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The thirteen grandmothers article seems to just give a very basic synopsis of the subject without going into any detail at all. Some things that could be added to help flesh out this article would be some mention of what major things has the group accomplished and the background of their formation. There doesn't seem to be any bias in this article but there is also no real substance to the article either. The links seem to work and the article is properly cited. I guess the only thing this article needs is more body to go with the good formatting.

MISSION STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND

http://www.jstor.org/stable/20752825?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

I could only access a small portion of this article, but this small portion gave me two facts I had been wondering about the grandmothers. One fact was the thirteen grandmothers mission statement which is to give counsel to this global world. The second fact was who founded the thirteen grandmothers and why, the person was Jeaneane Prevatt who formed the council after visions led her to that conclusion.

Living Indigenous Leadership: Native Narratives on Building Strong Communities edited by Carolyn Kenny, Tina Ngaroimata Fraser. UBC Press, Oct 5, 2012

Mission Statement

The thirteen grandmothers have a specific mission in mind when they join together. This mission statement can be found on their website and reads, "We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers represent a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the children, and for the next seven generations to come. We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We believe the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future. We look to further our vision through the realization of projects that protect our diverse cultures: lands, medicines, language and ceremonial ways of prayer and through projects that educate and nurture our children."

Official Statement of Purpose

“We are thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers who came together for the first time from October 11 through October 17, 2004, In Phoenicia, New York. We gathered from the four directions in the land of the people of the Iroquois Confederacy. We come here from the Amazon rainforest, the Alaskan Tundra of North America, the great forest of the American northwest, the vast plains of North America, the highlands of Central America, the Black Hills of South Dakota, the mountains of Oaxaca, the desert of the American southwest, the mountains of Tibet and from the rainforest of Central Africa.

Affirming our relations with traditional medicine peoples and communities throughout the world, we have been brought together by a common vision to form a new global alliance. We are the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. We have united as one. Ours is an alliance of prayer, education, and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the children, and for the next seven generations to come.

We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, believe that our ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking, and healing are vitally needed today. We come together to nurture, educate, and train our children. We come together to uphold the practice of our ceremonies and affirm the right to use our plant medicines free of legal restriction. We come together to protect the lands where our peoples live and upon which our cultures depend, to safeguard the collective heritage of traditional medicines, and to defend the earth Herself. We believe that the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future.

We join with all those who honor the Creator, and with all who work and pray for our children, for world peace, and for the healing of our Mother Earth. For all our relations.”

New source: http://www.grandmotherscouncil.org/our-mission The thirteen Grandmothers are on a mission to heal the earth with prayer and pass this good fortune onto the next 7 generations. They are concerned with the overall destruction of the earth and the indigenous way of life. They believe the teaching of their ancestors will help reach this goal. Using the land, medicines, language and ceremonial prayer they can pass on their teachings to the future generations.