Walking in Two Worlds  by Eugenio Poma/Richard Lord After my term as bishop for the Evangelical Methodist Church in Bolivia, I was invited by the World Council of Churches to be a consultant on indigenous issues. Before I began my ecumenical work in Geneva, I thought the Aymaras ... (continue)
Native American Languages   A Gift from the Creator to Pass on, Breath to Breath by Mary Beth Coudal "They washed her mouth out with soap for speaking her own language. They thought it was a dirty language," Richard Grounds said of his grandmother, who, as a child was uprooted from her family, sent to boarding school, and ... (continue)
Among the Dumagat in Rizal  Center for Community Development by Angelita Broncano The Dumagat program of the Center for Community Development of Harris Memorial College is an attempt to reach out to the most disadvantaged communities in Rizal, an area below Laguna de Bay, southeast of Manila. The Dumagat ... (continue)
Roots: Strengthening the Role of Native American Churches  by Ray Buckley It seems an obvious statement: Native people are able to determine what is best for Native people. Through success and failure, ultimately, decisions are made within a Native context, defined by Native vision. We make the ... (continue)
Return to the Earth  by Lawrence Hart When Abraham, with his Chosen People, was traveling to the Promised Land, his wife Sarah died while they were in the land of the Hittites. Abraham sought to bury his wife and asked the Hittites if he could purchase a piece ... (continue)

Restoring the Faith  I recently watched an episode of the PBS series American Experience entitled "Minik, the Lost Eskimo." In a lifelong quest to reach the North Pole, Robert Peary, an American explorer, visited Greenland many times at the turn of the last century. On a trip in 1897, he brought back six Inughuit natives (the Inuit people of the Arctic regions) to New York so that the Museum of Natural History could study them. ...(continue)

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Racism: One Person’s Story of Liberation by George Baldwin Sharing the Gifts of God by Fran Lynch Justice the Indigenous Way - An Interview with Casimira Rodríguez Poster: Global Indigenous Organizations Visit to Methodist Churches in Kericho and Kisumu, Western Kenya by John Calhoun Indigenous People Meet Across Continental Divides by Darlene Jacobs and Gary Locklear Native American Music Shaped Through Struggles and Faith by Alvin Deer

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