Welcome
to the visitor from Houston Texas
Looking
for information about our
Mohegan
Peace Pipe?
Sorry
we do not have one.
However,
we have always had a (Friendship
Pipe Ceremony)?
You
may be asking. "So what is the difference"?
Good
question.
First
a Peace pipe from what I have been reading, was or maybe still is, used by the
Plains Indians. I believe that back in olden times it was used at the beginning
of all of those Western Indian treaties that the Euro Americans and Plains
Indians made. The ones that the government demanded that the Indians keep until
the end of time. However, the government broke just as soon as it got what it
wanted from the Indians?
A
Friendship pipe is what the traditional American first people up and down the
east coast use for any ceremony with new and old friends. If after a meal
friends wished to enjoy a traditional prayer, it is usually started with the
pipe.
After
meetings a friendly pipe might be enjoyed for all wishing to join in.
Many
times after a battle, if both sides come to an agreement they would settle on a
spot and smoke that pipe, sometimes the head clan mothers, if they wished,
would serve a snack.
Our
Friendship ceremonies were many times also enjoyed by our females, something I
understand was never done out west?
Some
of those "western tribal people" that come over to “teach our people
about the correct ways of their ancestors”, would walk away from our pipe
ceremonies if women joined in.
Finding
this out we would always invite a female or two into the prayer circle if a
westerner showed.
Our people also have a (Sacred Pipe).
This
pipe would be used in ceremonies like Births, Adoptions, Weddings, Grandmother,
Grandfather, Funerals and the four seasons as we moved around from place to
place.
Always
remember that when a Traditional Elder from an Eastern Woodland Tribe speaks of
Smoking the pipe, it is never with chemical tobacco, it is always with herbs
called Kinnick, Kinnick.
No
one has ever become addicted to Kinnick, Kinnick!
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