Tag Archives: Native Americans
Dallas Chief Eagle–spirit led life
As I mentioned yesterday, there is a meeting tomorrow, 2/18/2018, 3:00 PM, at the Kuehn Conservation Area, to organize a Friends of Prairie Awakening-Prairie Awoke group. If you have an interest in native matters, I hope you will attend. Stand … Continue reading
Nexus of the Kheprw Institute, Indigenous Peoples and Quakers
The realization that we have to move away from capitalism for environmental and social justice reasons, indeed for our very survival has given me new perspectives on the significance of several different communities I’ve been blessed to work with over … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, climate change, Indigenous, Uncategorized
Tagged future, Native Americans, Prairie Awakening
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September Journey Day 3 – Prairie Awakening
Sunday, or First Day, September 10th, was the third day of this journey, and the original reason for it, to attend the Native American Prairie Awakening celebration. The day began with pre-meeting discussion of the relationship between the individual and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear Creek, Native Americans
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Bear Creek Query Discussion
As I wrote again recently, many Quaker meetings discuss queries as one way to explore our beliefs and practices together. I described Bear Creek meeting’s practice of inviting those who live at a distance from the meeting to participate by … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear Creek, Native Americans
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Circle
Seeing so much of life is broken, I was struck by the following from the book Black Elk Speaks: You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World … Continue reading
Emergence of a New Global Civilization
The following post is from the website, Walking the Red Road. “We Walk the Red Road by Doing Our Utmost To Follow the Sacred Teachings of Those Beloved Elders That Made the Red Road Visible By Walking it Before Us!” … Continue reading
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Tagged Indigenous, Native Americans, spiritual
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Trevor Noah on DAPL
So often humor is an extremely effective way to get people to listen about a subject they wouldn’t commonly pay attention to, and explain it in such a way that they will quickly but clearly understand. A brief video clip … Continue reading
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Tagged cars, environmental racism, Indigenous, Native Americans
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The Peacemaker
I’d like to share the story below from Tim Corcoran’s Facebook post. This is what I was trying to say yesterday. Things change when one becomes responsible for a situation. http://www.digitalwampum.org/the-peacemaker–the-tadadaho It’s the story of how a man – the Peacemaker … Continue reading
The Real Goal of #NoDAPL
Although this link is to an article that talks about being an effective ally while at Standing Rock, it makes some important general points, the main one being that the ultimate goal is not to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, … Continue reading
Move the Pipeline?
In a recent interview on Now This, President Obama said the Army Corp of Engineers is looking into rerouting the Dakota Access pipeline. “We’re monitoring this closely,” Obama said. “My view is that there is a way for us to … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 