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Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

Today, I simply want to direct your attention to some incredible resources to enhance your own learning about our history. I am just at the beginning of learning and understanding the scope and depth of this but want to at least share resources I’ve been made aware of so we can continue to learn together. Celebrate the good and lament and acknowledge the devastating history. Get ready to listen and learn. It’s the least we can do.

Who to Follow:

I learned of these fine humans and their work via twitter and the Justice Conference:

• Kaitlin Curtice
• Siouxsan Robinson
• Mark Charles, Wireless Hogan

Kaitlin Curtice has a book of prayer/meditations called Glory Happening that I’m eager to read soon. I regularly enjoy her writing, articles, and tweets and learn a lot just from those spaces, and look forward to getting her book.

I value Siouxsan’s insights and stories through her photos on Instagram.

Mark Charles has a forthcoming book that I’m looking forward to reading entitled, Truth Be Told about the Doctrine of Discovery , which he describes succinctly in this 7-minute video: and can be read in this blog post.

Follow them on Twitter:

• https://twitter.com/KaitlinCurtice
• https://twitter.com/wirelesshogan

Find them on Facebook:

• https://www.facebook.com/kaitlincurticewriter/
• https://www.facebook.com/MarkCharlesWirelesshogan/

Follow Siouxsan on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BVuve0Oh9ym/?taken-by=siouxsantheredroad

Indigenous Resources

from She Loves Magazine

http://shelovesmagazine.com/2018/indigenous-resources-subvert-columbus-day/

http://shelovesmagazine.com/2018/jesus-was-not-patriotic/

Idelette Vicker, who leads the community of SheLoves and authored the piece above, shares about and recommends learning about the land you live on, at the close of her piece. I’m just starting to do this myself:  https://native-land.ca/

Read and Buy books from Indigenous Authors

Kaitlin Curtice has compiled this incredible list of 25 books:

https://kaitlincurtice.com/2018/09/06/25-books-by-indigenous-authors-you-should-be-reading/

and she also wrote this piece:

https://relevantmagazine.com/article/christians-cant-just-ignore-indigenous-peoples/

This thread from Sarah Bessey today also includes a few book recommendations:

And a couple more posts for thought and reflection:

One final thought, while we’re on the subject please make sure that you’re not making someone’s culture your costume, especially Native culture. It’s not your costume. Do NOT appropriate other peoples’ culture. Culture is not your costume. Research. Do NOT fetishize or dehumanize or make others out to be superhuman. They are fellow humans. Who’ve had their land stolen and their people and ancestors killed.

Take the time to learn and do what you can. I hope this is a helpful starting place and encourage you to stay open and keep learning about our beautiful world, and lament all the awful, horrible, dehumanizing, evil that was done to our fellow man/woman-kind. We’ve got a long way to go, but it’s time to start somewhere. 

If you have any great resources to share, you’re more than welcome to comment.

And to put it succinctly, I’ll let Janet, the Good Place robot take it away to close this out.