Prayer Carriers is a call to re-ignite the sacred ritual of gathering - bringing together women from all walks of life to share, to pray, to dream, and to remember the sacred ways that guide us toward a more natural and harmonious existence.
As part of Golden Drum’s 15-Year Anniversary, Prayer Carriers is deeply honored to welcome and present esteemed elders from the Haudenosaunee, Lakota, and Mayan traditions. These wisdom keepers will share sacred stories, ancestral experiences, and the ceremonial practices their traditions use to honor the cycles of life.
Together, we will listen, learn, and remember the sacred ways that have guided communities for generations. This gathering is a prayer in motion - a circle of women reclaiming vision, voice, and reverence in a world longing for balance.
MaryAnn Bearheels (Ta Oyate Waste Wi—Her Good Nation Women)
MaryAnn a Ceremonial Prayer Woman of the Sicangu Lakota from Rosebud, South Dakota. “Our Lakota way of life starts with our creation stories and oral traditions that have been handed down over 500 years. We are creating awareness about our Indigenous environmental issues through our teachings of the water, buffalo, and bear teachings. Re-vitalizing our spiritual and physical being as Lakota women is vitally important to our future generations. Lakota community genetics is an overall look at how we are able to re-birth our nation utilizing our sovereignty and inherent rights to protect our ceremonies and women. We are the backbone to our nation and the umbilical cord to our earth.”
Kawennontie
Kawennontie is from the Mohawk Nation and of the turtle clan family from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. Kawennontie has birthed nine beautiful souls and gifted ten starlight grandchildren whom she adores and is thankful for.
Kawennontie's Haudenosaunee ceremonial ways of life have been her spiritual foundation since birth which continues to provide guiding principles to help navigate her chosen pathways for her journey here. As an Indigenous woman, she has faced many struggles and has persevered through, while holding close to her heart and mind, her ancestral teachings.
Kawennontie has been an educator of Indigenous culture and language to children for over ten years and continues to develop healing and wellness programs for those who wish to rekindle their fire within. She is an inspiration to many and helps to water the seeds for new life.