The basic schedule is available for download here, or below. Note the specific classes and plenaries will be finalized closer to the Institute.

Ched has also provided Ten Suggested Resources for Preparing for BKI 2019 - download here, or scroll down. Additional resource suggested by some of our speakers also follow.

Below are a handful of reflections to help you orient yourself to the theme of the 2019 BKI: “Indigenous Justice and Christian Faith: Land, Law, Language.” Included are a book, a webinar, several short published pieces and some online resources.

1. Some of us at BCM and Farm Church have been reading Bishop Steve Charleston’s The Four Vision Quests of Jesus, Morehouse Publishing, 2015. Ched and Elaine recommend it highly as “the perfect preparation for this year’s BKI” (read Chapter One online here).  
   
2. Read Elaine and Ched’s short article from 2016: “Healing from ‘Lies that Make Us Crazy’: Practices of Restorative Solidarity”: here.  
   
3. Watch our 90 minute 2017 webinar with Dr. Randy Woodley here.  
   
4. Follow native news at www.facebook.com/IndianCountryToday. For international Indigenous issues: www.survivalinternational.org.  
   
5. Learn about the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission here: http://nctr.ca/reports.php. An emerging network on similar issues in the U.S. is The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.  
   
6. Read “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of Settler Privilege” by Dina Gilio-Whitaker, posted at RadicalDiscipleship.net last November: here.  
   
7. Find out the Indigenous history of the land you live on: here.  
   
8. Learn about a 2015 indigenous pilgrimage between the 21 missions of California protesting the canonization of Fr. Serra (here, here and here).
9. Learn about the “Sogorea Te’ Urban-Indigenous Women-Led Land Trust” in the Bay Area here.  
   
10. Read about June Lorenzo’s work on the Doctrine of Dis-covery with the Presbyterian church here, and about the Ted & Co. production “Discovery: A Comic Lament” here. 
    

You can learn more about our Indigenous resource persons on our BKI page (scroll down at www.bcm-net.org/study/ki2019).

Art Cribbs’ interview with Navajo activist Christian Mark Charlies on the Doctrine of Discovery: Here (MP3)

From Brooke Prentis & Geoff Broughton: Aileen Moreton-Robinson, The White Possessive, University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and culturally constructed as a white possession.

An upcoming series on the Indian boarding school legacy in the U.S.: https://boardingschoolhealing.org/2019-webinar-series/

On UCC reparations to native Hawaiians in the 1990s: https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-american-now/old-pain-new-hope

Doctrine of Discovery - A Review of Its Origins and Implications for Congregations in the PC(USA) and Support for Native American Sovereignty

Summary of U.N. study on the Doctrine of Discovery: Here (PDF)