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Resolution Number: 2024-A095
Title: Continue the Task Force on Indigenous Liturgy
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred as Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That The Episcopal Church acknowledge that Indigenous People have been a part of The Episcopal Church since Jamestown in 1607, and that the Church has labeled Indigenous ways pagan and forced Indigenous people to abandon traditional ways and languages; and be it further

Resolved, That the work of the Task Force on Indigenous Liturgy, established by 2022-A141, continue through the 2025-2027 trionum and be funded for $300,000 to continue the work in order to meet both in healing talking circles and by Zoom to listen deeply, share profoundly, and continue the process of being integrated with the context, language, and identity of The Episcopal Church.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Louisville, 2024 (New York: General Convention, 2024), p. 886.