Medford Meeting will host speaker Cynthia Mosley, historian for St. John United Methodist Church, the church of the Lenape people. She will discuss the impact of major dates in history on the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape people as well as important headlines of today, such as the unseen tears at residential boarding schools and the resulting generational trauma, the increasing incidence of murdered and missing indigenous women, and the recent loss of 7 years in life expectancy of Native Americans. The efforts of the Methodist Church to end systemic racism in the church could be a model for other socially minded groups. In person and via zoom; call the office (609-915-8914) for zoom link.
Native American
Broadcast of Must See Documentary Dawnland 11-5-18 @ 10 PBS
Greetings from the Indian Committee
We want you to be aware of on MONDAY NOVEMBER 5th 10PM PBS will broadcast DAWNLAND
Our friends Wayne Newell and Denise Altvater (AFSC WABANAKI) are among those featured. See link below.
Thanks to Elizabeth Koopman
About the Film
They were forced to assimilate into white society: children ripped away from their families, depriving them of their culture and erasing their identities. Can reconciliation help heal the scars from childhoods lost? Dawnland is the untold story of Indigenous child removal in the US through the nation’s first-ever government-endorsed truth and reconciliation commission, which investigated the devastating impact of Maine’s child welfare practices on the Wabanaki people.
PS Learn the Lenape Language online! http://talk-lenape.org/getting-started