Module Two

American Indian Prophecies: A Brief History on the Future of America

“American Indian Prophecies is not about the end of the world but, rather, a change of worlds–the beginning of a new Earth cycle.” – Ira Kennedy

This website is an educational tool that describes the prophecies of Black Elk, Wovoka, Rolling Thunder, Lame Deer, Sun Bear, and the Hopi. In sharing these prophecies Ira Kennedy examines the differences between Western and Aboriginal epistemologies and how expectations for the future differ. In contrast to the Western belief in Dooms Day, North American Indigenous beliefs focus on the concept of rebirth or the beginning of new Earth cycle. This may have something to do with the belief in circular time rather than the Western linear time.