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Time |
Thursday Evening |
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06:00 PM
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Welcome and introductions – Brett Messer - This
year we will retire our beloved talking stick, which has served us well
for the last ten years. Dan Leonard from El Paso has crafted a wonderful
new talking stick to be used for the Gathering Of Circles. Brett will
introduce this new addition to the GOC as we go around the circle and
introduce ourselves. You will also be smudged with sage and sweet grass to
prepare for the weekend of ceremony. |
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07:30 PM
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Pipe Ceremony - Pamela Scheler -
Pamela Lightsong Scheler is the Pipe Carrier for the Rainbow Bridge Clan. She creates sacred space through ceremony and song. She
will be assisted by other pipe carriers, as is our tradition to open the
weekend ceremonies. |
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Friday Morning |
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08:00 to 8:30 AM |
Brett will continue introductions for people who
did not make the circle Thursday night. Smudging again. |
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08:30
to 09.30 AM |
Welcome
words from WinterFox (Cliff Buchanan). Here is where we acknowledge the
coordinators, which are responsible for organizing the various activities
of our weekend. Each workshop presenter will say a few brief words about
their workshop. Also, any special announcements and reminders will be made
here. |
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09.30 to 09:45
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Carol
Dawn will discuss our responsibility in this day and time. |
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09:45to
10:00 AM |
Cliff
will speak about the meaning of the GOC and the Rainbow Clan and will
introduce our speaker. |
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10:00
to 11:30 AM |
Our featured speaker, Jan Cyr from Yelm WA,
“The Red Road, Destiny or Choice.” People from every corner of our
Earth home, all ages, all walks of life are being drawn to the Red Road.
Why is it that so many, regardless of bloodline, feel Indian? Why are the
elders now sharing even the most sacred ceremonies such as Sun Dance with
mix-blood peoples after so many years of necessary secretness and
protection? |
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Time |
Friday Afternoon - Workshops |
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01:00 to 02:45 PM |
Cliff Buchanan and Mike Andrews - Vision Quests
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01:00 to 02:45 PM |
Petra
Reynolds and Tony Beauregard Intro
to building an Intentional Community |
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01:00 to 02:45 PM |
Jan Cyr - Women's Medicine Bundle Workshop |
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03:00 to 4:45 PM
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Mike Kelley - Practicing Detachment |
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03:00 to 4:45 PM
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Carol Dawn - Sharing My Stories |
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03:00 to 4:45 PM |
Regina WaterSpirit - Stretch Your Imagination to Create Choice |
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Time |
Friday Evening Sweat Lodges |
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05:00 to 06:00 PM
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Children’s
Sweat Lodge - Bear Heart Bear Heart has asked to do the children’s lodge tonight. Marcelius Bear Heart Williams is a full-blooded Muskogee Creek Elder born in Oklahoma 87 years ago. He is one of the few remaining traditionally trained Medicine Men and carries the Sacred Pipe in the Lakota and Cheyenne traditions. Bear Heart’s grandchildren are here at the GOC with him. |
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06:00 to 08:30 PM
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Women’s
Sweat Lodge - Shawna Mitchell An ordained Golden Eagle Minister, she finds her joy
in her two daughters, Kelsey and Icie, her spiritual family, and service
to others. Love, Strength, and Gratitude are gifted to her by
participating in Ancestor Reverence, Sweat lodges, Vision Quests, Native
American Church Meetings, and praying with the Sacred Pipe |
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08:00 to 09:30 PM
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Sweatless
Sweatlodge - Pamela Scheler This is for those of us who are not able to participate in the Sweat Lodge because of health reasons or any other reason. The lodge will be conducted around a campfire and the symbolism will be covered just like in a regular sweat. |
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08:30 to 11:00 PM
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Men’s
Sweat Lodge – Mike Andrews Mike Eagle Eye Andrews was authorized to sponsor and
lead Vision Quests in Bear Heart's tradition in a ceremony in September
2004. Bear Heart has been training Mike during the September 2004 and May
2005 Vision Quests. At the September 2005 Vision Quest, he will be
assisting Bear Heart in sending people out on their Vision Quest, helping
them understand their visions, and in naming. He has known Bear Heart for
nine years as a friend, mentor, and teacher. |
