This Week in Native American News (7/21/17): film making, whale hunting, and lacrosse playing

In this moving, 10-minute profile, a Shoshone elder from Wyoming reflects on his childhood and his time fighting in Vietnam.

Philbert McLeod is featured in the new documentary What Was Ours, about Native Americans’ fight to reclaim their missing artifacts from Chicago’s Field Museum. You can stream the full documentary on the PBS website. 

Jesus, pour out your love on everyone in [your reservation/city] and especially touch those in a position of authority and leadership. Thank you for your love for them and for the role they have in proclaiming the Gospel to their community. 

It has borne rich fruit in the Master's Church; for this vindication of Jesus of his conduct in going so often into the society of the moral waifs and strays of the population has been the real "foundation of all those philanthropic movements which enlist the upper classes of society in the blessed work of bending down to meet in love the lower classes, so that the snapped circle of humanity may be restored; it is the philosophy in a nutshell of all home and missionary operations"

"Smokin’ Fish is more than preparing traditional smoked salmon," explains Luke Griswold-Tergis, the film's producer, co-director and writer. "We see traditional food as a connection with history and with the land, as well as a pillar that supports living Indigenous culture."

This Week in Native American News (7/14/17): build a village, educate the people, and visit the family

Why does it feel like a personal attack?

Because it is personal!

Suicide has touched family and close friends of our ministry staff in recent months. Your gift today gives us important resources to make a significant difference. You are helping us to bring the Word of Eternal Life to our Native brothers and sisters.

Jesus, I choose to bless and have hope for [my reservation/city]. Fill my heart with compassion for the lost and broken Native peoples. Help me to see the way You love them. Lead me and use me to bless those who need it most - so much that the storehouses would not be able to contain it. Use these blessings to draw people to Yourself to see that You are the true giver of all things.