Their Dreams Are True: Honoring the Ground Blessing

<p>In <em>Their Dreams Are True</em>, IndigenousRelatives who helped host the November 8, 2025, Ground Blessing at Dickinson College share their reflections on a Ceremony offered to set the land in a good way for the future Jim Thorpe Center for the Futures of Native Peoples.</p><p><br></p><p>Mary Thorpe (Sac and Fox, Absentee Shawnee,Prairie Band Potawatomi, and Kansas Kickapoo); Alejandro Higuera (Pascua Yaqui); Lynette Stant (Diné); Dr. Lydia Jennings (Pascua Yaqui); Perry Martinez (San Ildefonso Pueblo); MaredythSalazar (Laguna Pueblo); Gerilyn Tolino (Diné), and Dr. Amanda Cheromiah (Laguna Pueblo) speak from places of prayer, memory, and connection to the land.</p><p><br></p><p>Their voices remind us that our Ancestors dreamed thisfuture into being long before we arrived.</p><p><br></p><p>Song Credit: Cowboy Bosom by Fawn Wood</p><p>Recorded November 8-9, 2025, in Carlisle, Penna.</p><p></p>