A Certain Stone,
In a Certain Place,
Placed a Certain Way,
Qusuqaniyutôkanuk, “on
the stone wall.”
Perhaps a certain prayer was said here,
Perhaps a certain tobacco mixture,
Burned in a certain shell,
As the smoke rose to the Creator...
Another place,
Another sort of Prayer:
Another and another...
Stones placed in a way,
So as to suggest
The Living Stone has Eyes,
The Stone sees your intentions...
Untouched, these stones tell a story,
Untouched, these stones continue to pray
Untouched, these stones are Nation Treasures,
Disturbed, some say, these are "just stones,"
Disturbed, some say, a Certain Spirit "comes back at you."
"Interviewee 6 also described the cairns as sacred altars: “When our people went out to seek God…seeking the truth, seeking power, seeking direction, seeking guidance . . . whenever they went there and received an answer or confirmation or received a power . . . they built an altar saying "this is where the Creator spoke to me" and this is now sacred.”
In noting the power of cairns, Interviewee 6 added that [t]he thing about cairns is, if you knock them over or if people destroy them with malicious intent . . . somehow the spirit of the place or of this person who put it there could come back on you…”
With that statement, Interviewee 6 voiced a commonly held cultural belief that disturbing a rock cairn, either inadvertently or deliberately, can result in serious supernatural consequences..."
With that statement. Interviewee 6 voiced a com-monly held cultural belief that disturbing a rock cairn, either inadvertently or deliberately, can re-sult in serious supernatural consequences. Inter-viewee 3 told the following story about the power of cairns: We were going up to locate a site, it was a vi-sion quest, and a tree had fallen down on top of this rock. The rock was probably 10 inches tall and weighed about 7 or 8 pounds. A tree fell down on the rock and the rock didn't move. It was just sitting on another rock, it didn't budge it. They're definitely powerful, there's definitely some kind of spirit there, I believe.
With that statement. Interviewee 6 voiced a com-monly held cultural belief that disturbing a rock cairn, either inadvertently or deliberately, can re-sult in serious supernatural consequences. Inter-viewee 3 told the following story about the power of cairns: We were going up to locate a site, it was a vi-sion quest, and a tree had fallen down on top of this rock. The rock was probably 10 inches tall and weighed about 7 or 8 pounds. A tree fell down on the rock and the rock didn't move. It was just sitting on another rock, it didn't budge it. They're definitely powerful, there's definitely some kind of spirit there, I believe.
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