Magdalena Magazine

12/21/2024

Winter Solstice Blessings 🕯☀️🙏🏼

To honor this day we look to the ancestors for their wisdom. 5,000 years ago, before the pyramids and Stonehenge the Irish Ancestors built a tomb of the Sun known as Newgrange. It was a monument to tell time and mark the longest nights and the return of longer days, a new year and a new start to the calendar on Winter Solstice.

Built with stone from 60km away the manpower and technology to create such a tomb makes a tribal community evident.

On the day of the winter solstice At sunrise from the 19th to the 23rd of December when the sun pauses on the horizon and reverses it’s direction the first light of dawn enters the chamber and illuminates the interior of the tomb for 17 minutes ✨ shining light on the tripple spiral on the back wall of the tomb. Symbolizing the life death rebirth cycle and the connection with our ancestors.

This Neolithic feat was excavated in 1967. Revealing the relics of a people devoted to a sun god. Newgrange is a relatively modern name for the passage tomb, in Celtic mythology it was known as An Brug, meaning mansion or dwelling place of the Tuatha De Danann, who were a mythological race who inhabited the “other world”. The chief God of the Tuatha De Danann, was An Dagda (meaning Good God) who fathered a child, Aengus, with Boann, the Goddess of the River Boyne.

Reminders of our pre Christian European ancestors who were humbled by the gifts of nature and devoted to personified god and goddess of the sun and water.

May we be renewed by the return of the light ☀️🕯🙏🏼

12/19/2024

The Hunkpapa are coming! A Horse Nation Is Coming!

As most of America simmers in a Christmas spirit, a group of Hunkpapa riders will leave from Sitting Bull’s camp on their way to Wounded Knee. A 350 mile journey, praying for the future of our people as they come across the land. Riding on the backs of our sacred relatives, our cherished horse nation. They got up before the sun, rounding up horses, tacking them up and topping them off. As they ride they will feel the cold, they will feel the pain and they will accept it, because they’re in prayer. In the evening they will make sure their horses are fed and watered before they eat and drink.

“There is still a warrior class of people among us. The Hunkpapa are coming! A horse nation is coming! Not everyone found their faith in a church or at Sundance. Some found their faith on the back of a horse. And any prayer said on the back of a horse is a powerful one.”

Shared via- Erica Crazy Hawk of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Dakota Exiled, her uncle is Wilfred Keeble we come from Chief Bone Necklace.

The Future Generations Ride and the Dakota 38-2 riders are riding through winter to remember their ancestors and keep their prayers and culture alive.

Learn more about the healing and reconciliation ride on the link in Bio

“Warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is someone who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who cannot provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.” - Sitting Bull

12/01/2024

Be a “YES” person, or a “ja!” Person; unless you need to be a “NO” person. “No;” after all, is a complete sentence.

Forever inspired by the family home of .v.brumund 🐓

11/28/2024

Thanksgiving in America must be reimagined as a day of mourning as it is for the first people of this land. The false history of a shared meal between the pilgrims and the Wampanoag is one of deceit.

Without acknowledging the betrayal we cannot mend the wounds that are reflected in our relationship to nature. Despite all the pain, we can’t help but feel grateful for the mending taking place. The resilience of the spirit of human kind to know it’s place in nature and to forever be fighting for it.

Honoring the teachings and wisdom in the Lakota people, the Ohlone and Esselen people. The Chumash and Houdenosaune people and all First Nations carrying on their language and culture. Who will not be erased. Who will rise as the earth does to renew within its cycles.

Our gratitude is to you for teaching us to remember, WE ARE THE LAND

11/03/2024

When I first went to Pine Ridge to join the The Trail of Truth I watched STANDING SILENT NATION first to learn more about the White Plume family history. They were ahead of their time and were challenged by the government when they tried to grow H**p.

Today I am excited to see this film by Patagonia on the Lower Sioux Community having some success with a circular economy! I sure can’t wait to see Alex White Plume and his family have this kind of success on the Rez ❤️‍🔥🙏🏼🕯🐚

Magdalena Magazine is having a fundraiser Sunday Evening at Wendi Kirby music in Monterey and screening Standing Silent Nation! Hope you can join us for a cozy evening and update on Issue Three 🪶

https://www.magdalenamag.com/shop/p/screening-standing-silent-nation

https://www.patagonia.com/stories/the-green-buffalo/video-154708.html

The biggest strides in hempcrete construction are going down on one of the smallest Native American reservations.

