Leslie Marmon Silko- Nov 24, Iyengar II & I

Shared by the famous “Storyteller”, from Laguna Pueblo, true sacrifice and gratitude! Happy Thanksgiving all!

In the fall, the Laguna hunters go to the hills and mountains around Laguna Pueblo to bring back the deer. The people think of the deer as coming to give themselves to the hunters so that the people will have meat through the winter. Late in the winter the Deer Dance is performed to honor and pay thanks to the deer spirits who have come home with the hunters that year. Only when this has been properly done will the spirits be able to return to the mountain and be reborn into more deer who will, remembering the reverence and appreciation of the people, once more come home with the hunters.