Re: EARTH-SPIRIT mailing list / walk for the Earth

Gary S. Trujillo (gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us)
Tue, 6 Jun 1995 05:56:31 -0500


Further to my recently-written cautionary addendum to the article Roxanne
posted about the "Sunbow 5, Walk for the Earth" event, I've done a bit
more exploring, visiting the Web site ("http://www.sunbow5walk.org/sunbow5")
for the walk. I made a serious error in my earlier article, confusing a
URL (Uniform Resource Locator) for a different site with the one just cited.
If only to try to make amends, I plan to compile the information I obtained
in my visit to the Sunbow 5 Web site and place it into an archive file that
anyone without convenient access to the Web can obtain via e-mail. I will
post instructions for doing so as soon as the file has been installed on the
TAMVM1 system.

In at least partial answer to the question that Lyn Dearborn and I were
asking in our earlier remarks, here is a bit of text from the home page
cited above that indicates the names of some of the people involved in
the event. Perhaps these people are known to some of you out there:

The Sunbow 5 Walk is a response to a vision of traditional Native
Elders of North America (including Grandfather Commanda; Thomas
Banyacya and Martin Gashweseoma of the Hopi; Jose Lucero of the
Santa Clara Pueblo: Ernest Benedict of the Mohawk; and Frank James,
Sachem, Wampanoag Nation. One of their goals is to bring together
people of all races, whose concern for healing the Earth, now and for
future generations, far surpasses any racial or religious divisions.
The Sunbow 5 Walk is both a gesture of hope and a deed of unity.

I would still like to know more about this event and why we have not
heard of it earlier, but I am prepared to support it and its aims after
learning whatever we can discover about it together.

Gary