TIP examines centering prayer, fighting structural evil, the Iona Community Centering prayer, the Iona Community in Scotland, and structural evil were among the topics discussed during the first Turtle Island regional conference in northern Michigan. TIP Board Chairman and Co-founder Rev. Dr. George Cairns explained why centering prayer helps fight structural evil and other problems in life. TIP volunteer media advisor Greg Peterson has the story: Time: 9:25 **Notice we have additional information/websites and information on all these topics in this script. --- Summary of Turtle Island Project websites & TV (video) sites: --- Turtle Island Project websites/Blogs: TIP website: http://www.turtleislandproject.org TIP Sacred Places website Upload your own Sacred Place: http://www.NorthAmericaSacredPlaces.org --- Other sites: http://groups.msn.com/WhisperingTurtle http://turtleislandproject.wordpress.com/ ----- Centering Prayer was one of the topics of the first Turtle Island Project Regional Conference. You heard Rev. Cairns say he learned centering prayer from Father Thomas Keating , a trappist monk. Keating defines centering prayer as "a very simple method in which one opens one's self to God Centering prayer is a form of meditation, where a person uses a point of focus such as concentration on the breath or repetition of a mantra, centering prayer relies more on intention than attention. Releasing any distractions caused by thoughts or emotions, the practitioner simply "waits for God." Beyond words, emotions, and thoughts, centering prayer is, says Keating, like "two friends sitting in silence, just being in each other's presence." At one point, a member of the audience question Dr. Cairns - asking how he accomplishes his goals simply by centering prayer or meditation - instead of taking action. Dr. Cairns countered - he does both - and that centering prayer makes his concrete actions more effective. Supers (words on screen that state what speaker is saying): Rev. Dr. George Cairns: "People say - 'Well how about structural evil?' - well believe me - I believe in structural evil - and I engage it - throughout my life." "You can't get from where we are - to where we are called to be with our heads. We just can't to that." "Whenever I talk about being in silence - and this has happened to me dozens of times - is that someone says - “Yeah but - Well how about doing some of the suffering with us.” - Well, I am saying do both." "But I don't think we can be as effective, or as wise, or as empathic about that kind of work. - Until - or I should say while - we are engaging ourselves - with ourselves and with others, and any other kind of way."

(Munising, Michigan) - Racism, poverty, teen suicide on reservations, the derogatory perversion of American Indian names on Minnesota rivers and other locations across the country, and learning respect for the environment from Earth-based cultures were among the topics discussed at a Native American Roundtable held Sept 13-15, 2007 in northern Michigan In part two. Tip co-founder Rev. Dr. George Cairns will look at Celtic spirituality - centering prayer - and fighting evil. TIP volunteer media advisor Greg Peterson has the first of a two part look at the roundtable and conference: Turtle Island Project & TV sites: Turtle Island Project main website: http://www.turtleislandproject.org Turtle Island TV (blipTV) http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv/ Turtle Island TV (youtube) http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse Turtle Island (myspace) http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject Turtle Island Project websites/Blogs: http://groups.msn.com/WhisperingTurtle http://turtleislandproject.wordpress.com/ email: TurtleIslandProject@charter.net ---- Contact info for people quoted in news release: Turtle Island Project founder/Director: Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard Eden on the Bay Evangelical Lutheran Church 1150 M-28 West Munising, MI. 49862 wk: 906-387-2520 cell: 906-202-0590 ---- Rev. Dr. George Cairns, TIP founder/board chairman 1-219-3959347 Research Professor of Practical Theology and Spirituality at Chicago Theological Seminary lives in Chesterton, Indiana ordained minister in the United Church of Christ --- The Iona Community - Worldwide: http://www.iona-nwf.org --- Rum River Name Change Organization Inc. Thomas Dahlheimer, director P.O. Box 24 Wahkon, Minnesota 56386 Call: 320-495-3874 http://www.towahkon.org/ Minnesota H.F. No. 2503 introduced 85th Legislative Session (2007-2008) on May 18, 2007 http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H2503.0.html&session=ls85 Related information: TeePee & fliers at July 2007 Anoka County sesquicentennial: http://www.towahkon.org/tepee.html Combating White Racism Against Indigenous Peoples: http://www.towahkon.org/SEED.html Solving The Alcohol Abuse Epidemic: http://www.towahkon.org/sae.html http://www.aaanativearts.com/printout683.html Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer's articles/letters: http://www.towahkon.org/articles.html History of the Anoka Dakota Unity Alliance: http://www.towahkon.org/alliance.html http://www.dakotahomecoming.org/g5-bin/client.cgi?G5button=9294 Minnesota Apology to Native Americans: http://www.towahkon.org/apologyresolution.html Minnesota Indian Affairs Draft Resolution: http://www.towahkon.org/MIACdraftresolution.html http://www.astate.edu/mascot/NDNAIM_Fwd_Minnesota_Indian_Affairs_Council.pdf ---

