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Making Amends to Indigenous Peoples

SAVE THE DATE: Oct. 23, 2022 Chebon Kernell, Making Amends to Indigenous Peoples

QRE FORUM: MAKING AMENDS TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES Sunday, October 23 Quakers for Racial Equality and Atlanta Friends Meeting invite you to join us on October 23 at 1:00 ET for an online forum with guest speaker Rev. Chebon Kernell on making amends to Indigenous peoples, preserving Muscogee Creek traditions and homelands, and steps faith and community groups can take. Rev. Chebon Kernell is Executive Director of the Native American Comprehensive Plan for the United Methodist Church and works with faith communities on repentance and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. An enrolled member of the Seminole Nation and of Muscogee Creek heritage, Mekko Chebon Kernell is a cultural practitioner of the Muscogee Creek Nation in Oklahoma. He is working to bring Muscogee people and traditions back to their homelands, to preserve the Weelaunee Forest south of Atlanta, and to support Indigenous sovereignty and land back and the local level. For more information, contact Susan Firestone, susanfires@gmail.com, or Karen Morris, karenth.1415@gmail.com. Everyone is welcome. Free, but registration in advance is required. Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdu-sqz4vG91oGAf9J6wrjytPGza.... Important logistical information: After registering, you will receive a confirmation email from Zoom containing information about joining the meeting including the Meeting ID, a “join meeting”

For more information, contact Susan Firestone susanfires@gmail.com or Karen Morris karenth.1415@gmail.com

Everyone is welcome. This is a free event, and registration will be required.

More info on Rev. Kernell... https://www.nacp-umc.org/executive-director.html

Sunday, October 23, 2022 - 12:00pm
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