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TIP Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard: Many of world's rich view Indigenous Peoples "as expendable commodities”
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Northern Michigan University Indigenous 2008 Earth Day Summit
Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard: Indigenous Peoples, women and children “are all thought of as expendable commodities”
“We have lost any sense of the sacred.”
(Marquette, Michigan) - Many of the rich around the world view Indigenous Peoples, women and children as “expendable commodities,” said Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard during Northern Michigan University 2008 Indigenous Earth Day Summit.
Hubbard added he fears for the future of mankind and the planet because “we have lost any sense of the sacred.”
NMU Photo
Victor Steffensen performing on the didgeridoo at the Indigenous Earth Day Summit. The summit was a two-day event to gather and discuss ideas on how to obtain and share traditional ecological knowledge from Indigenous elders and put it in to practical use.
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The summit was held on Earth Day 2008 on the NMU campus in Marquette, Michigan near the shores of Lake Superior.
The two-day summit - the first of its kind at NMU - was April 22-23.
Photo by Ms. Aimée Cree Dunn, NMU Center for Native American Studies, Adjunct Instructor
The summit keynote was the Australian Aboriginal Delegation (Barry Hunter, John Hunter and Victor Steffensen). The delegation is bringing the Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways project to Native communities in Michigan.
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The other keynote presenter was Garry Morning Star Raven , a traditional Ojibwe teacher from Manitoba.
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Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard of Munising, Michigan was part of the Panel II discussion.
Rev. Hubbard said some Christians condemn Native American spirituality.
He said that amounts to spiritual terrorism.
“I think we have here two different forms of religion,” said Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard. “And it’s this religion of my ancestors that I participate in that I think really has been the problem.”
“I think we have to come to understand that religious consciousness evolves just like anything else does,” Hubbard said. “It's not just the material world that evolves but also our cultural world evolves and the realm of the concept evolves.”
Rev. Hubbard, who is pastor of Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising, Michigan, said Christians should wake up and begin listening to Earth-based cultures.
“We are going now, as a people - there was a time from prehistorical religions to historic religions - the religions of the book Judaism, Christianity, Islam - to this historic period,” Hubbard said. “Now I think that religious consciousness is transending to this transrational understanding of spirituality.”
Hubbard said that “as part of this transrational understanding of spirituality is an appropriation of this knowledge and spirituality of Earth-based cultures.”
“So its not going back, it's not criticizing buts it's learning from one another,” Hubbard said.
“It's very difficult because Euro-American people have had power for so long its subconscious to us,” Hubbard said.
“We don't even realize how imperialistic we are,” Hubbard said.
“It's very difficult for us to understand that - to get in contact with our own badness - because we have been projecting that on other people for so long it's very difficult for us but we have to do this now.”
Photo courtesy: johntrudell.com
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Rev. Hubbard, who co-founded the TIP, quoted ideas from well-known Native American author and activist John Trudell.
“I think we have to be open now to what John Trudell called ‘spirit making and escape.’ I love this idea. My spirit needs to make an escape from my religious consciousness.”
Hubbard said that “one of the ways my spirit has been greatly helped to make this escape from the techologic mining process that we all go through - is because of the grace of God.”
“I got to become friends with many people who extended friendship to me and taught me how to listen - taught me about myself and taught me these great learnings and teachings and wisdom that can come from our brothers and sisters - who still - despite their painful history at our hands that still goes on today.”
“The racial and cultural genocide that still goes on today inside this country - they taught me how to transcend myself and how to get to this other higher level of spiritual consciousness,” he said.
“And I am very grateful for that,” Hubbard said.
Responding to a question from the audience, Dr. Hubbard said some religions even resort to violence in proclaiming they are the superior religion.
“Judaism is an inherently ethical religion except you have to be a Canaanite,” Hubbard said.
“You may get your ass kicked or your head cut off but basically it's OK,” he said.
“But sky Gods and cultures that worship sky Gods are traditionally barbaric. Read the Old Testament. Wow! Talk about patriarchy.”
“But we are in a war,” Hubbard said. “It is not a war of my choosing but we are in a war.”
“I truly believe that it is a war for our hearts and our minds,” he said.
Answering a question from those gathered, Rev. Hubbard said even today it’s controversial to speak about the core beliefs of Jesus like poverty, social justice, and other issues.
Rev. Hubbard knows first hand the reaction that comes when you speak about the poor while criticizing some modern day entities that are part of creating a two-class system due to an incident at his church.
However, he encouraged those present to keep fighting for racial and environmental justice.
“We have to continually fight,” Hubbard said. “It's multi-generational.”
“We fight against great principalities and powers,” he said. “It's amazing.”
“If you stick your head up out of the foxhole just a little bit and you start speaking on behalf of the poor - those bullets are flying,” Hubbard said.
Hubbard said the incident start when “I said something about a corporation.”
“I said we created these corporations and political structures that aren't moral entities because if you are a moral entity you have to say things like: ‘I'm sorry. I made a mistake.' You have to admit your humanness.”
“When's the last time your heard a politician ever admit a mistake unless they were forced to? ‘I did not have sex with that woman - I did not inhale - yes I smoked but I did not inhale.’”
“I said some corporations are like this too - they are not moral entities because they cannot do these things like apologize,” Hubbard said.
“Well, good Lord that's attacking a sacred cow,” he said.
“There's a guy in my congregation who just went ballistic - who quit the church because he had spent his entire life benefitting from, working for, a non-moral entity,” he said.
“I did not say all corporations were liked this - I just said some corporations are like this,” Hubbard said. “Well that's all you have to say.”
“And you start talking to Euro-American people about the reality of Native American peoples - in my world,” Hubbard said with a look of exasperation while shaking his head and pointing to another audience member who had a question.
Rev. Hubbard said Americans - and all people who call Earth home - need to protect the environment.
He said we have lost the sense of the sacred - a lesson that can be learned from Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples.
“I understand this because I feel desperate,” Hubbard said. “What John Trudell was talking about is the same way - we've lost our way.”
Photo courtesy Public Broadcasting Corp. PBS.org
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“We do not have any spiritual sense because we have lost any sense of the sacred,” Hubbard said.
Photo of Mircea Eliade courtesy:
http://autori.humanitas.ro/eliade
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“A great historian of the religions Mircea Eliade who was at the University of Chicago where I for many years - I did his funeral,” Hubbard said.
“Mircea Eliade had this notion that in order to have a hierophany - an experience of the sacred - you have to have sacred space,” he said.
“If this Earth is not sacred to you - which it isn't to Mickey Mouse - then you can't have an experience of the sacred,” Hubbard said. “I deal with people every day in my congregation who have lost or are losing any sense of the sacred.”
“And it's not only - like you were saying this relationship between Earth and women - and the earth and man. If you do not have power in a capitalistic society - you become part of - and you are thought of in terms of the Earth.”
Concerned about the future of the human race, Dr. Hubbard said the rich look down on the poor.
He said humans should not be measured by wealth.
“Women who have less economic power, children who don't have any power at all unless somebody gives it to them - Indigenous communities - you are all thought of as expendable commodities.”
I’m Greg Peterson and you’re watching Turtle island TV
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Related links:
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Watch Rev. Hubbard’s entire presentation and others on Panel II: Indigenous Earth Values and Philosophies
http://mediasite.nmu.edu/NMUMediasite/Viewer/Viewers/ViewerVideoOnly.aspx?mode=Default&peid=3826bb5a-34eb-4e80-810e-c0399158caa3&playerType=WM7&mode=Default&shouldResize=true&pid=d4934bee-4708-4bd7-a12a-aeb55bb75dfc&playerType=WM7
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All Summitt presentations:
http://mediasite.nmu.edu/NMUMediasite/Catalog/?cid=f8f4eb58b2d64f849144ef026e7088bb
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Center for Native American Studies
Northern Michigan University
112F Whitman Hall
Marquette, MI
49855
Ms. April Lindala
Center for Native American Studies, Director
Indigenous Earth Day Summit Project Director
906-227-1397
Ms. Aimée Cree Dunn
Center for Native American Studies, Adjunct Instructor
Indigenous Earth Day Summit Project Coordinator
906-227-1397
NMU Center for Native American Studies homepage:
www.nmu.edu/nativeamericans
2008 Indigenous Earth Day Summit page:
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/Calendar/IndigEarthDaySummit.shtml
Office:
906-227-1397
Fax:
906-227-1396
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NMU Environmental Science Program (summit co-sponsor)
http://webb.nmu.edu/Departments/Geography/index.shtml
Dr. Ron Sundell
Environmental Science Program, Director
906-227-1359
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NMU Office of International Affairs (co-sponsor)
http://www.nmu.edu/iao/
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Summary of Turtle Island Project websites:
TIP Main website:
http://www.turtleislandproject.org
Other TIP News Sites:
http://groups.msn.com/WhisperingTurtle
Turtle Island TV - Video sites:
(blipTV)
http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv/
(youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse
(myspace)
http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject
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Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways project:
http://www.tkrp.com.au
NMU media meet interview with TKRP delegation by host Sonya Chrisman:
http://tkrp.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=114&Itemid=107
TKRP as hosted by Balkanu:
http://www.balkanu.com.au
Traditional Knowledge Recording Project:
http://tkrp.com.au
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Turtle Island Project:
http://www.turtleislandproject.org
http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv
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Three Fires Council Genealogy
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~minatam
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Native American author and activist John Trudell:
http://www.johntrudell.com/
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A203
John Trudell Photos:
http://www.johntrudell.com
http://www.pbs.org
http://www.visionmaker.org
http://www.nativetelecom.org/images/trudellsit.jpg
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Religions historian Mircea Eliade:
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761582232/Mircea_Eliade.html
Photos of Mircea Eliade from:
http://autori.humanitas.ro/index.php
http://autori.humanitas.ro/eliade/
http://www.viajechamanico.com
http://www.perennial.org
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Hierophany: "an experience of the sacred" - The Sacred and the Profane:
"The Sacred and Profane" by Mircea Eliade
http://www.amazon.ca/Sacred-Profane-Mircea-Eliade/dp/015679201X
A Synopsis of Eliade's The Sacred and the Profane
http://www.csun.edu/~rcummings/sacred.html
Hierophany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierophany
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Corporations Moral? Christian handbook:
http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=570372&kw=570372&event=PPCSRC&p=1010575
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Canaanite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanites_%28Movement%29
Judiasm:
http://www.judaism.com
http://judaism.about.com/library/3_askrabbi_o/bl_simmons_warviolence.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiasm
Here is additional information on summit presenters and the keynote delegation:
Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways (TKRP) project:
TKRP recently established a branch in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and, following on invitations extended to them from Indigenous communities, plans to expand TRKP to Turtle Island and Saamiland in an effort to unite Indigenous efforts at cultural and ecological restoration under an international Indigenous umbrella
Barry Hunter is a Indigenous Land Management Facilitator from TKRP hosted by Balkanu (http://www.balkanu.com.au/) and funded by the Australian Government’s Natural Heritage Trust. He has a B.A.S in Parks, Recreation and Heritage as well as a range of experience in land and sea management. His specialties include Aboriginal hunting and fishing rights particularly as they relate to turtle and dugong conservation and illegal commercial fishing issues.
