"THE MESSAGE OF KARIWIIO"

Reprinted with permission from Traditional Teachings by the Native North American Travelling College

…continued from last week

SKANIENTARIIO’S

LIFE AT OHIO

Message of The Four Beings

The messengers spoke to Skanientariio and through him relayed the messages of Sonkwaiatison. They spoke about the present happenings as well as the future. They spoke about good and evil and the need for having good moral Values. They spoke about the things that we had left behind and the things that we have picked up which were not meant for our people.

The messengers told Skanientariio that they would come to him from time to time to speak to him of events that need to be told to the people. They said that there were four of them but the fourth messenger would meet him later. At this time the fourth messenger is back in Sonkwaiatison’s land to report to him that we have found a person here on earth who is willing to give a message to the people.

The messengers reminded Skanientariio that other people before him were given this message but did not relate it to the people on earth. He was taken to a valley between two hills and asked to look between the sunrise and the moon and what he saw was a deep hole where smoke and steam were rising as if a hot place was beneath. The messengers told Skanientariio that beneath this place lays a man who was buried, as he lies beneath the two hills in the hollow in the valley and a great message is buried with him. We went to him first but he refused to relate this message to the Onkwehonwe. Now he will never rise from that spot. His spirit will be confined to this area until the time that the earth shall be destroyed by fire.

So now we will offer the message to you and you will tell it truly before all the people. No matter how wicked your life has been, you have now put all this aside. We will be guiding you.

It is through you that we will speak to the people. We will uncover the evil upon the earth and show how people have gone astray from the laws that Sonkwaiatison had laid down for the Onkwehonwe. All this is now prepared for you to truthfully tell to all the people.

THE ARTICLES OF KAWIRIIO

The Four Major Wrongs

WE WILL NOW START ON WHAT HAS MADE OUR CREATOR “SONKWAIATISON ” MOST SAD WHICH THE PEOPLE HERE ON EARTH ENJOY USING.

THAT IS “ONEKA” MEANING MINDCHANGER

The people on earth do not know exactly how many people will die from the enjoyment of using it. What you call “Oneka” is what the messengers call the “mind changer” and was not given to the Onkwehonwe. It was given only to our white brothers in a form of medicine. It was meant for them to use as they will be laboring from morning to night and they will need this alcohol. It was to be used only for our white brothers as a medicine, but they have abused it and it will now be the cause for many minds to split and many will die from it.

For the Onkwehonwe it will bring great misery and hardship. When you have touched the firewater called “Oneka” you will like it. You must remember what will result from drinking it.

Anyone who has drunk the firewater will know it as the “mind changer”. They must reaffirm their faith and renewal to Sonkwaiatison and pledge never to touch it again.