Dream Workshops

Posted on April 22, 2013

Dreams

God’s Forgotten Language

An opportunity to examine the recovery of dreams in spiritual life & explore their vital role in scripture & in traditions of the early church.

Dreams God’s Forgotten Language

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Register now for 2013 Spirit of Place Kayak Retreat

Posted on March 6, 2013

ATTENTION

As of April 15, our 10 person limit for this retreat has been reached and registration is now closed. Check back soon for information about next year’s Spirit of Place Kayak retreat and for early registering.

Thanks!

Each year, the Cedar Tree Institute hosts one or more Kayak Retreats. This year’s event is titled “Lake Superior: Water, Symbol, Soul” and will take place in August along 40 miles of remote Lake Superior shoreline. This retreat is limited to 10 persons, and the registration deadline is June 1st.

Last year’s Spirit of Place Kayak Retreat was full by mid April, so don’t procrastinate.

We’re making it easier than ever to join the adventure.

~~You can now register online~~.

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Wolf Hunt Petition Signing

Posted on February 26, 2013

Northern Michigan University Environment and Native American Students This Wednesday Join Debate Over Wolf Hunting in Michigan

Wolf Hunt Petition Flyer

(Marquette, MI) – For spiritual, religious, cultural, ecological and common sense reasons, two groups of Northern Michigan University students are hosting an anti-wolf hunt education and petition signing event this Wednesday to help put the issue before Michigan voters.

The “Wolf Hunt Petition Signing Night” is from 7-10 p.m. this Wed., Feb. 27, 2013 in Jamrich 103 on the NMU Campus sponsored by the NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team and the Native American Students Association (NASA).

Learn more at the official Earthkeepers II website

Earthkeepers II Press Conference

Posted on January 16, 2013

Interfaith Energy Conservation and Community Garden Initiative Across the Upper Peninsula to Restore Native Plants and Protect the Great Lakes from Toxins and Airborne Mercury Under the EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

The Earthkeepers II Initiative is sponsored by 10 U.P. Faith Communities and Assisted by Students at Northern Michigan University, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Forest Service and the Native American Communities of Northern Michigan

NMU Earthkeepers II Student Team

(Marquette, MI) – An Interfaith Energy Conservation and Community Garden Initiative across the Upper Peninsula will be announced during a press conference at 11 a.m. ET this Friday (1-18-13) inside the Pavilion at Presque Isle Park in Marquette, Michigan.

The press conference will be hosted by the Northern Michigan University EarthKeepers II Student Team: Katelin Bingner, Tom Merkel and Adam Magnuson.

The NMU students are planning to (more…)

Winter 2013 Ecotone Newsletter is here!

Posted on December 1, 2012

The Winter 2013 Ecotone Newsletter is here!

Scott Herron, Kinomaage Workshop, September 2012 at the Old Village Roundhouse, Watersmeet

A Healing Time: Honoring the spirit of the cedar

Posted on December 1, 2012

from Marquette Monthly December, 2012

By Jon Magnuson

As remote Northern Michigan cabins are boarded up for the winter, local stores open doors with discount Christmas sales and holiday lights are strung across neighborhood porches. Deep in forests across the Upper Peninsula, 10,000 small Northern white cedar seedlings cling tenuously to life, buried under a first snowfall. Six months ago, human hands first gently placed them into dark soil on edges of forgotten burned-over meadows, under wooded canopies of remote riverbanks, and along (more…)

Commemorative Archival Prints Available

Posted on November 27, 2012

“Gisheek: Spirit of the Cedar” is a tribute to CTI’s 2012 planting of 10,000 Northern white cedar trees by illustrator Diana Magnuson.

Commemorative archival prints are now available.

The Good Grain

Posted on November 26, 2012

from The Christian Century September 26, 2012

By Jon Magnuson

Harvesting wild rice by canoe Ahead of me, stumbling down an embankment, a 16-year-old boy drags a 50-pound bag of recently harvested rice seed toward the river bank. He’s a volunteer and part of a wild rice restoration project organized by the local County juvenile court, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, and the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission. Our aim is to plant 2,100 lbs of wild rice seed (Zizania palustris) at seven different sites across two rural counties in Northern Michigan.

Once a treasured source of nourishment and sacred meaning for Native Americans of the Upper Midwest, natural stands of wild rice (Mamoomin in the Anishinaabe language) are diminishing because of the (more…)