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Native America Calling: Pipes: prayer, blessing, and communion
Monday, August 7, 2023
Pipes: prayer, blessing, and communion
A quarry in Minnesota has been a reliable source for the stone used in ceremonial pipes for dozens of tribes throughout the central U.S. and Canada.
Other tribes elsewhere found their own local sources for making pipes.
Join Native America Calling to talk about the importance of pipes and the methods for making them passed down through the centuries.
Guests on Native America Calling
Robert Sweeney (Ponca Tribe of Nebraska), Northern Ponca spiritual leader
Bud Johnston (Anishinaabe), president of the Keepers of the Sacred Tradition of Pipemakers
Gabrielle Drapeau (Yankton Sioux Tribe), cultural resource specialist and park ranger at Pipestone National Monument
Travis Erickson (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate), pipemaker and Pipestone Indian Shrine Association board member
Chief Arvol Looking Horse(Lakota/Dakota/Nakota), 19th Generation Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe
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