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John Hunter is a TKRP Indigenous Land Management Facilitator for southern Queenslanda Ph.D. research scholar through Macquarie University and a professional artist. He has taught at the University of Western Sydney, Macquarie University and, currently, at the University of Queensland as both a permanent and part-time faculty member. He has various degrees including an Associate’s in Park Management; a B.A.S. in Parks, Recreation and Heritage; and a Master’s of Indigenous Studies in Research. His current Ph.D. work is focused on developing a Gamilaraay TKRP and Indigenous capacity building project. In addition, he plays the didgeridoo and will be bringing along an art exhibit and a display on the Stolen Generations.
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Victor Steffenson has a varied background on numerous issues such as methods of traditional knowledge recovery, application of traditional ecological knowledge in natural resource management, aboriginal history, the synergies between science and traditional Indigenous knowledge, Aboriginal culture and spirituality, and a range of contemporary Aboriginal issues
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The Turtle Island Project:
Turtle Island Project founders are concerned about the environment, global warming, climate change and species extinction and its effect on Indigenous peoples because over the past 500 years humans have killed off nearly 1,000 species.
TIP founders believes that species extinction and global warming are among the measures that demonstrate the dire future for Earth and humans if we don't change our attitudes.
Tip points out that nearly 15,600 species are threatened with extinction, according to several 2007 United Nations reports.
The U.N. reports state that almost one-third of the world's species of animals and plants are expected to be at risk of extinction within 50 years due to climate change.
During the interfaith retreat for religious leaders in late 2007, TIP director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard said it's the responsibility of clergy to speak out on social issues like the abuse of the environment and racism.
Turtle Island Project founders say Euro-Americans can learn a lot from Earth-based cultures like the Celts and Native Americans.
TIP co-founder rev. Dr. George Cairns of Chesterton, Indiana said the human race and the planet (therefore its wildlife) are facing a “Kyros Moment” that demands a change in the basic way humans view and treat the planet and its natural inhabitants.
Kyros is a Greek word for “occasion' or timing.”
Kyros is the art of seizing the moment - a combination of understood context and proper timing.
Additional bio info on Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard:
Lynn Hubbard, M.DIV. D.MIN., is founder and director of the Turtle Island Project (TIP) in Munising, Michigan.
He is currently the minister of Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising.
In addition to graduating from Valparaiso University and holding advanced degrees from the Lutheran School of Theology and Chicago Theological Seminary, Lynn has studied at the Pedagogishe Hochschule in Reutlingen, German, the Religious Studies Department at the University of Indiana, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.
For many years he worked as the Associate Dean of Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago.
He has had extensive experience in both the interfaith and ecumenical communities, and served as the Director of Development for the Parliament of World’s Religious.
Most recently, in working in his capacity as spiritual director for Juvenile sex offenders, he has given national and international conference presentations on “Creating Ritual Process for Juvenile Sex Offenders from a Cross Cultural Perspective.”
Northern Michigan Turtle Island Project: Native American honor of nature is example for Christians
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Turtle Island Project fights religious intolerance, racism, and other social issues that threaten the future of mankind
First Nations peoples asked to submit topics for Native American roundtables
(Munising, Michigan) - Exploitation of the earth, spiritual terrorism, religious imperialism, and racism are some of the modern day injustices that two pastors will battle with a new Michigan project that promotes respect for Native American culture and the environment.
Turtle Island Project volunteer media advisor Gregf Peterson looks at the missions and goals of the northern Michigan non-profit.
Time: 9:30
Two Midwest pastors have started a national debate on a wide variety of social issues that they believe threaten the future of society and the planet.
"The Turtle Island project will combat what I call spiritual terrorism," said project found Rev. Lynn Hubbard of Munising, MI.
"There is a lot of spiritual intolerance of other people's religions - whether that's the indigenous Native American religions here in the United States or Islam or Judaism or what have you," said Rev. Hubbard., pastor of the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church along Lake Superior in Munising.
"Anybody can take that attitude towards life - it's my way or the highway - my religion is right - your religion is wrong - and it's that sort of spiritual terrorism that is destroying the world in which we live in," Rev. Hubbard said.
Rev. George Cairns, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, said a "change in religious consciousness is necessary."
"I am deeply concerned that much of humankind and the Earth as we know it will be gone by the end of this century," said Dr. Cairns, a professor of Practical Theology and Spirituality at Chicago Theological Seminary.
"We are in a time now when dramatic changes are happening on this planet and it is a critical time for people of faith - religious people - to act now," said Rev. Cairns, chairman of the Turtle Island Project.
The Turtle Island Project (TIP) will address a wide range of Native American issues including white influence on American Indian heritage and values, said Rev. Hubbard,
The TIP got its name from Natives Americans who first called the North American continent "Turtle Island."
The TIP will hold biannual national and regional conferences and local seminars to discuss environment and American Indian issues. The meetings will be held this fall and next spring and are called the Grand Island Conference and Retreat Program.
Rev. Cairns said it's important to reverse the negative impact man has had on the environment by learning from earth-based religions "and part of that process is to deeply engage our Native American - our First Nations friends - as our teachers."
Each regional conference will be preceded by Native American roundtables, the agendas being determined solely by American Indians who contact the TIP.
"One of the consequences of racism against First Nations people has been the silencing of their voices and the eagerness of Euro-Americans to speak for them - robbing them of their own freedom of speech - that we value so much," Rev. Hubbard said.
"As a result much of the Native American experience has been filtered through the lenses of a foreign culture that - not only doesn't have the right to speak for them but also lacks the ability to speak to the most fundamental realities of native experience."
Dr. Cairns said "many American Indians are still living in oppressive conditions - and having their voices freed can only happen - if they direct the conversation themselves."
"Americans Indians absolutely must have the lead in the kind of discussions they would like to enter into," said Cairns, who taught has taught "centering prayer" for over two decades including at a Native American cultural center and a maximum security prison.
TIP conferences will provide venues for listening to the voices of Native American peoples." Rev. Hubbard said. "It is our belief that the dialogue can contribute to the betterment of both communities and is a conversation that is long overdue."
Rev. Cairns agreed.
"We think that the conversations with native peoples about their relationship to the Earth will help us reconnect with our much earlier roots of consciousness of nature that were part of Euro-western traditions in the past but now have largely been marginalized or even lost," Cairns said.
Rev. Cairns said he hopes the TIP inspires Americans to rediscover "very early dimensions of Earth spirituality that have been integrated into Christianity but later have been lost."
"We started to distance our self from the earth as early as the late Paleolithic times - when we moved from hunter gatherers and later became industrialized and increasingly turned nature into an object for us to consume rather than a subject for us to relate to," Rev. Cairns said. "We are not trying to turn back the clock to the Stone Age - but a change in consciousness must begin if our planet and we are to survive."
The first regional conference is (Thursday-Saturday) September 13-15, 2007 at the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising. The hours are 7-10 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday.
The Native American roundtable opens the conference on Thursday, followed by two days of presentations and debate by Rev. Dr. George Cairn, a professor at Chicago Theological Seminary. Dr. Cairn will discuss Celtic and Native American spirituality, and post-modern science.
Rev. Cairns said the Celtic people who lived in Ireland and Scotland integrated earlier beliefs into an Earth-based Christianity and "understood God to be a present in all creation."
"The Celts believed God to be constantly recreating the world and they had an intimate relationship with nature," said Rev. Cairns, who lives in Chesterton, Indiana.
While studying for his doctorate in South Dakota, Rev. Hubbard became friends with Lakota people on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Indian reservations, the latter was the scene of the infamous Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, which claimed the lives of many innocent Lakota women and children.
Both reservations are beset by extreme poverty, teen suicide, high infant mortality and other social problems.
The TIP organized the successful August 12, 2007 benefit concert for America's oldest/first American Indian battered women's shelter in Mission, SD that has served the Lakota Rosebud Reservation for nearly 30 years.
Two Upper Peninsula folk groups, White Water and Duo Borealis, held the free concert for the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society at the Custer Lutheran Church in Custer S.D. The WBCWS battles domestic violence, teen suicide and sexual assault.
Figures from the Rosebud reservation alone are shocking: 21 rapes in the past 18 months; over 600 attempted teen suicides and 15 deaths during the past two years - most teenage boys.- triggered a recent "state of emergency" declared by tribal officials
Poverty, depression, a lack of jobs, drugs, alcohol and other social problems are among the reasons behind Rosebud teen suicides.
The concert was one of the first non-political events to ever bring racial healing between whites and Native Americans in Custer - where racism by some whites is generations old, said Dave Melmer, a reporter for the national Indian Country Today newspaper who lives in Custer.
