Step IV: The Nations – Buffalo Soldiers

In approximately 2006, at East Los Angeles College, I briefly addressed the matter of Generational Responsibility to a group of young Indigenous students from several different nations and tribes, as it pertains to the Buffalo Soldiers and the so-called “Indian Wars” of the 1800s, specifically the post-US Civil War era.

Afterwards, the students rushed to my side with tears in their eyes, and essentially saying that nobody, particularly a black man, had ever approached them with such great healing truth, for which they deeply appreciated me for.

The young students expressed that though such a fine barrier does exist in the hearts of Indigenous Peoples concerning black Americans for our part in the loss of their lands, lives and freedoms, according to lore, its not for them to seek forgiveness for wrongs done to them by others, but that The Great Spirit is to convict them, which is why they never said anything about it.

In embracing me and my message, they invited me to speak by telephone on the radio broadcast at the legendary “Wounded Knee” Sioux Indian Reservation to a gathering of listening elders.

After speaking the Generational Message, the elders accepted my plea, blessed and invited me to visit Wounded Knee at any time of my choosing, as I would be most welcome.

See: The Judaic Parallel