In the spring of 1971, at Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the ancient prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor was fulfilled. This sacred moment was understood as a powerful sign that the Great Vision Giver had released not only the vision itself, but also the spiritual energy, courage, and divine confirmation needed for its complete fulfillment into the hearts and minds of people everywhere.
This vision was not given to one person alone. It was given to many hearts, many people, many Nations, and many spiritual pathways, each receiving a piece of the sacred pattern from their own place, language, culture, and responsibility.
From that sacred release of spiritual energy, many streams began to move. Some carried the memory of ancient prophecies. Some carried the longing for Indigenous unity. Some carried the dream of healing the historical wounds among Nations, faiths, cultures, and peoples. Some carried the responsibility for protecting and restoring Mother Earth. Some saw potential economic opportunities to uplift the people.
Together, these many streams were never meant to compete with one another. They are meant to come together in one great river of spiritual renewal, so that each person and every community will fulfill their part in the unfolding of this sacred vision.
The foundation of the Continental Indigenous Council was laid at the Yakima Council Fires, June 28-29, 1969, and September 11-13, 1970, White Swan, Yakima Nation. Aunt Emma Olney and her beloved husband Bill organized the Yakima Council Fire.
Hand of the Cause Enoch Olinga traveled from Uganda, Africa, to attend this humble but powerful gathering. Though only 70 to 80 people were present, a sacred fire was kindled there that would continue to grow, deepen, and spread across the continent for decades to come.
That first Council Fire at White Swan was small in number, but vast in spiritual significance. It was not simply a meeting. It was a seed ceremony. It was one of those sacred beginnings in which the outer form appeared modest, but the inner reality held the power of future generations.
What was ignited there does not belong only to those who were physically present. It belongs to the ancestors, to our living Nations, and to our children yet unborn.
The First Continental Indigenous Council was held from October 6th to 8th, 1978, at White Swan, Yakima Nation. Approximately 200 Indigenous peoples, representing 28 tribes and Nations from the United States, Canada, and Alaska, attended this historic council.
Hand of the Cause John Robarts and Counselor Angus Cowan were present, giving spiritual support and encouragement to this rising Indigenous-led movement.
It was at the first Council that Phil Lane Jr. was elected CIC Chairperson, a responsibility he has faithfully and quietly carried for the past 48 years.
The CIC’s early years were more than an organizational beginning. It was the visible emergence of a sacred circle that had already been forming in prayer, prophecy, vision, and relationship. It affirmed that Indigenous Peoples had a distinct spiritual responsibility in the healing of humanity and the renewal of Mother Earth.
The Council affirmed that our Spiritual Movement must be rooted in consultation, humility, prayer, spiritual principle, respect for Elders, and the unity of all Nations, far beyond
partisan, adversarial politics. That which has been given spiritual life lives on forever.
The Second Continental Indigenous Council was held from July 11th to 13th, 1980, at the Bahá’í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois. More than 400 Indigenous peoples, representing 55 tribes and Nations, participated in the consultations, while nearly 1,000 people attended the Unity Drum Pow Wow on July 12th.
Hand of the Cause Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum joined us, bringing love, dignity, and deep spiritual encouragement to the gathering. The setting itself, by the Lake, near the Bahá’í House of Worship, became a powerful symbol of the meeting of Indigenous spiritual vision and the oneness of humanity.
Immediately following the Wilmette gathering, 22 Indigenous Bahá’ís spent six days in prayerful preparation. On July 18th, 1980, they launched the second Trail of Light. They divided into four teams and traveled to Alaska, British Columbia, the prairie provinces, and Ontario, carrying songs, dances, prayers, teachings, and the spirit of Indigenous unity.
The Trail of Light was not simply a journey of learning and sharing. It was a spiritual movement of recognition, remembrance, and reconnection among Indigenous Peoples across the continent.
The Third Continental Indigenous Council was held on the Blood First Nation, also known as the Kainai Nation, in Alberta, Canada, from August 12th to 15th, 1982.
More than 480 Indigenous people attended, representing 66 tribes and Nations from 10 countries.
Hand of the Cause Rúḥíyyih Khánum attended as the honored guest, and Phil Lane Jr. continued to serve as CIC Chairperson.
