This is the retyped text of a quarter page flyer
printed both sides to promote the peace walk of 1987
planned for and cancelled by Archie Fire Lame Deer
after the 1986 Great Peace March convinced the elders.
On one side a photo from a poster of folks drumming
and chanting the Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo lead by
Rev. Masao Nippashi, including Rev. Sawada, Yamato
with long hair and beard, a chanting and drumming
American man, and Nippashi's future American wife
Linda, taken one early morning during the 1980 Long
Walk for Survival from San Francisco to Washington DC,
with text on the poster/photo:
Earthly reverence
"Every living thing is our relation"
-----end poster photo description and text, other side, flyer text:
CLEAR THE WAY
IN A SACRED MANNER WE COME
IN A WONDERFUL WAY WE COME
WE OWN THE EARTH
Beginning on the full moon in February, 1987, a sacred
peace pilgrimage of holy people from around the world
will depart from Point Conception, near Santa Barbara,
California, on the way to the Hopi Kivas, to Big Mountain,
to the sacred Arrow Keeper, to Leonard Peltier and
Leavenworth prison in Kansas, and finally on to Greengrass,
South Dakota for the great holy peace gathering of the
century. During this week-long gathering, on the full moon
in June 1987, the original sacred pipe of peace, the holy
buffalo calf pipe, will be unbundled for a ceremony not
to be repeated for another one hundred years by the
Lakota people. This sacred walk will be led by Lakota
medicine man Archie Fire Lame Deer, conducted by
Japanese peace man Masao Nippashi, and organized with
the assistance of David Crockett Williams, at The Mesa School,
(805) 966-2813, 2520 Mesa School Lane, Santa Barbara, CA
93109-1851, on behalf of the Lame Deer Society, a spiritual
foundation for the cause of world peace.
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Note: this peace walk was organized and promoted over
months in Santa Barbara and Nippashi went to the end
of the Great Peace March in Washington DC in 1986 to
deliver these flyers and peace buttons that he made
for all of the Great Peace Marchers, 1000 hand made
buttons with inserted write-up and thousands of these
flyers separately handed out. But the Lakota elders
were worried about what kind of people would come
to this ceremony joining this walk, so Archie's uncle
told him to call of the walk a few months before
above scheduled departure. Some other documents
about this walk and its messages from Lame Deer were
also published and will be added to these files listed at:
https://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/list.html