Long Stalk Brings the Message from the Ancestors...
The East End Park East Van Stories Series goal is to build a bridge of friendship between the children and youth of the Traditional Hopi community of Hotevilla, the children and youth of our East Van community and the Greater Vancouver region, while helping to build bridges of friendship, understanding, and respect for the Original People of Turtle Island. The Storytelling experience includes curriculum for Indigenous Cultures, Exploration and First Contact.
Long Stalk’s story is a gift to acknowledge and honor the Indigenous children into the circle of education with stories that are inclusive of their history, culture, and spiritual traditions. While set in a contemporary story format, the open-hearted stories give children pathways and examples toward self-empowerment and transformation. In addition, Long Stalk’s story is a gift to honor and welcome all children growing up on Turtle Island into the Circle of All Our Relations.
How Long Stalk Became a Flower is the first book in the series and was designed to engage the youngest of listeners and readers into the series. It is a stepping-stone story, building toward more complex themes and language in consecutive books. The storybook content is designed to support Language Arts, Creative-Arts, Self-Awareness and Self-Reflection.
The Story finds the main character Long Stalk emerging from the heart of the Great Star Above, Great Spirit's home. He is a universal hero manifesting the message of Love in his journey to become whole and complete; and through that journey is given the Dream of Peace to bring forward into the world.
Storytelling is part of the Indigenous oral tradition, and it is my goal to bridge the modern contemporary form of storybooks and the oral tradition of storytelling through the Storytime Circle and Sharing and Talking Circle. As a link, Long Stalk’s character and the archetypal characters of Grandfather Sun, Mother Earth, Father Sky, Moon, The Great Spirit Guardian of the Rainbow Flower Kingdom and others become the transmitters of Indigenous knowledge and sacred teachings throughout the series. Children are introduced to a magical world within an Interactive Storytime setting. Children are given the opportunity to become a part of the story through dressing up in regalia capes and accessories and entering a visual world designed to engage the imagination and concrete experience.
The Sharing and Talking Circle presents the opportunity to show treasured items I have acquired over the years and share the special experiences connected to each sacred item. It will give children the opportunity to see and feel indigenous artifacts, Mother Earth objects, sacred drums, rattles and more. The Sharing Circle will give children a concrete experience of art in motion and history as they feel and play on Drums and Rattles and hold West Coast weaved cedar baskets, headdresses, spoons and bowls.
The Interactive Storytime, Sharing and Talking Circle extends the story of friendship through the opportunity to hold and feel sacred Mother Earth objects that can inspire children's conversations in the classroom and playground. Teachers can extend the story experience to the classroom by having the children draw pictures of their favorite Sharing Circle items; build a spelling B from the children's favorite items from the sharing circle such as rock, crystal, rattle, feather, or by having their own Show and Tell of sacred items from their cultural traditions. and more.
The Interactive Storytime experience also introduces the children and youth to the Hopi prophecy that tells of the time when the spiritual power would come down from the north along the northwest coast to the Salish Sea. This power would then travel across Turtle Island to the Eastern Door of the Kanienkahaka of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy; where the spiritual power would ignite to return back across Turtle Island. There are many prophecies of this time of awakening, returning, joining and remembering, and it is my creative effort and dream to be a part of bringing the Hopi Dream of Peace to the world of children; to help build a bridge of understanding and connection for the children and youth to find their sacred place and space within the Dream and Sacred Story of the Original People of Turtle Island and the People from across the waters.
Through the Hopi Prophecy, the Great Law and Tree of Peace, and the traditions of the Northwest Coast People, who are the Keepers of the Western Door and holders of the Hopi Prophecy, the children become Turtle Island children and a part of the Great Work of restoring, saving and healing our Mother Earth for all life.
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