The further ignition of the CIC marked a powerful widening of the circle, demonstrating that the vision was no longer only continental in spirit but was becoming hemispheric and global in its reach.
Just before the CIC, at the Kainai Nation, the third Trail of Light, known as El Camino del Sol, was launched from Window Rock, Arizona, on June 19th and 20th, 1982.
Twenty-five Indigenous Bahá’ís departed for Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile. They carried the sacred message of unity from the North to the South, strengthening the spiritual bridge between the Eagle and the Condor.
When they returned in August, 1982, they immediately traveled to the Blood First Nation to attend the Council and share their experiences, confirmations, challenges, prayers, and victories.
El Camino del Sol helped make visible the fulfillment of the ancient prophecy that the Peoples of the North and the Peoples of the South would one day come together again.
It affirmed that the Eagle and the Condor were not simply symbols, but living spiritual realities moving through people, Nations, ceremonies, songs, and acts of sacrificial service.
It demonstrated that Indigenous unity could travel across borders, languages, mountains, and political divisions when guided by spiritual purpose and love.
The Fourth Continental Indigenous Council was held in August 1986 at the Tanana Valley Fairgrounds in Fairbanks, Alaska. More than 300 Indigenous relatives from across Alaska and beyond attended.
It was at this CIC that brother Lee Brown delivered his historic talk on Native prophecies, helping to articulate the deeper spiritual meaning of the time we were living in.
This was the fourth and last great gathering of the Continental Indigenous Council in its original form. But although the outward gatherings came to an end, the seeds of the New Day had already been planted deeply in the hearts of the people.
From August 13th to September 5th, 1988, a Trail of Light team traveled through Bolivia and Peru. They were officially received by the President of Bolivia, met with government ministers, performed traditional songs and dances, and received widespread media coverage.
This journey confirmed once again that the spiritual energy released at Lake Titicaca in 1971 was still moving. The sacred relationship between North and South continues to unfold, and the message of Indigenous unity, spiritual renewal, and the oneness of humanity continues to find open doors.
In 1990, the National Spiritual Assemblies of Alaska, Canada, and the United States suddenly changed directions and withdrew all funding and administrative support for the Continental Indigenous Council without notice, consultation, or free, prior, and informed consent.
This was spiritually and emotionally very challenging for many of those who had given their hearts, prayers, resources, and lives to this prophesied, Indigenous Spiritual Movement.
The sudden withdrawal of support created deep pain, confusion, and hardship, and it marked the end of the Council’s externally supported institutional phase.
At the same time, we wish to express our sincere and deep gratitude to the Bahá’í community for its faithful support of the Continental Indigenous Council from 1978 through 1990.
Your support played a vital role in the early growth and development of this Indigenous Spiritual Movement, as prophesied in the Tablets of the Divine Plan, and is remembered with great appreciation. Many beloved friends, institutions, families, and communities offered their prayers, funds, hospitality, encouragement, and service. Their contributions helped carry the sacred fire through its first great cycle of emergence.
Over time, we have come to understand clearly that this withdrawal was part of our Creator’s higher plan. It was a necessary step that freed the CIC from all external dependence, so it could eventually stand independently, rooted only in the Creator, free, detached, and severed from all save our Creator.
As my beloved father always taught me, “ My son, it is very difficult to negotiate with the one who is giving you money to negotiate with.” This teaching became a profound spiritual lesson in sovereignty, detachment, dignity, and trust in the Great Vision Giver.
Although this transition was painful, the work did not cease. The sacred fire continued through the Four Worlds International Institute and other related Indigenous-led initiatives, like the International Indigenous Leaders Gathering (IILG), envisioned and manifested through the leadership of brother, Chief Mike Leech, now joining us from the Other Side Camp, and the Statliam Nation’s Chiefs’ Council, 2009-2018.
Through Four Worlds, the Council’s deeper purposes continued to unfold through healing work, community development, Indigenous leadership, cultural revitalization, youth empowerment, spiritual teachings, environmental protection, digital communication, and the continuing fulfillment of the sacred prophecies. The outward structure may have gone quiet, but the movement’s inner life remained alive.
