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Cultural context remains in descriptions. Titles now uniformly use the practice name without prefixing the culture, country, religion, or people. e.g. 'Quaker Meeting for Worship' -> 'Meeting for Worship', 'Moroccan Jmaa Village Assembly' -> 'Jmaa Village Assembly', 'Aboriginal Yarning Circle' -> 'Yarning Circle'. 43 titles updated across the seed library.
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id: ohlone-shellmound-walk
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title: Shellmound Walk of Remembrance
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description: >-
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A California Native Ohlone practice of walking to and gathering at
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shellmound sites — sacred burial and village sites — to remember the
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ancestors and affirm ongoing presence. Many shellmounds in the Bay Area
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have been built over; the walk reclaims relationship with the land.
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source: Ohlone and Muwekma Ohlone tradition
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source_url: https://www.muwekma.org/
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tags: [ohlone, california-native, remembrance, land, indigenous]
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forked_from: null
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image: null
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steps:
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- headline: Gather at a starting point
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description: >-
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Ohlone community members and allies gather at a starting point, often
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a site where a shellmound once stood or has been built over. An elder
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opens with prayer.
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- headline: Walk to the shellmound
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description: >-
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The group walks together to the shellmound site, in silence or with
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prayer, marking the land with their presence and movement.
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- headline: Gather and remember
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description: >-
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At the shellmound, the group gathers. Speakers share the history of
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the site, the ancestors buried there, and the ongoing Ohlone
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presence that has not been erased.
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- headline: Offer prayer and song
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description: >-
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The group offers prayer and song to the ancestors and the land. The
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offering is made as relationship, not performance.
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- headline: Commit to protection
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description: >-
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The gathering closes with a commitment to protect the site and the
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Ohlone's ongoing relationship to it, often with specific actions
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named.
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outcome: >-
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A shellmound site is remembered and honoured; Ohlone presence is
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affirmed; commitments to protection are made.
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practice: >-
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The walk is not symbolic tourism. It is reclamation of relationship. If
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you are not Ohlone, follow Ohlone lead and do not centre yourself. |