Melmer said the concert was "a courageous effort" and a "big small step in improving race relations."
The TIP hopes to create a profound change in environmental thinking, Rev. Hubbard said.
The planet is facing an environmental crisis that must be repaired or humans will "bring about our own destruction because of the abuse of nature," Dr. Hubbard said.
One of the pillars of the TIP is the creation of a new North American Theology that the pastors hope will encourage religious tolerance and a new respect for nature.
"We are concerned that our current individual and systemic western consciousness is disembodied and ill," Rev. Cairns said. "We have distanced ourselves more and more from nature - nature has become much more of an ‘it' rather than a ‘thou' - it's an object rather than a subject - this is increasingly being sped up by the modern technological world."
Rev. Hubbard said Christians can learn from other religions.
"Christians have been so empowered for so long their religious imperialism is subconscious," Rev. Hubbard said. "To enter into authentic spiritual with other cultures is to become aware of your own limitations."
"Today, in America, God's children have different skin, colors, genders, languages, sexual orientations and theological ideas," Rev. Hubbard said.
"Those who have had power and control over the church must now scoot over and make room for them in our pews - and maybe, heaven forbid, actually listen to what they have to say, listen to their voices," Rev. Hubbard told a recent gathering of religion writers and scholars in Ann Arbor. MI.
God has been revealed to all religions and Christians need to "learn that spiritual wisdom is not the sole possession of any one people," Hubbard said. "Wisdom is the recognition of multi-cultural and dialogical nature of the truth - in dialogue with one another we achieve spiritual truth."
Christians should "open our ears and hearts to their testimony, and to the witness of the Love of God in their lives, not just ours," Rev. Hubbard said. "It is the opening of the heart and mind to the genius and insights of others."
During recent elections conservative Catholics and Protestants made "strange bedfellows" as they voted against homosexuality, abortion and showed "their intolerance of other people's religions," Rev. Hubbard said.
Christians who have "benefitted from the power structures of the church have defined what the gospel is to everyone," Rev. Hubbard said. "We have defined that through our own Euro-American vision of who we are, who God is, and our relationship with nature - at the exclusion of everyone else - period."
Americans, he said, "stand at the brink of a communications revolution and a fundamental spiritual transformation."
Dr. Cairns said it has "been clear to me for many years that contemporary Christianity is disembodied Christianity - because its been really shaped by culture - more than the institution has shaped culture."
Late Native American activist and author Vine Deloria Jr reminded "the Euro-American community that they have yet to listen to what Native Americans have to say either in terms of the environment or their own struggles as a people, Rev. Hubbard said.
"Native American spirituality is based upon spatial understandings of God while Christianity is based upon temporal understandings of God.
"Spatial metaphors for God have to do with the revelation of the divine life in a particular place - this mountain - at this stream - at this time," Rev. Hubbard said. "While the temporal metaphors for God has to do with the idea of time - that ‘once upon a time there was a great revelation of God' some 2,000 years ago for the Christian religion - and since that time - there have been no new revelations."
Dr. Cairns said "that place is extremely important in Celtic tradition.".
"There is a sacredness to particular places - people relate to them deeply - we have lost much of that in contemporary American culture and we have lost much of that in our religious institutions," Cairns said. "Almost any place can be sacred to an individual depending on who they are and where they are on life's journey."
"One of the places I have found sacred is on the streets of a bad inner city neighborhood talking with homeless folks," Cairns said. "The conversations we've had are very profound - there was an openness and a kind of reciprocal learning that took place in those conversations that I think was sacred."
Rev. Hubbard said the earth was not created to serve man.
"The creation myths of the Hebrew peoples - the very origins of Christianity - was this understanding that human beings are a special creation and that this Earth was created for them," Rev. Hubbard said. "And that's quite a different understanding than what many Native American peoples have."
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Related websites:
Turtle Island Project main website:
http://www.turtleislandproject.org
Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv/
Turtle Island TV (youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse
Turtle Island (myspace)
http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject
Turtle Island Project websites/Blogs:
http://groups.msn.com/WhisperingTurtle
http://turtleislandproject.wordpress.com/
email:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net
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Rosebud Tribe official website:
http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/
1973 Wounded Knee Incident & the earlier 1890 massacre of 146 Indians by government troops:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Incident
http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Incident
Pine Ridge Reservation Info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Ridge_Reservation
Pine Ridge shocking photos:
http://www.aaronhuey.com/
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Turtle Island Project: Fall 2007 - Spring 2008 Schedule:
Grand Island Conference and Retreat Program
The Grand Island Conference and Retreat Program seeks to develop new theological resources and spiritual practices that reflect the place we inhabit, the continent of North America called "Turtle Island" by indigenous communities. It is our hope that these resources and practices will help imagine a new North American Theology with the assistance of First Nations peoples.
We seek to encourage mutual understanding and respect between these communities in order to address issues of health and healing, religion and science, practical theology and environmental issues. We shall accomplish this task by sponsoring regional and national conferences, local seminars, and regional retreats centering on these concerns.
This booklet lists the events sponsored by the Grand Island Conference and Retreat Program for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan during the upcoming year. It is our hope that these events will not only stimulate conversations on the issues, but also help to build ecumenical and interfaith communities.
Seminars will be held at Upfront and Company, 102 East Main Street, Marquette, Michigan.
All conferences, retreats and Native American roundtables will be held at Eden on the Bay, Lutheran Church, 1150 M-28 West, Munising, Michigan.
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard
Director, Turtle Island Project
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About the Conferences
Grand Island is one of the most beautiful and largest islands in Lake Superior. Inhabited for generations by the Ojibwa peoples, it is today the Grand Island National Recreation Area with a wilderness character.
In keeping with such a tranquil and beautiful place, Grand Island Conferences are planned so that all participants will have the opportunity to experience its beauty and power.
The conferences are unique in that they are planned to not only stimulate the intellect, but also provide the aesthetic and spiritual understandings usually associated with a retreat setting.
We will not only be participating in stimulating theological conversations on topics of great importance, but we shall also partake of the beauty of the lake, the island, and the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
We will be taking boat cruises along Lake Superior, hiking in the park and listening to lectures on the parks natural and cultural history.
All of this will take place in and around the community of Munising, Michigan, one of the most beautiful natural settings on Lake Superior.
All Seminars will be held at Upfront and Company, 102 E. Main St, Marquette, Michigan
Conferences and Retreats will be held at Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church, 1150 M-28 West, Munising, MI.
For complete information on the events, please visit our website: turtleislandproject.org
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*** A Native American roundtable will be held at 7 pm (ET) on the Thursday prior to each regional conference - and at others times TBA.
The agenda of the roundtables will be set completely by First Nations peoples.
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Regional Conference - Fall 2007
Ecology Series
September 13-15, 2007
Celtic Spirituality, Ecology, and Participative Consciousness
Recreating an Ancient Wisdom Tradition of Relationship
Rev. Dr. George Cairn
Chicago Theological Seminary
Thursday, Sept 13 (Native American Roundtable)
7 - 10 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 14
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 15
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
At this conference, we will examine the integration of Paleolithic Consciousness, Celtic Spirituality, Contemporary Spirituality, and Psychology.
We will be examining ideas and meditating in ways that lead to experiencing the world as not separate from ourselves—no inside, no outside, all in relationship.
We will be reading a selection of works by Calvin Luther Martin, J. Phillip Newell, and Gregory Bateson.
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Native American Theology -- Seminar Series
In the Spirit of the Earth - Ecology and Liberation
Tuesdays - November 6, November 13, November 20, and November 27
7 - 10 p.m.
A seminar examining the ecological crisis and the contribution of Native American theology toward a solution.
In this seminar, we will be reading a selection of works from Leonardo Boff, Vine Deloria, Jr., George Tinker and Steve Charleston.
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Regional Ecumenical Retreat - Fall 2007
Quest for Harmony: The Contemplation of Nature in the Christian tradition
Friday, November 9
9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
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Local Seminar Offerings - Fall 2007
Health and Healing -- Evening Discussion Series
Tuesdays - October 23 and October 30
7 - 10 p.m.
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
Two evenings of exploration into the works of Dr. Robert Moore, Jungian Analyst, and one of the founders of the men's movement in the United States.
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Local Seminar Offerings - Winter 2007 - 2008
Religion and Science -- Evening Discussion Series
Tuesday, December 4
7 - 10 p.m.
Life is a Miracle: Reflections on the Work of Wendell Berry
An evening of conversation on the poet and author who has proven time and again a writer of brilliant moral imagination.
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Religion and Science -- Seminar Series
In the Absence of the Sacred: Science as Myth and Religion
Tuesdays - March 4, March 11, March 18, March 25
7 - 10 p.m.
A seminar on the current state of the relationship between science and religion.
In this seminar, we will read selected works from Ian G. Barbour, Wendell Berry, Joseph Campbell, David Leeming, and Ursula Goodenough.
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An Ecumenical Retreat - Spring 2008
The Pipe and Christ: Native American Spiritualities and Christianity
Friday, March 28
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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Local Seminar Offerings - Spring 2008
Health and Healing - Evening Discussion Series
Tuesday, April 22
7 - 10 p.m.
The Healing Circle: Spirituality and Sexual Healing - The Role of Spirituality in the Therapeutic Process.
An evening of reflection on the role of ritual process in the healing of juvenile sex offenders.
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Religion and Science - Seminar Series
The Flight of the Wild Gander
Tuesdays - May 20, May 27, June 3, June 10
7 - 10 p.m.
A Series of Conversations on the Nature of Mytho-Poetic Language, Fundamentalism, and the Decline of Christianity.
We will be reading selected works from Mircea Eliade, Joseph Campbell, David Leeming, Calvin Luther Martin.
