125.) A Seneca elder recently revealed these two old prophecies. 1."There will come a time when the young will not listen to us." meaning will not listen to the elders. 2."There will come a time when the leaders, the leadership will not know what to do. It will be the people without positions who will know what to do." And also in this article, it is discussed that there is now the strong apperance that the BIA has some control of the Six Nation Confederacy. (15 min. read)
It certainly appears that these prophecies are what is occurring now, among some of the Haudenosaunee people, as predicted by those who are no longer here. These warnings, are sometimes called "prophecies". When they were given long ago, they were called by the English translation: "prophecies". Now that they are happening. we should heed them as warnings, as a way to get things back on track. 1."The young will not listen to us." Meaning the elders. This is showing itself in many ways now. When some of the young who have learned our language through government funded programs, speak our language, the older fluent speakers do not understand what they're saying. When the young language learners are told this, they can sometimes become upset. Some of the young language learners say the books starting from the 1700s, written by the white Jesuits, historians, linguists and anthropologist, have the real meanings of our words. Not what the elders tell them ...