Embracing a Life of Service: Sermon for St. Martin’s Day and Veterans Day, November 12, 2023
The Rev. Leslie Scoopmire Readings (Feast of Martin of Tours): Isaiah 58:6–12 Psalm 15 Matthew 25:31-40 Some of my favorite childhood...
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Nov 1, 20231 min read
Celebrate Native Heritage in the Diocese of Missouri at our Saturday 505 services in November
November is Native American Heritage Month. To help celebrate, and to acquaint ourselves with the richness of Native spirituality in the...
Nov 14, 20222 min read
November 14: The Trail of Tears in Missouri
In 1830, after decades of pressure from Southern states, and at the urging of President Andrew Jackson, who had risen to power in part as...
Nov 13, 20222 min read
November 13 St. Regis Seminary, Florissant (1824-1831): Forced Assimilation
In 1824, Bishop of Louisiana William DuBourg established the second Roman Catholic boarding school for Native children in Florissant off...
Nov 12, 20221 min read
November 12: The Iowa
The Iowa, who call themselves Bah Kho-Je (People of the Grey Snow) were, as mentioned previously, once probably affiliated with the...
Nov 11, 20222 min read
November 11: The Otoe and Missouria
In 1673, Pere Jacques Marquette and adventurer Louis Jolliet met a tribe of indigenous Siouan people who called themselves the Niutachi,...
Nov 10, 20222 min read
November 10: The Osage: The People of the Middle Waters
The Wazhazhe People call themselves “The Children of the Middle Waters.” French trappers and traders who encountered them mispronounced...
Nov 9, 20222 min read
November 9: Cahokia and Mississippian Culture
From about 800 CE to 1600 CE, the banks of the Mississippi River near St. Louis were home to a flourishing great civilization known as...
Nov 8, 20222 min read
November 8: The Confluence Region: Rivers Run Through
For millennia, the Confluence Region of North America, where the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi Rivers and their tributaries meet, was a...
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