Traveling To The 2024 CPN Family Reunion

Beginning with our star travel ... all stories are about travel. The birchbark scrolls tell of our Bodewadmin ancestors taking prophetic direction while living still in the land now called Nova Scotia. This direction was listened to and heeded as sacred. The people began to make the 7 westward movements, walking, paddling, sometimes camping for years before the next spirit directive spoke of when and where to travel next.

Our Nishnabe Creation Story recounts the travels of different beings who set out on a sacred charge to find a place for our ancestors to live. And now, we are them.

We now sit together ... to remember who we are and what we have.

Bozho, ni je na jayek.
Hello, my bone. How are you all?

Wabaksekwe ndeshnikaz
My name is Dawn Woman. 

Bodewadminkwe ndaw
I am a Potawatomi woman.

Jigwe ndodem
Thunder is my clan.

Ndbendogzewin 

Shawnee, Oklahoma is our agency.

Today, each of us have traveled to be together, to learn of and to remember who we are and what we have ... we, Anishnabe people of the place of the fire. We, People of the three tribes confederacy ... we, Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma. We, whose moccasin paths have led us to many far away places. We, who have traveled many trails. And still, we are here.

We are here to celebrate.

Migwech, Mamogosnan, Creator, for all of the gifts. Let us now think on these things. Let our Spirits grow fat and happy as we remember who we are and what we have.

Saturday, June 29, 2024
Shawnee, Oklahoma