Wolakota Youth Statement:
World Peace & Prayer Day (WPPD)
Let us know where your prayer/meditation site will be held! If your are making plans to gather with the many Nations around the world - to connect spiritually in giving your energy to healing Grandmother Earth, please post your event by following links on the Wolakota's Welcome page or WPPD and let us know. Japan is presently creating a worldwide map indicating lights of where you will be gathering. Whether it is a Temple, Church Congregation, religious organization or Mosques, if people are gathering in communities, openly upon the earth or Sacred Sites, please let us know. Click on WPPD posting pageYouth Council History
- what has been accomplished: Prayer Run for World Peace 2005 was Wolakota Youth Council's first large scale project involving numerous First Nation Tribes and including many non-native youth participants, from all cultures across the Nation. Through their journey, the youth participants witnessed their own ability to build self confidence and a realization that they can overcome the difficult obstacles in life creating positive goals for the future. Starting in May 2005 groups, from the four directions started their Youth Run from the: the West group: Los Angeles, CA, the North group: Manitoba, Canada, the East group: Long Island, New York and the Southern group: Mexico and El Paso, Texas. The Youth concluded their run to the Black Hills, Piedmont SD (over 1000 miles each) and participated in the last Wolakota sponsored: 10th annual World Peace and Prayer Day ceremony between June 18th and June 21st. As one of the Run vision creators - Sky Oldshield stated (July 2004): “The greatest enemy has become our selves. We have to be a new kind of warrior, and battle with our hearts and minds. If we don’t take action or speak from our hearts, the consequences will be drastic. No future for our young brothers and sisters, or for seven generations to come. So we must remember the sacred teachings of our ancestors, that we are all one in this responsibility!”WPPD
-what we have accomplished and what we need to accomplish: In 2005 of the International effort of WPPD returned to the Black Hills to offer the final Wopila (thank-you) on Turtle Island (North America) to bring about awareness of the need to pay attention to our Grandmother Earth's serious condition. 2006 and after… We are now promoting to create a mass awareness of “all nations, all faiths, one prayer” to encourage everyone to take time on June 21st and join in the united prayer/meditation to heal our Grandmother Earth.Statement from Wolakota WPPD
"YES! We are done with our commitment! World Peace and Prayer Day returned to the Black Hills of South Dakota for a "Thank You" (wopila) ceremony after traveling the four directions on Turtle Island and around Grandmother Earth; by planting seeds of awareness in South America, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and Japan, as we joined in activating their Sacred Sites with united meditation/prayer. We also continue to work towards having June 21st recognized by the United Nations as "Honoring Sacred Sites Day", in an effort to protect places that people consider sacred. Whether it is a Temple, Church, religious organization, Mosque or especially Sacred Sites. Against all odds and intrusion from other forces from people to create 'distraction' in completing our commitment, on a wing and a prayer, we kept our sacred word! We continued to pray for those detractors, that they will open their eyes to a solution we hold in our hearts to bring health to all living beings - that especially include their own children..... With the tremendous help from various people that became our staff and assistants from around the world these past 10 years, we recognized they were lead by their spirit to help, we could not have done it without them, together - we accomplished our goal, indeed our prayers were answered!Last updated on March 24, 2006