Land Acknowledgement Initiative
October 12 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm
2nd Mondays | 7-8:30pm | Zoom
Hennepin’s Creation Collective and Racial Justice Teams have been collaborating to develop a land acknowledgment statement and actions for our church. We invite all groups and individual members of HAUMC to join this conversation. We invite each of you into this meaningful, long-term journey to create your own land acknowledgement. More than just words, this project is a commitment to relationship-building, truth-telling, and reparative action with Indigenous communities in Minnesota.
Our monthly meetings on Zoom began Spring 2025. We compiled a list of websites and documents and group members (1) History Statement of Land Acknowledgement and HAUMC and (2) Research for HAUMC Action Plan–available on our group page on Realm.
Activities include book studies, conversations and visits with those in other churches who led land acknowledgement initiatives. We’ve held watch parties online and in person of a video on the Doctrine of Discovery, and we’ve begun work with consultant Rev Dawn Houser. Thirty persons from HAUMC attended a Sacred Sites tour led by Rev Jim Bear Jacobs in November 2025.
Our focus is on working through (rather than on behalf of) the rest of the groups in the church and we invited other HAUMC groups to our meetings. Land Acknowledgement activities other groups in the church have organized include the Three Sisters Garden, Faith’s Imagination winter Series “When We are Called to Dissent and Resist”, The HAUMC Library’s Native American book display, a Native American Art Display, and the Men’s Group winter event: Creation Spirituality: A Night of Readings and Reflections in the Depths.
Leaders: Cece Cope, Tim Eberhart, Ellen Sundell, Ann Carlson
Meeting ID: 872 7727 9883
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