An Update on Healing Haunted Histories Work

An Update on Healing Haunted Histories Work

Last week we watched a zoom conversation with Deb Haaland (left), U.S. Secretary of the Interior, entitled “Telling the American Story on Our Public Lands” (see the recording of this hour-long program here). The first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary, Haaland is a member of Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico. Her comments outlined…

The Church Must Change its Thinking about Indigenous Peoples:  An Interview with Harry Lafond on what it means to be both Cree and Catholic.

The Church Must Change its Thinking about Indigenous Peoples:  An Interview with Harry Lafond on what it means to be both Cree and Catholic.

by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers Sojourners, August 2022, pp 32-37 In April [2022], Pope Francis made a long-awaited apology to a Canadian delegation of Inuit, First Nations, and Metis leaders at the Vatican for the “deplorable” violations children suffered at Catholic-run Indian Res­idential Schools for more than a cen­tury. The pope committed to come…

A Watershed Discipleship of Decolonization

A Watershed Discipleship of Decolonization

June 6th, 2021.Speaking to Westwood Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, Elaine Enns and Ched Myers wove together BCM’s two most recent book projects—Watershed Discipleship (2016) and Healing Haunted Histories (2021)—showing how the latter integrates the ecological paradigm shifts of the former into Indigenous justice.