February 7, 2000

Dear friends:

Here is some recent information I have just received this past weekend about the Eskimo prophet, Maniilaq, from a friend of his still-living great-grandson with whom I am in contact.

A couple of months ago there were 2-3 e-mails circulating and posted from different people including myself about Maniilaq (variously spelled) who lived in the 1800s before the Bible and Christianity came to his people in Alaska. Maniilaq prophesied many things to the Eskimo people, including things about the end times.

God reportedly spoke to Maniilaq revealing to him that he was the source of All Intelligence, and revealed Himself as the Father and the Son. Maniilaq told God that he believed His voice and was mightily used in the ministry of a prophet to the Eskimo Indians. The power of God within him made him invulnerable to the shamans (witch doctors), who wanted to kill him but could not. The shamans decribed a bright light surrounding Maniilaq.

God revealed a number of biblical truths to Maniilaq, as well as things about the future. For example, God told Maniilaq to rest every seven days. Amazingly, God told Maniilaq to call Him "Abba," (we now know from Romans 8:15). Through Maniilaq God revealed that in the future there would be kayacs that did not need to be rowed (motorboats), and kayacs that flew in the sky (airplanes). Maniilaq prophesied that someday a book and white people would come to his land telling the people all about the Great Intelligence he had discovered. Of course, we know that was the Bible and missionaries that would eventually come. Maniilaq also spoke of the end of days, giving some of the signs.

I ordered a videotape about him from a Christian source, an excellent documentary with interviews with elderly Eskimos, confirming some of the things that have been reported.

A friend told me about Richard Twiss, a Sioux Indian and director of Winconi ministries who speaks before First Nations peoples all over the world. Twiss says, "'Many know of Maneelok (Maniilaq) and many other First Nations prophets like him over the centuries who prophesied many things we are seeing today." Twiss put me in contact with a close personal friend, Dr. Suuqiina, who told me that he is a friend of Maniilaq's great-grandson.

Thanks to Twiss, I have been privileged to be able to communicate with Dr. Suuqiina. My purpose in contacting him was to get his take on some of the reported prophesies of Maniilaq about the end times, some of which are disputed. Below are some of the claimed prophecies, followed by Dr. Suuqiina's clarification (which is in ALL CAPS, the way he writes).

1. Claim: About 100 years ago the Caribou stopped their age old migration route on the Seward Peninsula. Maniilaq was laughed to scorn for suggesting the caribou would not migrate where they always had. Maniilaq said when the Caribou come back to their age old migration route on the Seward Peninsula that is when Jesus would return. The caribou have not been seen on those migration routes for approximately 100 years. this winter over 900,000 of the caribou were seen migrating back across their historic Seward Peninsula migration route.

DR. SUUQIINA SAYS: "THE PROPHECY ABOUT THE CARIBOU HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MANIILAQ....THE CARIBOU LEFT THE SEWARD PENNINSULA ABOUT 140 YEARS AGO ESTABLISHING A NEW MIGRATION ROUTE FURTHER EAST OF UNALAKLEET. THE ELDERS SAID THAT WHEN THE CARIBOU RETURNED TO THE SEWARD PENN. THE RETURN OF JESUS WOULD BE NEAR. IN 1977, SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND CARIBOU RETURNED TO THE NOME AREA AND EVEN FURTHER WEST. I HAVE PHOTOS OF THEIR PRESENCE ONLY 1/4 MILE FROM DOWNTOWN NOME."

2. Claim: Maniilaq prophesied of a village called Ambler, and that white people would find something in the ground and build a great village. Recently, boronite was found there and the village of Ambler has grown to over 20,000 and 747's land there to fly out the Boronite. (Note: This claim has been greatly disputed. I even called the State of Alaska Department of Community & Economic Development and could find no substantiation. The below response is interesting.)

