If you’re passionate about food & service. Come create culinary experiences that nourish your curiosity. With leading chefs & artisans, small batch food purveyors You’ll learn to prepare gourmet food and explore the psychology behind satiation All while redefining your reverence for sustenance & empowering others. All while redefining your reverence for sustenance & empowering others.All while redefining your reverence for sustenance & empowering others.All while redefining your reverence for sustenance & empowering others.
Give us three days, and we'll bring you into a world that will reshape your perspective.
Come experience and learn about an Indigenous worldview that includes solutions the world needs today.
A world built on the sacred.
Summer Solstice will combine Native history, culture, traditions and practices, so that you might connect deeper to yourself and a community of fellow change-makers and seekers.
For Lakota people, Pe’ Sla is known as the heart of all things.
The Oceti Sakowin, Seven Council Fires of the Lakota, Nakota, Dakota Oyate (or Sioux Nation), has revered the high-mountain prairie named Pe’ Sla as a sacred site for time immemorial.
Pe’ Sla was originally protected by the 1868 Sioux Nation Treaty until the United States unconstitutionally seized the land in the aftermath of the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
The four Sioux tribes collaborated to reacquire the land in 2012 and return it to its rightful status.
Centrally located in South Dakota’s Black Hills National Forest, this high mountain prairie is historically, culturally, and spiritually significant for its role in traditional ceremonies, star mapping, and creation story.
Participate in the slaughter and butchering of a buffalo on Pine Ridge Reservation. You'll be guided through the experience by Lisa Iron Cloud and her family, who do the butchering at their family home. Lisa's work focuses on reviving traditional Lakota food practices, specifically utilizing the whole buffalo and providing an understanding of what was used and why.
This 5-hour experience is available to four participants only. An introduction to Lakota horse history, culture, and spiritual connection will transition to guiding you to your own healing and heart energy. The session will include prayer, smudging, meditation as well as individualized therapy sessions between participants and horse, led by Sarah Comeau.
A resident of Pine Ridge, Auntie Elaine will welcome you onto her ancestral property. There, you'll be guided in identifying an array of plants and plant medicines. Some of these will be used for braiding, and for cooking.
You'll stay for a home-cooked traditional lunch, for braiding and for time with Auntie Elaine's family.
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Our voices, our stories and storytellers hold power and solutions with deep, ancestral knowledge we all need to live in relationship with the land. It is a time to uplift and shift to the forefront the voices that carry healing for our communities, our nation, and planet.
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