Racism, poverty, teen suicide on reservations, the derogatory perversion of American Indian names on Minnesota rivers and other locations across the country, and learning respect for the environment from Earth-based cultures were among the topics discussed at a Native American Roundtable held Sept 13-15, 2007 in northern Michigan. In part two. Tip co-founder Rev. Dr. George Cairns will look at Celtic spirituality - centering prayer - and fighting evil. TIP volunteer media advisor Greg Peterson has the first of a two part look at the roundtable and conference. --- Summary of Turtle Island Project & TV sites: Turtle Island Project main website: http://www.turtleislandproject.org Turtle Island TV (blipTV) http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv/ Turtle Island TV (youtube) http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse Turtle Island (myspace) http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject Turtle Island Project websites/Blogs: http://groups.msn.com/WhisperingTurtle http://turtleislandproject.wordpress.com/ email: TurtleIslandProject@charter.net ---- Contact info for people quoted in news release: Turtle Island Project founder/Director: Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard Eden on the Bay Evangelical Lutheran Church 1150 M-28 West Munising, MI. 49862 wk: 906-387-2520 cell: 906-202-0590 ---- Rev. Dr. George Cairns, TIP founder/board chairman 1-219-3959347 Research Professor of Practical Theology and Spirituality at Chicago Theological Seminary lives in Chesterton, Indiana ordained minister in the United Church of Christ --- The Iona Community - Worldwide: http://www.iona-nwf.org --- Rum River Name Change Organization Inc. Thomas Dahlheimer, director P.O. Box 24 Wahkon, Minnesota 56386 Call: 320-495-3874 http://www.towahkon.org/ Minnesota H.F. No. 2503 introduced 85th Legislative Session (2007-2008) on May 18, 2007 A bill to change 14 derogatory geographic place names offensive to American Indians introduced by Rep. Mike Jaros, D-District O7B (Duluth). http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H2503.0.html&session=ls85 Related information: TeePee & fliers at July 2007 Anoka County sesquicentennial: http://www.towahkon.org/tepee.html Combating White Racism Against Indigenous Peoples: http://www.towahkon.org/SEED.html Solving The Alcohol Abuse Epidemic: http://www.towahkon.org/sae.html http://www.aaanativearts.com/printout683.html Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer's articles and letters to the editor: http://www.towahkon.org/articles.html History of the Anoka Dakota Unity Alliance: http://www.towahkon.org/alliance.html http://www.dakotahomecoming.org/g5-bin/client.cgi?G5button=9294 Minnesota Apology for the Explotation of Native Amercans: http://www.towahkon.org/apologyresolution.html Minnesota Indian Affairs Draft Resolution: http://www.towahkon.org/MIACdraftresolution.html http://www.astate.edu/mascot/NDNAIM_Fwd_Minnesota_Indian_Affairs_Council.pdf

