The Women Gather
Indigenous Astronomy | Story [Re]telling | Wampum Belt Creation
Oshweken | Six Nations
February 28, 2024
Tyendinaga | Kenhte:ke
February 29, 2024
Kahnawa:ke
March 1, 2024
Kanehsata:ke
To be determined.
Akwesasne
To be determined.
Wahta
To be determined.
Samantha Doxtator
Indigenous Astronomy: As told by the Haudenosaunee
Filling your Spirit with Stardust and Astronomical Knowledge
Samantha is a Personal Development Consultant who specializes in teaching life and employability skills that are grounded by traditional values. She has over 25 years of communications experience and uses this knowledge to help build bridges of new understandings.
The intention with her work is to enhance original ways of knowing, and to nurture; intergenerational gifts, creativity, and innovation. She is thankful for this journey of being a lifelong learner, researcher, teacher, and knowledge keeper.
Samantha has recently accepted the gift to continue the work and research on Indigenous Astronomy by her sister Sasha who passed away in July 2021. Sasha's passion for infusion of Indigenous Knowledge in education will continue to be remembered.
The intentions surrounding this presentation are to share how connected we are to the Cosmos, and to help to heal Indigenous oppression with Astronomical Knowledge and Ancestral Technology.
Iehstoseranon:nha (Dawn)
Call to Peace Mother, Tsiokonsaseh
Community Wampum Belt
Iehstoseranon:nha Dawn is Akwesasronon, Wakhskaré:wake (Bear Clan), Feather Keeper/Protector and artist practicing and sharing Bird medicines. She is the founder of the Indigenous Arts Collective of Canada and artist at Pass The Feather. Dawn is also a writer, graphic and web designer passionate about elevating Indigenous voices through websites, branding and marketing.
Alongside of Wakerahkáhtste Louise McDonald Herne, Kaluhyanuwes Michelle Schenandoah and Samantha Doxtator, Dawn will lead a conversation of reclaiming and retelling our stories through the voices of women, specifically regarding Tsiokonsaseh's monumental role in our international peace (Great Law), our matrilineal ways of being and the birth of the confederacy. We will elevate the matrilineal value - with the voices of kononkwe.
We will discuss the alignment of the eclipse event at this time of great war in 2024 to the eclipse that happened 1000 years ago when we gathered under the Great White Pine for Kaianere'ko:wa.
We will collectively create a Wampum Belt to honour Tsiokonsaseh's position as Peace Mother / Mother of All Nations with the women from each community so that we may have a finished belt that could be present on April 8th.
