Indigenous Ministries
Stand Alone with your Spirit
I have been a devotee of Brene Brown for almost two years now. I share with all leaders, the importance of being authentic and the strength in being vulnerable. It’s so important in all aspects of life, but especially for leaders. We are entrenched in world that is combative with leaders. People with pre-conceived ideas […]
Teaching Art & Culture in Oklahoma – Choctaw Rev. Jim Kee Rees
My name is Jim Kee-Rees, and I am the Native American Missioner for the Diocese of Oklahoma and Vicar of Whirlwind Mission of the Holy Family in Watonga, Oklahoma. Whirlwind Mission was founded by The Rev. David Pendleton Oakerhater, and is named after members of the Whirlwind family, that donated land for the first mission. […]
Reflecting on the work of the Indigenous Peoples at the WCC General Assembly
Meeting in Busan, South Korea, October 27-29, 2013 I was humbled and privileged to have been recommended and chosen to attend the World Council of Churches’ General Assembly, and in particular to be a part of the Indigenous Peoples’ pre-assembly work. My time with the Indigenous People colored and shaped my experience of the whole […]
General Convention Legislation
Indigenous Ministries
Doctrine of Discovery Lament at General Convention
By: Sarah Eagle Heart In 2009, the Episcopal Church became the first church to repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery with several churches following our lead, including the World Council of Churches in February 2012. In order to educate our church on resolution D035 “to Repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery,” this event brought stories of indigenous […]
Doctrine of Discovery Lament Offering 3: Being an Indian in the 21st Century
By: Terry Star Working With Youth My name is Terry Starr, and I’m a deacon serving in the Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota. My parents have always been involved with community activities for youth. My extended family includes the children and teens from the many communities we’ve lived in. Since high school, I, too, have […]
Doctrine of Discovery Lament Offering 2: Recognition of “Our” Places in the Story
By: Newland Smith My place in the story of this nation is clearly rooted in New England, an unambiguous Exhibit A of a Connecticut Yankee whose eighteenth-century forebear was Hezekiah Smith. Hezekiah Smith, who was born in Barrington, Rhode Island, in 1726, took up farming in Woodstock, Connecticut, and in 1764 moved to Colrain, Massachusetts, […]
Doctrine of Discovery Lament Offering 1: Acknowledge & Lament the Past and Present
By: Kathryn Rickert This presentation was given as the third of six offerings in a lament over the Doctrine of Discovery held on Tuesday, July 10, at the 77th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, in Indianapolis. As far as I know, the Episcopal Church is the first in history to publicly repudiate the Doctrine of […]
Doctrine of Discovery Lament Offering 5: A Transforming Reality, A New Type of Love
By: Eulogio Quito On behalf of the Central Diocese of the Episcopal Church of Ecuador and my indigenous brothers of the Andes, I greet you with brotherhood, peace, love, and blessings. The Aztec poet Chilan Balan described in the following passage what happened in our ABYA YALA as a result of the conquest: “They plucked […]
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