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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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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
Slow Down
I’ve written about one of my favorite performers and activists, Nahko Bear. The first time I’d heard of him was when we held a water protector rally outside the theater he was performing at in Indianapolis. His band members gave … Continue reading
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Tagged Nahko and Medicine for the People
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This Moment
I hope we might be at an inflection point today. The beauty and grandeur of natural landscapes have been desecrated time and again. Those who will go to any extreme to plunder the earth of coal, oil, minerals and even … Continue reading
Apache Stronghold
The sacred ancestral lands of Oak Flat in Arizona have rich deposits of copper. Legislation buried in the National Defense Authorization Act in 2015 allows Resolution Copper to begin mining that copper in 2020. In the video below Former Chairman … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 