Blue Deer Center News
SOME MOUNTAINS ARE MORE THAN JUST MOUNTAINS. Not all caves, springs, groves and deserts are just caves, springs, groves or deserts. Some are god beings of vast capacity, masquerading as features of the landscape. These god beings offer help to human beings.
WHAT KIND OF HELP? Some of life’s challenges yield to our effort, but some require something beyond what self-effort alone can muster. For this reason people throughout the world have long made pilgrimage to the sacred places…
Gail Whitlow, Mohawk Elder and 2017 Voices of Wisdom presenter, shares her experience of returning to the traditional homelands of her people at the Blue Deer Center.
"When that fire burns in our communities it’s a welcoming fire for other nations of people to gather at that fire, who may not be able to find their way. That is especially true in the Americas, because of colonization, that people have lost their way, and their connection to their ancestors, and their connection to their homelands. They have lost their way."
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Diane Longboat is one of the Elders who will speak at Voices of Wisdom, June 11 and 12. Don’t miss your chance to sit with the Elders at Voices of Wisdom.
