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In
Canada
Our
Kokums/Great Grandmas are aging and want to see this old style
gathering of how "their women of the land" once
gathered to share information, medicines, teachings, ceremonies,
language, dry meat/fish/stories/ with their children and grand
children....
So our first
gathering will take place at Onion Lake, Saskatchewan.
the week of July 14, 17 2009
The Onion Lake
Cree Nation is situated 50 kilometers north of Lloydminster,
Saskatchewan and Alberta's Border City, at the junction of
Highway #17 and secondary Highway #797.
There will be
Tipi style camp outs, beading, stories, hunting-woman warriors,
drumming, great grandmother teachings, stories, sharing, and
you can learn to dry meat. This
is for our daughter's daughters generations to learn the old
ancestral teachings which we call our 'knowledge bundles'.
How
can you get involved? One way is to contribute with give aways,
another is to come and join us, you can escort a grandmother
or great grandmother, cook, stay in a tipi, be there for grandmothers
with no families, attend sweats, feasts, adopt a grand daughter/grandchild
with no grandma, help get a grandmother there and back, keep
an open mind to preserving our ancrestral teaching for generations
to come,
Don't be shy,
please get involved, no-one bites, just pitch in and volunteer,
pass around the posters coming out, donate a blanket,
A pow-wow follows this event and its a great time for relaxing
and having fun, make new friends, support and become a part
of "Canadian Indigenous Grandmothers Networking', We
need to get up and awaken that Spirit Indigenous women have
and find the strength to gather and preserve what our grandmothers
taught us.
For more information on the Onion Lake Cree Nation please
click HERE
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