CPT is about to deliver a letter of support to Chief Theresa Spence on hunger strike outside Canadian Parliament as lawmakers consider passing additional bills threatening First Nations treaty rights.

Give thanks for ten years of perseverance of the Grassy Narrows community north of Kenora, Ontario in protecting 2,500 square miles of forest, lakes and rivers from logging. Ask for the Spirit to stir solidarity that such protection may continue and expand.

Join one of many tenth anniversary
celebrations of Grassy Narrows'
defense of its territory from logging
companies tomorrow, December 2!

Have you seen a story,

Touched a memory...

Thank our Maker for joyous interplay among Spirit, earth, sky, water, plants, animals and humans, for the vitality of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) community and of the lands and waters they protect, and for tyranny’s defeat by victorious service.

A First Nation community revels in and protects its homeland's waterways. Photographic, video and verbal delights on Big Trout Lake and area rivers flow from a 350 km canoe journey through their traditional territory.

  

Residential schools have harmed seven generations. It may take seven more to rediscover the harmony they obliterated.

Prayers for Peacemakers, September 13, 2012

Thank you, God, for new openings to truth and reconciliation among indigenous communities and Canadian settlers. Put allies, prophets and healers to work, healing both victims and perpetrators of ethnocide and defending your creation from plunder.

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Church and State in Canada colluded to set up Residential Schools as a means to eliminate Aboriginal parents’ involvement in their children's intellectual, cultural and spiritual development.  In a five-year program they hope to begin healing some of the ongoing harm they caused.

After several weeks of continuous presence at Poigan Bay, Algonquins of Barriere Lake protesting logging without consent of community land-users have negotiated a way forward.