Indigenous Justice

Sacred Sites Tour

Emerging Indigenous Justice Team

Saturday, June 5 • 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
On Saturday, June 5, Unity Church will sponsor another Sacred Sites Tour offered by Healing Minnesota Stories and created and led by Rev. Jim Bear Jacobs (Mohican). Several groups from Unity have attended these tours in earlier offerings. If you haven't yet experienced one, we hope you'll consider attending this powerful opportunity to learn about Minnesota history from a Native perspective through storytelling and reverently visiting three sites sacred to the Dakota people. Space is limited.

The tour is entirely outdoors and, for COVID-19 precautions, is limited in size, with participants driving themselves to each of the three sites, all near the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers. More detailed instructions for participation will be sent the week before the program. As a brief introduction to Jim Bear Jacobs and the focus of these tours, you might view these two brief video messages from the Rev. Jim Bear Jacobs, recorded last fall for our October 18 worship service: Bdote Stories of First Creation and Wrestling with Stories of Trauma in the Land Beneath Our Feet.

To register or indicate your interest, please fill out the following form.

Sacred Sites Tour: June 5, 2021

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Unity Church pays Healing Minnesota Stories the full fee for these tours and asks participants to share that cost as you are able. The suggested price for individual attendance is $50. Please choose one option below. Instructions for how to complete the payment will be emailed along with your registration confirmation: *

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During fall 2020, in worship, programming, and Sacred Sites Tours, Unity Church has sought to better understand the history experienced by indigenous people in Minnesota and how it lives on in the present day. We have been called into a “season of lament” over the deep suffering in those stories. During fall 2020, in worship, programming, and Sacred Sites Tours, Unity Church has sought to better understand the history experienced by indigenous people in Minnesota and how it lives on in the present day. We have been called into a “season of lament” over the deep suffering in those stories. Two brief video messages from the Rev. Jim Bear Jacobs, shared in our October 18 worship service, “Moving at the Speed of Trust,” are now available online:

You can also read an account of the Sacred Sites Tours, attended by Unity Church members this fall, in the Beloved Community Team Blog: https://bit.ly/sacredsitesblog.
If you are interested in joining the continuing conversation about how we stay present to this lament while deepening our congregational commitment to Indigenous justice and reparations, contact Karen Hering at karen@unityunitarian.org.