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NEW BOOKLET: Can Cultures Be Redeemed? (Some Things You Should Know About the Indigenous People’s Movement)

Can Cultures Be Redeemed? (Some Things You Should Know About the Indigenous People’s Movement) written by Nanci Des Gerlaise is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. The booklet is 18 pages long and sells for $1.85 for single copies. Quantity discounts are…

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Letter to Muddy Waters Author: “Have worked and lived among Canada’s First Nations and Inuit peoples for a number of years”

To Nanci Des Gerlaise (Lighthouse Trails author of Muddy Waters) from a Lighthouse Trails Reader [excerpts used with permission from writer and author] Just a little note to express my thankfulness to you for writing Muddy Waters.  I praise God for the…

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Letter to the Editor: Saddened that Indian (Indigenous) Bible College in Arizona Has Implemented Spiritual Formation – Lighthouse Trails Shares Concerns

2025 Update: The letter to the editor below was originally posted by LT in 2013. In 2017, IBC president Jason Koppen issued a statement refuting our claims. Although Indian Bible College (now called Indigenous Bible College) has insisted that they…

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Understanding Shamanism

By Nanci Des Gerlaise (author of Muddy Waters: an insider’s view of North American Native Spirituality) Basically, shamanism is the belief system that utilizes shamans in order to make contact with the spirit world. According to the Encyclopedia of New…

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A Word to Begin the New Year from a Native American Cree

By Nanci des Gerlaise (author of Muddy Waters: an insider’s view of North American Native Spirituality) According to some Native Spiritual practitioners that I know personally, including people from other religions, we worship the same God regardless of what name…

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Native Spirituality “Renewal” Emerges

By Nanci Des Gerlaise (author of Muddy Waters: an insider’s view of North American Native Spirituality) Nanci Des Gerlaise is a Canadian First Nations Cree. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all…

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