2022 Indigenous Peoples Summit - Opening Ceremonies - Video #1 of 7

The Opening Ceremonies of the 2022 Indigenous Peoples Summit took place at the Maya Community Center in South Omaha.
Luis Marcos, Co-Executive Director of Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim, welcomed assembled guests to the Maya Sacred Site.
Dr. Rudi Mitchell greeted the assembled guests in the Maya Sacred Community Site.
Former Chairman Miller commemorated the diplomatic relations between the Omaha Nation and the Q’anjob’al Maya Nation, first established in 2015, and formally announce the 2022 resolution to continue this alliance. The continued diplomatic relations will expand to include cooperation for spiritual, political, economic, cultural, and social development for both nations.
Roadman Jeff Gilpin led the assembled guests in prayer.
The Cedar Ceremony is a blessing ceremony in which the officiant adds cedar tree branchlets (needles) to burning embers. An eagle feather is used to fan and absorb the essence of the cedar smoke. Two honorees will be blessed by the officiant with a prayer as the eagle feather touches their bodies and imbues them with the essence of cedar smoke.
The Breaking The Mourning Ceremony is a ceremony whereby elders break the mourning of grieving person through a ritual that signifies the combing of the hair the mourning person. The mourning person then gives gifts to individuals to officially end the period of mourning.
Honored guests received blankets as gifts.
After the Opening Ceremonies, the Summit continued at the CAM Building of the Metropolitan Community College South Omaha Campus all day. Videos of those panels and presentations are elsewhere on this channel.
This video was produced by Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim and OnPxl Media of Omaha, Nebraska. Event logo graphic (bottom left in screen) was created by graphic designer Steve Raglin in coordination with Kevin Mahler, Event Project Manager, and the 2022 IPS Event Planning Committee.
***About the 2022 Indigenous Peoples Summit:
On August 9, 2022, Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim co-hosted the 2022 Indigenous Peoples Summit, a multilateral, dynamic, interdisciplinary gathering of Indigenous and nonindigenous people from all walks of life to discuss Native Nation Sovereignty and Environmental Justice.
While many symposia, summits, conferences and gatherings take place on this day, few others draw from such a professionally, geographically, demographically diverse array of speakers, panelists, and guests.
We gathered in the land currently known as Nebraska to hear from thinkers in the areas of Tribal / Indigenous Leadership, agriculture, academia, medicine, philanthropy, government, and industry to imagine how Indigenous People can serve as partners and leaders in the coming years as we work as a global community to address environmental justice and other urgent issues.
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