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Regional Conference - Spring 2008
Religion and Science Series:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
May 29 - 31, 2008
The Sacred Depths of Nature - The Politics of Religion and Science
Dr. Richard Busse
Indiana University Northwest
Thursday, May 29 (Native American Roundtable)
7 - 10 p.m.
Friday, May 30
10 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Saturday, May 31
10 a.m.- 2 p.m.
Models for interpreting the relationship between religion and science will be discussed by reviewing the history of First Amendment science/religion litigation and by discussing the theological impact of these decisions, all for the purpose of gaining insight into the interplay of religion, culture, and politics.
Background Text: Edward Larson's "Summer for the Gods: The Scope's Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion."
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National Conference - Summer 2008
Native American Theology Series
Place and Time of Conference to be announced
A conference on the premiere Native American Theologian of our times, George E. "Tink" Tinker. Mr. Tinker is Professor of Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at Iliff Theological Seminary in Denver, Colorado and is an enrolled member of the Osage Nation. Among his many publications are Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide (Fortress Press, 1993) and Native American Theology (co-authored, 2001).
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For More Information
Turtle Island Project
P.O. Box 360
Munising, Michigan
46982
Email:
Whitehorse006@aol.com
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Seminars will be held at Upfront and Company, 102 East Main Street, Marquette, Michigan.
All conferences, retreats and Native American roundtables will be held at Eden on the Bay, Lutheran Church, 1150 M-28 West, Munising, Michigan.
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Bios:
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard, M.Div., D.Min.
Rev. Hubbard is founder/director of the Turtle Island Project in Munising, MI
He is the pastor at Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising
In addition to graduating from Valparaiso University and holding advanced degrees from the Lutheran School of Theology and Chicago Theological Seminary, Lynn has studied at the Pedagogishe Hochschule in Reutlingen, German, the Religious Studies Department at the University of Indiana, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. For many years he worked as the Associate Dean of Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago.
He has served a number of churches throughout the Chicago area, and lived on the island of St. Croix, in the Virgin Islands, pastoring two Afro-Caribbean Lutheran congregations. He has had extensive experience in both the inter faith and ecumenical communities, and served as the Director of Development for the Parliament of World's Religious.
Most recently, in working in his capacity as spiritual director for Juvenile sex offenders, he has given national and international conference presentations on "Creating Ritual Process for Juvenile Sex Offenders from a Cross Cultural Perspective".
He is currently the minister of Eden on the Bay, Lutheran Church in Munising Michigan. He travels regularly to the Lakota Sioux reservations in South Dakota, where he helps prepare graduate theological students in cross-cultural ministerial training. He has been honored by members of the Sicangu tribe of the Lakota people in being asked to serve as a fire keeper for their Sundance ceremonies.
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George F. Cairns, M.Div., Ph.D.
Rev. Cairns is chairman of the board of the Turtle Island Project in Munising, MI
George is a semi-retired minister, professor of practical and spiritual theology at Chicago Theological Seminary, and is a clinical psychologist. George helped found the Parliament of the World's religions and with Wayne Teasdale wrote/edited a book about this process.
His current work concerns Celtic spirituality, centering prayer, and their integration into a theology of practical action for healing, justice, and peace.
He has practiced and taught Centering Prayer since 1986. He has taught centering prayer in several unusual settings including a Native American cultural center and a maximum security prison. He has published papers on this work.
George and his wife Nancy have taught an early and little known Christian practice known as "jubilation." This form of sung praise produces a whole chord of sound by an individual. When practiced in community, sounds appear which no one is making.
He is a former member of the Forge Guild, an international group which encourages spiritual teachers from different religious traditions to explore one another's practices and Spiritual Directors International. He and Nancy are associates/members of two covenantal Christian communities: The Iona Community based in Scotland, and; the Shalom Community based in Chicago.
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Turtle Island Project founder/Director:
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard
Eden on the Bay Evangelical Lutheran Church
PO Box 360
1150 M-28
West Munising, MI.
49862
wk: 906-387-2520
cell: 906.202.0590
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personal email:
Whitehorse006@aol.com
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Rev. Dr. George Cairns, TIP board chairman
1-219-3959347
Professor of Practical Theology and Spirituality at Chicago Theological Seminary
lives in Chesterton, Indiana
ordained minister in the United Church of Christ
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fyi - The first regional conference is (Thursday-Saturday) September 13-15, 2007 at the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising. The hours are 7-10 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday.
The Native American roundtable opens the conference on Thursday, followed by two days of presentations and debate by Rev. Dr. George Cairn, a professor at Chicago Theological Seminary. Dr. Cairn will discuss Celtic and Native American spirituality, and post-modern science.
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Summary of Turtle Island Project & TV sites:
Turtle Island Project main website:
http://www.turtleislandproject.org
Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv/
Turtle Island TV (youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse
Turtle Island (myspace)
http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject
Turtle Island Project websites/Blogs:
http://groups.msn.com/WhisperingTurtle
http://turtleislandproject.wordpress.com/
email:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net
For more information contact the Turtle Island Project:
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard
Eden Evangelical Lutheran Church
PO Box 360
1150 M-28
West Munising, MI.
49862
call:
906-387-2520
email:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net
Summary of Turtle Island Project & TV sites:
Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv/
Turtle Island TV (you tube)
http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse
Turtle Island (myspace)
http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject
American Indians set agenda: Turtle Island Project spotlights Native American, environment issues
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Turtle Island Project fights religious intolerance, racism, environmental exploitation and other social issues that threaten the future of mankind
First Nations peoples asked to submit topics for Sept. 13, 2007 Native American Roundtable in northern Michigan - first of many conferences
(Munising, Michigan) - Exploitation of the earth, spiritual terrorism, religious imperialism, and racism are some of the modern day injustices that two pastors will battle with a new Michigan project that promotes respect for Native American culture and the environment.
Two Midwest pastors have started a national debate on a wide variety of social issues that they believe threaten the future of society and the planet.
"The Turtle Island project will combat what I call spiritual terrorism," said project found Rev. Lynn Hubbard of Munising, MI.
"There is a lot of spiritual intolerance of other people's religions - whether that's the indigenous Native American religions here in the United States or Islam or Judaism or what have you," said Rev. Hubbard., pastor of the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church along Lake Superior in Munising.
"Anybody can take that attitude towards life - it's my way or the highway - my religion is right - your religion is wrong - and it's that sort of spiritual terrorism that is destroying the world in which we live in," Rev. Hubbard said.
Rev. George Cairns, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, said a "change in religious consciousness is necessary."
"I am deeply concerned that much of humankind and the Earth as we know it will be gone by the end of this century," said Dr. Cairns, a professor of Practical Theology and Spirituality at Chicago Theological Seminary.
"We are in a time now when dramatic changes are happening on this planet and it is a critical time for people of faith - religious people - to act now," said Rev. Cairns, chairman of the Turtle Island Project.
The Turtle Island Project (TIP) will address a wide range of Native American issues including white influence on American Indian heritage and values, said Rev. Hubbard,
The TIP got its name from Natives Americans who first called the North American continent "Turtle Island."
The TIP will hold biannual national and regional conferences and local seminars to discuss environment and American Indian issues. The meetings will be held this fall and next spring and are called the Grand Island Conference and Retreat Program.
Rev. Cairns said it's important to reverse the negative impact man has had on the environment by learning from earth-based religions "and part of that process is to deeply engage our Native American - our First Nations friends - as our teachers."
Each regional conference will be preceded by Native American roundtables, the agendas being determined solely by American Indians who contact the TIP.
"One of the consequences of racism against First Nations people has been the silencing of their voices and the eagerness of Euro-Americans to speak for them - robbing them of their own freedom of speech - that we value so much," Rev. Hubbard said.
"As a result much of the Native American experience has been filtered through the lenses of a foreign culture that - not only doesn't have the right to speak for them but also lacks the ability to speak to the most fundamental realities of native experience."
Dr. Cairns said "many American Indians are still living in oppressive conditions - and having their voices freed can only happen - if they direct the conversation themselves."
"Americans Indians absolutely must have the lead in the kind of discussions they would like to enter into," said Cairns, who taught has taught "centering prayer" for over two decades including at a Native American cultural center and a maximum security prison.
TIP conferences will provide venues for listening to the voices of Native American peoples." Rev. Hubbard said. "It is our belief that the dialogue can contribute to the betterment of both communities and is a conversation that is long overdue."
Rev. Cairns agreed.
"We think that the conversations with native peoples about their relationship to the Earth will help us reconnect with our much earlier roots of consciousness of nature that were part of Euro-western traditions in the past but now have largely been marginalized or even lost," Cairns said.
Rev. Cairns said he hopes the TIP inspires Americans to rediscover "very early dimensions of Earth spirituality that have been integrated into Christianity but later have been lost."
"We started to distance our self from the earth as early as the late Paleolithic times - when we moved from hunter gatherers and later became industrialized and increasingly turned nature into an object for us to consume rather than a subject for us to relate to," Rev. Cairns said. "We are not trying to turn back the clock to the Stone Age - but a change in consciousness must begin if our planet and we are to survive."
The first regional conference is (Thursday-Saturday) September 13-15, 2007 at the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising. The hours are 7-10 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday.
The Native American roundtable opens the conference on Thursday, followed by two days of presentations and debate by Rev. Dr. George Cairn, a professor at Chicago Theological Seminary. Dr. Cairn will discuss Celtic and Native American spirituality, and post-modern science.
Rev. Cairns said the Celtic people who lived in Ireland and Scotland integrated earlier beliefs into an Earth-based Christianity and "understood God to be a present in all creation."
"The Celts believed God to be constantly recreating the world and they had an intimate relationship with nature," said Rev. Cairns, who lives in Chesterton, Indiana.
While studying for his doctorate in South Dakota, Rev. Hubbard became friends with Lakota people on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Indian reservations, the latter was the scene of the infamous Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, which claimed the lives of many innocent Lakota women and children.
Both reservations are beset by extreme poverty, teen suicide, high infant mortality and other social problems.
