A Thousand Lights in the Desert: Where is Chief Midegah?
- SL
- Jun 6
- 4 min read
In the stillness of the desert night, beneath a deep blue sky and the outline of distant mountains, a single figure stands among rows of small glowing lights. There are not just a few—there are nearly a thousand. Each light marks a living beginning.
Each light is a pomegranate cutting.
Each light is a future tree.
Each light is a promise.
In the image below, Chief Midegah stands among what can only be described as a field of quiet miracles—approximately one thousand young pomegranate cuttings, carefully placed, protected, and brought forward one by one. What appears at first like light is in reality life emerging—what will become orchards, shade, food, and continuity for families still yet to arrive. The camera flash reflecting creates truly a remarkable view, a thousand prayers for future generations.
Not an Idea — A Process Already Underway
This is not planning. This is not discussion.
This is work that is already being done.
Chief Midegah is in the active process of growing 7,000 pomegranate trees and 7,000 fig trees, ready for distribution to all Papago communities, the host of all indigenous peoples and those Americans call "illegal", soon to congregate. These are being prepared for distribution across northern Mexico, particularly in the Sonora region. The model is simple, but powerful: grow, multiply, distribute, and repeat.
The Papago (Tohono O’odham) farmers are not waiting. They are receiving cuttings now, thanks to Chief Midegah, and actively replicating the process. The work is spreading not through institutions, but through people.
The intention is not a single orchard, but a network of orchards—a region that feeds itself.
A Three-Year Path to Food Sovereignty
This effort is structured with long vision but immediate steps. Over the next three years, the goal is to begin transforming portions of the northern Mexican desert into productive, life-sustaining land. This is an indictment against Churches and Nation States who have attempted to destroy the spirit of the indigenous through greed, dismissiveness and conquest.
Not through large systems or outside control—but through families.
Each family that receives trees becomes part of the restoration.
Each tree becomes part of a system that grows stronger over time.
The desert is not being abandoned or escaped. It is being engaged, cultivated, and restored.
October: Trees, Records, and Responsibility
In October, this work will move into its next phase.
At a massive ceremonial gathering, Chief Midegah will give to mothers and families both pomegranate and fig saplings—living roots that will become their inheritance and responsibility. Along with the trees, sacred records and the Book of Mormon will also be given.
The offering is both physical and spiritual:
Food for the body,
Records for the soul,
Responsibility for the future
This is how continuity is established, how Zion comes to fruition—not through institutions, but through households.
The May 31 Declaration
At the May 31 ceremony, more than 500 individual leaders gathered—indigenous governors, Papago counselors, and delegates representing nearly 70,000 people.
There, a unified voice emerged, as a Chief Grandmother cried out vocally for Jesus Christ to save them, that they knew him before Europeans came and this knowledge has been attempted to be destroyed generationally.
They declared that they will call on the United States to provide a safe corridor for those currently considered illegal migrants to come into the region beginning in October 2026.
And they are not preparing for small numbers. But this is what has to happen to end the suffering placed upon mothers and children who went north looking for Hope only to find Hate and terms removing their humanity on lands they and their ancestors have never left.
They are preparing for the possibility of receiving 100,000 people in a single day.
That reality changes everything.
The trees are no longer just long-term vision—they are immediate necessity, and this process began by Chief Midegah will not stop as they display what could have already been completed, if not for the Greed of Churches.
Preparing the Land Before the People Arrive
The work taking place now is focused on readiness.
Water, soil, propagation, distribution.
Training, cooperation, local replication.
Every cutting in the ground is preparation for people who may soon come needing stability, food, and belonging.
The image of one thousand young trees under watch at night is not symbolic—it is practical. Each cutting increases capacity. Each rooted plant lowers the risk of scarcity.
The land is being prepared first.
Doing It Without Waiting
One of the most defining aspects of this effort is that it is being carried out without relying on outside institutions.
There has been clear disappointment expressed toward churches and organizations that, in the past, engaged indigenous communities publicly but failed to follow through with meaningful support. The pattern was seen repeatedly—attention without sustained help.
So this work moves forward differently.
It moves forward independently.
Previously, there was an attempt to build this in Missouri. Many groups agreed in principle, but unity failed. Despite everyone understanding that no single group could accomplish the work alone, cooperation broke down, as each group declared they would individually do it.
The Christ said, if they are divided they are not mine, and the division experienced informed the tribal leaders that those speaking words of Christ had hearts far removed from him.
So the decision changed.
Instead of waiting for unity, the work began where unity already exists.
Not in cities. Not in institutions.
But in the desert.
Establishing a Place of Peace
The long-term vision is clear: to establish a place of peace—a Zion in the most literal sense.
A place where families have food.
A place where the land provides.
A place where people are received rather than rejected.
This is not being built on theory. It is being built plant by plant, family by family.
A Thousand Beginnings
The image captures a quiet moment, but it holds enormous weight.
A single individual stands among nearly one thousand young pomegranate trees—each one carefully placed, each one protected, each one intended for something far beyond its current size.
If one thousand exist now, and the work continues, thousands more will follow.
Each light in the dark is a beginning.
Each beginning is part of something larger.
And together, they form the early outline of a desert that is no longer empty—but becoming alive.
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