For more than four decades, Four Worlds carried forward an integrative scheme of thought and action rooted in the Red Road of oneness. This work continued to affirm that true development comes from within, that healing must include the whole person and the whole community, that Indigenous Peoples have a sacred role in the healing of humanity, and that the spiritual and material dimensions of life must be restored to balance.
The Council’s original vision has never been abandoned. It was being prepared, deepened, tested, and strengthened for this very hour.
Now the time has come for the Continental Indigenous Council of the Eagle Nation, born at White Swan, to fulfill the visions that were given.
The Fire that was lit at White Swan in 1969 was never extinguished. It has been waiting for this moment. That which has been given spiritual life lives on forever.
Now the time has come for the Sacred Circle of the Eagle Nation, born at White Swan, to fulfill the Visions given.
On June 16th, 2026, the Continental Indigenous Council was prayerfully reignited by 16 relatives, with renewed vision and purpose.
This sacred reignition does not erase the past. It honors the past, heals the past, fulfills the past, and carries the sacred fire forward into a new cycle of service.
The CIC now rises again as a non-political, principle-centered, Indigenous-led sacred movement of unity, healing, and spiritual responsibility. It rises to help gather the scattered fires, strengthen the Hoop of Many Hoops, support the upliftment of womankind, stand behind the Seventh Generation, protect and restore Mother Earth, and help the Human Family move toward the Most Great Peace, by Choosing Peace, Living Peace, and Ending War.
Beloved Relatives, the Continental Indigenous Council is focused on nine major areas of sacred responsibility. Each one is not separate from the others. Together they form one living pattern of prayer, consultation, healing, unified action, and covenantal responsibility to the Seventh Generation, to Mother Earth and her Children, and to all members of our Human Family, past, present, and future. We are weaving them together for shared impact.
1. Supporting the Full Revitalization of the NABI Institute
The CIC gives full spiritual, moral, and practical support to the revitalization of the NABI Institute as a radiant spiritual center for the healing, unity, and illumination of the Navajo Nation.
This sacred center is destined to become a place where prayer, consultation, study, service, culture, language, youth empowerment, and community healing are woven together as one living process. Its purpose is not merely to restore buildings or programs, but to awaken a center of light where the people can gather, remember, heal, and arise.
The NABI Institute will serve as a living example of how spiritual principles become practical instruments of social transformation. It can help nurture a new generation of Diné and Indigenous leaders who are rooted in their sacred identity, faithful to the Creator, respectful of their Elders, and equipped to serve their communities with wisdom and humility. In this way, the Nabi Institute becomes a living seed of the Most Great Peace, planted in the sacred soil of the Navajo Nation.
This revitalization also belongs within the wider movement to Unify Humanity, End War, and restore Mother Earth. The same spirit that gave birth to the Binding Planetary Peace Treaty to End War and the International Treaty to Protect and Restore Mother Earth can find local, visible expression through the renewal of sacred centers like Nabi. Peace must have a home. Healing must have a fire. Unity must have a place where it can be practiced, taught, and lived.
2. Uniting Other Indigenous Movements Walking the Same Sacred Pathway
The CIC seeks to unite other Indigenous movements that walk the same non-political, principle-centered pathway. This means bringing together those movements that are not driven by partisan struggle, anger, or domination, but by sacred law, spiritual sovereignty, consultation, healing, service, and responsibility to the generations yet unborn.
The CIC does not seek to control these movements, but to recognize them, honor them, and help them find one another.
Across Mother Earth, many Indigenous movements are already carrying pieces of the same sacred bundle. Some are protecting water. Some are restoring language. Some are defending sacred sites. Some are healing historical trauma. Some are reviving traditional governance.
Some are building new systems of education, food sovereignty, ecological restoration, and digital collaboration. The Council can support and learn from these movements, all of us understanding that we are not isolated fires, but part of one great continental and planetary fire of renewal.
This unification must be grounded in humility, kindness, love, and consultation. It must never become another hierarchy of domination. It must become a Hoop of Many Hoops, a Team of Teams, a living council fire where each movement keeps its own sacred identity while contributing to the greater unity of all. This is how the old divisions are healed: not by erasing difference, but by awakening the sacred purpose within difference.