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09:30
to ??? PM |
Talking
Circle – Carol Dawn plus ??? This is an extension of Carol Dawn’s workshop on telling of your experiences and teachings around the campfire. |
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Time |
Friday Evening at the Movies plus Popcorn |
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09:00
to 9:30 PM |
Raven
Tales – or How Raven Stole the Light A beautiful animated tale
for children as well as adults. Popcorn served. Join Raven, Frog, and
Eagle on their first adventure in a land before time. Raven Tales is a
multiple award winning computer animated film based on the first Nations
folklore of the Northwest Coast. |
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09:30
to 10:00 PM |
Bear
Heart’s Video – It’s a Good Day to Live! A true Native American
teaching that applies to us today more than ever before. See Regina
Waterspirit to purchase the CD. |
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10:00
to 11:00 PM |
What
the Bleep Do We Know ? |
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Time |
Saturday Morning |
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05:00 to 07:30 AM
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Co-ed
Dawn Sweat Lodge – Enrique Hynes A gifted Healer and Ceremonialist, Enrique shares his indigenous spirit by honoring all people and Mother Earth. |
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07:45 to 08:45 AM
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"World Famous Pancakes" - Cliff Buchanan - (Odessa Texas) |
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Time |
Saturday
Morning - Workshops |
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09:00 to 10:45 AM |
Cyndi
Hughs - The Importance of Ritual in Our Lives |
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09:00 to 10:45 AM |
Rita
A. Popp - Journal Writing Walk & Talk |
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09:00 to 10:45 AM |
Mike
Kelley – Men’s Bundle |
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11:00 to 12:45 AM |
Barbara
Harris - Healing and the Mind |
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11:00 to 12:45 AM |
Cliff
Buchanan - Shamanic Journey Drumming |
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11:00 to 12:45 AM |
Healing
Stories: Discovering Your Personal Myth |
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Time |
Saturday
Afternoon |
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03:30 to 06:00 PM
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Preparation for the Sweet medicine Dance – Tom
Casey Everyone pitches in to prepare the dance circle.
Tom Casey is a veteran Long Dancer and will explain the meaning of the
Dance to you. |
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Dusk to 11:00 PM
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Time to dance your dance of life and find your own Sweet Medicine. Gather for the processional, which will enter the dance circle from the four cardinal directions. Choose your direction or… let it choose you. Trust in Spirit to guide you this night to find what your soul needs. Dress your best, paint your face, wear your mask or not, find your center and dance your best. |
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11:00 PM to 01:30 AM |
Co-ed Sweat Lodge
- One of our traditions is to share each door among four leaders,
two male and two female. |
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Time |
Sunday
Morning |
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08:00 to 11:00 AM
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“Talking
Stick and Give a Way” – Pamela Scheler Bring a gift wrapped in a paper bag for the “give-a-way.” This should be something of significance (meaningful) to you, which you now want to relinquish your attachment to, and pass on to a new keeper. The size or monetary value of this item is irrelevant but the more significant to you the better. It may be symbolic of something of yourself, which you have or wish to turn loose of so that your “hands” are freed up for your present pursuits. Listen to your heart in deciding what to “give-a-way” at this time. |
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11:00 to 01:00 PM
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“Feast” - Bring “pot luck” dish and share the fellowship. Please stay as long as you can to help take down the sweat lodges and police the campsites. |
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Childrens Basket June/Nell Baldwin (right) is bringing the "Children's basket" again this year. She will bring a basket of toys, books, musical instruments, balls, yo-yo's, etc. for the children. It will be kept at the Welcome Table. Kids will come get an item from the basket to play with/use/read and return it when they wish and get something else. At the end they will return the items unless it's something they really want to keep. June invites everyone to bring something to add to the Children's Basket so it will continue to be filled year after year. |
2005
Cordinators – Thank you!
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Give-a-way |
Pamela Scheler Litesong@earthlink.net
(254) 554-1791 |
Rules:
Radios will not be allowed except with earphones. Dogs must be kept on a
leash. No drugs or alcohol.
Wear loose comfortable clothing in sweat lodges. No smoking in Sacred Circles or
workshops.
Disclaimer: No ceremony we perform should be
construed to be a traditional Native American ceremony.
