SACRED WATERS HONOR
JOURNEY
From the Source to the Sea
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The Sacred Waters Honor Journey
is the first annual voyage from the rivers to the sea to promote
stewardship and deepen our relationship with our vital, living
waters. It is a vision for water that is heart and spirit centered.
The goal is for all participants paddling rivers in canoes or
kayaks to reach the sea by June
8th for World Oceans Day and to join
the participating maritime vessels. |
SACRED WATERS HONOR JOURNEY Press Release
(PDF Download - 3-12-12)
PURPOSE
- Create greater reverence, appreciation
and love for our beautiful water systems throughout the world.
- Create greater awareness regarding
the urgent global state of Water.
- Promote actions for the Sacred Waters
Declaration, and endorse the Earth Charter, and the UN Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
- Provide opportunities for cross-cultural
perspectives, sustainable solutions, and the sharing of traditional
knowledge.
- Inspire and implement actions to protect,
manage, and restore the integrity and quality of our freshwater
and marine eco-systems with an emphasis on establishing marine
protected areas.
- Assist and sponsor youth in the necessary
skills as future stewards.
- Involve music, dance, and art in our
experience of water as well as prayer and ceremony.
- Recognize and support Indigenous Peoples
and their traditional roles as stewards of their ancestral lands
with emphasis on customary river and marine management systems.
- Recognize and support the vital links
between cultural and bio-diversity.
- Support the revival of traditional
maritime vessels.
- Create peaceful relations around our
mutual interdependence with water, with a focus on trans-boundary
river basins.
- Create awareness of the interconnectedness
of all creation and that we are all one.
SACRED WATERS HONOR JOURNEY REGISTRATION
(PDF Download)
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