Honouring the Declaration

Don Schweitzer is the McDougald Professor of Theology at St. Andrew's College and editor of The United Church of Canada: A History (WLU Press). Paul L. Gareau is Métis and French-Canadian from Bellevue near Batoche, Saskatchewan. He is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.

• Acronyms ForewordDon Schweitzer and Paul L. Gareau IntroductionSandra Beardsall, Sa’ke’j Henderson, and Don Schweitzer Chapter 1: The Indigenous Imperative: The Role of Seminariesin the Realization of Reconciliation and IndigenizingSa’ke’j Henderson Chapter 2: What to Do with All These Canaanites?A Settler-Canadian Reading of Biblical Conquest Stories Christine MitchellChapter 3: Restructured Feelings: Pitfalls of Settler-Christian Turns to Education Lynn Caldwell Chapter 4: The Declaration and the Indigenous Ministriesof the United Church of Canada Adrian Jacobs, Keeper of the Circle, Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre Chapter 5: “Not Alone in This Struggle for Justice”:Project North and the United Church of Canada, 1975–87 Sandra BeardsallChapter 6: Storied Places and Sacred Relations:Métis Density, Lifeways, and Indigenous Rights in the DeclarationPaul L. GareauChapter 7: The Power and Practise of Indigenous Christian Rituals and Ceremonies HyeRan Kim-CraggChapter 8: Justification by Grace as a Spiritual Resource:Non-Indigenous Christians Adopting the Declaration as the Frameworkfor Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada Don SchweitzerChapter 9: The Declaration and the Common Good Jennifer Janzen-BallChapter 10: Working from the Heart:Considering Reconciliation/M?nwastam?towin through the Lensesof Miýo-W?hk?towin, Miýo-Pim?tisiwin, and Gender Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik/Women Walking TogetherAfterword Sa’ke’j Henderson and Don Schweitzer Appendix AAn Ecumenical Statement on the United Nations Declarationon the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Responding to the Truthand Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action Appendix BStatement on un Declaration on the Rights of IndigenousPeoples as the Framework for Reconciliation Index

"[A] truly pioneering work among the schools of theology in Canada." Michel Andraos , Dean of Theology, Université Saint-Paul and editor of The Church and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas