EASTERN SKY AMBASSADORS (Haudenosaunee) SMOKE DANCE part 2
Eastern Sky Ambassadors (ESA)
is a name that honours both our earthly and celestial heritages as Haudenosaunee. The territories of the Haudenosaunee people emcompass lands in southern Ontario, Quebec, New York State, the Carolina's and Oklahoma. The entire Eastern side of Turtle Island has a wealth of history, knowledge and the burial grounds of our ancestors. We are the descendants of Skywoman, who at the time of re-Creation after the great floods fell from a hole in the Sky from the Skyworld where she and our ancestors reside; and was placed by a flock of geese onto the back of a great Turtle. Using soil from the bottom of the Waterworld, and the power of creation she possessed from the Skyworld she massaged the soil with her feet onto the Turtle's back, causing it to grow larger and larger into what is Turtle Island; the place we who are descendants of the Sky People call home until we rejoin our ancestors in the Skyworld when we pass on from this earth.