A Water Prayer in the Tradition of the Great Sweet Medicine Wheel as given by the Innapuak People of Alaska and transmitted from them through Martin Silverwolf, Marta Jones, and Dru Krystal.
Great Creator, I face South and offer my gratitude for the gifts of water. I give thanks for the vast oceans, the rivers, the lakes, the springs, the aquifers, and the rain that falls on me and everyone, moistening our dry souls as well as our dry faces.
I give thanks for the tears and saliva and blood and lymph and all the waters that flow in this precious body.
I give thanks for the healing spirit of water, the healing I receive in the waves as they crash in on me, the healing I receive as I soak in the hot springs, and the healing joy I luxuriate in while under the shower in my own home.
I give thanks for abundant clean water to drink and to quench the thirst of the plant people and the other animal brothers and sisters upon Mother Earth. I give thanks that some day all people will enjoy the clean, nourishing, healing water that I enjoy today.
I give thanks that one day the beaver will return to the forests and build their dams to slow the flow of water, replenishing the aquifers. And that the buffalo wallows will also restore the underground streams. I give thanks that some day my human brothers and sisters will stop fouling our waterways with their wastes and choose to use human urine and manure as fertilizer for the plant people.
I give thanks for water, blessed and pure and healing.
Ah ho mitakweysin! For all my relations!
