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The author of "Hawk Dancer" presents these selected Ecumenical minded web site links dealing with Native Ministry and related Native concerns.

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Quote: "First, get to know who the Native people are in your diocese, and then learn the gifts they have to offer and the needs they have."

Blue Cloud Benedictine Monastery presents several articles on Native American ministry. Benedictine Monks came to the Dakota Territory in 1876 at the request of Sitting Bull.

Keepers of Creation Church: A Church praying in Native manner thanking God.
This is also known as Native American Orthodox Catholic Church
"Special attention needs to be given to vocations among indigenous peoples: they need a formation which takes account of their culture. While receiving a proper theological and pastoral formation for their future ministry, these candidates for the priesthood should not be uprooted from their own culture."
Ecclesia in America by Pope John Paul II
                                  (Photo right: Patriarch Alexander Swift Eagle Justice, PhD - Keepers of Creation Church)

Tekakwitha Conference: For clergy, men and women Religious, all Native People, and all who minister with Native Americans, and other interested people. Membership is open to all denominations.

Episcopal connections to Native American Ministries, Los Angelese Diocese, all California.

The Society of St. Paul, The Priests and Brothers of the Society of St. Paul is a Religious Congregation dedicated to modern communications. "In those countries where circumstances warrant it our activity will promote indigenous culture as well." [Constitutions of the Society of St. Paul, # 72.1]

St Pauls/Alba House publishing Click to order books and other medias from the Society of St. Paul (listed above).

Sioux Spiritual Center, South Dakota on the Rose Bud Reservation is a joint effort of leadership among Lakota, Jesuits and other leaders in culture and ministry. Classes and retreats.

Anishinabe Spiritual Centre, Espanola, Ontario (Canada). This spiritual centre and retreat is located in the northern reaches of Lake Huron, a little north of Mantoulin Island. Similar to the Siox Spiritual Centre, this is a joint work of Anishinabe and Jesuit concern.

Diocese of Rapid City, South Dakota. This takes you to the home page. Click onto "Diocesan Ministries" and then "Native American" or "Inculturation." Rapid City has one of the most comprehensive Native ministy.

Diocese of Grand Rapids, lower Michigan Basic information, plus contacts.

Rainbow Eagle, is an Okla-choctaw American Indian. He is a Wisdom Keeper centered in Ohio and gives retreats and talks across the country and in several countries.

The Order of St. James This is a new program geared for persons already involved in Native Ministries and Native Concerns. Although it has not been formaly erected as a Religious Order -- the Order of St. James is looking for persons to commit themselves to praying for such an Order. For now, it is a forum for those currently involved with promotion of Indigenous Culture in the Church so they can share experiences and lend support to each other.

United Nations Indigenous portal Part of the United Uations Indigenous Forum.


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Contact me, the author, if you want me to link to your site. Although I frequently check these links, it is possible for a site to change address. Let me know if you think you were taken to a site different than what I discribed above.

Birch Clump Novels link to a video synopsis on the novels by Bro. Joshua. The video is hosted on the "St. Pauls Tube" web site.

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"Your culture ... must not be allowed to disappear"

Quotes from Pope John Paul II – Alice springs, Australia

The Gospel now invites you to become, through and through, Aboriginal Christians.

You do not have to be people divided into two parts, as though an Aboriginal had to borrow the faith and life of Christianity, like a hat or a pair of shoes, from someone else who owns them.

Jesus calls you to accept His words and His values into your own culture. To develop in this way will make you more than ever truly Aboriginal.

The Old Ways can draw new life and strength from the Gospel.

Take this Gospel into you own language and way of speaking; let its Spirit penetrate your communities … … let it bring new strength to your stories and your ceremonies.

Express the living Word of Jesus in ways that speak to your Aboriginal minds and hearts.

All over the world people worship God and read His Word in their own language, and color the great signs and symbols of religion with touches of their own traditions. Why should you be any different from them in this regard, why should you not be allowed happiness of being with God and each other in Aboriginal Fashion?

--JOHN PAUL II, The Defence of the Rights of Aboriginies, Nov. 29, 1986

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