The TIP organized the successful August 12, 2007 benefit concert for America's oldest/first American Indian battered women's shelter in Mission, SD that has served the Lakota Rosebud Reservation for nearly 30 years.
Two Upper Peninsula folk groups, White Water and Duo Borealis, held the free concert for the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society at the Custer Lutheran Church in Custer S.D. The WBCWS battles domestic violence, teen suicide and sexual assault.
Figures from the Rosebud reservation alone are shocking: 21 rapes in the past 18 months; over 600 attempted teen suicides and 15 deaths during the past two years - most teenage boys.- triggered a recent "state of emergency" declared by tribal officials
Poverty, depression, a lack of jobs, drugs, alcohol and other social problems are among the reasons behind Rosebud teen suicides.
The concert was one of the first non-political events to ever bring racial healing between whites and Native Americans in Custer - where racism by some whites is generations old, said Dave Melmer, a reporter for the national Indian Country Today newspaper who lives in Custer.
Melmer said the concert was "a courageous effort" and a "big small step in improving race relations."
The TIP hopes to create a profound change in environmental thinking, Rev. Hubbard said.
The planet is facing an environmental crisis that must be repaired or humans will "bring about our own destruction because of the abuse of nature," Dr. Hubbard said.
One of the pillars of the TIP is the creation of a new North American Theology that the pastors hope will encourage religious tolerance and a new respect for nature.
"We are concerned that our current individual and systemic western consciousness is disembodied and ill," Rev. Cairns said. "We have distanced ourselves more and more from nature - nature has become much more of an 'it' rather than a 'thou' - it's an object rather than a subject - this is increasingly being sped up by the modern technological world."
Rev. Hubbard said Christians can learn from other religions.
"Christians have been so empowered for so long their religious imperialism is subconscious," Rev. Hubbard said. "To enter into authentic spiritual with other cultures is to become aware of your own limitations."
"Today, in America, God's children have different skin, colors, genders, languages, sexual orientations and theological ideas," Rev. Hubbard said.
"Those who have had power and control over the church must now scoot over and make room for them in our pews - and maybe, heaven forbid, actually listen to what they have to say, listen to their voices," Rev. Hubbard told a recent gathering of religion writers and scholars in Ann Arbor. MI.
God has been revealed to all religions and Christians need to "learn that spiritual wisdom is not the sole possession of any one people," Hubbard said. "Wisdom is the recognition of multi-cultural and dialogical nature of the truth - in dialogue with one another we achieve spiritual truth."
Christians should "open our ears and hearts to their testimony, and to the witness of the Love of God in their lives, not just ours," Rev. Hubbard said. "It is the opening of the heart and mind to the genius and insights of others."
During recent elections conservative Catholics and Protestants made "strange bedfellows" as they voted against homosexuality, abortion and showed "their intolerance of other people's religions," Rev. Hubbard said.
Christians who have "benefitted from the power structures of the church have defined what the gospel is to everyone," Rev. Hubbard said. "We have defined that through our own Euro-American vision of who we are, who God is, and our relationship with nature - at the exclusion of everyone else - period."
Americans, he said, "stand at the brink of a communications revolution and a fundamental spiritual transformation."
Dr. Cairns said it has "been clear to me for many years that contemporary Christianity is disembodied Christianity - because its been really shaped by culture - more than the institution has shaped culture."
Late Native American activist and author Vine Deloria Jr reminded "the Euro-American community that they have yet to listen to what Native Americans have to say either in terms of the environment or their own struggles as a people," Rev. Hubbard said.
"Native American spirituality is based upon spatial understandings of God while Christianity is based upon temporal understandings of God.
"Spatial metaphors for God have to do with the revelation of the divine life in a particular place - this mountain - at this stream - at this time," Rev. Hubbard said. "While the temporal metaphors for God has to do with the idea of time - that 'once upon a time there was a great revelation of God' some 2,000 years ago for the Christian religion - and since that time - there have been no new revelations."
Dr. Cairns said "that place is extremely important in Celtic tradition.".
"There is a sacredness to particular places - people relate to them deeply - we have lost much of that in contemporary American culture and we have lost much of that in our religious institutions," Cairns said. "Almost any place can be sacred to an individual depending on who they are and where they are on life's journey."
"One of the places I have found sacred is on the streets of a bad inner city neighborhood talking with homeless folks," Cairns said. "The conversations we've had are very profound - there was an openness and a kind of reciprocal learning that took place in those conversations that I think was sacred."
Rev. Hubbard said the earth was not created to serve man.
"The creation myths of the Hebrew peoples - the very origins of Christianity - was this understanding that human beings are a special creation and that this Earth was created for them," Rev. Hubbard said.
"And that's quite a different understanding than what many Native American peoples have."
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Related websites:
Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv/
Turtle Island TV (youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse
Turtle Island (myspace)
http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject
email:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net
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Rosebud Tribe official website:
http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/
1973 Wounded Knee Incident & the earlier 1890 massacre of 146 Indians by government troops:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Incident
http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Incident
Pine Ridge Reservation Info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Ridge_Reservation
Pine Ridge shocking photos:
http://www.aaronhuey.com/
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Turtle Island Project: Fall 2007 - Spring 2008 Schedule:
Grand Island Conference and Retreat Program
The Grand Island Conference and Retreat Program seeks to develop new theological resources and spiritual practices that reflect the place we inhabit, the continent of North America called "Turtle Island" by indigenous communities. It is our hope that these resources and practices will help imagine a new North American Theology with the assistance of First Nations peoples.
We seek to encourage mutual understanding and respect between these communities in order to address issues of health and healing, religion and science, practical theology and environmental issues. We shall accomplish this task by sponsoring regional and national conferences, local seminars, and regional retreats centering on these concerns.
This booklet lists the events sponsored by the Grand Island Conference and Retreat Program for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan during the upcoming year. It is our hope that these events will not only stimulate conversations on the issues, but also help to build ecumenical and interfaith communities.
Seminars will be held at Upfront and Company, 102 East Main Street, Marquette, Michigan.
All conferences, retreats and Native American roundtables will be held at Eden on the Bay, Lutheran Church, 1150 M-28 West, Munising, Michigan.
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard
Director, Turtle Island Project
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About the Conferences
Grand Island is one of the most beautiful and largest islands in Lake Superior. Inhabited for generations by the Ojibwa peoples, it is today the Grand Island National Recreation Area with a wilderness character.
In keeping with such a tranquil and beautiful place, Grand Island Conferences are planned so that all participants will have the opportunity to experience its beauty and power.
The conferences are unique in that they are planned to not only stimulate the intellect, but also provide the aesthetic and spiritual understandings usually associated with a retreat setting.
We will not only be participating in stimulating theological conversations on topics of great importance, but we shall also partake of the beauty of the lake, the island, and the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
We will be taking boat cruises along Lake Superior, hiking in the park and listening to lectures on the parks natural and cultural history.
All of this will take place in and around the community of Munising, Michigan, one of the most beautiful natural settings on Lake Superior.
All Seminars will be held at Upfront and Company, 102 E. Main St, Marquette, Michigan
Conferences and Retreats will be held at Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church, 1150 M-28 West, Munising, MI.
For complete information on the events, please visit our website: http://www.turtleislandproject.org
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*** A Native American roundtable will be held at 7 pm (ET) on the Thursday prior to each regional conference - and at others times TBA.
The agenda of the roundtables will be set completely by First Nations peoples.
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Regional Conference - Fall 2007
Ecology Series
September 13-15, 2007
Celtic Spirituality, Ecology, and Participative Consciousness
Recreating an Ancient Wisdom Tradition of Relationship
Rev. Dr. George Cairn
Chicago Theological Seminary
Thursday, Sept 13 (Native American Roundtable)
7 - 10 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 14
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 15
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
At this conference, we will examine the integration of Paleolithic Consciousness, Celtic Spirituality, Contemporary Spirituality, and Psychology.
We will be examining ideas and meditating in ways that lead to experiencing the world as not separate from ourselves - no inside, no outside, all in relationship.
We will be reading a selection of works by Calvin Luther Martin, J. Phillip Newell, and Gregory Bateson.
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Native American Theology -- Seminar Series
In the Spirit of the Earth - Ecology and Liberation
Tuesdays - November 6, November 13, November 20, and November 27
7 - 10 p.m.
A seminar examining the ecological crisis and the contribution of Native American theology toward a solution.
In this seminar, we will be reading a selection of works from Leonardo Boff, Vine Deloria, Jr., George Tinker and Steve Charleston.
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Regional Ecumenical Retreat - Fall 2007
Quest for Harmony: The Contemplation of Nature in the Christian tradition
Friday, November 9
9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
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Local Seminar Offerings - Fall 2007
Health and Healing -- Evening Discussion Series
Tuesdays - October 23 and October 30
7 - 10 p.m.
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
Two evenings of exploration into the works of Dr. Robert Moore, Jungian Analyst, and one of the founders of the men's movement in the United States.
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Local Seminar Offerings - Winter 2007 - 2008
Religion and Science -- Evening Discussion Series
Tuesday, December 4
7 - 10 p.m.
Life is a Miracle: Reflections on the Work of Wendell Berry
An evening of conversation on the poet and author who has proven time and again a writer of brilliant moral imagination.
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Religion and Science -- Seminar Series
In the Absence of the Sacred: Science as Myth and Religion
Tuesdays - March 4, March 11, March 18, March 25
7 - 10 p.m.
A seminar on the current state of the relationship between science and religion.
In this seminar, we will read selected works from Ian G. Barbour, Wendell Berry, Joseph Campbell, David Leeming, and Ursula Goodenough.
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An Ecumenical Retreat - Spring 2008
The Pipe and Christ: Native American Spiritualities and Christianity
Friday, March 28
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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Local Seminar Offerings - Spring 2008
Health and Healing - Evening Discussion Series
Tuesday, April 22
7 - 10 p.m.
