by WebPost | Jan 19, 2025 | Baltimore Yearly Meeting, Indigenous Affairs
Three Friends travelled to the Pawnee nation in Oklahoma to deliver a $10,000 check from Baltimore Yearly Meeting. The check was the first of two offered in reparation for a school run for several years in the late 1800s by BYM Quakers that was disrespectful and...
by WebPost | Nov 16, 2024 | Baltimore Yearly Meeting, Indigenous Affairs
This Thanksgiving, consider joining Native peoples in gratitude by remembering the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address. At Patapsco Friends Meeting, the address was read together one year – each person read a section of this powerful offering of thanks to the natural...
by WebPost | Jun 30, 2024 | Baltimore Yearly Meeting, History - Quaker, Indigenous Affairs, Social justice
“… Quakers could begin to make reparations by funding Indigenous language schools. [As suggested by a member of Twin Cities Meeting] “An important step Friends can take, both individually and collectively to address the deep harms caused by boarding schools is to...
