Commencing:
Route:
- December 10, 2019, at 9:30 am, circling up at the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Memorial Park, Sisseton SD
- Sharon Day will attend to deliver her Prayer water pail & lead us in a prayer water blessing for our spiritual journey thru riding horse, walking and running
Route:
- Our journey will follow closely to the route our ancestors took when they fled the bloodshed in the Dakota Uprising — Maps will be passed out
- 12/10 begins at Sisseton Wahpeton Memorial Park, 12/26 ends at Mankato hanging monument in Mankato, MN
- We encourage Water Walkers to participate to heal our 4-direction waterways that affect all people, the Continental Divide and contamination of our rivers and lakes.
- Bring a vial of water from your territory to add to the copper prayer bucket. We will also be remembering the MMIW & MMIP in this particular route where many women and children lost their lives, a beginning of many atrocities.
- In creating a safe place to pray, where women and children will be participating, we are asking all sex offenders to refrain from participating, in a respectable way
W.A.T.E.R
We All Take Environmental Responsibility
Bring a vial of water from your territories to add to our Mni Wic’oni pale for healing prayers.
Send vial with history if you cannot attend:
Dakota Ride & Walk, PO Box 686, Agency Village, SD 57262
We All Take Environmental Responsibility
Bring a vial of water from your territories to add to our Mni Wic’oni pale for healing prayers.
Send vial with history if you cannot attend:
Dakota Ride & Walk, PO Box 686, Agency Village, SD 57262
The Goals of the Water Walk:
- Allow more participants, including children, women, and older generations.
- Will have prayers for the Mother Earth and her Mni Wic’oni, water of life.
- Will carry a pail of contaminated waters from all over Turtle Island, with all being encouraged to send their vials of water if they cannot physically participate.
- Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women will be remembered, prayed for, and the Walk will educate as many as possible along the route of this vital, and often unknown issue.
- Will honor women and children, and will strive to help in their healing.
- Allows personal contact with those met along the route, and will encourage people to join, even if only for a short walk.
- Will work with schools and communities along the route to arrange to meet and educate as many youth as possible about what we are doing, why we are doing it, and how they can help.
- Will encourage all the children to honor our ancestors and Turtle Island in artistic form. We will encourage the children we meet to connect with their past through art.
- Will invite all the towns we pass through to make murals to remember the paths of our ancestors.
- Will help our current generation to feel more connected to their heritage, and to learn why it is so important for them to save, for future generations, what Mother Earth has provided for us.
Honoring Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
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