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great, great grandfather's friendship pipe awakened by his grandfather.
Peace Pipe
(Friendship Pipe)?
An Eastern Woodland
American Native Pipe.
We do not make the
stone pipe used out west, nothing wrong with that pipe it is just that our
ancestors had no contact with their Calumet (Pipestone).
Besides
have you ever tried to make anything out of a New England rock?
Give it a
try without modern tools.
There is no proof
that any Eastern Woodland Native American person ever traveled to Pipe Stone.
Remember, for most
of their existence they did not even have horses and water goes north and south
not west.
(Pipestone National
Monument.)
That is until
recently with train, plane and automobiles.
So it begs to differ
as to why so many so called natives in New England, or anyone east of the
Mississippi river would carry and swear by a Catlinite Peace Pipes?
Makes you wonder
just who are the real Native Americans throughout this area?
We have Friendship
and Sacred pipes!
(Traditional Eastern
Woodland American Native Way).
While it may still
be true after everything that has happen to the Red Man in our past by
Europeans and Hollywood, some of the western tribes might still make a Peace
pipe.
We do not!
We do however make a
friendship pipe; we also make our own type of sacred pipe.
How to make a Native
American pipe?
Native Americans, at
least in the east coast, make friendship pipes.
The first of our
pipes were made from plant life.
The Cat o nine tails
like the dandelion is not only good food and medicine the ancestors knew of
many uses for the stems also.
This plant however,
is protected in many areas, because while in the wild it also helps control the
water ways.
A Tribal Clan Mother
can pick this plant and use it from roots to flower.
The flower can be
cooked with the three sisters, the roots are used with Kinnick~ Kinnick and for
medicine.
The stems were user
for some of the crafts and our Friendship pipes.
Native Americans in
the east were making friendship pipes for their ceremony's long before first
contact (the time when Europeans first showed up on our shores).
Squash plants stem
corn cob friendship pipe were also used to make pipes.
The Squash plant and
the Corn cob must be completely dry, the use of a porcupine needle to clean out
the stem, a sharp stone or bone will clean out the cob however, one would now
use a modern tool of the trade.
Anyone in the tribe
can make these pipes however, before they could be used in sacred ceremonies it
had to be properly awakened by a Spiritual leader.
The pipe is awakened
by this leader by correctly presenting it to Creator for permission and a
blessing.
Calumet (Pipestone)
peace pipes are Plains Indian pipes!
INDIAN CALUMET: The
Pipe of Peace
By Christopher
Nyerges
We have been to
Pipestone.
Pipestone National
Monument.
However, as an
Eastern Woodland American Native, I never touched the stone until after
leaving, (when gifted).
How did Native
Americans clean their pipes?
If this is at an
Eastern Woodland American Native Ceremonial pipe, the pipe is never cleaned as
a European would clean a pipe, a pipe keeper will either take the pipe out or
pass it to a trusted student of the pipe, to Mother Earth and by way of our
sacred ceremony, give the tobacco (Kinnick~ Kinnick) back to her, Mother Earth.
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question or comment
Just click on
the comment just below this blog,
Shechaim will be
pleased to get back to you.
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