“The more you know, the more you trust and the less you fear”

Well, to make a long, real long, story short…

For some people all this may sound a little weird, silly or starnge, but all this is part of my life!!

My last name is Yerna, that name is weird in Belgium (my nationality) and in the world, personally I only known my father, brother and sister with that name. My father never knew his father, so…

When I came to Mexico in 1985, I started working above a restaurant called Apache 14.

In that restaurant was hanging this frame, the picture shows a construction on the back that has a sign that says Yerna Post Office…

I’m looking for someone that can help me out with this situation, the picture is from a magazine, I think it’s a magazine about architecture, I posted pages 25 (the picture) and 26, maybe someone knows what magazine this is, the editorial, the printer, the year it was published, the photographer, the writer of that article, just something to start more research…

In 1985 that pictures was hanging here (in Mexico City) so the magazine were that page comes from is maybe from the seventies, and the picture itself is probably from the end of the 19^th Century or beginning 20^th Century…

I have been talking with people and many say that there must be a connection with that person (the one on the front of the picture) and my past, as well as there is supposed to be a connection with the Native Americans (especially Cochise shows up often) and the person on the photo …

Al my drawings, when I was a kid, were about Native Americans (check out the design on the moccasins and the ring that came to me 20 years later)

When I was a kid I didn’t wanted regular toys I wanted a Tipi (living in Belgium)

Then I met this woman that sold me that ring, with the triangles and spirals, that ring supposed to be from a Native American that gave it, as a gift, to a “white” man, the ring is signed with “CU” and has 4 stones, Jade, Turquoise, Tiger Eye and a Purple Quartz

My shop’s was opened later and the name is Wakantanka, The Great Spirit (which I didn’t knew in that period)

Then a Canadian friend gave me the Eagle Bone Whistle, which is used in the Sundance (I found out later as well)

Then here in Mexico I found this Tomahawk/Pipe (which we finally used a few weeks ago in a ceremony, June, 2007))

I have been meeting more and more people that have the same interests from around the world and would like to make this circle bigger, to talk, write and investigate

Most tattoos I have are Native America related, and so on…

I have a lot of respect for all natives, maybe there is even some native blood running thru my vains, who knows

So, is this Causality? Destination? Luck? Are these signs? I have been “sleeping” too long?

All this is intriguing me more and more lately and I’m willing to find out, to know the truth, to find that inner peace that we all can use, specially living in these huge cities.

I really appreciate all the help, info, tips, suggestions or comments you all have on this particular situation!!

Please write me: info@wakantanka.com