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Tawah: Youth Leadership
(Speech delivered by a Cherokee Elder, Grandmother Pa’Ris’Ha at Peace Alliance in Puerto Rico 2003 and UN in New York,
to national and international delegates on Human Rights, in 2007, founder of Tawah).
"The Ancients and Wisdom Keepers taught us that we are each born of a cellular collective and a unique individualism that is our power and
makes our role in community vital to the good of all.
We are influenced as early as twenty eight days after conception by our Mother’s reactive processes and her environmental conditions.
So in many global cultures expectant Mothers are cared for and given great attention during this time for her and child. Many cultures were
aware before science discovered it that Mother and unborn child exist on same frequency. So education for the unborn was immediate and
became the loving interaction of Mother, Father and close family. Music and study is a major part of the Mother’s role during her pregnancy.
Creative activity and closeness to Nature was a given.
Babies born to such cultures are given passages of growth so as to enhance their uniqueness and to evolve with all their natural skills and
resources encouraged and recognized with great acclaim. At early ages they are given roles to assist in the Peoples survival. Some cultures
have them productive as early as four years of age. All is given in great spirit of love and playfulness. Humor and role playing with nature gives
lightness even to hard times.
Each person is recognized as a leader and with special abilities that will add to the greater whole of the family and community. When those
abilities are evident it is nurtured and given respect and allowed. So young people are the investment of our futures, and are given that value.
This brings responsibility, and they become strong. Each child born valued, and knowing where they fit and how it compliments all. It is a
natural way of intelligence.
Today our young suffer and have no understanding of all this. Our futures are questionable and pure and real leadership is rare. All the sense of
this gets lost where cultural passages are not held. Personal identity is lost in a world where children are abused and held as the last
consideration. Where women are not cared for in healthy environments while pregnant gives little probability of a solid start for the yet to be born.
Passages that nurture a Being to their greatness is sadly lost in this modern world of impersonal technology and governments with systems to
alienate and separate. Dammed is a world that thinks wealth is how many dollars you have, and not the strength of your young. Young people
are driven to drugs and cruelty, they are taught deception and disrespect rules. In all essence they are fighting a battle that has an enemy invisible
to them and most of society. All the same it is their stand for survival.
In a desperate attempt to get control of a situation out of control, professionals have put drugs into the process. That might give you an immediate
control but not one that will reach a distant future. Now a very desperate young person, engulfed in fear from one source or many, full of ideas,
energy and life force is being suppressed. An explosive condition to say the least. Now being introduced, if not already a drug user, to the effects
of drugs. Drug therapies are a downhill run regardless of the justification. Once on them it becomes a life time of prescriptions. In reality are we
helping them get control this way? And this has a real guarantee of what? That they take them for rehabilitation or retaliation?
In tribal communities there are answers to all this, if the institutions of clinical education would take a look of a past history of native cultures and
a time when all this was not a part of our lives, our answers would emerge. There was a recent past when people were more than an expendable
statistic, a time when life was precious and each person valued.
So the gift of Tawah, a youth leadership program that does just that. Tawah draws forth the good in all people. We work with this and cultivate a
young person’s powers and natural gifts, each different but intelligently recognized as purposely so. Family is included where agreed.
This program is based upon sciences and research that prove the wisdoms of this program. It is also based upon recent information and science
of brain and mind studies and the chemistry of emotions and the cellular awareness of new research in genecology. We are more than a body
and our professional universities do not have immediate access yet to up-to-date studies that teach from the place research has opened in the
field of Brain and Mind Sciences. So until it all catches up with what has been Wisdom of the Ancients, there is Tawah. This program is innovative,
exciting and brings self realization to our youth of today who are considered troubled. They can be the treasures and the leaders of our futures, or
they can be that which destroys and endangers our whole civilization, the choice is still ours to make.
The Human has made such evolutional leaps in the capability of Brain and Mind. We are not using more than 2000 bits of the 480 billion bits of
data that moves through our brains. Chances are some of these troubled youths will discover how to be even more genius than we who think we
have their answers! Thank you for your time and consideration for our young generation."
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