Land Acknowledgment 2023
Missions Spotlight
One year ago, Reverend Carly Stucklen Sather received a request that the First Congregational Church of La Grange post a land acknowledgement recognizing that the church stands on the traditional land of The Council of Three Fires. She passed this request on to the Ministry of Missions. Since then, we have taken slow, faltering steps trying to understand the history of our area and our relationship to that history. The thousands of years that Indigenous people have lived in Illinois is a richly complex history. On Sunday, September 11 Reverend Carly invited Joseph Standing Bear Schranz of Midwest SOARRING Foundation to speak to our congregation. Later that day, he took part in the annual Race Unity Rally at Village Hall.
On our 2023 annual meeting, the congregation voted on acceptance of the Land Acknowledgment statement.
Respectfully,
The Ministry of Missions
August 2022
Three Sisters
Paleo Period: 18,000 BCE to 8000 BCE
8000 BCE to 6000 BCE
6000 BCE to 3000 BCE
3000 BCE to 1000 BCE
Early & Middle Period: 1000 BCE to 500 CE
500 CE to 1000 CE
900 CE to 1500 CE
Excerpt from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer on the Three Sisters
1600s
1825 to 1830
1832
with the Council of Three Fires (Ojibwae, Odawa & Potawatomi) 1821-1833
1690 through 1830s
Potawatomi Nation 1820 to 1840
1830 to 850
The First People
1919 through to the 1960s
Right to Vote 1900 - 2000
2013
June 2022
of Illinois today