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Star Ancestors: Extraterrestrial Contact in the Native American Tradition
Explores the long-standing contact between American Indian tribes and extraterrestrial visitors through interviews with the tribes’ spiritual leaders
• Shares the wisdom and ET experiences of Dawnland founder Dana Pictou, Mayan daykeeper Hunbatz Men, Choctaw wisdomkeeper Sequoyah Trueblood, and Creek healer and artist Shona Bear Clark
• Includes color photos of ET-inspired work by prominent Indian artists as well as traditional Indian art depicting contact with “Sky Elders”
As humanity stands at the crossroads between the Fifth and the Sixth Worlds, American Indian wisdomkeepers have recognized signs that they must now speak their closely held knowledge about extraterrestrial contact, their original instructions from the Sky Elders. These ET relationships have existed since the beginning of time. They have been depicted on ancient rocks and hides, embedded in creation stories, choreographed in sacred dances, beaded on wampum belts, and continued to this day through rituals and the tobacco blessing. They show that with the vital support of our Star Ancestors, we can bring our planet back into balance with natural laws.
Exploring the unifying “Sky Elder” theme found in virtually every Indian culture, Nancy Red Star shares her profound interviews with wisdomkeepers from several Native traditions, including Mayan elder and daykeeper Hunbatz Men, Stargate International CEO and UFO researcher Cecilia Dean, and Choctaw medicine man Sequoyah Trueblood, and offers their teachings on taking our rightful place among the peoples of the universe.
Laying out a path for rebuilding our world, the Sky Elders’ original instructions initiate us into the possibility of a coming time of peace. Inviting all peoples to realize their Star ancestry, the women and men of proud lineage and inspiring wisdom who share their experiences here offer us a survival plan for walking into the next world.
• Shares the wisdom and ET experiences of Dawnland founder Dana Pictou, Mayan daykeeper Hunbatz Men, Choctaw wisdomkeeper Sequoyah Trueblood, and Creek healer and artist Shona Bear Clark
• Includes color photos of ET-inspired work by prominent Indian artists as well as traditional Indian art depicting contact with “Sky Elders”
As humanity stands at the crossroads between the Fifth and the Sixth Worlds, American Indian wisdomkeepers have recognized signs that they must now speak their closely held knowledge about extraterrestrial contact, their original instructions from the Sky Elders. These ET relationships have existed since the beginning of time. They have been depicted on ancient rocks and hides, embedded in creation stories, choreographed in sacred dances, beaded on wampum belts, and continued to this day through rituals and the tobacco blessing. They show that with the vital support of our Star Ancestors, we can bring our planet back into balance with natural laws.
Exploring the unifying “Sky Elder” theme found in virtually every Indian culture, Nancy Red Star shares her profound interviews with wisdomkeepers from several Native traditions, including Mayan elder and daykeeper Hunbatz Men, Stargate International CEO and UFO researcher Cecilia Dean, and Choctaw medicine man Sequoyah Trueblood, and offers their teachings on taking our rightful place among the peoples of the universe.
Laying out a path for rebuilding our world, the Sky Elders’ original instructions initiate us into the possibility of a coming time of peace. Inviting all peoples to realize their Star ancestry, the women and men of proud lineage and inspiring wisdom who share their experiences here offer us a survival plan for walking into the next world.
224 pages, Paperback
First published June 13, 2012
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Nancy Red Star
7 books23 followersNancy Red Star, daughter of the Cherokee, is a citizen of the Sovereign Rupublic of the Abenaki Nation of Missiquio, S. Francis/Sokoki Band. She lectures and leads workshops throughout the United States on the teachings of the Star Ancestors. Nancy currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Information from the back of Legends of the Star Ancestors.
Information from the back of Legends of the Star Ancestors.
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May 19, 2014
This book not only taught me more about our Native American brothers and their spiritual belief structure but also about their no-nonsense guide to visitations from other worlds.
I came across this book in a Little Five Points (Atlanta) store featuring Native American items and picked it up because of its title. After reading a large format text about crop circles (reviewed elsewhere on this site), I dug into this much-shorter but no less compelling treatise of contacts with extra-terrestrial visitors who were/are, perhaps, participants in our technology advances and our culture.
The author is Nancy Red Star. After reading this book, I ordered from Light Technology the book LIFE WITH A COSMOS CLEARANCE by Daniel M. Salter as told to Nancy Red Star. This appealed to my paranoid self which is fascinated with conspiracy theories. It was like reading Jesse Ventura but with an extra-terrestrial twist.
I recommend your reading both of these works, but you might want to read STAR ANCESTORS first.
