[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 181 (Wednesday, November 13, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H8791]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Ms. Verna Teller, Southern Tiwa, Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico, 
offered the following prayer:
  O, Creator and Great Mother, having asked and received Your 
permission to invoke Your blessings today to all directions--to the 
east, north, west, south, and the center--we thank You for the life You 
give to all Your children: the two-legged ones, the four-legged, those 
who live in the waters, and those who watch over us from the skies 
above.
  Sacred pollen, sacred Earth Mother, sacred water that manifest Your 
desires, O Creator and Great Mother, we thank them for the nourishment 
they give us equally, with no regard to race, color, or creed.
  Creator and Great Mother, bless those standing before You who carry a 
sacred trust to all of us who inhabit Turtle Island, our homeland. And 
I pray today that You will give them the wisdom and the courage to 
carry out their sacred trust with the same equality that we receive 
from the Sun and rain.
  ``Hurrd kem,'' thank you.

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