Background When Anglicans arrived in Turtle Island (now known You had these non-Native people To urge the I have never in my life, as long as I’ve All the as North America), they brought their Bibles and their who were different from you, been with the Church, ever, ever, seen This funding has helped my Western faith. But they also brought another belief—a concept people of Canada I accept your apology because So many Anglicans across the country teaching you and over you. There community get things that institutions known as the Doctrine of Discovery. It has caused “ “to recognize and “so many Native people congregated you worked so hard to break are doing whatever they can to be part “ we were unable to get such untold pain and shadowed the relationship between was no family, no loving mother, no father. together, and bringing their concerns. “ down barriers. Where things were that now govern respect the unalienable ” Indigenous peoples and settler Anglicans ever since. “ of the healing process. as supplies for our craft nights, “ Rules all the time. You woke up in the rights of the Native I have never, ever, seen so many of our own condemned before, today you receive them so many aspects of In the 1400s, the European powers began setting up for different feasts, —Stories of A New Agape in Action seriously exploring and colonizing beyond their own morning to the sound of the bell ringing. people of Canada to Native men that went into the priesthood, with joy. Where once we were outsiders, Indigenous life see etc. Many of these feasts our continent—into the Americas, Africa, and Asia. The You came down and you lined up by your continue in their chosen as at that meeting. I was amazed. I was today we are with you as friend, as leader, the People of the Land through the distorted established churches saw the expansion of their own people didn’t know how to do, for number. What kind of a life is that?” thrilled.” as brother. So I extend my hand.” lens of the Doctrine of Discovery.” message and influence as tied to the European states. way of life, and to We have created the living, breathing space for a self- —Lorna McNaughton, example, Naming ceremony and —General Synod 2010 They developed a theology to support European An Indian form of maintain and preserve, to strengthen and —Nina Burnham, Six Nations Elder —The Rt. Rev. Gordon Beardy addresses Primate former student at the Mohawk Institute, 1992 determining Indigenous church within the Anglican Church of empire building. Known as the Doctrine of feast, Shaming ceremony and feast, Michael Peers at 2001 General Synod The Anglican Church The Anglican Church architecture hold their culture, traditions and language.” of Canada signs a Church joins other ” Discovery, this series of European church and state and Adoption ceremony and feast.” “Canada. should replace our —General Synod 1973 bi-lateral Residential churches, the pronouncements started in 1452 and includes the “ —Drift Pile First Nation, 2004 —National Indigenous Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Mark MacDonald concept of terra nullius, or empty land. Indigenous Chancel-Nave arrangement Schools Settlement federal government, peoples were not seen as inhabiting the land, by courts in the United States, Australia, Canada, and Agreement with the Indigenous so that the centre of federal government organizations, and since they didn’t have the institutions of European New Zealand to justify rule over Indigenous lands, worship is in the midst of civilization (no matter that they had their own ways even into the 21st century. limiting Anglican residential schools The Anglican Church of ordering their lives). The Anglican Church of Canada finally the people, as in a teepee.” liability to $25 million survivors to sign an supports the Truth for compensation for overarching Indian and Reconciliation Anglicans and Protestants took the Doctrine of denounced and repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery —The Ven. Ahab Spence Discovery with them when they split from the Roman in 2010. James Settee College Representative Indian Residential Residential Schools Commission of Canada General Synod Catholic Church. It still underpins many national Undoing its damage and living into right is founded in Prince survivors of the School abuse claims. Settlement Agreement. by educating its resolves to “repudiate Sacred Circle meeting laws and policies in the nation states that emerged relations is all our work for generations. Albert, Saskatchewan, Anglican-run Mohawk The Anglican Council This court-ordered members, encouraging Report from the and renounce the in Pinawa, Manitoba, from the European colonial process. It has been cited Here is an outline of the journey so far: named after James Institute file a claim of Indigenous Peoples agreement settles the attendance at national Synod of the Diocese This General Synod The Anglican Church Settee, an early against the federal (ACIP) objects to class-action lawsuit and community events, Doctrine of Discovery approves Canon 22. of Athabasca: “The The Missionary