Water is Sacred: A Message from a First Nations Grandmother

Saturday,
April 9th, 2011
6:00 pm
The Evergreen State College
“House of Welcome”
Longhouse Education and Cultural Center
Olympia, WA
FMI: kuckkaht@evergreen.edu; (360) 867-5344
Free, public event

Anishinaabe Grandmother Josepine Mandamin
will discuss her efforts to preserve the Earth’s
clean water supply through annual “Mother Earth
Water Walks”. The Water Walks started during
the Spring of 2003 when Grandmother Mandamin
and her sister led a group of walkers around
Lake Superior. The fi rst walk was followed by the
walk around the upper portion of Lake Michigan
in 2004, Lake Huron in 2005, Lake Ontario in
2006, Lake Erie in 2007, the lower portion of Lake
Michigan in 2008, and along the St. Lawrence
River in 2009.

In 2011, groups of walkers from each of the four
directions, originating on the East and West
coasts, Hudson Bay in the North and the Gulf
of Mexico from the South, will meet at Lake
Superior in June of 2011 for a Water Ceremony
that will combine the waters from each of the four
directions. Learn more about what you can do to
protect the Earth’s clean water supply.

Co-sponsored by: First Peoples Advising, the President’s Diversity Fund, the Native Student Alliance, the Provost’s Offi ce, the Academic Deans, the Longhouse Education and Cultural Center and the following academic programs: “Ceremony: Relating Hospitably to the Land”, “Reading Between the Lines: US Women of Color in the 20th Century”, “Business Foundations”; Master in Public Administration/Tribal Governance program