The Ghost Supper is a Native American ceremony that is observed in the fall. It is a traditional time of remembering and honoring deceased loved ones and relatives through the offering of food and tobacco (semaa) at a community meal. The tobacco is offered to the spirit fire, in honoring our ancestors at this gathering! While a food plate is prepared to feed the ancestor's at the spirit fire. 

The ghost supper shares elements of All Souls Day (November 2) and Mexico’s Day of the Dead (November 1 - November 2) and Halloween. 

Join us to honor and remember those loved ones who have passed on by bringing a favorite dish of an ancestor to share, drumming and singings, feeding the sacred fire with tobacco and adding food to the Spirit Plate. 

“This custom has been practiced for as long as the Anishinaabe (Odawa, Ojibwe and Potawatomi) have lived in Michigan,” said Gennie Morgan, a Native Elder specializing on Ojibwe traditions, the medicine wheel and drumming. 

Bring a dish to share, your table setting and we’ll provide cider and water, the sacred fire, the drumming and songs.

 This is an outside event so dress warmly.

Heritage Village is located on Central Avenue about 1.5 miles west of downtown Mackinaw City.  1425 West Central Avenue, Mackinaw City, MI  49701

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Sunday October 23, 2023 at 1:00 
This year's Ghost Feast Keith Knecht will share in learning how to store and prepare foods. Keeping seeds for spring planting in the Traditional ways!

We’ve decided to prep The Geese at Keith’s Camp at 2:00 pm 
This will be a Hands-on teaching
2152 Cassidy Road 
Levering, Mi
On Saturday 10/22/2022

Bring a camp chair and a snack dress warm.
Maybe a water bottle for drinking
Keith will have the tools for Harvesting the Geese!

We will stuff the geese on Sunday Morning at Heritage Village! Prepare cooking fire at 8:00 AM

Ghost supper will be from 1:00 till 4:00 on Sunday!
Bring a dish to pass to honor your ancestors! Preferably a dish to your ancestors' liking!
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