DREAMS AND VISIONS
¾October 4, 2008¾

From Doylestown:                                            From New Hope:

                                Departure Time: 10:15 A.M.                              Departure Time: 10:30 A.M.

                                Return Time: approx.7:45 P.M.                         Return Time: approx. 7:30 P.M.
 

Cost: $95.00 due at time of reservation

 Reservation deadline: September 15, 2008

 

Experience an inside look at the culture and heritage of local Native Americans on this exclusive journey.  Throughout the day you will visit Native American sites, witness ancestral sacred ceremonies, and taste an authentic Native American lunch.  The tour will be led by Danawa Buchanan, a member of the Cherokee Nation.  Originally from Pallessee, Tennessee, “Aunt” Danawa now makes Bucks County her home.  You will first travel to the 300-500 year old majestic Sacred Oak, said to be the largest yellow oak tree in the United States.  Located in the region the Lenni Lenape tribe called Olink or Oleka, meaning a hollow or kettle, after the shape of the valley, it was here they gathered to hold religious ceremonies, pray to the Great Spirit, make treaties, and settle disputes.  It is believed tribes considered this a “godhead tree,” possessing the power to heal the sick and afflicted.  Oral history relates that the wife of a powerful chief became very ill.   No medicine men were able to restore her to health with their herbal remedies.  Desperate for a cure, the chief traveled to the Sacred Oak and prayed for his wife’s healing.  On his return, he found his wife fully recovered.  Several years later, an encroaching hostile tribe threatened the same chief’s village.  Once again he journeyed to the tree and prayed for peace.  On his return, a meeting was convened and peace was restored between the two tribes.  Today the tree measures over twenty-one feet in circumference, reaches a height of 85 feet, and spreads its massive, gnarled branches more than 120 feet.  You will then visit the remains of a Native American burial wall whose entire length has yet to be determined and travel to an ancient altar, a stone cairn, used to hold Native American ceremonies.  Your day will end at Ach-we-tonk (“spring in the bushes”).  It was here in the 1700’s that Lenapes sought magical cures from the spring’s clear, cold water.  To this day it is regarded as a healing spring, whose spiritual significance still manifests itself in the magical and curative power of the water.  It is also the final resting place of healer Indian Hannah, the last member of the local Lenni Lenapes who died in 1802, and where the 2006 “crossing ceremony” of Great Chief Ten Bears was held.  Holding with tradition, Native American ceremonies will be held at each of these “guardian sites.”

 

            Tour includes deluxe motorcoach transportation, services of Native American guide,
                                              and an authentic Native American lunch.

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