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Category Archives: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples
Decolonizing Quakers
I’ve been writing lately about a series of webinars titled “Working Toward Right Relationship with Indigenous Peoples.” Information about the webinar topics and registration for this series can be found at the end of this blog post. The series is … Continue reading
Quakers Seeking Right Relationship with Indigenous Peoples
It is difficult for any community to deal with things our ancestors did that we would consider to be wrong today. Many people believe our ancestors were doing the best they could under the circumstances at the time. Are we … Continue reading
Working towards right relationship with Indigenous Peoples
My intention in writing yesterday’s blog post, Urgency to Decolonize, was to bring attention to the concepts of decolonization. I don’t think many White people are very familiar with that topic. And below I include an excerpt from the article … Continue reading
Our history books conveniently left the truth out
My friend Foxy Onefeather recently posted this message and the photo/comments. Our history books conveniently left the truth out. It breaks my heart and this is why I find it important for me to show up to testify to extend … Continue reading
Black and Indigenous Lives Matter
It is a challenge to learn about a culture different from your own. This is especially true knowing it is really wrong to expect people who are oppressed to teach you about their struggles. For the past several years I’ve … Continue reading
SHIFT the Narrative
I recently wrote about the concept of narrative shift and how that idea is being used by my friend Christine Nobiss and her colleagues involved with SHIFT – Seeding the Hill with Indigenous Freethinkers, a project of Seeding Sovereignty. The … Continue reading
Pandemic and decolonization
This is another of those times, and there have been many, when I’m beginning a journey into something I want to know more about. That is, I’m likely to make some errors, but that is how I/we grow. The concept … Continue reading
Quaker Indian Residential/Boarding Schools
For the past five or six years I’ve searched for and found opportunities to be engaged with and learn from Indigenous peoples. This grew out of working together to bring attention to the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) in Indianapolis, beginning … Continue reading
We witness the damage to our lands for long enough
Climate change is real. Wake up people. Your children/grandchildren’s future depends on it. It seems Colonial states primary focus these days is to protect Industry and government interest. We have seen it over and over since the creation of RCMP. … Continue reading
The Guswenta: Two Row Wampum Belt
Quakers are my spiritual community. Lately I’ve been writing extensively about the Wet’suwet’en peoples in Canada. But I haven’t adequately explained why this is so important to me. And why I pray Friends (Quakers) will be led to learn about … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 