Notice of Default
to Roy Little Sun
by Thomas Francis
August 6, 2000
To Roy Steevensz, also known as Roy Littlesun:
On July 6th, 2000, I challenged you to justify your repeated attempts to present your own thoughts as if you speak for the Hopis, and told you that if you failed to do so within 10 days, I would inform those to whom you have so presented yourself, or may present yourself in the future, that all such presentations by you are untrue. I received a reply from you on July 12, refusing to respond to the simple questions I had asked, and expressing contempt for me, and for the very act of questioning you.
I offered you a chance to recant your self-incriminating reply, giving you an additional 10 days to answer my questions. I advised you that, if I did not receive your response by July 30, these letters would stand as your confession by silence that everything I have said in them is true. I also advised you that I would thereby be obliged to inform all concerned parties of your fraud against them and against the Hopi people. As I have received nothing further from you to date, these letters, and the words you read now, serve as your unrefuted testimony, and are now being presented to everyone interested in your relationship with the Hopis.
I asked you in my July 6 letter to summarize the five main points of the Hopi Message of Peace as the Hopi themselves have told it. Since you cannot name those five points, you must admit that the message you convey is simply your own, and honesty requires that you present it as such. Yet, your apparent response is to say you never said you represent the Hopi. In the face of the overwhelming number of claims presented in your own words to the effect that you do convey Hopi knowledge and concerns, the statement that you never do so must cause a reasonable observer to conclude either that you are joking, or that you are afflicted with a serious defect of awareness. Before all who encounter your words and ceremonies, I urge that you stop joking, or if you are not joking, cure your apparent defect of awareness.
For example, as I write this, I observe the following statements posted next to your picture on the Internet: "In 1996 Roy began a global pilgrimage to share his Hopi teachings and to facilitate the ceremonial healing of Planet Earth. During his quests, he visits sacred sites across the planet. He uses Hopi medicine in his global healing work in the form of a medicine wheel" and "Roy walks the path of the Hopi that leads to the cross roads of all worlds destined to be Freed under the Eternal One Law." The Hopis have no "medicine wheel" in their tradition. Concerning the "circle of hearts" you try to form, Danaqyumptewa has said that the Hopis were warned not to join any circle, but only a spiral, which has an entrance and an exit, otherwise they might never get out. No Hopis speak of a "cross roads of all worlds" as the goal of their path.
I have just been shown an article by Christie Pashby in the February 4, 2000 issue of the Tico Times, "Central America's leading English language newspaper," which shows your picture under the headline, Hopi Messenger Calls for Oneness [see also this evidence]. Yet you say in your response to me, "I NEVER said I represent the Hopi. Others may have." What would the writer and the readers of that article think of your words? The Hopis have made it clear that to walk the Hopi path is to maintain the peaceful aboriginal Hopi Sinom jurisdiction as a safe haven for humanity during the third and final world-shaking event called Powateoni, or the Day of Purification. Your deliberate reversal of the effort of Titus Qömayumptewa to do exactly that proves that you do not walk that path, but actually work to destroy it.
You have defaulted on your opportunity to disprove this by explaining why you provoked your own arrest, as brought to your attention in my July 6 message.
I call to your attention the legend of King Oedipus, who boasted that he could solve any mystery, and used his skill to find the cause of the plague that held his people in bondage. Oedipus found that he had caused the plague himself, by unknowingly killing his father and marrying his mother. His response was to blind himself, and be led into exile. The task you create for yourself is equally intense. You seem unaware of the death you have caused, or the sacrilege you perform, but such blindness cannot protect you or your followers from the tragic results. If you did not know you set your house on fire, your ignorance would not stop it from burning. I do not suggest that you put out your eyes. I only suggest that you open them.
So that you and those who know you may avoid the pitfalls of the blind, I now present a short explanation of the five topics that constitute the Hopi Message of Peace. When certain aboriginal Americans saw what looked like two sunrises on one morning, they were moved to tell certain Hopis what they had seen. When descriptions of the weapon that caused that effect reached the Hopi Kitsokis (communities built as spiritual shrines), and the Hopis learned that this weapon could boil the sea and burn the land, causing plants to stop growing, they recognized the fulfillment of their prophecy about such an invention. I tried to get the most objective explanation possible, since it is obviously easy to make up stories after the fact and call that prophecy.
