We Are the Sacred Life Givers: Reclaiming the Sacred Sister Hoop

(This is so powerful, please read the whole thing)


We Are the Sacred Life Givers: Reclaiming the Sacred Sister Hoop

Patricia Dawn

The Red Willow Womyn’s Society is a grassroots, Indigenous women-led organization in the Cowichan Tribes First Nations territory of British Columbia. It was founded in 2009 as a small group of Native and non-Native women who began weekly gatherings to talk about their lived experiences with daily systemic oppressions. Through these “sharing circles,” Red Willow womyn would help each other navigate their daily barriers, and the circle grew. Today, the Society acts as a support for the wider Hul’qumi’num community. Through guided cultural protocols and teachings, they support and advocate for one another and work to strengthen families and the role of mothers as sacred life-givers. Cultural Survival’s Keepers of the Earth Fund is supporting the Society’s Breaking the Code of Silence: Lifting the Voices of Hul’qumi’num Families Project, which serves Cowichan, Chemainus, Penelakut, and Halalt Tribes.

We are the Indigenous womyn of Turtle Island. We are the daughters of her soil connected to her soul. We hold her wisdom waters within our wombs, we carry the unborn future of the Great Mystery of life as it looms.
We are the Sacred Life Givers. Through us, all dreams are born.
In our Indigenous way we live close to the land, we circle the cycles of the Sacred Hoop of life, held in Sacred law. A law that is of Earthbound worth and cosmic birth, reaching beyond the grasp of manmade law and its drunken mirth.

The Sacred Hoop surrounds the Earth, the Nest, and our own Mother’s Breast. It’s cycles of life that circle and blend, dancing us onward there is no end. As life expands and contracts, placental as it interacts, weaving us together as One, all equal as we dance in the light of Grandfather Sun.
Drumming us in from the West, dancing in the sun time our spirits we test.
I call all children to come home, to life in the Sacred Circle, where all are welcome equal and known, in this unnamed time of interconnection and spiritual protection there is no fine line—we are born to be divine.

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https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/we-are-sacred-life-givers-reclaiming-sacred-sister-hoop