Sermons

He taught people the Ghost dance-most American officials failed to recognize that it bore a message that was nearly entirely Christian. Non-violent, Love, nothing but dancing and singing. But like the threat of Jesus to Rome, the danger was tangible. The final dance ended with rifles and cannon stopped the dancing at Wounded Knee. We failed to give them credit. We failed to learn something about them. We failed to learn something about ourselves. And we failed to become one family, one tribe, on nation. We failed then. But now is not then. We may begin again. May we walk in beauty.

Grandfather,
Look at our brokenness.
We know that in all creation
Only the human family
Has strayed from the sacred way.
We know that we are the wones
Who are divided
And we are the ones
Who must come back together
To walk in the Sacred Way.

Sacred One,
Teach us love, compassion, and honor
That we may heal the earth
And heal each other.
– Canadian Ojibway prayer

Amen. John F. Herman

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Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. New York; Hold, Rinehart & Winston, 1970.
Norman W. Jackson, “An Indian Perspective on the United Church of Christ” in New Conversations- Spring 2000. Cleveland: United Church Board for Homeland Ministries.
Oliver Lafarge, A Pictorial History of the American Indian. Maplewood NJ: C.S. Hammond, 1956
Ben Reist, Theology in Red, White and Black. Philadelphia: Westminster Press. 1975.

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