{"id":651,"date":"2017-12-21T14:48:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2018-06-22T08:31:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:31:12","slug":"17300-km-prayer-walk-started-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"17,300 km Prayer Walk Started Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image courtesy of Martha Pedonoquotte
From left: Aaron Keeshig, Tianna Fillo, Jackie Hines, E Naad Maa Get (Branden Emmerson), Julie Robichaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NEYAASHIINIGMIING \u2013 A group of Indigenous Men, Women and #Two-Spirit<\/a> people are embarking on a cross-Canada Prayer Walk on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2017, the day the sun returns for the New Year.<\/p>\n

Da-Namaamin Moseyang Giw-Ganchigaazjig Kwewag, \u201cWe will walk in prayer for those murdered women,\u201d is a grassroots, Indigenous-led walk\u00a0that will cover over 17,000 km from coast to coast. The walk is a healing journey that aims to respond to the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women, girls, and future generations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are walking, prayerfully, to express to all the kwewag and the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls that we care,\u201d said E Naad Maa Get (Branden Emmerson) of Chippewas of Nawash First Nation and lead walker of the group. \u201cAs a man, I have a responsibility to address this issue and I call out to my fellow men and boys to walk with me.”<\/p>\n

The Prayer Walk will take about one year to make beginning December 21, 2017, at Neyaashiinigmiing (Cape Croker, Ontario).<\/p>\n

The group will travel south on Highway 6 through Wiarton to Highway 21 and will then head east through Owen Sound, Meaford and Collingwood. Once the group reaches Sudbury, they will travel west on the Trans-Canada Highway to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, then travel back east to St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland, and return west to Neyaashiinigmiing. It will cover an approximate distance of 17,300 km.<\/p>\n

The Prayer Walkers started their journey from the Chippewas of Nawash Community Centre this morning, Thursday December 21, 2017.<\/p>\n

To receive updates on the Walkers journey, please follow the Da-Namaamin Moseyang Giw-Ganchigaazjig Kwewag Facebook page<\/a>. To support this walk and walkers, they have set up a GoFundMe page: https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/prayer-walk-funding-initiative<\/a>, and are also accepting donations through their PayPal account at\u00a0https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/danamaaminmoseyang<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEYAASHIINIGMIING – A group of Indigenous Men, Women and #Two-Spirit people are embarking on a cross-Canada Prayer Walk on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2017, the day the sun returns for the New Year. Da-Namaamin Moseyang Giw-Ganchigaazjig Kwewag, “We will walk in prayer for those murdered women,” is a grassroots, Indigenous-led walk that will cover over …Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5,7],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-current-events","category-health","tag-two-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}