Quakers are often referred to as Friends. LANDBACK Friends is in general about Quakers and their relationships with Native peoples.
“Fourth of He Lies”
NOTE: This is an edited re-posting from the year 2021. The events below occurred then, not today. There were similar events in other years. See: Monuments to White Supremacy July 4, 2020. Also from the Great Plains Action Society: Decapitating Colonialism: White Supremacist Statues, Monuments, & Symbolism by Alexandrea Flanders. I’ve come a long way from…
‘In the Name of God’
The first Washington Post article is an interactive presentation of their investigation into sexual abuse in Native American boarding schools. ‘In the Name of God’ by Sari Horwitz, Dana Hedgpeth, Emmanuel Martinez, Scott Higham and Salwan Georges, The Washington Post, May 29, 2024 The second is an interactive presentation of their investigation into the history…
Two decolonizing efforts
Emerging decolonial efforts are a welcome acknowledgement of the growing realization on the part of more settler-colonists of the incredible harms and injustices Indigenous peoples have experienced that have passed from generation to generation. That every Indigenous person suffers today. Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) is an arts/research collective that uses…
Homeland Return
Homeland Return Newsletter Today we officially launch our “Homeland Return” campaign, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to reestablish a landbase for the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe. The Tribe has a time-limited opportunity to purchase 232 acres located on a historic Nisenan Village site called Yulića near Nevada City. We urgently need you – our allies, our community -…
LANDBACK by Friends
[What follows is more information related to my latest post, Conscious act of land return to Indigenous peoples.] Yulića –the land also currently known as Woolman at Sierra Friends Center– is in the north-central Sierra Nevada of California, epicenter of the California Gold Rush and California Genocide. It has most recently been home of the former John Woolman School, Woolman…
Conscious act of land return to Indigenous peoples
Quaker Paula Palmer has been working on her ministry related to Friends and Indigenous Peoples for many years. You can find out about her work on the Friends Peace Teams site, Toward Right Relationship with Indigenous Peoples. https://friendspeaceteams.org/trr/ Indian Boarding Schools You can read her foundational article published by Friends Journal in 2016 here: Quaker…
LANDBACK and Quakers
As I was writing yesterday’s post, Palestine and LANDBACK, I realized it has been some time since I wrote about LANDBACK. And I’m reminded many Quakers are not well versed in this concept. The LANDBACK focus on the plight of Palestinians shows how this concept is increasingly being used globally by Indigenous peoples to regain…
An Epistle to Friends Regarding Community, Mutual Aid and LANDBACK
To protect all living-beings and sacred sites is a feminine act and in complete defiance to Christopher Columbus’ worldview, which is the narrative that we counter every time we celebrate Indigenous People’s Day instead of Columbus Day. –Sikowis Nobiss It has become clear to some of us who are called Friends that the colonial capitalist economic…
Indigenous People’s Day
Tomorrow, 10/9/2023, is Indigenous People’s Day in this country. My friend Sikowis Nobiss wrote about ReMatriate and Land Back. “For Indigenous Peoples Day, I would like for folks to better understand and appreciate this movement which has been working its way into the dominant public narrative over the past few years. As a hashtag or…
ReMatriate and Land Back
I remember the moment when I woke up in my tent for the first time in the Oceti Sakowin camp north of the Standing Rock Reservation during the fight to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016. Everywhere I looked Indigenous people were reclaiming space and power. We all felt a deep need to steward…
Landback Friends update
It’s been a while since I’ve written on this blog site, Landback Friends. That’s because I have been writing about Quakers and Mutual Aid, and Polycrisis. This is a review of the development of relationships among the Great Plains Action Society and Midwest Quakers in preparation for my next post which will be about the…
New Blog
Hello friends. I started a new blog Quakers and Religious Socialism as explained below.I will still write on this blog on things related to #LANDBACK. I first heard about Religious Socialism at the end of 2020, when my friend Fran Quigley wrote in response to the blog post I had written, The Evil of Capitalism. Fran…
The eyes of the future are looking back at us
There is a native concept of considering what the effects of decisions made today will be on seven generations into the future. The following quotation makes a two-way connection between us and future generations. Looking at each other over the generations. The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying…
Wet’suwet’en 1/11/2022
The last time I wrote about the Wet’suwet’en was January 2nd, RCMP Invasion expected on Wet’suwet’en territory. It’s not that the RCMP have left, but there has been a change in tactics. The threat continues. There’s no question that I am guilty of painting on the street because the reason is so important. Shawn Selway…
A matter of faith
There are two definitions of faith. complete trust or confidence in someone or something. strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof. I wasn’t familiar with the use of apprehension above. I found one definition is “understanding or grasp”. I spent a lot of time…
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