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Children Singing Peace Around the World  (CSPAW)
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Children Singing Peace Around the World is a living prayer to heal the Earth sung with heartfelt commitment by youth and elders around the globe.  Originally composed on Mt. Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii, its message of Peace and Aloha radiates worldwide through CSPAW programs, recordings and sharing heart to heart.

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Mohawk Recording Photo Journal
Ahkwesahsne Freedom School
Mohawk Nation Territories
November, 2004
Every morning before beginning the day and every afternoon before leaving each student and teacher  offers gratitude, blessings and greetings to all life by speaking the Ohen:ton Karihwatehkwen ("Words that come before all else" - known now too as the Thanksgiving address).

Tsionatiio shares the Thanksgiving address in front of the mural she and her classmates created depicting their vision of peace and their culure.
During our three days together, the children made a mural depicting their views on peace and sharing
about their culture(full view of the mural-left).  The right photo is a close up of the section of their mural 
that depicts the three primary clans: turtle, bear and wolf.
Singers learning CSPAW in Mohawk and co-creating the Mohawk version. 
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Singing traditional Mohawk songs during break time....water drum and rattle accompanying their singing.
Students proudly point to their contributions to the peace mural, a beautiful representation of their collaboration and vision.
Tyler Thompson, a former employee at Akwasahsne Freedom School and artist painted this beautiful mural on the wall inside which became a visual teaching aid as it incorporates the three sisters (corn, beans, squash); the many gifts of the creator: the trees, the sun and the moon, the birds; the three primary clans: bear, turtle and wolf in addition to the snipe, eel and deer clans; the thunder beings(seen just below the sun and the moon), the large turtle representing Mother Earth and the Tree of Peace with children dancing around it holding it up.  It is one of the Mohawk teachings to keep the Tree of Peace standing.

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