Toward Right Relationship w/ Native Peoples

Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples

Facilitated by Jerilyn De Coteau (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) and Paula Palmer

Hosted by Naropa’s Nature-Based Transpersonal Counseling concentration of the MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Location: Nalanda campus—DOJO (9180)

This 2-hour workshop is in response to calls from Indigenous leaders at the United Nations and the World Council of Churches. Through an experiential exercise, we trace the historic and ongoing impacts of the Doctrine of Discovery, the 15th-century justification for European subjugation of non-Christian peoples. Our goal is to raise our level of knowledge and concern about these impacts, recognize them in ourselves and our institutions, and explore how we can begin to take actions toward right relationship. In the Doctrine of Discovery, we find the roots of injustice. In the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, we find the seeds of change. How can we nurture these seeds to bring forth the fruits of right relationship among Native and non-Native peoples?  For more information, visit https://friendspeaceteams.org/trr/

If you are interested in volunteering as a reader for this event, please email Jaime Duggan at jduggan@naropa.edu.  There will be a mandatory rehearsal on Friday, Sept 13.