Oct2011_REINBO ALL NATIONS GATHERING
11, 12 and 13 November 2011
Hosted by KUPIDABIN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC. at The Lyell Deer Farm Mt. Samson Queensland.
Sponsored by MORETON BAY REGIONAL COUNCIL
Hosted by KUPIDABIN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC. at The Lyell Deer Farm Mt. Samson Queensland.
Sponsored by MORETON BAY REGIONAL COUNCIL
CONTACT:
KUPIDABIN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC
Maureen Pickstone Hon. Secretary.
info@kupidabin.org web: www.kupidabin.org
Ph.07 3289 4270 M. 0402092741
WELCOME TO COUNTRY will open the Gathering. Share a weekend of Indigenous Teachings and Traditional Craft workshops. Honouring of our ancestors: Join in the closing ceremony of Didgeridoo, song and dance followed by a Reinbo feast for all participants.’
Day Passes are available. For Registration go to www.kupidabin.org
International Guests visiting for the weekend.
Reuben Silverbird: Raised in New Mexico/ Arizona, Reuben’s mother was a Cherokee medicine woman and his father was a Nedhni Apache spiritual wise man. Both possessed beautiful singing voices and incredible instrumental musical abilities. Growing up in this unique spiritual and musical world has influenced and moulded the Love, Respect, Spirituality and Music that Reuben Silverbird practices today.
He is regularly invited by leading universities and performs ceremonial blessings at the Nobel Prize Institute in Norway. He is attached to the United Nations as an NGO.
He combines Native American wisdom and traditions with modern day living, showing how to encourage world peace and sustainable living by honouring ourselves, each other and Mother Earth. Reuben appeals to young and old, regardless of cultural background or religious beliefs, addressing fundamental values of spirituality with a vision to have a world of all peoples united.
Verlinda Montoya: Mato Ta Pejuta Wakan Nawjin – Indian Name – Bear Medicine Standing Sacred
Mato Ta Pejuta Wakan Nawjin ( Mato Winyan) Verlinda’s given Indian Name.
She is from the Picuris pueblo of New Mexico, her tribe is Northern Tiwa/Hopi and she comes from a maternal blood line of Medicine People. Verlinda has been facilitating Native American ceremony for over 20 years. She was adopted by the Lakota-Sioux tribe, Eagle Elk family, and spiritual leader John Around-Him. She has been taught and is under the guidance of Lakota medicine people in conducting traditional Lakota ceremony. Mato Winyan was chosen by her family to take the family medicine altar and conduct ceremony in the traditional ways. Mato Winyan is an elder, medicine woman and a spiritual leader and is deeply connected to her native roots.
Day Passes are available. For Registration go to www.kupidabin.org
International Guests visiting for the weekend.
Reuben Silverbird: Raised in New Mexico/ Arizona, Reuben’s mother was a Cherokee medicine woman and his father was a Nedhni Apache spiritual wise man. Both possessed beautiful singing voices and incredible instrumental musical abilities. Growing up in this unique spiritual and musical world has influenced and moulded the Love, Respect, Spirituality and Music that Reuben Silverbird practices today.
He is regularly invited by leading universities and performs ceremonial blessings at the Nobel Prize Institute in Norway. He is attached to the United Nations as an NGO.
He combines Native American wisdom and traditions with modern day living, showing how to encourage world peace and sustainable living by honouring ourselves, each other and Mother Earth. Reuben appeals to young and old, regardless of cultural background or religious beliefs, addressing fundamental values of spirituality with a vision to have a world of all peoples united.
Verlinda Montoya: Mato Ta Pejuta Wakan Nawjin – Indian Name – Bear Medicine Standing Sacred
Mato Ta Pejuta Wakan Nawjin ( Mato Winyan) Verlinda’s given Indian Name.
She is from the Picuris pueblo of New Mexico, her tribe is Northern Tiwa/Hopi and she comes from a maternal blood line of Medicine People. Verlinda has been facilitating Native American ceremony for over 20 years. She was adopted by the Lakota-Sioux tribe, Eagle Elk family, and spiritual leader John Around-Him. She has been taught and is under the guidance of Lakota medicine people in conducting traditional Lakota ceremony. Mato Winyan was chosen by her family to take the family medicine altar and conduct ceremony in the traditional ways. Mato Winyan is an elder, medicine woman and a spiritual leader and is deeply connected to her native roots.
