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We are in an enchanted journey from the 7th to the heart of our 8th fire

 

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Convenors:  Michael Jones, Zhaabadiis Menoomnii (John Rice) and Erin Dixon

Host: Gojijing Truth and Reconciliation Roundtable

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Please be in touch with any questions, supports you may need to register or fully participate, you are welcome to join, for as many of the dialogues as you  are able. Please register here and you will receive a confirmation email with the link and all necessary details.

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What would it mean to the future of our bioregion if we were to reawaken our aural - oral culture, honoring our place in the sacred hoop of life through song, word and story? The dialogues cultivate the soil - foundation for a k(new) partnership between Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members in our bioregion – gojijing watershed, all of our relations and partners in the subtle, more than human world. Through ancient ways, the four dialogues will explore four portals to the aural imagination including homecoming, belonging, generativity, and transformative celebration.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               


The reawakening of our aural - oral culture

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was song

With a song we sang the world into being

if we are quiet and listen carefully


We will hear the earth singing still



With the joyful cry Mino Ayaamin – We are well

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In the beginning the creator gave all human beings the same way of being. For thousands of years indigenous peoples of the world gathered together to honor their place in the sacred hoop of life through song, word and story. Awakening the aural imagination in this way is the source of bzaanibimaadiziwin, life flowing as it should, in health, harmony and happiness, for time immemorial. The newcomers who arrived to Turtle Island, were cut off from, or had left this powerful aspect of their nature behind and forcefully prohibited all of the inhabitants of Turtle Island from practicing in their way through song, word and story.  Consequently, many can no longer hear the earth singing and the world is deeply disconnected and divided as a result.  

 

We are between stories now. The old story in survival of the fittest, scarcity and separation, where for one to win another must lose, has lost its gravity. Currently there is a reshaping through our aural imagination to our everlasting songs and with these k(new) capacities for listening and partnering in k(new) ways.

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Our Journey of Awakening 

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Jibwaa Biidaabang

 

Before the Dawn

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Reawakening the oral imagination offers an inquiry rich in our living history and cultural illumination. Our aural journey of truth, healing, and reconciliation helps to regenerate right relations with our place in the land, community and the subtle world. Deepening our relationship with emergent possibility, the unknown and with the life of future spirit beyond 7 generations, enables us to sing our world into being, as a reflection of Mother Earth’s nurturing whole.