Kwanza Principles-for 7 Days
5 min readDec 29, 2022
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A ritual set of practices. How the Iroquois 7 First Principles Shows
a shared Pattern
Monday December 26. First Day of Kwanza
7 Principles of Kwanza
I was watching a movie, told through the eyes of a Kwanza celebrations by a black family on Christmas Eve. I was struck by the 7 Principles of Kwanza and how closely they matched not the words but the domains of the Iroquois Nation’s First principles, that I learned from my Mohawk grandfather. I share them as the 7 First Principles of Regeneration since my…