Joseph Akol Makeer, a Lost Boy of Sudan and now resident of Fargo, will talk about his journey out of the Sudan and into a refugee camp in Kenya where he spent 10 years before being admitted, along with three siblings he found in a neighboring camp, to the United States. Joseph is close to graduating from NDSU and is raising and supporting his siblings as well. In addition to this incredible journey, Joseph and a local group are working on a film of his life post-Africa, including a planned trip this December back to his village and the camp where he still has friends. Come and learn about this amazing young man, his past and present, and his mission to help the orphans of his Sudanese village.
The walls of our nation's capitol building rotunda are dressed in sculptures and gigantic portraits glorifying the colonization of Native American people by Desoto and Columbus. Isn't it time to wake up to the consequences of that colonization and stop "celebrating" the so-called accomplishments of Christopher Columbus? Prairie Rose is a local activist and poet. She is Chair of the Fargo Human Relations Commission and an ex officio member of the Fargo Native American Commission. Alan "Little Missouri" Demaray is a cultural liaison in Grand Forks, ND where he resides with his family. Both are enrolled tribal members of the Three Affiliated Tribes of ND, home to the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations.
In contemporary magick the human body is no mere husk or shell for the soul, it a perceptive, constantly fluctuating animal sharing a physical and energetic reality with multiple other beings all of which are continually thinking, perceiving, experiencing, adapting. What are the implications of the concept that humans are equal to all the life forms around them rather than owners, dominators and justified users of everything? What is the difference between human societies where magick is an integral part of daily life and societies that do not include or even outright condemn and shun the ideals of equality among all life and "first harm none." FMUU member Jennifer Moldenhauer will introduce and discuss rational paganism as path to personal and global empowerment aligned with principle seven: we covenant to affirm and promote the interdependent web of existence of which we are a part.
The first intergenerational program of the year is always a pageant of color, beauty and **shhhuddery** monsters. Halloween, Samhain, All Souls and All Saints, Harvest's End: however you name and express the ending of the season of light, come and celebrate with us. When people of all ages gather together we learn important lessons across the age divide.
Intergenerational: Costumes are encouraged.