Free Čanupa Ceremony
Experience the Lakota Čanupa ceremony, a sacred pipe ritual connecting prayers to Creator and ancestral spirits.
This took place on Sunday 4 October. What's on instead is below.
The Čanupa is one means of conveying prayers to the Creator and the other sacred beings. The various parts of the pipe have symbolic meanings, and much of this symbolism is not shared with those outside the culture. While sacred pipes of various designs are used in ceremonies by a number of different Indigenous peoples of the Anahuak (American continent), Čanupa is specifically the Lakota name for their type of…
