indigenous leaders

Kaitlin Curtice 5-08-2020

Relief workers prepare supplies at a farm, used as a base for aid to Navajo families quarantined in their homes due to the coronavirus disease in Hogback, Shiprock, N.M. April 7, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Hay

COVID-19 America has revealed how young it is — that we are a nation still struggling to grow up and figure out who we are. The daily news bears this out.

    Mark Charles 1-07-2013
    Courtesy Mark Charles

    Mark Charles in front of the U.S. Capitol Building. Courtesy Mark Charles.

    Reconciliation is never easy, which is why it doesn't happen very often. Reconciliation is not something that can be checked off of a list. It is not a single event encapsulated in a moment of time. Reconciliation begins with a conversation and ends with a relationship restored.

    It was the morning of Dec. 19, and I was standing in front of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C. I had reserved that space months in advance so I could host a public reading of H.R. 3326, the 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Act. I did this because page 45 of this 67-page document contained an "apology to native peoples of the United States." In three years this apology had not been announced, publicized, or read by either the White House or the 111th Congress.

    Bill McKibben 12-01-2011

    The real work has been done for years by indigenous leaders on both sides of the border.

    Jarrod McKenna 6-23-2010
    Sad news for so many of us in the peace and human rights movement this morning to hear our friend Waratah Rose Gillespie has passed away.