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The Truth Will Set Us Free

The book “Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the

Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History:” is creating quite a stir as

noted by Chuck Thompson in his interview with the author S.C. Gwynne.

http://www.cowboysindians.com/western/old-west/2011-04/empire-of-the-summer-moon.jsp

I would like to comment on a review written by Jonathan Bastian in The Aspen Daily News,

Aspen, Colorado on Friday April 1, 2011.

http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/entertainment/146121

In his review Jonathan has brought something important to the table: our predilection for

“making absolute moral judgments.” He is referring to the current politically correct tendency to

demonize the white man and glorify the Indian, which robs the Indian of their shadow, and the

white man of their light.

The truth will set us free, and freedom is the ultimate evolutionary goal of the human saga. S.C.

Gwynne, author of “Empire of the Summer Moon,” liberates us from the stereotype of “the noble

savage” made popular by Rousseau in the 1700’s, and indelibly stamped in the minds of the

current generation by the counter-culture in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s. That important birthing of a new

consciousness saw in the cosmology and way of life of the Indian the pathway to balance and the

realization of the human potential.

This has been fueled by the rise of revisionist history initiated in Plymouth, Massachusetts with

the so-called “National Day of Mourning” on Thanksgiving Day 1970. The victim/perpetrator

model becomes reinforced every Thanksgiving as historical untruths perpetuate and breed blame,

shame and guilt amongst our children, both Native and white.

Instead of using the extraordinary first 50 years of peace and friendship between the Mayflower

Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians as a model of multi-cultural synthesis (resulting in the

unique American Mind and Spirit), the internet and bookstores are full of erroneous tales of “The

Real Thanksgiving.” In these versions of history, which couldn’t be further from the truth, the

Pilgrims – moms, dads and kids seeking to create a society based on freedom of conscience -

appear as a blood-thirsty lot out to devour everything in their path, particularly the Indian (who,

surprisingly, shared their world-view).

If we take an unbiased look at the entire history of humanity we will see that every race has a

shadow and every race has light: the white, the black, the red, the yellow. Please show me a timein history when fear, greed and power has not led to violent, unconscionable behavior in every

race amongst each other and between races.

Bastian and Gwynne make this point – that we all descend from warring tribes. All races have

played out their shadow in one way or another. We’re all familiar with the white man’s shadow

in American history and the victimization of the peaceful Indian. Gwynne has shattered that false



image and brought a great gift to the Indian – the violent past of the warring tribes, their shadow,

the truth – a pathway to balance.

Henry David Thoreau, who had a life-long resonance to the Native American,became one of the top ethnologists of his time on the Algonquin Indian. He

hired Indian guides on his forays into the Maine wilderness, and his finaldying word was “Indian.” He expressed this dichotomy eloquently. Hisstatement does much to level the playing field:

“What an evidence it is, after all, of civilization, or of a capacity for improvement,that savages like our Indians, who in their protracted wars stealthily slay men,women, and children without mercy,… what a wonderful evidence it is, I say, of their capacity for improvement that even they can enter into the most formalcompact or treaty of peace, burying the hatchet, etc., etc., and treating with eachother with as much consideration as the most enlightened states. You would say that they had a genius for diplomacy as well as for war. Consider that Iroquois,torturing his captive,...; and now behold him in the council-chamber, where he

meets the representatives of the hostile nation to treat of peace, conducting withsuch perfect dignity and decorum, betraying such a sense of justness. Thesesavages are equal to us civilized men in their treaties, and, I fear, not essentially worse in their wars.” JOURNAL December 30, 1856. (Please note that the word “savage” to

Thoreau denoted “wild man” and to him the “wild” in man is to be nurtured and will be our salvation. “In

wildness is the preservation of the Earth”)

Why do we all hold on so desperately to the notion of the Indian foreverliving peacefully in balance with the Earth with the White man ravaging all inhis path?

Having spent the last 3 decades exploring the cause of the paradox within the human race – ouramazing capacity for love and compassion on the one hand, and our violent and ruthless behavior

on the other – I have discovered that fear and the attendant concepts of scarcity and separation

have contaminated our behavior despite the Indian cosmology of abundance and oneness, and the

Western concepts of “E Pluribus Unum” –“ From Many, One,” “All men are created equal with

inalienable rights endowed by the Creator” and “In God We Trust”

All races have dreams and high ideals, but have fallen short in applying these ideals to life at

home and between nations. The six warring tribes now known as the Iroquois, inspired by the

Peacemaker, drafted “The Great Law” and united to become the most powerful and dreaded

military force in the Northeast long before the European arrived. Similarly, centuries later, the

thirteen American colonies came together with various inspired freedom documents and

ultimately became the dominant military power in the world.

Ultimately, if we step back, fly high and take a look at the evolution of the human race, we will

see that we are all one species playing out our light and our shadow. Fortunately, as quantum

physics illuminates our personal power, and prophecies speak of a shift in consciousness, many

see that we are now at a time when we can choose to open our hearts and minds to each other,



walk forward into the light, and together create a world of peace and abundance for all our

children – to the 7th generation and beyond.

Connie Baxter Marlow, filmmaker and writer, is a Mayflower descendent who has spent

extensive time with visionary indigenous elders throughout the United States and Mexico. Shehas been creating forums for them to share their cosmology for 30 years in films, books, lectures

and ceremonies. Her film with partner Andrew Cameron Bailey, “IN SEARCH OF THE

FUTURE. What do the Wise Ones Know?” on the origin and future of humanity with indigenous

elders, quantum scientists and futurists is currently screening at select locations around the

country.www.InSearchofTheFutureMovie.com . She has produced a DVD series on little-known

aspects of the life and thinking of Henry David Thoreau and will speak at the Thoreau Annual

Gathering held in Concord, MA in July on “Thoreau, The Futurist and the Emerging

Human.”www.ThoreauSociety.org. Her book/workshop, with partner Bailey, ‘THE TRUST

FREQUENCY: 10 Assumptions for a New Paradigm”, an indigenous cosmology/quantum

science synthesis, will soon be published. www.TheTrustFrequency.net

http://www.insearchofthefuturemovie.com/



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