Posted on Dec 15, 2022
Episcopal Diocese plants path forward with Indigenous neighbors on 80 acres in Union County
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Most maps would show that this plot of land is on the banks of Hulick Creek on the west side of Cove in Union County.
But Bobby Fossek said the area had a name before one of the town’s settlers bought it and eventually turned the land over to the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon: “wewa la tit puh” or “many streams flowing at that place” in the Nez Perce language.
But Bobby Fossek said the area had a name before one of the town’s settlers bought it and eventually turned the land over to the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon: “wewa la tit puh” or “many streams flowing at that place” in the Nez Perce language.
Episcopal Diocese plants path forward with Indigenous neighbors on 80 acres in Union County
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Fossek and his partner, Brosnan Spencer, have spent the past three years trying to return these 80 acres to its original state, a wild patch in the placid sea of wheat farms and cattle pastures that surround Cove, a town of 620 people.
The restoration effort is both a starting point for a diocese interested in a more meaningful future with the region’s American Indian tribes and an action meant to demonstrate seriousness in addressing the Episcopal Church’s complicity with centuries of colonization. But on a crisp mid-November day, Fossek and Spencer were just taking a walk among their work."...
..."Fossek and his partner, Brosnan Spencer, have spent the past three years trying to return these 80 acres to its original state, a wild patch in the placid sea of wheat farms and cattle pastures that surround Cove, a town of 620 people.
The restoration effort is both a starting point for a diocese interested in a more meaningful future with the region’s American Indian tribes and an action meant to demonstrate seriousness in addressing the Episcopal Church’s complicity with centuries of colonization. But on a crisp mid-November day, Fossek and Spencer were just taking a walk among their work."...
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