I came across this book in a Little Five Points (Atlanta) store featuring Native American items and picked it up because of its title. After reading a large format text about crop circles (reviewed elsewhere on this site), I dug into this much-shorter but no less compelling treatise of contacts with extra-terrestrial visitors who were/are, perhaps, participants in our technology advances and our culture.
The author is Nancy Red Star. After reading this book, I ordered from Light Technology the book LIFE WITH A COSMOS CLEARANCE by Daniel M. Salter as told to Nancy Red Star. This appealed to my paranoid self which is fascinated with conspiracy theories. It was like reading Jesse Ventura but with an extra-terrestrial twist.
I recommend your reading both of these works, but you might want to read STAR ANCESTORS first.
March 25, 2022
There is a long tradition of Native American contact with non-human entities, sometimes called "Little People." They are said to have directed humans, sometimes living under the Earth; they are sometimes seen as deities, and are in some ways reminiscent of fairies and elves of European mythological traditions.
These Native American traditions have now, it seems, been grafted onto UFOs and extraterrestrial visitations that emerged in the years following the Second World War in the Anglo world. The 11 Wisdom Keepers interviewed by Nancy Red Star in Star Ancestors offer a hodgepodge of clearly long-standing Native ideas and New Age-like practices, wrapped up--sometimes--with encounters with aliens, trips aboard UFOs, alien healing, abduction in the negative sense and contact in the positive.
The messages that the aliens bring are clearly related to those George Adamski and other 1950s contactees received: the Earth is in danger; we are being guided by benevolent aliens; the entire universe is populated; and there is one single all-powerful loving Creator on whom we Earthlings have turned our backs. Changes of a drastic sort are on the way; a new age will soon be dawning.
It's not easy to disentangle what may be actual long-existing Native ideas from much more recent accretions. For example, elements of evangelical/fundamentalist dispensationalist interpretations of Revelation, including the Rapture and the Tribulation, appear in some of Red Star's interviews. These ideas also echo elements of the 19th-century Ghost Dance religion. But we also read about the benevolent Tall Whites (or Blondes) and the sometimes malevolent Greys, who are sometimes seen as servants of the former, sometimes at war with them. And experimentation on humans by extraction of ova and sperm and the creation of hybrids incubated in human women also make their appearance. Aspects of Whitley Strieber's abduction scenarios pop up too.
At the same time, a kind of global interconnection among non-European peoples runs like a thread through much of the material. Tibetans, Maya, Maori, and others are said to have had contact with aliens for millennia; Maya pyramids are docking stations for space ships, ready to fly again when the moment comes. Erik von Daniken Nazca figures in the Atacama Desert are replayed as alien messages; our DNA is said to have been altered from 12 strings to 2, causing our susceptibility to disease and disability.
The chapters are long and sometimes rather rambling; Red Star must have recorded the interviews, but she never explains her methodology nor whether she engaged in any editorial work. Various terms appear without explanation--ley lines, for example--which will mystify the uninitiated reader. And unfortunately there is no bibliography or other aide for anyone who'd like to explore further the questions her text raises.
Still, Star Ancestors has its interest. It reveals a complex web of syncretism in which pre-existing Native American myths became married to UFOs and extraterrestrial beings of recent vintage. And there's no doubt in my mind of the honesty of Red Star's subjects, who clearly believe what they are saying. For anyone intrigued by the emergence of new religions in America, the ways they are formed, fashioned, and forwarded, Star Ancestors offers a look at what might be seen as a sub-genre of a broader New Age movement.
These Native American traditions have now, it seems, been grafted onto UFOs and extraterrestrial visitations that emerged in the years following the Second World War in the Anglo world. The 11 Wisdom Keepers interviewed by Nancy Red Star in Star Ancestors offer a hodgepodge of clearly long-standing Native ideas and New Age-like practices, wrapped up--sometimes--with encounters with aliens, trips aboard UFOs, alien healing, abduction in the negative sense and contact in the positive.
The messages that the aliens bring are clearly related to those George Adamski and other 1950s contactees received: the Earth is in danger; we are being guided by benevolent aliens; the entire universe is populated; and there is one single all-powerful loving Creator on whom we Earthlings have turned our backs. Changes of a drastic sort are on the way; a new age will soon be dawning.
It's not easy to disentangle what may be actual long-existing Native ideas from much more recent accretions. For example, elements of evangelical/fundamentalist dispensationalist interpretations of Revelation, including the Rapture and the Tribulation, appear in some of Red Star's interviews. These ideas also echo elements of the 19th-century Ghost Dance religion. But we also read about the benevolent Tall Whites (or Blondes) and the sometimes malevolent Greys, who are sometimes seen as servants of the former, sometimes at war with them. And experimentation on humans by extraction of ova and sperm and the creation of hybrids incubated in human women also make their appearance. Aspects of Whitley Strieber's abduction scenarios pop up too.