The Healing Circle: Spirituality and Sexual Healing - The Role of Spirituality in the Therapeutic Process.
An evening of reflection on the role of ritual process in the healing of juvenile sex offenders.
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Religion and Science - Seminar Series
The Flight of the Wild Gander
Tuesdays - May 20, May 27, June 3, June 10
7 - 10 p.m.
A Series of Conversations on the Nature of Mytho-Poetic Language, Fundamentalism, and the Decline of Christianity.
We will be reading selected works from Mircea Eliade, Joseph Campbell, David Leeming, Calvin Luther Martin.
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Regional Conference - Spring 2008
Religion and Science Series:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
May 29 - 31, 2008
The Sacred Depths of Nature - The Politics of Religion and Science
Dr. Richard Busse
Indiana University Northwest
Thursday, May 29 (Native American Roundtable)
7 - 10 p.m.
Friday, May 30
10 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Saturday, May 31
10 a.m.- 2 p.m.
Models for interpreting the relationship between religion and science will be discussed by reviewing the history of First Amendment science/religion litigation and by discussing the theological impact of these decisions, all for the purpose of gaining insight into the interplay of religion, culture, and politics.
Background Text: Edward Larson's "Summer for the Gods: The Scope's Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion."
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National Conference - Summer 2008
Native American Theology Series
Place and Time of Conference to be announced
A conference on the premiere Native American Theologian of our times, George E. "Tink" Tinker. Mr. Tinker is Professor of Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at Iliff Theological Seminary in Denver, Colorado and is an enrolled member of the Osage Nation. Among his many publications are Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide (Fortress Press, 1993) and Native American Theology (co-authored, 2001).
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For More Information
Turtle Island Project
P.O. Box 360
Munising, Michigan
46982
Email:
Whitehorse006@aol.com
Call 906-387-5616
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Seminars will be held at Upfront and Company, 102 East Main Street, Marquette, Michigan.
All conferences, retreats and Native American roundtables will be held at Eden on the Bay, Lutheran Church, 1150 M-28 West, Munising, Michigan.
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Bios:
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard
Rev. Hubbard is founder/director of the Turtle Island Project in Munising, MI
He is the pastor at Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising
In addition to graduating from Valparaiso University and holding advanced degrees from the Lutheran School of Theology and Chicago Theological Seminary, Lynn has studied at the Pedagogishe Hochschule in Reutlingen, German, the Religious Studies Department at the University of Indiana, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.
For many years he worked as the Associate Dean of Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago.
He has served a number of churches throughout the Chicago area, and lived on the island of St. Croix, in the Virgin Islands, pastoring two Afro-Caribbean Lutheran congregations. He has had extensive experience in both the inter faith and ecumenical communities, and served as the Director of Development for the Parliament of World's Religious.
Most recently, in working in his capacity as spiritual director for Juvenile sex offenders, he has given national and international conference presentations on "Creating Ritual Process for Juvenile Sex Offenders from a Cross Cultural Perspective".
He is currently the minister of Eden on the Bay, Lutheran Church in Munising Michigan. He travels regularly to the Lakota Sioux reservations in South Dakota, where he helps prepare graduate theological students in cross-cultural ministerial training.
He has been honored by members of the Sicangu tribe of the Lakota people in being asked to serve as a fire keeper for their Sundance ceremonies.
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George F. Cairns, M.Div., Ph.D.
Rev. Cairns is chairman of the board of the Turtle Island Project in Munising, MI
George is a semi-retired minister, professor of practical and spiritual theology at Chicago Theological Seminary, and is a clinical psychologist. George helped found the Parliament of the World's religions and with Wayne Teasdale wrote/edited a book about this process.
His current work concerns Celtic spirituality, centering prayer, and their integration into a theology of practical action for healing, justice, and peace.
He has practiced and taught Centering Prayer since 1986. He has taught centering prayer in several unusual settings including a Native American cultural center and a maximum security prison. He has published papers on this work.
George and his wife Nancy have taught an early and little known Christian practice known as "jubilation." This form of sung praise produces a whole chord of sound by an individual.
When practiced in community, sounds appear which no one is making.
He is currently a member of the Forge Guild, an international group which encourages spiritual teachers from different religious traditions to explore one another's practices and Spiritual Directors International. He and Nancy are associates/members of two covenantal Christian communities: The Iona Community based in Scotland, and; the Shalom Community based in Chicago.
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Part 1 Native America Calling Radio Show: Rev. Lynn Hubbard Turtle Island Project Director
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Native America Calling Radio Show Part 1
Turtle Island Project founder/director Rev. Lynn Hubbard was a guest recently (August 28, 2007) on the national Native America Calling radio show to talk about “Bordertown Racism” along with Art Neskahi, director of Southwest Intertribal Voice in Cortez, NM
The Turtle Island Project would like to thank the Cortez Journal and the Navajo Times newspapers because our video includes a few of the newspaper’s photos of the 2007 Walk for Peace and Justice organized by Art Neskahi. A map of Michigan Indian tribes was created by Edwards Outdoor Marketing.
Harlan McKosato is the host and producer of the national radio show Native America Calling.
McKosato broadcasts from Studio 49 as the host of the nationally broadcast radio show Native America Calling.
Here is the first half of the one hour show - be sure to check out part two after this.
---
Below is additional information on this and other shows produced by the Native American Radio Network - plus links to related sites in Michigan and other information..
McKosato is a member of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma.
The show is produced at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and airs Monday through Friday at 1PM Eastern Standard Time.
The director of the Turtle Island project, Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard of Munising, MI, was one of two guests for the show on Tuesday, August 28, 2007.
The topic: Bordertown Racism.
This is how the producers described the show on their website:
The ongoing violence, hate crimes and other discriminatory actions toward Native people in reservation and village bordertowns is cresting.
But instead of fighting back with an eye-for-an-eye attitude, tribal members are seeking healing through promotion of racial tolerance and understanding.
How are false stereotypes fostering resentment of Native people, and how do Native people fight back without causing an “Indian Uprising?”
Guests are Art Neskahi of the Navajo Nation, organizer of the upcoming Walk for Peace and Justice, and Rev. Lynn Hubbard of the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church.
---
Listen to Native America Calling live at 1:00pm EST on the following radio stations.
http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/
KNBA-FM 90.3 Anchorage, Alaska
NV1 Albuquerque, NM
KILI 90.1 Porcupine, SD
KISU 91.1 FM Pocatello, Idaho
KGLP 91.7 FM Gallup, New Mexico
KUNM-FM 89.9 FM Albuquerque, New Mexico
KSJD 91.5 Cortez, Colorado
KSUT-FM 91.3 FM Ignacio, Colorado
KSFC 91.9 FM Spokane, Washington
WOJB-FM 88.9 FM Hayward, Wisconsin
CFIE 106.5 FM Aboriginal Voices Radio Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Other shows of Native American Radio Service:
Links to radio stations that carry these shows follow the program information:
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Specials
NEWSFLASH
Interested in being featured on REZERVATIONS WITH DAWN KARIMA? Each weekly episode features interviews with two Native guests, followed by a "what I like" review segment, which reviews native books/movies/music/products. Each episode includes a Native "featured musical artist" as well. Please send a complimentary copy of your cd or dvd, film or book, or product along with your press kit and tribal affiliation to:
REZERVATIONS
Attn:Dawn Karima
PO BOX 22114
Albuquerque,NM 87154
We can't promise to feature everything that we receive or to contact everyone who contacts us, but we'll gladly consider the submissions we receive.
---
Programs:
News & Public Affairs
American Indian Living
American Indian Living is a one-hour weekly talk show focusing on health issues in Indian country. The live talk show was developed for radio by the Native Education and Health Initiative, a non-profit organization providing comprehensive services for the health needs of American Indians through education. The show covers a broad range of health issues, viewed in a holistic way in keeping with traditional Native perspectives.
Acting as show host is David DeRose M.D., president of the Oklahoma-based CompassHealth, Inc.
CompassHealth:
http://www.compasshealth.net
Find out more at:
http://www.nativeministries.com/article.php?id=11
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National Native News
A weekday, five-minute radio newscast, anchored by Antonia Gonzales (Navajo). NNN is produced in Albuquerque, NM. It is a headline radio news service dedicated to Native American issues and events that compiles spot news reports from around the country. NNN is the first Native-produced, Native radio newscast that is distributed nationally. National Native News provides the nation with Native news and information, linking all listeners, whether Alaskan Yupik or Boston-Irish.
Daily headlines and more at:
http://www.nativenews.net/
---
Native America Calling
Harlan McKosato (Sac & Fox) hosts this one hour live call-in program, linking public radio stations, the Internet and listeners together into a thought-provoking national conversation about issues specific to Native communities. Each program engages noted guests and experts with callers throughout the United States.
Daily program descriptions and more at:
http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/
---
Rezervations with Dawn Karima
Dawn Karima Pettigrew (Creek/Cherokee) hosts this one hour weekly program that features lively, insightful discussions with fascinating Native American artists, authors, musicians, educators, media professionals and thinkers. Each episode features interviews with individuals who are active in media, arts, culture and education.
---
MUSIC
Earthsongs
Are you looking for radio that is authentic and hip, informed and indigenous? Then tune into Earthsongs, a modern mix of today's Native artists who are setting new directions in music. Listeners are invited to explore the rich variations of sound, language and indigenous expression from the Arctic to South America -- listening for their messages and fundamental contributions to the evolution of American music. Each week, Earthsongs gives Public Radio and Internet listeners the chance to explore the Native influences that help shape and define contemporary American music. Host Shyanne Beatty (Hangwichin Athabascan) provides knowledgeable commentary, weekly artist features and a smart music selection in a way that is unexpected, warm and culturally authentic.
Playlists and more at:
http://www.earthsongs.net/
---
Reach the Rez
A one hour weekly high energy, program featuring Hip-Hop, Rap and R&B with a Native twist, hosted by well-known actor and rapper Litefoot (Cherokee). The broadcast updates listeners on Reach the Rez Tour progress and events, as well as carries a positive message of hope and empowerment to Native communities, especially the youth.
