Black Mesa Trust
December 14, 2020
President-Elect Biden
Delaware, USA

Dear Mr. President Elect Biden,
Hopi science, like Native American Sciences, have been around centuries before the birth of modern western science.

Centuries ago, a Greek philosopher, Hippocrates, in “Air, water and places’’ recognized that man’s life in sickness and health is bonded with forces of nature, and that nature from being oppressed and conquered, must be treated as an ally and friend whose ways must be understood and whose counsel must be respected.

All citizens of the world today are confronted with a troublesome paradox; by exploiting our natural resource base, mankind is able to obtain food and fiber and other material that is essential to life, but by depleting and abusing our natural resources, we also lose spiritual substance that is no less vital to our well-being.

Hopi elders believe COVID-19 is caused by the fact that Mother Earth is sick and is crying out for
help, but no one seems to be listening. We continue to exploit the natural resources gifted to mankind to take care of Her. COVID-19, climate changes are systems of Her illness. Scientists will find a cure for COVID-19 but, other diseases will come again.

In addition to this, mankind is facing the threat of nuclear war. The threat is written on Prophecy Rock, near the oldest continuously inhabited community in North America, on the Hopi Reservation in Northeastern Arizona.

I hope, in your message to the world, you will acknowledge the importance of Native science. Native Americans seem to be the forgotten people.

Today we are living in a chaotic world: Hopi elders teaches that out of chaos can come order.
Humankind is gifted with the ability to think so we can envision, create, and communicate to bring about a new world called the 5th World.

The Hopi elders say the time has come to intertwine modern science with native science, technology, and worlds religious faiths. Modern science has no heart and must be combined with Native science, which is the heart. The mind and heart must intertwine like it used to be long time ago.

Sincerely,
Vernon Masayesva
Hopi Member of the Village of Hotevilla, Arizona