P ROGRESSIVE R EVELATION BAHA’I

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MESSENGERS OF GOD TO FIRST NATIONS*
ABRAHAM
KRISHNA
AITH
MOSES THE YOUNGEST INDEPENDENT
ZOROASTER WORLD RELIGION
BUDDHA
JESUS
MUHAMMAD ‘ABDU’L-BAHA
THE BÁB New York • 1912
BAHÁ’U’LLÁH
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* Sacred tradition names such Messengers as
Deganawidah, Quetzalcoátl & Viracocha
(Iroquois, Toltec, Inca traditions
in North, Central, & South America).

I COULD SEE the American Indians straighten

their shoulders when I asked their forgive-
ness for the injustices my race had done
them and when I praised their great past.
— RÚHÍYYIH KHÁNUM (1961)

 O Son of Spirit ! 
THE BEST BELOVED OF ALL THINGS in My sight is
Justice; turn not away therefrom if thou de-
sirest Me, and neglect it not that I may con-
fide in thee. By its aid thou shalt see with
thine own eyes and not through the eyes of
others, and shalt know of thine own knowl-
edge and not through the knowledge of thy
neighbor. Ponder this in thy heart; how it
behooveth thee to be. Verily justice is My
gift to thee and the sign of My loving-
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INDIANS WILL ENLIGHTEN THE WORLD 
ATTACH GREAT IMPORTANCE to the indigenous popula-
kindness. Set it then before thine eyes. tion of America.
— BAHÁ’U’LLÁH (1854) IN ANCIENT TIMES, [AMONG] THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA, …
undoubtedly in those regions the Call of God must
Prophet-Founder of the Bahá’í Faith have been raised …
LIKEWISE, THESE INDIANS, should they be educated and
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— ‘ABDU’L-BAHA

KEVIN LOCKE
Lakota Hoop Dancer & Bahá’í
THE INDIAN & BAHA’I SPIRIT PATH
•! Many people ask me, “How does the Bahá'í
Faith tie in with your Indian spiritual tradi-
tions?”
•! I realized that the teachings of White Buffalo
Calf Woman were part of a great process of
divine revelation … and that it has reached its
culmination in the Bahá'í Faith.
•! What the Bahá'í Faith teaches does not de-
tract from or in anyway negate my own tradi-
tional religion.
•! The Bahá'í Writings say that all peoples have
received a portion of the divine bounty, and
that this bounty is all from the same source.
•! So there is no need to deny or negate or in-
validate each other’s spiritual heritage.
—!Kevin Locke (1996)
<www.onecountry.org/oc82/oc8208as.html>
DR. DAVID S. RUHE
Member, Universal House of Justice
RECOGNIZING NATIVE PROPHETS
•! To the warring tribes 700–800 years ago
there came an astonishing Prophet of Peace.
•! Deganawidah united … hostile tribal groups
in a federal union based on democracy, the
first in the Western Hemisphere … with a
“Great Law of Peace,” a constitution which
propounded one expansive human family.
•! In God’s Plan … the Bill of Rights & the Con-
stitution were vital steps toward realising in
America the Iroquois concept of the primacy
of individual rights …
•! And of course the Iroquois foreshadowed, in
their Longhouse of sky and earth, the plane-
tary Message of the Bahá’í Faith for today.
—!Dr. David S. Ruhe (1994) — former Mem-
ber of The Universal House of Justice.
© 2007 by Christopher Buck & Don Addison
TAWACIN WASTE WIN
PATRICIA LOCKE
National Women’s Hall of Fame
PRESERVING CULTURAL IDENTITY
•! Recognized as one of the most influential
American Indians of the 20th century.
•! Preserving the languages, cultures and spiri-
tual traditions of American Indians and other
indigenous peoples was her abiding passion.
•! Influenced changes in federal laws affecting
Native Americans.
•! Helped organize 17 tribally-run colleges.
•! Awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellow-
ship (1991).
•! First Native American woman elected to the
National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of
the United States (1993–2001).
—!National Women’s Hall of Fame (2003)
<www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action
=viewone&id=217>