"The return of the Star Peoples". The X-Files of the Indian Reserves

Usually, when we talk about UFOs and "alien abductions", we tend to mistakenly consider the phenomenon as exclusively Western, mostly limited to American citizens of European descent. However, on the same US soil, the native Amerindians also live within the reserves have a lot to tell about it, and after decades of silence they opened up with author Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, who has collected their testimonies in some books, including "The return of the Star Peoples", recently translated into Italian by Venexia Editrice.

di Marco Maculotti

Usually, when we talk about UFOs and "abduction alienβ€œ, We erroneously tend to consider the phenomenon as exclusively Western, mostly limited to American citizens of European descent. However, on the same US soil, even the natives of Amerindian origin who still live today inside the reserves have a lot to tell about it and after decades of silence they opened up with the author Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, who has collected their testimonies concerning liminal if not clearly supernatural encounters in some of his books, including The return of the Star Peoples (2012), recently translated into Italian by Venexia Editrice.

Between May and September 1995, the successful TV series The X-Files (Chris Carter) aired two episodes (02 Γ— 25 Anasazi; 03 Γ— 01 The Blessing Way) whose main interpretative key could be found in the connection between the legends of the native inhabitants of American soil and the UFO phenomenon, usually considered as a modern creation. In the two episodes it was implied that the relationship between American Indians and the "Star Peoples" was something known within the sacred tradition, which would be confirmed by all those tales of Native Americans who over the centuries met enigmatic creatures that were only partially human, invariably endowed with supernatural powers, which not infrequently would have temporarily kidnapped them to take them with them into deep space:

The elders of the tribe often spoke of the star people: they said they met them in the sweat shack or on stellar journeys through space. And when they returned to Earth, they told us amazing things about ours celestial ancestors.

(p.180)

This idea seems to unite all 28 chapters of Encounters with star people. Untold Stories of American Indians; it is certainly no coincidence, therefore, that Clarke herself exhibits, as told in the book, the famous poster by Fox Mulder (the Meierian photograph of the flying saucer with the inscription Β«I want to believeΒ» superimposed) in his studio. Nonetheless, while focusing not just on the aforementioned hypothesis, the work is largely composed of testimonies that do not see in the sinister creatures, most often encountered in the first person, the mythical Ancestors remembered by sacred tradition, but rather entity other compared to the former, often of a malevolent nature towards humanity. In this we must recognize the author's intellectual honesty, who preferred to give the reader a heterogeneous picture of the phenomenon, detached from idealisms and easy proclamations typical of the New Age trend which, especially in recent years, has extensively exploited the issue native populations and supernatural entities (aliens, Bigfoot e Sasquatch, Lemurians of Mount Shasta, and so on).

The X-Files 03 Γ— 01 - The Blessing Way

Intergenerational abductions

Another merit that must be recognized to Clarke is that of having brought to the attention of the public a series of testimonies, as mentioned by people belonging to the various tribes of the American Indians, completely unpublished, because they were never revealed before by the individuals who lived them. in the first person, over a period of time that affects approximately the last century: some cases, therefore, date back to period preceding the alleged UFO crashes by Roswell which is usually remembered as the news episode from which the real UFO mania that has affected the Western world - and especially the United States - in the last seventy years began. It seems that the territories of the Indian reservations always have been, although the press mainstream ignored him for a long time, privileged scene of sightings: idea shared by several of the interviewees, who describe to the author how in certain areas the landing of the so-called flying saucer it happens continuously, through the years and decades, even at certain times almost every single day.Β 

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In some cases, contacts with the occupants of these mysterious aircraft would be intergenerational, that is, affecting the members of a specific family (often resident in wild and almost uninhabited areas) through the generations. In all these cases, the encounter with the aliens is never seen as something terrifying or negative, but rather it seems that between them and the natives of the place there is a kind of silent pact, so those who have seen them or interacted with them must absolutely not report the matter to the police or the press, or to other third parties. Curiously, reading the book you can see how several of the interviewees, who often told Clarke for the first time their supernatural experiences, died within a few days or weeks after breaking the covenant:

I told my mom and my uncle about it. And my uncle advised me to keep my mouth shut. He told me that the star people have been visiting the reserve since time immemorial and that it was better not to talk about it. According to him, it was better for me to participate in a healing ceremony so as not to risk getting sick.

(p.117)

This is curious, because the same belief was found both in the Americas and in Europe with regard to "Little People", which is not coincidentally put in connection with the "Peoples of the Stars" several times in the work in question here. People who believed in the fairy world and its enigmatic inhabitants - the variously named fairies, sidh, korrigans, pixies, etc. - well knew the taboo to talk about these with other people, especially after meeting them personally and interacting with them.Β 

And this may apply to a certain extent also for those more or less "primitive" populations who practiced the so-called Cult of the Ancestors, widespread in the Neolithic almost over the entire globe, as the British anthropologist amply demonstrated sir. James Frazer in his essay Fear of the dead in primitive religions (1933) and later historians of religions such as Mircea Eliade. It therefore seems to us that even in the Indian reservations as elsewhere in the world, the modern alien mythology follows an already existing previous mythology, afferent to a more traditional genre of otherness, that of the spirits and souls of the dead, which for millennia were the aliens (in the Latin sense of "others") par excellence.


