Native American “Drying the Tears” Ceremony (post 9/11)
New York City was full of ritual, ceremony, art and other forms of creative and numinous expression in the months following September 11th. This tells the story of one old ceremony that Native Americans brought to the Museum of the American Indian, near Ground Zero after several months had elapsed. It was a ceremonial moment to mark the necessity for drying the tears and moving on.
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Posted in Immigrants and Ethnic Life, Religion, September 11th and Its Aftermath, Spirituality Tags: elders, Indian, Native Americans, September 11th, tears, terrorism