2013 Tekakwitha Conference Convention; Plus: Native Catholic Stats

ICTMN Staff
April 14, 2013
Native American Catholics have their own national organization, the Tekakwitha Conference ...

First Native American Archbishop: 'Easter and Its Implications'

ICTMN Staff
April 14, 2013
The Most Reverend Charles Chaput, Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe, the Archbishiop of Philadelphia, is the first Native American Archbishiop; he was only the second Native American b...

White House Delegation to Vatican Includes Mohawk Nun Who Brought Kateri Tekakwitha Miracle

ICTMN Staff
October 21, 2012
A Mohawk nun is part of a Presidential delegation attending the canonization mass of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha and Blessed Marianne Cope at the Vatican in Rome...

Turtle Island Indigenous Flock to Vatican to Witness Kateri Tekakwitha’s Canonization

ICTMN Staff
October 21, 2012
From Nova Scotia to British Columbia, and from Mohawk communities in the Northeast to the Yakama in Washington state, First Nations citizens and American Indians streamed to the Va...

Celebrate Blessed Kateri’s Canonization in the Valley Where She Was Born and Raised

ICTMN Staff
October 20, 2012
There are an estimated 680,000 American Indian Catholics in the U.S...

Teen Tibetan Nun Dies After Setting Herself on Fire to Protest China

ICTMN Staff
February 12, 2012
A teenage Tibetan nun is the latest to die after setting herself on fire to protest Chinese occupation of her traditional lands...

Sacred Site Faces Legalized Desecration From Arizona Snowbowl Wastewater

ICTMN Staff
February 10, 2012
The Navajo call them Doko’oo’sliid , or “Shining On Top.” To the Hopi, the peaks are Nuvatukaovi , or “The Place of Snow on the Very Top.” Whatever name they bear, the San Francisc...

Giving Out Bibles in School? Then Distribute Pagan Texts Too, Says Witchcraft Mom

ICTMN Staff
January 19, 2012
There is more than one brand of spirituality, and school districts should not be promoting one over the other, a pagan mother said of the bibles that her son’s school gave out to i...

U.S., Canada, Vie for Tekakwitha 'Ownership,' Though They Did Not Exist During Her Lifetime

ICTMN Staff
January 04, 2012
As the Catholic faithful prepare to see the first aboriginal saint canonized, two nations that did not even exist during her lifetime are vying to call her their own...

Reconciling Christianity and Native Beliefs: Bridging the Gap

Richard Walker
December 25, 2011
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, EuropeanAmerican religion was hostile to the North American continent’s First Nations...

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