#h'wx3 5 May 2005 2rkg 2hUje Observer K E E T O O W A H P R O P H E C Y Where we have been and where we are going Recent Past from http:// To the Keetoowah, Ross lacked Cherokee, North Carolina, and the Indians for they were God’s preferred to live in the mountains goods. They had always relied on users.rcn.com/wovoka/Pmchap5- the spirit of the “traditional known as “The Eastern Band of people and powerful and if they and along streams in harmony stone, wood, and other essentials. 05.htm#P364_107996 harmony ethic” which was at the Cherokee Indians.” Their western attacked they would be destroyed. with nature . The KEETOOWAH European goods of metal, glass core of the traditional belief cousins are predominately located people led simple lives . and cloth were truly revolutionary In late 1866, there was an system.159 His personal hatred in eastern Oklahoma, but a wide When God created these people Searching for food occupied most innovations to the KEETOOWAH important meeting of the upset the balance and order of the remnant of people with Cherokee he gave them great, mysterious of their time. They obtained food, people. They saw the advantage Keetoowah in the Saline District community critical to the ancestry can be found today in power to be used for the best shelter, clothing and other needs of European goods and quickly (about forty miles north of Fort perpetuation of the “old way”: every state, particularly in the interests of the people. They lived from nature’s bounty by hunting, came to value and demand the Gibson) to decide what the future American south. in large cities with tall buildings. gathering, and farming. The men new materials. With the tribe of the organization would be. John Balance, harmony, inclusiveness, Some wise men began to use their were first and foremost warriors dependent on the European Smith, son of one of the founders cooperation — life regenerating What was God’s plan for this power different than was intended and hunters. They provided meat existence, the economic base of the Ancient Keetoowah, within a parameter of order. The unique people group before which troubled the people. God for their families, protected their greatly changed the structure of described the meeting: “All the pattern repeats the deepest heart their tragic loss? As with all instructed them to take their white households and their the KEETOOWAH life. The people camped out there. All the of Mother Nature, where the atom peoples, He had called them to fire and move away from that communities. They made war people became literate in the old men were seers. They kept — with its predictable parameter be His people, to become “a place. Some went to Asia, some against their enemy tribes. They English language, attended themselves clean with medicine. — freely makes its rounds to light to the nations.” There is an to India, and others to North also performed tribal, political schools in the east, then returned The medicine men investigated create new life. Continuance in ancient Cherokee prophecy that America leaving the wise men and religious duties. The women to assume leadership positions in the future of the the midsts of change, cardinal states, “The will lead behind. After they had gone to managed household duties, the tribe, and this created Keetoowahs.”(John Smith quoted dynamics that sustain the all the other tribes back to the other countries, these large cities provided meals, gathered food, additional changes. The U.S. in Janey Hendrix, Redbird Smith universe...The Cherokee have Great Spirit.” To date, this were destroyed when the ground and tended to the crops and made Government began negotiating and the Nighthawk Keetoowahs, used these poetics for prophecy has not come to pass. sank and are now under the ocean. their family’s clothing. with only the mixed-bloods, (Park Hill, OK: Cross-Cultural survival.(Marilou Awiatka, Selu: God turned to the people that Agriculture matched hunting and which formulated the United Keetoowah History and Education Center, 1983), 11.) The Seeking the Corn-Mother’s came to America and gave them gathering in importance to their in 1777. The Prophecy prophecy of the seers foretold Wisdom [Golden, CO.: Fulcrum wisdom and guided them. economy. Economic life was westward migration: Opposition difficult times to come and of Publishing, 1993, 181] ) http:// enriched by commerce with other to the rapid changes in the tribal (EDITOR’S NOTE: Before you There came a time when the future leaders but it focused on an users.rcn.com/wovoka/Pmchap5- neighboring tribes. They traded governmental structure resulted in read the prophecy below, bear in people began to violate their immediate necessity, that of 05.htm#P364_107996 deerskins, pots, war implements the migration of many traditional mind that The Hebrew Kaballah teachings - committing crimes healing the Nation by rebuilding and copper. At this time the Indian groups. Chief TODAY teaches that there are usually 5 against each other, committing the Keetoowah, “When they get tribes lacked several items and one thousand of his fullblood levels of understanding in murders, and feuding between the together, they going to make a compared to the Europeans. They followers migrated to the western And so it is to this day... nothing spiritual matters. So it is with this seven clans. The people met with strong organization. They gonna depended on their own physical part of Tennessee and later to the has changed. The Ross faction is Keetoowah prophecy! I believe their medicine men around their get ready to get together.” (Comes power. They had no large State of Arkansas. The basically still running things in that this prophecy is actually fire to ask God for guidance. The Flying quoted in Hendrix, 11.) domesticated animals such as KEETOOWAH life was so Tahlequah... but