Silver Snow Purple Glass Gems and Quartz Point

Silver-tone chain and Snow charms, purple glass teardrop beads, and a quartz point pendant. 

Winter

Winter in the longhouse ushers in countless Haudenosaunee stories; stories that allow us to transcend the spatial and temporal limitations of earth, and propel us back to Haudenosaunee pasts to preserve our cultural teachings, and leverage them for Haudenosaunee futures. While we are the People of the Longhouse, it is the stories of the longhouse that enrich and invigorate connections to Haudenosaunee ways of knowing and being that sustain us through the spring, summer, and fall, and for subsequent generations. Although the Haudenosaunee no longer live in longhouses, one can find several newly constructed longhouses throughout our present-day communities, as representations of the Haudenosaunee traditions and teachings that remain significant to our contemporary lives.