September 2022, UCC in Focus
Treaty Land Sharing Network links Indigenous land users with settler farmers
One of the Saskatchewan program's goals is to make it easier for Indigenous people to access land
Indigenous
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September 2022, Spirituality
In her new book, Anishinaabe author Patty Krawec explores how creation stories shape us
"Forcing us into a different creation story begins our disconnection from the land."
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September 2022, UCC in Focus
Day school survivors need access to United Church archives
The denomination needs to act quickly to digitize its archival holdings and make the information easy to attain
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September 2022, UCC in Focus
How the United Church got into the business of residential schools
"The churches were addicted to the funding and prestige of government support"
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Justice
Indigenous leaders call on Pope to repeal the Doctrine of Discovery
“The Pope and the Church remain silent on the most problematic tenets of its belief system,” writes Murray Sinclair
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Justice
As a residential school survivor, the Pope’s apology made me angry
Vivian Ketchum on taking apart the Pope's words to heal herself
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Ethical Living, September 2022
Inuit organization president on hearing the Pope’s 1st apology for residential schools
"Once you have a relationship with another person... it's much harder for them to ignore you," says Natan Obed
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UCC in Focus
Tseshaht First Nation leads search for unmarked graves at residential school site run by United Church
The elected council is in the early stages of discussion with the denomination
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July/August 2022, Spirituality
The Indigenous Ghost Dance is one of ‘renewal and restoration’
But one theologian says we shouldn't confuse a vision central to the Ghost Dance faith with western end-times imagery
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Justice
A year after the Kamloops news, Indigenous communities are still looking for buried children
But the results of ground-penetrating radar surveys are not the first step, nor the last, in the search for justice