Chadwick speaking about our current medicine men were inspired to go horses or cows. Indian tribes had structured that an opposing “Be it resolved by the Keetoowah Corntassell Smith — a hereditary conditions e.g. lack of respect for up to a high mountain, one at a domesticated dogs to guard their political faction was permitted to Convention, as soon as this law is member of the Keetoowah elders, and that if we don’t return time on each of seven days. settlements, to hunt and pull sleds physically remove themselves enacted and shall become a law it Nighthawks — has recently been — ethics-wise — in the direction to move goods over land. The from the main tribal government. will be the duty according to law elected as Principal Chief. Chad we came from, EAST or THE On the seventh day, they heard a KEETOOWAH people believed Such removal occurred several to visit all the lodges in their is already doing his best to restore PAST, we will WALK WEST as noise over them and a light religion and law were the same; times in the KEETOOWAH/ respective districts and explain the ethics of the Keetoowahs, but a nation to the FUTURE DEATH brighter than day appeared and a the priest was the legal figure and . The majority of the Keetoowah laws.” progress promises to be slow, of our nation and our genocide voice said, “I am a messenger unless Creator intervenes, and will be our own fault. from God. God has heard your the people were governed by the those who voluntarily moved to “Be it further resolved by the “sends the Cherokees back to the prayers and He has great passion laws of the spirits. The Clan Law Arkansas were the conservative Keetoowah convention, that each Dirt” as one prophecy promises We must reinvent ourselves NOW for your people and from now on or was the social hunter element who desired to district captain shall name a small to do if the Cherokee don’t “wake as the Phoenix bird always has! you shall be called Keetoowah. structure for the KEETOOWAHS maintain the old traditional lodge and make up a roll of names up!” by themselves. Go back to your fire and worship. and practiced in a matrilineal culture. The main tribe back east LEGEND OF THE of the members of that lodge and There is a white ball from way arrangement, passing from the was rapidly drifting away from KEETOOWAH - Version A report same to the head captains KEY east, who is your enemy, coming mother to the children. If a tribal the traditional way of life through at first meeting held by and your grandchildren’s feet are member committed a crime such the influence of schools and the In explaining the Keetoowah by Ken Martin Keetoowah Convention. The directed west. They shall have as murder, the Clan of the victim educated tribal leadership. The wampum belts in the 1984 District Captain, or the Secretary, The Cherokee sometimes refer to great trials on the edge of the would avenge the death under the Arkansas lands where the documentary video, Chief shall call the names on the roll.” themselves as Ani-Kituhwagi, prairie. They shall be divided into supervision of the oldest family KEETOOWAH’S settled William Smith stated that The (Keetoowah Laws - April 29, “The People of Kituhwa”. different factions and their blood member. If the slayer could not be belonged to the Osage tribe, Ancient Keetoowah are told that 1859" in Howard Tyner, The Kituhwa was the name of an shall be about only on half. found, a brother of the perpetrator whose claims had not yet been they are the Chief Indian Tribe in Keetoowah Society in Cherokee ancient city, located near present Families shall be divided against could be substituted as a sacrifice extinguished by the United States. the Americas, and that if and when History. (MA, University of Bryson City, North Carolina that each other and they shall to the law of retaliation. If this was The Osage objected to the the Great Spirit speak to the Tulsa, 1949), Appendix A.) was the nucleus of the Cherokee disregard their chiefs, leaders, not done, the spirit of the victim KEETOOWAH presence, and the Indians in the Americas, they will Nation. The common English medicine men, and captains. But would notpass into the spirit KEETOOWAHS were compelled deliver the message to the William P. Ross, however, was phonetic spelling today is if these younger generation should world and would haunt the family. to fight to maintain the land. For Keetoowah first. less than receptive to the idea of “Keetoowah”, a name used by endeavor to follow your God’s The KEETOOWAHSpracticed a the first 20 years or more the reconciliation with his former mixed system of private and KEETOOWAHS were in constant PROPHECIES from http:// traditionalist Cherokee groups instruction there is a chance to enemies. When it came time to public punishment. The threat by the Osage. The treaty of www.eagles-wingsmin.com/ like the Keetoowah Society, who turn back east and if not, the next appoint a delegation to KEETOOWAHS had different 1817 with the United States senamc1.htm are followers of traditional move shall be west, on to the coast Washington to negotiate relations religion, and the United and from there on to the boat and Chiefs during certain times. exchanged the lands in Tennessee and further settlements with the in the heart of the Smokey Keetoowah Band of Cherokee this shall be the last.” During times of war their leaders for the lands in Arkansas. This Federal government, he refused to Mountains, some 3500 years ago, Indians of Oklahoma, a Federally were called Red Chiefs and in gained the KEETOOWAHS a appoint any representatives from God revealed Himself to a people. recognized tribe of predominantly LEGEND OF THE times of peace they were called definite title to a territory. The the Southern delegation. In The Creator gave the people a full blood Cherokees. KEETOOWAH - Version B White Chiefs. The