Monthly Archives: May 2014

Blessing Our Mother Earth and The Horse Nation

10012667_781543061857287_4397931670859167798_o_7Mother’s Day 2014 – Honoring the Sacred in Central Park:
Blessing Our Mother Earth and the Horse Nation

Sunday, May 11, 2014
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Central Park, NYC
Cherry Hill Fountain
See Facebook Event Page
Painting: ‘Horse of Happiness’ by Nicholas Roerich

On Mother’s Day you and your loved ones are invited to share in ceremony with Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle, who will call forward a special blessing honoring Mother Earth and the Horse Nation at Cherry Hill Fountain in Central Park, New York. All are warmly welcome.

Ta’kaiya Blaney of the Sliammon Coast Salish People and Donna Augustine Thunderbird Turtlewoman of the Mik’maq Nations will be joining us.

Chief Looking Horse is in New York to take part at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and will be leading a panel entitled: “Protecting and Restoring Sacred Sites under the guidance of First Peoples’ Cultural, Spiritual and Legal Heritage Keepers” which takes place on Tuesday May 13th.

Event sponsor links:

Blue Star Equiculture: www.equiculture.org
https://www.facebook.com/equiculture

Unify.org: www.unify.org
https://www.facebook.com/unify

United Religions Initiative (URI), Protecting and Restoring the Sacred CC: www.uri.org

Wolakota Foundation: www.wolakota.org

World Peace and Prayer Day: www.worldpeaceandprayerday.com
https://www.facebook.com/worldpeaceandprayer

Lenny Foster at Casa de las Americas

LENNY AND LEONARD 2014FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2014
LENNY FOSTER ON NATIVE AMERICAN ISSUES
AND
LEONARD PELTIER

Casa de las Américas
182 East 111 Street (between Lexington & Third Avenues)
Reception from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Dinner will be served

7:00 p.m. Program
Opening Flute – Frank Menusan (Muskogee)

Lenny Foster of the Diné Nation is the Director of the Navajo Nation Correction Project and the Spiritual Advisor for more than 2,000 Native American inmates in nine-six state and federal prisons in the Western U.S. He has co-authored legislation in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado allowing Native American spiritual and religious practice in prison and resulting in significant reductions in prison returns.

Lenny will speak on the illegal imprisonment of Leonard Peltier, land and resources taken from Native peoples by the U.S. government, Native American freedom of religion and the demand to honor Native treaty rights.

Sponsors include NYC Free Peltier, NYC Jericho Movement, ProLibertad
For more information: nycfreepeltier@gmail.com – 646 429-2059