HOBAH HANU
all the people
The Elders tell us, "Accept your particular life, the whole of it, then celebrate it with joy,
your connection to it, so you can give back, all that has been given to you."
HAMAATSA in Keres Pueblo language is a word referring to time ~ past, present and future.
It is a time coming into being now within an indigenous continuum experience.
HAMAATSA was founded in 2006 by Larry Littlebird (Laguna/Santo Domingo Pueblos) and his wife Deborah Littlebird. Our mission is committed to perpetuate tribal American oral traditions, spiritual wholeness and cultural life-ways informed by indigenous wisdom for healing land and people.
HAMAATSA is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit and operates with a Board of Directors and Advisory Council who model an age-old indigenous approach to governance through sacred council process. The Council's core precepts serve its individuals, families, community and constituents with regard and respect for all our relations as we work and live together in sisterly and brotherly unity. Cultivating the sacred, we collaborate with a dedicated cadre of story-listeners and story-tellers, song makers and artists, farmer-herbalists and cultural custodians to gather, create and thrive. We nurture artistic creativity and reciprocity as we reverently carry the stories and wisdom of our elders forward and remember how they tell us: be brave, be strong, keep going.
In Loving Memory
We remember our beloved Pueblo Elders who have crossed over. These extraordinary men and women left their indelible mark in the land and our work with their Holy words, steadfast prayers, generosity and encouragement. Forever in our hearts! Stanley Lucero (Laguna Pueblo), David Riley (Hopi/Laguna Pueblo), Bill Sunrise (Santo Domingo Pueblo), Andrew Ahsona (Cochiti Pueblo), Philip Duran (Tigua), Jose & Amelita Toledo (Jemez Pueblo),
Lucy Yepa Lowden (Jemez Pueblo), Ignacia Duran (Tesuque Pueblo), Sal Yepa (Jemez Pueblo)