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Blessings my friends,
I am writing today to explain a prayer initiative that began with three dreams I have encountered. This is an assignment for my co-laborers & patriots of prayer to assist in. In these dreams there is instruction for an initiative that will facilitate a further healing of our land, the United States of America, from the trauma it has experienced. The third dream expresses how to facilitate people, through their obedience, to be healed of the trauma they have experienced through disappointment, betrayal and loss of hope. |
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Here are the dreams.
I dreamed on three occasions in 2020, with the last dream occurring in October. In the dreams, Jesus came and spoke to me that what was taking place in our Nation had brought great trauma into the land. Jesus instructed me in the dream that time was coming for me to start an initiative that would bring healing in the land. He spoke about how in the past some of the First Nation people would gather and bury two hatchets at the base of an evergreen tree to bring peace and heal the conflicts between the tribes. The evergreen tree represents covenant. The hatchets (or axes) represent weapons of war in the natural. Covenant is a major aspect of healing our land. Jane Hamon recently prophesied that “2021 would be a year of conflict and contending.” Our “contending” comes from the foundation of “covenant.” |
The third and final dream was slightly different in that Jesus instructed that this prophetic act would require people’s participation to help heal the trauma that people have experienced.
He instructed me to facilitate people of every state to participate in the healing of their land, state and people.
After months of prayer and counsel, I know it is time to initiate this mandate. Will you please pray and join with the Praying Church, the standing Ekklesia and Body of Christ, to take this “one small step for a man” to bring a Kingdom Leap Forward for our Nation?
We are asking those who participate in this Heal our Land Initiative to memorialize their prophetic act of burying the hatchet by emailing a testimony of their experiences to us. We will post the testimonies on my website by State so others can read and receive hope and faith. The testimonies will serve to stir others to follow their lead.
He instructed me to facilitate people of every state to participate in the healing of their land, state and people.
After months of prayer and counsel, I know it is time to initiate this mandate. Will you please pray and join with the Praying Church, the standing Ekklesia and Body of Christ, to take this “one small step for a man” to bring a Kingdom Leap Forward for our Nation?
We are asking those who participate in this Heal our Land Initiative to memorialize their prophetic act of burying the hatchet by emailing a testimony of their experiences to us. We will post the testimonies on my website by State so others can read and receive hope and faith. The testimonies will serve to stir others to follow their lead.
HOW TO PARTICIPATEStep 1. Acquire two hatchets. Step 2. Invite others to join you and come into agreement with God’s plans to Heal our Nation. Step 3. Ask God to help you to know where to bury the hatchets. According to where you live, you may have to be creative to find an evergreen tree or something to represent one. Step 4. Send a brief testimony of what took place to share with us by sending to [email protected] |
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The following is historical facts about burying the hatchet, the how and why it came forth.
The History and the Legacy of “Burying the Hatch” Symbol of Peace Background
Iroquois Confederacy (Iroquois League) - The Six Nations
The Iroquois Confederation (or League), also known as the Six Nations (initially the Five Nations) is a confederation of Six Native People nations who are considered one of the world’s oldest participatory democracies. This confederation included:
The confederacy became known to the English as the Six Nations and was recognized at Albany, New York in 1722. The confederacy has persisted into the 21st century.
Impact of the Six Nations
From June 22 to July 4, 1744, colonial leaders from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia met with chieftains of the Six Nations in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and negotiated The Great Indian Treaty of 1744.
The Iroquois leader, Canassatego, spoke to the assembly and suggested the colonials form something like an umbrella group—a league or a confederacy representing all of the colonials with one voice. He believed their negotiations would prove more successful if the colonials were represented with a unified voice. Canassatego’s words were published and read by colonial leaders.
While his ideas were not welcomed by many, one colonial, Benjamin Franklin, listened. Franklin studied the Iroquois Confederacy and later led the Committee on Indian Affairs, established in 1775. As early as 1754, Franklin wanted to try Canassatego's ideas. Later, he and others would build some of those ideas into the U.S. Constitution.
