Alignment and Greetings to the Natural World with Jennifer Folayan
Join Jennifer Folayan, Indigenous Rights activist and Artist, for a session of aligning with the natural world. Jennifer is a board member of the Baltimore American Indian Center and is Pueblo, Cherokee, and Aztec. She is passionate about healing through the arts and serves her community through speaking and cultural events. 

The Thanksgiving Address (the Ohén:ton Karihwatehkwen) is the central prayer and invocation for the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois Confederacy or Six Nations — Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, and Tuscarora). It reflects their relationship of giving thanks for life and the world around them. The Haudenosaunee open and close every social and religious meeting with the Thanksgiving Address. 

It is also said as a daily sunrise prayer, and is an ancient message of peace and appreciation of Mother Earth and her inhabitants. The children learn that, according to Native American tradition, people everywhere are embraced as family. Our diversity, like all wonders of Nature, is truly a gift for which we are thankful.

When one recites the Thanksgiving Address the Natural World is thanked, and in thanking each life-sustaining force, one becomes spiritually tied to each of the forces of the Natural and Spiritual World.  The Thanksgiving Address teaches mutual respect, conservation, love, generosity, and the responsibility to understand that what is done to one part of the Web of Life, we do to ourselves. 

Free registration to receive the zoom link to attend. The link will be sent out the day before the session.