The Following item comes from the April Meeting of Presbytery, Faith in Action Report and is highlighted here for your Immediate informtion. It is designed to symbolically recreate the historical process of dispossession and displacement of Aboriginal peoples from the land. In the exercise, the blankets represent land. It dramatizes the forced separation of Aboriginal peoples from their homes. During the exercise, blankets are spread out to cover the ground.
People stand on the blankets.
As the exercise progresses, a blanket is removed and those who had been standing on it are forced to move onto another blanket with others. Each time the people on the blanket being taken up moves to another. Eventually the few remaining blankets are quite crowded. A petition campaign is being promoted by the Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative. The Jubilee sent out petitions for us to sign in support of Aboriginal land rights.