Roshi Glassman, Zen Peacemakers Join Chief Looking Horse’s Prayer for Standing Rock
Sage from Cheyenne River reservation burned today at Zen Peacemakers offices. MONTAGUE, MASSACHUSETTS, USA. L […]
“If You Ask For Help, You Get Help” – A Zen Peacemaker’s Report from Standing Rock
By Sensei Michel Engu Dobbs, Zen Peacemaker Order STANDING ROCK, SOUTH DAKOTA. About an hour after going into […]
When An Elder Speaks: Impressions from Standing Rock
In September 2016, Roshi Anne Seisen Saunders, abbot of Sweetwater Zen Center, San Diego USA and member of th […]
Standing People, Rooted People: Peacemaking Among the Indigenous Cultures of Southern Africa and Turtle Island
Drawing experiences from different corners of the world, two ZPO members, one from the United States, Roshi Grover Genro Gauntt and one from Finland, Mikko Ijäs, share their stories of being welcomed by #FirstNations and the #indigenous peoples of Turtle Island (Northern America) and Southern Africa and how their appreciation of #peacemaking was affected by encountering these rich wisdom cultures and the individuals that embodied them.
2019 Zen Peacemakers Bearing Witness Programs Impact Report
The Auschwitz-Birkenau retreat is the core program of ZPI’s Bearing Witness programs. What follows is this year’s impact report on the 23rd Bearing Witness retreat in Auschwitz.
Impact Report: Auschwitz-Birkenau Bearing Witness Retreat
Since 1996 the Auschwitz retreat has been an interfaith and immersive cross-cultural gathering event for over 1500 peacebuilders from different war-torn countries such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Palestine/Israel, Syria, Native American Nations and over 20 other countries. This 2018 impact report details some of the many positive results of the program.
Native Americans fight for items looted from bodies at Wounded Knee
Peace offerings of tobacco ties adorn the fence at the Wounded Knee Memorial on the Pine Ridge Reservation in […]
Five Days Together on Sacred Land
by Geoff O’Keeffe To the east lie the Black Hills, to the west, the Bighorn Mountains. Between is a vast […]
A Gift of Not Knowing
Peter Pierson, a writer and a participant in the Native American Bearing Witness Plunge in 2019, offers us a reflective writing piece that shares a bit about how the practice of “Not Know” remained with him throughout his return home, long after the retreat had come to an end.
Start Talking Lakota: Manny and Renee Iron Hawk Discuss Reviving the Lakota Language, Immersion Schools, Trauma, Prayer, and Spirit
Renee Fast Horse Iron Hawk and Manny Iron Hawk, two of the organizers and hosts of Zen Peacemakers’ Native American Programs, have been instrumental in the opening of Lakȟótiyapi Okáȟtaŋ Wičhóičhaǧe Inc. (LOWI), a school dedicated to education by full immersion in Lakota language. In an interview with Rami Efal, they discuss language loss and immersion, Trauma, Prayer, and Spirit.