Catholic church hands over Anishinabe Spiritual Centre to Indigenous-led board

Detention centre grounds transformed into spiritual space

For the first time in WA history, young people at Banksia Hill Detention Centre have invited people from the outside in for National Reconciliation Week.

Transfer of Anishinabe Spiritual Centre affirms Indigenous leadership

On Friday, local First Nations took control of the Anishinabe Spiritual Centre, located near Espanola. Below is more information about why that happened.

Catholic church hands over Anishinabe Spiritual Centre to Indigenous-led board

The Catholic church is officially handing over the Anishinabe Spiritual Centre near Espanola, which for 45 years has been at the forefront of blending Christian and Indigenous spirituality, to Anishinaabe people.

Mediafax The Vatican Collection covers thousands of objects from colonial times, including a rare fireflies from the Western Arctic, a handful of brain-browed hands belonging to the community, an old 200-year-old wamp, a support for the wich’in-people’s babies, and a colony of belings. Critics support that these objects are essential for a period of cultural destruction, collected by the Roman Catholic Church after about a century, as the trophi…