Indigenous Experience Education Resources

In October 2019, the Diocese of California began a conversation about our relationships with the Indigenous People of the Bay Area and across the Episcopal Church. On this page we provide resources and events to continue the conversations about relationship with Indigenous People, Doctrine of Discovery, and Reconcilation. Please join us on this journey of the heart and faith, in the name of Jesus, our brother who broke no promises.

Event:

• Beloved Community Training: Learning about the Doctrine of Discovery: The Rev Lewis Powell, Indigenous Missioner, Diocese of Northern California
  • 9 am – 3pm Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

Episcopal/Anglican Context Information:

• General Convention Resolution on Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery, click here for link. 
• Panel on the Doctrine of Discovery at DioCal Diocesan Convention 2019, view video here.
• TEC’s Indigenous Ministries page.
• Anglican Church of Canada documentary Doctrine of Discovery: Stolen lands, Strong Hearts, view video here.
• Statement from the Province 1 Bishops on the disestablishment of the Mashpee Wamanoag Tribe, click here to read.

Book List:

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West — Dee Brown
• Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto — Vine Deloria, Jr.
• Waterlily — Ella Cara Deloria
• A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769-1810 — Randall Milliken
• The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area — Malcolm Margolin; Illustrations by Michael Harney
• Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir — Deborah A. Miranda
• Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood — Delphine Red Shirt