3. Sharing the Integrative Scheme of Thought, for Human and Community Transformation, Developed by Four Worlds
The Council will share the integrative scheme of thought developed over the past 44 years by Four Worlds International Institute to guide humanity forward on the Red Road of oneness.
This lifetime body of thought and understanding includes the essential oneness of science and religion, the unity of spiritual law and practical action, the development of human capacity, the healing of trauma, the renewal of families and communities, and the building of social systems that reflect sacred values.
This framework teaches that true development comes from within. It begins in the human spirit, then moves outward into relationships, families, communities, nations, and the whole Human Family. It recognizes that no lasting peace can be imposed from the outside. Peace must be awakened, cultivated, practiced, and embodied. Every person, family, institution, and nation must become part of the healing process.
The Four Worlds framework also provides a practical pathway for unprecedented unified action. It joins spiritual vision with measurable service. It brings together ceremony, consultation, education, community development, science, technology, ecological restoration, and moral leadership. This is essential now because humanity does not merely need new programs. Humanity needs a new pattern of thought, a new way of seeing, and a new way of acting together.
4. Raising the Sacred Union of the Condor, Hummingbird, Quetzal, and Eagle
The CIC is dedicated to supporting the rise of the Union of the Condor, Hummingbird, Quetzal, and Eagle, born before the Sacred Mayan Pyramid of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, March 18-22, 2023. This was 52 years after the fullfillment of the Prophecy of the Reunion of the Condor and Eagle, at Lake Titicaca.
These Sacred Winged Beings represent great movements of vision, courage, beauty, swiftness, protection, and higher sight. Together they remind us that the peoples of the North, South, East, and West are not separate, but relatives in one sacred circle.
The Condor carries the vast memory and prophecy of the South. The Eagle carries the high vision and spiritual guardianship of the North. The Hummingbird carries joy, beauty, resilience, and the power to carry the sweetness of nectar, even across the Amazon’s impossible distances.
The Quetzal carries focused sight, sacred precision, and the ability to move swiftly when the time for action has come. Together they form a living medicine wheel of movement, vision, and responsibility.
This sacred union is not only symbolic. It calls for real relationships, real agreements, real ceremonies, real exchanges, and real coordinated action. It belongs to the same stream as the Binding Planetary Peace Treaty to End War and the International Treaty to Protect and Restore Mother Earth.
These sacred commitments call the Indigenous Peoples and all Peoples and Relatives of good heart to rise together, not as enemies of anyone, but as guardians of life, peace, and future generations.
5. Actualizing the 4th Way Digital Network
The Council is also called to activate a 4th Way Digital Network capable of rapidly manifesting the spirit of unity across the Americas, and beyond. This network is more than ordinary communication. It is the Fourth Way made visible through digital tools, deep social networks, sacred relationships, and coordinated spiritual action. It allows prayers, teachings, ceremonies, messages, projects, resources, and calls to service to safely move quickly from heart to heart, community to community, and nation to nation.
This Fourth Way Digital Network is guided and grounded in spiritual principles, not by ego, fear, confusion, or the noise of the material world. The purpose of the Fourth Way Digital Network is to carry light, truth, love, wisdom, and unity. It can help Indigenous Nations and allied movements share knowledge, organize gatherings, support youth, protect Mother Earth, strengthen language revitalization, document sacred histories, and mobilize peaceful action in times of crisis.
The prophecy of the “Everywhere Spirit” becoming physically manifest on Mother Earth reminds us that digital technology can become a sacred instrument when used in harmony with the Sacred Teachings and Natural Laws. The Council’s task is to help ensure that this gift is not used to deepen division, distraction, or domination, but to strengthen right relationships. In this way, the Fourth Way Digital Network becomes a spiritual nervous system for the rising unity of the Human Family.
6. Supporting the Upliftment and Empowerment of Womankind
The Council gives full support to the long-prophesied upliftment and empowerment of womankind, the true representatives of Mother Earth herself. No civilization can be healed while women, girls, mothers, grandmothers, aunties, sisters, and daughters are dishonored, silenced, exploited, or excluded from the sacred councils of life. The healing of Mother Earth and the healing of womankind are inseparable.
