A Gathering Place, A Spiritual Home, and Healing Center for All People.
In the Wareham Area of Cape Cod.
Peaceful Gathering Place is meeting temporarily at The YMCA in Wareham at 33 Charge Pond Rd. the number there is 508-295-9622. We will be meeting there the 3rd and 4th Saturdays of each month 2:30pm-4:00pm. (Due to illness not meeting on February 20 meeting scheduled for February 27)
Each Gathering Opens with a Prayer for everyone Gathered, and A Thanksgiving to Creator for giving us the ability to speak to One Another This Way.
The work that Peaceful Gathering Place will do, will be done by all of us, It will be something new in Indian Country, a gathering place in the old sense, a place like our Ancestors had, a place all our own. Any words spoken will be heard by all, addressed by all, and with all the Family Members Gathered , the problem will be given in a loving way to the Circle and spoken of until a solution is reached that Everyone can live with. The most important work for our Tribal Family is to become Family to one another again, the way our Elders were.
We will discuss everything here, no topic is off limits. We will help one another in good times and bad, everyone will know they have a place in this Longhouse, this is the Native Way.
Topics: What is the goal of Peaceful Gathering Place, How can we make a difference in our Tribal Society, How can those changes benefit our families. Think this over and bring it back to our Circle.
We will teach each other, we will work on Ceremonies, I will bring what I know to the Circle, and share it with everyone, our People have gotten to far away from what makes us Tribal, so now is the time to bring this back, we have gotten to far from our Traditional Diet, and now is the time to bring that back. Peaceful Gathering is working towards acquiring a parcel of land that can become an Inter-Tribal Farm for us all, a place we can grow our own Native Food, teach the next generation how to be self-sufficient, and let the Elders with us know that we haven't forgotten their teachings and the old ways.
In Keeping with these teachings, Peaceful Gathering Place will become a mobile unit by acquiring an RV, and traveling throughout New England.
Spring 2009 - The making of Regalia; skin and trade cloth. Women are making shawls for young girls. Snow Rabbit is busy working on beadwork for herself and to sell. Tidewalker is busy tanning deer hides and will soon come to the center to give a demonstration. We are discussed diet and nutrition.
Summer 2009 - We brought in books on herbal medicine and healing to share with each other. We discussed the teaching of the Algonquin language and available resources (exposure to spoken language by tribal elders, various books, pamphlets, and websites.) The consensus of this discussion was that there is erroneous information out there, and that the closest thing to our true language that we have been able to obtain is the Trumble- Natick Dictionary.
Fall 2009 - We have decided to keep one Saturday for Children. On this day we will teach music, tribal dance, a little bit of language through story telling. Mothers are encouraged to bring what they are working on; shawls, ribbons shirts etc.
Winter 2009 - January we met on the 23rd. The Focus was planning social gatherings through June.
The 30th we will be discussing regalia for children and women's shawls.
February 27 No Meeting today due to illness
Pocasset Powwow coming up in March
The Circle continues to widen. In June Peaceful Gathering will be coming to Truro on Cape Cod. Look here soon for more details.
The founder of PGP brought the message of Peaceful Gathering Place to a wider venue in November. She was invited to be the keynote speaker at the annual heritage meeting for the Department of Transportation. Chappiquiddic tribal members attended and brought along examples of beadwork, wood carving etc. (A DVD of the event is available from Peaceful Gathering Place.)
Aquene Kah Peantam (Peace&Prayers), Linda Morceau.
For more information contact :
Sachem YellowFeather at :
P.O. Box 3931
Pocasset, MA. 02559
Telephone
508-563-5983(Spring& Summer) or
617-242-4781(Fall&Winter) I am now at this number
YellowFeather@Chappiquiddic.org
