IPAC
Bridging Past and Present: Create a Pendant or Pin with pine needle/ sweet grass led by Debra Morningstar
When: Thu, Apr 24, 2025, 1:00 pm
Where: Oshkosh Seniors Center, 200 N Campbell Road, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 54902
The Indigenous Peoples Allies Committee is a broad-based group of Indigenous and non-Native congregation members and community members. This group began after a congregational study and discussion of the Doctrine of Discovery and its consequent repudiation by the Wisconsin Conference of the UCC (2020). This study was heavily influenced by the writings of Mark Charles in his book Unsettling Truths. Members seek to continue to educate themselves and others about the histories and current circumstances of Indigenous peoples and communities primarily in Wisconsin and the Midwest. They seek ways to become allies of our Native brothers and sisters.
The group’s activities in the past have included events such as a Wade Fernandez concert, other Indigenous arts and cultural presentations, tours of Menominee Nation Sustainable Forest, Blanket Exercise of genocide awareness, pow wow attendance and volunteering, various celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Day and Month, and participation the Brothertown Nation Water Walk. Some of this education has resulted in support of Indigenous-led racial justice initiatives (e.g. MMIWG2S, Racial Justice Conferences) or in activism to protect shared natural resources (e.g. efforts to protect water, land, and species threatened by large corporations). IPAC also promotes the congregational initiatives of Re-Member and the College of Menominee Nation Scholarship Program.
The group meets the first Monday of the month in the Upper Lounge or via Zoom. Please contact the church office for time and current moderator name and email.
Listen to Indigenous pronunciations of the name Fox River in Ho-Chunk, Oneida, & Menominee.