Name: Mixing of the Waters (Òspèkwe Wiàmkixën)
Start: 2024-11-15T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-17T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Wellspring Conference Center

$Mixing of the Waters (\u00d2sp\u00e8kwe Wi\u00e0mkix\u00ebn)$

An intertribal Council of Indigenous Elders, Wisdom-Keepers, and Community Leaders joined by Allies with a common heart.
About this Event

Join us at Mixing of the Waters!

The intention of this Òspèkwe Wiàmkixën ("Mixing of the Waters" in Lenape) gathering is to bring our communities together around a single beating heart, which we share with the Earth. The issues our various communities face cannot be addressed unless we come together and heal our fragmentation. This gathering is oriented toward that healing.

Indigenous Elders, Wisdom-Keepers and Community Leaders will be afforded respect and will by default occupy the center of our gathering. Allies are invited to join the Circle so that relationship may be formed and our common heart identified, felt, and nourished. Let us care for the relationship between our ancestors so that we may build a future together based on joy.

Attendance schedule:

Full-weekend attendees

Friday 11/15: Check in anytime between 3pm-6pm. Our first activity together will be dinner at 6:30pm
Saturday 11/16: Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served
Sunday 11/17: Breakfast and lunch will be served
Overnight lodging, 2 to a room, will be provided

Saturday-only attendees

Enjoy breakfast at 8:30am, lunch, and dinner
Stay, if desired, into the evening

Cost:

To give impulse to a gift-based economy of abundance, we are relying solely on donations to fund this event. We believe money should not determine who has a seat at the community-building table.

Donations will cover travel, meal and lodging expenses of our Indigenous Elders, Wisdom-Keepers and Community Leaders, and a stipend of gratitude; and meal and lodging expenses for attendees.

We need to raise $15,000.00 just to cover expenses:

~25 full-weekend attendees @ $532.00/person | 532 = the years since 1492
~15 Saturday-only attendees @ $166.60/person | 1666 = the year the English colony of Maryland signed the Articles of Peace and Amity treaty with 12 Indigenous Nations including the Piscataway

All excess funds will be donated to Piscataway Indian Nation.

PLEASE DONATE GENEROUSLY