Workshop Scheduled for Saturday, September 17th 1:00 p.m. eastern
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is over 2 million square acres with 20,000 persons living on the reservation and an estimated 47,000 tribal enrollment. We are listed as the poorest reservation in the United States, our economy being such because the government set us up to fail. Because or our members attending college and well-meaning members, we manage to keep ourselves alive and willing to grow with the cities around our reservation, but that is not enough. Our economy is a failure, bet we have faith.
I will make a humble attempt at educating my fellow ladies in the Episcopal Church of our history and current endeavors. May the peace of our Lord be always with you, Amen – Hetechu.
Zoom meeting links will be posted in the News Blast Newsletter
Workshop is limited to the first 100 attendees
My name is Rev. Deacon Twilla Two Bulls. I am Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne. I am an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and live on the the Pine Ride Indian Reservation at the Red Shirt Community. I was born at Pine Ridge, SD, raised at Rapid City SD and am back again living here for the past twelve years.
My mother passed in 2010 and I quit my job of twelve years in the credit card banking industry to care for my father. Father passed recently, a few months ago, after my caring for him for the past twelve years. I still walk with a broken heart.
In the late 1800’s Chief Red Cloud let three denominations onto Pine Ridge: Episcopal, Catholic, and Presbyterian. Chief Red Cloud himself joined the Episcopal denomination. Today, these three denominations are still here, together with the traditional religion and others. In the end, Indian Christians accepted the faith of Christ, not because they thought it ‘superior’ or because they lacked high spiritual values of their own, but because they saw in those who came the face of Him who was their Lord.