Our Indigenous Heritage:
Indigenous spirituality has been practiced in North and South America before recorded history.
The fundamental premise of all indigenous spirituality is to honor and respect Grandmother Earth (Matriarchal), Grandfather Sky (Patriarchal) and all of their descendants.
The practicing of American Native indigenous spirituality is understood off and on Federally Recognized Indian Reservations as the Native American Church, which has been granted exclusive federal laws to recognize the spiritual ceremonies and to protect and maintain access to their sacred ceremonial grounds. American Native Spirituality has historically utilized Grandmother Earth’s minerals and plants to commune with the spirit world to assist their healing and personal empowering ceremonies.
ONAC Websites: NativeAmericanChurches.Org
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Oklevueha Native American Church
Oklevueha Native American Church (ONAC) and it’s Authorized Branches presently is the ONLY:
1- Native American Church accepted to conduct Indigenous American Native ceremonies within the United States Navy;
2- Native American Church validated by a unanimous decision of the State of Utah Supreme Court to admit people of any racial make up around its sacred fires;
3- Native American Church that has received State of Utah Governor Accommodation Awards for introducing and managing a successful American Native based Habilitation Program in the State of Utah Department of Corrections;
4- Native American Church that has entered into a Cultural Exchange Proclamation with the Huichole Nation, witnessed by the Mexican Consulate.
5- Native American Church that has received a ruling in the Hawaiian Federal Court whereupon the United States Government committed (due to ripeness) not to confiscate ‘Cannabis’ Sacrament from the United States Mails and/or arrest any member of Oklevueha Native American Church of Hawaii for transporting or utilizing cannabis as their Sacrament. The Court also gave permission for ONAC of Hawaii to Sue the DEA.
Oklevueha Native American Church (ONAC) is a United States federally recognized indigenous American Native Earth Based Healing and Empowerment Church. ONAC is a unification of Lakota Sioux and Oklevueha Seminole Spiritual Traditions. Lakota Sioux, Chief Richard ‘He Who Holds the Foundation’ Swallow and Oklevueha Seminole Medicine Man, James Warren ‘Flaming Eagle’ Mooney welcomes you with open arms regardless of your race, gender, age, social position; religious back ground and/or financial status. All are welcome into our sacred healing and empowering international Oklevueha NAC indigenous spiritual community.
LAKOTA SIOUX NATION AND OKLEVUEHA SEMINOLE SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS
The Lakota Sioux Nation and Oklevueha Seminole spiritual traditions merged their two indigenous, earths based healing and empowering traditions, December 17, 2007.
The original agreement named this merging of American Native spiritual traditions, Oklevueha Lakota Sioux Native American Church, predominately known as Oklevueha Native American Church.
The merging of these two spiritual traditions honors the courageous heritage of the Oglala and Lakota Sioux Nation, and the Oklevueha Seminole Colony of American Native traditions. This merging brought about the availability of these two indigenous spiritual traditions to the public as a whole. The Oglala and Lakota Sioux spiritual leaders Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Fool Bull (Native Americans) maintained their spiritual traditions through a tenacious commitment in honoring their American Native culture, which is, honoring and respecting Mother Earth and Father Sky.
Both Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull were murdered primarily, for their unwavering commitment to honor their American Native way of life. Fool Bull tenaciously weaved his traditional medicine spiritual ways through the reservation world of corrupt politics of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This weaving enabled his descendents of Sioux spiritual traditions such as, Leslie Fool Bull and Richard ‘He Who Has the Foundation’ Swallow to survive and blossom in the reservation world.
Osceola, Quanah Parker, and James Mooney maintained the Oklevueha Seminole spiritual traditions, in secret, on and off of Federally Recognized Indian Reservations. The reason for the secrecy was if the people that carried these traditions were revealed, they would have been murdered. In the 1800’s, there were bounties placed on all Seminoles that did not reside on federally recognized Indian reservations. If a government agent of the United States were to kill, and turn in a severed Seminole head, they would receive as much as $200.00.
In the 1800’s, this was a massive amount of money. The Seminole spiritual traditions are embedded in a multitude of indigenous cultures. The Seminole indigenous spiritual tradition traces its beliefs to Central America, primarily, in the vicinity of Guatemala. Because of the infusion of escaped slaves mostly from plantations of Georgia, the indigenous spirituality of African indigenous people is infused with Seminole spirituality. With the melding of Irish and Scottish misfits into the Seminole culture came indigenous Gaelic traditions into the Seminole melting pot of earth based healing and empowering spiritual traditions. With these understandings, one may surmise that the reason for the survival of these indigenous spiritual traditions relied on the ability of the followers to listen to, and follow the promptings of the heart in the ‘moment’.
They could not have survived the onslaught of atrocities with one set of practices for each one of their indigenous ceremonies. It is also reasonable to conclude that women (Matriarch) are the true caretakers of the indigenous medicines and the men (Patriarch) are the protector of the medicines. The seemingly diverse (in comparison) traditions of the staunch Lakota Sioux ceremonial ways, and the fluid, spiritual traditions of the Seminoles makes the merging of these two indigenous earths based ways applicable to today’s spiritual healing practitioners.
A study of the Oklevueha Native American Church Code of Ethics makes the merging of these two spiritual traditions applicable and inviting to seekers of the truth to know the essence of who they are, and where their original traditions blossomed. .