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~ What's Your Number ~
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What’s Your Number

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Hey you, what is your number, number yes, what is your number? What is your immigration number, what is your roll number, what is your telephone number, what is your zip code? Do you have a Doss number, do you have a prison inmate number, do you have a Henderson number? Are you numbered like the Jews in a concentration camp, in a Nazi concentration camp? What is your social security number? There is no number on blood, there is no number on the ink of the heart, the spirit, the soul. Are you offended when these so called brothers and sisters of our color, the snobs ask for your number, what is your number? Can you put a number on feelings, does Grandfather give us a number, a place in line? The only number Grandfather is interested in is the number of poor souls that are persecuted and prosecuted and the number of his creatures that he has put upon this Earth, the number of his creatures that have been skinned, killed for pure pleasure. Our people, our brothers and sisters of the forest and of the mountains, how many are there, do they have a number? What is your FBI number, your CIA number, your house number, your post office box number, your area code number? When I ask what is your number are you offended as I? Drivers license number, vehicle identification number, burial plot number. Numbers are so Big Brother can keep track of you, can keep you under his thumb with only your hands and your feet sticking out as if pressed against a marble slate, under the thumb. The government gave us numbers in the beginning, not for land, not for education, not for food stamps, not for a blanket, not for clothes but gave us numbers, these different Acts that our people were registered on these rolls not to identify each other.

The Christians speak of a number that their God gave to some of their people, 666 evil, all numbers are evil. Why not have a number from the Great Spirit, Grandfather. Grandfather does not need us to be numbered, we are all his children, he knows us by name. Are you of the Standing Elk of East Boston, are you the fourth generation of Gray Wolf of Kansas City, are you related to Rob Wild Horse of Knob Hill in San Francisco? Do you need a number to know that is your coat or that is your hat, maybe so, but of my war bonnet, my lance, my horse I do not need a number, I do not need a license plate on my war pony. Lincoln Center, Memorial Auditorium, all of these tickets to get into places, numbers, numbers. How many of the rolls must you be on to sit with Grandfather, the Medicine Men, the Great Warriors who have gone before us. How many numbers are needed to sit in Council, to reside in the Heavenly Lodge? Do you need a number to put on your dress, your bonnet, your feathers, your beads, your bones, your moccasins and dance with the Spirit. Do you need a number to tell who are your brothers and sisters, do not look at their numbers, look at their hearts. Speak to another Spirit, have another Spirit speak to you, that is identification enough. We have numbers on our burial plots for what? A useless piece of what used to be flesh and bones that is no longer needed. Our Spirit is what is important. Spirits have no numbers, souls have no numbers. They tell me I need a number to dance, do not tell me I need a number to worship, do not tell me I need a number to feel the Spirit in my soul. How many eagle feathers do you have, how many hairs in the pelt of a rabbit, how many pieces of down in a goose, numbers, where did these numbers come from. Do we need a number to identify our friends, check it out, check it out, take inventory.

They say your days are numbered, days are not numbered. You are given a time upon this Earth which is Grandfather's time. He creates you and puts you on this Earth as the rest of the creatures of this Earth, the sky, of the waters. He does not set his alarm clock as to when to call you to the other side, it is when he wants you, when he needs you, when you have a place to sit in Council.

Hey you, what is your number. How many times in one day do we deal with numbers? Checking account numbers, area code numbers, street numbers, we never had them before, we had never, never had them before the invaders came to our country and to our shores. The invasion of our villages, of our homes, makes no difference how many musket shots ring out, it only takes one to kill a spirit. Whether it be one or whether it be a volley, the spirit is just as dead. Don't you realize numbers make you a prisoner, you are a numbered prisoner in this savage world of cannibals, they call your number when it is time to go to slaughter and be eaten by these people.

What do you mean I need a number to dance with my Spirit, what do you mean I need a number to wear the eagle feathers that Grandfather has seen fit to allow me to wear. In the past, did the enemy ask you for your number before piercing your chest with his lance and drawing the red ink from the depths of your Spirit and tears from your soul. The "Civilized" world has become a total population of calculators, computers, android robotic snobs, numerical geniuses that no longer have fingers and toes on which to count, technological they call it. Get real, get serious, grow up, get a job, right on.

...Think About It...

Look at your watch, who needs hands and feet on their wrist. Do I need to know what time it is when I get hungry, when my stomach growls do I need a watch or a clock? Do I need hands to tell me when I am thirsty, when I am tired? What do I need to tell me when it gets dark that it is night, when the sun comes up and it gets light it is day. I am angry with these numbers, numbers are for the count down, for your missiles, your war heads, your nuclear bombs. Destruction, total destruction, everything is numbered. This Indian will not live in a civilization of numbers. I will only exist because it is necessary but there will be no more numbers than what is absolutely necessary to exist in this savage world of wildness, cannibalism, control.

Do not say how long I have been here on this Earth, do not say how long I have been a Spirit. Do not give me the number of days my soul has been with the Heavenly Council. My days are not numbered, my soul and my Spirit will go into the Heavenly Lodge, the Heavenly Council, when my duties on this Earth have been completed or until Grandfather and the Council have need of me or want of me. Does a drum with its heartbeat, does it know how many times to beat a minute? Numbers, what is your number, sounds like a numbered carcass hanging in a slaughter house, sound like a numbered prisoner of this world. Just a body, useless piece of flesh with no soul, no Spirit, no heart, no mind of your own. You are not, you are not, you are somebody, you are somebody special. Get down on your knees, look up to Grandfather, look up to the Council, look up to the Medicine Men, the Holy Men, look up to the Great Warriors that reside in the Heavenly Lodge and sit in Heavenly Council. Do you need a number to get on your knees and look up to the Heavens and say "Thank You"

Count your blessings, No, appreciate your blessings. Grandfather does not keep track of the blessings he bestows on your head and on your body, on your family and on your loved ones. Be thankful for All that you have received, not one, two, three, six, ten, fourteen,

whatever, be thankful for All. Do not just be a number.

Can you count the number of water drops in a cloud, can you count the number of grains of sand in the desert. The compass has 360 degrees on it but when you get the whirling winds picking up earth or dust or sand, count the grains there are no numbers. They are scattered into how many directions, more directions than there are on the compass. Think of numbers, bad medicine, bad medicine, do not swallow any more of these numbers, bad medicine, than is absolutely necessary any more than swallowing some of these chemicals that is in our food, that is in our water, that is in the air. Yes, we have to exist among a civilization of numbers but let us not become one ourselves. Do not dance by numbers, do not pray by numbers, do not rest your bones, your mind, your soul, your heart, your Spirit by the number.

Do not eat or drink by the clock, if Grandfather would have wanted us to be dominated by numbers we would have been given a number at our birth instead of Grandfather giving us a name. Grandfather would have seen fit to permanently attach to our arm a watch, self winding of course, because most of us could not remember to keep it wound because we are not used to being on a time schedule. We can live with computers, calculators, these android robotic idiots but let us not become one ourselves. You have a name, I have a name, I have a Spirit, you have a Spirit, respect me as I am. Listen to your heart do not count its beats, count your blessings from Grandfather as all, not individually. Let us not become a "World of Numbers"

I will dance with my Spirit, I will dance with Grandfather, I will wear my feathers, I will wear my beads, I will wear my bones. I will wear my moccasins and I do not need to be issued, a number to wear these things and to do the things that I do with my Spirit and my Grandfather

...Think About It...