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[from adailyriot]
A news tabloid of the type that favors headlines like FAMOUS PSYCHIC’S HEAD EXPLODES has published what it claims are “secret Indian predictions” that can now be revealed.
The Sun, a weekly tabloid published by American Media, Inc. of New York, proclaims on the front page of its January 9 issue: “Stunning PROPHECIES that will change your life: SECRET INDIAN PREDICTIONS FOR PEACE & PROSPERITY.”
“Your life will be soon be (sic) changed for the better, say scholars studying the long-lost final writings of two Native American elders,” reporter Alan Burgroft says in his lead sentence. Burgroft goes on to tell the fantastic tale of an alleged prophet, a “Brule Sioux veteran and wise man named Follows Bear” who passed away at a Christian mission outside Minot, South Dakota in 1953. As he was dying, his nephew, a college student wrote down Follows Bear’s last words and, following the elder’s instructions, placed the notes inside a small iron box inside an elm tree growing near his uncle’s grave.
As chance would have it, the following year an alleged Paiute elder named Simon Muha Ebboowee also passed away in his home near Pyramid Lake, Nevada, “after writing down everything he remembered from his long life” – including tribal history, legends and the lessons he’d learned from Wovoka – a real historical Northern Pauite religious leader who founded the Ghost Dance movement. …
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