The Trail of Death: A Pilgrimage of Remembrance, Lament and Transformation: May 11–21. Participants in this pilgrimage will trace the route of the U.S. military’s 1838 forced removal of Potawatomi people from their ancestral homeland in northern Indiana to present-day Osawatomie, Kansas. This intensive graduate-level course of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary can be taken for credit, audit or no credit (trip only). Limit: 15 participants. Sign up by April 1. Register and find more information here

Rich Meier, who attends IMMC congregation Benton Mennonite, serves as the trip navigator. Rich shares: “This class has particular relevance for our conference, since the 1838 forced removal of Indigenous people from northern Indiana cleared the way for us and our forebearers to settle here (and to claim ignorance  – “we never saw any Indians, we bought the land fair and square”).” Many congregations in our conference are members of the Repair Network Consortium, and this journey is highly recommended as an opportunity to seek paths of repair with Potawatomi peoples today.