Monacan Chief Kenneth Branham spoke at the Meeting House on November 22nd as part of a Native American educational event. He has asked that we support the Monacan people in protecting their ancestral lands by signing onto a letter to Governor Northam and Commander Patrick Kinsman of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The letter asks the Army Corps of Engineers not to allow the James River Water Authority to proceed with constructing a pump station and pipeline project at Point of Fork. If permitted in its current form, this project would destroy the historic Monacan capital of Rassewek in addition to several other significant historical and archaeological sites.
The Peace and Social Concerns Committee has signed on to the letter as a committee; we hope that other Friends who are concerned about this issue will feel called to sign the letter as individuals. More details about this issue are provided in the letter itself; just click on the link below to see it.
Here is the link to the letter: https://tinyurl.com/monacanletter.
Thank You!
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