Gratitude
Our whole way of Life is one continuous Song, one continuous Ceremony. The way we move is a dance. Ceremony is Life itself. It is the way we do things. Ceremony, to us, is the daily Life; everything we do, everything we think about is all part of that same expression…and we are thankful for it.
–gkisedtanamoogk, Wampanoag
Colonization
All humans are, or have been, indigenous to a given place at one time.
Colonization is the process of civilizing indigenous people.
To civilize means to break kinship bonds between people, and to sever their ties to the land and all of its beings; To civilize is to break natural networks of interdependence and replace them with violent hierarchies of control in order to centralize power and wealth.
Ceremony
Request for Ceremony elicits, distributes, and records some examples of Ceremony generated by people attempting to practice or re-activate their kinship with the Beings of Creation, and to remember or reconnect to their Home.
Each entry in Request for Ceremony includes a greeting which locates the contributor (character) and their relation to those already part of the local mesh (contact), as well as a description of the ceremony, location with map, story of the Ceremony in actual practice, related media, and comments.
They are available for responsible re-use, and as inspiration for your own ceremonies, which we invite you to submit to keep the circle of the gift moving. All content and structure on this site are protected under an attribution, non-commercial, share-alike Creative Commons license. 