A Timeless Message of Faith And Hope

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A Message of Faith and Hope
On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Monday, January 15, 2007


On this Monday, January 15, 2007, Americans’ will pay tribute and honor to Martin Luther King Jr.(MLK Day). Martin Luther King Day, sometimes known as Human Right’s Day, was established in 1986 to acknowledge his diligent work as a Civil Right’s Activist during the Civil Right’s Movement(1955- 1968). On August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King delivered his famous speech "I have a Dream". Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 by a man named James Earl Ray.

The Civil Right’s Movement was powerful from 1955 to 1968, a Movement that would be a major factor in American History and today Americans realize in remembrance of the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the struggle to end segregation, to find a solution to end the hard-core discrimination.

During the Civil Right’s Movement groups and organizations would march forth declaring Equal Right’s, Fair Housing, Employment Equality, Adequate Wages and Working Conditions and the endeavors would change many of the Governments Policies and a Free America would be almost obvious.

Women’s Power’s, Farm Labor Activist, Black Panthers, Hispanic Groups, Senior Citizens, Gay Activist, Religious Right’s and the American Indian Movement, all would become historical properties associated with the Civil Right’s Movement.

As well, Anti-War and Vietnam groups and organizations would stage their resentment towards the U.S. Military occupation in Vietnam during the ‘60's and ‘70's, a War in which whose political virtues would appear unwarranted.

Civil Right’s Marches, Peace Demonstrations and War Protest, activity that became historical and America would be unraveled for a time and then the American Indian Movement would become a serious issue with the occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. that would lead to the armed occupation of Wounded Knee.

Since those years where so many events and activities revolved around marches, demonstration and protest, America has sort of quieted down, but there are still some American Indians who continue to fight for their Treaty, Land, Water, Cultural and Religious Freedoms.

The Dreams of People can be achieved as with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., for his Dream was in fact a Dream of sincerity and reality, a Dream that was vital to all of Humanity.

The American Indian has a Dream and it is a Dream that is one of sincerity and reality, a Dream full of Faith and Hope, ambitions to build a unique future for the Tribes that will enhance the Well Being and Welfare of their Tribal Members.

The Sovereign Nations are on a journey, a journey towards rebuilding their native land, a journey that is full of sovereignty, commitment and accountability, a Dream that is full of honor, a Dream in which their Ancestors tried to achieve with triumph.

Dreams are crucial to understand and a people such as the American Indian realize that their Dream is not only historic in proportion but crucial to the future of their children and grandchildren.

Yes, Government deceit, distortion and corruption for the American Indian spanned far into the past several hundred years, but now come a people who have proudly excelled in the field of education, who have struggled to climbed up out of the depths of disease, impoverishment, tyranny, oppression and genocide, descendants of ancestors who suffered historically the worlds worst holocaust.

The journey to achieve Liberty has been a long and enduring and yet the Sovereignty of the American Indian has not fully been recognized, accepted and often undermined, but the people will not fall back because their need is urgent to surge ahead and retrieve constructive and beneficial solutions.

The journey to achieve Justice has been a long and enduring, a journey that stretches far into the past some 500 years, a Justice that has been blind to the Indian far too long.

Today, in remembrance of a great Civil Right’s leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., let us hope that the American Indian can step forth and generate a message of Faith and Hope and elaborate on the Dream that states that the American Indian shall not be a forgotten people but shall be a people that will come forth to stand above all with excellence and integrity for a better tomorrow.

And as Liberty and Justice is being fought for throughout the world, let us hope that America which is a country today known as a Nation of many Immigrants, will come to realize that this Native Land, this Mother Land is in fact the Home Land of the American Indian where Liberty and Justice has not prevailed and almost forgotten..

Yes, there is much work that needs to be accomplished by and for the American Indian but the possibility for the Sovereign Nations to reach new heights is real because the Faith and Hope of many is structured strongly within and contains the Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding of their Ancestors.

The Sovereign Nations will one day lay down the past but never walk away from it for it is an historical lesson of what should have never been and what shall never happen again.

The Sovereign Nations will stop the distortion and desecration of their Culture, Medicines and Ceremonies and frustrate those who sell and destroy the authentic balance of the Ancestral realm

The Sovereign Nations will secure strength, honor, pride and dignity through preserving their Ancestral Culture, Medicines, Ceremonies, Language, History and Archaeological past.

The Sovereign Nations will pave a constructive path for future generations, because the future generations of the American Indian will walk upright with their heads held high with honor, dignity and respect.

The Sovereign Nations of the American Indian will endure, adhere and prevail as a race of people who will stand fast with their acknowledgment that there is only one flag that they pay tribute and honor to, a flag that they owe their only allegiance to, which is really not a flag but the great Eagle Staff of all Sovereign Nations.

Tomorrow is a new day, but it is as well another day in which the American Indian will continue to step forward and announce to all..."You are in our home...please respect our home as you would your own home, because we the American Indian have risen from the depths of your hell and are marching forth to remove the darkness of evil that was forced upon our ancestors and the light that will shine upon all of our Sovereign Nations will be the light of Liberty and Justice."

The message of Faith and Hope on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is a message that is oh so very clear because the Sovereign Nations no longer has any room in its future for the tyranny, oppression and injustice that has plagued our Nations for so long and now we say to all, "The Indian World Will Live On Forever!"

Larry Kibby - Elko Indian Colony
Elko, Nevada 89801

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