{"id":14338,"date":"2014-05-31T03:29:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T22:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=14338"},"modified":"2014-06-01T04:01:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T23:01:05","slug":"eagle-feather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/eagle-feather\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagle Feather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/eagle_feather.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14340\" src=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/eagle_feather.jpg\" alt=\"eagle_feather\" width=\"437\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/eagle_feather.jpg 437w, https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/eagle_feather-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Robert_L_Peters_Alma_Kakikepinace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14341\" src=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Robert_L_Peters_Alma_Kakikepinace.jpg\" alt=\"Robert_L_Peters_Alma_Kakikepinace\" width=\"437\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Robert_L_Peters_Alma_Kakikepinace.jpg 437w, https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Robert_L_Peters_Alma_Kakikepinace-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drum-song_Alma_Kakikepinace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14342\" src=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drum-song_Alma_Kakikepinace.jpg\" alt=\"drum-song_Alma_Kakikepinace\" width=\"437\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drum-song_Alma_Kakikepinace.jpg 437w, https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/drum-song_Alma_Kakikepinace-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Rob_Alma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14343\" src=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Rob_Alma.jpg\" alt=\"Rob_Alma\" width=\"437\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Rob_Alma.jpg 437w, https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Rob_Alma-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/honour_ceremony_Alma_Kakikepinace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14344\" src=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/honour_ceremony_Alma_Kakikepinace.jpg\" alt=\"honour_ceremony_Alma_Kakikepinace\" width=\"437\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/honour_ceremony_Alma_Kakikepinace.jpg 437w, https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/honour_ceremony_Alma_Kakikepinace-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I feel deeply moved and honoured to have been <em>adopted<\/em> yesterday as an Anishinabe brother by Alma Kakikepinace, an elder and\u00a0Eagle Clan Mother, at a fireside 60th birthday celebration attended by several dozen close friends and family members. Alma smudged with sweetgrass, performed drum-songs, and presented me with an eagle feather as a symbolic rite of passage and mark of distinction\u2014 I pray that I prove to be\u00a0worthy of the values inherent with the receipt of this honour\u2014 honesty, truth, strength, courage, wisdom, power, and freedom.<\/p>\n<p><em>Miigwetch, miigwetch&#8230; <span style=\"color: #808080;\">(photos by Ian McCausland).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba I feel deeply moved and honoured to have been adopted yesterday as an Anishinabe brother by Alma Kakikepinace, an elder and\u00a0Eagle Clan Mother, at a fireside 60th birthday celebration attended by several dozen close friends and family members. Alma smudged with sweetgrass, performed drum-songs, and presented me with an eagle feather as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,11,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14338"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14349,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14338\/revisions\/14349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}