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HOMECOMING
Oweewah, sometimes just shortened to weewah means water in the Mvskoke (Creek) & Seminole (Creek) languages.
The swamp forests within the territories of the Oconee, Yuchee, Shawnee Alabama,Yamassee, Tunicas, Seminole, Hichiti, Catawba & Mvskoke are made up of two types of weewah, whitewater and blackwater swamps.
Okeefenokee is the largest blackwater swamp in North America . It stretches from outside Waycross,Georgia, south to Plant City , Florida between the Suwanee and St. Mary's Rivers. A maze of rivers and creeks cross this vast land barrier that was home to countless people seeking shelter, opportunity and habitat.
The word Okeefenokee stems from two separate words for the region. First, the prefix okee in the Miccosukee language means water. Okefologee means funnel of water. These lands were a natural fortress, a large territory thought impassable & hostile by settlers, but our ancestors learned to navigate and use the environment for protection.
Now it's our waterways and lands that need protection. A different kind of care is necessary.
Our ancestors were connected to each other through these rivers, streams and highways.
The Oweewah Project focuses on bringing community together that has been lost, forgotten, discarded and denied accessibility to their rights as sovereign people, because of their designation. Denying any degree of indigenous people the right to land and water for their medicine is unacceptable. We as indigenous people have an ancestral duty to go back and restore the homelands of the people that came before us, the ones that made us. We look to reclaim our quality time on the lands our ancestors fought wars on, were removed from, were enslaved on and died on to create the America we live in today. We restore the land by merely being on it in reverence. Healing and repairing energetic centers allows us to prepare it for new life ahead.
This project will allow folks to realign with their ancestral lands through prayer, stewardship and hands on healing of the land. We will be organizing around the original ancestral homelands of the Chata, Yuchi and the Mvskoke Creek Confederacy which includes portions of Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama & Florida .
We are united in healing these lands by sponsoring land visitations to specific heritage sites within the region. We also offer energetic land clearing for interested family groups and legacy descendants.
We may have camped at separate heart centers then but now, more so than ever, we need to reconnect and gather as one.
Oweewah Project Press 2021
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