Date: Looking towards spring, 2027. Dates will be announced in late September, 2026
Cost: $1050, plus travel
Registration deadline: not set
Location: On Navajoland, near Bluff, Utah
Minimum number of participants: 20, ask friends, small groups to join you
Become better acquainted with Indigenous Peoples, their profound connection to the land we inhabit, and the settler colonial history that is antagonistic to their culture, spirituality, and way of life.
You and your community are invited to engage with contemporary Indigenous realities, explore the histories of Indigenous Peoples, and examine the complexities of Indigenous-settler relations. What might it mean for your community to stand in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and actively contribute to the work of truth telling and repair?
The experience will be jointly hosted Mennonite Mission Network, the Episcopal Church on Navajoland and the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery, and led by executive director Sarah Augustine and Joe Hubbard, Episcopal priest and convener of the Episcopal Indigenous Justice Roundtable. Mission Network staff will travel with the pilgrimage group to help manage details and logistics.
The goal of a pilgrim is not to solve but to search, not so much to help as to be present.
– From The “Practice of Pilgrimage” by Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice, Reconciling All Things, 2008.
Frequently asked questions about the pilgrimage
Itinerary highlights
- Each day will include Circle Reflection time
- Elder conversations
- Excursions to Monument Valley, St. Mary of the Moonlite and other sacred locations
- Hogan talking circle
- Community meals
- more to come….
Topics
- Settlement and colonization
- Sustainable agriculture
- Ongoing displacement of indigenous people
- more information to come….
Frequently asked questions about the pilgrimage
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