Turtle Island Project founder/director Rev. Lynn Hubbard was a guest recently (August 28, 2007) on the national Native America Calling radio show to talk about “Bordertown Racism” along with Art Neskahi, director of Southwest Intertribal Voice in Cortez, NM The Turtle Island Project would like to thank the Cortez Journal and the Navajo Times newspapers because our video includes a few of the newspaper’s photos of the 2007 Walk for Peace and Justice organized by Art Neskahi. A map of Michigan Indian tribes was created by Edwards Outdoor Marketing. Harlan McKosato is the host and producer of the national radio show Native America Calling. McKosato broadcasts from Studio 49 as the host of the nationally broadcast radio show Native America Calling. Here is the first half of the one hour show - be sure to check out part two after this. --- Below is additional information on this and other shows produced by the Native American Radio Network - plus links to related sites in Michigan and other information.. McKosato is a member of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma. The show is produced at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and airs Monday through Friday at 1PM Eastern Standard Time. The director of the Turtle Island project, Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard of Munising, MI, was one of two guests for the show on Tuesday, August 28, 2007. The topic: Bordertown Racism. This is how the producers described the show on their website: The ongoing violence, hate crimes and other discriminatory actions toward Native people in reservation and village bordertowns is cresting. But instead of fighting back with an eye-for-an-eye attitude, tribal members are seeking healing through promotion of racial tolerance and understanding. How are false stereotypes fostering resentment of Native people, and how do Native people fight back without causing an “Indian Uprising?” Guests are Art Neskahi of the Navajo Nation, organizer of the upcoming Walk for Peace and Justice, and Rev. Lynn Hubbard of the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church. --- Listen to Native America Calling live at 1:00pm EST on the following radio stations. http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/ KNBA-FM 90.3 Anchorage, Alaska NV1 Albuquerque, NM KILI 90.1 Porcupine, SD KISU 91.1 FM Pocatello, Idaho KGLP 91.7 FM Gallup, New Mexico KUNM-FM 89.9 FM Albuquerque, New Mexico KSJD 91.5 Cortez, Colorado KSUT-FM 91.3 FM Ignacio, Colorado KSFC 91.9 FM Spokane, Washington WOJB-FM 88.9 FM Hayward, Wisconsin CFIE 106.5 FM Aboriginal Voices Radio Toronto, Ontario, Canada ---

Native America Calling Part 2 Turtle Island Project founder/director Rev. Lynn Hubbard was recent guest (August 28, 2007) on the national Native America Calling radio show to talk about “Bordertown Racism” along with Art Neskahi, director of Southwest Intertribal Voice in Cortez, NM The Turtle Island Project thanks the Cortez Journal (John R. Crane) and the Navajo Times (Donovan Quintero) newspapers because our video includes newspaper photos of the 2007 Walk for Peace and Justice. Harlan McKosato host/producer. The second half of the one hour show. -- McKosato is a member of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma. From University of New Mexico , Albuquerque weekdays 1 PM EST. Topic: Bordertown Racism. Guests: Art Neskahi of the Navajo Nation, organizer Walk for Peace and Justice, and Rev. Lynn Hubbard, Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church. --- Native America Calling live at 1:00pm EST on these radio stations. http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/ KNBA-FM 90.3 Anchorage, Alaska NV1 Albuquerque, NM KILI 90.1 Porcupine, SD KISU 91.1 FM Pocatello, Idaho KGLP 91.7 FM Gallup, New Mexico KUNM-FM 89.9 FM Albuquerque, New Mexico KSJD 91.5 Cortez, Colorado KSUT-FM 91.3 FM Ignacio, Colorado KSFC 91.9 FM Spokane, Washington WOJB-FM 88.9 FM Hayward, Wisconsin CFIE 106.5 FM Aboriginal Voices Radio Toronto, Ontario, Canada Rezervations with Dawn Karima (Creek/Cherokee)Fascinating Native Americans. Send cd or dvd, film or book, press kit, tribe: REZERVATIONS Dawn Karima PO BOX 22114 Albuquerque, NM 87154 American Indian Living is weekly talk show on health issues in Indian country. Host David DeRose M.D., president Oklahoma-based CompassHealth, Inc. http://www.compasshealth.net http://www.nativeministries.com/article.php?id=11 National Native News A weekday newscasts, anchor: Antonia Gonzales (Navajo). http://www.nativenews.net/ Earthsongs: Indigenous Native artists. Host Shyanne Beatty (Hangwichin Athabascan). http://www.earthsongs.net/ Reach the Rez Weekly high energy music program. Host actor/rapper Litefoot (Cherokee). http://reachtherezradio.com UnderCurrents music mix. Host Gregg McVicar (Tlingit). http://www.undercurrentsradio.net/ AlterNativeVoices Native radio magazine. Host Z. Susanne Aikman (Eastern Band Cherokee). http://www.alternativevoices.org/ Voices from the Circle Native news, music, issues, storytelling. Hosts Jim DeNomie (Bad River Chippewa), Barbara Jersey (Menominee/Potawatomi) and Shadow (Radio Dog). Wisdom of the Elders Series: Stories of indigenous role models from numerous tribes. http://www.wisdomoftheelders.org/ Great Map of Michigan Tribe locations:: http://www.edwards1.com/rose/native/indian-map.htm Links to tribes: http://www.500nations.com/Michigan_Tribes.asp

