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Five Hundred Years of Silence
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…when white persons of either sex have been taken prisoner young by the Indians, and lived awhile among them, tho’ ransomed by their Friends, and treated with all imaginable tenderness to prevail with them to stay among the English, yet in a Short time they become disgusted with our manner of life…and take the first opportunity of escaping again into the Woods, from whence there is no reclaiming them.
~ From Nikita Petrov
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It was predicted that the time would come when the voices of indigenous peoples would rise again, after five hundred years of silence and oppression, to guide us to an eternal fire of peace, love and fraternity among all the Nations.
William Commanda was the hereditary chief of the Algonquins. During his life, he has witnessed many times the oppression of his people and the virtual destruction of his territory, his language and his culture. During a deep spiritual awakening, he understood the urgency of bringing together the peoples of the four symbolic races of humanity, developing relationships based on these values and creating a synergy that would contribute to the spiritual transformation of a perceived world by many as being “in spiritual bankruptcy.”
Shamanism is an ancestral practice centered on the mediation between human beings and…
