I keep finding myself looking at that supposedly Interfaith group of 8 people... described as "a priestess of the Goddess, a rabbi, a Sufi, a Methodist minister, a Lutheran pastor, a Quaker, a Hindu, a Muslim"... but as far as I can tell... I think
7 of the 8 representatives handling that pipe are white. So... even though some of those religions come out of "white" or mixed-ethnic cultures, 5 or 6 of them could or should be People of Color. Something feels really off here.
I have this bad feeling that in almost all, if not all, of those instances we are probably not looking at people who were raised in those cultures, but white people who converted as adults and are now being chosen by white people to represent to other white people, leaving the original cultures out of it entirely. This is not even getting into the Crazy Horse claims, the pipe and bundles and the protocols about that... I'll let the Lakota folks handle that.... *smh*
But, a Catholic Church full of white people (plus a few token brown people), claiming to represent for world religions, including Indigenous ones?!!