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Category Archives: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples
A sorrow remembrance
As the eyes of the world are on the Wet’suwet’en people and their territory, we are reminded that three years ago today, on Feb. 22, 2017, North Dakota ordered the evacuation of the main #NoDAPL camp. Right now, there are … Continue reading
Wet’suwet’en: Six People Arrested at 39 KM and Media Exclusion Zone in Full Effect
TAKE TO THE STREETS! Solidarity Actions are being aggregated at this Facebook page: INTERNATIONAL MOBILIZATION EVENT PAGE GET ON THE PHONE! Call your friends, family and neighbours to let them know about the nearest demonstration or action and call the … Continue reading
Corporate Capitalism = 7th Generation Genocide
I don’t know if this will end by the forced removal of the land protectors of the Wet’suwet’en territory by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). We can hope and pray for restraint on the part of the RCMP. But … Continue reading
Allyship and Solidarity Guidelines
During the First Nation-Climate Unity March in 2018, we gathered together at the end of the day for discussions. The last evening of the March we sat around a bonfire where my friend Trisha CaxSep GuWiga Etringer led a very interesting … Continue reading
Solidarity
Yesterday I provided some background to explain how Bear Creek Friends (Quaker) meeting decided to write a letter to British Columbia Premier, John Horgan regarding the Wet’suwet’en peoples. Bear Creek Friends (Quaker) meetinghouse is in the Iowa countryside. Many members … Continue reading
Bear Creek Friends (Quaker) Meeting supports the Wet’suwet’en Peoples
Bear Creek Friends (Quaker) meetinghouse is in the Iowa countryside. Many members have been involved in agriculture and care about protecting Mother Earth. A number of Friends have various relationships with Indigenous peoples. Some Friends have worked to protect water … Continue reading
Facing the Past to Move Forward
Myself, I’ve got to get to a place where I can accept what Stalin did to people in the Siberian gulags, the scale of it. This, too, is us. This is what we do. That’s why I told my grandson … Continue reading
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
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings 2
Yesterday I wrote about the first step of what Joy Harjo outlines for conflict resolution in her book Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems. I wrote about that because she says the first step is to create conflict resolution ground … Continue reading
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings 1
I am the holy being of my mother’s prayer and my father’s song. —NORMAN PATRICK BROWN, DINEH POET AND SPEAKER Poet, writer and musician Joy Harjo has been named the country’s 23rd poet laureate. She is a member of the … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 