Medawlinno Footprints (and more)

Sherry L. Gould writes:

These footprints are in Henniker NH where the Abenaki believe foot prints were left here by Medawlinno. People with extremely powerful medicine, like Passaconaway, could press their feet into solid earth.

    There is no oral tradition of what person may have left these prints in the rocks in Henniker that we have found yet. Just our traditions of what kind of person was able to do it, and traditions of Passaconaway's abilities.

 “We had a great hike to the footprints today. With input from Bob Goodby and Nancy Jo Chabot, the outcome is undetermined origin. Dr. Goodby feels the oval indents could be a natural occurrence, but all agree the defined toes are not likely a natural occurrence. We need to do more research for Dr. Holton's original files on the prints, and search for oral history in the area for significance.

  The rainy pictures are from today's hike, pictures by Vicki Blanchard. The sunny pictures are from Saturday's hike with Polly and Angela Fleming (the photographer). I slipped my shoes and stepped in the prints, they are surely a size 7 and the feel was very smooth and fitting…”

https://www.facebook.com/Abenaki-Trails-Project-130903648704620

  “Passaconaway (Child of the Bear) - He was known as a peacemaker. He had a vision that the newcomers, who arrived in ships from the east with white sails, were coming on clouds and that they would dominate the land with their coming…”

https://www.cabinet.com/news/merrimack-news/2019/04/19/native-americans-of-merrimack-their-chief-passaconaway/

 

Medawlinnoak, “medicine people”

“The convergence of spirit, the elements, and resurgent prolific life – epitomized by over-arching sky, shaped and shelving bedrock, sunlight and reflection, deep and strong currents – create a place of exchange. Spirit is able to move between worlds more readily here; the edges between the underworld of earth and water, existence on the surficial plane, and the above world of sky, blur and cross over. Things are in a state of flux, moving and mixing, intersecting. The constant change of creation is present here, closer and better accessible. This is one reason that messages of acknowledgement in the form of petroglyphs are often found at these places. These ancient representations, placed by medawlinnoak, medicine people, as they worked to seek balance with and through the presence of spirit concentrated there, continue to speak their opportune truths into the present. We see and hear them even now, carrying through the dysphoria and disturbance of the modern milieu…”  Rich Holsuch - March 31, 2019

https://sokokisojourn.wordpress.com/tag/medawlinno/