Walking With Our Sisters

Please share if you know folks who submitted vamps to WWOS Post 2 of 2 from Christi Belcourt

Update about vamps

Women of First Light, an Indigenous women-led organization from Wabanaki Territory, has started a petition requesting an independent, Indigenous-led investigation into Chantal Moore and Rodney Levis’s death. https://www.change.org/p/justin-trudeau-clan-mothers-reques

FULL MOON CEREMONY - MAY 7 AT 9:29 PM CST. A Call to the Women to Lift the Water and offer ceremony in your own homes. Normally Full Moon Ceremonies are conduct...ed at the Turtle Lodge in the Sagkeeng First Nation in southeastern Manitoba. However, given a directive from our Grandmothers during this time, we are being called upon to stay home and make our offerings at home. MESSAGE FROM GRANDMOTHER FLORENCE PAYNTER (ANISHINAABE NATION): "Women are being called upon to lift the water, give thanks and offer their prayers in their own homes in unison on MAY 7 at 9:29 pm CST, when the Grandmother Moon rises. You can sing the Water Song if you wish. You can also have a small feast, and offer a few berries if you have some. If you have the facility to do so, you can make a sacred fire to make your offerings. Whatever works for you and your family will be good. It will be good to pray collectively in each of our homes with our families as we self-isolate. The important part is we acknowledge our Grandmother and ask her for good health, especially during this time. We understand that some single parents live in fear that their children are going to get sick. We encourage everyone to offer their prayers not only during the Full Moon, but every day." ANISHINAABE GRANDMOTHER MARY MAYTWAYASHING has shared this Nibi Water Song which came to her in a dream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3yHiJqZXFc Please feel free to sing and share this song. More information at: http://www.turtlelodge.org/?post_type=dd_events&p=3864

POST 2 of 2 If you submitted a pair of vamps to Walking With Our Sisters, this is important information to read There were 1,000 pairs of vamps that were ...not claimed after the final ceremony this summer in Batoche, Saskatchewan. The photos of the unclaimed vamps are shown below. Please note there is a first post with more photos of the vamps. If you wish to have your vamps returned, please follow these steps: 1. Take a screen shot of the photo with your vamps. 2. Please circle your vamps in the "edit mode". If you don't know how to do this, ask someone to help/show you. 3. Please send the photo with your circled vamps to: [email protected]. We have a team of volunteers that are monitoring this email so if you have already done so, we thank you for your patience and will be answering these emails as soon as possible. For more information and instructions, see Christi's post below. Miigwetch!