This Week in Native American News - February 10, 2017: preserving stories and expunging laws.

American Indian Occupation mural project is a part of an ongoing project depicting issues in Native America throughout various American cities.

Proclaim. Disciple. Heal. This is what we do at Lutheran Indian Ministries, and after meeting Henry*, it is all the more clear that we need to do more.

Seeking to please God is one of the hardest things to even begin to put into practice. It seems so natural to please ourselves. But Jesus says, "I seek not to please myself but him who sent me."

Despite eloquence and wisdom, it generally holds, that a teacher sent from God is not so acceptable to his neighbours as he is to strangers. They cannot suffer that he, who was before equal with or below themselves, should now bear a superior character.

The Return of Navajo Boy, an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and PBS, is an internationally acclaimed documentary that reunited a Navajo family and triggered a federal investigation into uranium contamination. It tells the story of Elsie Mae Begay, whose history in pictures reveals an incredible and ongoing struggle for environmental justice. A powerful new epilogue (produced in 2008) shows how the film and Groundswell Educational Films? outreach campaign create news and rally supporters including Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA). The Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform mandated a clean-up plan by the five agencies that are responsible for uranium contamination.

This Week in Native American News - February 3, 2017: finding safe places and exploring a rez community garden.

This short documentary tells the story of Marie Wilcox, the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language and the dictionary she created in an effort to keep her language alive.

Praying for guidance and wisdom means nothing if we don't take the time to meditate on God's Word and listen when He answers.

To have fixed on any passage announcing His sufferings, would have been unsuitable at that early stage of His ministry. Instead, Jesus uses the passage from Isaiah that seems as if made expressly for this occasion.