DR. SUUQIINA SAYS: "AMBLER IS ABOUT 200+ PEOPLE AT THIS TIME, HOWEVER, IT IS PLATTED FOR A COMMUNITY OF ABOUT 20,000 IN VIEW OF THE DISCOVERY OF A HIGH GRADE OF COPPER IN THE AREA, BORONITE.... THE AIRPORT IS SUFFICIENT TO LAND A 747."

3. Claim: Maniilaq said a whale would surface in Ambler in the end days Last summer 3 Beluga whales surfaced in Ambler some 350 miles inland from the ocean.

SUUQIINA SAYS: "THE PROPHECY SAYS A WHALE WILL SURFACE NEAR AMBLER WHICH IS QUITE FAR FROM THE OCEAN....YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED TO KNOW THAT TWO BELUGA WHALES SURFACED NEAR FT. YUKON IN ALAKSA ABOUT 400 MILES FROM THE OCEAN, SO THE WHALES DO HEAD UP RIVER AT TIMES..."

4. Claim: Maniilaq said that a white buffalo would be born to the Sioux people when Jesus would return. Just this year there was a white buffalo born in North Dakota. Many Indians are now making pilgrimage to see this white buffalo.

DR. SUUQIINA SAYS: "THE WHITE BUFFALO IS A PLAIN'S INDIAN PROPHECY THAT FORETELLS THE END OF TIME. TWO WHITE BUFFALO WERE BORN A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO TO A BUFFALO FARMER IN NORTH DAKOTA AND ONE OF THE WHITE BUFFALOS IS WITH THE HERD NEAR BISMARCK, N.D. I STOPPED AND SAW THE BUFFALO THERE.... I AM NOT TOTALLY CERTAIN ABOUT THE PROPHECY IN DETAIL BUT IT SEEMS TO INDICATE THAT WHEN A WHITE BUFFALO IS BORN IT SIGNIFIES AN END-TIME PORTENT. THEY ALSO BELIEVED IT RELEASED GOOD MEDICINE OR GOOD FEELINGS FOR THE TRIBAL PEOPLE."

5. Claim: Maniilaq actually received a revelation of "the Son of God" and not just the Great Intelligence.

SUUQIINA SAYS: "MANIILAQ RELATED THAT THE SOURCE OF INTELLIGENCE AND LIFE WERE IN THE FATHER AND THE SON."

6. Claim: Just before the return of the Son there would be 2 Winters. We know that Nuclear Winter is one of the horrible results of strategic nuclear war. Maniilaq said that his great-grandson would fly in the boats with fire in their tails. He said that his great-grandson would see the end of days and return of the Son. Maniilaq's great-grandson is now 79. The great-grandson now says that very soon now 2 Winters.

Also, on the video, one old timer said that Maniilaq revealed that the return of Jesus would be late in the lifetime of his great-grandson, or shortly thereafter, she was not sure.

DR. SUUQIINA SAYS: I AM FRIENDS WITH THE GREAT-GRANDSON... HE IS IN GOOD HEALTH... AND CLAIMS THE TWO WINTERS ARE SOON... HIS FAMILY LIVED TO BE IN THEIR 90'S SO HE IS CONFIDENT OF SEEING THE LORD'S RETURN... BLESSINGS, SUUQ.

On the video an old timer revealed that Maniilaq could only see so far in the future and no further. However, the end of what he could see, the end of days, reportedly frightened and greatly disturbed him.

Dr. Suuqiina told me he was going to mail me a pamphlet he wrote about Maniilaq. If I learn anything else of significance from it I will pass it on.

Maniilaq is mentioned on the following Web site. http://www.yukonpresbytery.com/YukonPresbytery/Anniversaries/barrow100th.htm

There was information about Maniilaq at http://www.alaskool.org/Language/Maniilaq/webhtm/Maniilaq_sec1.htm#Maniixaq; however, it will not open for me today. Perhaps either the site has been deactivated or the ISP is temporarily down.

The video about Maniilaq is available at http://www.tagnet.org/llt/video.htm#VTME. It contains great video shots of pristine Alaska and interesting interviews with some weathered and wrinkled old Eskimo saints who love Jesus and who touch your heart.

Jim