I learned that they called this thing "qötsaptanga." The root words in that term mean "ashes" and "container." Maasaw, the divine being to whom Hopi entitlement to the land is attributed, as signified in the name he gave them, Hopi, wears a weapon tied to his waist, called qötsaptanga. It consists of a gourd filled with ashes, said to have tremendous transformative power. For example, if Maasaw is under attack, he can throw the qötsaptanga to the ground, and suddenly his attackers will go crazy and start dancing around. It was said that one of these would some day be made by humans, and that it would boil the sea and burn the land, and nothing would grow on that land for many years. Although it is said that a few things can grow on land burnt by the atomic bomb, this closely describes the weapon demonstrated at White Sands.
It took three years of deliberation for many lineages of secret Hopi tradition to combine at a meeting in Shongopavi Kitsoki, where they were compared and found to fit into a pattern. The body of knowledge that was thus formed has remained mostly within oral tradition, and much of it has been lost. However, the main features were talked about and presented to leaders of the modern industrial system, as well as could be done by people from a society worlds apart.
To help memorize the whole pattern, one messenger who served in the transmission of this information to the modern world noted that it could be summarized in five stages: 1. Where we came from, 2. Why we came, 3. What happened to us after we came, 4. What is happening to us now, and 5. What will happen to us in the near future if we do not correct ourselves and our leaders before the final world-shaking event of this era runs its course.
To tell the entire story that fits into these five topics would take the Hopis about four days. To distill it for the "Western Mind," we can summarize it as follows:
1. We came from a previous world much like this one in many ways.
2. Our way of life had become so corrupted that that world was on the brink of destruction, so we came to this world.
3. We migrated to find our places on many continents, where we became part of nature, literally holding the world in balance by our lifestyle, including what today we refer to as spiritual ceremonies.
4. We who would still hold the world in balance are now besieged by those who forgot our true role, and try to compel us into a way of life invented by the limited human mind, very attractive in the material sense, but very destructive and impossible to maintain.
5. We now enter a cycle of death and rebirth for human culture worldwide. If we return to non-destructive, sustainable methods of getting what we need to live, we will survive the process of global rebirth. If we fail to correct ourselves, we will succumb to the rule of ignorant force, and perish, and unfortunately, that is not the end.
Our only hope is to set about correcting our deviation, and learning how to deal with harmful people without bringing ever greater harm. Our fate hinges upon our right to the land, which we cannot hold if we try to take it by force. We must learn how to hold it by permission. Those who are free from error in this regard will be saved by the vast intelligent forces that create and sustain us, and will return to our natural condition of "Heaven on Earth."
There is an undefeatable peaceful process of correction. Those who are sincere will find it. It will take every power we possess, plus the assistance of the enormous powers that make this universe, and our lives, possible. That peaceful process is simple, but at times difficult. It consists in informing all who participate in the aberrant way of life, so they will know the nature and consequences of their actions, and cannot say they were not warned.
Pure peaceful aboriginal title to land and governance is the key to the future. We do not even have the right to fail to achieve this. In league with the intelligent forces that sustain our existence, our sincere effort cannot fail, so we have no excuse. We are here because our common ancestors embraced this obligation as the price for entering this world, or so we are told by our ancient hosts on this land. Let us see if they were right.
You have allowed your confession by silence to stand as your statement to the world. The power of such evidence is based not on any authority vested in me, but on the right of your audience not to be defrauded. You say of me, "You are the Hopi expert." I presume you are being facetious. I observe that there can be no such thing as a Hopi expert, even among the Hopis, and I do not make such a claim. If you say that I do, I respectfully demand that you present evidence to that effect, or refrain from making such false statements.
If you should decide to communicate with our audience on anything I have said here, whatever you present will be posted on this website as well. For you to portray this effort as malicious or false would be a mistake. It is merely one way to warn those who might otherwise be deceived by you, and to enable the communication you appear to avoid. I ask that you present to me the evidence of any error you may find in this letter. In the absence of such evidence, the words presented herewith shall stand as acknowledged by you to be true.
You may communicate with me directly via email.
Thomas Francis
Note: Roy never replied to this letter, either. Instead, about four years later, he published a letter, supposedly to Thomas Francis and the owner of this website, on his own website. The letter does not address any of the questions asked by Tom. It's content will be fully addressed in the forthcoming book, Littlesun: The Flip Side.
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