Another time to answer
many questions about our ceremonies.
Our sacred prayers at
ceremonies.
Still wondering about
our pipe ceremonies?
We have two tribal
pipes, one for friendship and one for our sacred ceremonies.
The first one
(friendship) was in every roundhouse used to show friendship to anyone coming
to visit.
The second one (Sacred
Pipe) is always in the roundhouse of the leader of the people and used by the
pipe keeper for sacred ceremonies only.
There were no peace
pipes in the tribes of the New England area until after the invasion of the
western Indians from the other side of the Mississippi River.
If you remember your
school history, there was no need for a peace pipe in our time with Europeans,
because no non native had plans for peace!
This was many years before
the West Coast Indians ever saw a European.
We had a Friendship
Pipe used something like the west coast tribes peace pipe, if or when they used
their pipe for friendly visits.
However, we also
have a Sacred Pipe, for us, it is just what is implied "SACRED"! One
must be a native, one must also go through years of training by an elder from
your tribe that has gone through the training before you can care for this
pipe!
This pipe does not
belong to any creation, this pipe belongs to Creator!
One can light up a
Friendship pipe and pass it around at gatherings as a sign of friendship as
long as that person knows how to pass it around.
Sacred Pipe, one will
NEVER awaken this pipe pass it around and/or give it away to anyone and for
sure NEVER to a non native or an untrained member! NEVER!
A Spiritual Leader in
any Eastern Woodland New England Tribe is not someone that has been elected to
office by an Indian president or counsel member or someone that wakes up one
day and decides to become a spiritual leader. An elder leader MUST be created
by Creator through a very long life time journey, this is not a game of show
and tell or a pat on the back, this is a work in progress, watched over day and
night by the teacher (Creator)!
This pipe will never be
on display to outsiders and a true traditional spiritual elder would not be
involved in ceremonies around non native visitors. This is why you will not
learn true traditional sacred prayers, because you have no need to learn our
sacred prayers?
If this truth is hard nose I apologize to you however, far too many
"akuwham" (trickster/coyote) are invading our culture since the
changing of laws by the Euro Americans since the early 1990's
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