Relatives,

On the Summer Solstice, June 20, 2020 we joined our Ojibwe elder water and wisdom keepers, women of all ages, children and beautiful babies at the Anishinaabe headwaters of the Mississippi River for the beginning of the Sacred Waters Pilgrimage.

 


 

This 7 month pilgrimage Co-anchored by the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy and The Wind & The Warrior down the Mississippi River is meant to cultivate space to heal and strengthen the relationships between Black and Native communities and with Mother Earth, through communal prayer and strategic organizing toward sustainable futures for generations to come. The Sacred Waters Pilgrimage welcomes Native, Black women and Two-Spirit people to come together in person or virtually to come together and heal.
 


 

The pilgrimage will involve private sacred water ceremony on the Mississippi River, as well as invitations for communities to take part in virtual spaces for collective water prayers, inter-community conversations and cultural arts practices, and an archival project to document our narratives in this powerful convergence of ceremony and uprising - of spiritual and material movement - toward transforming our systems and relationships, and healing our waters and lands.
 
Join us on this journey.
 

Follow@windandwarrior : [link removed] on Instagram and #SacredWaters2020 on social media.
 

You can visit the Sacred Waters Journal Page : [link removed] for chronicles and photo galleries of the pilgrimage, information on how to be virtually involved, or to attend or create community events.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Established in 1990, The Indigenous Environmental Network is an international environmental justice nonprofit that works with tribal grassroots organizations to build the capacity of Indigenous communities. I EN’s activities include empowering Indigenous communities and tribal governments to develop mechanisms to protect our sacred sites, land, water, air, natural resources, the health of both our people and all living things, and to build economically sustainable communities.
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