“Bury the hatchet”
The term, “bury the hatchet,” originates from an Iroquois ceremony in which war axes or other weapons were buried in the ground as a symbol of newly made peace. According to tradition, which may predate Columbus, the Iroquois leaders Deganawidah and Hiawatha convinced the Five Nations (the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca) to stop fighting amongst themselves and form a confederacy. To celebrate the new peace, the Iroquois buried their weapons under the roots of a white pine—an evergreen. They believed an underground river then washed the weapons away so the tribes could never use them against each other again.
From Tradition to Legacy
Although it is believed that burying the hatchet ceremonies took place long before Christopher Columbus, the only surviving records come from European accounts. In 1644, French Jesuit relations described how when the Iroquois visited Quebec, they wished to “unite all the nations of the earth and to hurl the hatchet so far into the depths of the earth that it shall never again be seen in the future.”
The first English mention comes from Judge Samuel Sewall. Writing in 1680: “I write to you of the mischief the Mohawks did... they came to an agreement and buried two Axes in the ground; one for English another for themselves; which ceremony to them is more significant & binding than all Articles of Peace, the hatchet being a principal weapon with them.”
On September 18, 1753, the Lord Commissioners of Trade and the Plantations in London wrote to the Governor of Maryland saying: "His Majesty having been pleased to order a Sum of Money to be Issued for Presents to the Six Nations of Indians [the Iroquois] and to direct his Governour of New York to hold an Interview with them for Delivering those presents [and] for Burying the Hatchet ..."
In 1759, Shawnee leader Missiweakiwa argued that it was time to “bury the bloody hatchet” with the English, following defeats of Franco-Indian alliance.
Following U.S. independence, American diplomats included “burying the hatchet” in the first US peace treaty with Iroquois League - the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1784. The official ceremony associated with the treaty included a hatchet that was buried beneath a formal Tree of Peace and a peace pipe was smoked.
The following year in 1785 at the Treaty of Hopewell with the Cherokee Nation, U.S. Colonel Benjamin Hawkins wrote: “The hatchet shall be buried forever.”
In 1988, Mohawk Chief Jake Swamp said, “the Peacemaker gave The Tree of Peace as a symbol of the Great Law of Peace. This is a great white pine tree whose branches spread out to shelter all nations who commit themselves to Peace. Beneath the tree the Five Nations buried their weapons of war; atop the tree is the Eagle-that-sees-far; and four long roots stretch out in the four sacred directions -- the ‘white roots of peace.’”
The practice of “burying the hatchet” is not only a wonderful symbol of peace, but it is also an important part of the legacy gifted to the people of the United States from the Five Nations.
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Iroquois Confederacy". Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Nov. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Iroquois-Confederacy. Accessed 17 February 2021. https://www.historyrevealed.com/feature/why-we-say-bury-the-hatchet/ file:///C:/Users/shann/Downloads/63-Article%20Text-131-1-10-20190219.pdf https://www.straightdope.com/21343301/what-s-the-origin-of-bury-the-hatchet https://unchartedlancaster.com/2019/09/03/the-great-indian-treaty-of-1744/ https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi709.htm
The History and the Legacy of “Burying the Hatch” Symbol of Peace Background
Iroquois Confederacy (Iroquois League) - The Six Nations
The Iroquois Confederation (or League), also known as the Six Nations (initially the Five Nations) is a confederation of Six Native People nations who are considered one of the world’s oldest participatory democracies. This confederation included:
- the Mohawk (“People of the Flint”),
- the Oneida (“People of the Standing Stone”),
- the Onondaga (“People of the Hills”),
- the Cayuga (“People of the Great Swamp”),
- the Seneca (“People of the Great Hill”)
- the Tuscarora (“People of the Shirt”).
The confederacy became known to the English as the Six Nations and was recognized at Albany, New York in 1722. The confederacy has persisted into the 21st century.
