Indigenous Affairs Committee
The Indigenous Affairs Committee works to stimulate interest in issues related to American Indians. It works with local Meetings, other Yearly Meetings, and other Friends' organizations to benefit native peoples.
IAC NEWSLETTERS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON THIS PAGE, SCROLL DOWN TO READ THE LATEST ISSUES!
Click to see the complete description of the Committee as it appears in the current Manual of Procedure. Listed below are the current members of the Committee.
E-mail: indigenousaffairs@bym-rsf.org | |
Steven "Steve" Tatum, Co-Clerk Blacksburg Monthly Meeting | Susan "Susannah" Rose, Co-Clerk Patapsco Friends Meeting |
Sharon Stout Adelphi Friends Meeting | John Meyer Friends Meeting of Washington |
Abbey Compton Herndon Friends Meeting | Betty Smallwood Langley Hill Friends Meeting |
Eric Nelson Alexandria Friends Meeting | William "Bill" Mims Langley Hill Friends Meeting |
Darcy Lane Sandy Spring Friends Meeting | Stuart Greene Patapsco Friends Meeting |
Land Acknowledgement
The Baltimore Yearly Meeting office is located on Piscataway ancestral land. BYM’s summer camps are located on the lands of the Piscataway (Catoctin camp, near Thurmont, MD), the Massawomek (Opequon camp, near Winchester, VA), and the Manahoac (Shiloh camp, near Standardsville, VA). BYM honors the peoples and cultures of the many past and present Native Nations in our geographic area.
REPARATIONS TO THE PAWNEE NATION
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What are Reparations
Reparations are an offering, an attempt the repair damage done. The terms "gift" or "donation" are inappropriate terminology. Reparations are actions pursued because of harms done and are intended to help right injustice. Reparations may vary with the damage done and the group for whom the reparations is intended. Because of this causality, it is not truly a gift or donation. Flip the situation. If you or we, in our ancestral homeland where we spoke our language, was/were pressured or forced to use the language of the people who conquered ours, would a contribution towards restoring our language be considered a gift?
Click on the above link to read the proposal for Reparations to the Pawnee Nation as approved during BYM Annual Sessions 2024
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Reparations are an offering, an attempt the repair damage done. The terms "gift" or "donation" are inappropriate terminology. Reparations are actions pursued because of harms done and are intended to help right injustice. Reparations may vary with the damage done and the group for whom the reparations is intended. Because of this causality, it is not truly a gift or donation. Flip the situation. If you or we, in our ancestral homeland where we spoke our language, was/were pressured or forced to use the language of the people who conquered ours, would a contribution towards restoring our language be considered a gift?
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For more information, please click on the link above.
IAC NEWSLETTERS
The Indigenous Affairs Committee has a quarterly newsletter called the Indigenous Affairs Quarterly (IAQ). Read the current issues below
IAC Statement of apology and action
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Click on the above link for more information
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Click on the above link to read more
IAC CONTACTS
Co-Clerk Susannah Rose at susanhillsrose@gmail.com
Committee at indigenousaffairs@bym-rsf.org
BYM Office Phone 301-774-7663
