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Our Peaceburgh community sister Abby requested a special sweatlodge ceremony for a small group of friends and we gathered at the Verona Pennsylvania teaching/healing lodge of the CANEY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL CIRCLE near Pittsburgh on the evening of Nov 11  2012.

Our dear spiritual brother Harold (Dog) Roman Nose showed up early with his…

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It had been raining steadily Sunday evening October 28, when my spiritual brother Sol Shanti arrived at my home, the CANEY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL CIRCLE Verona, Pennsylvania teaching and healing lodge near Pittsburgh. He came to help start the fire for the kansi sweatlodge ceremony at the guanara  that stands in our yard pretty far above the creek which runs alongside Verona Road. An eastward moving storm front was moving into our area from Ohio on its way to join…

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It was a wonderful honor for me to guide our Day Of The Dead Ceremony this year at the Ringland Sanctuary in Washington County, Pennsylvania, the home of our friend Sol Shanti and his family, on the evening of Saturday November 3, 2012.

I got a ride south to the community of Amity, PA from our sister Nancy with whom I had the honor of…

Greetings all,

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In a recent blog post titled The Meaning of Autumn Equinox I re-published an old statement that explicates the details of Caney Circle belief concerning the ancient traditions of our Taino ancestors in regards to their departed loved…

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Last night Bobbi Smokifantastic Williams' beautiful dream GAIA HARMONIC ART…

The beautiful silver face of our sister Karaya (Maroya) apppeared from behind a veil of black clouds soon after we had completed the last chants of our Full Moon Ceremony on Saturday Sept 29  2012 at the site of the CANEY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL CIRCLE's Verona, Pennsylvania Teaching and Healing lodge.

We were a small group of celebrants that night. Many of us had…

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It was a beautiful two days of proud celebration of our Indigenous heritage up on top of the hill at the SINGING WINDS SITE of the COUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER.

Dancers from all over the country again participated in competition dance on both Saturday and Sunday, and the weather co-operated with a…

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What a marvelous blessing it was this past weekend to participate in the three-day sacred areyto organized by my dear Boriken Taino friend/brother and Caney Circle beike-to-be, Bruce Akichitay Urayoel in the Pocono mountains campground of…

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In behalf of myself, my family and the whole Caney Indigenos

  Spiritual Circle community I want to wish all of you a blessed

Autumnal Equinox.

This season represents a special stage in the ceremonial cycle of

the cemies as seen from the perspective of the Caney Spiritual

  Circle. We believe…

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I was honored this year to be invited to offer ceremonial presentations at the 2012 celebration of the…

Takaji My Relatives

I want to post just a brief note to report that on Thursday August 30 2012 at 7:00 PM we celebrtaed the sacred FULL MOON CEREMONY at the Verona Pennsylvania Teaching and Healing lodge of the CANEY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL CIRCLE  near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

It was a beautiful Summer evening and the Blue Moon (second full moon of the…

Runners representing the Caribbean-based FLIGHT OF THE RED TAIL HAWK contingent of the Peace and Dignity Journeys…

For full moon ceremony I laid out a 4 foot by 4 foot length white sheet on a table. I prepared by bringing together the items that I will be using for ceremony. I made a circle of twenty eight stones. By the north part of the circle I laid down a smoky quartz crystal representing the moons energy. I also got the guamo, two candles, a feather smudging fan, copal and a cup of water. For the tobacco ceremony I used my own personal pipe. This pipe has been my personal pipe for some time…

 Takaji My Relatives

I travelled to southern Ohio yesterday to participate in a week-long outdoor festival called…

Takaji my Brothers & Sisters: This moon was a little unique as was last months Yoka Hu moon.  I am learning all about adaptability.

Our circle is a relatively small group.  This month we had a hospitalization, an out of town trip to family and another one of our members under the weather leaving the remainder of us to create a meaningful ceremony.

The White Cloth & Medicine Wheel were all laid out before arrival.  I had smudged myself earlier.  We went…