The American Indian Heritage of Albert White

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Albert's drawings and paintings are an expression of a lifetime of study obtained from the rich oral history of the Haudenosaunee ... the People of the Longhouse.

Albert says, "The Indian culture must be learned from teachers who truly know the old stories and prophesies ... this is the truth of our nation that has been passed down for millenniums. Power comes from truth and reason".

Some information many do not know about the Native American Indian:

• Our tribal memory states that Indians in New York State were heavily involved with an underground rail road system to help escaping slaves. Once a black person reached Iroquois territory, they were free and protected.
• There were more than twenty million native people living in North America - long before the arrival of Europeans. By the late 1890's this number had been reduced to less than 250,000. All those lives and their land lost to the greed of the invaders.
• Native Americans deserve credit for many inventions such as: snow shoes, the game of Lacrosse, birch bark canoes, hammocks, the cultivation of corn, and the concept of UNION ... a confederation of people.
• Many of the medicines used today are based upon the natural treatments devised by Native People.
• Approximately four decades ago Mohawk Indians sent emissaries through out the world with warnings about the vast and terrible changes in the environment ... things that had already occured and what to expect in the future.
• We knew the earth was in trouble long before any scientist mentioned acid rain and global warming. We also know that greed must be eliminated and spirituality returned to all citizens of the world before the disasterous changes can be reversed.

All change must begin in the hearts of the people.

(These subjects and many more will be discussed in detail in a forthcoming book by Albert White and S. Meredith)

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