Dec 1, 2019 | 2019, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Peoples, Number 4, October-November-December, Practical, Quaker-Specific, Volume 32
By Pamela Haines. I’VE LOVED THIS bit of land for over fifty years. Coming up over the hill, my heart always opens anew to the jewel of a valley spread out below, part of the rolling farmland and woodlots of central New York state. My father bought an old farm here in...
Dec 1, 2019 | 2019, BeFriending Creation, Friendly Landscapes, Indigenous Peoples, Number 4, October-November-December, Permaculture, Soil, Volume 32
By Tom Small. NAPANOH PEMECWAN—Menominee for “flows repeatedly.” In nature, there is no foreground or background, no hierarchy, only relations, patterns of change and repetition. Train yourself to see the repeated patterns, to understand, feel, and identify with the...
Aug 6, 2019 | 2019, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Peoples, July-August-September, Number 3, Skeptics, Uncategorized, Volume 32
By Emma Condori Mamani. My name is Emma Condori. I am from Bolivia. I was born near Lake Titicaca. Most of my childhood was very beautiful because I was raised in community life in one of the indigenous communities we have in Bolivia, called Aymara. One thing I really...
May 1, 2019 | 2019, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Indigenous Peoples, Meetings Taking Action, Number 2, Uncategorized, Volume 32
By Bonnie Peace Watkins AS THE TWIN CITIES Friends Meeting Fellowship Committee, we were excited about the Quaker Earthcare Witness Spring Steering Committee meeting here in mid-April. We have long felt that food and fellowship are vital parts of witnessing,...
Nov 6, 2018 | Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, Indigenous Peoples, Meetings Taking Action, Number 4, Practical, Quaker-Specific, Uncategorized, Volume 31
An Introduction By Jeff Kisling. Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) Friends Peter Clay and I recently walked on the First Nation-Farmer Climate Unity March. A group of about thirty that included nearly a dozen Native Americans walked 94 miles along the route of the...
Nov 6, 2018 | Activism, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, Fracking, Indigenous Peoples, Number 4, Uncategorized, Volume 31
By Daniel Kirkpatrick. THE THIRTY OF US STOOD in a quiet circle in the gravel on a sunny, cool morning. Wood smoke rose toward the sky from the adjacent lodge, and boreal forests surrounded the clearing. A First Nations elder, Lht’at’en, spoke in her Wet’suwet’en...
