In 1946, the year after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan at the end of World War II, Dan Katchongva, Son of Yukiuma (keeper of the Fire Clan tablets) and leader of the Sun Clan of the Hopi, joined three other Hopi elders in carrying traditional prophecies to the wider world. This timing was not a coincidence: the Hopi understood that humanity had reached a crossroads, and required the benefit of ancient wisdom in order to avert an apocalypse. This Akwesasne Notes poster combines a press portrait of Katchongva with one of his teachings. While his message of peaceful resistance through spiritual strength had first appeared in his 1970 book Message to All People (also published by Akwesasne Notes), the alternative “peaceful way of life” that he advocates here remained relevant in an era reeling from the Vietnam War and other global conflicts. His insistence on the “purification of all living things” further speaks to both the environmental and spiritual crises of the time.