This Sunday at 10:00am, outdoors at UUCB, we will welcome honor riders from Pine Ridge to offer a Wopila ceremony on horseback in appreciation of our partnership with The Tipi Raisers over the last five years.
Horses and riders will ride onto our grounds and arrive at 10:00am — sung in by drummers and singers from Rocky Mountain Indigenous Dancers. The youth riders will offer a gift, and with singing and drumming, ride on. Our 9:00am service will wrap up around 9:45 to give time to gather, and the ceremony will finish with plenty of time for folks to get to the 11:00 service.
For more than five years, 70+ UUCBers have worked with The Tipi Raisers, a nonprofit working to alleviate conditions of poverty, honor Indigenous wisdom, reconcile our shared history with the Peoples of the First Nations, and empower youth with the leadership skills needed to affect social change in their communities.
With Tipi Raisers as our program partner, the Indigenous Justice team at UUCB has helped with firewood cutting to provide lifesaving heat for elders on the reservations, food sorting and delivery to hungry families, home repairs, garden planting, fundraising, holiday gift delivery, and working with horse relatives as medicine.
It’s an unusual and special thing to be honored in this way, and we hope that you can be a part of it!
For more information, or to get involved with UUCB’s Indigenous Justice Team, reach out to Joseph Antone at josephantone38@gmail.com.
