A Song for Kateri

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Kateri Tekahkwi:tha, known as the Lily of the Mohawks, will be canonized in October 2012, becoming the first American Indian to achieve sainthood. Kateri lived from 1656 to 1680. When she died, it is said that her face, once disfigured by smallpox, became beautiful, her first miracle.  We honor her and reclaim her as a woman of the Iroquois nation, daughter of Algonquin and Mohawk parents and a manifestation of the sky world on earth. The sun-above-the-sky-awake, rises over her to re-awaken our people to our culture and traditions. The Mohawk clans, Bear, Turtle and Wolf watch over her. We burn the sacred tobacco for her spirit. A daughter of Turtle Island and Turtle clan, we wish her well on her path among the stars, on her journey to the next world.

We are the stars which sing.
We sing with our light;
We are the birds of fire,
We fly over the sky
Our light is a voice;
We make a road
For the spirit to pass over.

-Algonquian song of the stars

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Kateri Tekahkwi:tha, known as the Lily of the Mohawks, will be canonized in October 2012, becoming the first American Indian to achieve sainthood. Kateri lived from 1656 to 1680. When she died, it is said that her face, once disfigured by smallpox, became beautiful, her first miracle.  We honor her and reclaim her as a woman of the Iroquois nation, daughter of Algonquin and Mohawk parents and a manifestation of the sky world on earth. The sun-above-the-sky-awake, rises over her to re-awaken our people to our culture and traditions. The Mohawk clans, Bear, Turtle and Wolf watch over her. We burn the sacred tobacco for her spirit. A daughter of Turtle Island and Turtle clan, we wish her well on her path among the stars, on her journey to the next world.

We are the stars which sing.
We sing with our light;
We are the birds of fire,
We fly over the sky
Our light is a voice;
We make a road
For the spirit to pass over.

-Algonquian song of the stars

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