(Munsing, MI) - The Turtle Island Project in northern Michigan was founded by two Midwest pastors who believe the future of mankind and world is at a crossroads. Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard and Rev. Dr. George Cairns believe that Christians could learn a lot about nature and the environment by listening to Earth-basec cultures like Native Americans, Celts, and other Indigenous peoples. Rev. Hubbard is a Lutheran pastor, and Rev. Cairns is an ordained United Church of Christ minister. Both have extensive backgrounds in interfaith and multicultural work. Turtle Island Project volunteer media advisor Greg Peterson has more on the founders and their goals. Turtle Island Project main website: http://www.turtleislandproject.org Turtle Island TV (blipTV) http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv/ Turtle Island TV (youtube) http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse Turtle Island (myspace) http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject Turtle Island Project websites/Blogs: http://groups.msn.com/WhisperingTurtle http://turtleislandproject.wordpress.com/ email: TurtleIslandProject@charter.net --- Links to groups/organizations in video/bios: "The Community of Religions" - book by Rev. George Cairns and Wayne Teasdale: http://www.amazon.com/Community-Religions-Voices-Images-Parliament/dp/0826408990 --- Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church: http://edenonthebay.org/HomePage_1.html --- The Iona Community - Worldwide: http://www.iona-nwf.org/ --- Spiritual Directors International: http://www.sdiworld.org/home.html --- Parliament of the World's Religions: http://www.cpwr.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Parliament_of_Religions --- Chicago Theological Seminary: http://www.ctschicago.edu/ --- University of Chicago - Rockefeller Chapel: http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/ --- Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago: http://www.lstc.edu/ --- Valpraiso University: http://www.valpo.edu/ --- University of Indiana: http://www.indiana.edu/~iuvis/ --- ELCA Carribean Synod: http://www.caribbeansynod-elca.org/ ELCA St. Croix Churches: http://www.elca.org/ScriptLib/OS/Congregations/cdsSearch.asp?state=VI Lord God of Sabaoth Lutheran Church - St. Croix, Virgin Islands: http://www.lgosalive.com/ --- Lakota Rosebud Sioux Reservation Sicangu Tribe: http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/ --- Catholic Theological Union - Claude Marie Barbour: http://www.ctu.edu/Our_Faculty/Biographies/Claude_Marie_Barbour.html

Turtle Island Project fights religious intolerance, racism, and other social issues that threaten the future of mankind First Nations peoples asked to submit topics for Native American roundtables (Munising, Michigan) - Exploitation of the earth, spiritual terrorism, religious imperialism, and racism are some of the modern day injustices that two pastors will battle with a new Michigan project that promotes respect for Native American culture and the environment. Two Midwest pastors have started a national debate on a wide variety of social issues that they believe threaten the future of society and the planet. "The Turtle Island project will combat what I call spiritual terrorism," said project found Rev. Lynn Hubbard. "There is a lot of spiritual intolerance of other people's religions - whether that's the indigenous Native American religions here in the United States or Islam or Judaism or what have you," said Rev. Hubbard., pastor of the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church along Lake Superior in Munising. "Anybody can take that attitude towards life - it's my way or the highway - my religion is right - your religion is wrong - and it's that sort of spiritual terrorism that is destroying the world in which we live in," Rev. Hubbard said. Rev. George Cairns, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, said a "change in religious consciousness is necessary." "I am deeply concerned that much of humankind and the Earth as we know it will be gone by the end of this century," said Dr. Cairns, a professor of Practical Theology and Spirituality at Chicago Theological Seminary. "We are in a time now when dramatic changes are happening on this planet and it is a critical time for people of faith - religious people - to act now," said Rev. Cairns, chairman of the Turtle Island Project. The Turtle Island Project (TIP) will address a wide range of Native American issues including white influence on American Indian heritage and values. The TIP got its name from Natives Americans who first called the North American continent "Turtle Island." The TIP will hold biannual national and regional conferences and local seminars to discuss environment and American Indian issues. Each regional conference will be preceded by Native American roundtables, the agendas being determined solely by American Indians who contact the TIP. "One of the consequences of racism against First Nations people has been the silencing of their voices and the eagerness of Euro-Americans to speak for them - robbing them of their own freedom of speech - that we value so much," Rev. Hubbard said. "As a result much of the Native American experience has been filtered through the lenses of a foreign culture that - not only doesn't have the right to speak for them but also lacks the ability to speak to the most fundamental realities of native experience."

