AMC Repair Committee
Links to Other Related Resources
- Repair Congregations and Communities Network (RCCN) - Allegheny Mennonite Conference participates as a member community of the Repair Congregations and Communities Network (RCCN), a ministry of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery (DDoD)
- Native Governance Center - A group working to empower local Indigenous communities.
- Indian Country Today (ICT) - An online news source for Indigenous actions and community news
- Friends Committee on National Legislation, Native American Legislative Update - Includes calls to action in each newsletter.
- Native American Communities of the Shenandoah Valley: Constructing a Complex History, July 2020, Dr. Carole Nash, JMU.
- MC USA advocates for protection of Oak Flat - The Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) Executive Board and MC USA’s Pacific Southwest Mennonite Conference signed an amicus brief in support of Apache Stronghold and the protection of Oak Flat, a sacred site of Native American religious exercise in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona.
- Indigenous Activists share mixed feelings on Vatican repudiation of Doctrine of Discovery
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.
