Maunumuet(ash) – “where someone gathers it”
Stone prayer place, in the singular; in the plural, Ceremonial Stone Landscape.
“Attempts to explain stone prayers may be taking the wrong tack," writes Nohham Cachat-Schilling. "Interpretation is tricky, more so when it comes to spiritual matters. Misnaming, mis-associating, and misplacing are verbs that still attach to the body of literature on stone prayers, excepting mostly those few pieces that have been written by Indigenous descendants of this region. Writers who get the facts and figures right about stone prayers often wander off the path when it comes to explanation. Indigenous narrative about spirit-inhabited stones starts the path into the cultural narrative that built maunumuetash.
When Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere, they
immediately began to rewrite our culture and history to conform to their
hegemonic and supremacist agenda. The
overwriting and politicization of Indigenous legacy has not ceased. But there
are always those who bridge toward reconciliation…”
https://www.ethicarch.org/post/understanding-stone-prayers-in-the-northeasterncultural
