Respect & Justice for Indigenous Peoples: Becoming Allies

Respect & Justice for Indigenous Peoples: Becoming Allies

Respect & Justice depicts activities of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indigenous Affairs Committee from 1940 through the beginning of the second Trump administration. Combining committee, Quaker, and Native history, the book focuses on the dynamics of being an ally and describes concrete individual and group actions. Readers will be surprised at the variety of ways that Friends found to champion tribal Nations. Readers will be sorrowful about the harms done by Friends which are described in detail. The foreword by Laura Harris (Comanche) remarks on the broad array of interactions. The notes contain a rich repository of lessons and pithy quotes from Native American and First Nation leaders, journalists, academics, and advocates.

Praise for the book:

Quakers are known for their stance honoring all people, but they also recognize the need to assess the ways in which they have not lived up to their values. By documenting the work of Quakers in Baltimore Yearly Meeting to support Indigenous peoples, Patricia Powers offers all Quakers fresh insight into their own practice of equality. She shows us ways to become allies of Indigenous communities, to build relationships fully grounded in knowing the Light within all people, and to seek justice without being trapped by nativism and racism.                 -  Margery Post Abbott, co-author of Quakers in Politics                               

Author: Patricia R. Powers

Publisher: Independently Published, 2025

ISBN: 9798283054704

Paperback, 414 pages