Effective ceremony must be cocreated by community, not appropriated.

Evidence

To have agency in the world, ceremonies should be reciprocal cocreations, organic in nature, in which the community creates ceremony and the ceremony creates communities. They should not be cultural appropriations from Native peoples. But generating new ceremony in today’s world is hard to do. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 917

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the criterion distinguishing legitimate ceremony from cultural appropriation, usable by the reader’s framework across all four courses.
• XREF: Connects to ch55 round-architecture teamwork claim and to the cross-course method of braiding without stealing. — connects to: Ceremony is a vehicle for belonging to family, people, and land — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 133