{"id":25463,"date":"2025-11-22T17:41:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=25463"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:41:53","slug":"ad-hoc-committee-on-reparations-to-indigenous-peoples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/2025\/11\/22\/ad-hoc-committee-on-reparations-to-indigenous-peoples\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad Hoc Committee on Reparations to Indigenous Peoples"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Ad Hoc Committee on Reparations to Indigenous Peoples<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was formed in February 2025 and charged with recommending a financial contribution of no less than $5,000 as a form of reparations to one or more indigenous tribes. The charge listed multiple items to be considered in the discernment process, among them: RFM\u2019s historic and current connections to Virginia\u2019s tribes, as well as any past harms caused by Quakers to those tribes. Later, RFM added the goal of determining how to live in ongoing, right relationship with Native tribes.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The committee has reached out to multiple tribes including the Monacan, Chickahominy (eastern division), and the Rappahannock to better understand and learn about any historic relationships between Quakers\/RFM and their tribe and about how we might form and\/or build upon relationships with these local tribes.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of what the committee has learned:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tribes are eager for non-indigenous people to know that they have survived destructive policies perpetrated over centuries by those in power.\u00a0They are still fighting for their sovereignty, for their treaty rights, to defend their lands and other natural resources (water, minerals, timber, wild game), to educate and provide housing and healthcare for their tribal members, and for governmental acknowledgment of their continuing tribal existence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Virginia tribes seek non-Indians to partner with them in building a resilient future. They have told the committee about several projects for which they seek volunteer labor and, in some cases, financial assistance.\u00a0 The tribes are open to financial assistance on projects as varied as the cataloguing and mapping of indigenous plants, teaching and promoting the use of traditional medicine among tribal members, creating a tribal apothecary, indigenous language restoration, and protecting their tribal land base from intrusion and pollution by non-Indian individuals and companies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Committee is evaluating ways to better educate Meeting members and attenders on these topics as it finalizes a recommendation on the distribution of Meeting funds.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[520],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-and-racism"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 19:49:58","action":"category-remove","newStatus":"draft","terms":[346],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}