Women carry the sacred power of life, continuity, nourishment, protection, and relational wisdom. In many Indigenous traditions, women are the keepers of the home fire, the water, the children, the clans, the songs, the ceremonies, and the moral balance of the people. Their leadership is not an addition to peacebuilding; it is one of its foundations.
The Council’s work must therefore support women’s spiritual leadership, safety, dignity, education, economic empowerment, cultural authority, and full participation in consultation and decision-making. The International Treaty to Protect and Restore Mother Earth must also be understood as a treaty to protect the sacred feminine principle in all life. When women rise in dignity, Mother Earth breathes more freely. When women are honored, the whole Human Family moves closer to peace.
7. Giving Full Support to Choose Peace, Live Peace, End War
The Council stands fully behind the global movement: Choose Peace. Live Peace. End War. This movement is not merely a slogan. It is a sacred call to transform the consciousness, behavior, institutions, and relationships of the Human Family. To choose peace means to decide in the heart. To live in peace means to embody that decision in our words, actions, families, communities, and nations. Ending war means removing the roots of war from the human heart and from the systems we have built.
The 99 Days of Peace Through Unity, beginning June 21 and extending through September 27, 2026, provides a sacred ceremonial framework for this global movement. It invites people everywhere to participate through prayer, ceremony, education, dialogue, reconciliation, community service, youth engagement, ecological action, and practical peacebuilding. It reminds us that peace is not passive. Peace is disciplined, courageous, organized, loving, and deeply practical.
The Binding Planetary Peace Treaty to End War gives this movement a covenantal foundation. It declares that war is not humanity’s destiny. It calls us to bury our weapons, heal our divisions, and gather beneath the Great Binding Tree of Peace. The Council can help carry this treaty spirit into Indigenous communities, faith communities, youth movements, ecological movements, and global networks of goodwill.
8. Standing Behind the Rising of the Seventh Generation
The Council stands firmly behind the rising of the Seventh Generation, who will — beyond our lifetimes — fully complete and manifest the Most Great Peace on our Mother Earth as it is in Heaven.
This is a sacred act of humility and conscious faith. We do not need to see the harvest to plant the seed. We do not need to complete the whole work in our lifetime to be faithful to our part of it.
The Seventh Generation calls us to measure every decision by its impact on the children yet unborn. It asks whether our actions will leave them clean water, living languages, healthy families, restored lands, wise institutions, spiritual courage, and a planet where peace is possible. This means that youth must not only be spoken about. They must be prepared, mentored, trusted, protected, and empowered.
The CIC will help create pathways for youth leadership through the Nabi Institute, the Fourth Way digital network, the Compassion Games, environmental restoration, cultural revitalization, peace education, and intergenerational councils. The young people will carry this work further than we can imagine. Our responsibility is to give them roots, wings, tools, teachings, protection, and a sacred vision large enough to guide them.
9. Bringing Together All Faith Traditions of Mother Earth
The Council is called to bring together all faith traditions of Mother Earth, recognizing that they come from the same sacred source. The purpose is not to erase the beauty of different paths, nor to force anyone into uniformity. The purpose is to help the human family move beyond historical pain, religious division, conquest, misunderstanding, and inherited fear, so that we may recognize our underlying spiritual oneness.
Every sacred tradition carries light. Every person has received guidance, wisdom, and spiritual responsibility. The wounds between traditions must be healed through humility, truthfulness, forgiveness, respect, and service. When faith traditions meet only to defend themselves, division continues. When they meet to serve the healing of Mother Earth and the future of the children, unity becomes possible.
This interfaith and interspiritual healing and understanding is essential to ending war and restoring Mother Earth. The Binding Planetary Peace Treaty to End War and the International Treaty to Protect and Restore Mother Earth both require a moral and spiritual foundation that goes beyond politics.
They call the world’s faith traditions to stand together in defense of life, compassion, justice, and sacred responsibility. In this way, the Council can help build a great spiritual alliance of all Peoples, all Nations, and all traditions of good heart.
