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