Nov 28, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Indigenous Peoples, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 35
Southeastern Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, meeting as Winter Interim Business Meeting, approves adding a line item to the budget for a recurring annual donation to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition of a minimum of...
Nov 28, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Indigenous Peoples, Meetings Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 35
The North Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends repudiates the Doctrines of Discovery: the religious basis for European colonization around the world. We acknowledge and regret Friends’ role in the ensuing genocide, land theft, and forced...
Nov 28, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Indigenous Peoples, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 35
by Allen McGrew. Convinced Friends may wonder why they should accept responsibility for the abuses of Quaker boarding schools that received native Americans over a century ago. If so, they might also ask whether they can claim the heritage of John Woolman, George Fox,...
May 27, 2022 | 2022, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, Number 2, Sustainability, Volume 35
By Yumi Teresa Radtke Kawano. Editor’s Note: Yumi invited the Quaker Earthcare Witness Steering Committee on a virtual tour of her home in April, and I had the opportunity for a longer tour and conversation a few weeks before. I invite you to imagine you are there...
Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, Action-Oriented, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Indigenous Peoples, Individuals Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 34
How do you ask a community to be the last to sacrifice their land to support the dying fossil fuel industry? by Shelley Tanenbaum. In September I had the privilege of spending about a week on the frontline at Red Lake Treaty Camp, a spiritual and ceremonial camp in...
Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Peoples, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 34
It Takes Roots is a multiracial, multicultural, intergenerational alliance of alliances representing over 200 organizations and affiliates in over 50 states, provinces, territories and Native lands on Turtle Island (known as North America). It is led by women, gender...
