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A Rare Offering from the Lakota Nation and the Zen Peacemaker Order: Native American Bearing Witness Retreat August 10-14 2015.

First nations around the world have lost their lands, languages, and ways of life at the hands of European colonialists pursuing an agenda of domination, genocide, theft, and the elimination of indigenous cultures and identities. Entire nations have vanished. This catastrophe is not just theirs; it belongs to all humans, and to the earth itself, for it has been succeeded by the calamitous loss of animals and plants, and the specter of global warming.

While hundreds of Native American tribes have been eliminated, drastically reduced in number, exiled, and traumatized, the Lakota/Dakota people of the Western Plains have gained a prominent position in the world psyche as a major archetype of what has befallen America’s native people. The massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on December 29, 1890, is viewed by many as a defining event in the genocide of the American Indians, but it is just the tip of the iceberg.

The Native American Bearing Witness Retreat in August 2015 at the Lakota sacred site of the Black Hills, is but the first step in a process of coming together with Native Americans, many of whom continue to distrust. Join an international gathering lead by Lakota elders to bear witness and learn of this deep shadow of humanity that still prevails, here.  

 

Mornings will begin with council circles led by trained facilitators, so that individuals could share their experiences in small groups. AA meetings will take place every day. 
 
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