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    The Long Night Moon (Wahsu‧tés Wʌhní‧taleˀ)

    The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people honor the cycle of life in all of our ceremonies and thanksgivings. We say that the Moon is our Grandmother and she has thirteen names in the course of a year.

    The twelfth moon of the year, the moon closest to the Winter Solstice (and the longest night), is the time for the people to gather and …

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    The Three Sisters

    Among the Iroquois, it is believed that when the First Mother died, from her body grew the sacred plants: corn, beans and squash. They were planted together in small hills: the beans would twine around the corn stalks as they grew and the squash leaves would shade the earth and keep it moist and free of weeds. Protective spirits, the …

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    Thirteen Moons

    The Iroquois (traditionally Haudenosaunee) people see the cycle of life in all of our ceremonies and thanksgivings. Turtle’s shell is our calendar with its pattern of 13 large plates representing the thirteen moons in each year & 28 smaller plates showing the 28 days from one new moon to the next. We say that the Moon is our Grandmother and …

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    We Give Thanks

    From the East we give thanks
    to our Mother, the Earth
    and to the People, and those yet to be born,
    and to the spirit of waters,
    who make it possible for all things to live.
    We give thanks to the fish, they sustain us.
    and to the plants, they feed us and make us well,
    and to the trees,
    who give us shelter, shade and …

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    Woodland Spirits

    Woodland Spirits,
    children of the Earth and Sky
    sing of Peace
    beneath the Great White Pine

                          -Dawn Dark Mountain