Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Inuvik, NWT, Canada 

 

The KAIROS Indigenous Rights Circle meeting in North Bay, Ontario articulated support for the Truth, Reconciliation, Equity Campaign

At CircleFest the KIRC Circle is presenting to the larger KAIROS community dialogically. Here Ray Jones articulates thoughts on Liquid Natural Gas and the impact of Fracking on water systems.

The KAIROS Blanket Exercise helps folks learn in an embodied way the historical story of how free land with roaming Indigenous Peoples morphed into today's conflict between the Canadian Government, Canadians and Indigenous Peoples.

The Blanket Exercise is now so popular that it has it's own website: http://kairosblanketexercise.org/

More at http://www.kairoscanada.org/dignity-rights/indigenous-rights/blanket-exercise/

Katy Quinn helps participants view maps that show what archeology clearly reinforces, that there never was "Empty Land" (Terre Nullius) that Europeans discovered as uninhabited.

European discovery based on "Empty Land" was a way of thinking. Thinking of the land as empty and wild (FR. sauvage) cast the European explorers in the role of heros, their financers as entrepreneurs and visionaries and the colonial settlers as people making "something from nothing".  

As Lutherans we were simul iustus et peccator, concurrently sinners and saints, in the history of how Indigenous peoples went from using and occupying all of the land in Canada, to making agreements for trade, then treaties (peace and friendship, pre-confederation, post-confederation  treaties).

See Doctrine of Discovery.