MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PEOPLES' SACRED PRAYER PIPE & HOLLIS LITTLECREEK

Hollis Littlecreek taught:

"At this time we are told to share our customs, our traditions, that other people might have the opportunity to have that knowledge, so they could bring into being new ways.  These new ways would not have labels on them, and so create a barrier for other people. We were advised that because we are all people, perhaps we should talk of the People's ceremonies, the People's Pipe Ceremony, the People's Drum Ceremony, the People's Sweat Lodge Ceremony."

Hollis was a full-blooded Ahnishinabeg Elder of the Marten Clan. He was clear that his way was Native and that mine was not. The first time I met Hollis he said, The Pipe is very ancient, originally it belonged to all people. You guys just forgot.”

He taught Pipe making so we could invoke ourselves present to Spirit to find our own way with the Pipe.  He trusted the Pipe and Spirit to awaken us to the new way that is being created to weave us all back into the Oneness.

Hollis was from the last generation to be raised completely within the native tradition. 

When he was five, he was thought to have died of an illness.  His aunt was quietly sitting with him for almost an hour after she thought he has passed away, when he 'woke up' saying that he had a vision in which he was instructed to share the pipe with people of all races.  He was taken to the circle of elders to share his vision.  They instructed an older brother to make a pipe for him which was kept for him until he was older.

Hollis lived his life as a member of the tribe in all ways until he was 52.  Then he left the reservation to fulfill his mission.  I met when he was in his seventies, a year and a half before he passed to the other side.  The pipe I carry was 'awakened' in the last sweat lodge he held.  I am forever grateful to his spirit as he continues to be a powerful guide in my life.

The Pipe is an ancient ‘technology’ for activating affirmative prayer and intention, acknowledging our connection to Creator,  Great Spirit, Source and the Unity and Diversity of Oneness of life.

We call ourselves into the present, engaging ourselves - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. The herbs that are used to offer Prayer have that purpose and are not ‘mind altering’. The power of the prayer process in all four dimensions ~spiritual, mental, emotional, & physical is mind, heart and life altering.’

The Pipe I carry is not a ‘Native’ pipe. It is the third Pipe I have received. 

I received the first pipe in 1988 from my former husband.  He bought it at a flea market.   During the years in which it co-habited my space, my life as I identified with it was stripped away. 

I 'returned' that pipe to the first Native Pipe carrier I met in 1993.  I was told that it was an 800 year old Eagle pipe.  I could hear it sing as it was passed in ceremony by the Elder who had graciously received it. 

In 1996 I received "my rights" to carry a pipe under the guidance of Micmac and Malecite Medicine people in the St. John's River valley of Northern Maine after completing a number of four-day food and water fasts in a medicine wheel.  The pipe they gave me led me to Hollis Littlecreek.

The pipe I now 'carry' I made under Hollis's wise instruction, . The bowl is made of pipe stone, that Hollis mined by hand at Pipe Stone National Monument in Minnesota, where he had a mining permit.