One Sacred Mandate:
Together, these nine areas form one sacred mandate: to restore the spiritual foundation of Indigenous unity, awaken unprecedented unified action, strengthen the rising of womankind and youth, protect and restore Mother Earth, and help guide the Human Family toward the Most Great Peace.
The Council is not arising to oppose anyone. It is a sacred responsibility to fulfill. It is arising to help gather the scattered fires, strengthen the Hoop of Many Hoops, activate the Fourth Way, and bring forward the living power of prayer, consultation, treaty, service, and unity.
This is the Red Road of oneness. This is the work of the Seventh Generation. This is how we Choose Peace. Live Peace. End War.
A Sacred Covenant of Non-Proselytization
It is a fundamental sacred principle of the Continental Indigenous Council that there shall be no proselytization, no religious pressure, no spiritual coercion, and no effort to convert anyone from one faith, tradition, ceremony, or sacred pathway to another. This Council does not arise to recruit followers for any religion, institution, organization, or belief system. It arises to serve healing, unity, peace, justice, spiritual illumination, and the protection and restoration of Mother Earth.
We know that many Indigenous Peoples and many Peoples of the world have suffered deeply from forced conversion, religious domination, cultural suppression, and the misuse of sacred teachings to divide families, weaken Nations, and separate people from their ancestral ways. Therefore, we state clearly and without hesitation that the Continental Indigenous Council will never be an instrument of religious conquest, spiritual superiority, or cultural replacement. No one will ever be asked to abandon their sacred identity, language, ceremonies, ancestors, Elders, faith, or spiritual responsibilities to walk with us.
To think that one must convert another person for that person to be loved by the Creator is to forget the vastness of the Creator’s mercy. To think that one path alone has the right to dominate all others is to mistake ego for truth.
The Great Spirit, the Great Mystery, the Most Beloved One, the All-Powerful, the Most Kind and Most Compassionate One has sent light, wisdom, guidance, and sacred responsibility to all Peoples. Each faith tradition, each Indigenous spiritual way, and each sincere path of service carries a reflection of that divine light.
The Continental Indigenous Council is a council fire, not a pulpit of domination. It is a sacred circle, not a recruitment system. It is a place where each person may come in the fullness of who they are and be honored in their own spiritual dignity.
A Diné person comes as Diné. A Lakota person comes as Lakota. A Christian comes as a Christian. A Bahá’í comes as a Bahá’í. A Buddhist, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Sikh, traditional ceremonial person, or person of sincere good heart comes without being diminished, corrected, pressured, or spiritually claimed by another.
Teachings may be shared, but only in humility, love, and mutual respect. Prayers may be offered, but never imposed. Sacred stories may be spoken, but never used as weapons of superiority. Consultation may open hearts, but it must never become a form of hidden persuasion.
The purpose of our gathering is not to make everyone the same, but to help everyone remember that beneath our many languages, ceremonies, cultures, and faith traditions, we are one Human Family.
This sacred covenant also protects Indigenous sovereignty. No outside religion, institution, organization, government, or movement has the right to define Indigenous spiritual identity, control Indigenous destiny, or use Indigenous suffering as a doorway for recruitment.
The Council affirms the right of every People and every person to walk their sacred path with dignity, freedom, and responsibility. True unity does not erase identity. True unity protects identity, honors difference, and reveals the deeper oneness that lives beneath all sacred forms.
Therefore, the Continental Indigenous Council extends a warm handshake and embraces all our human relatives, faith traditions, organizations, tribes, Nations, and movements of goodwill who come in humility, reverence, and service. We gather not to convert one another, but to heal together.
We gather not to compete over whose light is greatest, but to bring our lights together for the healing of Mother Earth and the future of the Seventh Generation. We gather to Choose Peace, Live Peace, End War, and fulfill the sacred vision that the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas will arise and become so spiritually illumined that they will enlighten the world.
We begin with differentiation — learning to see clearly the uniqueness, purpose, place, and sacred contribution of every person, people, tradition, ceremony, teaching, nation, and movement. Before true unity can arise, we must first understand the parts. We must see where each part belongs within the larger spiritual vision. Each relative carries a distinct gift, a distinct responsibility, a distinct history, and a distinct piece of the sacred pattern.