Society signals a change in The Anglican The Council on Native submits a brief to the Cree catechist and government, the the fact that the launched by survivors and working with other as fundamentally This church law lays success of our work of the Church in the relationship. Since Church establishes Affairs organizes The Anglican Church Royal Commission on missionary who Anglican Diocese Alternative Dispute of the Mohawk churches, Indigenous The Rt. Rev. Lydia opposed to the Gospel out formal rules and The Mohawk Institute depends upon securing Canada establishes 1967, the church has a national Sub- the First National initiates the Anglican Aboriginal Peoples attended the first of Huron, the New Resolution (ADR) Institute in 1998, but organizations, and the Mamakwa is of Jesus Christ and our processes to govern Indigenous Peoples is established as a the children. The older an “Indian Training passed hundreds of committee on Native Native Convocation Healing Fund to (RCAP) regarding its Anglican residential England Company, The Anglican Church requires Indigenous with a nation-wide federal government. consecrated as area understanding of the electing the National The Treaty of Niagara day school beside The Rev. Robert people are too often College” in Dauphin, resolutions supporting Affairs. Composed of in Fort Qu’Appelle, support community- residential schools school with Henry and General Synod on produces a resource, participants to sign a focus. The agreement Anglican archives bishop for the 16 inherent rights that Indigenous Anglican follows the Royal the Six Nations in McDonald begins set in their ways, and Manitoba, to operate Indigenous struggles The Anglican Indigenous people Saskatchewan. Over based programs that involvement and Budd and was ordained behalf of all students A New Agape, to release not to make includes a “Common across Canada gather Indigenous Northern individuals and peoples Bishop, membership in The Primate’s The English Society Proclamation of 1763 southwestern Ontario. 40 years of training are by long habits one month a year for recognition of Church transfers all appointed by the The Anglican Church Henry Budd College 200 Indigenous The Rt. Rev. Charles help educate and responsibilities. The soon after he was. who attended the help its members further legal claims Experience Payment” and organize more Ontario parishes of the have received from the Anglican Council Commission is and the Anglican Church in Canada for the Propagation of to clarify the nation- It becomes residential and supporting disinclined to change… training Indigenous traditional land rights, responsibility for the Primate, it promotes sets up the Unit for Ministry officially Anglicans gather from Arthurson, a Cree heal. Between 1992 On August 6, at the commission operates The college takes school between 1943 understand, celebrate, for loss of language and an “Independent than 250,000 pages Diocese of Keewatin. God.” The Anglican of Indigenous Peoples, established to consider European leaders the Gospel appoints to-nation relationship in 1831 and operates Indigenous ministers Where possible priests and lay workers. treaty implementation, “Indian residential implementation of on Public Social opens in The Pas, across the country from Norway House, and 2013, the fund second Sacred Circle, from 1991, and up the early work of and 1967. It will be the and participate in General Synod’s and culture. The Assessment of historic records She is the first Church commits to a and the membership The Rev. Canon Jonas how the church should decree that non- the Rev. Thomas Wood between settler and The English crown until 1970, making it along the Yukon Christian instruction The federal The college closes and consultation with schools” to the federal the Hendry Report Responsibility, which Manitoba. The college to build community Manitoba, is elected disburses over $5.7 at Minaki, Ontario, releases its 4,000- The Rt. Rev. Gordon Emmanuel College, largest class action suit the work of healing, Bishop Gordon Beardy Ecojustice Committee council says this is Process,” intended to The Truth and about the church’s Indigenous woman major program of study of Sacred Circle, Allooloo, dean of the act to repudiate the Christian nations have as the first Anglican First Nations peoples. builds the first Chapel the oldest continuously River. He develops a should be given to government makes in 1962. Teachers Indigenous peoples Department of Indian recommendations, runs until 1992. Its offers theological and and discuss issues, a the first Indigenous million to more than Primate Michael Peers page report with 440 Beardy is elected which operated from in Canadian history reconciliation, and of the Diocese of holds its first national The Rt. Rev. Andrew “an extinguishment of compensate survivors Reconciliation participation in bishop in Canada, on how the Doctrine of formalizing a parallel cathedral in Iqaluit, Doctrine of Discovery, Timeline of an Evolving Relationship no rights to their land missionary to the The Covenant Chain of Royal of the Mohawks.