Honoring the Land, Honoring the Story: A Conversation on Indigenous people and land, and the Episcopal Church
Please join us at 11:30 In the Parish Hall of St John’s in the Wilderness
A light lunch will be served. This event is open to the public.
As part of our celebration of 100 years in this building, we thought it would be appropriate for us to remember who was on this land before us. The Rev. Dr. Bradley S. Hauff who served as missioner for Indigenous Ministries on the presiding bishop’s staff and is a member of our congregation and an Oglala Sioux will talk to us about the history of the Indigenous peoples who have inhabited this land for thousands of years. He will help us consider history from an alternative perspective.
We are doing this in the month of October, when we have traditionally celebrated Columbus Day and how Europeans "discovered" this land. Since the 1980s, as Americans have come to terms with the painful events of our country’s past, there have been calls for the discontinuation of Columbus Day as a national holiday and the replacement of it with Native American Day or Indigenous Peoples Day.
There is a saying, "History is Written by the Victors". At this event we will learn about historical policies that you probably didn't learn about in school like the Doctrine of Discovery which had its origins in the Christian church. It is a narrative of European and Christian dominance that justified slavery, land theft, and genocide.
Because the church played a large role in injustices of the past, we feel that we have a Christian duty to try to learn about those injustices and do what we can to right them.
This event will be in person, and also streamed via Google Meet here:
Google Meet joining info
Video call link:
https://meet.google.com/nbk-yvab-xuc
Or dial: (US) +1 505-609-8967 PIN: 538 371 979#
