Burying the Hatchet is a phrase embedded within the origins of an Iroquois ceremony in which warclubs, axes and weapons were buried into the ground to symbolize newly made peace. This ceremony expresses rituals which connect to the legend of the Peacemaker, a Huron foreseer who carried the message of the Great Law of Peace to the Iroquois confederacy due to the 100-years of Indian civil wars.

A performative cultural offering, Burying the Hatchet expresses diverse Global Indigenous concepts of Peacebuilding which, at its core, resurges ancient teachings of political and social structures pre-contact, and that honours rightful nation-to-nation relationships to remain in harmony, balance and peace. Global Indigenous performance across Turtle Island and beyond interweaves Indigenous governance, law, principles and value systems that form ethics and ways of conduct towards self, other, the land, and cosmos. Weaving political implications directly responding to UNDRIP (article 7, 30, 32, 40) and Indigenous Peoples: conflict, peace and resolution, this performance carries the breadth of negotiations that express war, violence, surrender, unity, humility and forgiveness. Urging the restoration of our sacred humanity that lays sleeping under the bodies and psyches of our collective historical trauma, Burying the Hatchet luminates, awakens and opens the heart portal back to Ka’nikonhri:io (a good mind), to revitalize Skennen (peace).