Indigenous community, descendants of settlers form a partnership in Minnesota
The Mennonite Heritage Center in Harleysville, Pa., welcomed the Lenape (Delaware) tribe of Bartlesville, Okla., on April 12. After a potluck supper with local Mennonites, Chief Brad KillsCrow, tribal elder John Thomas, and tribal historic preservation officer Susan Bachor presented their request: land to bury their ancestors.
Rainbow Mennonite Church in Kansas City, Kan., wanted to create something to acknowledge that the land it occupies originally belonged to Indigenous groups. It ended up with “An Acknowledgement of Life.”
Mennonite Church Canada has appointed Jonathan Neufeld as Indigenous relations coordinator to help regional churches in their relationship-building with Indigenous communities.
What? The pope does not know what the Doctrine of Discovery is?
My congregation, First Mennonite Church of San Francisco, has been learning about colonization and its continuing impacts since I founded the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Coalition in 2014 with Sarah Augustine and Anita Amstutz.