Star people e Little People

But this is not the only point of contact between the aliens that Clarke's interviewees talk about and the feral creatures of ancient pagan traditions: like the latter, even the extraterrestrials of modern America appear in sacred places, which the toponymy of the place often connects to supernatural presences known from folklore; in both cases it is believed that these entities do not have a soul like the human being, and of this they would be nothing more than a sort of "imitation", this finding a confirmation not only in the mythical tradition but also in some recent ones - and to say slightly sinister - cases of missing 411:

These aliens can penetrate the secrets of the human body, they can recreate it, but they don't know how to grasp the essence of our soul. Personally, I believe they don't have a soul. They may also create perfect copies of our body, our features and our voice, but they are unable to duplicate our spirit. None of their doubles can ever be a true Navajo.

(p.95)

In some cases reported by Clarke the aliens, after having descended from the sky on a spaceship, would be able to access the underworld by passing through the rocks, in places where apparently there is no such thing as a material accesso (p. 113); both have the gift of invisibility, or rather the supernatural ability to suddenly disappear at will, and sometimes they turn into globes of light; both upon their appearance throw the horses into terror, making them instantly go wild. And again, we talk about kidnappings of children need changing left in their place, a theme already present in ancient folklore.

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The Cherokee tradition attributes the responsibility for these mysterious abductions to the so-called "People of the Moon" who, according to legend, would dwell underground and have blue skin and very large eyes, consequences of their poor tolerance of sunlight (pp. 145 and 256). A legend, the latter, which recalls very faithfully not only the well-known European beliefs on the "Secret People" - not least the medieval one of the "Green Children of Woolpit" (in the county of Suffolk, XNUMXth century) - but also those analogous of some indigenous peoples scattered throughout the planet, such as the belief in the supernatural genus of gods Patupaiarehe in New Zealand and that of the native Hawaiians in the like Menehune.

Lithic representation of two members of the "People of the Moon" (Moon-Eyed People), Murphy, NC

As in the case of fairies, some interviewees put forward the idea that the abduction aliens and the operations and medical tests to which the mysterious occupants of the spacecraft subject the abductees are a consequence of the fact that they are a dying breed, and therefore need to blood and human sperm to continue their existence; hypothesis also advanced by distinguished scholars of Gaelic foklore, which some also relate to the left cattle mutilation, phenomena experienced in first person also by certain Indians interviewed by Clarke.

In some cases, it is stated that the "Star Peoples" would teach abducted humans certain methods of healing, which is also found in tradition Fae British gods fairy-doctors, which like i medicine-men Amerindians would just learn from fairies or from the spirits their own occult science. Other respondents argue that they take certain "chosen ones" with them both while they are still alive and after death, leading them into their cosmic world: a theme that closely resembles the ancient stories regarding individuals who were brought to fairy land, a supernatural place from which they would never go back (a phenomenon that in the Anglo-Saxon language is rendered with the splendid phrase spirited away, unfortunately untranslatable into Italian).

In a case mentioned by Clarke, which took place in 1930 near Lake Anjikuni, in northern Canada, there is even talk of a village of two thousand Eskimo fishermen which from one day to the next would have literally emptied (pp. 33-34): legend has it that they were "Taken" en masse by the "Peoples of the Stars", to lead them to theirs Paradise, located "on top of the world", in the extreme north of the Arctic pole, beyond the eternal ice (pp. 147-149); a belief that, under the patina that claims to be absolutely historical, conceals very high esoteric meanings widespread throughout the world, and in particular the myth of the Paradise Earth located in the extreme North of the world, first cradle and place of origin of humanity. In the book we review here, historian Mary Winston from the state of Alaska revealed to Clarke:

Our grandparents told us the stories that our people had passed down for thousands of years. We come from the star people who live on top of the world. […] It is under the North Pole. The star men who brought us to Earth stayed here with us and went to live underground, on top of the world.

(p.149)
Jon Lomberg, Star Seeds

Cosmic visitors and "giant insects"

Nevertheless, as mentioned, the interviewees often point out a difference between the various "Peoples of the Stars", to be seen therefore not as a homogeneous species but on the contrary variegated, composed of different types of entities, each with its own external and character peculiarities and with its own purposes, now benevolent, now malevolent, towards humanity and our planet, although for the most part the "Principle of non-interference" as a main corollary of interactions with humans (a leitmotiv which is also found in the Western UFO tradition, from George Adamski onwards).

