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First Contact Reconciliation Collaborative

First Contact Reconciliation Gatherings

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First Contact Reconciliation Collaborative is born of and bound by loving relationships with sovereign Leni-Lenape Tribal Nations who have faithfully remained on their ancestral land, Lenapehoking; both communities hold the Treaty of Amity (1995) promise of perpetual peace and friendship. Our Gatherings begin and close with relevant heart-sharing worship; the agenda is organic and semi-grounded around the following queries:
Why might the term “First Contact” be ascribed?
How might FCRC’s Call To Action campaigns represent reconciliation? (Details are posted on the FCRC Call To Action web page – https://www.pym.org/first-contact-reconciliation-collaborative/call-to-action/)
Where might we notice social constructs that conform Friends to the world; how might we hold Friendly accountability?

 

First Contact Reconciliation Gatherings

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First Contact Reconciliation Collaborative is born of and bound by loving relationships with sovereign Leni-Lenape Tribal Nations who have faithfully remained on their ancestral land, Lenapehoking; both communities hold the Treaty of Amity (1995) promise of perpetual peace and friendship. Our Gatherings begin and close with relevant heart-sharing worship; the agenda is organic and semi-grounded around the following queries:
Why might the term “First Contact” be ascribed?
How might FCRC’s Call To Action campaigns represent reconciliation? (Details are posted on the FCRC Call To Action web page – https://www.pym.org/first-contact-reconciliation-collaborative/call-to-action/)
Where might we notice social constructs that conform Friends to the world; how might we hold Friendly accountability?

 

First Contact Reconciliation Gatherings

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First Contact Reconciliation Collaborative is born of and bound by loving relationships with sovereign Leni-Lenape Tribal Nations who have faithfully remained on their ancestral land, Lenapehoking; both communities hold the Treaty of Amity (1995) promise of perpetual peace and friendship. Our Gatherings begin and close with relevant heart-sharing worship; the agenda is organic and semi-grounded around the following queries:
Why might the term “First Contact” be ascribed?
How might FCRC’s Call To Action campaigns represent reconciliation? (Details are posted on the FCRC Call To Action web page – https://www.pym.org/first-contact-reconciliation-collaborative/call-to-action/)
Where might we notice social constructs that conform Friends to the world; how might we hold Friendly accountability?

 

First Contact Reconciliation Gatherings

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First Contact Reconciliation Collaborative is born of and bound by loving relationships with sovereign Leni-Lenape Tribal Nations who have faithfully remained on their ancestral land, Lenapehoking; both communities hold the Treaty of Amity (1995) promise of perpetual peace and friendship. Our Gatherings begin and close with relevant heart-sharing worship; the agenda is organic and semi-grounded around the following queries:
Why might the term “First Contact” be ascribed?
How might FCRC’s Call To Action campaigns represent reconciliation? (Details are posted on the FCRC Call To Action web page – https://www.pym.org/first-contact-reconciliation-collaborative/call-to-action/)
Where might we notice social constructs that conform Friends to the world; how might we hold Friendly accountability?

 

First Contact Reconciliation Gatherings

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First Contact Reconciliation Collaborative is born of and bound by loving relationships with sovereign Leni-Lenape Tribal Nations who have faithfully remained on their ancestral land, Lenapehoking; both communities hold the Treaty of Amity (1995) promise of perpetual peace and friendship. Our Gatherings begin and close with relevant heart-sharing worship; the agenda is organic and semi-grounded around the following queries:
Why might the term “First Contact” be ascribed?
How might FCRC’s Call To Action campaigns represent reconciliation? (Details are posted on the FCRC Call To Action web page – https://www.pym.org/first-contact-reconciliation-collaborative/call-to-action/)
Where might we notice social constructs that conform Friends to the world; how might we hold Friendly accountability?

 

First Contact Reconciliation Gatherings

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First Contact Reconciliation Collaborative is born of and bound by loving relationships with sovereign Leni-Lenape Tribal Nations who have faithfully remained on their ancestral land, Lenapehoking; both communities hold the Treaty of Amity (1995) promise of perpetual peace and friendship. Our Gatherings begin and close with relevant heart-sharing worship; the agenda is organic and semi-grounded around the following queries:
Why might the term “First Contact” be ascribed?
How might FCRC’s Call To Action campaigns represent reconciliation? (Details are posted on the FCRC Call To Action web page – https://www.pym.org/first-contact-reconciliation-collaborative/call-to-action/)
Where might we notice social constructs that conform Friends to the world; how might we hold Friendly accountability?

 

First Contact Reconciliation Gatherings

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First Contact Reconciliation Collaborative is born of and bound by loving relationships with sovereign Leni-Lenape Tribal Nations who have faithfully remained on their ancestral land, Lenapehoking; both communities hold the Treaty of Amity (1995) promise of perpetual peace and friendship. Our Gatherings begin and close with relevant heart-sharing worship; the agenda is organic and semi-grounded around the following queries:
Why might the term “First Contact” be ascribed?
How might FCRC’s Call To Action campaigns represent reconciliation? (Details are posted on the FCRC Call To Action web page – https://www.pym.org/first-contact-reconciliation-collaborative/call-to-action/)
Where might we notice social constructs that conform Friends to the world; how might we hold Friendly accountability?

 

First Contact Reconciliation Collaborative: Healing and Story-telling on Federal Indian Boarding Schools

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First Contact Reconciliation Collaborative is seeking Friends’ truths. We are looking for those truths that work toward healing and involve humbly examining and sharing our stories.
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I’m Not Your Mascot

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There are schools using racial mascots of Native Nations Peoples within our PhYM community(ies). From the National Congress of American Indians we hear, “Rather than honoring Native peoples, these caricatures and stereotypes are harmful, perpetuate negative stereotypes of America’s first peoples, and contribute to a disregard for the personhood of Native peoples…. [Read more…] about I’m Not Your Mascot

Promised Land

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On Friday, November 2, 2018, members of the First Contact Reconciliation Collaborative (FCRC) attended the screening/ panel discussion of Promised Land, hosted by the National Museum of the American Indians, D.C., and sponsored by the National Congress of American Indians and Alliance of Colonial Era Tribes.

Promised Land “is a social justice documentary that follows two tribes in the Pacific Northwest as they fight for the restoration of treaty rights that have been denied,” as told by members of the Duwamish and Chinook Tribal Nations. Viewers heard stories and saw cultural features of these Peoples, lending to the depth of their indigenous identity, and witnessed the push-back against these indigenous communities, undermining self-determination.

Following the screening, a panel of these tribal members, filmmakers, and sponsors discussed the relevance of the film and entertained questions. We were reminded that the first step in being an “ally” of indigenous peoples is to listen; listen to their leadership.

Pastor JR Norwood (Nanticoke-Lenape, seated with NCAI and ACET) introduced us to the filmmaker team, Vasant and Sarah Salcedo – directors, writers, cinematographers, editor, and producer. We noted, that aside from geographic distance, the story is one that mirrors many tribal nations throughout the country, including those of “early contact” with W. Europeans/ colonization along the east coast, such as Pastor Norwood’s Tribal Nation in southern jersey.

The PhYM FCRC web page “Structural Resources” – https://www.pym.org/first-contact-reconciliation-collaborative/structural-resources/ – contains links to several local tribal nations, where Friends may learn of needs and, with respect, listen to indigenous leadership; listen to tribal nations’ “righteous fight(s).” The FCRC web presence hosts our contact information; we are available to walk-the-walk with Friends at various entry points.

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