The Makoce Ikikcupi Dakota Land Recovery Project

On Sunday, Sept. 22, Or Emet will host a conversation and presentation by Doe Hoyer and Harry Greenberg, community organizers with the Twin Cities Repair Community for Makoce Ikikcupi  (Dakota land recovery). A social time will follow.

Outdoor earth lodge (Photo by Minnesota Repair Community member John Kellen)

Hoyer and Greenberg will talk about Makoce Ikikcupi, a reparative justice project for Dakota land recovery in Mni Sota Makoce (Minnesota), led by Dakota people. Attendees will learn about the project’s vision and how the Minnesota Repair Communities invite non-Native allies to follow Dakota leadership and support this work.

Hoyer is an organizer and song leader with the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery and coordinates the Repair Network. They have lived on Dakota homelands for most of their life. Hoyer was raised Lutheran, but their spirituality is authentically Earth-based, which calls them into solidarity with Indigenous peoples. They are working on completing their master’s of divinity degree in interreligious chaplaincy and social transformation.

Greenberg grew up in a Jewish household and attended Hebrew school and Or Emet in his youth. He has always been involved in social justice movements, and learning more about the history of this land led him to supporting Makoce Ikikcupi. Greenberg helps to raise awareness about the most fundamental harm of settler colonialism, Indigenous disconnection from the land, by working among and speaking to other white or non-Native peoples about the many opportunities to support the “land back” movement, which is at the core of Makoce Ikikcupi’s work. 

Those who cannot attend in person may join over Zoom. Please register in advance here. 

The Sunday adult programs are free and open to the public and meet concurrently with the Jewish Cultural Sunday School.

Or Emet is a secular congregation celebrating and honoring Jewish culture, history and values from a humanistic, inclusive perspective.

For information about Or Emet’s Jewish Cultural Sunday School, contact JCSS director Molly Phipps at [email protected]. For information about Or Emet, email [email protected] or visit oremet.org.