Find out more at:
http://reachtherezradio.com
---]
UnderCurrents
A thoughtful yet playful freeform music mix. Based in AAA, the mix includes Rock, Folk, Blues, Reggae, Dub, Electronica, HipHop, World and Roots music, and an excellent selection of contemporary Native artists. Host Gregg McVicar (Tlingit) began broadcasting in 1972 in the heyday of freeform radio and dives deep into an expansive music library of favorites and new finds. Old School meets Cool School. The show runs 5-hours every day, seven days a week.
Playlists and more at
http://www.undercurrentsradio.net/
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COMMUNITY RADIO
AlterNativeVoices
A one hour Native radio magazine that features Native music, interviews, and news reports relevant to Indian Country. We mix music by Native artists, news from Native communities, events and information of interest to many people. The program's mission is to entertain, educate, empower and generally promote positive excellence and appropriate role models by and for American Indian people. alterNative Voices is produced and hosted by Z. Susanne Aikman (Eastern Band Cherokee) and originates from KUVO-FM in Denver.
Playlists and more at:
http://www.alternativevoices.org/
---
Voices from the Circle
This weekly program highlights Native news, music, issues, entertainment and storytelling from reservations and urban communities. Co-hosts Jim DeNomie (Bad River Chippewa), Barbara Jersey (Menominee/Potawatomi) and Shadow (Radio Dog) bring you traditional and contemporary Native music, entertainment, storytelling, poetry, powwow trail information, and a calendar of events with an emphasis on the Western Great Lakes, Canada and North East.
---
CULTURAL
Wisdom of the Elders
Wisdom of the Elders Series One is a three part Native American radio series containing eight one hour weekly shows which present messages and stories of distinctive indigenous role models from numerous tribes across Turtle Island. Each show features prophetic wisdom from gifted elders combined with special features on natural health and healing, storytelling, and traditional and contemporary Native American music. This project includes an enhanced radio website, and educational/outreach materials.
Program descriptions and more at:
http://www.wisdomoftheelders.org/
---
Radio stations that carry the Native American Radio Service:
ALASKA:
KNBA 90.3 FM, Anchorage
KBRW 680 AM, Barrow
KYUK 640 AM Bethel
KCUK 88.1 FM, Chevak
KIAL 1450 AM, Unalaska
ARIZONA:
KUYI 88.1 FM, Keams Canyon
KOHN 91.9 FM, Sells
KNNB 88.1 FM, Whiteriver
KGHR 91.5 FM, Tuba City
CALIFORNIA:
KIDE 91.3 FM, Hoopa
COLORADO:
KRZA 88.7 AM, Alamosa
KSUT 91.3 FM, Ignacio
MONTANA:
KGVA 88.1 FM, Harlem
NEW MEXICO:
KABR 1500 AM, Alamo
KCIE 90.5 FM, Dulce
KGLP 91.7FM, Gallup
KTDB 89.7FM, Pinehill
KSHI 90.9 FM, Zuni
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NORTH DAKOTA:
KABU 90.7 FM, St. Michael
KMHA 91.3 FM, New Town
KEYA 88.5FM, Belcourt
---
OREGON:
KCUW 101.1 FM, Pendelton
KWSO 91.9 FM, Warm Springs
---
SOUTH DAKOTA:
KLND 89.5 FM, Little Eagle
KILI 90.1 FM, Porcupine
---
WASHINGTON:
KYNR 1490 AM, Toppenish
---
WISCONSIN:
WOJB 88.9 FM, Reserve
---
WYOMING:
KWRR 89.5 FM, Ethete
---
MI Historical Society map quiz on tribes:
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/hal_mhc_mhm_tribal-locationsp65_93237_7.pdf
Great Map of Michigan Tribe locations::
http://www.edwards1.com/rose/native/indian-map.htm
Michigan Tribes great information - links to tribes:
http://www.500nations.com/Michigan_Tribes.asp
---
Native American
Native American Health, a MedlinePlus topic sheet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/nativeamericanhealth.html
Indian Health Service (IHS)
http://www.ihs.gov/
IHS Publications & Reports
http://www.ihs.gov/PublicInfo/Publications/Index.asp
Native Health Research Database
http://www.ihs.gov/NonMedicalPrograms/IHS_Stats/Statistical_Databases.asp
Michigan Indian Tribes
http://www.500nations.com/Michigan_Tribes.asp
Michigan Native American Indian Reservations
http://www.edwards1.com/rose/native/indian-map.htm
Native American Institute - Michigan State University
http://www.msu.edu/unit/nai/
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Cortez Commemorative Walk/Concert for Peace and Justice:
http://www.cortezjournal.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/07/news070904_5.htm
300 attended on Sept. 1, 2006 (Saturday) in Cortez NM
Photo - 1
Cortez Journal Photos by John R. Crane
PARTICIPANTS in the Cortez Commemorative Walk/Concert for Peace and Justice head east on Main Street in Cortez Saturday. About 300 people took part in the walk, which started at Cortez City Park at 11 a.m. and lasted about an hour. Concerts and speeches were held as part of the event thoughout the day.
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Photo 2
JOURNAL/JOHN R. CRANE
FAMILY AND FRIENDS of Clint John, who was shot and killed by Farmington police during an incident at a Wal-Mart in Farmington, participated in the peace-and-justice walk Saturday in Cortez, carrying signs and a banner in his memory.
---
Photo 3
TAINYA MAY , 7, a Ute Mountain Ute Tribe member, walked in the Cortez Commemorative Walk/Concert for Peace and Justice Saturday. She walked in honor of her father and grandfather, both of whom served in the Army.
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Photo 4
JOURNAL/JOHN R. CRANE
BEVERLY CUTHAIR-WHITESKUNK , far left, a Ute Mountain Ute Tribe member and lay minister at Ute Mountain Presbyterian Church, delivers a Ute prayer during the opening ceremony for the Cortez Commemorative Walk/Concert for Peace and Justice Saturday. From left are Art Neskahi, the event's organizer and founder and president of Southwest Intertribal Voice, and participants who ran from Shiprock to the walk, Lenny Esson, Leonard Lee and Ambross Teasyatwho.
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Navajo Times Photo:
http://www.thenavajotimes.com/news/090607cortez.php
Photo #1
(Special to the Times - Donovan Quintero)
Flag bearers lead the way of the 2007 Cortez Commemorative Walk / Concert for Peace and Justice in Cortez, Colo., on Sept. 1.
--
Photo #2
(Special to the Times - Donovan Quintero)
Della John, mother of the late Clint John who was shot to death by a Farmington police officer, waits for a memorial walk to begin on Sept. 2, 2006, along Highway 64 west of Farmington. A new walk will be held Saturday in response to violence against Native Americans in Cortez, Colo.
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Native America Calling My Space page:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=206278924
Conact:
Art Neskahi, director of Southwest Intertribal Voice in Cortez, NM
Art Neskahi
(970) 739-0753
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Part 2 Native America Calling Radio Show: Rev. Lynn Hubbard Turtle Island Project Director
Posted by admin / Under Mainly In Contemporary Western Culture
Native America Calling Radio Show Part 2
Turtle Island Project founder/director Rev. Lynn Hubbard was a guest recently (August 28, 2007) on the national Native America Calling radio show to talk about “Bordertown Racism” along with Art Neskahi, director of Southwest Intertribal Voice in Cortez, NM
The Turtle Island Project would like to thank the Cortez Journal and the Navajo Times newspapers because our video includes a few of the newspaper’s photos of the 2007 Walk for Peace and Justice organized by Art Neskahi. A map of Michigan Indian tribes was created by Edwards Outdoor Marketing.
Harlan McKosato is the host and producer of the national radio show Native America Calling.
McKosato broadcasts from Studio 49 as the host of the nationally broadcast radio show Native America Calling.
Here is the second half of the one hour show - be sure to check out part one if you haven’t listen to it already..
---
Below is additional information on this and other shows produced by the Native American Radio Network - plus links to related sites in Michigan and other information..
McKosato is a member of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma.
The show is produced at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and airs Monday through Friday at 1PM Eastern Standard Time.
The director of the Turtle Island project, Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard of Munising, MI, was one of two guests for the show on Tuesday, August 28, 2007.
The topic: Bordertown Racism.
This is how the producers described the show on their website:
The ongoing violence, hate crimes and other discriminatory actions toward Native people in reservation and village bordertowns is cresting.
But instead of fighting back with an eye-for-an-eye attitude, tribal members are seeking healing through promotion of racial tolerance and understanding.
How are false stereotypes fostering resentment of Native people, and how do Native people fight back without causing an “Indian Uprising?”
Guests are Art Neskahi of the Navajo Nation, organizer of the upcoming Walk for Peace and Justice, and Rev. Lynn Hubbard of the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church.
---
Listen to Native America Calling live at 1:00pm EST on the following radio stations.
http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/
KNBA-FM 90.3 Anchorage, Alaska
NV1 Albuquerque, NM
KILI 90.1 Porcupine, SD
KISU 91.1 FM Pocatello, Idaho
KGLP 91.7 FM Gallup, New Mexico
KUNM-FM 89.9 FM Albuquerque, New Mexico
KSJD 91.5 Cortez, Colorado
KSUT-FM 91.3 FM Ignacio, Colorado
KSFC 91.9 FM Spokane, Washington
WOJB-FM 88.9 FM Hayward, Wisconsin
CFIE 106.5 FM Aboriginal Voices Radio Toronto, Ontario, Canada
---
Other shows of Native American Radio Service:
Links to radio stations that carry these shows follow the program information:
---:
Specials
NEWSFLASH
Interested in being featured on REZERVATIONS WITH DAWN KARIMA? Each weekly episode features interviews with two Native guests, followed by a "what I like" review segment, which reviews native books/movies/music/products. Each episode includes a Native "featured musical artist" as well. Please send a complimentary copy of your cd or dvd, film or book, or product along with your press kit and tribal affiliation to:
REZERVATIONS
Attn:Dawn Karima
PO BOX 22114
Albuquerque,NM 87154
We can't promise to feature everything that we receive or to contact everyone who contacts us, but we'll gladly consider the submissions we receive.
