Coming Through the Storm

Coming Through the Storm

Harsh Winter Storms blow in fast on the East Coast, where the Northern Woodlands – Pequot Tribes live. The men range miles into the mountains, up into forests, hunting deer to keep their family warm and fed, but when the frequent New England storms came on, they were often caught out, miles from home, sheltering through bitter nights through the Blizzard.

Each little family survived the winter in a circular Wetu, built to represent the ‘circle of life’. Small villages of Wetus clustered together through bitter, snowy winters. Families also, waited through these storms with fear. Wetus survive hurricanes, and ‘Nor-Easters, even blown nearly flat by the winds. Missing their Father, low on food, low on firewood, they would await their Father’s homecoming. Here, after a bitter, dark night, the Father returns down the mountain through the snowy drifts. His family runs to meet him.