11/02/2024

Preparing for tomorrow evenings Community fundraiser for issue 3 🧡🐚🦂🌒 Bring an a prayer of gratitude for your ancestors or maybe a prayer for hope.

See you for a cozy movie night and soup set up Sunday 5-8pm. 🕯

10/25/2024

The was supported by many great souls along the way who shared their lands, meals, prayers and footsteps in solidarity with a hope for a better future. This hope is central to a knowing that the current ways are not working and a new way is underfoot.

Sending thanks to all the friends we made along the way. Thank you sharing devotion to your culture and keeping it alive.

Special thanks to for this new water song 🙏🏼❤️‍🔥💧

10/16/2024

Just one day after Indigenous Peoples Day the is faced with police brutality on the National Mall.

On October 15, 5 arrests were made after police and park rangers confused the tribe on rules regarding permission to have the horses on the National Mall. The Police then attempted to take the horses at which point all the protestors surrounded the trailer and went on the roof to protect the horses.

With over 35 cop cars, vans, bikes and motorcycles police officers argued with the protectors saying they could not stand in the street to protect the horse trailer. After three warnings the police arrested Joey “Fist of Hearts” of the Muwekma Tribe, and several other Lakota and Sioux protectors.

The Trail of Truth plans on occupying a small shaded park on the National Mall infront of the Capitol until Election time. Demanding to speak with Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren who has denied them equal access to Federal Recognition, denying the tribe of gaming rights that would give the Tribe economic viability in the Bay Area.

10/15/2024

From San Francisco to Washington DC on Horseback. The Muwekma Tribe makes landfall and successfully sets up camp on the national Mall on Indigenous Peoples Day. No small feat.

10/14/2024

Honoring all the unrecognized tribes and Indigenous peoples of turtle island with a photo of the and their Tribal Secretary at Asilomar Beach in Pacific Grove. A territory known to have been shared by the Rumsen Ohlone and Esselen tribes over thousands of years by their ancestors. Today the sisters live on Tongva Lands and travel as educators and wisdom keepers throughout California but have no place to call home on their ancestral lands.

May all indigenous peoples come to feel recognized and have a place to call home in the lands of their ancestors.

10/12/2024

Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area hits The Big Apple in NYC . Fearless, filled with pride and dropping jaws left and right. “We are still here!”

10/10/2024

Still unraveling the true history

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10/06/2024

A somber procession at Niagra Falls was made possible by lenient park rangers as the riders on The and Lakota Warriors remembered the painful histories when honoring the ancestors of the land whose bodies were said to have been thrown down the waterfalls in war times. The waters were powerful and so were the prayers as they entered the Haudenosaunee Iroquois Confederation of the Five and now Six Nations which unified in 1450 under the great Law of Peace. A law which influenced democracy and peacemaking world wide.

That evening the travelers were welcomed in Tuscarora, the youngest tribe to join the nation in 1700’s. Thank you Jill Clause and the tribal Chiefs from the Bear and Beaver Clans who fed everyone and made the most amazing fire that lasted through a rain storm until morning!

The Trail of Truth remains a strong truth telling in American History as it build unity amongst tribes across Turtle Island and makes its way to DC for Indigenous Peoples day on October 14.

10/06/2024

A somber procession at Niagra Falls was made possible by lenient park rangers as the riders on The and Lakota Warriors remembered the painful histories when honoring the ancestors of the land whose bodies were said to have been thrown down the waterfalls in war times. The waters were powerful and so were the prayers as they entered the Haudenosaunee Iroquois Confederation of the Five and now Six Nations which unified in 1450 under the great Law of Peace. A law which influenced democracy and peacemaking world wide.

That evening the travelers were welcomed in Tuscarora, the youngest tribe to join the nation in 1700’s. Thank you Jill Clause and the tribal Chiefs from the Bear and Beaver Clans who fed everyone and made the most amazing fire that lasted through a rain storm until morning!

The Trail of Truth remains a strong truth telling in American History as it build unity amongst tribes across Turtle Island and makes its way to DC for Indigenous Peoples day on October 14.