Montana Synod Land Acknowledgement and Recognition of Indigenous Peoples
As the Montana and N. Wyoming Synod, we gather and live on lands blessed and cared for by the people and ancestors of the Crow/Appsalooke, the Northern Cheyenne, the Salish Kootenai, the Blackfeet/Niitsitapi, the Assiniboine/Nakoda, the Chippewa and Cree, the Sioux, the Gros Ventre, and the Little Shell tribes and nations as well as the immigrants and settlers from many lands who have come to the places where we currently reside.
Together as the Montana Synod, we recognize the many generations across time immemorial of Indigenous peoples who have lived in holy relationship with these lands long before us and continue to live among and alongside us.
We as the church confess and repent of our past and ongoing actions that have oppressed, harmed and attempted to destroy our Indigenous neighbors whom we honor with gratitude for their gifts and diversity as full and equal children of the Creator and thus fully deserving of the dignity, respect and love that all human beings deserve. And we repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery and the idea of manifest destiny through which settlers falsely claimed a divine will for the sins we as individuals, society and church have committed against Indigenous tribes and nations.
We commit ourselves to the hard but necessary healing, reconciliation and relationship-building work that holds us accountable to seeking justice, wholeness and abundance of life for all people, particularly and especially our Indigenous siblings.
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Together as the Montana Synod, we recognize the many generations across time immemorial of Indigenous peoples who have lived in holy relationship with these lands long before us and continue to live among and alongside us.
We as the church confess and repent of our past and ongoing actions that have oppressed, harmed and attempted to destroy our Indigenous neighbors whom we honor with gratitude for their gifts and diversity as full and equal children of the Creator and thus fully deserving of the dignity, respect and love that all human beings deserve. And we repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery and the idea of manifest destiny through which settlers falsely claimed a divine will for the sins we as individuals, society and church have committed against Indigenous tribes and nations.
We commit ourselves to the hard but necessary healing, reconciliation and relationship-building work that holds us accountable to seeking justice, wholeness and abundance of life for all people, particularly and especially our Indigenous siblings.
Download this acknowledgement here
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