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Elisha Chi

Elisha Chi is a registered descendent of the Inupiaq of the Bering Straits region and Irish/British Catholics, raised on Duwamish lands in the anti-feminist radical traditionalist Catholic community of Seattle. Currently a Ph.D. candidate working in Lenapehoking (Philadelphia) at the intersection of theology/religious studies, ethics and Indigenous studies, her current project is titled "Stories and Silence: Issues and Methods Supporting the Decolonization of the Catholic Church."

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"Abbott Street," a photo of graffiti that says "LANDBACK," taken in Vancouver, Oct. 22.2022. (Flickr/Edna Winti, CC BY 2.0)

It's time for the Catholic Church to return Indigenous land

Indigenous land reclamation is happening in many ways. Still lacking in the Catholic Church, however, is a truly systemic approach. Part of the solution could be reconfiguring the U.S. bishops' Black and Indian Mission Office.

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