Racism, spiritual terrorism and the loss of Indigenous culture are among numerous social issues being targeted by the Turtle Island Project - founded in northern Michigan in August 2007.
A pair of Midwest pastors launched the Turtle Island Project because they believe the world is sitting on the brink of important cultural, economic and religious issues that will either allow humans to prosper in harmony with the Earth or become the only species to cause its own extinction.
Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard and Rev. Dr. George Cairns say some - if not many - Christians belittle the knowledge and heritage of Indigenous cultures like Native Americans, Celts and other centuries-old religions and beliefs that are aligned closely with nature and the environment.
They believe we can all learn a lot about nature and the environment by listening to these Earth-based cultures.
Rev. Hubbard is a Lutheran pastor, and Rev. Cairns is an ordained United Church of Christ minister.
Both have extensive backgrounds in interfaith and multi-cultural work.
The Turtle Island Project (TIP), based in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, promotes respect for the environment and Native Americans.
Turtle Island Project volunteer media advisor Greg Peterson has two stories on the founders, their goals and the first six months of the Turtle Island Project.
Turtle island TV on BlipTV:
Turtle Island Project: Respect for Indigenous Peoples, Environment
[1]
Click To Play [2]
Brink of destruction: Losing Heritage, Culture, Storytellers
[3]
Click To Play [4]
Turtle Island TV on YouTube:
Brink of destruction: Losing Heritage, Culture, Storytellers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg5abYD3T_c [5]
Turtle Island Project: Respecting Indigenous Peoples, Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KM1RQ0lCzk [6]
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Turtle Island Project main website:
http://www.turtleislandproject.org [7]
Turtle Island TV (blipTV)
http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv [8]
Turtle Island TV (youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse [9]
Turtle Island (myspace)
http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject [10]
Turtle Island Project websites/Blogs:
http://groups.msn.com/WhisperingTurtle [11]
http://turtleislandproject.wordpress.com [12]
email:
TurtleIslandProject@charter.net [13]
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Lakota words for God, Creator, Grandfather:
Tunkasila
Wakantanka
Gitchi Manitou
Lakota: Mitakyasi: "all my relatives"
http://www.dlncoalition.org/home.htm [14]
Heraclitus "The essence of things"
http://www.thebigview.com/greeks/heraclitus.html [15]
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/books/philosophy-book-heraclitus.htm [16]
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Bishop Rt. Rev. Steven Charleston
President and Dean of Episcopal Divinity School and Professor of Theology
Cambridge, Mass.
http://www.eds.edu/indexDyn.asp [17]
http://www.eds.edu/sec.asp?cat=92&page=85 [18]
Stepping Stones Podcasts: Daily meditation provided by Bishop Steven Charleston..
Steve Charleston (Choctaw) was consecrated as the sixth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska in 1991
Rev. Dr. Charleston was the national staff officer for Native American ministries in the Episcopal Church; he became the Director of the Dakota Leadership Program and developed alternative training models for indigenous laity and clergy on the many reservation communities of the Dakotas.
Bishop Charleston has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, BBC World News, BBC Today Programme, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, The O'Reilly Factor, and Hannity & Colmes, and WRKO radio in Boston.
scharleston@eds.edu [20]
Websites about Bishop Charleston:
http://www.wfn.org/1999/05/msg00107.html [21]
http://www.nah.uiuc.edu/faculty/treaty/NCcharleston.html [22]
http://www.anglican.ca/news/news.php?newsItem=2001-07-05_st.news [23]
http://www.bluecloud.org/shiningthrough.html [24]
http://www.thewitness.org/agw/charleston042204.html [25]
http://edoc.vox.com/library/posts/tags/steven+charleston [26]
http://www.interfaithcreationfest.org/program.html#keynote [27]
Jamestown summit remembers Native saints, prepares for future generations:
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78695_91767_ENG_HTM.htm [28]
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/images/elo_jamestown1_md.jpg [29]
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/hires-image/elo_jamestown1_lg.tif [30]
Photo by Carlyle Gravely
Participants in the opening eucharist at the New Jamestown Covenant Summit in procession at the Historic Jamestowne site.
Images accompanying articles may be reproduced providing credit is given to the source and the photographer.
© 2007 Episcopal Life Online
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February 2008 United Nations Report on Racism and Human Rights violations against Indigenous Peoples including in the United States:
The report "highlights a range of human rights violations and examples of racial discrimination reported by Indigenous Peoples in the US."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/I_P_I/message/18971 [31]
Full report:
http://www.treatycouncil.org [32]
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Rate of Species Extinction:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rate+of+species+extinction&btnG=Google+Search [33]
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/01/31_olsond_biodiversity [34]
http://www.iucn.org/themes/Ssc/red_list_2004/Extinction_media_brief_2004.pdf [35]
http://www.iucn.org/en/news/archive/2001_2005/press/species2000.html [36]
http://www.earthportals.com/extinct.html [37]
http://www.rainforestweb.org/Rainforest_Information/Species_Extinction [38]
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Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore:
http://www.climatecrisis.net/ [39]
http://www.climatecrisis.net/aboutthefilm/ [40]
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/060524-global-warming.html [41]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497116 [42]
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Rosebud Tribe official website:
http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov [43]
1973 Wounded Knee Incident & the earlier 1890 massacre of 146 Indians by government troops:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Incident [44]
http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Incident [45]
Pine Ridge Reservation Info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Ridge_Reservation [46]
Pine Ridge shocking photos: