FULFILLMENT
These houses will be the setting for a series of reciprocal gifts,
including a series of Hotinonshón:ni and Anishnabec images in all media,
illustrating Creation, Great Law, and Ceremony "conversing" with a set of twelve
"art canoes". Dual living cabins will be appended to the outside ends of these
longhouses, to accommodate guardianship and continual occupation of the site.
This architectural assemblage will be a temporary ceremonial village for the
convening of a great cultural conversation between native peoples of this land,
and the cultures visited upon them over the past 200-300 years on and near this
site of the modern settlement named Toronto. It will face the "beautiful waters"
the sacred Lake Ontar:io, intercepted by the great continuously burning fire on the
beach sands of the original shore line.
The whole will have a profound ceremonial arrangement and progression, with a
recitation of the Hotinonshón:ni Great Law and Creation being spoken among the many
folds and recesses of the installation, including a large screen videos of Chief
Jacob Thomas reciting in native language and setting of the Longhouse reconstruction.
The opening of the exhibition will be at a sunrise Burning Tobacco Ceremony,
followed by a general greetings and A 'cleaning up' of the visitors - the At The Woods
Edge Condolence, followed by a traditional early morning Feast.
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