Anglo Contact: treaty of 1819 established the addition to his personal contempt Mother town and a new name - When Hernando DeSoto boundaries. In the Spring of 1819 Chief John Ross: for the “Treaty Party,” he was both were named “Keetoowah.” The Legend of the Keetoowah, as discovered the KEETOOWAH Thomas Nuttall, a Naturalist, suspicious of certain delegates recalled in 1930 by Levi B. Gritts, people in 1540, there were sixty came up the Arkansas River, and The town was located near present Thank you, I am pleased to be here among the Southern delegation a prominent member of the different and independent villages gave his account of the day Bryson City, North Carolina. today. whom he believed were in It was from Keetoowah that the traditionalist Keetoowah Society, with each having a separate KEETOOWAHS as he found alliance with railroad companies Creator revealed His true name to places them on islands in the On behalf of the UNITED government and leaders. The them at that time. Quoting Nuttall and white interests to undermine the people. He said His name was Atlantic Ocean east of South KEETOOWAH BAND OF whole tribe came together only in “In going up the stream there were Cherokee sovereignty.(In all “Yowah” and the people would be America. Anthropologists have CHEROKEES, I want to thank the times of war and ceremonies. The houses and farms on both banks probability, he was right. Elias “kit-Yowah” or “from God.” discovered that Cherokee basket University of Arkansas for tribal life was unchanged as late of the River. The houses were Boudinot was a lobbyist for the Today they are known as the and pottery styles resemble those allowing this first Annual Native as 1710. When the White man’s decently furnished, and their railroad company and James Bell Cherokee. of South American and Caribbean American Symposium. I also want influence arrived it was slow at farms were well fenced and and James Lynch were eager to tribes, differing from other tribes to thank Dr. Frank Scheide who first but then spread rapidly. This stocked with cattle. They had promote denationalization and the At the advent of European contact of the southeast U.S. is responsible for organizing this created major changes with the everything they needed: food, establishment of a territorial the Cherokee had become the event. I hope this event will tribal leadership shifting from clothes, water and good land.” end Seventy tribes attacked them but, government. [McLoughlin, 439] most powerful tribal group in the become one of the main priest to warrior. The Whites of quote. At this time the by the guidance of God, they were ). At a convention held in the -American southeast, claiming attractions on the campus in the brought diseases and many KEETOOWAHS numbered 4 to victorious. The last warrior of southern part of the Canadian parts of nine states. The future. My presentation is about KEETOOWAH people died of 5 thousand members. In 1820 the their attackers, Ner-du-er-gi, was District in late December, the Cherokees were known to the the KEETOOWAH history, pre- mainly smallpox. Fur trading was American Board of on top of a mountain overlooking Knights of the Golden Circle met colonists as the most -civilized Columbian, the arrival of the the most instrumental in creating Commissioners for Foreign their camp in the deep valley to discuss their political tribe because they chose to adapt Europeans, the western migration, change. The warriors became Mission established Dwight below. This warrior saw a smoke disenfranchisement under the to many of the - newcomers ways. THE LEGEND OF THE hunters and served as agents for Mission, at the mouth of Illinois arising from the camp which auspices of the Ross leadership. One of those ways was the belief KEETOOWAHS, THE fur trading. The tribal members Creek, on the bank of the “extended up beyond Heaven”. Realizing that Ross had no in Jesus Christ. PROPHESY and the move back pursued material possessions and Arkansas River in what is now The smoke was divided into three intention of granting their to east. I hope you enjoy my wealth. They began purchasing Pope County Arkansas. The name Mainly influenced by the Baptist parts and in that there was an membership any political status, presentation and learn about my farm animals, and equipment. Dwight Mission was given in and Methodist, churches sprang eagle holding arrows. When the the Knights once again sent their people. During pre-Columbian: Tribal members understandably remembrance of Timothy Dwight, up all over Cherokee country. One warrior and h is followers saw own delegation to Washington to The KEETOOWAH people were quickly drawn to trade a Yale President and pioneer negotiate for political Baptist missionary and his this, he ordered them not to attack power.(Wardell, 208-209.) Cherokee co-worker, who were especially sensitive to the Check Help support our Cherokee The Keetoowah began to realize Cherokee culture, started over 30 the Language efforts, by that, as long as Ross was in a churches and trained several Join Today! donations, subscriptions, leadership position within the dozen Cherokee preachers. Become a member of Cherokee Observer Cherokee Nation, there would be Online and no real reconciliation and no Upon their forced removal the Advertize your company everyday for the issues that progress as a nation. He was, after through an illegal scheme, the 2rkg 2hUje in the Cherokee Ob- Cherokees lost all their old all, a Ross. The Knights of the CHEROKEE are happening server. Golden Circle hated him as much homelands. Later, a small amount in the of land was restored through the OBSERVER Visit our website for the as he hated them for the things Cherokee Nation at; they had done to his uncle and, as benevolence of a man named rates. 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