DECOLONIZING FAITH:
- Buddhist – Buddhist Peace Fellowship “Liberation Requires Decolonization: A Buddhist Statement of Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Land Protectors” in 2020
New England Peace Pagoda “Listening to the Call of the Great Spirit” annual walks in 2016-2021)
https://newenglandpeacepagoda.org/listening-to-the-call-of-the-great-spirit/ - Catholic 2013 letter from 13 Catholic groups to Pope Francis http://www.sistersofmercy.org/files/documents/resources/Justice/PapalBulNRFinalforrelease112513-3.pdf
National Catholic Review article on efforts to repudiate doctrine
https://www.ncronline.org/news/justice/doctrine-discovery-scandal-plain-sight - Decolonizing Faith Project – part of Wabanaki/REACH Project, based in Maine
http://www.mainewabanakireach.org/decolonizing_faith_project
Maine-Wabanaki REACH – envisioning & preparing for a future where Maine & Wabanaki people join together, acknowledging truth, promoting healing & creating change: http://www.mainewabanakireach.org/ - Episcopal Statement on Indigenous Boarding Schools in 2021
- Lutheran ELCA Declaration to American Indian & Alaskan Native People in 2021
About the statement: https://elca.org/News-and-Events/8120 - Mennonite Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery https://dofdmenno.org/
This is a faith project of Anabaptists (Mennonites, Church of Brethren, etc.) - Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) https://www.decolonizingquakers.org/
New England Yearly Meeting of Friends: 2021 Apology to Native Americans
Right Relationship Resource Group (of Northeastern Quakers)
https://neym.org/right-relationship-indigenous-peoples-resources-engagement - United Church of Christ repudiated Doctrine of Discovery in 2013
https://www.ucc.org/justice_racism_doctrine-of-discovery - Unitarian Universalists repudiated Doctrine of Discovery in 2012
https://www.uua.org/racial-justice/dod - World Council of Churches repudiated Doctrine of Discovery in 2012
https://doctrineofdiscovery.org/assets/pdfs/wcc-document-021712.pdf
CULTURAL / EDUCATIONAL SITES:
- Indigenous Values Initiative – educational project rooted in Onondaga nation near Syracuse NY
https://indigenousvalues.org/ .
Organizer of “Mother Earth Pandemic: Doctrine of Discovery” courses https://doctrineofdiscovery.org/YouTube channel (includes individual segments from entire Mother Earth Pandemic)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_5IjjVpNv7iuIkBC7O-1hQ -
Tool kit on Land Acknowledgment, building relationships, allyship, reciprocity, respect
https://www.csusm.edu/cicsc/land.pdf -
Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project – working to reclaim the Wampanoag language https://www.wlrp.org/
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Ohketeau Cultural Center https://www.ohketeau.org/
New Indigenous program based in Ashfield MA https://www.facebook.com/OhketeauCulturalCenter/
Larry Spotted Crow Mann – Nipmuc author, educator & singer, Ohketeau co-founder www.whisperingbasket.com -
Nolumbeka Project – honoring the past, healing the present, celebrating the future
https://nolumbekaproject.org/ and https://www.facebook.com/nolumbekaproject
ACTION & NATIVE LAW SITES:
- Indian Law Resource Center https://indianlaw.org/
- MA Indigenous Legislative Agenda http://maindigenousagenda.org/
Change the MA State Flag https://changethemassflag.com/
Mt Toby Friends Meeting statement on changing MA flag
http://mounttobyfriends.org/public/statements/MAStateFlag.htm - Mashpee Wampanoag land theft by federal government in 2020:
Moveon.org petition to House https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/stand-with-the-mashpee
In the news: https://mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/the-news
NATIONS & TRIBES OF THE NORTHEAST: governmental sites:
- Elnu Abenaki Tribe Jamaica VT http://elnuabenakitribe.org
- Mashantucket (Western) Pequot Tribal Nation SE Connecticut https://www.mptn-nsn.gov
- Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe SE Massachusetts https://mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov
- Narragansett Tribe Charlestown RI http://narragansettindiannation.org
- Nipmuc Nation Grafton/Worcester MA https://www.nipmucnation.org
- Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe Shelburne VT https://abenakitribe.org
- Passamaquaddy at Sipayik Pleasant Point Tribal Government – Maine http://www.wabanaki.com/
HAUDENOSAUNEE CONFEDERACY: Six “Iroquois” nations based in upstate NY https://www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/who-we-are
- Cayuga Nation upstate NY http://cayuganation-nsn.gov/
- Mohawk Nation Akwesasne NY http://www.mohawknation.org
- Oneida Nation Oneida NY https://www.oneidaindiannation.com/
- Onondaga Nation near Syracuse NY https://www.onondaganation.org/aboutus/today
- Senaca Nation of Indians upstate NY https://sni.org/government/
- Tuscarora Nation Niagara County NY http://www.tuscaroras.com/jtwigle/pages/tuscarora-rez.shtm