Gatherings
Kristine is regularly invited to participate in unique and powerful gatherings as an indigenous peacemaker and storyteller.
Nine Ceremonies over 4 days over Indigenous Peoples Day, including several powerful council sessions. Creating the space for a homecoming of the Mohican people to their traditional homeland.
Location: Kripalu, Berkshire Mountains, Massachusettes
Northeast Council of Indigenous Peoples
National Association of Community and Restorative Justice: focusing on justice
The primary national gathering of restorative practitioners. Kristine was on four different panels, ranging from sharing experiences to pushing for creating new connections between climate change and restorative justice.
Reflective product: a pamphlet, co-designed with Sara Jolena Wolcott and Sarah Bess Dworin, on the interconnections between climate change and restorative practices
Location: Chicago, IL
Celebrating Indigenous Peacemaking: a gathering hosted by the Life Comes From It Foundation
Celebrating Indigenous Peacemaking: a gathering hosted by the Life Comes From It Foundation
A day long celebration and uplifting of different indigenous and BIPOC experiences and voices in peacekeeping.
Location: various locations in local communities in Chicago, IL
Co-leading Circular Time Rituals
Alongside Rev Sara Jolena Wolcott, Kristine co-leads Circular Time Rituals. They have been invited to lead this powerful ritual next to the Salish Sea; amidst the redwoods; within meadows and, shown here, on the edge of the South Downs National Forest in England, during bluebell season.
Sacred Contract
A multi-day, invite-only gathering of indigenous knowledge carriers actively working on questions of land, property systems, sacred sites, and decolonizing our relationship with place.
Location: California
Connecting with ancestors
Listening to the ancient standing stones in Avesbury, England.
In the 1600s, an English settler had union with a Tuscarora woman. In part because the Tuscarora people are matrilineal society, the memory of the man’s English ancestry was not passed down. In the Spring of 2023, Kristine traveled to England and Wales, reconnecting with different parts of her ancestral lines, and finding even more ways that “we are all related.”
A multi-day, invite-only gathering of scholars, practitioners, and those directly impacted by religious abuse. Kristine offers a highly interactive circle on boarding schools. This led her to collaborate on the above booklet.
Reflective product: booklet on Boarding Schools, Land, and Religious Violence co-created with Sara Jolena Wolcott and Sequoia Samanvaya
Location: Riverside, California