Minutes of Conscience
The minutes of conscience (spiritually grounded statements) listed here are broadly about the indigenous peoples of North America.
Doctrine of Discovery
- Minute of Unity Refuting the 1626 Schaghen Letter, Salem (NJ) Quarterly Meeting, 2024
- Denouncing the Doctrine of Discovery, Milwaukee (WI) Monthly Meeting, 2023
- Renouncing the Doctrine of Discovery, Northern Yearly Meeting, 2023
- Minute to Renounce the Doctrine of Discovery, Winnebago Worship Group, 2023
- Doctrine of Discovery & Quaker Boarding Schools, Kickapoo Valley Monthly Meeting, 2021
- Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery, Bayou Quarterly Meeting, 2015
- Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery, New York Yearly Meeting, 2015
- Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery, Boulder (CO) Monthly Meeting, 2013
- Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery, New England Yearly Meeting, 2013
- Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery, New York Yearly Meeting, 2012
- Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery, Cobscook (ME) Meeting, 2010
- Repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery, New York Yearly Meeting, 2010
- Rejecting the Doctrine of Discovery, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, 2010
Boarding Schools, Tribal Recognition, and Truth & Healing Commissions
- Federal Recognition of the Brothertown Indian Nation, Northern Yearly Meeting, 2023
- Supporting the Establishment of a Federal Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the US, Salem (NJ) Quarterly Meeting, 2022
- Minute on Native Boarding School Legislation, North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative), 2022
- Minute on Truth & Healing Commission on Indian Boarding Schools, Northern Yearly Meeting, 2022
- Truth and Healing Commission for Native Peoples, New York Yearly Meeting, 2021
- Intention to Make Amends, New England Yearly Meeting, 2013
Standing Rock and Indigenous Rights
- Supporting Standing Rock, Athens (OH) Friends Meeting, 2016
- Supporting Standing Rock, New York Yearly Meeting, 2016
- Supporting Standing Rock, Oberlin (OH) Friends Meeting, 2016
- Rights of Indigenous People, Intermountain Yearly Meeting, 2014
- Letter Supporting Leonard Peltier’s Release from Prison, New York Yearly Meeting, 2014
- Rights of Indigenous People, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 2013
- Declaration of Rights of Indigenous People, New York Yearly Meeting, 2012
- Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Central Philadelphia (PA) Meeting, 2012
- Declaration of Rights of Indigenous People, Germantown (PA) Meeting, 2012
- Declaration of Rights of Indigenous People, State College (PA) Meeting, 2010
- Declaration of Rights of Indigenous People, Vancouver Island (Canada) Monthly Meeting, 2010
- Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Butternuts (NY) Monthly Meeting, 2010
Truth and Reconciliation
- Truth and Reconciliation, Canadian Yearly Meeting, 2016
- Truth and Reconciliation, Canadian Yearly Meeting, 2015
Quaker Organizations Engaged in Building Right Relationship
There are Quaker organizations around the United States and Canada, from monthly meetings to larger advocacy not-for-profit companies, working to build right relationship with Native peoples.
American Friends Service Committee
- We Are Our Own Medicine: An AFSC Special Report from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Land and Unceded Territory
- Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the World
Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Indian Affairs Committee (BYMIA)
- Contemporary Native Peoples of Maryland
- We Are Indebted to Many Indigenous Peoples on Whose Land We Live and You Meet
- Respect for Human Remains and American Indian Burial Grounds Fact Sheet
Boulder Friends Meeting
Canadian Friends Service Committee
Canadian Yearly Meeting
Friends Committee on National Legislation
- Seven Priorities for Native American Advocacy
- Indigenous Rights in the U.S.
- Native Americans and Trusts
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Office, Canada
New York Yearly Meeting
Related Resources from FGC
- Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery in your Meeting
- Native American Heritage Month Reading List from QuakerBooks
Last updated on December 19, 2025.