From there, we move into integration — bringing these many parts together in novel, creative, and life-giving ways. This integration is not forced uniformity. It is not about making everyone the same. It is the sacred art of discovering new relationships, new patterns of cooperation, new forms of collective action, and new ways of walking together that could not have appeared while the parts remained separated. Because the gifts of the Creator are infinite, the ways these gifts can be brought together are also infinite.
Then we move toward generalization, or oneness — the stage in which we begin to see the deeper truth that holds all the parts together. Across many fields of learning, development, healing, education, systems thinking, and spiritual growth, this same pattern appears again and again: first, we learn to recognize the parts; then, we learn to bring them into living relationship; and finally, we come to understand the whole. In that deeper seeing, we recognize that diversity and unity are not opposites. Diversity is the sacred expression of unity.
At this level of understanding, we begin to see things as they truly are. We come to know that all life is one living reflection of the Oneness of the Creator, the One Supreme Power, the Great Spirit, the Great Mystery, the Source of all life and love. Each human being is not merely an individual separated from the whole. Each of us is a sovereign agent of the Divine Creator, carrying spiritual responsibility, moral agency, sacred dignity, and a unique part of the vision.
This is why we affirm that each of us is a Sovereignty, Ancient, Imperishable, and Everlasting. We are not temporary accidents upon Mother Earth.
We are spiritual beings, relatives within one Human Family, called to remember who we are, why we are here, and how we are meant to serve. When this understanding becomes real in our hearts, consultation becomes deeper, unity becomes stronger, and collective action becomes an expression of the Creator’s will moving through many hearts as one.
In this Spiritual Awakening, of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, all humanity will come to know that we are truly one Human Family, all of us, children of one Father and one Mother, all indigenous peoples of Mother Earth, all of us Star relatives; each of us is a Sovereignty, Ancient, Imperishable, and Everlasting.
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The Sacred Covenant of the Continental Indigenous Council, Ceremonially and Spiritually Ignited at White Swan, Yakima Nation
You are warmly invited to the Second Meeting of the Continental Indigenous Council, which will be held on Sunday, June 28, 2026, beginning at 4:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time and 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time. This gathering will also begin the Council’s first four-Sunday series, a sacred process of grounding, listening, consultation, and preparation for the continuing life and work of the Continental Indigenous Council.
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These first four Sundays are being set aside to help ground the Council in its spiritual foundation, Sacred Covenant, guiding principles, consultation process, and practical responsibilities. This will not be a hurried process. It will be a sacred beginning, undertaken with humility, patience, prayer, discipline, and deep respect for the responsibilities now before us.
The first four weeks will be dedicated to the sacred work of bringing together the wisdom, responsibilities, gifts, concerns, and vision of three primary Circles: Men, Women, and Two-Spirit relatives. Each Circle will be invited to consult among its own peers and relatives, in a spirit of equality, respect, honesty, humility, and sacred responsibility.
Within each of these Circles, we will also seek to honor further differentiation and deeper listening. This may include the voices and perspectives of Elders, youth, young leaders, parents, grandparents, knowledge keepers, ceremonial people, community builders, and those carrying responsibilities for the Seventh Generation. In this way, each Circle can bring forward not only its shared voice but also the unique gifts, experiences, responsibilities, and concerns it carries.
This process is not meant to separate us. It is meant to help us understand more deeply. Each Circle carries a sacred part of the whole. Each Circle sees something that the others may not fully see. Each Circle remembers, protects, and offers something necessary for the life of the Council and the generations yet to come.
The Seventh Generation perspective is especially important, because the Council must not be guided only by the needs of the present moment. We must listen for the voices of the children, the youth, the young leaders now rising, and the generations not yet born. Their future must be present in our consultation. Their well-being must be part of every decision. Their inheritance must guide the way we organize, serve, speak, and walk together.
After this process of listening, reflection, and differentiation within the Men’s Circle, Women’s Circle, and Two-Spirit Circle, the wisdom of each Circle will be brought together in a respectful and prayerful way. The purpose will be to weave these understandings into one greater Circle of balance, healing, unity, and collective responsibility. No one Circle is meant to dominate another. No one voice is meant to speak for all. Together, we will seek the greatest possible shared input.
