We will also be meeting at 11:30 in the SIT cafeteria for lunch. About 30 people have confirmed attendance. If there's time, we'd appreciate an RSVP if you can come. Bring friends!

-- John Wilmerding

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Manitou, Mettanokit, and John Woolman College present

Wampanoag Elder Peacemaker
Medicine Story

MANITONQUAT
with Ellika Linden

The Circle Way
and the
Original Instructions

Saturday, April 11, 2009
1-5 PM -- Free, Donations Optional

Rotch 108 Lecture Hall
SIT Graduate Institute Brattleboro, Vermont

To Attend Please RSVP: 802-254-2826 or JWC@igc.org

Hosted by the SIT Masters Degree in Conflict Transformation Program
This event will benefit Mettanokit Prison Programs and Nature Camp

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MANITONQUAT & ELLIKA LINDEN

Manitonquat is an Assonet Wampanoag (native American) elder in his 80th year of life. He is the author of eight books: Return to Creation, Children of the Morning Light, Ending Violent Crime, The Circle Way, Wampanoag Morning, The Original Instructions, Changing the World, and Grandfather Speaks.

Formerly columnist and poetry editor with 'Akwesasne Notes', Manitonquat has also edited 'Heritage', a journal of Native American liberation.

Manitonquat directs a program for Native prisoners in seven prisons, is advisor to The Nature School in Greenville, NH, and with his wife and partner Ellika Linden, leads international family tribal living summer camps in five European countries. The web site for their organization, Mettanokit, is at:

http://circleway.org

Manitonquat has spoken to conferences and groups on three continents, and was keynote speaker at the United Nations on the 50th anniversary of Gandhi's assassination. He is perhaps best known for 'Manitonquat's Prayer', ubiquitous on the internet, and was a co-founder of the Rainbow Gathering, a yearly mass camping assemblage held in North America.

This event is a benefit for Mettanokit.

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THE MANITOU PROJECT

The Manitou Project is a local Windham County, Vermont circle of people active in issues of environmentalism and earth spirituality. It was established by a permanent bestowal of rural land in Windham County, Vermont, near Williamsville, by the Mayer family.

Manitou sponsors regular outdoor events on its land, and other educational events located in appropriate County venues. From dowsing workshops, to summer camps for children, to healing walks in the wild woods on its land, Manitou has offerings for all ages. The Manitou land even features a nature preserve that is off-limits to human beings.

As environmental concerns have grown in peoples' minds in recent years, Manitou has embarked on collaborations with the Brattleboro Area Interfaith Initiative, an informal group of people of different religious traditions who are seeking understanding and opportunities to work together on various concerns.

'Manitou' is an Algonquin (North American first peoples') word referring generally to the active presence of spirit in all beings and things, everywhere.

Information on the Manitou Project can be found here:

http://www.manitouproject.org

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JOHN WOOLMAN COLLEGE

John Woolman College of Active Peace is a global consortium of educators, researchers, and archivists dedicated to teaching Active Peace -- Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding. Founded in 1997 by Quaker peacemaker John Wilmerding, the College has around 35 principal scholars, each actively engaged in its educational mission. [Medicine Story Manitonquat is one of those scholars.]

The College is very unconventional in its organizational structure, having no formal distinction between faculty and students, and governing itself in a three concentric circles organizational format. It is an unregistered global non-governmental organization (NGO). Information on John Woolman College can be found at:

http://woolman.ning.com

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Many thanks to the globally-renowned Masters in Conflict Transformation program of SIT Graduate Institute in Brattleboro, Vermont, who have kindly agreed to host this event on their beautiful campus.

For more information on their several excellent Masters degree programs, kindly visit:

http://www.worldlearning.org

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