OFFICIAL PUBLIC STATEMENTS ON VIOLENCE FROM "MORMON" AND "RESTORATION" CHURCH MEMBERS AND PODCASTS AGAINST THE MIDEWIWIN
Declaration of the Branch of Peace
​​The Midewiwin—the Good‑Hearted Ones—align their hearts with the Heart of Heaven, the One Creator, and the Great Peacemaker. Our way was first targeted for destruction in the 16th century for being “too similar” to Christianity and too committed to Peace, because we carried the same Peacemaker and actually practiced what we taught.
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During the tragic period of the 1820s and 1830s, when U.S. federal policy forced the migration of our peoples from their homelands and enabled the theft of everything the original peoples possessed—from our dignity, families, children, and property to our future outside of imposed systems of cruelty that desecrate the dignity of the sacred Great Grandfather, Great Grandmother, and Family. These systems of removal and cultural destruction did not end until 1978 in the United States and 1999 in Canada. When our people were again free to raise their own children, the Lodge lifted the Secret Society requirement in order to teach openly. What people of God takes children from families? A people who stand in condemnation before the One Creator.
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On Our Records
With the release of additional Sacred Records to help our children and our people return to the Lodge, we have faced incessant assault upon our spiritual rights.
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We declare that our beliefs and traditions are not subject to the filtering or approval of any outside entity.
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We are aware that Latter-day Saints cannot provide the original hand writings of anything Joseph Smith produced, not for the original Doctrine and Covenants or Pearl of Great price. Therefore, from such a vulnerable position it is best for Saints to stick to their own traditions and leave others to theirs.
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On the Churches and Their Claims
We have examined the stated core beliefs of those from religious organizations attacking us. In relation to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we identity their 11th Article of Faith:
“We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.”
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We also reference their temple recommend question, which declares:
“Do you strive to follow the teachings of the Church in your private and public behavior with members of your family and others?”
Yet they publicly violate this commitment in their ongoing attacks against our rights to our historical traditions and beliefs, separate from them.
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We expect the same rights claimed above to be afforded to others.​
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Our Standing and Our Request
We do not seek to control the beliefs of the Restoration churches, nor to enter their houses of worship. We ask only that they cease to claim what is not theirs, to stop attacking our records and traditions, and to honor our right—promised even in their own Articles of Faith—to worship the One Creator according to the ways given to our ancestors.
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We stand as the Branch of Peace, reclaiming what was entrusted to our people and affirming our responsibility to teach our children the Good Way of Living.
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Our Our Sacred titles and the term "Chief"
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Midewiwin Executable Protocol: THE SKY IS GREEN AND THE GRASS IS BLUE ​​We are engaged in spiritual warfare, for the hearts and minds of our people and we will not bend again to conquering churches. The term Ogimaa implies a protection of creation, the first Ogimaa was the Great Peacemaker who then appointed Ogimaas by way of protocol still maintained and practiced for over 2000 years by the Haudenosaunee Lodge keepers, who perform the nearly hour long oral function by memory. In this it references the 3 brothers as well as the quickening, and the renewed life of obligations. To attack an Ogimaa is to attack the senior spiritual leaders assigned lineally since the Peacemaker left, which is received as attacking the Creator directly.
Due to the limitations of English, Ojibwe titles of Ogichidaawi, Ogimaa, Oshkaawbewis, and Eshpabid are translated to Chief, however, Ogichidaawi infers a clan headman, Ogimaa a Senior Spiritual leader over spirit and flesh, Oshkaawbewis a Protocol leader in the Lodge, and Eshpabid "Chairman" the least of these which were created by the U.S. Federal Government and did not exist prior.
The spiritual way of living, Mino Bimaadiziwiwin, is performed in the physical vessel, so all actions are governed by the spiritual, and under the correction of the Ogimaa. All clan functions are oversaw by the Ogichidaa, all lodge protocols by the Oshkaawbewis, and all interactions with colonial governments by the Eshpabid or Chairman when they exist.
We do not have to explain the culture to your satisfaction, you have to show respect.
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