Racial Justice Working Group
Statement of Equality 7.17.22.pdfRESOURCES - General History
The Other Slavery - Andrés Reséndez - 2017 - ISBN: 978-0-544-94710-8
Native American slavery and debt peonage from 1492 to present.
Sobering, informative, well-documented and well-written.
White Shell Water Place - F. Richard Sanchez, ed. - 2010 - ISBN: 978-0-86534-787-8
An Anthology of Native American Reflections on the 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Not "A Nation of Immigrants" - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - 2021 - ISBN: 978-0-8070-5558-8
Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
The Three-Cornered War - Megan Kate Nelson - 2020 - ISBN: 978-1-5011-5255-9
The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
Kearny's March - Winston Groom - 2010 - ISBN: 978-0-307-45574-1
The role of Stephen Watts Kearny's expedition in the much broader context of the Mexican-American War.
New Mexico in the Mexican-American War - Ray John de Aragón - 2019 - ISBN: 978-1-4671-4131-4
Native New Mexican account of events during the Mexican-American War.
RESOURCES - Land Acknowledgement
The Land Remembers, by Paula Palmer, Friends Journal, Feb 1, 2020
We are related through the land. Wherever we live, how can we begin to acknowledge this; to celebrate it; to work toward a relationship with Native people based on truth, respect, justice, and our shared humanity? What difference would it make for the descendants of the people who first loved this land and for all the rest of us? (Paula Palmer)
https://www.friendsjournal.org/the-land-remembers-connecting-with-native-people-through-the-land/
Website for Towards High Relationships with Native Americans. Friends Peace Teams
Many text and video resources are noted, including upcoming events.
https://friendspeaceteams.org/trr/#
"So you began your event with an Indigenous land acknowledgment" .... National Public Radio. March 15, 2003 - Indigenous leaders and activists have mixed feelings about land acknowledgments. While some say they are a waste of time, others are working to make the well-meaning but often empty speeches more useful.
Truth and Reconciliation and Land Acknowledgements, Canadian Friends Service Committee
We asked Ellen Gabriel, [Canadian Indigenous. Leader] how do you feel about land acknowledgments? Her insights help deepen our understanding of land and reconciliation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMR_aVbiFUw
Guidance Materials found in New Mexico Examples
https://nativegov.org/news/a-guide-to-indigenous-land-acknowledgment/
https://nativegov.org/resources/beyond-land-acknowledgment-a-guide/
RESOURCES - Current Issues
Green Fire Times - Vol. 16 No. 4 - July/August 2024 - "Indigenous Solutions"
Water - Energy - Agriculture - Land Stewardship - Education - Community Development - Cultural Tourism
https://www.greenfiretimes.com/_files/ugd/1efec1_672f712e39d54b47ad91c0b61a195f3f.pdf
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT STATEMENT - Draft (1 July 2024)
We are on the unceded lands of the Tewa people, other indigenous peoples, other beings, and also the traveling lands of many nations in the Río Grande Rift Valley. We recognize and are grateful for the ongoing stewardship and contemporary and past contributions of indigenous people to this land their rights to sovereignty, respect, and safety here.
QUERIES - Land Acknowledgement Worship Sharing - 21 July 2024
1. Language of the statement.
What do you think our full responsibility is to our Indigenous neighbors in light of the Land Acknowledgement?
2. Recompense for historical wrongs.
As newcomers, we want to seek a different relationship with Indigenous stewards of the land where we are. What would right relationships look like?
3. Going forward, what are we led to do as individuals and as a Meeting?
How do we help Indigenous messages get through to white communities? What forms might this take?
ACTIONS -
NAMED SCHOLARSHIP GIFT AGREEMENT
between
Santa Fe Friends Meeting (Quakers)
and
Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation
This named scholarship gift agreement made this 8 day of August 2024, sets
forth the entire understanding between Santa Fe Friends Meeting (Quakers) (the “Donor”)
and the Institute of American Indian Arts (“IAIA”) with respect to IAIA’s administration of the
Olive Rush Memorial Scholarship (the “Fund”).
1. Purpose of the Fund: The Fund is being established to support tuition and fees for one
student in any major.
2. Name of Scholarship. The Donor and IAIA agree the gift will be used to create the
“Olive Rush Memorial Scholarship” (the “Fund”) at IAIA.
3. Scholarship Criteria: The gift shall be used to provide scholarship assistance to one
student at IAIA in accordance with the following criteria:
a. An enrolled part- or full-time undergraduate student in any major
b. In good academic standing
c. Awarded on a financial need basis determined by FASFA application
d. To cover tuition and fees
The scholarship will be awarded by the IAIA Financial Aid Office after it has reviewed
all eligible students and selected the best candidates according to the criteria
described above. In the event a suitable candidate for the scholarship, in accordance
with the criteria set forth herein, is not found, this gift will be offered to a student who
best matches these criteria.
4. Source of the Fund: Fund will be established with a gift of $2,500 to be paid as follows:
$1,000 First year scholarship
$1,000 Second year scholarship
$ 375 Amount remaining for year 3 after 5% administrative fee applied
$ 125 IAIA Foundation 5% administrative fee
The Donor reserves the right to make additional gifts to the Fund and consents to
additional contributions to the Fund by any interested individual, corporation, foundation,
trust, estate or other legal entity through individual gift, bequest, or other gift vehicle, and
all gifts so designated shall be subject to the provisions of this Agreement.
5. Duration of the Fund: A named scholarship fund is not perpetual. It is anticipated that
the principal and earnings of the Fund will be distributed, committed, granted or
expended, provided, however, that all such distributions, commitments, grants or
expenditures shall be in accordance with paragraph (3) above. Once all funds are
distributed the named fund will cease to exist.
6. Inadequate Funding: The amount needed to fully fund a named scholarship shall be
the amount required by IAIA on the date the scholarship is awarded. If, the value of the
Fund is less than the minimum required, after consultation with the Donor, if available,
the Fund may be merged with an existing fund whose purpose will most nearly
accomplish the Donor’s intention evidenced by the purpose described above.
7. Investment Authority: The Fund shall be invested in accordance with the investment
policies of IAIA as established by the IAIA Board of Trustees. For purposes of
investment only, the monies of this Fund may be pooled/comingled with other
endowment funds held by the IAIA Trust. At all times the Fund shall be separately
accounted for in the IAIA Trust’s books and records.
8. Administration of the Fund: The Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation is a tax-
exempt 501(c)(3) organization, EIN #32-0377684. An administrative fee of 5% shall be
applied at the time contributions are received to further advancement efforts on behalf of
IAIA and our students.
9. Reporting: Reports on performance of the Fund and use of the proceeds may be
provided annually to the Donor upon request.
10. Announcement of the Fund: To honor the Donor, and to express the appreciation of
IAIA, internal and external publicity will be made with permission of the Donor. Publicity
may include an announcement of the Fund, amount, and pertinent details.
11. Modification of Agreement: The terms and conditions of this Agreement may not be
orally amended, modified, or altered, but may be amended, modified, or altered only in
writing and signed by the Donors and the IAIA Foundation.