Technically they started sharing back in the 60's. Maybe even earlier. Their prophecies included a prophecy on when to share the prophecy. So meta. Anyways, their info indicated that they were to wait for a certain type of white people to show up - ones with long hair like the Hopi, and ones who didn't know where they are, where they came from, or where they were going.
You can picture a 60's hippie kid on a sort of aimless pilgrimage wandering in the desert, and coming onto some Hopi elders, blasted by CIA-made LSD.
"Do you know were you are?" asks the elder.
"I dunno, man."
The elder asks, "Well, where are you from?"
"I dunno, man."
And finally, "Where are you going?"
"I dunno man."
I knew one of these 60's psychonauts for a number of years. He spent a good deal of time with the Hopi with John Kimmey (the guy in the video I linked above who is delivering the prophecy). The two of them spent some time in Canada, touring around, sharing the Hopi prophecy with interested audiences.
They learned the prophecy from a guy named Grandpa David Monogye, who was a
kikmongwi or spiritual elder of the tribe. There was a very specific process for sharing the prophecy - only those authorized by the elders were allowed to share it publicly, lest the info be diluted or twisted. John Kimmey was the only white guy who was sanctioned to do so, IIRC.
In the Hopi prophetic tradition, they also had a method of curtailing any sort of information corruption, which inevitably happens across time as a story retold countless times shifts ever so slightly again and again.
When the prophesied 'gourd of ashes' fell from the sky (the nuclear testing that was visible from Hopi lands), it was indicated that the time for sharing their prophecies was near. All the clans were called together, and they cross-referenced all the prophecies. They selected only the elements common to all the clans, and left the rest. This way, they were able to pare it down to the basic pattern and avoid the embellishments of local variations.
Interestingly, this is the same method that Witzel used in
Origins of the World's Mythologies in order to derive the basic structure of the Laurasian meta-myth.
Yeah, one way of looking at the current band council structure in North America is that it was designed to induce ponerogensis within Native tribes. Abduct kids from their homes, traumatize them in 'schools', entice them with greed, hypnotize them in whatever form and then put them in positions of decision-making power. That's not the whole story, as nowadays some of the traditionalists are linked up pretty firmly with Antifa/woke types. But I think the induced ponerogenesis thing may be an underlying effect of the divide and conquer tactics used by colonial governments.
There's also the Brian Hayden material in the
SKY GOD thread. Many native communities weren't just innocently harmonizing with nature and living in peace with each other prior to contact. If they weren't dominated by other tribes adjacent to them, they often lived in fear of, or were ruled by, secret societies living within their midst:
Not sure if anyone really know what was - or is - really going on in those kivas.