The director/founder of the Turtle Island Project in Munising, Michigan recently delivered a passionate talk about respecting Native American culture and heritage. In his speech, Rev. Lynn Hubbard warned the religious experts that "Christianity must - once and for all - renounce its religious imperialistic tendencies." The Lutheran pastor spoke to the Spirit Scholars conference on August 11, 2007 in Ann Arbor, Michigan about the dangers of intolerance for other people's religions and beliefs. Time: 9:54 The Turtle Island Project will soon be posting additional and improved video from Rev. Hubbard's address. Dr. Hubbard is hosting a series of regional and national conferences and Native American roundtables in Munising, Michigan beginning in September 2007. For more information contact the Turtle Island Project: Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard Eden Evangelical Lutheran Church PO Box 360 1150 M-28 West Munising, MI. 49862 call: 906-387-2520 email: TurtleIslandProject@charter.net Summary of Turtle Island Project & TV sites: Turtle Island TV (blipTV) http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv/ Turtle Island TV (you tube) http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse Turtle Island (myspace) http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject

The Turtle Island Project is recognizing The White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc. In Mission, South Dakota - America's oldest domestic violence shelter for native American women. The shelter has been helping all battered women and children since 1977. For 30 years, the White Buffalo Calf Woman's Society has been serving the Lakota Rosebud Reservation The Turtle Island Project and northern Michigan folk groups - White Water & Duo Borealis - are sponsoring are benefit concert for the shelter on August 12, 2007. The Turtle Island project hopes you will be inspired to donate to keep the shelter open another three decades and longer because the White Buffalo Calf Woman's Society is a very important group providing crucial protection to women and children. Turtle Island Project volunteer media advisor Greg Peterson reports on this benefit concert. The White Water folk group and Duo Borealis from northern Michigan immediately agreed to put on a benefit concert for the White Buffalo Calf Woman's Society shelter in Mission, South Dakota - serving the Lakota Rosebud American Indian reservation and surrounding areas. The music groups are comprised of family and close friends - and for decades have toured the world bringing their unique style and sound to millions. White Water is shown here at a Fourth of July 2007 concert at Eden on the Bay Lutheran church in Munising, Michigan - home of the Turtle Island Project. First a little background about the Turtle Island Project and the tribe served by the shelter. The Turtle Island Project is devoted to environment and Native American issues. The project promoters respect for the First Nations Peoples - the indigenous peoples - also known as American Indians. Rev. Lynn Hubbard, the founder of the Turtle Island project, is a longtime friend of the Lakota Souix tribe The North American territory of the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota Nation is in the present day state of South Dakota and five neighboring states. The Lakota, Nakota and Dakota Nation are known as the Great Sioux Nation. Descendants from of the original

The Turtle Island Project believes that we need to start listening to nature and stop imposing modern values on the traditions of the world’s First Nations Peoples. Do humans respect the beautiful Earth provided by God? Can we learn something from Earth-based religions? What is the future of American Indian tribes? Are some tribes being homogenized by Anglo values and pressure? These are a few of the questions that will be discussed and debated by the Turtle Island project. With Global Warming, pollution, smog and mutations of frogs and fish living in filthy water - it’s hard to argue that mankind truly respects nature. Most of us certainly do not revere nature like those who first lived on Earth. The Turtle Island Project will sponsor regional and national conferences to bring these issues to the forefront of our thinking.. These meetings will be moderated by some of the experts and great thinkers of our times. Sadly, the Turtle Island Project lost one of these great thinkers a few weeks ago - Episcopal Bishop James Kelsey stood up for the environment and the rights of all people even leading the fight against intolerance. Bishop Kelsey helped collect over 400 tons of household hazardous waste for recycling and proper disposal. We dedicate this video to Bishop Kelsey and we will strive to live up to his expectations. Volunteer media advisor Greg Peterson has this introduction to the Turtle Island Project and provides details of our first series of public meetings called the Grand Island Conferences.