Through this four-week process, we will listen for what each Circle sees, remembers, protects, carries, and is being called to offer. Then, together, these gifts can be brought into a shared vision, a collective understanding, and a united path of service for the good of all our relatives.
Only after this deeper listening, reflection, differentiation, and integration will these shared understandings be brought forward to the wider community. In this way, the Council will not rush to speak as one before it has taken time to listen to all parts of the Circle.
These first four weeks will help prepare the Continental Indigenous Council to move forward with spiritual power, practical clarity, disciplined consultation, and right relationship for the sake of the Seventh Generation and all generations to come.Only after this deeper listening, reflection, differentiation, and integration will these shared understandings be brought forward to the wider community. In this way, the Council will not rush to speak as one before it has taken time to listen to all parts of
The governance model of the Continental Indigenous Council is fully independent and not affiliated with the Bahá’í Faith. At the same time, we gratefully acknowledge the distinctive inspiration we have received from the Bahá’í electoral process, especially its prayerful, nonpartisan, nomination-free, campaign-free, secret-ballot method of choosing trusted servants.
While consultation, council process, and collective discernment are sacred practices found among many Indigenous Peoples and spiritual traditions, the Bahá’í electoral model offers a unique and proven example of how communities across the world have selected governing councils without parties, nominations, campaigning, competition for office, or personal ambition. In this spirit, service is not sought as a position of power, but accepted as a responsibility to the whole.
The Continental Indigenous Council honors this contribution as rooted in the Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh, while remaining Indigenous-led, Indigenous-governed, non-proselytizing, nonpartisan, and fully independent in its purpose, covenant, and sacred responsibilities.
An Invitation to Support and Walk With This Sacred Work
The Continental Indigenous Council is being renewed as a sacred Indigenous-led Council, rooted in prayer, consultation, spiritual responsibility, and the vision first carried forward from the Council Fire at White Swan in 1969.
The Fire has never gone out. It has continued to live in the prayers, sacrifices, visions, and responsibilities of those called to serve the healing, unity, and future of Indigenous Peoples, the Human Family, Mother Earth, and the generations yet to come.
The Indigenous members of the Council will carry the Council’s core consultation, as they prayerfully determine how best to move forward with the nine major goals and the sacred responsibilities now before us. This Indigenous consultation must be protected, respected, and honored, so that the Council can remain true to its spiritual foundation, its original purpose, and the responsibilities entrusted to it.
At the same time, we warmly welcome non-Indigenous relatives, friends, and allies to walk with us in good ways. When the Council is not in closed Indigenous consultation, non-Indigenous relatives will be invited to attend as quiet witnesses, so they may listen, learn, pray, and respectfully witness the unfolding of this sacred work.
We also ceremonially welcome people of all backgrounds who feel called to join us in prayer, ceremony, spiritual support, and the building of respectful relationships.
There are many ways to participate and support this work. Some may be called to pray. Some may be called to witness. Some may be called to volunteer. Some may be called to help with administration, communications, social media, coordination, writing, editing, design, translation, technology, outreach, fundraising, logistics, research, or other practical forms of service.
These contributions are deeply valued. They are important ways of serving the work without stepping into Indigenous leadership roles or responsibilities.
Others may feel called to support the Council’s work financially. Financial gifts may be made through the Four Worlds International Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All funds received through this dedicated appeal will go toward fulfilling the vision, goals, and objectives of the Continental Indigenous Council, including its work of healing, unity, Indigenous leadership development, youth and elder engagement, spiritual education, cultural renewal, sacred consultation, and service to Mother Earth and the future generations.
To contribute, please use one of the following links, with the note CIC.
Four Worlds International Institute 501(c)(3) Donation. Please email [email protected], and the link will be sent.
PayPal: [email protected] ( USA)
PayPay: [email protected] (Canada)
E-transfer: [email protected] (Canada)
Every contribution — whether through prayer, ceremony, witnessing, volunteer service, resources, relationships, or financial support — is received with gratitude.
Each sincere offering helps strengthen the sacred work of the Continental Indigenous Council as it continues to grow, deepen, and fulfill the vision for which it was established.
Warm Love and Greetings
Deksi and Brother Phil