|
|||||||||||||
|
Past Meetings - 1994 |
|||||||||||||
|
(All meetings were held at Allan & Lucy's near Penetanguishene unless otherwise noted.) January 21-23: Fifteen people at this meeting. On Saturday Georgina gave us a discussion of healing from the point of view of different body systems. Saturday evening a sweatlodge. Sunday Darryl led a workshop on the Touch for Health healing methods. Cold this weekend. February 19-20: Thirteen at this weekend. We focused on moccasin making. Swetalodge Saturday night. March 25-27: Nineteen people in attendance this weekend. Saturday some prepared hides. Sweatlodge Saturday evening. We also made pine needle coil baskets from long pine needles brought from Florida. Tapped a maple and birch tree. Some people focused on primitive traps. April 22-24: Flint knapping workshop led by Jim Featherstone & Louis Rebelo. Eighteen people attended. We held two sweatlodges Saturday evening (women & men in separate sweats). On Sunday we went on a long walk to the beaver dam then to Georgian Bay. May 27-29: A small group of eight people. Sweatlodge Saturday evening. Collected wild edible plants for dinner: wild leeks, pokeweed, dandelions, Japanese knotweed, burdock leaves, violet leaves & flowers, pigweed, shepherd's purse and trout lily leaves. On Sunday we collected live birch bark for future basket-making. July 23-24: A small group of six. We made baskets out of the birch bark that we had collected in May. Sweatlodge Saturday evening. October: Fourteen showed up for this weekend. Made a wigwam frame. Baskets from bark strips. Collected wood and rocks for future sweatlodges. Sweatlodge Saturday evening. Talking circle Sunday. November 19-20: Sixteen this weekend. We made birch bark baskets. Saturday night a sweatlodge. Sunday a Philosophy discussion. December 17-18: Twenty-two people attended. We had a giveaway on Sunday. Two sweatlodges on Saturday night (men & women each in their own). Sunday reviewed philosophy issues, including "dark side". |
|||||||||||||
|
