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My Radical Hope
With so many significant and for the most part negative forces at work in the world now it has been difficult to remain focused on the ideas from Jonathan Lear’s book Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation … Continue reading
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Radical Hope 2020
Greetings as a new year begins! Powerful forces at work indicate a number of significant events and changes will occur this year. Most important will be increasingly severe and frequent environmental disasters, which will stress cultures globally. For decades industrial … Continue reading
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Plenty Coups and Radical Hope
I’ve been writing about “Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation” by Jonathan Lear. He looked for a culture that had experienced cultural collapse to see if that would give us some ideas for how to deal with our own … Continue reading
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Life and Death Struggles Continue Today
Today is the anniversary of one of many incidents of White people and soldiers attacking and killing Native men, women and children. This anniversary is of the Wounded Knee Massacre, December 29, 1890. In the late nineteenth century, Indian “Ghost … Continue reading
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Plenty Coups
Plenty Coups was the principal chief of the Mountain Crows of the Crow Nation and a visionary leader. He allied the Crow with the whites when the war for the West was being fought, because the Sioux and Cheyenne were … Continue reading
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Radical Hope Today
There have been a few times when praying and studying have crystallized a vision from what had been disconnected thoughts and ideas. I like the visual of “connecting the dots”. About forty years ago an image of my beloved Rocky … Continue reading
DAKOTA 38
The day after Christmas, Dec. 26, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln ordered the largest execution in United States history — the hanging of 38 Dakota (Sioux) men. The Dakota 38 Plus 2 Memorial Ride is a ride that honors the 38 … Continue reading
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Take Action – Protect Our Land – Paramount Network
Native American voices and perspectives are often missing when discussing issues that impact Native land. To fight this invisibility of Native peoples, Paramount Network and Yellowstone partnered with IllumiNative to share the story of the Fort Belknap Indian Community’s fight … Continue reading
Jason Eaglespeaker – free eBooks
I recently discovered a new resource, a graphics novel by Jason Eaglespeaker, UNeducation, Vol 1: A Residential School Graphic Novel (PG) where he describes Indian boarding school experiences. Jason and I had an email exchange last year related to a … Continue reading
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A Place to Call Home
For some time now I’ve been studying about the Indian boarding schools. This began as several of us prepared for Paula Palmer to be with us this past summer. Following is a letter to faith communities that explains the purpose … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 