Quill & Ink

Hopi Goddess by Karl Bang

Legend of the
Rainbow Warriors

Oh Shinnah Fastwolf is a warrior woman. In her blood are mixed the traditions of the Tineh (Apache), the Mohawk, and the Scottish. In the book Legends of the Rainbow Warriors by Steven McFadden she says: 

“There is a prophecy that states a time would come when Indians would reincarnate on this planet as part of the dominant society, which is white society. The Indians’ spirits would incarnate in the dominant society to change the attitude of that society. So learning native ways is very natural to them…This will also be a time when all the esoteric teachings of the world’s traditions will be revealed, so that there will be no secrets, no reason to fear each other or to be in conflict. This is clearly happening now…If a person has a sincere heart and wants to walk the path of the sacred, it should be accessible to them….As far as I am concerned it doesn’t have anything to do with the color of your skin. It is the way you live your life. The only thing we have to give is the way we live our lives. If you live on this land, and you have ancestors sleeping in this land, I believe that makes you native to this land….I was raised not to look at people racially. What I was taught is that we’re flowers in Great Spirit’s garden. WE share a common root, and the root is Mother Earth. The garden is beautiful because it has different colors in it, and those colors represent different traditions and cultural backgrounds.”