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Join the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center for a special Community Day presented in partnership with the Attucks-Lee-Banneker Chapter, NSDAR. The program will begin with Nibi Waabamag Ziigwang ("Seeing the Water in a Sacred Way"), a traditional water cleansing ceremony led by Reta Underwood, an elder and teacher in the Midewiwin tradition and a medicine woman of the Grand Medicine Society. Through prayer, song, and a brief teaching, participants will be invited to reflect on the sacredness of water, its role as a source of life and our shared responsibility to care for it. During the water blessing, Underwood will share a short teaching on sacred water and a Water Song that she carries. Once the water is blessed, it will be shared with participants.
Overlooking the Ohio River, the ceremony invites all to experience water not simply as something to use, but as sacred and life-giving, sustaining our bodies, our food, our communities and the earth.
Following the ceremony, guests will hear a presentation exploring the history, traditions, and cultural significance of Indigenous foodways by Chef Joe Rocchi. From ancestral growing practices to the preservation of traditional knowledge, this conversation will examine how Indigenous communities have sustained deep relationships with the land and continue to reclaim and protect their food systems today.
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50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati, OH, United States, Ohio 45202
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