Native American Heritage Month
The urgent need for a truth and healing commission on Indian boarding schools
By Bridget Moix — November 15, 2023
(RNS) — As a Quaker, I find it painful to face our history of participation in these schools. But we cannot live our faith with integrity if we do not.
Indigenous video game streamers advocate for representation and education
By Jessica Mundie — November 30, 2021
(RNS) — On video game streaming platforms, Indigenous gamers are sharing their unique cultures and spirituality with the intent to educate and empower other content creators.
Spotty data and media bias delay justice for missing and murdered Indigenous people
By Wendelin Hume — November 24, 2021
(The Conversation) — Thousands of cases of missing and murdered Native Americans remain unsolved. A scarcity of reliable data is only part of the problem, a tribal justice scholar explains.
Haaland announces effort to protect, improve access to Indigenous sacred sites
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 16, 2021
(RNS) — Controversies over the use of sacred sites have made headlines in recent years, beginning with action to halt the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in 2016.
Churches return land to Indigenous groups as part of #LandBack movement
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 26, 2020
KITCHENER, Ontario (RNS) — The returns come as some mainline Protestant Christian denominations have learned about and repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery, the justification for European Christians to seize lands already inhabited by Indigenous peoples.
Kaitlin Curtice talks about ‘everyday glory’ and her Native American heritage
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 22, 2017
(RNS) — The popular 29-year-old worship leader has just published her first book, 'Glory Happening: Finding the Divine in Everyday Places.'
Sioux anti-pipeline action sustained by Native American spirituality
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 24, 2016
STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. (RNS) From dawn to dusk, the activists and their supporters take part in prayer and ceremonies that were banned until only a few decades ago.
NEWS FEATURE: In New Museum of the American Indian, Spirituality Is the Subtext
By Adelle M. Banks — September 17, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Just as earth tones form an underlying decorative element in the new National Museum of the American Indian, spirituality is an undercurrent within the 254,000-square-foot edifice built on the National Mall. The top level of the imposing building of light brown limestone features a permanent exhibition that highlights […]
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