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Water and Attaining Peace
One of the many benefits from participating on the First Nation-Farmer Climate Unity March was making friends with Native Americans as we walked together. My life experiences as a Quaker have taught me our lives can, and should, be guided … Continue reading
Urgent Message from Keeper of Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
For years now I’ve been writing about why a spiritual approach is required to address our evolving environmental disaster. As environmentalist Gus Speth says, “I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. … Continue reading
What can we do as America collapses?
Yesterday I wrote about the global threats America poses and shared the article America’s Next Civil War–The United States shows all the warning signs of impending social and political collapse by Stephen Marche, Illustration by Sebastien Thibault, Oct. 22, 2018. After that … Continue reading
Materialism
Fifty years ago Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, warned: “We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. . . . We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit … Continue reading
How you can connect with Congress about Native American Affairs
Native American affairs have been a focus of the work of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) for decades. This Quaker organization, based in Washington, D.C., works in many different ways to get legislation related to peace, justice and … Continue reading
Unknowing
I like this concept, Unknowing. I am glad a friend told me about Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation from the Center for Action and Contemplation. The following by Karen Armstrong appeared in contemplations about Unknowing. Our scientifically oriented knowledge seeks to … Continue reading
Indigenous Peoples Day
Reparations refers to correcting past wrongs. Some of the greatest wrongs committed by the United States include the enslavement of Black people, the genocide, broken treaties and land theft of Native Americans, the internment of Japanese Americans, the separation of … Continue reading
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Reflections on the First Nation-Farmer Climate Unity March
The First Nation-Farmer Climate Unity March involved a group of about thirty native and non-native people walking, eating, and camping together for 8 days. We walked 94 miles from Des Moines to Fort Dodge Iowa, along the route of the … Continue reading
Healing of the Mounds Ceremony
Healing of the Mounds Ceremony Saturday, October 6, 2—5 p.m. @ Kuehn Conservation Area Dallas County Conservation, DCCB, the State Office of Archaeology (OSA), and Iowa’s First Nations Peoples invite you to help us in healing the burial mounds at … Continue reading
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Final Day of the First Nation-Farmer Climate Unity March
Eighth day. September 8, 2018. Walk 12.4 miles from Otho to the end of the march at Fort Dodge, Iowa. It was cold when we awoke this morning at 6:00 a.m. and broke camp in the dark. I didn’t want … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 