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Other common themes are the alleged interest of Star people for military, nuclear and missile bases (pp. 119-127), the idea ofspaceship as a kind of "living organism" which can modify its shape at will, if necessary managing to blend in with the surrounding environment, or even as a "city in miniature", full of colored lights. Even telepathic communication, the ability to read minds and to erase memories, as well as the experience of the so-called Missing Time during close encounters of the fourth type, they are common to both the Western and the Amerindian UFO tradition, as is the sudden malfunction of automobiles and electronic instruments during the experience. Faced with this inexplicable kind of phenomena, some interviewed by the author ask themselves:

We have always been told that God created man in his own image.
Well, if that's the case, who created that thing?

(p.224)
Petroglyphs of Judaculla Rock, North Carolina

Of the aforementioned "Star Peoples", one that is mentioned more than once by interviewees who claim to have come into contact with it has a remotely anthropomorphic aspect, characterized rather by a resemblance to the insect kingdom. A witness from the Southwest describes the members of this alien race as "giant insects, with very large eyes […], thin arms and legs and the skin as white and gelatinous as glue [which], when touching it, seems to be made of latex "(p. 157). Aunt Eve, a half Cherokee and half Choctaw lady in her eighties, gives a similar description:

They looked more like insects than anything else - large insects with long, thin legs and arms, out of proportion to the body. The neck was also long and thin and had to hold heads as big as watermelons. The eyes were round and protruding and instead of the nose they had a kind of slight protuberance with two small holes on the sides. Finally, the mouth was devoid of lips; when they held it closed, it looked like a razor cut. All in all, they looked half like insects and half human [...]

(p.204)

Conversely, another race of alien visitors is described as having good looks and benevolent intentions: "Tall, thin and blond" (p. 208), or alternatively with i snow white hair, and with a complexion so fair "you could almost see through their body", the fingers "thin and tapered, much longer than human ones", the iridescent eyes and a sort of areola surrounding their heads (p. 22), generally dressed in a very tight one-piece suit, a garment also worn by others types of "Peoples of the Stars", often of shorter stature (from meter to meter and 70) and with pink, gray or dark skin. These mysterious visitors, apart from height, closely resemble some mythical races of indigenous folklore, such as the aforementioned Patupaiarehe New Zealanders and their named Hawaiian counterparts Menehune.

At least some of them are taken for granted as their galactic origin, and it is not infrequently the visitors themselves who indicate it to the terrestrial astonished people who are in their presence. Some of them claim to come from Pleaids (pp. 31 and 126), or more generally from constellation of Taurus (p. 25), or from Sirio, cosmic places that according to many Native American mythologies are the place where they originally came from on Earth i primeval ancestors of the Amerindian tribes. It will also be noted, incidentally, that the legend of Sirius as a "seed-star" is found elsewhere, for example among the Dogon of Mali, and the analogous one on the Pleiades - or alternatively the Hyades, equally located in the constellation of Taurus - knows a perhaps even greater diffusion. This latter belief, among other things, was also professed by the same Black Elk, legendary Indian chief, spiritual guide and medicine-man of the Oglala (p. 71).

The importance of Milky Way, which many native peoples considered to be there "Track of the Dead". In Clarke's book, one of the many cosmic visitors, asked about her provenance,

he pointed to the end of the Milky Way and […] explained that his world was in that region of the universe but that human sight could not see it.

(p.107)

3 comments on β€œ"The return of the Star Peoples". The X-Files of the Indian Reserves"

  1. Imagining that the description of the various "star peoples" could be the identikit of particular "psychological typologies" ... and that perhaps by depicting a "particular physicality" the various peoples of the past were trying to depict a "character typology" ... I can " read ”everything from another point of view… Nice article, thank you

  2. I have been practicing Mexican shamanism for some years and if it can help, I bring my information regarding the topic of this beautiful article.
    From what the natives say, it would seem that they have met those we call the "inorganics", who take various forms (including that of the famous reptilians) and who live in the middle world, a dimension next to the terrestrial one, and from which at the beginning of astral travel it is always necessary to pass in order to access the other dimensions.
    The phrase about abductions and bringing humans into their world also sounds inorganic to me.
    There are cases of missing persons who have ended up in the world of inorganics, from which there is no turning back.

    Regarding the very blond and light-skinned "aliens" rather than aliens, I would say that most likely they are the Aryans met by Admiral Byrd in his famous travels to the North Pole (and later to Antarctica, where he met other humans ahead of us, which we call the Antarctic and with whom we communicate in the astral, but they speak a very ancient and unknown language). UFOs are not always of an alien matrix, they are often very terrestrial, of areas of the Earth intentionally not mapped because we do not want to let humanity know of the real existence of territories inhabited by humans much more advanced than us and of underground worlds, see Agarthi, which Byrd always visited in his time.

    There are so many things to tell, but for now I will stop here, hoping to have stimulated the curiosity of the truth seekers who follow this beautiful blog.

    Greetings!

    1. Hi Anna, thank you for your contribution and sorry for the late reply but I missed the comment!
      Very interesting what you say about "Inorganics". I wrote an article on the so-called "Missing 411" studied by David Paulides, I don't know if you know the subject. Mysterious disappearances within American national parks. I think it might interest you!
      A greeting,

      MM

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