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Just want to say how good it is to see our People relearning our calendars. I learned this from my father as a young boy when trying to learn the names of the months of the year in our language. Around May, he said STOP, you can't do it like that?? I was puzzled?!?! He said in our tribal calendar, they are based on the moons and there are 13 lunar cycles in a year, so 13 months, not 12! As I have grown older, I have come to believe that this was knowingly or unknowingly connected to the suppression and denial of Women's Spirituality leading to paternalistic laws, abuse and deadly outcomes. Historically, across the seas, women who had knowledge of herbal medicines, midwifery, healing hands, and inner knowing, were labeled "witches" and were hunted down and killed!! If you look at our Indigenous ceremonies, you will learn that many, many of them came from Women. So, the number 13 is sacred, each one of us comes from it. For there are 13 moons/13 menses. The sacred wombs of our women are connected to the moons of the year. 13 is NOT EVIL!!! So, a few hundred years the number 13 was tied to witchery. We have all been brought up in these modern days to fear it and be repulsed by it. When... 13 is so sacred, all Life around us is connected to it, as our the movements & tides of the great seas. So, myself in these times when Friday the 13th comes around. I take some time and say a prayer of thanks for my mothers, grandmothers, aunties & daughters. And reach down and touch Earth Woman giving thanks for all her gifts to us each day and season. And looking up at night, thank Grandmother Moon for her steadfast guidance and blessing from which we are all born...

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Thanks for sharing all this useful information. I've been using Myaamia Kiilhsooki in my office for a number of years now and think it's great!

Pakanna was my 6th grandfather. So proud to see him given respect here. He was a good and honorable man.

is there somewhere i can learn to speak this language i am miami indian my grandfather was full blooded and the cheif in 1986 but he never taught his children and we never learned it either i think it would make me feel closer to my heritage and be something i would want to teach my children so i can teach them part of their heritage as well they i think it would be interesting to teach them another language other than english, and spanish.

Are any of the powerpoint presentation available to view?

Neewe so much for this, it was great to hear!