Native American Teachings with Grandmother Nancy Andry
Mon, Apr 15
|Sticks and Stones Farm
Join Grandmother Nancy for her ongoing teachings of various aspects of Native American Culture


Time & Location
Apr 15, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Sticks and Stones Farm, 197 Huntingtown Rd, Newtown, CT 06470, USA
Guests
About the event
Join revered indigenous wisdom teacher Grandmother Nancy Andry for an enlightening discussion about the many challenges and losses endured by European indigenous women as compared with Native American women.
Grandmother Nancy is of Algonquin and French heritage and has followed the Red Road since childhood. Seeking out elders willing to teach, her first two mentors were a Lakota author and a Lakota medicine man. Later, an Ojibwa medicine woman, then a Mi’kmaq grandmother, adopted her. Community elders gave Grandmother Nancy permission to pour lodges since 1991. She served as a facilitator for a Native Women’s Circle in federal prison for 17 years.
A Sundancer and a Sacred Pipe carrier, Grandmother Nancy is acknowledged as an elder and a grandmother in her communities in Canada where she was given instruction to bring out and share certain teachings. She is a well-known storyteller, sharing legends from many different Nations in schools, health…