The Native Drum Beckons by Skip Schiel

After parking and walking and lugging, I approach Agape, hear the drum, then smell the sweet grass.  I am smudged…

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Sacred Transformations by David Perkins

A weapon of words is consumed by the flame;/a document to dust, denouncing its claim./Out of ashes now grows a tree;/ a pine for peace, a transformation…

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We Are All One Humanity by Peggy McNew

I am a member of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians of southwest MI.   Water is important to the…

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Men Were Protecting Women with their Hearts by Molly Scott

“I was touched by the local, tribal stories and the women’s prayer ritual when the men were called, as in…

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A Call to Defend the Sacred by Jim Robinson

On the Friday before St. Francis Day, I rolled down the familiar final stretch of Greenwich Road with my friend Ryan Elwood, excited to arrive at Agape after a…

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Peace and Prayer Honor Us by Hawk Looks Far

To sum up what I took from St. Francis Day at Agape would be the word powerful, a strong and fitting word to describe how we as…

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By Bike: Mashpee to Standing Rock: A Journal Excerpt by David Detmold

Wounded Knee Massacre I stopped a few miles south of Porcupine, where Chief Big Foot, suffering from pneumonia and starving, along with his 100 or so…

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Our Drum Echoes over the Water by Joe Dancing Eagle

When I heard of an opportunity to sing and drum at a gathering being held for Standing Rock in Hardwick, MA,…

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Systemic Racism is Alive and Well by Chief Dwaine Perry, Iron Bear

We have experienced conflict and oppression for over 300 years.  Our children were encouraged to drop out of school, so that generation upon generation became weary…

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