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Catherine Richmond and Through Rushing Water: A Story of the Poncas

March 26, 2014 / Kiersti Giron / books, Catherine Richmond, history, Native Americans, Ponca Tribe, Through Rushing Water, Uncategorized, writing
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I first heard of author Catherine Richmond a few years ago, when we both became part of the Transformational Fiction group for writers who write stories that deal with tough issues in the light of God’s redemption and grace. (Check out and “like” our Facebook page here!) But it wasn’t until this winter that I […]

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Music of My Heart

February 12, 2014 / Kiersti Giron / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, community, faith, history, Native Americans, Rainsong, song
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Singing “Jesus, Lover of My Soul” this past Sunday to our church’s “folk band” accompaniment of guitar, mandolin, and accordion, I started thinking how songs like this connect with my heart—both old, faintly Celtic or Appalachian hymns and the more contemporary worship songs I grew up with. I love songs like this that speak of […]

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A Writer Goes A-Journeying…

October 23, 2013 / Kiersti Giron / ACFW, Diné, Dinétah, Native Americans, Navajo Code Talkers, writing
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So…I realized I never shared many snapshots from my most recent writer’s journey last month, to the ACFW conference in Indianapolis and then to visit friends and go a-researching once more in New Mexico and Arizona.Well, only one way to fix that! First, a peek into the ACFW Genre Night: I modeled a 1910-era white […]

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A Writer Goes A-Journeying…

October 23, 2013 / Kiersti Giron / ACFW, Diné, Dinétah, Native Americans, Navajo Code Talkers, writing
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So…I realized I never shared many snapshots from my most recent writer’s journey last month, to the ACFW conference in Indianapolis and then to visit friends and go a-researching once more in New Mexico and Arizona.Well, only one way to fix that! First, a peek into the ACFW Genre Night: I modeled a 1910-era white […]

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

October 8, 2013 / Kiersti Giron / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, history, Lakota, Native Americans, racial reconciliation, Sitting Bull, story
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Lori Benton, interviewed here a couple of weeks ago, first told me about the movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. We share a heart for Native peoples and their often untold history, so I knew it would be a worthwhile watch, though I didn’t expect an easy one. I also wanted to see another […]

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Messy History and Mustard Seeds

August 27, 2013 / Kiersti Giron / community, Diné, faith, history, Native Americans, racial reconciliation
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Sometimes history is hard to learn. When I first read Richard Twiss’s One Church Many Tribes, at least once I stopped in tears and couldn’t pick the book up again for a while. I think it was the chapter about the abuse of Native American children at many mission boarding schools . . . central […]

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Richard Twiss: In Memoriam

March 9, 2013 / Kiersti Giron / community, faith, Jesus, Native Americans, pow wow, racial reconciliation
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Wiconi International I first heard Richard Twiss speak at a center for world missions a few years ago. With flowing dark hair and an impressive bearing, this pioneering Lakota scholar, missionary, and follower of the “Jesus Way” shared with us his journey as a First Nations believer, how our cultural perceptions can affect the way […]

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Apology to Native Peoples Petition

January 25, 2013 / Kiersti Giron / community, Diné, history, Native Americans, racial reconciliation
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Hello, dear reader friends.   If you’ve read my blog much, you probably know a little about how the Lord has been teaching me about racial reconciliation and the often-tragic history of our country in relation to the first peoples of America. I’d just like to share with you an opportunity to raise our voices […]

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To Ask Forgiveness, Part 2

November 9, 2012 / Kiersti Giron / community, Diné, growing, Native Americans, racial reconciliation
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Read Part 1 here.   When we reached the Window Rock monument, I climbed out of the car to follow my Navajo host, while his wife stayed in the car to write an anniversary card for their son and his wife. The two of us surveyed the Code Talker memorial, where he showed me the […]

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To Ask Forgiveness, Part 1

November 4, 2012 / Kiersti Giron / community, Diné, growing, Native Americans, racial reconciliation
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The warm desert wind whipped my hair across my face and snapped the flags above me, flags of New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and the Navajo Nation waving beside the Stars and Stripes. I gazed up at the towering red rocks, the round hole to the clear blue sky, above the Window Rock Veterans Memorial. Below […]

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