Welcome! For my  background, see my bio or google "Phillip H. Duran."

"The ancient ones taught us that the life of the Tree is the life of the people. ... the day would come when the people would awaken, as if from a long, drugged sleep; that they would begin, timidly at first but then with great urgency, to search again for the Sacred Tree." --from The Sacred Tree

E-mail me at:
phil-duran@cougarmail.org

Articles Menu: Click to select an article Read Me First Hamaatsa - A Place Arriving Land & Spirituality Cataloging Indian Knowledge On the Cosmic Order... Katrina: A Moral Failure Kokopelli Is Dancing Is the Evil Day Imminent? Christianity & the Indian Soul Christian America & War Native Science Authenticity Native & Western Science Indigenous Prophecies The American Conscience America at a Crossroads The 9/11 Commission U.S. Resolution of Apology Physics & Metaphysics Savages to Scientists Wholeness in Tribal Science Christian Indian Experience Happy Birthday, Chicanos! Indians, Chicanos, Racism Science in a Tribal College

The World's Hope: Until sustainable science becomes a way of life for each of us, we will continue to seek what we want, not what we need, and the Earth will no longer sustain us or future generations. It is a path of false hope. The world's oldest living societies, on the other hand, have survived through countless generations. They are models of sustainability.
     The hope of all nations now rests on the land being healed. This spiritual truth is one strand in the network of interdependence directly connecting the world’s hope to the knowledge, example and wisdom of Native peoples, who have never built weapons of mass destruction capable of annihilating other nations. Indigenous elders across the continent say that the problems facing the Earth and her inhabitants have spiritual causes.
      Ignoring the American Indian's sacrificial role in the nation’s history and the strength of our values, America continues along the path of conquest, relying on military power and expecting loyal citizens to believe it is for the cause of freedom.

A Living Universe: When  the late Vine Deloria, Jr., a renowned American Indian scholar, was asked during an interview about the fundamental difference between the Western and indigenous ways of life, he said: "I think the primary difference is that Indians experience and relate to a living universe, whereas Western people--especially scientists--reduce all things, living or not, to objects."
     Our ancestors lived in a spiritual universe, of which we are still conscious but which many do not experience, because they do not see that all things are imbued with spirit. The world that the Indian knew was altered after two waves of immigrants, first from Spain then England, brought anther culture and disregarded Indian ways that respected Creator's Earth. The political democracy that now governs us has no relationship to the land that sustains us. 
     The articles on this site (see menu)cover various topics: science, education, history, church, ecology, philosophy, spiritual matters, and more. They reflect a desire to see the land and people restored. We are re-tracing our steps to see what can be recovered. It is our sacred task for everyone's sake.

The articles listed in the above menu reflect my tribal perspective. My book, Bringing Back the Spirit, is a message to the American conscience and may be ordered from Amazon.

HAMAATSA (www.hamaatsa.org): Native people need to forge their own path of healing and restoration. Hamaatsa is a vision that is now coming into fulfillment. Read my letters about "Hamaatsa" and "Land and Spirituality" (on the articles menu).

Political interference: A to Z Guide by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Conquest theology: What are its implications? Theocracy Watch is a public information project  at Cornell University.