At the same time, a kind of global interconnection among non-European peoples runs like a thread through much of the material. Tibetans, Maya, Maori, and others are said to have had contact with aliens for millennia; Maya pyramids are docking stations for space ships, ready to fly again when the moment comes. Erik von Daniken Nazca figures in the Atacama Desert are replayed as alien messages; our DNA is said to have been altered from 12 strings to 2, causing our susceptibility to disease and disability.
The chapters are long and sometimes rather rambling; Red Star must have recorded the interviews, but she never explains her methodology nor whether she engaged in any editorial work. Various terms appear without explanation--ley lines, for example--which will mystify the uninitiated reader. And unfortunately there is no bibliography or other aide for anyone who'd like to explore further the questions her text raises.
Still, Star Ancestors has its interest. It reveals a complex web of syncretism in which pre-existing Native American myths became married to UFOs and extraterrestrial beings of recent vintage. And there's no doubt in my mind of the honesty of Red Star's subjects, who clearly believe what they are saying. For anyone intrigued by the emergence of new religions in America, the ways they are formed, fashioned, and forwarded, Star Ancestors offers a look at what might be seen as a sub-genre of a broader New Age movement.
March 24, 2015
Each of the essays was unique and memorable in its own way, dealing with new age topics. Several gave details about modern Native American life, which I found captivating. None of the essays have a particularly persuasive or didactic tone. All interviewees presented information of their experiences, and as a reader I felt free to draw my own conclusions about the experiences. The tone of each interviewee felt very genuine and unedited. The overall message of the book was one of reconnecting with the earth and appreciating nature as a living, dynamic environment.
The presentation, style and printed artwork in the book were beautiful. I am considering taking out some of the pages to frame.
The end of each chapter contains a guided meditation with phrases pertaining to each essay.
The presentation, style and printed artwork in the book were beautiful. I am considering taking out some of the pages to frame.
The end of each chapter contains a guided meditation with phrases pertaining to each essay.
January 2, 2022
Enlightening and troubling at the same time. This book was published in 2000; the interviews were in the late 1990’s. Several make predictions with dates that have come and gone without the fulfillment of those prophecies?! At the same time it is noteworthy that so many indigent groups all over the world have such detailed, and for the most part matching, records covering thousands of years of contact with “star people.” It is also interesting that there are many overlaps in the traditions of the indigenous and non-indigenous cultures world wide. I am intrigued by the dominance of the Pleiades in all these traditions. There are seven stars in this cluster and the number seven is a dominant factor in so many world wide cultures.
These chapters are presented as eleven interviews with prominent Native officials. But there is no evidence of the questions posed by the interviewer. Each essay has the feel of a rambling stream of consciousness of that official. I had to reread multiple sections to understand what was being said. Even then the continuity was not always clear.
What is clear is that SOMETHING IS going on.
These chapters are presented as eleven interviews with prominent Native officials. But there is no evidence of the questions posed by the interviewer. Each essay has the feel of a rambling stream of consciousness of that official. I had to reread multiple sections to understand what was being said. Even then the continuity was not always clear.
What is clear is that SOMETHING IS going on.
August 8, 2024
This is interesting, informative, and unusual to a 'western' reader. Some of the topics seem very plausible, and some stretch one's credulity. The older I get, the more important it seems to keep an open mind regarding the traditions and beliefs of other cultures. I did not realize the age of this book when I started reading; it was published in 2000, so unfortunately, much of the foretelling is now outdated
June 18, 2019
Beautifully written! I loved the individual stories.. so much wisdom.
December 5, 2020
It's got a nice "interview but not interview" set up. Fun read but the last two stories/interviews get a little.....out there.
February 22, 2023
Very eye opening in a lot of aspects and made me want to dive into ancient history. I did skip the last four chapters, because I feel like the information wasn’t pertaining to what I wanted to know.
May 10, 2023
Fascinating
September 18, 2024
Fantastic!
July 18, 2020
When I read this book I felt really in touch with the earth and it made me sad to see how man has affected earth and is still harming are habitat. It exposes the reader to different Native American beliefs a history and legends that reference aliens and contact with ufos. each chapter focused on an interview from a different native from a different tribe, some have had interactions with star beings and they told of these intersections, strange occurrences they had from meeting them and powers they gained. It was pretty interesting and opened my eyes to beliefs I have never read about before.
March 27, 2013
I really enjoyed this book. It was very cool to read about the various alien/extraterrestrial encounters and prophecies that have been handed down for generations. I found this book terribly exciting!
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