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We offer opportunities to learn about the history of European settlement and colonization on this land, Turtle Island (colonially known as North America). This history is not intended to shame us as individuals, but as an invitation to better understand how our the dominant systems emerged and continue to perpetuate harm, so that we can make informed choices to not participate in those systems.

Each spring, we host an in-person two-hour workshop in partnership with Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples to explore the history of 500 years of colonization on Turtle Island, beginning with the Doctrine of Discovery. To learn about our next opportunity for learning honest and humble history of our nation and region, visit our Events page.

Cultural Programming for European-descended Settlers: many of our ancestors experienced centuries of violence across Europe, which disrupted their land-based connections and traditions, destroyed their communities and governance systems, and marginalized their local languages and ontologies. Unaddressed and unhealed, our forebears perpetrated similar violence against the Indigenous Peoples of this continent and Africa through settler colonialism, genocidal policies, kidnapping, enslavement, and other forms of dispossession.

We offer gatherings and opportunities for descendants of European settlers and other non-Indigenous Peoples to learn about and engage with ancestral land-based knowledges and life-giving traditions that root us in relationship with each other and the Living World.

Settler colonialism, white supremacy, and patriarchy have wounded all of us in different ways and to varying degrees.  When European-descended settlers become sensitized to these legacies, we often experience difficult emotions.  We may feel culturally adrift, get stuck in guilt and shame, or doubt our capacity to relate to Indigenous lands, Peoples, and cultures in respectful ways. 

Sacred Land Alliance coordinates supportive community gatherings to navigate and transmute these challenges.  Our Accompaniment Team is designed to support each other in this work. Together, we build our spiritual and emotional resilience, which increases our capacity for right relationship over time.