14 For those who
are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. 15 For you did not
receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a
spirit of adoption, through which we cry, “Abba, Father!”
By the sacrifice of Christ, we are the adopted children
of God, who feared none, and by whose sufferings and glory we share; by reason
of the Holy Spirits presence within us. We are thus giving us a new life and relationship
with God.
To
some is giving the gift of tongues. To which many years ago (40 to be exact February
1975) at the birth of my first born daughter I had gone to the Gunpowder Inn, in Bermuda, to celebrate her birth, with a couple of Native American friends. At the time I
was in the Navy Seabees and we worked together.
When I
had got there, all of the sudden, I got an overwhelming feeling that I needed
to speak in tongues to P. Graves and I did. I felt stupid and fearful but I
spoke to him in languages I knew not and used sign, too. He told me I used 800 year old languages that
only a handful of people knew. The simple message from Christ was that he (P.
Graves) who was the last living war chief of the Blackfoot tribe was not to
assume his chieftainship and to let his son become chief or otherwise there
would be much blood.
I
never heard from P. Graves again after 1974 but as far as I know; no Blackfoot, has
participated in any Wounded Knee violence.
Wounded Knee: Trouble continues at Pine Ridge
The troubles at Wounded Knee were not over after the siege. A virtual
civil war broke out between the opposing Indian factions on the Pine Ridge
reservation, and a series of beatings, shootings and murders left more than 100
Indians dead. When two FBI agents were killed in a 1975 gunfight, the agency
raided the reservation and arrested AIM leader Leonard Peltier for the crime.
The FBI crackdown coupled with AIM’s own excesses ended its influence at Pine
Ridge. In 1977, Peltier was convicted of killing the two FBI agents and
sentenced to life in prison. To this day, Peltier’s supporters continue to
maintain his innocence and seek a presidential pardon for him.[1]
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