Check out this video of our Sacred Lands Playlist Release, held in the hybrid chapel at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. Listen in to learn a few featured songs from the playlist, taught through repetition and call and echo from the artists who created the songs.

 

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About the Sacred Lands Playlist: Volume 1 Community Singing Songs

The Sacred Lands Playlist is a collection of community singing songs intended to inspire and compel communities of faith (broadly defined) to organize alongside Indigenous communities defending sacred lands from extractive industries and leading rematriation efforts. This project is a collaboration between The Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery and Music that Makes Community.

We are so grateful to include the following songs and artists in this collection:

Becoming Kin (Live It) – Nathan Holst

Calling – Doe Hoyer

Dear Sacred Earth – Lucy London

Earth You Hold Us – Lyndsey Scott

Hold to the Wisdom – Chandler Yorkhall

I Belong – Sarina Partridge

I Bring My Whole Heart – Nehemiah Luckett, Orion Johnstone, Batya Levine

land acknowledgement song – alexandra (ahlay) blakely

Let the Earth Live Through Me – Moon Clemetson

Let Us Work Together – Nehemiah Luckett, Orion Johnstone

May This Body Be A Bridge – Te Martin

Put Your Hand on the Ground – Bret Hesla

Radical Care Song – Galen Sunshine

Return to the Sacred – Teri Grunthaner

Right Relationship – Liz Digitale Anderson

Sacred Earth Body – Moon Clemetson

Set it Right Again – Ana Hernández

The Earth is a Web of Life – Pat Plude

There are many voices beside us – Ana Hernández

Unlearning – Liz Digitale Anderson

We Don’t Know – Annie Schlaefer

This is a free, educational resource. To honor the playlist as a gift to this movement, you are encouraged to make a donation in support of the work of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery, our partner Music that Makes Community, and/or the individual artists who have contributed songs to this collection.

If you wish to make a donation to the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery in honor of this playlist, please use “Educational Resources” as the designation for your donation. Your optional donation will go towards our general operations fund, supporting the Coalition to bring expanded organizing capacity to our campaigns, such as:

  • Oak Flat Prayerful Accompaniment Team;
  • Additional faith-based organizing, supporting alongside Apache Stronghold, in their case to protect Oak Flat;
  • Organizing support for the federal Truth and Healing Commission – legislation alongside the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition;
  • State-level legislative campaigns for reparations, land return, and other Indigenous justice initiatives;
  • Repair Network of Congregations and Communities – supporting localized efforts for land rematriation, Indigenous justice,  and repair across a bi-national network