---
Programs:
News & Public Affairs
American Indian Living
American Indian Living is a one-hour weekly talk show focusing on health issues in Indian country. The live talk show was developed for radio by the Native Education and Health Initiative, a non-profit organization providing comprehensive services for the health needs of American Indians through education. The show covers a broad range of health issues, viewed in a holistic way in keeping with traditional Native perspectives.
Acting as show host is David DeRose M.D., president of the Oklahoma-based CompassHealth, Inc.
CompassHealth:
http://www.compasshealth.net
Find out more at:
http://www.nativeministries.com/article.php?id=11
---
National Native News
A weekday, five-minute radio newscast, anchored by Antonia Gonzales (Navajo). NNN is produced in Albuquerque, NM. It is a headline radio news service dedicated to Native American issues and events that compiles spot news reports from around the country. NNN is the first Native-produced, Native radio newscast that is distributed nationally. National Native News provides the nation with Native news and information, linking all listeners, whether Alaskan Yupik or Boston-Irish.
Daily headlines and more at:
http://www.nativenews.net/
---
Native America Calling
Harlan McKosato (Sac & Fox) hosts this one hour live call-in program, linking public radio stations, the Internet and listeners together into a thought-provoking national conversation about issues specific to Native communities. Each program engages noted guests and experts with callers throughout the United States.
Daily program descriptions and more at:
http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/
---
Rezervations with Dawn Karima
Dawn Karima Pettigrew (Creek/Cherokee) hosts this one hour weekly program that features lively, insightful discussions with fascinating Native American artists, authors, musicians, educators, media professionals and thinkers. Each episode features interviews with individuals who are active in media, arts, culture and education.
---
MUSIC
Earthsongs
Are you looking for radio that is authentic and hip, informed and indigenous? Then tune into Earthsongs, a modern mix of today's Native artists who are setting new directions in music. Listeners are invited to explore the rich variations of sound, language and indigenous expression from the Arctic to South America -- listening for their messages and fundamental contributions to the evolution of American music. Each week, Earthsongs gives Public Radio and Internet listeners the chance to explore the Native influences that help shape and define contemporary American music. Host Shyanne Beatty (Hangwichin Athabascan) provides knowledgeable commentary, weekly artist features and a smart music selection in a way that is unexpected, warm and culturally authentic.
Playlists and more at:
http://www.earthsongs.net/
---
Reach the Rez
A one hour weekly high energy, program featuring Hip-Hop, Rap and R&B with a Native twist, hosted by well-known actor and rapper Litefoot (Cherokee). The broadcast updates listeners on Reach the Rez Tour progress and events, as well as carries a positive message of hope and empowerment to Native communities, especially the youth.
Find out more at:
http://reachtherezradio.com
---]
UnderCurrents
A thoughtful yet playful freeform music mix. Based in AAA, the mix includes Rock, Folk, Blues, Reggae, Dub, Electronica, HipHop, World and Roots music, and an excellent selection of contemporary Native artists. Host Gregg McVicar (Tlingit) began broadcasting in 1972 in the heyday of freeform radio and dives deep into an expansive music library of favorites and new finds. Old School meets Cool School. The show runs 5-hours every day, seven days a week.
Playlists and more at
http://www.undercurrentsradio.net/
---
COMMUNITY RADIO
AlterNativeVoices
A one hour Native radio magazine that features Native music, interviews, and news reports relevant to Indian Country. We mix music by Native artists, news from Native communities, events and information of interest to many people. The program's mission is to entertain, educate, empower and generally promote positive excellence and appropriate role models by and for American Indian people. alterNative Voices is produced and hosted by Z. Susanne Aikman (Eastern Band Cherokee) and originates from KUVO-FM in Denver.
Playlists and more at:
http://www.alternativevoices.org/
---
Voices from the Circle
This weekly program highlights Native news, music, issues, entertainment and storytelling from reservations and urban communities. Co-hosts Jim DeNomie (Bad River Chippewa), Barbara Jersey (Menominee/Potawatomi) and Shadow (Radio Dog) bring you traditional and contemporary Native music, entertainment, storytelling, poetry, powwow trail information, and a calendar of events with an emphasis on the Western Great Lakes, Canada and North East.
---
CULTURAL
Wisdom of the Elders
Wisdom of the Elders Series One is a three part Native American radio series containing eight one hour weekly shows which present messages and stories of distinctive indigenous role models from numerous tribes across Turtle Island. Each show features prophetic wisdom from gifted elders combined with special features on natural health and healing, storytelling, and traditional and contemporary Native American music. This project includes an enhanced radio website, and educational/outreach materials.
Program descriptions and more at:
http://www.wisdomoftheelders.org/
---
Radio stations that carry the Native American Radio Service:
ALASKA:
KNBA 90.3 FM, Anchorage
KBRW 680 AM, Barrow
KYUK 640 AM Bethel
KCUK 88.1 FM, Chevak
KIAL 1450 AM, Unalaska
ARIZONA:
KUYI 88.1 FM, Keams Canyon
KOHN 91.9 FM, Sells
KNNB 88.1 FM, Whiteriver
KGHR 91.5 FM, Tuba City
CALIFORNIA:
KIDE 91.3 FM, Hoopa
COLORADO:
KRZA 88.7 AM, Alamosa
KSUT 91.3 FM, Ignacio
MONTANA:
KGVA 88.1 FM, Harlem
NEW MEXICO:
KABR 1500 AM, Alamo
KCIE 90.5 FM, Dulce
KGLP 91.7FM, Gallup
KTDB 89.7FM, Pinehill
KSHI 90.9 FM, Zuni
---
NORTH DAKOTA:
KABU 90.7 FM, St. Michael
KMHA 91.3 FM, New Town
KEYA 88.5FM, Belcourt
---
OREGON:
KCUW 101.1 FM, Pendelton
KWSO 91.9 FM, Warm Springs
---
SOUTH DAKOTA:
KLND 89.5 FM, Little Eagle
KILI 90.1 FM, Porcupine
---
WASHINGTON:
KYNR 1490 AM, Toppenish
---
WISCONSIN:
WOJB 88.9 FM, Reserve
---
WYOMING:
KWRR 89.5 FM, Ethete
---
MI Historical Society map quiz on tribes:
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/hal_mhc_mhm_tribal-locationsp65_93237_7.pdf
Great Map of Michigan Tribe locations::
http://www.edwards1.com/rose/native/indian-map.htm
Michigan Tribes great information - links to tribes:
http://www.500nations.com/Michigan_Tribes.asp
---
Native American
Native American Health, a MedlinePlus topic sheet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/nativeamericanhealth.html
Indian Health Service (IHS)
http://www.ihs.gov/
IHS Publications & Reports
http://www.ihs.gov/PublicInfo/Publications/Index.asp
Native Health Research Database
http://www.ihs.gov/NonMedicalPrograms/IHS_Stats/Statistical_Databases.asp
Michigan Indian Tribes
http://www.500nations.com/Michigan_Tribes.asp
Michigan Native American Indian Reservations
http://www.edwards1.com/rose/native/indian-map.htm
Native American Institute - Michigan State University
http://www.msu.edu/unit/nai/
---
Cortez Commemorative Walk/Concert for Peace and Justice:
http://www.cortezjournal.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/07/news070904_5.htm
300 attended on Sept. 1, 2006 (Saturday) in Cortez NM
Photo - 1
Cortez Journal Photos by John R. Crane
PARTICIPANTS in the Cortez Commemorative Walk/Concert for Peace and Justice head east on Main Street in Cortez Saturday. About 300 people took part in the walk, which started at Cortez City Park at 11 a.m. and lasted about an hour. Concerts and speeches were held as part of the event thoughout the day.
---
Photo 2
JOURNAL/JOHN R. CRANE
FAMILY AND FRIENDS of Clint John, who was shot and killed by Farmington police during an incident at a Wal-Mart in Farmington, participated in the peace-and-justice walk Saturday in Cortez, carrying signs and a banner in his memory.
---
Photo 3
TAINYA MAY , 7, a Ute Mountain Ute Tribe member, walked in the Cortez Commemorative Walk/Concert for Peace and Justice Saturday. She walked in honor of her father and grandfather, both of whom served in the Army.
---
Photo 4
JOURNAL/JOHN R. CRANE
BEVERLY CUTHAIR-WHITESKUNK , far left, a Ute Mountain Ute Tribe member and lay minister at Ute Mountain Presbyterian Church, delivers a Ute prayer during the opening ceremony for the Cortez Commemorative Walk/Concert for Peace and Justice Saturday. From left are Art Neskahi, the event's organizer and founder and president of Southwest Intertribal Voice, and participants who ran from Shiprock to the walk, Lenny Esson, Leonard Lee and Ambross Teasyatwho.
------
Navajo Times Photo:
http://www.thenavajotimes.com/news/090607cortez.php
Photo #1
(Special to the Times - Donovan Quintero)
Flag bearers lead the way of the 2007 Cortez Commemorative Walk / Concert for Peace and Justice in Cortez, Colo., on Sept. 1.
--
Photo #2
(Special to the Times - Donovan Quintero)
Della John, mother of the late Clint John who was shot to death by a Farmington police officer, waits for a memorial walk to begin on Sept. 2, 2006, along Highway 64 west of Farmington. A new walk will be held Saturday in response to violence against Native Americans in Cortez, Colo.
----
Native America Calling My Space page:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=206278924
Conact:
Art Neskahi, director of Southwest Intertribal Voice in Cortez, NM
970-739-0753
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