Impact of the Six Nations
From June 22 to July 4, 1744, colonial leaders from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia met with chieftains of the Six Nations in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and negotiated The Great Indian Treaty of 1744.
The Iroquois leader, Canassatego, spoke to the assembly and suggested the colonials form something like an umbrella group—a league or a confederacy representing all of the colonials with one voice. He believed their negotiations would prove more successful if the colonials were represented with a unified voice. Canassatego’s words were published and read by colonial leaders.
While his ideas were not welcomed by many, one colonial, Benjamin Franklin, listened. Franklin studied the Iroquois Confederacy and later led the Committee on Indian Affairs, established in 1775. As early as 1754, Franklin wanted to try Canassatego's ideas. Later, he and others would build some of those ideas into the U.S. Constitution.
“Bury the hatchet”
The term, “bury the hatchet,” originates from an Iroquois ceremony in which war axes or other weapons were buried in the ground as a symbol of newly made peace. According to tradition, which may predate Columbus, the Iroquois leaders Deganawidah and Hiawatha convinced the Five Nations (the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca) to stop fighting amongst themselves and form a confederacy. To celebrate the new peace, the Iroquois buried their weapons under the roots of a white pine—an evergreen. They believed an underground river then washed the weapons away so the tribes could never use them against each other again.
From Tradition to Legacy
Although it is believed that burying the hatchet ceremonies took place long before Christopher Columbus, the only surviving records come from European accounts. In 1644, French Jesuit relations described how when the Iroquois visited Quebec, they wished to “unite all the nations of the earth and to hurl the hatchet so far into the depths of the earth that it shall never again be seen in the future.”
The first English mention comes from Judge Samuel Sewall. Writing in 1680: “I write to you of the mischief the Mohawks did... they came to an agreement and buried two Axes in the ground; one for English another for themselves; which ceremony to them is more significant & binding than all Articles of Peace, the hatchet being a principal weapon with them.”
On September 18, 1753, the Lord Commissioners of Trade and the Plantations in London wrote to the Governor of Maryland saying: "His Majesty having been pleased to order a Sum of Money to be Issued for Presents to the Six Nations of Indians [the Iroquois] and to direct his Governour of New York to hold an Interview with them for Delivering those presents [and] for Burying the Hatchet ..."
In 1759, Shawnee leader Missiweakiwa argued that it was time to “bury the bloody hatchet” with the English, following defeats of Franco-Indian alliance.
Following U.S. independence, American diplomats included “burying the hatchet” in the first US peace treaty with Iroquois League - the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1784. The official ceremony associated with the treaty included a hatchet that was buried beneath a formal Tree of Peace and a peace pipe was smoked.
The following year in 1785 at the Treaty of Hopewell with the Cherokee Nation, U.S. Colonel Benjamin Hawkins wrote: “The hatchet shall be buried forever.”
In 1988, Mohawk Chief Jake Swamp said, “the Peacemaker gave The Tree of Peace as a symbol of the Great Law of Peace. This is a great white pine tree whose branches spread out to shelter all nations who commit themselves to Peace. Beneath the tree the Five Nations buried their weapons of war; atop the tree is the Eagle-that-sees-far; and four long roots stretch out in the four sacred directions -- the ‘white roots of peace.’”
The practice of “burying the hatchet” is not only a wonderful symbol of peace, but it is also an important part of the legacy gifted to the people of the United States from the Five Nations.
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Iroquois Confederacy". Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Nov. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Iroquois-Confederacy. Accessed 17 February 2021. https://www.historyrevealed.com/feature/why-we-say-bury-the-hatchet/ file:///C:/Users/shann/Downloads/63-Article%20Text-131-1-10-20190219.pdf https://www.straightdope.com/21343301/what-s-the-origin-of-bury-the-hatchet https://unchartedlancaster.com/2019/09/03/the-great-indian-treaty-of-1744/ https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi709.htm
