{"id":9905,"date":"2020-03-13T14:49:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T19:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/reunification-for-healing-first-of-its-kind\/"},"modified":"2020-03-13T14:49:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T19:49:46","slug":"reunification-for-healing-first-of-its-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/reunification-for-healing-first-of-its-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Reunification for Healing: First of its kind"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>BEMIDJI, Minn. \u2013 Later this month there will be a meeting of peoples from the Dakota, Nakota, Lakota, and Ojibwe in Bemidji, Minnesota.
\nThe event is a Reunification for Healing, and it will feature a presentation and prayer from both Dave Courchene, Objiwe, and Arvol Looking Horse, Lakota and keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe. The event will then wrap up with a traditional dinner of roast chicken, wild rice, berries, potatoes, and swamp tea.
\nThe event is sponsored by the Endazhi Manidoowaadak Team, a Bush foundation grant recipient, which is led by Dr. Vivian Delgado, professor of Native American Studies at Bemidji State University. Only around 200 local spiritual leaders, dignitaries, and chairmen have been invited from the Dakota, Nakota, Lakota, and Ojibwe nations to attend the event.
\nThe reunification\u2019s goal is to put the stereotypical traditional colonizer\u2019s enemy theory behind all the peoples involved. Dr. Delgado hopes that hosting a reunification and showing that the nations are more alike than different despite national, state, and reservation boundaries. Delgado thinks that when nations come together and reunite then a stronger and more impactful voice may be heard from the Native Americans all across the continent and globe.
\nDr. Delgado not only sees uniting a strong picture to be seen from an outside perspective, but the enemy theory also translates to the tribes themselves. \u201cThe only way this is going to work is to start with our native people and put this enemy theory behind us, and as long as we are addressing our own prejudices then we can move onto the white and Indian prejudice,\u201d she said.
\nIn a column in the Bemidji Pioneer, Dr. Delgado wrote \u201cTraditional Enemy Theory: Historically, in the United States, the government has strategically used many colonizing divide and conquer tactics to keep two or more Indigenous nations at odds with each other. Those tactics include written histories, fabricated oral accounts of the same events, treaties, land boundaries, environmental injustices, ignorance\u2019s and traditional enemy theories among Indigenous Nations insinuating that many Nations are still not at peace with the other. This [false history is the foundation behind the] lack of solidarity that prevents the nations from dispelling the inaccuracies that have corrupted many nation to nation relationships.\u201d
\nDelgado also wrote about how and why reunification is already taking place. She wrote \u201cMany examples of reunification, restoration, and affirmation were seen during the No DAPL consciousness, including other sacred sites protection advocacy. These efforts go beyond political unity to a place or group or territory because it includes the entire environment and the spirit of all that is living in that place. When indigenous people come together to pray for the wellbeing of the land and people you will not find division because awareness\/consciousness cannot be divided.\u201d
\nBut reunification, Delgado says, is always a process and can never flow exactly how it is planned. \u201cThis has never been done before. We are anxious and we are optimistic. It is more of a process and we need to let it happen however it happens\u2026 We are providing the space, drums, and food but we really don\u2019t know how it is going to go,\u201d she said.
\nThe Reunification for Healing is taking place in Bemidji partly because that is where Dr. Delgado resides, but also because it is a border town. The Endazhi Manidoowaadak Team has been conducting round tables about Indian-white relations with city residents like the Sheriff and county attorney. \u201cIt is a border town, an Indian\/white border town,\u201d she said \u201cyou can imagine the hostility.\u201d But Delgado believes that with a reunification of Native Americans in this border town and the continued work of the Endazhi Manidoowaadak Team and organizations like it, Bemidji will see normal race relations within the next 30 years. \u201cRight now we are doing the reunification regardless of what the non-Indian people think,\u201d she said.
\n\u201cIt is the hope that we will see indigenous people coming together more frequently to outwardly display their support for a better day, tomorrow, and future. Reunification is a positive reminder of what Indigenous people already know, the importance of each and every one of us and how we make the world in which we live complete,\u201d she wrote in her column. She believes that all Native Americans and Indigenous peoples globally not only have the potential of replicating the reunification, but also to benefit from it.
\nDr. Delgado is the creator of the Native American Studies program at Bemidji State University. She began writing the program in 2012, then it was offered in 2015 and graduated its first graduate in 2016. It is a full 120 credit degree program and is nearly un-paralleled in the country.
\nEndazhi Manidoowaadak translates to Place Where it is Sacred, and the team is entering their second and final year of their grant cycle. Dr. Delgado hopes to attain more grant monies in the future and continue her work with the team.<\/p>\n

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BEMIDJI, Minn. \u2013 Later this month there will be a meeting of peoples from the Dakota, Nakota, Lakota, and Ojibwe in Bemidji, Minnesota. The event is a Reunification for Healing, and it will feature a presentation and prayer from both Dave Courchene, Objiwe, and Arvol Looking Horse, Lakota and keeper <\/p>\n

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