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Black Elk as a Catholic teacher and as a Lakota leader. (Left photo: Marquette University Archives, Bureau of Catholic Indian Mission Records, ID 00559; right photo: Marquette University Archives, Bureau of Catholic Indian Mission Records, ID 01287/Ben Hunt)
FaithFeatures
Damian CostelloJon M. Sweeney
Sainthood for Black Elk could help the inclusion of indigenous Americans within the Catholic Church, but it also raises questions about the church's role in erasing Lakota culture.
Arrival at Kahnawake on Aug. 15. Photo courtesy of Dominik Haake.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Dean Dettloff
For Canada’s 150th anniversary, which has been met with frustration by indigenous people, the Jesuits had another dialogue in mind.
Politics & SocietyNews
J.D. Long García
“It is good to rediscover our history and welcome the diversity of the people in the United States.”
A Brazilian Indian in Brasilia takes part in a demonstration against the violation of indigenous rights on April 27. The Brazilian bishops' Indigenous Missionary Council criticized an April 30 attack in a remote area of Maranhao state that left 13 Gamela Indians injured. (CNS photo/Ueslei Marcelino, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews
Barbara Fraser - Catholic News Service
Catholic leaders respond forcefully to reports that an indigenous group was massacred to make way for illegal gold mining in the Amazon, casting blame on the Brazilian government.
KNOM reporters land in a remote village of western Alaska to cover a news story.
FaithFaith in Focus
Pauline Hovey
KNOM has been broadcasting news, weather and the Mass to Alaskans since 1971.
Students from Fort Albany Residential School reading in class overseen by a nun, circa 1945. From the Edmund Metatawabin collection at the University of Algoma. (Wikimedia Commons)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Rennie Nahanee
As an indigenous person who works for the Catholic Church, I have pondered the value of an apology to the former students of the residential schools.