SACRED RUN 2006 Alcatraz Island to Washington, D.C. February 11, 2006 - April 22, 2006 (Earth Day) Benefit Concert at StudioZ in San Francisco, Friday, February 10, 2006

Sacred Sites Quilt Project
Contact: Pat Brock, Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Nation and founder of Ambitious Efforts - Indigenous Style
mazakute@yahoo.com

First, a note from Pat:

"..so far the count is 4 blocks for a community quilt (representing also community healing), 2 blocks for a California Sacred Sites Quilt and 2 blocks for a First Nations Sacred Site Quilt.  With your efforts the First Nations Sacred Sites Quilt will be because of you (singularly and plurally).  Thank you. All donations accepted and definately appreciated!  My prayer is: Mitakuyeoyasin!" - Pat

 

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My name is Pat Brock. I am of the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Nation and am the founder of the organization Ambitious Efforts - Indigenous Style (AE-IS) Our Mission "No Pun Intended" Statement is:

          AE-IS was created by request of Elders and other Culture Keepers

          to preserve, by example, Indigenous histories, traditions, virtues

          and values.

 

We just completed an event supporting the 28th annual International Sacred Run where the participants are running for peace, healing Mother Earth, and hurricane recovery. The Sacred Run begins in Sacramento on Feb. 11th which, coincidentally, is on the 37th anniversary of the Alcatraz Occupation. The runners will be arriving in Washington DC on Earth Day, April 22nd. We will be gathering at The Underground Cafe (3367 Telegraph Rd., Ventura, CA) on April 22nd for a live webcast of the runners arriving in DC.

 

As our own tribute to Earth Day, our next activity is a Sacred sites Quilt Project. We are looking for 9 community organizations or groups to make one quilt block. This is a "preserving culture, by example" activity which demonstates the concept that everything has an origin story. 

 

The participants will contribute a pice of cloth and write a paragraph explaining why this cloth is meaningful to them. We will transfer a picture of a sacred site to cloth and frame it with their pieces of cloth. Once the quilt is completed, we will create a book which will become the origin story of the quilt. The quilt will be exhibited at our Earth Day event at The Underground Cafe.

 

While the foundation of AE-IS is "preserving culture, by example", the cornerstone to each activity is Community Healing - which has been defined as "renewal of relationship within tribes, across tribes, across cultures and with the earth. We are appealing to the community for support in the areas of  volunteering (including making a quilt square or sending origin story and picture of a sacred site for the quilt), advertising, promoting and financial assistance. Thank you!

 

For more information, questions, comments, and other forms of support, contact Pat Brock @ 805-201-5478 or e.mail:  mazakute@yahoo.com or @ P. O. Box 1379 - Oakview, CA, 93022.

 

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Transfer picture of Sacred Site to cloth
Create border around the Sacred Site
Block dimensions are 12 x 12
Will have detailed block instructions by Feb 20th

Picture and location
Origin story of
How and why group chose

"ON BEHALF OF MOTHER EARTH"