the Great ---Home.